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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
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99# Options Removed in 3.2
100NAME: ignore_expect_100
101TYPE: obsolete
102DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104DOC_END
105
106NAME: ftp_list_width
107TYPE: obsolete
108DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110DOC_END
111
112NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113TYPE: obsolete
114DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116DOC_END
117
118# Options Removed in 3.1
119NAME: dns_testnames
120TYPE: obsolete
121DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123DOC_END
124
125NAME: extension_methods
126TYPE: obsolete
127DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129DOC_END
130
131# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132NAME: incoming_rate
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_NONE
135
136NAME: server_http11
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146DOC_END
147
148NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152DOC_END
153
154# Options Removed in 3.0
155NAME: header_access
156TYPE: obsolete
157DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166DOC_END
167
5473c134 168COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171COMMENT_END
172
41bd17a4 173NAME: auth_param
174TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 175IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 176LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 177DEFAULT: none
178DOC_START
41bd17a4 179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 183
41bd17a4 184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
cccac0a2 193
41bd17a4 194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 215
41bd17a4 216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 225
41bd17a4 226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
307b83b7 231
41bd17a4 232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 233
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234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
7353861b 240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
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246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
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253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 262
41bd17a4 263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 269
41bd17a4 270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 280
41bd17a4 281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 289
41bd17a4 290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 301
41bd17a4 302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
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7ce93108 305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 306
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307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
7353861b 313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
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326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
48d54e4d 334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 335
41bd17a4 336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 346
41bd17a4 347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
cccac0a2 350
41bd17a4 351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 366
41bd17a4 367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
cccac0a2 381
41bd17a4 382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 383
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384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
cccac0a2 391
48d54e4d 392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 406
41bd17a4 407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 408
41bd17a4 409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 410
41bd17a4 411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 424
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425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
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432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 440
41bd17a4 441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 447
41bd17a4 448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 449
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451 Examples:
452
41bd17a4 453#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 455#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 456#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 457#
41bd17a4 458#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 459#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 460#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 461#
41bd17a4 462#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 463#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 464#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 468#
41bd17a4 469#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 470#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 471#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 473DOC_END
cccac0a2 474
41bd17a4 475NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476TYPE: time_t
477DEFAULT: 1 hour
478LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484DOC_END
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486NAME: authenticate_ttl
487TYPE: time_t
488DEFAULT: 1 hour
489LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495DOC_END
cccac0a2 496
41bd17a4 497NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498TYPE: time_t
499LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
3d1e3e43 511COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514COMMENT_END
515
41bd17a4 516NAME: external_acl_type
517TYPE: externalAclHelper
518LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 519DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 520DOC_START
41bd17a4 521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 525
41bd17a4 526 Options:
cccac0a2 527
41bd17a4 528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
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533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 555
41bd17a4 556 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 557
41bd17a4 558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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559 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
560 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
561 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 562 %IDENT Ident user name
563 %SRC Client IP
564 %SRCPORT Client source port
565 %URI Requested URI
566 %DST Requested host
567 %PROTO Requested protocol
568 %PORT Requested port
569 %PATH Requested URL path
570 %METHOD Request method
571 %MYADDR Squid interface address
572 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
573 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
574 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
575 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
576 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
577 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 578
c68c9682 579 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 580 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 581 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 582 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 583 HTTP request header list member using ; as
584 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
585 character.
cccac0a2 586
c68c9682 587 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 588 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 589 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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590 %<{Hdr:;member}
591 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
592 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
593 character.
594
41bd17a4 595 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
596 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
597 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 598
41bd17a4 599 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
600 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
601 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
602 more details.
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41bd17a4 604 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 607
41bd17a4 608 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 609
41bd17a4 610 user= The users name (login)
611 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
612 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
613 in error pages
614 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
615 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
616 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
617 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 618
41bd17a4 619 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
620 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 621
41bd17a4 622 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
623 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
624 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 625
41bd17a4 626 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
627 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
628 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 629DOC_END
630
41bd17a4 631NAME: acl
632TYPE: acl
633LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 634DEFAULT: all src all
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635DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
636DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
637DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
638DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 639DOC_START
41bd17a4 640 Defining an Access List
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642 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
643 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
644 they are read from.
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646 acl aclname acltype argument ...
647 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 648
375eeb3b 649 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 650
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652 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
653 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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656 to access some external data source.
657 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
658 don't are marked as [fast].
659 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
660 for further information
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662 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
663
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664 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
665 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
666 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
667 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 668
41bd17a4 669 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
670 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
671 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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673 # other *BSD variants.
674 # [fast]
41bd17a4 675 #
676 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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677 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
678 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
679
680 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
681 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
682 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 683 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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684 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
685 # regex matching client name [slow]
686 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 687 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 688 #
41bd17a4 689 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
690 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
691 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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693 acl aclname src_as number ...
694 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 695 # [fast]
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696 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
697 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
698 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
699 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
700 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
701 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
702 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
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6db78a1a 704 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 705 # [fast]
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706 # match against a named cache_peer entry
707 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
708
375eeb3b 709 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 710 # [fast]
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712 # S - Sunday
713 # M - Monday
714 # T - Tuesday
715 # W - Wednesday
716 # H - Thursday
717 # F - Friday
718 # A - Saturday
719 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
720
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722 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
723 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
724 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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726 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
727 # ranges are alloed
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728 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
729 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
730
b3567eb5 731 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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733 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
734
735 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 736
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738 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 740 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 741 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 742
375eeb3b 743 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 744 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 745 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 746
375eeb3b 747 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 748 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 749 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 750 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 751
41bd17a4 752 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
753 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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755 # supplied credentials [slow]
756 #
757 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 758 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
759 #
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761 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
762 #
41bd17a4 763 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
764 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
765 # in access.log.
766 #
767 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
768 # to check username/password combinations (see
769 # auth_param directive).
770 #
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772 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 773 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 774
41bd17a4 775 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 776 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 777 # Example:
778 #
779 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 780
41bd17a4 781 acl aclname maxconn number
782 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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783 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
784 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
785 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 786
41bd17a4 787 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
788 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
789 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 790 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 791 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
792 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
793 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
794 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
795 # request is denied)
796 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
797 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
798 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 799
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800 acl aclname random probability
801 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
802 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
803 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
804
375eeb3b 805 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 806 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
807 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 808 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 809 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
810 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 811
41bd17a4 812 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
813 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
814 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 815 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 816
375eeb3b 817 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 818 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
819 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 820 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 821 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
822 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
823 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 824
41bd17a4 825 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
826 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
827 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 828 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 829
375eeb3b 830 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 831 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 832 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 833
41bd17a4 834 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
835 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 836 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 837
41bd17a4 838 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
839 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 840 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 841
41bd17a4 842 acl aclname ext_user username ...
843 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 844 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 845 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 846
0ab50441 847 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 848 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
cccac0a2 849
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850 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
851 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
852 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
853 #
854 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
855 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
856 # http_reply_access.
857
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859 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
860 acl myexample dst_as 1241
861 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
862 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
863 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 864
41bd17a4 865NOCOMMENT_START
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867# Recommended minimum configuration:
868#
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ee776778 870# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
871# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
872# should be allowed
873acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
874acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
875acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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876acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
877acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 879acl SSL_ports port 443
880acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
881acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
882acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
883acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
884acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
885acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
886acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
887acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
888acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
889acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
890acl CONNECT method CONNECT
891NOCOMMENT_END
892DOC_END
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894NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
895TYPE: acl_access
896IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
897LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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898DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
899DOC_START
900 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
901 find the original source of a request.
902
903 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
904 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
905 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
906 rightmost address being the most recent.
907
908 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
909 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
910 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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911 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
912 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
913 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
914 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
915 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
916 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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918 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
919 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 920 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 921 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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922 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
923 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 924
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926 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
927
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928 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
929
930 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
931 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
932 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
933 source address of the request. This may enable remote
934 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
935 based on the client's source addresses.
936
937 For example:
938
939 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
940 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
941 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
942 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
943DOC_END
944
945NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
946COMMENT: on|off
947TYPE: onoff
948IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
949DEFAULT: on
950LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
951DOC_START
952 Controls whether the indirect client address
953 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
954 direct client address in acl matching.
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956 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
957 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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959
960NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
961COMMENT: on|off
962TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 963IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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965LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
966DOC_START
967 Controls whether the indirect client address
968 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
969 direct client address in delay pools.
970DOC_END
971
972NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
973COMMENT: on|off
974TYPE: onoff
975IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
976DEFAULT: on
977LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
978DOC_START
979 Controls whether the indirect client address
980 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
981 direct client address in the access log.
982DOC_END
983
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984NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
985COMMENT: on|off
986TYPE: onoff
987IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 988DEFAULT: off
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989LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
990DOC_START
991 Controls whether the indirect client address
992 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
993 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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995 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
996 mode ports.
997
998 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
999 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
1000 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
1001 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1003
41bd17a4 1004NAME: http_access
1005TYPE: acl_access
1006LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1007DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1008DOC_START
1009 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1010
41bd17a4 1011 Access to the HTTP port:
1012 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1013
41bd17a4 1014 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1016 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1017 the request.
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41bd17a4 1019 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1020 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1021 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1022 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1024 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1027 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1028
41bd17a4 1029NOCOMMENT_START
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1031#
1032# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1033#
1034# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1035http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1036http_access deny manager
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1038# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1039http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1041# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1042http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1044# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1045# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1046# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1047#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1049#
1050# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1051#
c8f4eac4 1052
ee776778 1053# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1054# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1055# from where browsing should be allowed
1056http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1057http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1058
41bd17a4 1059# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1060http_access deny all
1061NOCOMMENT_END
1062DOC_END
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1064NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1065TYPE: acl_access
1066LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1067DEFAULT: none
1068DOC_START
1069 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1070
1071 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1072 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1073 output.
1074
1075 If not set then only http_access is used.
1076DOC_END
1077
41bd17a4 1078NAME: http_reply_access
1079TYPE: acl_access
1080LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1081DEFAULT: none
1082DOC_START
1083 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1084
41bd17a4 1085 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1086
41bd17a4 1087 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1088 all replies
1a224843 1089
41bd17a4 1090 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1091 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1092 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1094 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1095 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1096DOC_END
1097
41bd17a4 1098NAME: icp_access
1099TYPE: acl_access
1100LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1101DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1102DOC_START
41bd17a4 1103 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1104 access lists
5473c134 1105
41bd17a4 1106 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1107
41bd17a4 1108 See http_access for details
1109
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1111 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1113# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1115#icp_access deny all
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1117
41bd17a4 1118NAME: htcp_access
1119IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1120TYPE: acl_access
1121LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1122DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1123DOC_START
41bd17a4 1124 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1125 access lists
5473c134 1126
41bd17a4 1127 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1129 See http_access for details
5473c134 1130
0b48417e 1131 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1132 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1133 using the htcp option.
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1136 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1138# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1140#htcp_access deny all
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41bd17a4 1143NAME: htcp_clr_access
1144IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1145TYPE: acl_access
1146LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1147DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1148DOC_START
1149 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1150 on defined access lists
5473c134 1151
41bd17a4 1152 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1153
41bd17a4 1154 See http_access for details
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1157 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1159# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1160acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1161htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
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1163
41bd17a4 1164NAME: miss_access
1165TYPE: acl_access
1166LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1167DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1168DOC_START
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1169 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1170
1171 For example;
1172 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1173 a parent.
5473c134 1174
41bd17a4 1175 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1176 miss_access allow localclients
1177 miss_access deny !localclients
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1179 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1180 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1181 objects (HITs).
1182
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1185 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1187 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1188 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1189DOC_END
1190
1191NAME: ident_lookup_access
1192TYPE: acl_access
1193IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1194DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1195LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1196DOC_START
41bd17a4 1197 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1198 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1199 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1200 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1201 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1202 any requests.
5473c134 1203
41bd17a4 1204 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1205 can follow this example:
5473c134 1206
4daaf3cb 1207 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1208 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1209 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1210
4daaf3cb 1211 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1212 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1213 the correct result.
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1215 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1216 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1217DOC_END
5473c134 1218
5b0f5383 1219NAME: reply_body_max_size
1220COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1221TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1222DEFAULT: none
1223LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1224DOC_START
1225 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1226 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1227 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1228 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1229 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1230 for this reply.
1231
1232 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1233 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1234 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1235 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1236 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1237 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1238 and they will receive a partial reply.
1239
1240 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1241 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1242 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1243 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1244
1245 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1246 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1247 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1248 the size of your largest error page.
1249
1250 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1251 no limit imposed.
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1253 Configuration Format is:
1254 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1255 ie.
1256 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1257
5b0f5383 1258DOC_END
1259
1260COMMENT_START
1261 NETWORK OPTIONS
1262 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1263COMMENT_END
1264
1265NAME: http_port ascii_port
1266TYPE: http_port_list
1267DEFAULT: none
1268LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1269DOC_START
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1270 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1271 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1272 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1273
1274 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1275 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1276 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1277 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1278 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1279 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1280 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1281
1282 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1283 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1284
1285 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1286 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1287 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1288
1289 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1290
c7b1dd5d 1291 Modes:
5b0f5383 1292
e77bdb4e 1293 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1294 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1295 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1296
1297 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1298 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1299 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1300
7f45065d 1301 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1302
3a0c8eb5 1303 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1305 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1306 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1307 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1308
1309 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1310 the SslBump feature.
1311
1312 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1313
1314
1315 Accelerator Mode Options:
1316
5b0f5383 1317 defaultsite=domainname
1318 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1319 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1320 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1321
cf673853 1322 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1323
1324 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1326 https_port
5b0f5383 1327
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1329 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1330
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1332 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1333
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1335 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1336 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1337 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1338
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1340
7f45065d 1341 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1343
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1345 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1346 never_direct was used.
1347
1348 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1349 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1350 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1351 http_access rules when using this.
1352
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1354 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1355
1356 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1357
1358 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1359 if not specified, the certificate file is
1360 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1361 key file.
1362
1363 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1364 1 automatic (default)
1365 2 SSLv2 only
1366 3 SSLv3 only
1367 4 TLSv1 only
1368
1369 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1370
1371 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1372 being:
1373 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1374 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1375 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1376 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1377 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1378 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1379 documentation for a complete list of options.
1380
1381 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1382 requesting a client certificate.
1383
1384 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1385 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1386 clientca will be used.
1387
1388 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1389 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1390
1391 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1392 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1393 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1394
1395 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1396 DH key exchanges.
1397
1398 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1399 DELAYED_AUTH
1400 Don't request client certificates
1401 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1402 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1403 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1404 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1405 to OpenSSL.
1406 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1407 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1408 will result in a new SSL session.
1409 VERIFY_CRL
1410 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1411 certificates.
1412 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1413 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1414 client certificate chain.
1415
1416 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1417
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1419 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1420 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1421 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1422 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1423 certificate will be selfsigned.
1424 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1425 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1426 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1427 years.
1428 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1429 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1430
1431 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1432 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1433 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1434 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1435 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
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1437 Other Options:
1438
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1440 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1441 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1443
5b0f5383 1444 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1445 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1446 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1447 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1448 support is enabled.
1449 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1450
1451 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1452 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1453 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1454 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1455 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1456 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1457 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1458 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1459
81b6e9a7 1460 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1461 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1462
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1465 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1466 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1467 timeout the time before giving up.
1468
5b0f5383 1469 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1470 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1471 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1472 visible on the internal address.
1473
1474NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1476# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1477http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1478NOCOMMENT_END
1479DOC_END
1480
1481NAME: https_port
1482IFDEF: USE_SSL
1483TYPE: https_port_list
1484DEFAULT: none
1485LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1486DOC_START
7f45065d 1487 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1488
1489 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1490 requests.
1491
1492 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1493 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1494 accelerator level.
1495
1496 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1497 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1498
7f45065d 1499 Modes:
5b0f5383 1500
7f45065d 1501 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1502
7f45065d 1503 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1504
5b0f5383 1505
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1507
1508
1509 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1510
1511 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1512
1513 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1514 if not specified, the certificate file is
1515 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1516 key file.
1517
1518 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1519 1 automatic (default)
1520 2 SSLv2 only
1521 3 SSLv3 only
1522 4 TLSv1 only
1523
1524 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1525
1526 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1527 being:
1528 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1529 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1530 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1531 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1532 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1533 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1534 documentation for a complete list of options.
1535
1536 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1537 requesting a client certificate.
1538
1539 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1540 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1541 clientca will be used.
1542
1543 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1544 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1545
1546 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1547 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1548 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1549
1550 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1551 DH key exchanges.
1552
1553 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1554 DELAYED_AUTH
1555 Don't request client certificates
1556 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1557 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1558 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1559 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1560 to OpenSSL.
1561 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1562 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1563 will result in a new SSL session.
1564 VERIFY_CRL
1565 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1566 certificates.
1567 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1568 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1569 client certificate chain.
1570
1571 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1572
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1574
41bd17a4 1575NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1576TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1577DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1578LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1579DOC_START
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1580 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1581 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1582
41bd17a4 1583 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1584
41bd17a4 1585 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1586 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1589 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1590 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1591 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1592
41bd17a4 1593 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1595 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1596
41bd17a4 1597 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1598 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1600 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1601
41bd17a4 1602 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1603 matching line.
cccac0a2 1604DOC_END
1605
41bd17a4 1606NAME: clientside_tos
1607TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1608DEFAULT: none
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1610DOC_START
1611 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1612 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1613
1614 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1615
1616 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1617 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1618
1619 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1620 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1621 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1622 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1623
1624 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1625 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1626DOC_END
1627
1628NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1629TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1630IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1632LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1633DOC_START
1634 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1635 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1636
1637 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1638
1639 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1640 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1641
1642 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1643 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1644 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1645 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1646DOC_END
1647
1648NAME: clientside_mark
1649TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1650IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1652LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1653DOC_START
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1655 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1656
1657 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1658
1659 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1660 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1661
1662 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1663 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1664 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1665 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1666
1667 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1668 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1669DOC_END
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1672TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1673IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1674DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1675LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1676DOC_START
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1679 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1680 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1681
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1683 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1684 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1687 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1688 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1689
1690 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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1693
1694 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1696 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1697
1698 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1699
1700 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1701
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1703 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
575cb927 1704
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1706 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1707 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1708 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1709 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1710
575cb927 1711 disable-preserve-miss
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1713 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1714 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1715 and masked with miss-mark.
1716 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1717 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1718 (MARK target).
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1720 miss-mask=0xFF
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1722 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1723 the TOS sent towards clients.
1724 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1725 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1726
1727 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1728 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1729 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1730 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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41bd17a4 1734NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1735TYPE: acl_address
1736DEFAULT: none
1737LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1738DOC_START
1739 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1740 based on the username or source address of the user making
1741 the request.
7f7db318 1742
41bd17a4 1743 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1746 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1749 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1750
1751 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1752 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1753
1754 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1755 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1756
1757 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1758 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1759
41bd17a4 1760 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1761 matching line.
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1763 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
1764 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1765 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1766
1767
1768 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1769 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1770 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1771 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1773 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1774 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1776 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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1780NAME: host_verify_strict
1781TYPE: onoff
1782DEFAULT: off
1783LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1784DOC_START
610eacdc 1785 By default Squid performs Host vs IP validation on intercept
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1787
1788 This option enables additional strict validation comparisons on
1789 forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic passing through Squid.
1790
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1792 authority form URL found in the request-URL and Host: header to
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1794 destination server with the URL.
1795DOC_END
1796
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1798TYPE: onoff
1799DEFAULT: on
1800LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1801DOC_START
1802 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1803 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1804 source.
1805
1806 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1807 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1808 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1809
1810 SECURITY WARNING:
1811
1812 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1813
1814 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1815 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1816 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1817 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1818
1819 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1820 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1821 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1822 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1823 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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1826
41bd17a4 1827COMMENT_START
1828 SSL OPTIONS
1829 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1830COMMENT_END
1831
1832NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1833IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1834TYPE: onoff
1835DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1836LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1837DOC_START
41bd17a4 1838 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1839 messages.
cccac0a2 1840DOC_END
1841
41bd17a4 1842NAME: ssl_engine
1843IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1844TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1845LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1846DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1847DOC_START
41bd17a4 1848 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1849 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1850DOC_END
1851
41bd17a4 1852NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1853IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1854DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1855LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1856TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1857DOC_START
41bd17a4 1858 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1859DOC_END
1860
41bd17a4 1861NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1862IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1863DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1864LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1865TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1866DOC_START
41bd17a4 1867 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1868DOC_END
1869
41bd17a4 1870NAME: sslproxy_version
1871IFDEF: USE_SSL
1872DEFAULT: 1
1873LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1874TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1875DOC_START
41bd17a4 1876 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1877DOC_END
1878
41bd17a4 1879NAME: sslproxy_options
1880IFDEF: USE_SSL
1881DEFAULT: none
1882LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1883TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1884DOC_START
41bd17a4 1885 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1887 The most important being:
1888
1889 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1890 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1891 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1892 SINGLE_DH_USE
1893 Always create a new key when using
1894 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1895
1896 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1897 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1898 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1899DOC_END
1900
41bd17a4 1901NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1902IFDEF: USE_SSL
1903DEFAULT: none
1904LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1905TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1906DOC_START
41bd17a4 1907 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1909 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1910DOC_END
1911
41bd17a4 1912NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1913IFDEF: USE_SSL
1914DEFAULT: none
1915LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1916TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1917DOC_START
41bd17a4 1918 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1919 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1920DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1922NAME: sslproxy_capath
1923IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1924DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1925LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1926TYPE: string
5473c134 1927DOC_START
41bd17a4 1928 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1929 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1930DOC_END
1931
4c9da963 1932NAME: ssl_bump
1933IFDEF: USE_SSL
1934TYPE: acl_access
1935LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1936DEFAULT: none
1937DOC_START
1938 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1939 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1940 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1941 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1942
1943 By default, no requests are bumped.
1944
e0c0d54c 1945 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1946
e0c0d54c 1947 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1948 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1950
1951 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1952 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1953
1954 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1955 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1956 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1957 ssl_bump deny localhost
1958 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1959 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1960DOC_END
1961
41bd17a4 1962NAME: sslproxy_flags
1963IFDEF: USE_SSL
1964DEFAULT: none
1965LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1966TYPE: string
5473c134 1967DOC_START
41bd17a4 1968 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1969 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1970 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1971 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1972 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1973DOC_END
1974
4c9da963 1975NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1976IFDEF: USE_SSL
1977DEFAULT: none
1978LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1979TYPE: acl_access
1980DOC_START
1981 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1982
1983 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1984 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1985 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1986
1987 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1988 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1989 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1990
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1992 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1993 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 1994
1995 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1996 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1997 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1998 the connection may be insecure.
1999
2000 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2001
e0855596 2002 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2003DOC_END
2004
41bd17a4 2005NAME: sslpassword_program
2006IFDEF: USE_SSL
2007DEFAULT: none
2008LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2009TYPE: string
5473c134 2010DOC_START
41bd17a4 2011 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2012 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2013 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2014 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2016 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2017 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2018 keys.
5473c134 2019DOC_END
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2022 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2023 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024COMMENT_END
2025
2026NAME: sslcrtd_program
2027TYPE: eol
2028IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2029DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2030LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2031DOC_START
2032 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2033 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2034 For more information use:
2035 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2036DOC_END
2037
2038NAME: sslcrtd_children
2039TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2040IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2041DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2042LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2043DOC_START
2044 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2045 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2046
2047 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2048 tuning.
2049
2050 startup=N
2051
2052 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2053 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2054 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2055
2056 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2057 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2058
2059 idle=N
2060
2061 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2062 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2063 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2064 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2065
2066 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2067DOC_END
2068
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41bd17a4 2070 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2071 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2072COMMENT_END
2073
41bd17a4 2074NAME: cache_peer
2075TYPE: peer
2076DEFAULT: none
2077LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2078DOC_START
41bd17a4 2079 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2081 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2082
41bd17a4 2083 For example,
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41bd17a4 2085 # proxy icp
2086 # hostname type port port options
2087 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2088 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2089 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2090 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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2092 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2093
2094 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2095
2096 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2097 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2098 For web servers this is usually 80
2099
2100 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2101 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2102 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2103
2104
2105 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2106
2107 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2108 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2109
2110
2111 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2112
2113 multicast-responder
2114 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2115 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2116 replies will be accepted from it.
2117
2118 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2119 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2120
2121 background-ping
2122 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2123 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2124 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2125
2126
2127 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2128
2129 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2130 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2131
2132
2133 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2134 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2136 list of options described below.
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18191440 2138 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2139
18191440 2140 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2141 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2142 only-clr.
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2145 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2147 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2149 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2150
18191440 2151 htcp=forward-clr
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2152 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2153
2154
2155 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2156
2157 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2158 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2159
2160
2161 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2162 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2163 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2164
2165 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2166 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2167 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2168
2169 weighted-round-robin
2170 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2171 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2172 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2173 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2174 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2175
2176 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2177 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2178 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2179
2180 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2181
2182 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2184 multicast-siblings
2185 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2186 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2187 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2188 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2189 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2190 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2191 members of the same multicast group.
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2193
2194 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2195
2196 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2197 peer-selection mechanisms.
2198 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2199 larger weights are favored more.
2200 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2201 protocol is not in use.
2202
2203 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2204 times of parents.
2205 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2206 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2207 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2208
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2210 to this address.
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2212 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2213 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2214 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2215
2216 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2217 delay pools.
2218
2219 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2220 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2221 than the Squid default location.
2222
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2225
2226 carp-key=key-specification
2227 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2228 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2229 scheme, host, port, path, params
2230 Order is not important.
2231
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2233
2234 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2235 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2236 is a web server.
2237
2238 forceddomain=name
2239 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2240 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2241 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2242 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2243
2244 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2245
2246 no-netdb-exchange
2247 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2248
2249
2250 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2251
2252 login=user:password
2253 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2254 requires proxy authentication.
2255
2256 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2257 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2258
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2260 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2261 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2262 without alteration to the peer.
2263 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2264
2265 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2266 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2267 connection-auth options are also used.
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2270 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2275 they may be sent instead.
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2277 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2278 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2279 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2280 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2281 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2282
2283 login=*:password
2284 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2285 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2286 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2287 needed to identify each user.
2288 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2289 information which is added to the username. This can
2290 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2291 the login=username:password option above.
2292
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2294 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2295 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2296 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2297 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
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2300 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2301 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
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2304 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2305 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2306 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2307 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2308 used.
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2311 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2312 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
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2315 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2316 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2317 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2318 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2319 of the peer.
2320
2321
2322 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2323
2324 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2325
2326 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2327 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2328 this peer.
2329
2330 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2331 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2332 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2333 reference a combined file containing both the
2334 certificate and the key.
2335
2336 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2337 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2338 1 = automatic (default)
2339 2 = SSL v2 only
2340 3 = SSL v3 only
2341 4 = TLS v1 only
2342
2343 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2344 to this peer.
2345
2346 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2347 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2348 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2349 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2350 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2351 a more complete list.
2352
2353 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2354 when verifying the peer certificate.
2355
2356 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2357 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2358
2359 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2360 verifying the peer certificate.
2361
2362 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2363
41bd17a4 2364 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2365 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2366 verify.
2367 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2368 Don't use the default CA list built in
2369 to OpenSSL.
2370 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2371 Don't verify the peer certificate
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2374 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2375 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2376 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2377 used.
2378
2379 front-end-https
2380 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2381 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2382 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2383 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2384 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2385
2386
2387 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2388
2389 connect-timeout=N
2390 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2391 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2392
2393 connect-fail-limit=N
2394 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2395 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2396
2397 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2398 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2399 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2400 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2401 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2402 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2403 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2404
2405 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2406 peer. see also
2407
2408 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2409 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2410 but different ports.
2411 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2412 directives to dentify the peer.
2413 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2414 peername ACL type.
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2417 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2418
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2419 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2420
41bd17a4 2421DOC_END
cccac0a2 2422
41bd17a4 2423NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2424TYPE: hostdomain
2425DEFAULT: none
2426LOC: none
2427DOC_START
2428 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2429 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2430
41bd17a4 2431 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2432 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2433
41bd17a4 2434 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2435
41bd17a4 2436 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2437
41bd17a4 2438 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2439 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2440 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2441 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2442 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2443
41bd17a4 2444 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2445 either on the same or separate lines.
2446 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2447 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2448 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2449 for all requests.
2450 * There are no defaults.
2451 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2452 section.
2453DOC_END
dd9b1776 2454
41bd17a4 2455NAME: cache_peer_access
2456TYPE: peer_access
2457DEFAULT: none
2458LOC: none
2459DOC_START
2460 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2461 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2462
41bd17a4 2463 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2464
41bd17a4 2465 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2466 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2467 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2468DOC_END
dd9b1776 2469
41bd17a4 2470NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2471TYPE: hostdomaintype
2472DEFAULT: none
2473LOC: none
2474DOC_START
2475 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2476
41bd17a4 2477 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2478 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2479 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2480 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2481 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2482 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2483
41bd17a4 2484EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2485 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2486 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2487 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2488DOC_END
6bf4f823 2489
41bd17a4 2490NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2491COMMENT: (seconds)
2492DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2493TYPE: time_t
2494LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2495DOC_START
2496 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2497 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2498 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2499 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2500 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2501 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2502
41bd17a4 2503 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2504 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2505 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2506 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2507 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2508 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2509 instead of to your parents.
2510DOC_END
cccac0a2 2511
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2512NAME: forward_max_tries
2513DEFAULT: 10
2514TYPE: int
2515LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2516DOC_START
2517 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2518 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2519
2520 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2521 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2522DOC_END
2523
41bd17a4 2524NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2525TYPE: wordlist
2526DEFAULT: none
2527LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2528DOC_START
2529 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2530 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2531 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2532 list this option multiple times.
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2534 Example:
2535 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2536
2537 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2538DOC_END
0976f8db 2539
41bd17a4 2540COMMENT_START
2541 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2542 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2543COMMENT_END
2544
2545NAME: cache_mem
2546COMMENT: (bytes)
2547TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2548DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2549LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2550DOC_START
41bd17a4 2551 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2552 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2553 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2554 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2555
2556 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2557 for:
2558 * In-Transit objects
2559 * Hot Objects
2560 * Negative-Cached objects
2561
2562 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2563 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2564 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2565 priority.
2566
2567 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2568 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2569 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2570 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2571 not needed for in-transit objects.
2572
2573 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2574 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2575 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2576 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2577 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2578 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2579 objects.
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2581 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2582 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2583 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2584 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2585DOC_END
0976f8db 2586
41bd17a4 2587NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2588COMMENT: (bytes)
2589TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2590DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2591LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2592DOC_START
41bd17a4 2593 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2594 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2595 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2596 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2597DOC_END
0976f8db 2598
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2599NAME: memory_cache_shared
2600COMMENT: on|off
2601TYPE: YesNoNone
2602LOC: Config.memShared
2603DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2604DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2605DOC_START
2606 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2607
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2608 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2609 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2610 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2611 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2612 caching is enabled).
2613
65b81b27 2614 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2615 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
2616 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2617 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2618 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2619
2620 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2621 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2622 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2623
2624 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2625DOC_END
2626
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2627NAME: memory_cache_mode
2628TYPE: memcachemode
2629LOC: Config
2630DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2631DOC_START
ea21d497 2632 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2633
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2634 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2635
2636 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2637 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2638 a second time before cached in memory.
2639
2640 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2641DOC_END
2642
41bd17a4 2643NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2644TYPE: removalpolicy
2645LOC: Config.memPolicy
2646DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2647DOC_START
41bd17a4 2648 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2649 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2650
41bd17a4 2651 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2652DOC_END
6b698a21 2653
41bd17a4 2654COMMENT_START
2655 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2656 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2657COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2658
41bd17a4 2659NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2660TYPE: removalpolicy
2661LOC: Config.replPolicy
2662DEFAULT: lru
2663DOC_START
2664 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2665 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2666
41bd17a4 2667 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2668 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2669 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2670 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2671
41bd17a4 2672 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2673
41bd17a4 2674 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2675
41bd17a4 2676 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2677 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2678 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2679 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2680
41bd17a4 2681 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2682 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2683 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2684 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2685
41bd17a4 2686 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2687 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2688 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2689
41bd17a4 2690 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2691 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2692 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2693
41bd17a4 2694 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2695 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2696 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2697DOC_END
0976f8db 2698
41bd17a4 2699NAME: cache_dir
2700TYPE: cachedir
2701DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2702LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2703DOC_START
41bd17a4 2704 Usage:
0976f8db 2705
41bd17a4 2706 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2707
41bd17a4 2708 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2709 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2710
41bd17a4 2711 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2712 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2713 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2714
41bd17a4 2715 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2716 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2717 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2718 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2719 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2720
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2721 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2722 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2723 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2724
41bd17a4 2725 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2726
41bd17a4 2727 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2728 been there.
0976f8db 2729
41bd17a4 2730 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2731
41bd17a4 2732 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2733 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2734 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2735 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2736 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2737
56fba4d0 2738 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2739 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2740
56fba4d0 2741 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2742 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2743 is 256.
0976f8db 2744
41bd17a4 2745 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2746
41bd17a4 2747 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2748 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2749 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2750
41bd17a4 2751 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2752
41bd17a4 2753 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2754
41bd17a4 2755 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2756
41bd17a4 2757 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2758 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2759 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2760
41bd17a4 2761 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2762
41bd17a4 2763 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2764
41bd17a4 2765 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2766 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2767 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2768
41bd17a4 2769 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2770 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2771 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2772
41bd17a4 2773 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2774 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2775 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2776 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2777 time.
0976f8db 2778
2e55f083 2779 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 2780
df881a0f 2781 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 2782
2e55f083 2783 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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2784 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
2785 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
2786 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
2787 below for more info on the max-size option.
2788
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2789 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
2790 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
2791 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
2792 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
2793 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
2794 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
2795 expected swap wait time.
2796
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2797 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
2798 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap in and swap out requests that
2799 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
2800 delayed. This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
2801 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
2802 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
2803 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
2804 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
2805 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
2806 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
2807
2808
41bd17a4 2809 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2810
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2811 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2812 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2813 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2814
41bd17a4 2815 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2816 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2817 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2818 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2819 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2820 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2821 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2822
41bd17a4 2823 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2824 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2825 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2826
41bd17a4 2827 Common options:
0976f8db 2828
41bd17a4 2829 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2830
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2831 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2832 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2833 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2834 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2835
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2836 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2837 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2838 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2839 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2840 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2841
41bd17a4 2842 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2843 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2844 option.
bebc043b 2845NOCOMMENT_START
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2846
2847# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2848#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2849NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2850DOC_END
0976f8db 2851
41bd17a4 2852NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2853TYPE: string
2854LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2855DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2856DOC_START
41bd17a4 2857 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2858DOC_END
0976f8db 2859
41bd17a4 2860NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2861TYPE: int
2862LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2863DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2864DOC_START
41bd17a4 2865 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2866 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2867 descriptors are open.
2868
2869 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2870DOC_END
0976f8db 2871
41bd17a4 2872NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2873COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2874TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2875DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2876LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2877DOC_START
41bd17a4 2878 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2879 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2880 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2881DOC_END
0976f8db 2882
41bd17a4 2883NAME: maximum_object_size
2884COMMENT: (bytes)
2885TYPE: b_int64_t
2886DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2887LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2888DOC_START
41bd17a4 2889 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2890 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2891 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2892 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2893 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2894 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2895
41bd17a4 2896 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2897 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2898 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2899DOC_END
0976f8db 2900
41bd17a4 2901NAME: cache_swap_low
2902COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2903TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2904DEFAULT: 90
2905LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2906DOC_NONE
2907
2908NAME: cache_swap_high
2909COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2910TYPE: int
2911DEFAULT: 95
2912LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2913DOC_START
41bd17a4 2914
2915 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2916 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2917 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2918 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2919 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2920 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2921
2922 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2923 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2924 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2925DOC_END
0976f8db 2926
5473c134 2927COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2928 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2929 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2930COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2931
41bd17a4 2932NAME: logformat
2933TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2934LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2935DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2936DOC_START
41bd17a4 2937 Usage:
0976f8db 2938
41bd17a4 2939 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2940
41bd17a4 2941 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2942
41bd17a4 2943 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2944
41bd17a4 2945 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2946 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2947 as required according to their context and the output format
2948 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2949 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2950
41bd17a4 2951 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2952
41bd17a4 2953 " output in quoted string format
2954 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2955 # output in URL quoted format
2956 ' output as-is
5473c134 2957
41bd17a4 2958 - left aligned
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2960 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
2961 [width_min][.width_max]
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2963 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 2964
41bd17a4 2965 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2966
41bd17a4 2967 Format codes:
5473c134 2968
3ff65596 2969 % a literal % character
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2970 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2971 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2972 a similar internal error identifier.
2973 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2974
2975 Connection related format codes:
2976
41bd17a4 2977 >a Client source IP address
2978 >A Client FQDN
2979 >p Client source port
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2980 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
2981 >la Local IP address the client connected to
2982 >lp Local port number the client connected to
2983
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2984 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
2985 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
2986
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2987 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
2988 <A Server FQDN or peer name
2989 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 2990 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 2991 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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2992
2993 Time related format codes:
2994
41bd17a4 2995 ts Seconds since epoch
2996 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2997 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2998 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2999 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3000 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3001 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3003
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3004 Access Control related format codes:
3005
3006 et Tag returned by external acl
3007 ea Log string returned by external acl
3008 un User name (any available)
3009 ul User name from authentication
3010 ue User name from external acl helper
3011 ui User name from ident
3012 us User name from SSL
3013
3014 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3015
ca2e92d8 3016 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3017 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3018 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3019 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3020 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3021 as for >h
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3022 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3023 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3024 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3025 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3026 transfer encoding and control messages.
3027 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3028 received bodies.
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3029 [http::]mt MIME content type
3030 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3031 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3032 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3033 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3034 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3035 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3036 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3037 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3038 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3039 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3040 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3041 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3042 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3043 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3044 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3045 are not included
3046 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3047 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3048 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3049 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3050 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3051 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3052 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3053 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3054 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3055 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3056 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3057 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3058
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3059 Squid handling related format codes:
3060
3061 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3062 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3063
5038f9d8 3064 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3066
3067 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3068 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3069 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3070 transaction is in progress.
3071
5038f9d8 3072 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
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3075 meta-information from the last eCAP
3076 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3077 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3078 argument.
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3080 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3081 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3082 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3083 value is recorded as an integer number,
3084 representing response time of one or more
3085 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3086 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3087 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3088 logged individually but added to the
3089 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3090 adapt::all_trs.
3091
3092 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3093 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3094 individual transactions are never added
3095 together. Instead, all transaction response
3096 times are recorded individually.
3097
3098 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3099 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3100 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3103
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3104logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3105logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3106logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3107logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3108logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3109
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3110 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3111 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3112 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3113
3114 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3115 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3116
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3118
41bd17a4 3119NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3120TYPE: access_log
3121LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3122DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3123DOC_START
41bd17a4 3124 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3125 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3126 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3127 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3129 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3130 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3131 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3132 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3133
3134 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3135
bb7a1781 3136 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3137 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3138
3139 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3140 each request.
3141 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3142
3143 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3144 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3145 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3146
3147 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3148
3149 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3150 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3151 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3152
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3154 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3155
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3156 And priority could be any of:
3157 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3158
3159 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3160 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3161 Place Format: \\host:port
df2eec10 3162
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3163 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3164 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3165 Place Format: \\host:port
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3167 Default:
82b7abe3 3168 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3169DOC_END
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3171NAME: icap_log
3172TYPE: access_log
3173IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3174LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3175DEFAULT: none
3176DOC_START
3177 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3178 transaction.
3179
3180 The icap_log option format is:
3181 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3182 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3183
3184 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3185 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3186 features.
3187
3188 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3189 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3190 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3191 log line.
3192
3193 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3194 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3195 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3196 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3197 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3198 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3199 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3200
3201 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3202
3203 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3204
3205 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3206 option in Squid configuration file.
3207
3208 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3209
3210 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3211 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3212
3213 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3214 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3215
3216 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3217 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3218 the socket).
3219
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3221 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3222 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3223 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3224 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3225 computed.
3226
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3228 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3229 the ICAP transaction is created and
3230 stops when the transaction is completed.
3231 Similar to tr.
3232
3233 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3234 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3235 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3236 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3237 is received.
3238
3239 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3240 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3241 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3242 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3243 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3244 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3245
3246 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3247
3248 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3249
3250 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3251
3252 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3253 definition, is called icap_squid:
3254
3255logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3256
5038f9d8 3257 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3259
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3260NAME: logfile_daemon
3261TYPE: string
3262DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3263LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3264DOC_START
3265 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3266 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3268 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3269 L<data>\n - logfile data
3270 R\n - rotate file
3271 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3272 O\n - reopen file
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3274 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3275 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3276
3277 No responses is expected.
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3279
5b0f5383 3280NAME: log_access
3281TYPE: acl_access
3282LOC: Config.accessList.log
3283DEFAULT: none
3284COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3285DOC_START
3286 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3287 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3288 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3289
3290 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3291 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3292DOC_END
3293
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3295TYPE: acl_access
3296IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3297LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3298DEFAULT: none
3299DOC_START
3300 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3301 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3302DOC_END
3303
41bd17a4 3304NAME: cache_store_log
3305TYPE: string
df2eec10 3306DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3307LOC: Config.Log.store
3308DOC_START
3309 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3310 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3312 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3313 disable it.
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3315 Example:
3316 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3317DOC_END
3318
41bd17a4 3319NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3320TYPE: string
3321LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3322DEFAULT: none
3323DOC_START
41bd17a4 3324 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3325 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3326 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3327 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3328 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3329 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3330 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3331
41bd17a4 3332 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3333 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3334 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3335 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3336
41bd17a4 3337 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3338 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3339
41bd17a4 3340 cache_swap_log.00
3341 cache_swap_log.01
3342 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3343
41bd17a4 3344 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3345 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3346 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3347 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3348 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3349 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3350 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3351DOC_END
3352
41bd17a4 3353NAME: logfile_rotate
3354TYPE: int
3355DEFAULT: 10
3356LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3357DOC_START
41bd17a4 3358 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3359 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3360 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3361 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3362 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3363 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3364
41bd17a4 3365 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3366 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3367 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3368 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3369 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3370 <pid>'.
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3372 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3373 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3374DOC_END
5473c134 3375
41bd17a4 3376NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3377TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3378DOC_START
20efa1c2 3379 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3380DOC_END
3381
41bd17a4 3382NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3383TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3384DOC_START
8652f8e7 3385 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3386DOC_END
5473c134 3387
41bd17a4 3388NAME: mime_table
3389TYPE: string
3390DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3391LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3392DOC_START
3393 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3394 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3395 information if you do.
5473c134 3396DOC_END
3397
41bd17a4 3398NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3399COMMENT: on|off
3400TYPE: onoff
3401LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3402DEFAULT: off
3403DOC_START
3404 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3405 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3406 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3407 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3408 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3409DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3411NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3412TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3413DOC_START
20efa1c2 3414 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3415DOC_END
3416
41bd17a4 3417NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3418TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3419DOC_START
20efa1c2 3420 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3421DOC_END
3422
41bd17a4 3423NAME: pid_filename
3424TYPE: string
3425DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3426LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3427DOC_START
41bd17a4 3428 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3429DOC_END
3430
41bd17a4 3431NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3432TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3433DOC_START
c581e96b 3434 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3435DOC_END
3436
41bd17a4 3437NAME: client_netmask
3438TYPE: address
3439LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3440DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3441DOC_START
41bd17a4 3442 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3443 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3444 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3445 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3446DOC_END
3447
41bd17a4 3448NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3449TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3450DOC_START
20efa1c2 3451 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3452DOC_END
3453
41bd17a4 3454NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3455TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3456LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3457DEFAULT: on
3458DOC_START
41bd17a4 3459 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3460 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3461DOC_END
3462
41bd17a4 3463NAME: buffered_logs
3464COMMENT: on|off
3465TYPE: onoff
3466DEFAULT: off
3467LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3468DOC_START
41bd17a4 3469 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3470 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3471 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3472 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3473 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
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2b753521 3476NAME: netdb_filename
3477TYPE: string
221faecb 3478DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3479LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3480IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3481DOC_START
3482 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3483 To disable, enter "none".
3484DOC_END
3485
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3487 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3488 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3489COMMENT_END
3490
3491NAME: cache_log
3492TYPE: string
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3494LOC: Debug::cache_log
3495DOC_START
3496 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3497 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3498 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3499DOC_END
3500
3501NAME: debug_options
3502TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3503DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3504LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3505DOC_START
3506 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3507 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3508 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3509 log file, so be careful.
3510
3511 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3512 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3513
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3515 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3516 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3517 events affecting Squid.
3518DOC_END
3519
3520NAME: coredump_dir
3521TYPE: string
3522LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3524DOC_START
3525 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3526 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3527 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3528 and coredump files will be left there.
3529
3530NOCOMMENT_START
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3533coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3534NOCOMMENT_END
3535DOC_END
3536
3537
41bd17a4 3538COMMENT_START
3539 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3540 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3541COMMENT_END
3542
3543NAME: ftp_user
3544TYPE: string
3545DEFAULT: Squid@
3546LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3547DOC_START
41bd17a4 3548 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3549 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3550 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3551
41bd17a4 3552 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3553 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3554 depending on how the cache is used.
3555 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3556 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3557DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3559NAME: ftp_passive
3560TYPE: onoff
3561DEFAULT: on
3562LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3563DOC_START
41bd17a4 3564 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3565 connections, turn off this option.
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3567 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3568DOC_END
3569
3570NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3571TYPE: onoff
3572DEFAULT: off
3573LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3574DOC_START
3575 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3576
3577 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3578 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3579 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3580
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3582 useful.
a689bd4e 3583 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3584 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3585
3586 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3587 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
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3589 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3590DOC_END
3591
3592NAME: ftp_epsv
3593TYPE: onoff
3594DEFAULT: on
3595LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3596DOC_START
3597 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3598
3599 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3600 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3601 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3602 will never be needed.
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3603
3604 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3605 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3606 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3607
3608 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3609DOC_END
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3611NAME: ftp_eprt
3612TYPE: onoff
3613DEFAULT: on
3614LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3615DOC_START
3616 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3617
3618 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3619 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3620 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3621
3622 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3623 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3624
3625 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3626 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3627 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3628 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3629
3630 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3631 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3632DOC_END
3633
41bd17a4 3634NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3635TYPE: onoff
3636DEFAULT: on
3637LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3638DOC_START
3639 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3640 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3641 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3642 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3643 connection turn this off.
3644DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3645
41bd17a4 3646NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3647TYPE: onoff
3648DEFAULT: on
3649LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3650DOC_START
3651 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3652 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3653 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3654 the FTP protocol.
3655
3656 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3657 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3658 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3659 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3660 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3661DOC_END
3662
3663COMMENT_START
3664 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3665 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3666COMMENT_END
3667
3668NAME: diskd_program
3669TYPE: string
3670DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3671LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3672DOC_START
3673 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3674 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3675 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3676DOC_END
3677
3678NAME: unlinkd_program
3679IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3680TYPE: string
3681DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3682LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3683DOC_START
3684 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3685DOC_END
3686
3687NAME: pinger_program
3688TYPE: string
3689DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3690LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3691IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3692DOC_START
3693 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3694DOC_END
3695
cc192b50 3696NAME: pinger_enable
3697TYPE: onoff
3698DEFAULT: on
3699LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3700IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3701DOC_START
3702 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3703 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3704 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3705DOC_END
3706
3707
41bd17a4 3708COMMENT_START
3709 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3710 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3711COMMENT_END
3712
3713NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3714TYPE: wordlist
3715LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3716DEFAULT: none
3717DOC_START
2c7aad89 3718 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3719 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3720
2c7aad89 3721 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3722
c71adec1 3723 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3724
3725 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3726 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3727 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3728 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3729
3730 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3731 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3732
3733 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3734 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3735 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3736
3737 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3738DOC_END
3739
3740NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3741TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3742DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3743LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3744DOC_START
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3745 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3746 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3747 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3748 and other system resources noticably.
3749
3750 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3751 tuning.
3752
3753 startup=
3754
3755 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3756 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3757 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3758
3759 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3760 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3761
3762 idle=
3763
3764 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3765 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3766 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3767 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3768
3769 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3770
41bd17a4 3771 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3772 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3773 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3774
3775 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3776 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3777 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3778 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3779 to that request.
41bd17a4 3780DOC_END
3781
3782NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3783TYPE: onoff
3784DEFAULT: on
3785LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3786DOC_START
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3787 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
3788 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
3789 any Host: header in redirected requests.
3790
3791 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
3792 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
3793 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
3794
41bd17a4 3795 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3796 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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3797
3798 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
3799 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
3800 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 3801DOC_END
3802
3803NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3804TYPE: acl_access
3805DEFAULT: none
3806LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3807DOC_START
3808 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3809 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3810 are sent.
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3811
3812 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3813 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3814DOC_END
3815
3816NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3817TYPE: onoff
3818LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3819DEFAULT: off
3820DOC_START
3821 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3822 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3823 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3824 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3825 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3826 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3827 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3828 users may have access to pages they should not
3829 be allowed to request.
3830DOC_END
3831
3832COMMENT_START
3833 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3834 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3835COMMENT_END
3836
f04b37d8 3837NAME: cache no_cache
3838TYPE: acl_access
3839DEFAULT: none
3840LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3841DOC_START
240887f0 3842 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3843 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3844 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3845
240887f0 3846 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3847 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3848
240887f0 3849 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3850
3851 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3852 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3853DOC_END
3854
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3855NAME: max_stale
3856COMMENT: time-units
3857TYPE: time_t
3858LOC: Config.maxStale
3859DEFAULT: 1 week
3860DOC_START
3861 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3862 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3863 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3864DOC_END
3865
41bd17a4 3866NAME: refresh_pattern
3867TYPE: refreshpattern
3868LOC: Config.Refresh
3869DEFAULT: none
3870DOC_START
3871 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3872
6b698a21 3873 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3874 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3875
41bd17a4 3876 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3877 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3878 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3879 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3880 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3881
41bd17a4 3882 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3883 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3884 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3885
41bd17a4 3886 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3887 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3888
41bd17a4 3889 options: override-expire
3890 override-lastmod
3891 reload-into-ims
3892 ignore-reload
3893 ignore-no-cache
3894 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3895 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3896 ignore-private
3897 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3898 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3899 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3900 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3901
41bd17a4 3902 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3903 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3904 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3905 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3906 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3908 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3909 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3910 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3911 the object fresh for that period of time.
3912
41bd17a4 3913 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3914 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3915
41bd17a4 3916 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3917 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3918 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3919 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3920
41bd17a4 3921 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3922 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3923 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3924 it causes.
9bc73deb 3925
41bd17a4 3926 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3927 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3928 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3929 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3930 send it anyway.
3931
3932 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3933 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3934 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3935 liable for problems which it causes.
3936
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3937 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3938 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3939 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3940 liable for problems which it causes.
3941
41bd17a4 3942 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3943 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3944 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3945 liable for problems which it causes.
3946
3947 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3948 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3949 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3950 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3951 it causes.
3952
3953 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3954 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3955 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3956 if one is available.
3957
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3958 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3959 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3960 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3961 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3962 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3963
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3964 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3965 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3966 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3967
41bd17a4 3968 Basically a cached object is:
3969
3970 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3971 STALE if age > max
3972 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3973 FRESH if age < min
3974 else STALE
3975
3976 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3977 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3978 match the default will be used.
3979
3980 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3981 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3982 used.
3983
41bd17a4 3984NOCOMMENT_START
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3986# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3987refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3988refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3989refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3990refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3991NOCOMMENT_END
3992DOC_END
3993
3994NAME: quick_abort_min
3995COMMENT: (KB)
3996TYPE: kb_int64_t
3997DEFAULT: 16 KB
3998LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3999DOC_NONE
4000
4001NAME: quick_abort_max
4002COMMENT: (KB)
4003TYPE: kb_int64_t
4004DEFAULT: 16 KB
4005LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4006DOC_NONE
4007
4008NAME: quick_abort_pct
4009COMMENT: (percent)
4010TYPE: int
4011DEFAULT: 95
4012LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4013DOC_START
4014 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4015 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4016 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4017 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4018 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4019 downloads.
4020
4021 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4022 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4023 then.
4024
4025 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4026 it will finish the retrieval.
4027
4028 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4029 it will abort the retrieval.
4030
4031 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4032 it will finish the retrieval.
4033
4034 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4035 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4036 to '0 KB'.
4037
4038 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4039 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4040DOC_END
60d096f4 4041
41bd17a4 4042NAME: read_ahead_gap
4043COMMENT: buffer-size
4044TYPE: b_int64_t
4045LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4046DEFAULT: 16 KB
4047DOC_START
4048 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4049 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4050DOC_END
53e738c6 4051
41bd17a4 4052NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4053IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4054COMMENT: time-units
4055TYPE: time_t
4056LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4057DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4058DOC_START
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4059 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4060 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4061 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4062 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4063 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4064 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4065
4066 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4068 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4069 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4070 causes.
41bd17a4 4071DOC_END
53e738c6 4072
41bd17a4 4073NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4074COMMENT: time-units
4075TYPE: time_t
4076LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4077DEFAULT: 6 hours
4078DOC_START
4079 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4080 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4081 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4082DOC_END
c4ab8329 4083
41bd17a4 4084NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4085COMMENT: time-units
4086TYPE: time_t
4087LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4088DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4089DOC_START
4090 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4091 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4092 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4093 much below 10 seconds.
4094DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4095
41bd17a4 4096NAME: range_offset_limit
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4097COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4098TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4099LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4100DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4101DOC_START
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4102 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4103
4104 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4105 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4106 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4107 the result is NOT cached.
4108
41bd17a4 4109 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4110 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4111 sending anything to the client.
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4112
4113 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4114 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4115 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4116 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4117
4118 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4119
4120 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4121 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4122
4123 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4124 client requested. (default)
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4125
4126 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4127 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4128
4129 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4130
4131 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4132 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4133 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4134 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4135DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4137NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4138COMMENT: (seconds)
4139TYPE: time_t
4140LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4141DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4142DOC_START
4143 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4144 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4145 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4146 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4147 is most likely better to make your server return a
4148 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4149 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4150 often be best set to 0.
4151DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4153NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4154COMMENT: (bytes)
4155TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4156DEFAULT: 13 KB
4157LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4158DOC_START
4159 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4160 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4161DOC_END
4162
41bd17a4 4163NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4164TYPE: int
4165DEFAULT: 20
4166LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4167DOC_START
4168 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4169 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4170 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4171DOC_END
4172
4173COMMENT_START
4174 HTTP OPTIONS
4175 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4176COMMENT_END
4177
f04b37d8 4178NAME: request_header_max_size
4179COMMENT: (KB)
4180TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4181DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4182LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4183DOC_START
4184 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4185 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4186 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4187 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4188 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4189DOC_END
4190
4191NAME: reply_header_max_size
4192COMMENT: (KB)
4193TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4194DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4195LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4196DOC_START
4197 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4198 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4199 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4200 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4201 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4202DOC_END
4203
4204NAME: request_body_max_size
4205COMMENT: (bytes)
4206TYPE: b_int64_t
4207DEFAULT: 0 KB
4208LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4209DOC_START
4210 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4211 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4212 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4213 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4214 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4215 be no limit imposed.
4216DOC_END
4217
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4218NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4219COMMENT: (bytes)
4220TYPE: b_size_t
4221DEFAULT: 512 KB
4222LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4223DOC_START
4224 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4225 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4226 a large file.
4227DOC_END
4228
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4229NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4230COMMENT: (bytes)
4231TYPE: b_int64_t
4232DEFAULT: 64 KB
4233LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4234DOC_START
4235 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4236 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4237 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4238 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4239 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4240 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4241
4242 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4243 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4244 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4245 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4246 as if dechunking was disabled.
4247
4248 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4249 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4250
4251 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4252 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4253 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4254DOC_END
4255
41bd17a4 4256NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4257IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4258TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4259DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4260LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4261DOC_START
41bd17a4 4262 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4263 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4264
41bd17a4 4265 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4266 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4267
41bd17a4 4268 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4269
41bd17a4 4270 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4271 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4272 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4273 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4274
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4275 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4276 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4277
41bd17a4 4278Example:
4279 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4280 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4281DOC_END
cccac0a2 4282
22fff3bf 4283NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4284COMMENT: on|off
4285TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4286IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4287DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4288LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4289DOC_START
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4290 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4291 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4292
4293 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4294DOC_END
4295
41bd17a4 4296NAME: via
626096be 4297IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4298COMMENT: on|off
4299TYPE: onoff
4300DEFAULT: on
4301LOC: Config.onoff.via
4302DOC_START
4303 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4304 replies as required by RFC2616.
4305DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4306
41bd17a4 4307NAME: ie_refresh
4308COMMENT: on|off
4309TYPE: onoff
4310LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4311DEFAULT: off
4312DOC_START
4313 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4314 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4315 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4316 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4317 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4318 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4319 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4320 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4321 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4322 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4323 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4324 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4325 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4326 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4327 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4328 force fresh content.
4329DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4330
41bd17a4 4331NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4332COMMENT: on|off
4333TYPE: onoff
4334LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4335DEFAULT: off
4336DOC_START
4337 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4338 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4339 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4340 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4341 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4342
4343 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4344 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4345DOC_END
c4ab8329 4346
41bd17a4 4347NAME: request_entities
4348TYPE: onoff
4349LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4350DEFAULT: off
4351DOC_START
4352 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4353 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4354 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4355
41bd17a4 4356 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4357 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4358 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4359 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4360 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4361DOC_END
6b53c392 4362
41bd17a4 4363NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4364IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4365TYPE: http_header_access[]
4366LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4367DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4368DOC_START
41bd17a4 4369 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4370
41bd17a4 4371 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4372 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4373 causes.
0976f8db 4374
41bd17a4 4375 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4376 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4377 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4378 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4379 mangling.
934b03fc 4380
41bd17a4 4381 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4382 client to the server.
5401aa8d 4383
41bd17a4 4384 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4385 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4386 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 4387
41bd17a4 4388 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4389 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4390
41bd17a4 4391 request_header_access From deny all
4392 request_header_access Referer deny all
4393 request_header_access Server deny all
4394 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4395 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4396 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4397
41bd17a4 4398 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4399 you should use:
5401aa8d 4400
41bd17a4 4401 request_header_access Allow allow all
4402 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4403 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4404 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4405 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4406 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4407 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4408 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4409 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4410 request_header_access Date allow all
4411 request_header_access Expires allow all
4412 request_header_access Host allow all
4413 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4414 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4415 request_header_access Location allow all
4416 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4417 request_header_access Accept allow all
4418 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4419 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4420 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4421 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4422 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4423 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4424 request_header_access Title allow all
4425 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4426 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4427
41bd17a4 4428 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4429 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4430
41bd17a4 4431 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4432 performed).
5401aa8d 4433DOC_END
4434
41bd17a4 4435NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4436IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4437TYPE: http_header_access[]
4438LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4439DEFAULT: none
4440DOC_START
41bd17a4 4441 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4442
41bd17a4 4443 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4444 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4445 causes.
934b03fc 4446
41bd17a4 4447 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4448 server to the client.
934b03fc 4449
41bd17a4 4450 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4451 direction.
6b53c392 4452
41bd17a4 4453 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4454 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4455 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4456 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4457 mangling.
cccac0a2 4458
41bd17a4 4459 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4460 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4461 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4462
41bd17a4 4463 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4464 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4465
41bd17a4 4466 reply_header_access From deny all
4467 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4468 reply_header_access Server deny all
4469 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4470 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4471 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4472
41bd17a4 4473 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4474 you should use:
cccac0a2 4475
41bd17a4 4476 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4477 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4478 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4479 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4480 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4481 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4482 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4483 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4484 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4485 reply_header_access Date allow all
4486 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4487 reply_header_access Host allow all
4488 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4489 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4490 reply_header_access Location allow all
4491 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4492 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4493 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4494 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4495 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4496 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4497 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4498 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4499 reply_header_access Title allow all
4500 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4501 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4502
41bd17a4 4503 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4504 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4505
41bd17a4 4506 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4507 performed).
cccac0a2 4508DOC_END
4509
75e4f2ea 4510NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4511IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4512TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4513LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4514DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4515DOC_START
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4516 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4517 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4518
41bd17a4 4519 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4520 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4521 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4522 option.
cccac0a2 4523
41bd17a4 4524 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4525
41bd17a4 4526 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4527DOC_END
cccac0a2 4528
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4529NAME: reply_header_replace
4530IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4531TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4532LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4533DEFAULT: none
4534DOC_START
4535 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4536 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4537
4538 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4539 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4540 with some fixed string.
4541
4542 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4543
4544 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4545DOC_END
4546
41bd17a4 4547NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4548COMMENT: on|off|warn
4549TYPE: tristate
4550LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4551DEFAULT: on
4552DOC_START
4553 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4554 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4555 what the sending application intended even if the message
4556 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4557 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4558
41bd17a4 4559 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4560 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4561
41bd17a4 4562 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4563 or response to be rejected.
4564DOC_END
7d90757b 4565
41bd17a4 4566COMMENT_START
4567 TIMEOUTS
4568 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4569COMMENT_END
4570
4571NAME: forward_timeout
4572COMMENT: time-units
4573TYPE: time_t
4574LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4575DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4576DOC_START
4577 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4578 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4579DOC_END
4580
41bd17a4 4581NAME: connect_timeout
4582COMMENT: time-units
4583TYPE: time_t
4584LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4585DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4586DOC_START
41bd17a4 4587 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4588 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4589 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4590DOC_END
4591
41bd17a4 4592NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4593COMMENT: time-units
4594TYPE: time_t
4595LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4596DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4597DOC_START
41bd17a4 4598 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4599 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4600 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4601 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4602DOC_END
7f7db318 4603
41bd17a4 4604NAME: read_timeout
4605COMMENT: time-units
4606TYPE: time_t
4607LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4608DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4609DOC_START
4610 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4611 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4612 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4613 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4614 default is 15 minutes.
4615DOC_END
cccac0a2 4616
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4617NAME: write_timeout
4618COMMENT: time-units
4619TYPE: time_t
4620LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4621DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4622DOC_START
4623 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4624 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4625 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4626 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4627 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4628 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4629 default is 15 minutes.
4630DOC_END
4631
41bd17a4 4632NAME: request_timeout
4633TYPE: time_t
4634LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4635DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4636DOC_START
4637 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4638 connection establishment.
4639DOC_END
cccac0a2 4640
41bd17a4 4641NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4642TYPE: time_t
4643LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4644DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4645DOC_START
4646 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4647 connection after the previous request completes.
4648DOC_END
cccac0a2 4649
41bd17a4 4650NAME: client_lifetime
4651COMMENT: time-units
4652TYPE: time_t
4653LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4654DEFAULT: 1 day
4655DOC_START
4656 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4657 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4658 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4659 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4660 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4661 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4662 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4663
41bd17a4 4664 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4665 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4666 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4667 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4668 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4669 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4670DOC_END
4671
41bd17a4 4672NAME: half_closed_clients
4673TYPE: onoff
4674LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4675DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4676DOC_START
41bd17a4 4677 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4678 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4679 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4680 fully-closed TCP connection.
4681
4682 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4683 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4684
abdf1651 4685 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4686 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4687 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4688 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4689DOC_END
4690
41bd17a4 4691NAME: pconn_timeout
4692TYPE: time_t
4693LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4694DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4695DOC_START
41bd17a4 4696 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4697 proxies.
4698DOC_END
cccac0a2 4699
41bd17a4 4700NAME: ident_timeout
4701TYPE: time_t
4702IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4703LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4704DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4705DOC_START
4706 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4707
41bd17a4 4708 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4709 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4710 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4711DOC_END
4712
41bd17a4 4713NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4714COMMENT: time-units
4715TYPE: time_t
4716LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4717DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4718DOC_START
41bd17a4 4719 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4720 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4721 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4722 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4723 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4724DOC_END
0976f8db 4725
cccac0a2 4726COMMENT_START
4727 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4728 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4729COMMENT_END
4730
4731NAME: cache_mgr
4732TYPE: string
4733DEFAULT: webmaster
4734LOC: Config.adminEmail
4735DOC_START
4736 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4737 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4738DOC_END
4739
abacf776 4740NAME: mail_from
4741TYPE: string
4742DEFAULT: none
4743LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4744DOC_START
4745 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4746 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4747 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4748 src/globals.h before building squid.
4749DOC_END
4750
d084bf20 4751NAME: mail_program
4752TYPE: eol
4753DEFAULT: mail
4754LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4755DOC_START
4756 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4757 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4758 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4759 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4760
d084bf20 4761 Optional command line options can be specified.
4762DOC_END
4763
cccac0a2 4764NAME: cache_effective_user
4765TYPE: string
5483d916 4766DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4767LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4768DOC_START
4769 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4770 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4771 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4772 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4773DOC_END
4774
cccac0a2 4775NAME: cache_effective_group
4776TYPE: string
4777DEFAULT: none
4778LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4779DOC_START
64e288bd 4780 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4781 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4782 from the groups membership.
4783
e3d74828 4784 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4785 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4786 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4787 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4788 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4789 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4790 group.
64e288bd 4791
4792 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4793 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4794 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4795DOC_END
4796
d3caee79 4797NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4798COMMENT: on|off
4799TYPE: onoff
4800DEFAULT: off
4801LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4802DOC_START
4803 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4804DOC_END
4805
cccac0a2 4806NAME: visible_hostname
4807TYPE: string
4808LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4809DEFAULT: none
4810DOC_START
4811 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4812 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4813 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4814 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4815 names with this setting.
4816DOC_END
4817
cccac0a2 4818NAME: unique_hostname
4819TYPE: string
4820LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4821DEFAULT: none
4822DOC_START
4823 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4824 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4825 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4826DOC_END
4827
cccac0a2 4828NAME: hostname_aliases
4829TYPE: wordlist
4830LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4831DEFAULT: none
4832DOC_START
7f7db318 4833 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4834DOC_END
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4836NAME: umask
4837TYPE: int
4838LOC: Config.umask
4839DEFAULT: 027
4840DOC_START
4841 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4842 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4843
4844 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4845 your value with 0.
4846DOC_END
4847
cccac0a2 4848COMMENT_START
4849 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4850 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4851
4852 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4853 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4854 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4855 create cache hierarchies.
4856
4857 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4858 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4859 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4860
4861 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4862 following information from this configuration file:
4863
4864 http_port
4865 icp_port
4866 cache_mgr
4867
4868 All current information is processed regularly and made
4869 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4870COMMENT_END
4871
4872NAME: announce_period
4873TYPE: time_t
4874LOC: Config.Announce.period
4875DEFAULT: 0
4876DOC_START
4877 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4878 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4879 messages.
4880
e0855596 4881 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 4882
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4883 Example:
4884 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4885DOC_END
4886
cccac0a2 4887NAME: announce_host
4888TYPE: string
4889DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4890LOC: Config.Announce.host
4891DOC_NONE
4892
4893NAME: announce_file
4894TYPE: string
4895DEFAULT: none
4896LOC: Config.Announce.file
4897DOC_NONE
4898
4899NAME: announce_port
ae870270 4900TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 4901DEFAULT: 3131
4902LOC: Config.Announce.port
4903DOC_START
4904 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4905 number where the registration message will be sent.
4906
4907 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4908 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4909 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4910 message.
4911DOC_END
4912
8d6275c0 4913COMMENT_START
4914 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4915 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4916COMMENT_END
4917
cccac0a2 4918NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4919TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4920DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4921LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4922DOC_START
4923 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4924 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4925 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4926 an identification token.
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4927
4928 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4929DOC_END
4930
4931NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4932COMMENT: on|off
4933TYPE: onoff
4934DEFAULT: off
4935LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4936DOC_START
4937 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4938 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4939DOC_END
4940
4941NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4942IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4943COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4944TYPE: string
4945LOC: ESIParser::Type
4946DEFAULT: custom
4947DOC_START
4948 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4949 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4950 encodings.
4951DOC_END
0976f8db 4952
9edd9041 4953COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4954 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4955 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4956COMMENT_END
4957
4958NAME: delay_pools
4959TYPE: delay_pool_count
4960DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 4961IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4962LOC: Config.Delay
4963DOC_START
4964 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4965 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4966 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4967DOC_END
4968
4969NAME: delay_class
4970TYPE: delay_pool_class
4971DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 4972IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 4973LOC: Config.Delay
4974DOC_START
4975 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4976 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4977 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4978 and here would be:
4979
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4980 Example:
4981 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4982 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4983 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4984 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4985 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4986
4987 The delay pool classes are:
4988
4989 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4990 bucket.
4991
4992 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4993 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4994 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4995
4996 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4997 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4998 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4999 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5000 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5001
5002 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5003 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5004 only takes effect if the username is established
5005 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5006 http_access rules.
5007
5008 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5009 external_acl's tag= reply).
5010
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5011
5012 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5013 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5014 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5015
9edd9041 5016 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5017 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5018 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5019 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5020
5021 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5022 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5023DOC_END
5024
5025NAME: delay_access
5026TYPE: delay_pool_access
5027DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5028IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5029LOC: Config.Delay
5030DOC_START
5031 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5032
5033 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5034 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5035 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5036 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5037
5038 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5039 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5040
5041Example:
5042 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5043 delay_access 1 deny all
5044 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5045 delay_access 2 deny all
5046 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5047DOC_END
5048
5049NAME: delay_parameters
5050TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5051DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5052IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5053LOC: Config.Delay
5054DOC_START
5055 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5056 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5057 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5058
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5059 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5060 delay_pools pool 1
5061 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5062
5063 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5064 delay_pools pool 2
5065 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5066
5067 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5068 delay_pools pool 3
5069 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5070
5071 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5072 delay_pools pool 4
5073 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5074
5075 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5076 delay_pools pool 5
5077 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5078
0b68481a 5079 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5080
5081 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5082 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5083 delay_class lines.
5084
fdb47ac6 5085 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5086 (class 1, 2, 3).
5087
fdb47ac6 5088 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5089 buckets (class 2, 3).
5090
fdb47ac6 5091 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5092 (class 3).
5093
fdb47ac6 5094 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5095 (class 4).
5096
fdb47ac6 5097 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5098 (class 5).
5099
5100 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5101 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5102 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5103 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5104
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5105 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5106
5107
9edd9041 5108 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5109 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5110 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5111
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5112 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5113
5114 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5115
5116 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5117
0b68481a 5118
9edd9041 5119 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5120 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5121 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5122 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5123 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5124 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5125 large downloads more significantly:
5126
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5127 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5128
5129 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5130 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5131 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5132
9edd9041 5133
5134 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5135 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5136
0b68481a 5137 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5138DOC_END
5139
5140NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5141COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5142TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5143DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5144IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5145LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5146DOC_START
5147 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5148 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5149 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5150 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5151 "seen" by squid).
5152DOC_END
5153
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5154COMMENT_START
5155 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5156 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5157COMMENT_END
5158
5159NAME: client_delay_pools
5160TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5161DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5162IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5163LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5164DOC_START
5165 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5166 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5167
5168Example:
5169 client_delay_pools 2
5170DOC_END
5171
5172NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5173COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5174TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5175DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5176IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5177LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5178DOC_START
5179 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5180 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5181 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5182 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5183
5184 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5185 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5186 from client_delay_parameters.
5187
5188Example:
5189 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5190DOC_END
5191
5192NAME: client_delay_parameters
5193TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5194DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5195IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5196LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5197DOC_START
5198
5199 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5200 following format:
5201
5202 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5203
5204 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5205
5206 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5207
5208 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5209 speed_limit additions.
5210
5211 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5212 examples.
5213
5214Example:
5215 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5216 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5217DOC_END
5218
5219NAME: client_delay_access
5220TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5221DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5222IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5223LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5224DOC_START
5225
5226 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5227 request:
5228
5229 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5230
5231 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5232 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5233 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5234 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5235 limited.
5236
5237 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5238 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5239 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5240 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5241
5242 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5243
5244Example:
5245 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5246 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5247DOC_END
5248
cccac0a2 5249COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5250 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5251 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5252COMMENT_END
5253
8d6275c0 5254NAME: wccp_router
5255TYPE: address
5256LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5257DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5258IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5259DOC_START
5260 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5261 Squid.
5262
5263 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5264
5265 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5266
5267 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5268 which version of WCCP to use.
5269DOC_END
df2eec10 5270
8d6275c0 5271NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5272TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5273LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5274DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5275IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5276DOC_START
8d6275c0 5277 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5278 Squid.
cccac0a2 5279
8d6275c0 5280 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5281
8d6275c0 5282 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5283
8d6275c0 5284 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5285 which version of WCCP to use.
5286DOC_END
5287
5288NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5289TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5290LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5291DEFAULT: 4
5292IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5293DOC_START
8d6275c0 5294 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5295 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5296 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5297 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5298 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5299
8d6275c0 5300 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5301 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5302 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5303 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5304DOC_END
5305
8d6275c0 5306NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5307TYPE: onoff
5308LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5309DEFAULT: on
5310IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5311DOC_START
5312 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5313 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5314DOC_END
cccac0a2 5315
8d6275c0 5316NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5317TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5318LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5319DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5320IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5321DOC_START
699acd19 5322 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5323 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5324
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5325 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5326 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5327
8d6275c0 5328 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5329 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5330DOC_END
5331
8d6275c0 5332NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5333TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5334LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5335DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5336IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5337DOC_START
699acd19 5338 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5339 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5340 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5341
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5342 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5343 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5344
8d6275c0 5345 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5346 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5347
699acd19 5348 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5349 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5350 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5351 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5352DOC_END
5353
8d6275c0 5354NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5355TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5356LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5357DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5358IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5359DOC_START
8d6275c0 5360 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5361 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5362
451c4786 5363 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5364 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5365
8d6275c0 5366 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5367 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5368DOC_END
cccac0a2 5369
8d6275c0 5370NAME: wccp2_service
5371TYPE: wccp2_service
5372LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5373DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5374IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5375DOC_START
5376 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5377 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5378 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5379 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5380 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5381 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5382
5383 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5384 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5385
5386 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5387 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5388
5389 Examples:
5390
5391 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5392 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5393 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5394 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5395DOC_END
5396
5397NAME: wccp2_service_info
5398TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5399LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5400DEFAULT: none
5401IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5402DOC_START
5403 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5404 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5405
5406 The format is:
5407
5408 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5409 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5410
5411 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5412 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5413 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5414 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5415 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5416 + ports_source
5417
5418 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5419
5420 Example:
5421
5422 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5423 priority=240 ports=80
5424
5425 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5426 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5427DOC_END
5428
5429NAME: wccp2_weight
5430TYPE: int
5431LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5432DEFAULT: 10000
5433IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5434DOC_START
5435 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5436 hash proportional to their weight.
5437DOC_END
5438
5439NAME: wccp_address
5440TYPE: address
5441LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5442DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5443IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5444DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5445
8d6275c0 5446NAME: wccp2_address
5447TYPE: address
5448LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5449DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5450IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5451DOC_START
5452 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5453 interface address.
5454
5455 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5456DOC_END
5457
5458COMMENT_START
5459 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5461
5462 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5463COMMENT_END
5464
5465NAME: client_persistent_connections
5466TYPE: onoff
5467LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5468DEFAULT: on
5469DOC_NONE
5470
5471NAME: server_persistent_connections
5472TYPE: onoff
5473LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5474DEFAULT: on
5475DOC_START
5476 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5477 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5478 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5479 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5480DOC_END
5481
5482NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5483TYPE: onoff
5484LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5485DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5486DOC_START
5487 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5488 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5489 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5490DOC_END
5491
5492NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5493TYPE: onoff
5494LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5495DEFAULT: off
5496DOC_START
5497 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5498 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5499 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5500 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5501
5502 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5503 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5504 after 10 seconds timeout.
5505DOC_END
5506
5507COMMENT_START
5508 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5509 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5510COMMENT_END
5511
5512NAME: digest_generation
5513IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5514TYPE: onoff
5515LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5516DEFAULT: on
5517DOC_START
5518 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5519 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5520 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5521DOC_END
5522
5523NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5524IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5525TYPE: int
5526LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5527DEFAULT: 5
5528DOC_START
5529 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5530 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5531 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5532DOC_END
5533
5534NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5535IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5536COMMENT: (seconds)
5537TYPE: time_t
5538LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5539DEFAULT: 1 hour
5540DOC_START
749ceff8 5541 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5542DOC_END
5543
5544NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5545COMMENT: (seconds)
5546IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5547TYPE: time_t
5548LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5549DEFAULT: 1 hour
5550DOC_START
749ceff8 5551 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5552 disk.
5553DOC_END
5554
5555NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5556COMMENT: (bytes)
5557TYPE: b_size_t
5558IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5559LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5560DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5561DOC_START
5562 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5563 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5564 default swap page.
5565DOC_END
5566
5567NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5568COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5569IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5570TYPE: int
5571LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5572DEFAULT: 10
5573DOC_START
5574 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5575 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5576DOC_END
5577
1db9eacd 5578COMMENT_START
5473c134 5579 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5580 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5581COMMENT_END
5582
5473c134 5583NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5584TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5585LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5586DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5587IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5588DOC_START
87630341 5589 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5590 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5591 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5592 set to "0" (disabled)
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5593
5594 Example:
5595 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5596DOC_END
5597
5473c134 5598NAME: snmp_access
5599TYPE: acl_access
5600LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5601DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5602IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5603DOC_START
5473c134 5604 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5605
5473c134 5606 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5607 usage:
8d6275c0 5608
5473c134 5609 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5610
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5611 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5612 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5613Example:
5614 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5615 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5616DOC_END
5617
5473c134 5618NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5619TYPE: address
5620LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5621DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5622IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5623DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5624
5473c134 5625NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5626TYPE: address
5627LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5628DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5629IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5630DOC_START
df2eec10 5631 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5632
5473c134 5633 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5634 messages from SNMP agents.
5635 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5636 agents.
cccac0a2 5637
0eb08770 5638 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5639 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5640
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5641 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5642 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5643 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5644 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5645
5473c134 5646 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5647 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5648DOC_END
5649
5473c134 5650COMMENT_START
5651 ICP OPTIONS
5652 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5653COMMENT_END
5654
5655NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5656TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5657DEFAULT: 0
5658LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5659DOC_START
5473c134 5660 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5661 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5662 Default is disabled (0).
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5663
5664 Example:
5665 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5666DOC_END
5667
5473c134 5668NAME: htcp_port
5669IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5670TYPE: u_short
87630341 5671DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5672LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5673DOC_START
5473c134 5674 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5675 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5676 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5677
5678 Example:
5679 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5680DOC_END
5681
5682NAME: log_icp_queries
5683COMMENT: on|off
5684TYPE: onoff
5685DEFAULT: on
5686LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5687DOC_START
5688 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5689 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5690 up or to simplify log analysis.
5691DOC_END
5692
5473c134 5693NAME: udp_incoming_address
5694TYPE: address
5695LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5696DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5697DOC_START
5698 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5699 caches.
5700
5701 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5702
5703 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5704 a specific interface/address.
5705
5706 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5707 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5708
5709 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5710
5711 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5712 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5713DOC_END
cccac0a2 5714
5473c134 5715NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5716TYPE: address
5717LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5718DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5719DOC_START
8524d4b2 5720 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5721 caches.
cccac0a2 5722
5473c134 5723 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5724
8524d4b2 5725 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5726 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5727 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5728 caches.
5729
8524d4b2 5730 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5731 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5732
5733 see also; udp_incoming_address
5734
5473c134 5735 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5736 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5737DOC_END
5738
3d1e3e43 5739NAME: icp_hit_stale
5740COMMENT: on|off
5741TYPE: onoff
5742DEFAULT: off
5743LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5744DOC_START
5745 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5746 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5747 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5748 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5749 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5750 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5751 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5752DOC_END
5753
5473c134 5754NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5755TYPE: int
5473c134 5756DEFAULT: 4
5757LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5758DOC_START
5473c134 5759 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5760 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5761DOC_END
5762
5473c134 5763NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5764TYPE: int
5765DEFAULT: 400
5766LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5767DOC_START
5473c134 5768 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5769 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5770DOC_END
5771
cccac0a2 5772NAME: netdb_low
5773TYPE: int
5774DEFAULT: 900
5775LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5776DOC_NONE
5777
5778NAME: netdb_high
5779TYPE: int
5780DEFAULT: 1000
5781LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5782DOC_START
5783 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5784 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5785 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5786 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5787DOC_END
5788
cccac0a2 5789NAME: netdb_ping_period
5790TYPE: time_t
5791LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5792DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5793DOC_START
5794 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5795 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5796 network. The default is five minutes.
5797DOC_END
5798
cccac0a2 5799NAME: query_icmp
5800COMMENT: on|off
5801TYPE: onoff
5802DEFAULT: off
5803LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5804DOC_START
5805 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5806 replies, enable this option.
5807
5808 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5809 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5810 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5811 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5812 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5813 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5814 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5815 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5816DOC_END
5817
5818NAME: test_reachability
5819COMMENT: on|off
5820TYPE: onoff
5821DEFAULT: off
5822LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5823DOC_START
5824 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5825 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5826 database, or has a zero RTT.
5827DOC_END
5828
5473c134 5829NAME: icp_query_timeout
5830COMMENT: (msec)
5831DEFAULT: 0
5832TYPE: int
5833LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5834DOC_START
5473c134 5835 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5836 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5837 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5838 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5839 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5840 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5841
5473c134 5842 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5843DOC_END
5844
5473c134 5845NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5846COMMENT: (msec)
5847DEFAULT: 2000
5848TYPE: int
5849LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5850DOC_START
5473c134 5851 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5852 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5853 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5854 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5855 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5856 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5857DOC_END
5858
5473c134 5859NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5860COMMENT: (msec)
5861DEFAULT: 5
5862TYPE: int
5863LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5864DOC_START
5473c134 5865 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5866 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5867 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5868 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5869 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5870 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5871 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5872DOC_END
5873
5473c134 5874NAME: background_ping_rate
5875COMMENT: time-units
5876TYPE: time_t
5877DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5878LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5879DOC_START
5473c134 5880 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5881 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5882DOC_END
5883
5473c134 5884COMMENT_START
5885 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5886 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5887COMMENT_END
5888
5889NAME: mcast_groups
5890TYPE: wordlist
5891LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5892DEFAULT: none
5893DOC_START
5473c134 5894 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5895 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5896
5473c134 5897 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5898 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5899 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5900 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5901 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5902 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5903 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5904
5473c134 5905 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5906 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5907
5473c134 5908 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5909 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5910
5473c134 5911 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5912
5473c134 5913 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5914DOC_END
8c01ada0 5915
5473c134 5916NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5917IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5918TYPE: address
5919LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5920DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5921DOC_START
5922 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5923 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5924
5473c134 5925 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5926 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5927DOC_END
5928
5473c134 5929NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5930IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5931TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5932LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5933DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5934DOC_START
5473c134 5935 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5936 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5937 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5938DOC_END
cccac0a2 5939
5473c134 5940NAME: mcast_miss_port
5941IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 5942TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5943LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5944DEFAULT: 3135
5945DOC_START
5946 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5947 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5948DOC_END
cccac0a2 5949
5473c134 5950NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5951IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5952TYPE: string
5953LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5954DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5955DOC_START
5956 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5957 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5958DOC_END
8c01ada0 5959
5473c134 5960NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5961COMMENT: (msec)
5962DEFAULT: 2000
5963TYPE: int
5964LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5965DOC_START
5966 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5967 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5968 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5969 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5970 seconds.
cccac0a2 5971DOC_END
5972
5473c134 5973COMMENT_START
5974 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5976COMMENT_END
5977
cccac0a2 5978NAME: icon_directory
5979TYPE: string
5980LOC: Config.icons.directory
5981DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5982DOC_START
5983 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5984 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5985DOC_END
5986
f024c970 5987NAME: global_internal_static
5988TYPE: onoff
5989LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5990DEFAULT: on
5991DOC_START
5992 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5993 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5994 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5995 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5996 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5997 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5998 the server generating a directory listing.
5999DOC_END
6000
5473c134 6001NAME: short_icon_urls
6002TYPE: onoff
6003LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6004DEFAULT: on
6005DOC_START
6006 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6007 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6008 it's own name and port in the URL.
6009
6010 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6011 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6012DOC_END
6013
6014COMMENT_START
6015 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6016 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6017COMMENT_END
6018
6019NAME: error_directory
6020TYPE: string
6021LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6022DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6023DOC_START
6024 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6025 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6026 the error/template files to another directory and point
6027 this tag at them.
6028
6029 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6030 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6031
6032 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6033 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6034 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6035 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6036 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6037
6038 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6039 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6040DOC_END
6041
6042NAME: error_default_language
6043IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6044TYPE: string
6045LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6046DEFAULT: none
6047DOC_START
6048 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6049 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6050 preferences.
6051
6052 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6053
6054 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6055 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6056 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6057 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6058DOC_END
6059
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6060NAME: error_log_languages
6061IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6062TYPE: onoff
6063LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6064DEFAULT: on
6065DOC_START
6066 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6067 auto-negotiate for translations.
6068
6069 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6070 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6071 of its error page translations.
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6072DOC_END
6073
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6074NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6075TYPE: string
6076LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6077DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6078DOC_START
6079 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6080
6081 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6082DOC_END
6083
5473c134 6084NAME: err_html_text
6085TYPE: eol
6086LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6087DEFAULT: none
6088DOC_START
6089 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6090 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6091 organizations Web page.
6092
6093 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6094 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6095 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6096 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6097DOC_END
6098
6099NAME: email_err_data
6100COMMENT: on|off
6101TYPE: onoff
6102LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6103DEFAULT: on
6104DOC_START
6105 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6106 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6107 so that the email body contains the data.
6108 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6109DOC_END
6110
6111NAME: deny_info
6112TYPE: denyinfo
6113LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6114DEFAULT: none
6115DOC_START
6116 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6117 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6118 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6119
6120 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6121 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6122 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6123 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6124
6125 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6126 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6127 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6128 the first authentication related acl encountered
6129 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6130 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6132 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6133
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6135 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6136 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6137
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6138 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6139 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6140 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6141
5473c134 6142 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6143 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6144
6145 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6146 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6147 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6148 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6149 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6150
6151 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6152 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6153 %B - FTP path URL
6154 %e - Error number
6155 %E - Error description
6156 %h - Squid hostname
6157 %H - Request domain name
6158 %i - Client IP Address
6159 %M - Request Method
6160 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6161 %p - Request Port number
6162 %P - Request Protocol name
6163 %R - Request URL path
6164 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6165 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6166 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6167 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6168 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6169 %x - Error name
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6170 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6171
5473c134 6172DOC_END
6173
6174COMMENT_START
6175 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6176 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6177COMMENT_END
6178
6179NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6180TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6181LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6182DEFAULT: on
6183DOC_START
5473c134 6184 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6185 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6186 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6187
5473c134 6188 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6189 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6190
5473c134 6191 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6192 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6193 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6194
5473c134 6195 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6196 this directive.
8d6275c0 6197DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6198
5473c134 6199NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6200TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6201LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6202DEFAULT: off
6203DOC_START
5473c134 6204 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6205 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6206 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6207
5473c134 6208 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6209 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6210 fails.
6211
6212 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6213 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6214 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6215DOC_END
6216
5473c134 6217NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6218TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6219LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6220DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6221DOC_START
5473c134 6222 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6223
5473c134 6224 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6225 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6226 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6227 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6228 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6229
5473c134 6230 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6231 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6232
5473c134 6233 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6234
5473c134 6235 acl FTP proto FTP
6236 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6237
5473c134 6238 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6239 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6240 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6241 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6242 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6243
5473c134 6244 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6245 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6246 always_direct deny local-external
6247 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6248
5473c134 6249 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6250 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6251 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6252 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6253
5473c134 6254 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6255 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6256 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6257
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6258 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6259 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6260DOC_END
0976f8db 6261
5473c134 6262NAME: never_direct
6263TYPE: acl_access
6264LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6265DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6266DOC_START
5473c134 6267 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6268
6269 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6270 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6271
6272 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6273 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6274 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6275 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6276
6277 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6278 never_direct deny local-servers
6279 never_direct allow all
6280
6281 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6282 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6283
6284 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6285 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6286 always_direct deny local-external
6287 always_direct allow local-intranet
6288 never_direct allow all
6289
b3567eb5
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6290 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6291 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6292DOC_END
0976f8db 6293
5473c134 6294COMMENT_START
6295 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6296 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6297COMMENT_END
6298
cccac0a2 6299NAME: incoming_icp_average
6300TYPE: int
6301DEFAULT: 6
6302LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6303DOC_NONE
6304
6305NAME: incoming_http_average
6306TYPE: int
6307DEFAULT: 4
6308LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6309DOC_NONE
6310
6311NAME: incoming_dns_average
6312TYPE: int
6313DEFAULT: 4
6314LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6315DOC_NONE
6316
6317NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6318TYPE: int
6319DEFAULT: 8
6320LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6321DOC_NONE
6322
6323NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6324TYPE: int
6325DEFAULT: 8
6326LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6327DOC_NONE
6328
6329NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6330TYPE: int
6331DEFAULT: 8
6332LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6333DOC_START
5473c134 6334 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6335 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6336 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6337DOC_END
6338
6339NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6340TYPE: string
6341DEFAULT: none
6342LOC: Config.accept_filter
6343DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6344 FreeBSD:
6345
5473c134 6346 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6347 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6348 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6349
6350 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6351 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6352 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6353
6354 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6355 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6356 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6357
6358 Linux:
6359
6360 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6361 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6362 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6363 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6364 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6365EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6366# FreeBSD
5473c134 6367accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6368# Linux
6369accept_filter data
5473c134 6370DOC_END
6371
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6372NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6373TYPE: int
6374LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6375DEFAULT: -1
6376DOC_START
6377 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6378 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6379 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6380
6381 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6382 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6383
6384 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6385
6386 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6387 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6388DOC_END
6389
5473c134 6390NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6391COMMENT: (bytes)
6392TYPE: b_size_t
6393DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6394LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6395DOC_START
6396 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6397 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6398 the default buffer size.
6399DOC_END
6400
6401COMMENT_START
6402 ICAP OPTIONS
6403 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6404COMMENT_END
6405
6406NAME: icap_enable
6407TYPE: onoff
6408IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6409COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6410LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6411DEFAULT: off
6412DOC_START
53e738c6 6413 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6414DOC_END
6415
6416NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6417TYPE: time_t
6418DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6419LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6420IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6421DOC_START
6422 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6423 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6424 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6425
6426 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6427 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6428 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6429DOC_END
6430
6431NAME: icap_io_timeout
6432COMMENT: time-units
6433TYPE: time_t
6434DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6435LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6436IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6437DOC_START
6438 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6439 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6440 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6441 failure.
6442
6443 The default is read_timeout.
6444DOC_END
6445
6446NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6447COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6448TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6449IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6450LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6451DEFAULT: 10
6452DOC_START
6453 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6454 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6455 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6456 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6457 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6458
6459 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6460 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6461 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6462
6463 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6464 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6465 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6466 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6467 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6468
6469 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6470 effect on service failure expiration.
6471
6472 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6473 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6474 setting.
6475
6476 For example,
6477 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6478 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6479DOC_END
6480
5473c134 6481NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6482TYPE: int
5473c134 6483IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6484LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6485DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6486DOC_START
5473c134 6487 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6488 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6489 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6490 fetched.
cccac0a2 6491
5473c134 6492 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6493 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6494DOC_END
6495
5473c134 6496NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6497TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6498IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6499COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6500LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6501DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6502DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6503 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6504 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6505 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6506 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6507
6508 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6509 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6510 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6511
6512 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6513 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6514Example:
6515icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6516DOC_END
6517
5473c134 6518NAME: icap_preview_size
6519TYPE: int
6520IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6521LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6522DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6523DOC_START
53e738c6 6524 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6525 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6526 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6527DOC_END
6528
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6529NAME: icap_206_enable
6530TYPE: onoff
6531IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6532COMMENT: on|off
6533LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6534DEFAULT: on
6535DOC_START
6536 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6537 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6538 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6539 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6540
6541 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6542 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6543 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6544 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6545 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6546
6547 Example:
6548 icap_206_enable off
6549DOC_END
6550
5473c134 6551NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6552TYPE: int
6553IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6554LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6555DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6556DOC_START
53e738c6 6557 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6558 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6559DOC_END
6560
5473c134 6561NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6562TYPE: onoff
6563IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6564COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6565LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6566DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6567DOC_START
5473c134 6568 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6569 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6570DOC_END
6571
22fff3bf 6572NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6573TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6574IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6575COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6576LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6577DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6578DOC_START
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6579 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6580 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6581 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6582
6583 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6584DOC_END
6585
22fff3bf 6586NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6587TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6588IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6589COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6590LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6591DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6592DOC_START
5473c134 6593 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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6594 the adaptation service.
6595
6596 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6597 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6598 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6599DOC_END
6600
5473c134 6601NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6602TYPE: string
5473c134 6603IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6604LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6605DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6606DOC_START
db49f682 6607 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6608DOC_END
6609
5473c134 6610NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6611TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6612IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6613COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6614LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6615DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6616DOC_START
5473c134 6617 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6618DOC_END
6619
5473c134 6620NAME: icap_service
6621TYPE: icap_service_type
6622IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6623LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6624DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6625DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6626 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6627
c25c2836 6628 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 6629
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6630 id: ID
6631 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6632 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6633 services in squid.conf.
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6634
6635 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6636 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6637 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6638 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 6639
c25c2836 6640 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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6641 ICAP server and service location.
6642
6643 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6644 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6645 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6646 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6647 service_names differ.
6648
6649
6650 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6651 the following name=value options:
6652
6653 bypass=on|off|1|0
6654 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6655 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6656 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6657 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6658 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6659 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6660 returned to the HTTP client.
6661
6662 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6663
6664 routing=on|off|1|0
6665 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6666 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6667 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6668 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6669 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6670 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6671 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6672 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6673
6674 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6675 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6676
6677 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6678 response header is ignored.
6679
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6680 ipv6=on|off
6681 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6682 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6683 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6684
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6685 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6686 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6687 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6688 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6689 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6690 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6691 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6692
6693 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6694 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6695 workers may use a given service.
6696
6697 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6698 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6699
6700
6701 max-conn=number
6702 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6703 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6704
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6705 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6706 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6707
5473c134 6708Example:
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6709icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
6710icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 6711DOC_END
6712
5473c134 6713NAME: icap_class
6714TYPE: icap_class_type
6715IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6716LOC: none
5473c134 6717DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6718DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6719 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
62c7f90e
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6720 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6721 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6722
62c7f90e 6723 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6724 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6725 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6726DOC_END
6727
5473c134 6728NAME: icap_access
6729TYPE: icap_access_type
6730IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6731LOC: none
cccac0a2 6732DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6733DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6734 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6735 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6736 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6737DOC_END
6738
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6739COMMENT_START
6740 eCAP OPTIONS
6741 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6742COMMENT_END
6743
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6744NAME: ecap_enable
6745TYPE: onoff
6746IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6747COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6748LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6749DEFAULT: off
6750DOC_START
6751 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6752DOC_END
6753
6754NAME: ecap_service
6755TYPE: ecap_service_type
6756IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6757LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6758DEFAULT: none
6759DOC_START
6760 Defines a single eCAP service
6761
c25c2836 6762 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 6763
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6764 id: ID
6765 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6766 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6767 services in squid.conf.
6768
6769 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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6770 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6771 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6772 are not yet supported.
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6773
6774 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6775 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
6776 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
6777 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
6778 the service provider.
6779
6780
6781 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
6782 the following name=value options:
6783
6784 bypass=on|off|1|0
6785 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
6786 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
6787 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 6788 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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6789 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
6790 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 6791 HTTP client.
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6792
6793 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6794
6795 routing=on|off|1|0
6796 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
6797 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6798 returning a chain of services to be used next.
6799
6800 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6801 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
6802
6803 Routing is not allowed by default.
6804
6805 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
6806 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6807
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6809Example:
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6810ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
6811ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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6812DOC_END
6813
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6814NAME: loadable_modules
6815TYPE: wordlist
6816IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6817LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6818DEFAULT: none
6819DOC_START
6820 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6821 preloaded module(s).
6822Example:
6823loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6824DOC_END
6825
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6826COMMENT_START
6827 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6828 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6829COMMENT_END
6830
6831NAME: adaptation_service_set
6832TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6833IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6834LOC: none
6835DEFAULT: none
6836DOC_START
6837
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6838 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6839 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6840
6841 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6842
6843 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6844 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6845 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6846 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6847 intact.
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6849 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6850 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6851
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6852 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6853 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6854
6855 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6856 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6857 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6858 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6859 transaction fails as well.
6860
6861 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6862 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6863 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6864 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6865 matters.
6866
6867 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6869Example:
6870adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6871adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6872DOC_END
6873
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6874NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6875TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6876IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6877LOC: none
6878DEFAULT: none
6879DOC_START
6880
6881 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6882 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6883 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6884
6885 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6886
6887 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6888 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6889 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6890 the previous service in the chain.
6891
6892 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6893 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6894
6895 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6896 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6897 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6898
6899 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6900 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6901
6902 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6903 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6904 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6905 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6906
6907 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6908
6909Example:
6910adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6911DOC_END
6912
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6913NAME: adaptation_access
6914TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6915IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6916LOC: none
6917DEFAULT: none
6918DOC_START
6919 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6920
6921 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6922 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6923
6924 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6925 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6926 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6927 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6928
6929 - services serving different vectoring points
6930 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6931 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6932 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6933
6934 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6935 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6936 adaptation_service_set for details.
6937
6938 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6939 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6940 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6941 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6942
6943 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6944 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6945
6946 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6947
6948Example:
6949adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6950DOC_END
6951
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6952NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6953TYPE: int
6954IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6955LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6956DEFAULT: 16
6957DOC_START
6958 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6959 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6960 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6961 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6962 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6963 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6964
6965 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6966
6967 See also: icap_service routing=1
6968DOC_END
6969
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6970NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6971TYPE: string
6972IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6973LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6974DEFAULT: none
6975DOC_START
6976 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6977 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6978 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6979 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6980 with the master transaction.
6981
6982 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6983 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6984
6985 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6986 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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6987 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6988
6989 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6990 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6991 to provide an option with a name specified in
6992 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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6993
6994 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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6995 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6996
6997 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6998
6999Example:
7000# share authentication information among ICAP services
7001adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7002DOC_END
7003
7004NAME: icap_retry
7005TYPE: acl_access
7006IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7007LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7008DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7009DOC_START
7010 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7011 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7012 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7013 that response are usually retriable.
7014
7015 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7016
7017 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7018 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7019
7020 See also: icap_retry_limit
7021DOC_END
7022
7023NAME: icap_retry_limit
7024TYPE: int
7025IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7026LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7027DEFAULT: 0
7028DOC_START
7029 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7030 no retries are allowed.
7031
7032 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7033 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7034 count against this limit.
7035
7036 See also: icap_retry
7037DOC_END
7038
7039
5473c134 7040COMMENT_START
7041 DNS OPTIONS
7042 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7043COMMENT_END
7044
7045NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7046TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7047DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7048LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7049DOC_START
5473c134 7050 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7051 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7052 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7053DOC_END
7054
5473c134 7055NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7056TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7057DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7058LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7059DOC_START
5473c134 7060 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7061 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7062 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7063 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7064DOC_END
7065
5473c134 7066NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7067TYPE: string
5473c134 7068IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
7069DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7070LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7071DOC_START
5473c134 7072 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7073DOC_END
7074
5473c134 7075NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7076TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 7077IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 7078DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7079LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7080DOC_START
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7081 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7082 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7083 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7084 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7085 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7086
7087 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7088 tuning.
7089
7090 startup=
7091
7092 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7093 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7094 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7095
7096 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7097 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7098
7099 idle=
7100
7101 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7102 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7103 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7104 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7105DOC_END
7106
5473c134 7107NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7108TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7109DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7110LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
7111IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7112DOC_START
5473c134 7113 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7114 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7115DOC_END
7116
5473c134 7117NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7118TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7119DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7120LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
7121IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 7122DOC_START
5473c134 7123 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7124 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7125 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7126DOC_END
7127
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7128NAME: dns_packet_max
7129TYPE: b_ssize_t
7130DEFAULT: none
7131LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
7132IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
7133DOC_START
7134 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7135 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7136
7137 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7138 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7139 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7140 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7141 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7142
7143 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7144 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7145 necessary.
7146
7147 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7148 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7149 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7150 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7151 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7152 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7153 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7154DOC_END
7155
5473c134 7156NAME: dns_defnames
7157COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7158TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7159DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7160LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7161DOC_START
5473c134 7162 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7163 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7164 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7165 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7166DOC_END
7167
5473c134 7168NAME: dns_nameservers
7169TYPE: wordlist
7170DEFAULT: none
7171LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7172DOC_START
5473c134 7173 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7174 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7175 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7176 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7177 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7178 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7179 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7180
5473c134 7181 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7182DOC_END
7183
5473c134 7184NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7185TYPE: string
5473c134 7186DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7187LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7188DOC_START
5473c134 7189 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7190 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7191 default locations:
7192 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7193 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7194 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7195 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7196 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7197 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7198 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7199 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7200
5473c134 7201 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7202 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7203 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7204 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7205
5473c134 7206 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7207 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7208 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7209 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7210 definitions.
cccac0a2 7211DOC_END
7212
5473c134 7213NAME: append_domain
7214TYPE: string
7215LOC: Config.appendDomain
7216DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7217DOC_START
5473c134 7218 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7219 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7220
7221 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7222 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7223 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7224
7225Example:
7226 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7227DOC_END
7228
5473c134 7229NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7230TYPE: onoff
7231LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7232DEFAULT: on
f10a6c8a 7233IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
df6fd596 7234DOC_START
5473c134 7235 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7236 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7237 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7238 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7239 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7240DOC_END
7241
cc192b50 7242NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7243TYPE: onoff
7244DEFAULT: on
7245LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
f10a6c8a 7246IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cc192b50 7247DOC_START
7248 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7249 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7250 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7251
7252 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7253 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7254
7255 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7256 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7257
7258 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7259 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7260 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7261DOC_END
7262
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7263NAME: dns_v4_first
7264TYPE: onoff
7265DEFAULT: off
7266LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
7267IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
7268DOC_START
7269 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7270 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7271
7272 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7273 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7274 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7275
7276 WARNING:
7277 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7278 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7279 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7280DOC_END
7281
6bc15a4f 7282NAME: ipcache_size
7283COMMENT: (number of entries)
7284TYPE: int
7285DEFAULT: 1024
7286LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7287DOC_NONE
7288
7289NAME: ipcache_low
7290COMMENT: (percent)
7291TYPE: int
7292DEFAULT: 90
7293LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7294DOC_NONE
7295
7296NAME: ipcache_high
7297COMMENT: (percent)
7298TYPE: int
7299DEFAULT: 95
7300LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7301DOC_START
7302 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7303DOC_END
7304
7305NAME: fqdncache_size
7306COMMENT: (number of entries)
7307TYPE: int
7308DEFAULT: 1024
7309LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7310DOC_START
7311 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7312DOC_END
7313
a58ff010 7314COMMENT_START
5473c134 7315 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7316 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7317COMMENT_END
7318
5473c134 7319NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7320COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7321TYPE: onoff
7322DEFAULT: on
7323LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7324DOC_START
5473c134 7325 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7326 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7327 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7328 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7329DOC_END
7330
5473c134 7331NAME: memory_pools_limit
7332COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7333TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7334DEFAULT: 5 MB
7335LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7336DOC_START
5473c134 7337 Used only with memory_pools on:
7338 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7339
5473c134 7340 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7341 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7342 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7343 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7344 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7345 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7346 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7347
89646bd7 7348 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7349 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7350
5473c134 7351 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7352 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7353
7354 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7355 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7356 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7357 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7358DOC_END
7359
5473c134 7360NAME: forwarded_for
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7361COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7362TYPE: string
5473c134 7363DEFAULT: on
7364LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7365DOC_START
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7366 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7367 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7368
5473c134 7369 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7370
67c06f0d 7371 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7372
7373 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7374
7375 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7376 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7377
7378 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7379 X-Forwarded-For header.
7380
7381 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7382 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7383DOC_END
7384
5473c134 7385NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7386TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7387DEFAULT: none
7388LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7389DOC_START
5473c134 7390 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7391
5473c134 7392 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7393
7394 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7395 5min
7396 60min
7397 asndb
7398 authenticator
7399 cbdata
7400 client_list
7401 comm_incoming
7402 config *
7403 counters
7404 delay
7405 digest_stats
7406 dns
7407 events
7408 filedescriptors
7409 fqdncache
7410 histograms
7411 http_headers
7412 info
7413 io
7414 ipcache
7415 mem
7416 menu
7417 netdb
7418 non_peers
7419 objects
7420 offline_toggle *
7421 pconn
7422 peer_select
b360c477 7423 reconfigure *
5473c134 7424 redirector
7425 refresh
7426 server_list
7427 shutdown *
7428 store_digest
7429 storedir
7430 utilization
7431 via_headers
7432 vm_objects
7433
7434 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7435 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7436
7437 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7438 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7439 password to "none".
7440
7441 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7442
7443Example:
7444 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7445 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7446 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7447DOC_END
7448
5473c134 7449NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7450COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7451TYPE: onoff
7452DEFAULT: on
7453LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7454DOC_START
5473c134 7455 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7456 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7457DOC_END
7458
5473c134 7459NAME: refresh_all_ims
7460COMMENT: on|off
7461TYPE: onoff
7462DEFAULT: off
7463LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7464DOC_START
5473c134 7465 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7466 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7467 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7468 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7469 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7470
5473c134 7471 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7472 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7473DOC_END
7474
5473c134 7475NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7476IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7477COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7478TYPE: onoff
7479DEFAULT: off
7480LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7481DOC_START
5473c134 7482 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7483 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7484 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7485 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7486 causes.
7487
7488 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7489DOC_END
7490
31ef19cd 7491NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7492TYPE: int
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7493LOC: Config.connect_retries
7494DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7495DOC_START
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7496 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7497 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7498 complete within the connection timeout period.
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7499
7500 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7501 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7502
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7503 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7504 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7505
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7506 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7507 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7508 a useful server.
a58ff010 7509DOC_END
7510
5473c134 7511NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7512TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7513LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7514DEFAULT: off
7515DOC_START
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7516 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7517 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7518 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7519 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7520
7521 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7522 work around access control errors.
7523
7524 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7525 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7526DOC_END
7527
5473c134 7528NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7529TYPE: string
5473c134 7530LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7531DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7532DOC_START
5473c134 7533 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7534 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7535DOC_END
7536
5473c134 7537NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7538TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7539LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7540DEFAULT: off
7541DOC_START
5473c134 7542 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7543 objects.
a58ff010 7544DOC_END
7545
5473c134 7546NAME: uri_whitespace
7547TYPE: uri_whitespace
7548LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7549DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7550DOC_START
5473c134 7551 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7552 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7553
5473c134 7554 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7555 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7556 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7557 Request" message.
7558 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7559 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7560 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7561 are in use.
7562 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7563 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7564 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7565 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7566 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7567 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7568 violation.
7569DOC_END
a58ff010 7570
5473c134 7571NAME: chroot
7572TYPE: string
7573LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7574DEFAULT: none
7575DOC_START
9f37c18a 7576 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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7577 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7578 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7579 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7580 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7581DOC_END
a58ff010 7582
5473c134 7583NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7584TYPE: onoff
7585LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7586DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7587DOC_START
cc192b50 7588 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7589 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7590 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7591
5473c134 7592 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7593 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7594 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7595
cc192b50 7596 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7597DOC_END
7598
5473c134 7599NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7600TYPE: onoff
7601LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7602DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7603DOC_START
5473c134 7604 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7605 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7606 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7607
5473c134 7608 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7609 reasons.
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7610
7611 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7612DOC_END
a58ff010 7613
5473c134 7614NAME: high_response_time_warning
7615TYPE: int
7616COMMENT: (msec)
7617LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7618DEFAULT: 0
7619DOC_START
7620 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7621 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7622 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7623DOC_END
7624
5473c134 7625NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7626TYPE: int
7627LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7628DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7629DOC_START
5473c134 7630 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7631 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7632 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7633 per second.
7634DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7635
5473c134 7636NAME: high_memory_warning
7637TYPE: b_size_t
7638LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7639DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7640DOC_START
7641 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7642 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7643 the administrators attention.
7644DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7645
5473c134 7646NAME: sleep_after_fork
7647COMMENT: (microseconds)
7648TYPE: int
7649LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7650DEFAULT: 0
7651DOC_START
7652 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7653 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7654 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7655 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7656 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7657 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7658 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7659 until all the child processes have been started.
7660 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7661 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7662DOC_END
7663
b6696974 7664NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7665IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
b6696974
GS
7666COMMENT: on|off
7667TYPE: onoff
7668DEFAULT: on
7669LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7670DOC_START
7671 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7672 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7673 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7674 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7675 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7676 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7677DOC_END
7678
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7679NAME: eui_lookup
7680TYPE: onoff
7681IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7682DEFAULT: on
7683LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7684DOC_START
7685 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7686DOC_END
7687
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7688NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7689TYPE: int
7690DEFAULT: 0
7691LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7692DOC_START
7693 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7694
7695 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7696
7697 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7698 not all comm loops supports large values.
7699DOC_END
7700
13aeac35 7701NAME: workers
007d775d 7702TYPE: int
13aeac35 7703LOC: Config.workers
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7704DEFAULT: 1
7705DOC_START
13aeac35 7706 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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7707 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7708 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
AR
7709 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7710
b87f6632
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7711 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7712 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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AR
7713DOC_END
7714
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7715NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7716TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7717LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7718DEFAULT: none
7719DOC_START
7720 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7721
7722 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7723
7724 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7725
7726 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7727 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7728
7729 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7730 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7731
7732 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7733
7734 See also: workers
7735DOC_END
7736
cccac0a2 7737EOF