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b8ae064d 1## Copyright (C) 1996-2023 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
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2##
3## Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
4## contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
5## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
6##
9cef6668 7
0f74202c 8COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 9 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 10 ----------------------------
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12 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
13 This documentation can also be found online at:
14 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
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16 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
17 FAQ and other documentation:
18 http://www.squid-cache.org/
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19 https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
20 https://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
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22 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
23 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
24 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
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26 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
27 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
28 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
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cccac0a2 30COMMENT_END
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592a09dc 32COMMENT_START
33 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 34 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 35 supported.
36
37 For example,
38
39 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
40
41 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
42 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
43 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
44 configuration files.
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46 Values with byte units
47
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48 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
49 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
50 a unit.
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51
52 Units accepted by Squid are:
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53 bytes - byte
54 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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55 MB - Megabyte
56 GB - Gigabyte
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58 Values with time units
59
60 Time-related directives marked with either "time-units" or
61 "time-units-small" accept a time unit. The supported time units are:
62
63 nanosecond (time-units-small only)
64 microsecond (time-units-small only)
65 millisecond
66 second
67 minute
68 hour
69 day
70 week
71 fortnight
72 month - 30 days
73 year - 31557790080 milliseconds (just over 365 days)
74 decade
75
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76 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
77
78 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
79 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
80 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
81 disable that support.
82
83 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
84 files using the syntax:
85 parameters("/path/filename")
86 For example:
70d0ef18 87 acl allowlist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/allowlist.txt")
2eceb328 88
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89 Conditional configuration
90
91 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
92 depend on conditions:
93
94 if <CONDITION>
95 ... regular configuration directives ...
96 [else
97 ... regular configuration directives ...]
98 endif
99
100 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
101 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
102 configuration directives.
103
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104 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
105
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106 These individual conditions types are supported:
107
108 true
109 Always evaluates to true.
110 false
111 Always evaluates to false.
112 <integer> = <integer>
113 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
114
115
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116 SMP-Related Macros
117
118 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
119
120 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
121 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
122
123 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
124 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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125 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
126
127 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
128 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
129
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130 Logformat Macros
131
132 Logformat macros can be used in many places outside of the logformat
133 directive. In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros,
134 where they are supported. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) when
135 the transaction does not yet have enough information and a value is needed.
136
137 There is no definitive list of what tokens are available at the various
138 stages of the transaction.
139
140 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
141 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
142 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
143 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
144
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146
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147# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
148NAME: broken_vary_encoding
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
152DOC_END
153
154NAME: cache_vary
155TYPE: obsolete
156DOC_START
157 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
158DOC_END
159
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160NAME: error_map
161TYPE: obsolete
162DOC_START
163 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
164DOC_END
165
166NAME: external_refresh_check
167TYPE: obsolete
168DOC_START
169 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
170DOC_END
171
96598f93 172NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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173TYPE: obsolete
174DOC_START
175 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
176DOC_END
177
96598f93 178NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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179TYPE: obsolete
180DOC_START
181 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
182DOC_END
183
4bd88eb4 184# Options removed in 6.x
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185NAME: announce_file
186TYPE: obsolete
187DOC_START
188 Remove this line. Squid no longer supports this feature.
189DOC_END
190
191NAME: announce_host
192TYPE: obsolete
193DOC_START
194 Remove this line. Squid no longer supports this feature.
195DOC_END
196
197NAME: announce_period
198TYPE: obsolete
199DOC_START
200 Remove this line. Squid no longer supports this feature.
201DOC_END
202
203NAME: announce_port
204TYPE: obsolete
205DOC_START
206 Remove this line. Squid no longer supports this feature.
207DOC_END
208
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209NAME: request_entities
210TYPE: obsolete
211DOC_START
212 Remove this line. Squid now accepts HTTP/1.1 requests with bodies.
213 To simplify UI and code, Squid rejects certain HTTP/1.0 requests with bodies.
214DOC_END
215
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216# Options removed in 5.x
217NAME: dns_v4_first
218TYPE: obsolete
219DOC_START
220 Remove this line. Squid no longer supports preferential treatment of DNS A records.
221DOC_END
222
6eb545bc 223# Options removed in 4.x
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224NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
225TYPE: obsolete
226DOC_START
227 Replace with dstdomain ACLs and cache_peer_access.
228DOC_END
229
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230NAME: ie_refresh
231TYPE: obsolete
232DOC_START
233 Remove this line. The behaviour enabled by this is no longer needed.
234DOC_END
235
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236NAME: sslproxy_cafile
237TYPE: obsolete
238DOC_START
239 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cafile= instead.
240DOC_END
241
242NAME: sslproxy_capath
243TYPE: obsolete
244DOC_START
245 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options capath= instead.
246DOC_END
247
248NAME: sslproxy_cipher
249TYPE: obsolete
250DOC_START
251 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cipher= instead.
252DOC_END
253
254NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
255TYPE: obsolete
256DOC_START
257 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cert= instead.
258DOC_END
259
260NAME: sslproxy_client_key
261TYPE: obsolete
262DOC_START
263 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options key= instead.
264DOC_END
265
266NAME: sslproxy_flags
267TYPE: obsolete
268DOC_START
269 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options flags= instead.
270DOC_END
271
272NAME: sslproxy_options
273TYPE: obsolete
274DOC_START
275 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
276DOC_END
277
278NAME: sslproxy_version
279TYPE: obsolete
280DOC_START
1cc44095 281 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
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282DOC_END
283
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284# Options removed in 3.5
285NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
286TYPE: obsolete
287DOC_START
288 Remove this line. Use always_direct or cache_peer_access ACLs instead if you need to prevent cache_peer use.
289DOC_END
290
a8f70484 291# Options removed in 3.4
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292NAME: log_access
293TYPE: obsolete
294DOC_START
295 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
296DOC_END
297
298NAME: log_icap
299TYPE: obsolete
300DOC_START
301 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
302DOC_END
303
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304# Options Removed in 3.3
305NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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306TYPE: obsolete
307DOC_START
2d4eefd9 308 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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309DOC_END
310
76f44481 311# Options Removed in 3.2
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312NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
313TYPE: obsolete
314DOC_START
315 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, this multiple-IP algorithm is not longer relevant.
316DOC_END
317
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318NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
319TYPE: obsolete
320DOC_START
321 Remove this line. Squid is now HTTP/1.1 compliant.
322DOC_END
323
74d81220 324NAME: dns_v4_fallback
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325TYPE: obsolete
326DOC_START
74d81220 327 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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328DOC_END
329
74d81220 330NAME: emulate_httpd_log
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331TYPE: obsolete
332DOC_START
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333 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
334DOC_END
335
336NAME: forward_log
337TYPE: obsolete
338DOC_START
339 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
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340DOC_END
341
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342NAME: ftp_list_width
343TYPE: obsolete
344DOC_START
345 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
346DOC_END
347
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348NAME: ignore_expect_100
349TYPE: obsolete
350DOC_START
351 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
352DOC_END
353
354NAME: log_fqdn
355TYPE: obsolete
356DOC_START
357 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
358DOC_END
359
360NAME: log_ip_on_direct
361TYPE: obsolete
362DOC_START
363 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
364DOC_END
365
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366NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
367TYPE: obsolete
368DOC_START
369 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
370DOC_END
371
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372NAME: referer_log referrer_log
373TYPE: obsolete
374DOC_START
375 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
376DOC_END
377
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378NAME: update_headers
379TYPE: obsolete
380DOC_START
381 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
382DOC_END
383
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384NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
385TYPE: obsolete
386DOC_START
387 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
388DOC_END
389
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390NAME: useragent_log
391TYPE: obsolete
392DOC_START
393 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
394DOC_END
395
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396# Options Removed in 3.1
397NAME: dns_testnames
398TYPE: obsolete
399DOC_START
400 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
401DOC_END
402
403NAME: extension_methods
404TYPE: obsolete
405DOC_START
406 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
407DOC_END
408
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409# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
410NAME: zero_buffers
411TYPE: obsolete
412DOC_NONE
413
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414# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
415NAME: incoming_rate
416TYPE: obsolete
417DOC_NONE
418
419NAME: server_http11
420TYPE: obsolete
421DOC_START
422 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
423DOC_END
424
425NAME: upgrade_http0.9
426TYPE: obsolete
427DOC_START
428 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
429DOC_END
430
431NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
432TYPE: obsolete
433DOC_START
434 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
435DOC_END
436
437# Options Removed in 3.0
438NAME: header_access
439TYPE: obsolete
440DOC_START
441 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
442 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
443DOC_END
444
445NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
446TYPE: obsolete
447DOC_START
448 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
449DOC_END
450
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451NAME: wais_relay_host
452TYPE: obsolete
453DOC_START
454 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
455DOC_END
456
457NAME: wais_relay_port
458TYPE: obsolete
459DOC_START
460 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
461DOC_END
462
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463COMMENT_START
464 OPTIONS FOR SMP
465 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
466COMMENT_END
467
468NAME: workers
469TYPE: int
470LOC: Config.workers
471DEFAULT: 1
472DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
473DOC_START
474 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
475 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
476 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
477 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
478
479 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
480 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
481DOC_END
482
483NAME: cpu_affinity_map
484TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
485LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
486DEFAULT: none
487DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
488DOC_START
489 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
490
491 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
492
493 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
494
495 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
496 four even cores, starting with core #1.
497
498 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
499 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
500
501 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
502
503 See also: workers
504DOC_END
505
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506NAME: shared_memory_locking
507TYPE: YesNoNone
508COMMENT: on|off
509LOC: Config.shmLocking
510DEFAULT: off
511DOC_START
512 Whether to ensure that all required shared memory is available by
513 "locking" that shared memory into RAM when Squid starts. The
514 alternative is faster startup time followed by slightly slower
515 performance and, if not enough RAM is actually available during
516 runtime, mysterious crashes.
517
518 SMP Squid uses many shared memory segments. These segments are
519 brought into Squid memory space using an mmap(2) system call. During
520 Squid startup, the mmap() call often succeeds regardless of whether
521 the system has enough RAM. In general, Squid cannot tell whether the
522 kernel applies this "optimistic" memory allocation policy (but
523 popular modern kernels usually use it).
524
525 Later, if Squid attempts to actually access the mapped memory
526 regions beyond what the kernel is willing to allocate, the
527 "optimistic" kernel simply kills Squid kid with a SIGBUS signal.
528 Some of the memory limits enforced by the kernel are currently
529 poorly understood: We do not know how to detect and check them. This
9603207d 530 option ensures that the mapped memory will be available.
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532 This option may have a positive performance side-effect: Locking
533 memory at start avoids runtime paging I/O. Paging slows Squid down.
534
535 Locking memory may require a large enough RLIMIT_MEMLOCK OS limit,
536 CAP_IPC_LOCK capability, or equivalent.
537DOC_END
538
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539NAME: hopeless_kid_revival_delay
540COMMENT: time-units
541TYPE: time_t
542LOC: Config.hopelessKidRevivalDelay
543DEFAULT: 1 hour
544DOC_START
545 Normally, when a kid process dies, Squid immediately restarts the
546 kid. A kid experiencing frequent deaths is marked as "hopeless" for
547 the duration specified by this directive. Hopeless kids are not
548 automatically restarted.
549
550 Currently, zero values are not supported because they result in
551 misconfigured SMP Squid instances running forever, endlessly
552 restarting each dying kid. To effectively disable hopeless kids
553 revival, set the delay to a huge value (e.g., 1 year).
554
555 Reconfiguration also clears all hopeless kids designations, allowing
556 for manual revival of hopeless kids.
557DOC_END
558
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41bd17a4 560 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
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562COMMENT_END
563
41bd17a4 564NAME: auth_param
565TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 566IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5c112575 567LOC: Auth::TheConfig.schemes
cccac0a2 568DEFAULT: none
569DOC_START
41bd17a4 570 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
571 schemes supported by Squid.
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66c583dc 573 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 574
41bd17a4 575 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
576 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
577 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
578 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
579 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
580 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
581 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
582 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
583 program entry).
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41bd17a4 585 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
586 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
587 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
588 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
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41bd17a4 590 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
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591 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication. For a
592 given transaction, (re)authentication is requested in two primary cases
593 detailed below: initial authentication and re-authentication.
594
595 A client without credentials is requested to authenticate if one of the
596 following ACLs is evaluated by an http_access or adapted_http_access rule:
597
598 * proxy_auth ACL
599 * proxy_auth_regex ACL
600 * max_user_ip ACL
601 * external ACL with %ul logformat %code used in FORMAT parameters
602 * external ACL with %LOGIN macro used in FORMAT parameters;
603 this legacy macro currently behaves the same as %ul logformat %code
604
605 A client with credentials is requested to re-authenticate if http_access
606 or adapted_http_access denies its request _and_ the last evaluated ACL was
607 either proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex, ident, ident_regex, or an external
608 ACL with %ul or %LOGIN parameter (regardless of whether that last
609 evaluated ACL matched the denied request). Note that a max_user_ip ACL
610 does not have this effect: Requests denied after evaluating max_user_ip
611 trigger an HTTP 403 (Forbidden) response rather than re-authentication.
612
613 In both initial authentication and re-authentication cases, client access
614 is denied, typically with an HTTP 407 (Proxy Authentication Required) or
615 an HTTP 401 (Unauthorized) response.
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41bd17a4 617 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
618 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
619 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
620 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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621 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
622 authentication disabled.
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624 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
625
626 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 627 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
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629 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
630 program is specified.
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7409131e 632 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
66c583dc 633 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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635 "key_extras" format
636 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
637 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
638 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
639 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
640 the helper request is sent before the required macro
641 information is available to Squid.
642
643 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
644 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
645
646 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
647 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
2f8abb64 648 authenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
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649 when user authentication depends on http_port).
650
651 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
652 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
653 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
654 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
655 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
656 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
657 changes.
658
659 "realm" string
660 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
661 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
662 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
663 their username and password.
664
665 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
666 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
667 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
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669 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
670 [queue-size=N] [on-persistent-overload=action]
a56fcf0b 671 [reservation-timeout=seconds]
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673 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
674 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
675 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
676 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
677 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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679 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
680 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
681 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
682 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
683 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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685 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
686 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
687 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
688 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
689 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
690 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
691 without waiting for the response.
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693 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
694 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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696 The queue-size option sets the maximum number of queued
697 requests. A request is queued when no existing child can
698 accept it due to concurrency limit and no new child can be
699 started due to numberofchildren limit. The default maximum is
700 2*numberofchildren. Squid is allowed to temporarily exceed the
701 configured maximum, marking the affected helper as
702 "overloaded". If the helper overload lasts more than 3
703 minutes, the action prescribed by the on-persistent-overload
704 option applies.
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705
706 The on-persistent-overload=action option specifies Squid
707 reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
708 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number
709 of queued requests determines whether the helper is overloaded
710 (see the queue-size option).
711
712 Two actions are supported:
713
714 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
715
716 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
717 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
718 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
719 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
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722 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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725 helpers to forget about clients that abandon their in-progress
726 connection authentication without closing the connection. The
727 timeout is measured since the last helper response received by
728 Squid for the client. Fractional seconds are not supported.
729
730 After the timeout, the helper will be used for other clients if
731 there are no unreserved helpers available. In the latter case,
732 the old client attempt to resume authentication will not be
733 forwarded to the helper (and the client should open a new HTTP
734 connection and retry authentication from scratch).
735
736 By default, reservations do not expire and clients that keep
737 their connections open without completing authentication may
738 exhaust all NTLM and Negotiate helpers.
739
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741 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
742 the NTLM or Negotiate schemes then you can try setting this
743 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
744 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
745 are supported by the proxy.
9e7dbc51 746
b2b09838 747 For Basic and Digest this parameter is ignored.
d2a89ac1 748
66c583dc 749 "utf8" on|off
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750 Useful for sending credentials to authentication backends that
751 expect UTF-8 encoding (e.g., LDAP).
752
753 When this option is enabled, Squid uses HTTP Accept-Language
754 request header to guess the received credentials encoding
755 (ISO-Latin-1, CP1251, or UTF-8) and then converts the first
756 two encodings into UTF-8.
757
758 When this option is disabled and by default, Squid sends
759 credentials in their original (i.e. received) encoding.
760
761 This parameter is only honored for Basic and Digest schemes.
762 For Basic, the entire username:password credentials are
763 checked and, if necessary, re-encoded. For Digest -- just the
764 username component. For NTLM and Negotiate schemes, this
765 parameter is ignored.
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767IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
768 === Basic authentication parameters ===
769
41bd17a4 770 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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772 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
773 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
774 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
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777 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
778 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
779 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
780 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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783 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
784 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
785 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
786 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
787 processing and similar.
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790IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
791 === Digest authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 792
41bd17a4 793 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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795 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 796
41bd17a4 797 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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799 valid for.
cccac0a2 800
41bd17a4 801 "nonce_max_count" number
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803 used.
cccac0a2 804
41bd17a4 805 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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807 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
808 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
809 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 810
41bd17a4 811 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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813 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
814 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
815 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 816
41bd17a4 817 "post_workaround" on|off
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819 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
820 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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66c583dc 822ENDIF
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824 === Example Configuration ===
825
826 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
827 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
828 settings for each scheme:
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41bd17a4 830#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 831#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
e0855596 832#
66c583dc 833#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 834#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 835#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
836#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
837#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
838#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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841#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
66c583dc 842#
41bd17a4 843#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 844#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 845#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 846DOC_END
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41bd17a4 848NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
5db226c8 849IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 850TYPE: time_t
851DEFAULT: 1 hour
00ef8d82 852LOC: Auth::TheConfig.garbageCollectInterval
41bd17a4 853DOC_START
854 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 855 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 856 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
857 have good reason to.
858DOC_END
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41bd17a4 860NAME: authenticate_ttl
5db226c8 861IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 862TYPE: time_t
863DEFAULT: 1 hour
00ef8d82 864LOC: Auth::TheConfig.credentialsTtl
41bd17a4 865DOC_START
866 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
867 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
868 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
869 TTL are removed from memory.
870DOC_END
cccac0a2 871
41bd17a4 872NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
5db226c8 873IFDEF: USE_AUTH
41bd17a4 874TYPE: time_t
00ef8d82 875LOC: Auth::TheConfig.ipTtl
c35dd848 876DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 877DOC_START
878 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
879 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
880 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
881 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 882 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 883 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
884 environment with relatively static address assignments.
885DOC_END
cccac0a2 886
3d1e3e43 887COMMENT_START
888 ACCESS CONTROLS
889 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
890COMMENT_END
891
41bd17a4 892NAME: external_acl_type
893TYPE: externalAclHelper
894LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 895DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 896DOC_START
41bd17a4 897 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
898 to look up the status
cccac0a2 899
262eaf9a 900 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT /path/to/helper [helper arguments]
cccac0a2 901
41bd17a4 902 Options:
cccac0a2 903
41bd17a4 904 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
cd0fd8a9 905 for 1 hour)
4f8d0a65 906
41bd17a4 907 negative_ttl=n
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909 as ttl)
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911 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
912 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
913 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
914
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916 default limit is 262144 entries. Each cache entry usually
917 consumes at least 256 bytes. Squid currently does not remove
918 expired cache entries until the limit is reached, so a proxy
919 will sooner or later reach the limit. The expanded FORMAT
920 value is used as the cache key, so if the details in FORMAT
921 are highly variable, a larger cache may be needed to produce
922 reduction in helper load.
4f8d0a65 923
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925 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
2ccfb9a7 926 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
4f8d0a65 927
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929 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
930 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
931 of this type. (default 0)
4f8d0a65 932
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934 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
935 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
936 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
937 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
4f8d0a65 938
41bd17a4 939 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
940 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
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943 queued requests. A request is queued when no existing
944 helper can accept it due to concurrency limit and no
945 new helper can be started due to children-max limit.
946 If the queued requests exceed queue size, the acl is
947 ignored. The default value is set to 2*children-max.
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949 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers.
950
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951 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
952 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 953
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956 of the accepted codes. Although note that at the time of any external ACL
957 being tested data may not be available and thus some %macro expand to '-'.
958
959 In addition to the logformat codes; when processing external ACLs these
960 additional macros are made available:
7b0ca1e8 961
ec2d5242 962 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
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965 'acl ... external' line, separated by spaces (an
966 "argument string"). see acl external.
967
968 If there are no ACL arguments %DATA expands to '-'.
969
970 If you do not specify a DATA macro inside FORMAT,
971 Squid automatically appends %DATA to your FORMAT.
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973 or nothing in this case.
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976 argument inside the argument string. If an explicit
977 encoding modifier is used (e.g., %#DATA), then Squid
978 encodes the whole argument string as a single token
979 (e.g., with %#DATA, spaces between arguments become
980 %20).
981
2f8abb64 982 If SSL is enabled, the following formatting codes become available:
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984 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
985 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
986 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
987 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
988
989
990 NOTE: all other format codes accepted by older Squid versions
991 are deprecated.
0db8942f 992
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995
0638f4a2 996 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values
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998
999 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
1000 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
1001 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
1002
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1004 each value in requests against whitespaces.
1005
1006 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
1007 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
1008
1009 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
1010
1011 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
1012 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
1013 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
1014 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
1015 of the response relating to its request.
1016
1017
1018 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
1019 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
1020 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
1021
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41bd17a4 1023 General result syntax:
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1026
1027 Result consists of one of the codes:
1028
1029 OK
1030 the ACL test produced a match.
1031
1032 ERR
1033 the ACL test does not produce a match.
1034
1035 BH
4ded749e 1036 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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1038
1039 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
1040 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 1042 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 1044 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 1045
41bd17a4 1046 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
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05e52854 1048 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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1049 Available as %o in error pages.
1050 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
1051
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1053 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 1055 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
cd0fd8a9 1056 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 1057
cd0fd8a9 1058 clt_conn_tag= Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
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1060 for this kv-pair.
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05e52854 1062 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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1065 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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1066 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
1067 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
1068 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 1069
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1071
5269ec0e 1072 user=John%20Smith
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1074 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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1076
41bd17a4 1077NAME: acl
1078TYPE: acl
1079LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 1080IF USE_OPENSSL
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1081DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
1082DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
1083DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
1084DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
1085DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
1086ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 1087DEFAULT: all src all
7902bd5b 1088DEFAULT: manager url_regex +i ^[^:]+://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
b8a25eaa 1089DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
d959846f 1090DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1/128 ::/128
6d2f8ed0 1091DEFAULT: to_linklocal dst 169.254.0.0/16 fe80::/10
2c56ee3c 1092DEFAULT: CONNECT method CONNECT
6d2f8ed0 1093DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, to_localhost, to_linklocal, and CONNECT are predefined.
cccac0a2 1094DOC_START
41bd17a4 1095 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 1096
9603207d 1097 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
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1099 they are read from.
cccac0a2 1100
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1102 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 1103
375eeb3b 1104 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 1105
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1107 ACL Options
1108
1109 Some acl types supports options which changes their default behaviour:
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1111 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
1112 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
1113 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
9603207d 1114 without -i.
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1116 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
1117 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
1118 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
1119 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
1120 without any warnings or lookups.
1121
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1123 Perform a list membership test, interpreting values as
1124 comma-separated token lists and matching against individual
9603207d 1125 tokens instead of whole values.
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1127 alternative non-alphanumeric delimiter characters.
1128 non-alphanumeric delimiter characters.
1129
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1131 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
1132 is a valid domain name)
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1135 to access some external data source.
1136 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
1137 don't are marked as [fast].
7409131e 1138 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
b3567eb5 1139 for further information
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1141 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
1142
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1143 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
1144 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 1145 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 1146 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 1147
560630e6 1148IF USE_SQUID_EUI
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1150 acl aclname eui64 eui64-address ...
b3567eb5 1151 # [fast]
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1153 #
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1155 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other
1156 # BSD variants.
41bd17a4 1157 #
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1159 # and Squid built with --enable-eui for MAC/EUI addresses to be
1160 # available for this ACL.
1161 #
1162 # Squid can only determine the MAC/EUI address for IPv4
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1164 # different subnet, then Squid cannot find out its address.
1165 #
a85f0df5 1166 # IPv6 protocol does not contain ARP. MAC/EUI is either
abe01913 1167 # encoded directly in the IPv6 address or not available.
560630e6 1168ENDIF
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1171 # DEPRECATED. Use the 'client_connection_mark' instead.
1172
1173 acl aclname client_connection_mark mark[/mask] ...
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1175 #
1176 # mark and mask are unsigned integers (hex, octal, or decimal).
1177 # If multiple marks are given, then the ACL matches if at least
1178 # one mark matches.
1179 #
1180 # Uses netfilter-conntrack library.
1181 # Requires building Squid with --enable-linux-netfilter.
1182 #
1183 # The client, various intermediaries, and Squid itself may set
1184 # CONNMARK at various times. The last CONNMARK set wins. This ACL
1185 # checks the mark present on an accepted connection or set by
1186 # Squid afterwards, depending on the ACL check timing. This ACL
1187 # effectively ignores any mark set by other agents after Squid has
1188 # accepted the connection.
1189
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1191 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 1192 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 1193 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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1195 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 1196 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 1197 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 1198 #
41bd17a4 1199 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
1200 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
1201 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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1204 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 1205 # [fast]
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1207 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
1208 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
1209 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
1210 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
1211 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
1212 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 1213
6db78a1a 1214 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
a85f0df5 1215 acl aclname peername_regex [-i] regex-pattern ...
b3567eb5 1216 # [fast]
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1218 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
1219
375eeb3b 1220 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 1221 # [fast]
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1223 # S - Sunday
1224 # M - Monday
1225 # T - Tuesday
1226 # W - Wednesday
1227 # H - Thursday
1228 # F - Friday
1229 # A - Saturday
1230 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
1231
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1233 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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1234 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
1235 # regex matching on URL login field
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1236 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
1237 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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1240 # destination TCP port (or port range) of the request [fast]
1241 #
1242 # Port 0 matches requests that have no explicit and no default destination
1243 # ports (e.g., HTTP requests with URN targets)
1244
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1245 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
1246 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
1247
3cc0f4e7 1248 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # *_port name [fast]
e988aa40 1249
b3567eb5 1250 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
9603207d 1251
b3567eb5 1252 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 1253
9603207d 1254 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
b3567eb5 1255 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 1256
375eeb3b 1257 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1258 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 1259
375eeb3b 1260 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1261 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 1262 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 1263
d4c6acac 1264 acl aclname ident [-i] username ...
41bd17a4 1265 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1266 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 1267 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 1268
41bd17a4 1269 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
1270 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1271 # perform http authentication challenge to the client and match against
1272 # supplied credentials [slow]
1273 #
1274 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1275 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1276 #
b3567eb5 1277 # Will use proxy authentication in forward-proxy scenarios, and plain
2f8abb64 1278 # http authentication in reverse-proxy scenarios
b3567eb5 1279 #
41bd17a4 1280 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1281 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1282 # in access.log.
1283 #
1284 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1285 # to check username/password combinations (see
1286 # auth_param directive).
1287 #
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1289 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1290 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 1291
41bd17a4 1292 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1293 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1294 # Example:
1295 #
1296 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 1297
41bd17a4 1298 acl aclname maxconn number
1299 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1300 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
1301 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1302 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 1303
41bd17a4 1304 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1305 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1306 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1307 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1308 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1309 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1310 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1311 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1312 # request is denied)
1313 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1314 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1315 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1317 acl aclname random probability
1318 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1319 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1320 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1321
375eeb3b 1322 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1323 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1324 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1325 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1326 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1327 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 1328
41bd17a4 1329 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1330 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1331 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1332 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 1333
375eeb3b 1334 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1335 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1336 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1337 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1338 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1339 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1340 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 1341
41bd17a4 1342 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1343 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1344 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1345 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 1346
375eeb3b 1347 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1348 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1349 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 1350
41bd17a4 1351 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1352 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
2927ae41 1353 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1354
41bd17a4 1355 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1356 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
2927ae41 1357 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1358
d4c6acac 1359 acl aclname ext_user [-i] username ...
41bd17a4 1360 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1361 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1362 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1363
0ab50441 1364 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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1365 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [fast]
1366 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
1367 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
cccac0a2 1368
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1369 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
1370 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1371 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1372 #
1373 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1374 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1375 # http_reply_access.
1376
76ee67ac 1377 acl aclname note [-m[=delimiters]] name [value ...]
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1378 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1379 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1380 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1381 # also has one of the given values.
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1382 # If the -m flag is used, then the value of the named
1383 # annotation is interpreted as a list of tokens, and the ACL
1384 # matches individual name=token pairs rather than whole
1385 # name=value pairs. See "ACL Options" above for more info.
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1386 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1387 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1388
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1389 acl aclname annotate_transaction [-m[=delimiters]] key=value ...
1390 acl aclname annotate_transaction [-m[=delimiters]] key+=value ...
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1391 # Always matches. [fast]
1392 # Used for its side effect: This ACL immediately adds a
1393 # key=value annotation to the current master transaction.
1394 # The added annotation can then be tested using note ACL and
1395 # logged (or sent to helpers) using %note format code.
1396 #
1397 # Annotations can be specified using replacement and addition
1398 # formats. The key=value form replaces old same-key annotation
1399 # value(s). The key+=value form appends a new value to the old
1400 # same-key annotation. Both forms create a new key=value
1401 # annotation if no same-key annotation exists already. If
1402 # -m flag is used, then the value is interpreted as a list
1403 # and the annotation will contain key=token pair(s) instead of the
1404 # whole key=value pair.
1405 #
1406 # This ACL is especially useful for recording complex multi-step
1407 # ACL-driven decisions. For example, the following configuration
1408 # avoids logging transactions accepted after aclX matched:
1409 #
1410 # # First, mark transactions accepted after aclX matched
1411 # acl markSpecial annotate_transaction special=true
1412 # http_access allow acl001
1413 # ...
1414 # http_access deny acl100
1415 # http_access allow aclX markSpecial
1416 #
1417 # # Second, do not log marked transactions:
1418 # acl markedSpecial note special true
1419 # access_log ... deny markedSpecial
1420 #
1421 # # Note that the following would not have worked because aclX
1422 # # alone does not determine whether the transaction was allowed:
1423 # access_log ... deny aclX # Wrong!
1424 #
1425 # Warning: This ACL annotates the transaction even when negated
1426 # and even if subsequent ACLs fail to match. For example, the
1427 # following three rules will have exactly the same effect as far
1428 # as annotations set by the "mark" ACL are concerned:
1429 #
1430 # some_directive acl1 ... mark # rule matches if mark is reached
1431 # some_directive acl1 ... !mark # rule never matches
1432 # some_directive acl1 ... mark !all # rule never matches
1433
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1434 acl aclname annotate_client [-m[=delimiters]] key=value ...
1435 acl aclname annotate_client [-m[=delimiters]] key+=value ...
75d47340 1436 #
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1437 # Always matches. [fast]
1438 # Used for its side effect: This ACL immediately adds a
1439 # key=value annotation to the current client-to-Squid
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1441 # and all future master transactions on the annotated connection.
1442 # See the annotate_transaction ACL for details.
1443 #
1444 # For example, the following configuration avoids rewriting URLs
1445 # of transactions bumped by SslBump:
1446 #
1447 # # First, mark bumped connections:
1448 # acl markBumped annotate_client bumped=true
1449 # ssl_bump peek acl1
1450 # ssl_bump stare acl2
1451 # ssl_bump bump acl3 markBumped
1452 # ssl_bump splice all
1453 #
1454 # # Second, do not send marked transactions to the redirector:
1455 # acl markedBumped note bumped true
1456 # url_rewrite_access deny markedBumped
1457 #
1458 # # Note that the following would not have worked because acl3 alone
1459 # # does not determine whether the connection is going to be bumped:
1460 # url_rewrite_access deny acl3 # Wrong!
1461
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1463 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1464 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1465 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1466 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1467 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1468 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1469 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1470
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1472 # Matches transaction's initiator [fast]
1473 #
1474 # Supported initiators are:
1475 # esi: matches transactions fetching ESI resources
1476 # certificate-fetching: matches transactions fetching
1477 # a missing intermediate TLS certificate
1478 # cache-digest: matches transactions fetching Cache Digests
1479 # from a cache_peer
1480 # htcp: matches HTCP requests from peers
1481 # icp: matches ICP requests to peers
1482 # icmp: matches ICMP RTT database (NetDB) requests to peers
1483 # asn: matches asns db requests
1484 # internal: matches any of the above
1485 # client: matches transactions containing an HTTP or FTP
1486 # client request received at a Squid *_port
1487 # all: matches any transaction, including internal transactions
1488 # without a configurable initiator and hopefully rare
1489 # transactions without a known-to-Squid initiator
1490 #
1491 # Multiple initiators are ORed.
1492
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1494 # matches a transaction "component" [fast]
1495 #
1496 # Supported transaction components are:
1497 # request: transaction has a request header (at least)
1498 # response: transaction has a response header (at least)
1499 # ALE: transaction has an internally-generated Access Log Entry
1500 # structure; bugs notwithstanding, all transaction have it
1501 #
1502 # For example, the following configuration helps when dealing with HTTP
1503 # clients that close connections without sending a request header:
1504 #
1505 # acl hasRequest has request
1506 # acl logMe note important_transaction
1507 # # avoid "logMe ACL is used in context without an HTTP request" warnings
1508 # access_log ... logformat=detailed hasRequest logMe
1509 # # log request-less transactions, instead of ignoring them
1510 # access_log ... logformat=brief !hasRequest
1511 #
1512 # Multiple components are not supported for one "acl" rule, but
1513 # can be specified (and are ORed) using multiple same-name rules:
1514 #
1515 # # OK, this strange logging daemon needs request or response,
1516 # # but can work without either a request or a response:
1517 # acl hasWhatMyLoggingDaemonNeeds has request
1518 # acl hasWhatMyLoggingDaemonNeeds has response
1519
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1522 # Valid steps are:
1523 # GeneratingCONNECT: Generating HTTP CONNECT request headers
1524IF USE_OPENSSL
1525 # The following ssl_bump processing steps are recognized:
1526 # SslBump1: After getting TCP-level and HTTP CONNECT info.
1527 # SslBump2: After getting SSL Client Hello info.
1528 # SslBump3: After getting SSL Server Hello info.
1529ENDIF
1530
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1533 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1534 #
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1536 # certificate validation error currently being evaluated by that
1537 # directive. When used with slproxy_cert_sign or sslproxy_cert_adapt,
1538 # the ACL tests all past certificate validation errors associated with
1539 # the current Squid-to-server connection (attempt). This ACL is not yet
1540 # supported for use with other directives.
1541 #
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1543 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1544 #
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1546 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1547 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1548 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1549 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1550 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1551 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1552 #
1553 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1554 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1555 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
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ab04fcb3 1557 acl aclname server_cert_fingerprint fingerprint
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1559 #
9603207d 1560 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
00352183 1561 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
00352183 1562 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
ab04fcb3 1563 # the only algorithm supported.
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4f6990ec 1565 acl aclname ssl::server_name [option] .foo.com ...
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1567 #
4f6990ec 1568 # The ACL computes server name(s) using such information sources as
9603207d 1569 # CONNECT request URI, TLS client SNI, and TLS server certificate
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1571 # change with each SslBump step, as more info becomes available:
1572 # * SNI is used as the server name instead of the request URI,
1573 # * subject name(s) from the server certificate (CN and
1574 # SubjectAltName) are used as the server names instead of SNI.
1575 #
1576 # When the ACL computes multiple server names, matching any single
1577 # computed name is sufficient for the ACL to match.
1578 #
1579 # The "none" name can be used to match transactions where the ACL
8d9e6d7f 1580 # could not compute the server name using any information source
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1582 # the ACL evaluation time.
1583 #
1584 # Unlike dstdomain, this ACL does not perform DNS lookups.
1585 #
9603207d 1586 # An ACL option below may be used to restrict what information
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1588 #
1589 # --client-requested
1590 # The server name is SNI regardless of what the server says.
1591 # --server-provided
1592 # The server name(s) are the certificate subject name(s), regardless
1593 # of what the client has requested. If the server certificate is
1594 # unavailable, then the name is "none".
1595 # --consensus
1596 # The server name is either SNI (if SNI matches at least one of the
1597 # certificate subject names) or "none" (otherwise). When the server
1598 # certificate is unavailable, the consensus server name is SNI.
1599 #
1600 # Combining multiple options in one ACL is a fatal configuration
1601 # error.
1602 #
1603 # For all options: If no SNI is available, then the CONNECT request
1604 # target (a.k.a. URI) is used instead of SNI (for an intercepted
1605 # connection, this target is the destination IP address).
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1607 acl aclname ssl::server_name_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
1608 # regex matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
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1610 acl aclname connections_encrypted
1611 # matches transactions with all HTTP messages received over TLS
1612 # transport connections. [fast]
1613 #
1614 # The master transaction deals with HTTP messages received from
1615 # various sources. All sources used by the master transaction in the
1616 # past are considered by the ACL. The following rules define whether
1617 # a given message source taints the entire master transaction,
1618 # resulting in ACL mismatches:
1619 #
1620 # * The HTTP client transport connection is not TLS.
1621 # * An adaptation service connection-encryption flag is off.
1622 # * The peer or origin server transport connection is not TLS.
1623 #
1624 # Caching currently does not affect these rules. This cache ignorance
1625 # implies that only the current HTTP client transport and REQMOD
1626 # services status determine whether this ACL matches a from-cache
1627 # transaction. The source of the cached response does not have any
1628 # effect on future transaction that use the cached response without
1629 # revalidation. This may change.
1630 #
1631 # DNS, ICP, and HTCP exchanges during the master transaction do not
1632 # affect these rules.
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1634 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1635 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1636 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1637 #
1638 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1639 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1640 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1641 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1642 #
1643 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1644 # and slow otherwise.
1645
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1648 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1649 #
1650 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1651 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1652 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1653 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1654 #
1655 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1656 # and slow otherwise.
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1659 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1660 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1661 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1662 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1663 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
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1667# Recommended minimum configuration:
1668#
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ee776778 1670# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1671# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1672# should be allowed
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1673acl localnet src 0.0.0.1-0.255.255.255 # RFC 1122 "this" network (LAN)
1674acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1675acl localnet src 100.64.0.0/10 # RFC 6598 shared address space (CGN)
7c392424 1676acl localnet src 169.254.0.0/16 # RFC 3927 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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1677acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1678acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1679acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1680acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1682acl SSL_ports port 443
1683acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1684acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1685acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1686acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1687acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1688acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1689acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1690acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1691acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1692acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
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41bd17a4 1694DOC_END
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d3d92daa 1696NAME: proxy_protocol_access
3d674977 1697TYPE: acl_access
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1698LOC: Config.accessList.proxyProtocol
1699DEFAULT: none
c390580b 1700DEFAULT_DOC: all TCP connections to ports with require-proxy-header will be denied
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1702 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1703 information regarding real client IP address using PROXY protocol.
1704
1705 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1706 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1707 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1708 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1709 * PROXY protocol connection header.
1710
1711 This directive is solely for validating new PROXY protocol
1712 connections received from a port flagged with require-proxy-header.
1713 It is checked only once after TCP connection setup.
1714
1715 A deny match results in TCP connection closure.
1716
1717 An allow match is required for Squid to permit the corresponding
1718 TCP connection, before Squid even looks for HTTP request headers.
1719 If there is an allow match, Squid starts using PROXY header information
1720 to determine the source address of the connection for all future ACL
1721 checks, logging, etc.
1722
1723 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1724
c390580b 1725 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
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1726 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
1727 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1728 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1729 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1730 based on the client's source addresses.
1731
1732 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 1733 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1735
1736NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1737TYPE: acl_access
1738IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
3d674977 1739LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1740DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9353df52 1741DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
3d674977 1742DOC_START
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1743 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1744 information regarding real client IP address.
1745
3d674977 1746 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
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1747 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1748 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1749 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1750 * PROXY protocol connection header.
3d674977 1751
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1753 directive which is checked before this.
1754
3d674977 1755 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
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1757 the IP of the client it received from (if any).
1758
1759 For the purpose of ACLs used in this directive the src ACL type always
1760 matches the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1761
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1763 If found the header values are iterated in reverse order and an allow
1764 match is required for Squid to continue on to the next value.
1765 The verification ends when a value receives a deny match, cannot be
1766 tested, or there are no more values to test.
1767 NOTE: Squid does not yet follow the Forwarded HTTP header.
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1769 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1770 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1771 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1772 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
9603207d 1773 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
96d64448 1774 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 1775
b3567eb5 1776 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 1777 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
b3567eb5 1778
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1780
c390580b 1781 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
70a16fea 1782 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
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1784 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1785 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1786 based on the client's source addresses.
1787
1788 For example:
1789
1790 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1791 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1792 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1793 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1794DOC_END
1795
1796NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1797COMMENT: on|off
1798TYPE: onoff
1799IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1800DEFAULT: on
1801LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1802DOC_START
1803 Controls whether the indirect client address
1804 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1805 direct client address in acl matching.
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1807 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1808 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1810
1811NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1812COMMENT: on|off
1813TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1814IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1816LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1817DOC_START
1818 Controls whether the indirect client address
1819 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1820 direct client address in delay pools.
1821DOC_END
1822
1823NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1824COMMENT: on|off
1825TYPE: onoff
1826IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1827DEFAULT: on
1828LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1829DOC_START
1830 Controls whether the indirect client address
1831 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1832 direct client address in the access log.
1833DOC_END
1834
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1835NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1836COMMENT: on|off
1837TYPE: onoff
1838IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1839DEFAULT: off
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1841DOC_START
1842 Controls whether the indirect client address
1843 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1844 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1846 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1847 mode ports.
1848
1849 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1850 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
16ae256c 1851 of follow_x_forwarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1852 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1855NAME: spoof_client_ip
1856TYPE: acl_access
1857LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1858DEFAULT: none
1859DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1860DOC_START
1861 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1862 defined access lists.
1863
1864 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1865
1866 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1867 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1868
1869 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1870
1871 This clause supports fast acl types.
7409131e 1872 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1874
41bd17a4 1875NAME: http_access
1876TYPE: acl_access
1877LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1878DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1879DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1880DOC_START
1881 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1882
8a2f40dd 1883 To allow or deny a message received on an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP port:
41bd17a4 1884 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1885
41bd17a4 1886 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1887
41bd17a4 1888 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1889 the request.
cccac0a2 1890
41bd17a4 1891 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1892 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1893 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1894 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1896 lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 1897
b3567eb5 1898 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 1899 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
b3567eb5 1900
47f0eaea 1901CONFIG_START
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1903#
1904# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1905#
e0855596 1906# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1907http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1909# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1910http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
e0855596 1911
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1913http_access allow localhost manager
1914http_access deny manager
1915
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1917# permissive Squid installation could introduce new attack vectors into the
1918# network by proxying external TCP connections to unprotected services.
1919http_access allow localhost
1920
1921# The two deny rules below are unnecessary in this default configuration
1922# because they are followed by a "deny all" rule. However, they may become
1923# critically important when you start allowing external requests below them.
1924
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1926# assume that only local users can access them at "localhost" ports.
1927http_access deny to_localhost
1928
1929# Protect cloud servers that provide local users with sensitive info about
1930# their server via certain well-known link-local (a.k.a. APIPA) addresses.
1931http_access deny to_linklocal
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41bd17a4 1933#
1934# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1935#
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1938# following rule (and/or add rules that match your definition of "local"):
1939# http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 1940
41bd17a4 1941# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1942http_access deny all
47f0eaea 1943CONFIG_END
41bd17a4 1944DOC_END
7d90757b 1945
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1947TYPE: acl_access
1948LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1949DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1950DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1952 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1953
1954 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1955 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1956 output.
1957
1958 If not set then only http_access is used.
1959DOC_END
1960
41bd17a4 1961NAME: http_reply_access
1962TYPE: acl_access
1963LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1964DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1965DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1966DOC_START
1967 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1968
41bd17a4 1969 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1970
41bd17a4 1971 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1972 all replies.
1a224843 1973
41bd17a4 1974 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1975 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1976 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1978 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 1979 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1980DOC_END
1981
41bd17a4 1982NAME: icp_access
1983TYPE: acl_access
1984LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1986DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1987DOC_START
41bd17a4 1988 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1989 access lists
5473c134 1990
41bd17a4 1991 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1992
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1994 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1995 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1996
b3567eb5 1997 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 1998 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2000# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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2002#icp_access deny all
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2004
41bd17a4 2005NAME: htcp_access
2006IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2007TYPE: acl_access
2008LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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2010DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 2011DOC_START
41bd17a4 2012 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
2013 access lists
5473c134 2014
41bd17a4 2015 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 2016
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2018 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 2019
0b48417e 2020 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
2021 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 2022 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 2023
b3567eb5 2024 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2025 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2027# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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2029#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 2030DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2032NAME: htcp_clr_access
2033IFDEF: USE_HTCP
2034TYPE: acl_access
2035LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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2037DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 2038DOC_START
2039 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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2041 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 2042
41bd17a4 2043 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 2044
b3567eb5 2045 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2046 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2048# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 2049acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 2050htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 2051htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 2052DOC_END
2053
41bd17a4 2054NAME: miss_access
2055TYPE: acl_access
2056LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 2057DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2058DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 2059DOC_START
18d1eddf 2060 Determines whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
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2062 For example;
2063 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2064 a parent.
5473c134 2065
638402dd 2066 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 2067 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 2068 miss_access allow all
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2071 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
2072 objects (HITs).
2073
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2075 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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2077 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2078 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 2079DOC_END
2080
2081NAME: ident_lookup_access
2082TYPE: acl_access
2083IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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2085DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 2086LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 2087DOC_START
41bd17a4 2088 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2089 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2090 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2091 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2092 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2093 any requests.
5473c134 2094
41bd17a4 2095 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2096 can follow this example:
5473c134 2097
4daaf3cb 2098 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 2099 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2100 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 2101
4daaf3cb 2102 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 2103 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2104 the correct result.
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2106 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2107 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 2108DOC_END
5473c134 2109
5b0f5383 2110NAME: reply_body_max_size
2111COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2112TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2113DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2114DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 2115LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2116DOC_START
2117 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
2118 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
2119 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
2120 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
2121 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
2122 for this reply.
2123
2124 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
2125 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2126 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2127 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2128 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2129 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2130 and they will receive a partial reply.
2131
2132 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2133 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2134 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2135 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2136
2137 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2138 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2139 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2140 the size of your largest error page.
2141
2142 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2143 no limit imposed.
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2145 Configuration Format is:
2146 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
2147 ie.
2148 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
2149
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2152NAME: on_unsupported_protocol
2153TYPE: on_unsupported_protocol
2154LOC: Config.accessList.on_unsupported_protocol
2155DEFAULT: none
2156DEFAULT_DOC: Respond with an error message to unidentifiable traffic
2157DOC_START
2158 Determines Squid behavior when encountering strange requests at the
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2159 beginning of an accepted TCP connection or the beginning of a bumped
2160 CONNECT tunnel. Controlling Squid reaction to unexpected traffic is
2161 especially useful in interception environments where Squid is likely
2162 to see connections for unsupported protocols that Squid should either
2163 terminate or tunnel at TCP level.
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3248e962 2165 on_unsupported_protocol <action> [!]acl ...
9603207d 2166
56d089f3 2167 The first matching action wins. Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2169 Supported actions are:
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2171 tunnel: Establish a TCP connection with the intended server and
2172 blindly shovel TCP packets between the client and server.
2173
2174 respond: Respond with an error message, using the transfer protocol
2175 for the Squid port that received the request (e.g., HTTP
2176 for connections intercepted at the http_port). This is the
2177 default.
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2179 Squid expects the following traffic patterns:
2180
2181 http_port: a plain HTTP request
2182 https_port: SSL/TLS handshake followed by an [encrypted] HTTP request
2183 ftp_port: a plain FTP command (no on_unsupported_protocol support yet!)
2184 CONNECT tunnel on http_port: same as https_port
2185 CONNECT tunnel on https_port: same as https_port
2186
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2189 cannot know the intended destination of other traffic.
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2191 For example:
2192 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving non-HTTP traffic:
2193 acl foreignProtocol squid_error ERR_PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN ERR_TOO_BIG
2194 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving nothing:
2195 acl serverTalksFirstProtocol squid_error ERR_REQUEST_START_TIMEOUT
2196 # tunnel everything that does not look like HTTP:
2197 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel foreignProtocol
2198 # tunnel if we think the client waits for the server to talk first:
2199 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel serverTalksFirstProtocol
2200 # in all other error cases, just send an HTTP "error page" response:
2201 on_unsupported_protocol respond all
2202
2203 See also: squid_error ACL
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2206NAME: auth_schemes
2207TYPE: AuthSchemes
2208IFDEF: USE_AUTH
2209LOC: Auth::TheConfig.schemeAccess
2210DEFAULT: none
2211DEFAULT_DOC: use all auth_param schemes in their configuration order
2212DOC_START
2213 Use this directive to customize authentication schemes presence and
2214 order in Squid's Unauthorized and Authentication Required responses.
2215
2216 auth_schemes scheme1,scheme2,... [!]aclname ...
2217
2218 where schemeN is the name of one of the authentication schemes
2219 configured using auth_param directives. At least one scheme name is
2220 required. Multiple scheme names are separated by commas. Either
2221 avoid whitespace or quote the entire schemes list.
2222
2223 A special "ALL" scheme name expands to all auth_param-configured
2224 schemes in their configuration order. This directive cannot be used
2225 to configure Squid to offer no authentication schemes at all.
2226
2227 The first matching auth_schemes rule determines the schemes order
2228 for the current Authentication Required transaction. Note that the
2229 future response is not yet available during auth_schemes evaluation.
2230
2231 If this directive is not used or none of its rules match, then Squid
2232 responds with all configured authentication schemes in the order of
2233 auth_param directives in the configuration file.
2234
2235 This directive does not determine when authentication is used or
2236 how each authentication scheme authenticates clients.
2237
2238 The following example sends basic and negotiate authentication
2239 schemes, in that order, when requesting authentication of HTTP
2240 requests matching the isIE ACL (not shown) while sending all
2241 auth_param schemes in their configuration order to other clients:
2242
2243 auth_schemes basic,negotiate isIE
2244 auth_schemes ALL all # explicit default
2245
2246 This directive supports fast ACLs only.
2247
2248 See also: auth_param.
2249DOC_END
2250
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2252 NETWORK OPTIONS
2253 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2254COMMENT_END
2255
2256NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 2257TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2258DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 2259LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 2260DOC_START
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2262 hostname:port [mode] [options]
2263 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 2264
2265 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
2266 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
2267 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
2268 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
2269 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 2270 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 2271 address, so you can use the port number alone.
2272
2273 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
2274 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
2275
2276 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
2277 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
2278 be plain proxy ports with no options.
2279
2280 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
2281
c7b1dd5d 2282 Modes:
5b0f5383 2283
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2285 traffic to this Squid port.
2286 NP: disables authentication on the port.
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2289 of outgoing connections using the client IP address.
2290 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 2291
7f45065d 2292 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 2293
caf3666d 2294 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 2295 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 2296 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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2298 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
2299
7a957a93 2300 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
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2303 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
2304
2305
2306 Accelerator Mode Options:
2307
5b0f5383 2308 defaultsite=domainname
2309 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
2310 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
2311 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 2312
cf673853 2313 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 2314
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2316 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
2317 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
2318 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
2319 produce a FATAL error.
2320 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 2321
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2323 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 2324
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2326 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 2327
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2329 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
2330 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
2331 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 2332
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2334
7f45065d 2335 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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2337
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2338 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
2339 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
2340 never_direct was used.
2341
2342 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
2343 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
2344 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
2345 http_access rules when using this.
2346
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2348 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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2350
2351 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
2352 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
9603207d 2353 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
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2354 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
2355 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
2356 certificate will be selfsigned.
9603207d 2357 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
859741ed 2358 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
9603207d 2359 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
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2361 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
2362 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
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2365 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
2366 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 2367 default value is 4MB.
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2369 TLS / SSL Options:
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2371 tls-cert= Path to file containing an X.509 certificate (PEM format)
2372 to be used in the TLS handshake ServerHello.
c7b1dd5d 2373
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2374 If this certificate is constrained by KeyUsage TLS
2375 feature it must allow HTTP server usage, along with
2376 any additional restrictions imposed by your choice
2377 of options= settings.
2378
2379 When OpenSSL is used this file may also contain a
2380 chain of intermediate CA certificates to send in the
2381 TLS handshake.
2382
2383 When GnuTLS is used this option (and any paired
2384 tls-key= option) may be repeated to load multiple
2385 certificates for different domains.
2386
2387 Also, when generate-host-certificates=on is configured
2388 the first tls-cert= option must be a CA certificate
2389 capable of signing the automatically generated
2390 certificates.
2391
2392 tls-key= Path to a file containing private key file (PEM format)
2393 for the previous tls-cert= option.
2394
2395 If tls-key= is not specified tls-cert= is assumed to
2396 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
2397 and private key.
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c7b1dd5d 2399 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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2400 NOTE: some ciphers such as EDH ciphers depend on
2401 additional settings. If those settings are
2402 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
2403 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 2404
943c5f16 2405 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 2406 being:
7905e7be 2407
3d96b0e8 2408 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 2409
3d96b0e8 2410 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 2411
3d96b0e8 2412 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 2413
3d96b0e8 2414 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 2415
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2416 SINGLE_DH_USE
2417 Always create a new key when using
c7b1dd5d 2418 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 2419
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2421 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
2422 The adopted curve should be specified
2423 using the tls-dh option.
2424
36092741 2425 NO_TICKET
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2426 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2427 Some servers may have problems
2428 understanding the TLS extension due
2429 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2430
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2432 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2433 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2434 strength to some attacks.
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2435
2436 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2437 more complete list.
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2438
2439 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
2440 requesting a client certificate.
2441
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2442 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2443 client certificates. If not configured clientca will be
2444 used. May be repeated to load multiple files.
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2445
2446 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
2447 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
86a84cc0 2448 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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2449
2450 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
2451 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
2452 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
2453
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2455 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
2456 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
2457 key exchanges.
2458 See OpenSSL documentation for details on how to create the
2459 DH parameter file. Supported curves for ECDH can be listed
2460 using the "openssl ecparam -list_curves" command.
2461 WARNING: EDH and EECDH ciphers will be silently disabled if
2462 this option is not set.
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2464 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
2465 DELAYED_AUTH
2466 Don't request client certificates
2467 immediately, but wait until acl processing
2468 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
983fab6e 2469 CONDITIONAL_AUTH
2470 Request a client certificate during the TLS
2471 handshake, but ignore certificate absence in
2472 the TLS client Hello. If the client does
2473 supply a certificate, it is validated.
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2474 NO_SESSION_REUSE
2475 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
2476 will result in a new SSL session.
2477 VERIFY_CRL
2478 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2479 certificates.
2480 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2481 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2482 client certificate chain.
2483
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2484 tls-default-ca[=off]
2485 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is OFF.
8b253b83 2486
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2487 tls-no-npn Do not use the TLS NPN extension to advertise HTTP/1.1.
2488
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2489 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2490
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2491 Other Options:
2492
6b185b50 2493 connection-auth[=on|off]
9603207d 2494 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
6b185b50 2495 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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2496 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
2497
5b0f5383 2498 disable-pmtu-discovery=
2499 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
2500 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
2501 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
2502 support is enabled.
2503 always disable always PMTU discovery.
2504
2505 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
2506 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
2507 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
2508 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
2509 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
2510 have such setup and experience that certain clients
2511 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
2512 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
2513
81b6e9a7 2514 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
2515 the port specification (port or addr:port)
2516
68924b6d 2517 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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2518 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections.
2519 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
2520 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 2521 timeout the time before giving up.
2522
d3d92daa 2523 require-proxy-header
151ba0d4 2524 Require PROXY protocol version 1 or 2 connections.
70d0ef18 2525 The proxy_protocol_access is required to permit
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2526 downstream proxies which can be trusted.
2527
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2529 Ask TCP stack to maintain a dedicated listening queue
2530 for each worker accepting requests at this port.
2531 Requires TCP stack that supports the SO_REUSEPORT socket
2532 option.
2533
2534 SECURITY WARNING: Enabling worker-specific queues
2535 allows any process running as Squid's effective user to
2536 easily accept requests destined to this port.
2537
5b0f5383 2538 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
2539 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
2540 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
2541 visible on the internal address.
2542
47f0eaea 2543CONFIG_START
e0855596 2544
5b0f5383 2545# Squid normally listens to port 3128
2546http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
47f0eaea 2547CONFIG_END
5b0f5383 2548DOC_END
2549
2550NAME: https_port
339e4d7a 2551IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 2552TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2553DEFAULT: none
339e4d7a 2554LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 2555DOC_START
51e09c08 2556 Usage: [ip:]port [mode] tls-cert=certificate.pem [options]
5b0f5383 2557
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2558 The socket address where Squid will listen for client requests made
2559 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 2560
859741ed 2561 This is most useful for situations where you are running squid in
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2562 accelerator mode and you want to do the TLS work at the accelerator
2563 level.
5b0f5383 2564
2565 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
9155253a 2566 each with their own certificate and/or options.
5b0f5383 2567
51e09c08 2568 The tls-cert= option is mandatory on HTTPS ports.
379e8c1c 2569
9155253a 2570 See http_port for a list of modes and options.
5b0f5383 2571DOC_END
2572
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2573NAME: ftp_port
2574TYPE: PortCfg
2575DEFAULT: none
8ea0d847 2576LOC: FtpPortList
434a79b0 2577DOC_START
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2578 Enables Native FTP proxy by specifying the socket address where Squid
2579 listens for FTP client requests. See http_port directive for various
2580 ways to specify the listening address and mode.
2581
2582 Usage: ftp_port address [mode] [options]
2583
2584 WARNING: This is a new, experimental, complex feature that has seen
2585 limited production exposure. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not
2586 currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not
2587 even been tested for compatibility. Test well before deploying!
2588
2589 Native FTP proxying differs substantially from proxying HTTP requests
2590 with ftp:// URIs because Squid works as an FTP server and receives
2591 actual FTP commands (rather than HTTP requests with FTP URLs).
2592
2593 Native FTP commands accepted at ftp_port are internally converted or
2594 wrapped into HTTP-like messages. The same happens to Native FTP
2595 responses received from FTP origin servers. Those HTTP-like messages
2596 are shoveled through regular access control and adaptation layers
2597 between the FTP client and the FTP origin server. This allows Squid to
2598 examine, adapt, block, and log FTP exchanges. Squid reuses most HTTP
2599 mechanisms when shoveling wrapped FTP messages. For example,
2600 http_access and adaptation_access directives are used.
2601
2602 Modes:
2603
3cc0f4e7 2604 intercept Same as http_port intercept. The FTP origin address is
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2606 intercepted connection.
2607
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2608 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
2609 connections using the client IP address.
2610 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2611
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2612 By default (i.e., without an explicit mode option), Squid extracts the
2613 FTP origin address from the login@origin parameter of the FTP USER
2614 command. Many popular FTP clients support such native FTP proxying.
2615
2616 Options:
2617
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2619 the port address. Usable with myportname ACL.
2620
aea65fec 2621 ftp-track-dirs
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2622 Enables tracking of FTP directories by injecting extra
2623 PWD commands and adjusting Request-URI (in wrapping
2624 HTTP requests) to reflect the current FTP server
aea65fec 2625 directory. Tracking is disabled by default.
8a2f40dd 2626
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2627 protocol=FTP Protocol to reconstruct accelerated and intercepted
2628 requests with. Defaults to FTP. No other accepted
2629 values have been tested with. An unsupported value
2630 results in a FATAL error. Accepted values are FTP,
2631 HTTP (or HTTP/1.1), and HTTPS (or HTTPS/1.1).
2632
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2633 Other http_port modes and options that are not specific to HTTP and
2634 HTTPS may also work.
2635DOC_END
434a79b0 2636
41bd17a4 2637NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2638TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 2639DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 2640LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 2641DOC_START
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2642 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
2643 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 2644
41bd17a4 2645 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 2646
41bd17a4 2647 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 2648 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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2650 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2651 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 2652 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 2653 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 2654
41bd17a4 2655 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2656 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2657 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 2658
41bd17a4 2659 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
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2661 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2662 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2663 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
cccac0a2 2664
41bd17a4 2665 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2666 matching line.
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2668 Only fast ACLs are supported.
cccac0a2 2669DOC_END
2670
41bd17a4 2671NAME: clientside_tos
2672TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 2673DEFAULT: none
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2674LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
2675DOC_START
5f53baab 2676 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value for packets being transmitted
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2677 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2678
2679 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2680
2681 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2682 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2683
2684 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2685 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2686 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2687 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2688
2689 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2690 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
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2692 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2693 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2694 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2695 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2696 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
2697
83a846a3 2698 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2699 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2700DOC_END
2701
2702NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2703TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2704IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2705DEFAULT: none
2706LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2707DOC_START
2708 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2709 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2710
2711 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2712
2713 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2714 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2715
2716 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2717 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2718 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2719 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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2721 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2723
244da4ad 2724NAME: mark_client_packet clientside_mark
425de4c8 2725TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2726IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2727DEFAULT: none
2728LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 2729DOC_START
244da4ad 2730 Allows you to apply a Netfilter MARK value to packets being transmitted
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2731 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2732
244da4ad 2733 mark_client_packet mark-value [!]aclname ...
425de4c8 2734
244da4ad 2735 Example where normal_service_net uses the MARK value 0x00
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2736 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2737
2738 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2739 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
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2741 mark_client_packet 0x20 good_service_net
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2743 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2744 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
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2746 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2747 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 2748DOC_END
cccac0a2 2749
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2750NAME: mark_client_connection
2751TYPE: acl_nfmark
2752IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
2753DEFAULT: none
2754LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfConnmarkToClient
2755DOC_START
2756 Allows you to apply a Netfilter CONNMARK value to a connection
2757 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2758
2759 mark_client_connection mark-value[/mask] [!]aclname ...
2760
2761 The mark-value and mask are unsigned integers (hex, octal, or decimal).
2762 The mask may be used to preserve marking previously set by other agents
2763 (e.g., iptables).
2764
2765 A matching rule replaces the CONNMARK value. If a mask is also
2766 specified, then the masked bits of the original value are zeroed, and
2767 the configured mark-value is ORed with that adjusted value.
2768 For example, applying a mark-value 0xAB/0xF to 0x5F CONNMARK, results
2769 in a 0xFB marking (rather than a 0xAB or 0x5B).
2770
2771 This directive semantics is similar to iptables --set-mark rather than
2772 --set-xmark functionality.
2773
2774 The directive does not interfere with qos_flows (which uses packet MARKs,
2775 not CONNMARKs).
2776
2777 Example where squid marks intercepted FTP connections:
2778
2779 acl proto_ftp proto FTP
2780 mark_client_connection 0x200/0xff00 proto_ftp
2781
2782 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2783 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2785
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2786NAME: qos_flows
2787TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2788IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2789DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2790LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2791DOC_START
575cb927 2792 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2794 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2795 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2798 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2799 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2800 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2801 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2802
2803 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2804 client to the upstream connection request.
2805
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2807 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2808 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 2809
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2811 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2812 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2813 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
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2815 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 2816
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2817 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2818
2819 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2821 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2822
2823 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2824
2825 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2826
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2828 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2829 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2830 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 2831
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2832 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2833 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2834 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2835 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2836 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2837
575cb927 2838 disable-preserve-miss
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2839 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2840 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2841 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2842 and masked with miss-mark.
2843 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2844 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2845 (MARK target).
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2847 miss-mask=0xFF
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2848 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2849 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2850 the TOS sent towards clients.
2851 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2852 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2853
2854 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2855 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2856 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2857 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2860
41bd17a4 2861NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2862TYPE: acl_address
2863DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2864DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2865LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2866DOC_START
2867 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2868 based on the username or source address of the user making
2869 the request.
7f7db318 2870
41bd17a4 2871 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 2872
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2874 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2877 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2878
2879 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2880 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2881
2882 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2883 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2884
2885 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2886 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2887
41bd17a4 2888 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2889 matching line.
cccac0a2 2890
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2891 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
2892 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2893 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2894
2895
2896 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2897 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2898 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2899 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2900
2dd51400 2901 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2902 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2903 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
2904 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2905
83a846a3 2906 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 2907 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 2908DOC_END
6db78a1a 2909
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2910NAME: host_verify_strict
2911TYPE: onoff
2912DEFAULT: off
2913LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2914DOC_START
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2915 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2916 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2917 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
9603207d 2918
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2919 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2920 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2921 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
9603207d 2922
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2923 When set to ON:
2924 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2925 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
9603207d 2926
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2927 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2928 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2929 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2930 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2931 and Request-URI components:
9603207d 2932
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2933 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2934 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2935 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2936 or FQDN.
9603207d 2937
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2938 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2939 the scheme-default port is assumed.
9603207d 2940
2941
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2942 When set to OFF (the default):
2943 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2944 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
9603207d 2945
2962f8b8 2946 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
9603207d 2947
2962f8b8 2948 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
9603207d 2949
2962f8b8 2950 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2951 according to client_dst_passthru.
9603207d 2952
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2953 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2954 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2955 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
9603207d 2956
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2957 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2958 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
9603207d 2959
2960
7177edfb 2961 SECURITY NOTE:
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2963 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2964 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2965 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2966 security policy and sandboxing protections.
9603207d 2967
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2968 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2969 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2970 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2971 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2972 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
9603207d 2973
7177edfb 2974DOC_END
6b185b50 2975
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2976NAME: client_dst_passthru
2977TYPE: onoff
2978DEFAULT: on
2979LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2980DOC_START
2981 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2982 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2983 source using the HTTP Host header.
9603207d 2984
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2985 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2986 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2987 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2988 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
9603207d 2989
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2990 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2991 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2992 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
9603207d 2993
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2994 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2995 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2996 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
9603207d 2997
7177edfb 2998 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2999DOC_END
3000
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3001COMMENT_START
3002 TLS OPTIONS
3003 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3004COMMENT_END
3005
3006NAME: tls_outgoing_options
3007IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
3008TYPE: securePeerOptions
2fbb02b1 3009DEFAULT: min-version=1.0
7e62a74f 3010LOC: Security::ProxyOutgoingConfig
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3011DOC_START
3012 disable Do not support https:// URLs.
9603207d 3013
195f8adb 3014 cert=/path/to/client/certificate
51e09c08 3015 A client X.509 certificate to use when connecting.
9603207d 3016
195f8adb 3017 key=/path/to/client/private_key
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3018 The private key corresponding to the cert= above.
3019
3020 If key= is not specified cert= is assumed to
3021 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
3022 and private key.
9603207d 3023
195f8adb 3024 cipher=... The list of valid TLS ciphers to use.
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3025
3026 min-version=1.N
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3027 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit.
3028 To control SSLv3 use the options= parameter.
d39e23a0 3029 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
1cc44095 3030
3f5b28fe 3031 options=... Specify various TLS/SSL implementation options.
195f8adb 3032
3f5b28fe 3033 OpenSSL options most important are:
7905e7be 3034
3f5b28fe 3035 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
7905e7be 3036
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3037 SINGLE_DH_USE
3038 Always create a new key when using
3039 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
7905e7be 3040
ce0adf1a 3041 NO_TICKET
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3042 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3043 Some servers may have problems
3044 understanding the TLS extension due
3045 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3046
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3047 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3048 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
7905e7be 3049 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
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3050 strength to some attacks.
3051
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3052 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation
3053 for a more complete list.
3054
3055 GnuTLS options most important are:
3056
3057 %NO_TICKETS
3058 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3059 Some servers may have problems
3060 understanding the TLS extension due
3061 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3062
3063 See the GnuTLS Priority Strings documentation
3064 for a more complete list.
3065 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Priority-Strings
3066
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3068 cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
3069 the peer certificate. May be repeated to load multiple files.
3070
3071 capath= A directory containing additional CA certificates to
195f8adb 3072 use when verifying the peer certificate.
86a84cc0 3073 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
9603207d 3074
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3075 crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3076 verifying the peer certificate.
9603207d 3077
195f8adb 3078 flags=... Specify various flags modifying the TLS implementation:
9603207d 3079
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3080 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3081 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3082 verify.
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3083 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3084 Don't verify the peer certificate
3085 matches the server name
9603207d 3086
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3087 default-ca[=off]
3088 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
9603207d 3089
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3090 domain= The peer name as advertised in its certificate.
3091 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3092 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3093 used.
3094DOC_END
3095
41bd17a4 3096COMMENT_START
3097 SSL OPTIONS
3098 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3099COMMENT_END
3100
3101NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 3102IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 3103TYPE: onoff
3104DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 3105LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 3106DOC_START
41bd17a4 3107 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
3108 messages.
cccac0a2 3109DOC_END
3110
41bd17a4 3111NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 3112IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 3113TYPE: string
41bd17a4 3114LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
3115DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3116DOC_START
41bd17a4 3117 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
3118 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
742236c7 3119
911833fc 3120 Not supported in builds with OpenSSL 3.0 or newer.
cccac0a2 3121DOC_END
3122
10a69fc0 3123NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 3124IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3125DEFAULT: 300
3126LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
3127TYPE: int
3128DOC_START
3129 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
3130DOC_END
3131
3132NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 3133IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3134DEFAULT: 2 MB
3135LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
3136TYPE: b_size_t
3137DOC_START
3138 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
3139DOC_END
3140
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3141NAME: sslproxy_foreign_intermediate_certs
3142IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
3143DEFAULT: none
3144LOC: Config.ssl_client.foreignIntermediateCertsPath
3145TYPE: string
3146DOC_START
3147 Many origin servers fail to send their full server certificate
3148 chain for verification, assuming the client already has or can
3149 easily locate any missing intermediate certificates.
3150
3151 Squid uses the certificates from the specified file to fill in
3152 these missing chains when trying to validate origin server
3153 certificate chains.
3154
3155 The file is expected to contain zero or more PEM-encoded
3156 intermediate certificates. These certificates are not treated
3157 as trusted root certificates, and any self-signed certificate in
3158 this file will be ignored.
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3159DOC_END
3160
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3161NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign_hash
3162IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
3163DEFAULT: none
3164LOC: Config.SSL.certSignHash
3165TYPE: string
3166DOC_START
3167 Sets the hashing algorithm to use when signing generated certificates.
3168 Valid algorithm names depend on the OpenSSL library used. The following
3169 names are usually available: sha1, sha256, sha512, and md5. Please see
3170 your OpenSSL library manual for the available hashes. By default, Squids
3171 that support this option use sha256 hashes.
3172
3173 Squid does not forcefully purge cached certificates that were generated
3174 with an algorithm other than the currently configured one. They remain
3175 in the cache, subject to the regular cache eviction policy, and become
3176 useful if the algorithm changes again.
3177DOC_END
3178
4c9da963 3179NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 3180IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 3181TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 3182LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
8f165829 3183DEFAULT_DOC: Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
4c9da963 3184DEFAULT: none
3185DOC_START
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3186 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
3187 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
3188 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
3189 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
3190 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
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3191 depending on the first matching bumping "action".
3192
3193 ssl_bump <action> [!]acl ...
caf3666d 3194
8f165829 3195 The following bumping actions are currently supported:
caf3666d 3196
5d65362c 3197 splice
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3198 Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
3199 This is the default action.
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3200
3201 bump
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3202 When used on step SslBump1, establishes a secure connection
3203 with the client first, then connect to the server.
3204 When used on step SslBump2 or SslBump3, establishes a secure
3205 connection with the server and, using a mimicked server
3206 certificate, with the client.
caf3666d 3207
5d65362c 3208 peek
1110989a 3209 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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3210 certificate while preserving the possibility of splicing the
3211 connection. Peeking at the server certificate (during step 2)
3212 usually precludes bumping of the connection at step 3.
caf3666d 3213
5d65362c 3214 stare
1110989a 3215 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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3216 certificate while preserving the possibility of bumping the
3217 connection. Staring at the server certificate (during step 2)
3218 usually precludes splicing of the connection at step 3.
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3219
3220 terminate
3221 Close client and server connections.
3222
1110989a 3223 Backward compatibility actions available at step SslBump1:
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3224
3225 client-first
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3226 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
3227 client first, then connect to the server. This old mode does
3228 not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does not
3229 work with intercepted SSL connections.
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3230
3231 server-first
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3232 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
3233 server first, then establish a secure connection with the
3234 client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
3235 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections, but does
3236 not allow to make decisions based on SSL handshake info.
caf3666d 3237
8f165829 3238 peek-and-splice
9603207d 3239 Decide whether to bump or splice the connection based on
d620ae0e 3240 client-to-squid and server-to-squid SSL hello messages.
8f165829 3241 XXX: Remove.
caf3666d 3242
caf3666d 3243 none
8f165829 3244 Same as the "splice" action.
caf3666d 3245
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3246 All ssl_bump rules are evaluated at each of the supported bumping
3247 steps. Rules with actions that are impossible at the current step are
3248 ignored. The first matching ssl_bump action wins and is applied at the
3249 end of the current step. If no rules match, the splice action is used.
652fcffd 3250 See the at_step ACL for a list of the supported SslBump steps.
4c9da963 3251
e0c0d54c 3252 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 3253 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 3254
652fcffd 3255 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump, and acl at_step.
caf3666d 3256
e0855596 3257
f3fece95 3258 # Example: Bump all TLS connections except those originating from
638402dd 3259 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 3260
f3fece95 3261 acl broken_sites ssl::server_name .example.com
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3262 ssl_bump splice localhost
3263 ssl_bump splice broken_sites
3264 ssl_bump bump all
4c9da963 3265DOC_END
3266
4c9da963 3267NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 3268IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 3269DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3270DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 3271LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
3272TYPE: acl_access
3273DOC_START
3274 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
3275
3276 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 3277 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 3278 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
3279
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3280 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
3281 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 3282 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
3283
b3567eb5 3284 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 3285 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
b3567eb5 3286 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 3287
3288 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 3289 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
4c9da963 3290
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3291 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
3292 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
3293
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3294 SECURITY WARNING:
3295 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
3296 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
3297 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 3298
638402dd 3299 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 3300DOC_END
3301
aebe6888 3302NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 3303IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 3304DEFAULT: none
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3305POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
3306POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
3307POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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3308TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
3309LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
3310DOC_START
3311
69742b76 3312 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 3313
69742b76 3314 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 3315
aebe6888 3316 signTrusted
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3317 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
3318 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
3319 default for trusted origin server certificates.
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aebe6888 3321 signUntrusted
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3322 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
3323 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
3324 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 3325
aebe6888 3326 signSelf
69742b76 3327 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 3328 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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3329 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
3330 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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3332 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3333
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3334 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
3335 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
3336 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
3337 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
3338 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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3340 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
3341 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
3342 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
3343 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
3344 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
3345 bump-server-first is used.
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3347
638402dd 3348NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 3349IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3350DEFAULT: none
3351TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
3352LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
3353DOC_START
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3355 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
3356
69742b76 3357 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 3358
fb2178bb 3359 setValidAfter
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3360 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
3361 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 3362
fb2178bb 3363 setValidBefore
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3364 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
3365 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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69742b76 3367 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
9603207d 3368 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
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3369 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
3370 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
3371 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
3372 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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3374 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3375
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3376 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
3377 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
3378 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
3379 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
3380 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
3381 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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3383 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
3384 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
3385 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
3386 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
3387 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
3388 bump-server-first is used.
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3390
41bd17a4 3391NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 3392IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 3393DEFAULT: none
3394LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
3395TYPE: string
5473c134 3396DOC_START
41bd17a4 3397 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
3398 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
3399 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
3400 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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HN
3401
3402 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
3403 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
3404 keys.
5473c134 3405DOC_END
3406
95d2589c 3407COMMENT_START
9603207d 3408 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
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3409 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3410COMMENT_END
3411
3412NAME: sslcrtd_program
9603207d 3413TYPE: eol
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3414IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
3415DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
3416LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
3417DOC_START
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3418 Specify the location and options of the executable for certificate
3419 generator.
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3420
3421 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program can use a disk cache to improve response
3422 times on repeated requests. To enable caching, specify -s and -M
3423 parameters. If those parameters are not given, the program generates
3424 a new certificate on every request.
3425
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3426 For more information use:
3427 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
3428DOC_END
3429
3430NAME: sslcrtd_children
3431TYPE: HelperChildConfig
3432IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
3433DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
3434LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
3435DOC_START
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3436 Specifies the maximum number of certificate generation processes that
3437 Squid may spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using
3438 too few of these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request
3439 queues. Using too many helpers wastes your system resources. Squid
3440 does not support spawning more than 32 helpers.
3441
3442 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
3443
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3444 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3445 tuning.
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95d2589c 3447 startup=N
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3450 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3451 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
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3453 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3454 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
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95d2589c 3456 idle=N
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3458 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3459 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3460 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3461 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3463 queue-size=N
3464
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3466 no existing child is idle and no new child can be started due to
3467 numberofchildren limit. If the queued requests exceed queue size for
3468 more than 3 minutes squid aborts its operation. The default value is
3469 set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3471 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
3472DOC_END
3473
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3474NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
3475TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 3476IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3477DEFAULT: none
3478LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
3479DOC_START
3480 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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3481 process.
3482
72247610 3483 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=...] [cache=n] path ...
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3485 Options:
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3487 cache=bytes
3488 Limits how much memory Squid can use for caching validator
3489 responses. The default is 67108864 (i.e. 64 MB).
3490 Reconfiguration purges any excess entries. To disable caching,
3491 use cache=0. Currently, cache entry sizes are seriously
3492 underestimated. Even with that bug, a typical estimate for a
3493 single cache entry size would be at least a few kilobytes (the
3494 size of the PEM certificates sent to the validator).
3495
3496 ttl=<seconds|"infinity">
3497 Approximately how long Squid may reuse the validator results
3498 for. The default is 3600 (i.e. 1 hour). Using ttl=infinity
3499 disables TTL checks. Reconfiguration does not affect TTLs of
3500 the already cached entries. To disable caching, use zero cache
3501 size, not zero TTL -- zero TTL allows reuse for the remainder
3502 of the second when the result was cached.
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3504
3505NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
3506TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 3507IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 3508DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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3509LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
3510DOC_START
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3511 Specifies the maximum number of certificate validation processes that
3512 Squid may spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using
3513 too few of these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request
3514 queues. Using too many helpers wastes your system resources. Squid
3515 does not support spawning more than 32 helpers.
3516
3517 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
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3519 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3520 tuning.
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2cef0ca6 3522 startup=N
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3524 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3525 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3526 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
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3528 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3529 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
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2cef0ca6 3531 idle=N
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3533 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3534 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3535 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3536 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3538 concurrency=
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4a77bb4e 3540 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2f8abb64 3541 parallel. A value of 0 indicates the certificate validator does not
dffc462a 3542 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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3544 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3545 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3546 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3547 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3548 to that request.
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3550 queue-size=N
3551
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3552 Sets the maximum number of queued requests. A request is queued when
3553 no existing child can accept it due to concurrency limit and no new
3554 child can be started due to numberofchildren limit. If the queued
3555 requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes squid aborts its
3556 operation. The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3558 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
3559DOC_END
3560
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41bd17a4 3562 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 3563 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3564COMMENT_END
3565
41bd17a4 3566NAME: cache_peer
3567TYPE: peer
3568DEFAULT: none
3569LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 3570DOC_START
41bd17a4 3571 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 3573 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
9603207d 3574
41bd17a4 3575 For example,
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41bd17a4 3577 # proxy icp
3578 # hostname type port port options
3579 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 3580 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 3581 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
3582 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 3583 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
9603207d 3584 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
3585
2b94f655 3586 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
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3588 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
3589 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
3590 For web servers this is usually 80
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3592 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
3593 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
3594 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
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3596
2b94f655 3597 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
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3599 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
3600 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
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3602
2b94f655 3603 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
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3605 multicast-responder
3606 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
3607 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
3608 replies will be accepted from it.
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3610 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
3611 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
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3613 background-ping
3614 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
3615 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
3616 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
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3618
2b94f655 3619 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
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3621 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
3622 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
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3624
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3625 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
3626 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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3627 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
3628 list of options described below.
9603207d 3629
18191440 3630 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
9603207d 3631
18191440 3632 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 3633 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 3634 only-clr.
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3636 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
3637 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 3639 htcp=no-purge-clr
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3640 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
3641 they do not result from PURGE requests.
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18191440 3643 htcp=forward-clr
2b94f655 3644 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
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3646
2b94f655 3647 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
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3649 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
3650 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
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3652
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3653 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
3654 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
3655 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
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3657 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3658 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
3659 weight=N can be used to add bias.
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3661 weighted-round-robin
3662 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3663 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
3664 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
3665 Usually used for background-ping parents.
3666 weight=N can be used to add bias.
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3668 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
3669 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
3670 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
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2b94f655 3672 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
9603207d 3673
2b94f655 3674 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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3675
3676 multicast-siblings
3677 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
3678 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 3679 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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3680 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
3681 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
3682 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
3683 members of the same multicast group.
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3685
2b94f655 3686 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
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3688 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
3689 peer-selection mechanisms.
3690 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
3691 larger weights are favored more.
3692 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
3693 protocol is not in use.
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3695 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
3696 times of parents.
3697 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
3698 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
3699 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
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3701 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
3702 to this address.
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3703 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
3704 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
3705 hosts, you must configure other group members as
3706 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
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3708 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
3709 delay pools.
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3711 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
3712 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
3713 than the Squid default location.
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3715
de03b596 3716 ==== CARP OPTIONS ====
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3718 carp-key=key-specification
3719 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
9603207d 3720 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
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3721 scheme, host, port, path, params
3722 Order is not important.
9603207d 3723
2b94f655 3724 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
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3726 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
3727 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
3728 is a web server.
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3730 forceddomain=name
3731 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
3732 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
3733 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
3734 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
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2b94f655 3736 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
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3738 no-netdb-exchange
3739 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
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3741
2b94f655 3742 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
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3744 login=user:password
3745 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3746 requires proxy authentication.
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3748 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
3749 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
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3751 login=PASSTHRU
3752 Send login details received from client to this peer.
3753 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
3754 without alteration to the peer.
3755 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
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3757 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
3758 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
3759 connection-auth options are also used.
ee0b94f4 3760
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3761 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
3762 Authentication is not required by this option.
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3764 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
3765 to pass on, but username and password are available
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3766 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
3767 they may be sent instead.
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3769 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
3770 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
3771 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
3772 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
3773 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
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3775 login=*:password
3776 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
3777 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
3778 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
3779 needed to identify each user.
3780 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
3781 information which is added to the username. This can
3782 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
3783 the login=username:password option above.
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3785 login=NEGOTIATE
3786 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3787 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3788 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
9603207d 3789 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
3790
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3792 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3793 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
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3795 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
3796 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
9603207d 3797 requires a secure proxy authentication.
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3798 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
3799 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
3800 used.
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3803 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3804 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
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3806 connection-auth=on|off
3807 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
3808 connection oriented authentication, and any such
3809 challenges received from there should be ignored.
3810 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3811 of the peer.
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3813 auth-no-keytab
3814 Do not use a keytab to authenticate to a peer when
3815 login=NEGOTIATE is specified. Let the GSSAPI
3816 implementation determine which already existing
3817 credentials cache to use instead.
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3819
2b94f655 3820 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
9603207d 3821
0ff7e52d 3822 tls Encrypt connections to this peer with TLS.
9603207d 3823
2b94f655 3824 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
51e09c08 3825 A client X.509 certificate to use when connecting to
2b94f655 3826 this peer.
9603207d 3827
2b94f655 3828 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
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3829 The private key corresponding to sslcert above.
3830
3831 If sslkey= is not specified sslcert= is assumed to
3832 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
3833 and private key.
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3835 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3836 to this peer.
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3838 tls-min-version=1.N
3839 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3f5b28fe 3840 SSLv3 use the tls-options= parameter.
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3841 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
3842
3f5b28fe 3843 tls-options=... Specify various TLS implementation options.
943c5f16 3844
3f5b28fe 3845 OpenSSL options most important are:
1f1f29e8 3846
3f5b28fe 3847 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 3848
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3849 SINGLE_DH_USE
3850 Always create a new key when using
3851 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 3852
ce0adf1a 3853 NO_TICKET
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3854 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3855 Some servers may have problems
3856 understanding the TLS extension due
3857 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3858
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3859 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3860 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3861 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3862 strength to some attacks.
3863
3864 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3865 more complete list.
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3866
3867 GnuTLS options most important are:
3868
3869 %NO_TICKETS
3870 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3871 Some servers may have problems
3872 understanding the TLS extension due
3873 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3874
3875 See the GnuTLS Priority Strings documentation
3876 for a more complete list.
3877 http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Priority-Strings
3878
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3879 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
3880 the peer certificate. May be repeated to load multiple files.
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3882 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3883 use when verifying the peer certificate.
86a84cc0 3884 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
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3886 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3887 verifying the peer certificate.
9603207d 3888
2b94f655 3889 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
9603207d 3890
41bd17a4 3891 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3892 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3893 verify.
1f1f29e8 3894
41bd17a4 3895 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3896 Don't verify the peer certificate
3897 matches the server name
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3899 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3900 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3901 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3902 used.
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bad9c5e4 3904 front-end-https[=off|on|auto]
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3905 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3906 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3907 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3908 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3909 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
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3911 tls-default-ca[=off]
3912 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
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3914 tls-no-npn Do not use the TLS NPN extension to advertise HTTP/1.1.
3915
2b94f655 3916 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
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3918 connect-timeout=N
3919 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3920 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
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3922 connect-fail-limit=N
3923 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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3925 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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3927 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3928 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
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3929 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. Excessive use
3930 of this option may result in forwarding loops. One way
3931 to prevent peering loops when using this option, is to
3932 deny cache peer usage on requests from a peer:
3933 acl fromPeer ...
3934 cache_peer_access peerName deny fromPeer
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3936 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
3937 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
3938 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
3939 connection limit by default.
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3941 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
3942 requests unless a standby connection is available.
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3944 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3945 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3946 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3947 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3948 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3949 connections.
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3951 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3952 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3953 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3954 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3955 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
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3957 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3958 standby connections until there are N connections
3959 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3960 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3961 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3962 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3963 shared by all peers and origin servers.
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3965 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3966 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3967 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3968 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3969 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3970 connection.
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3972 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3973 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3974 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3975 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3976 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3977 connections. Default request_timeout and
3978 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3979 configuration.
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2b94f655 3981 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
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3983 Defaults to cache_peer hostname when not explicitly specified.
3984
3985 Other directives (e.g., cache_peer_access), cache manager reports,
3986 and cache.log messages use this name to refer to this cache_peer.
3987
3988 The cache_peer name value affects hashing-based peer selection
3989 methods (e.g., carp and sourcehash).
3990
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3991 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3992 peername ACL type.
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3995 checks and name-based search are case-insensitive.
3996
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3997 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3998 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3999 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
9603207d 4000
2b94f655 4001 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
9603207d 4002
41bd17a4 4003DOC_END
cccac0a2 4004
41bd17a4 4005NAME: cache_peer_access
4006TYPE: peer_access
4007DEFAULT: none
a5bb0c26 4008DEFAULT_DOC: No peer usage restrictions.
41bd17a4 4009LOC: none
4010DOC_START
a5bb0c26 4011 Restricts usage of cache_peer proxies.
cccac0a2 4012
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4014 cache_peer_access peer-name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4015
4016 For the required peer-name parameter, use either the value of the
4017 cache_peer name=value parameter or, if name=value is missing, the
4018 cache_peer hostname parameter.
4019
4020 This directive narrows down the selection of peering candidates, but
4021 does not determine the order in which the selected candidates are
4022 contacted. That order is determined by the peer selection algorithms
4023 (see PEER SELECTION sections in the cache_peer documentation).
4024
4025 If a deny rule matches, the corresponding peer will not be contacted
4026 for the current transaction -- Squid will not send ICP queries and
4027 will not forward HTTP requests to that peer. An allow match leaves
4028 the corresponding peer in the selection. The first match for a given
4029 peer wins for that peer.
4030
4031 The relative order of cache_peer_access directives for the same peer
4032 matters. The relative order of any two cache_peer_access directives
4033 for different peers does not matter. To ease interpretation, it is a
4034 good idea to group cache_peer_access directives for the same peer
4035 together.
4036
4037 A single cache_peer_access directive may be evaluated multiple times
4038 for a given transaction because individual peer selection algorithms
4039 may check it independently from each other. These redundant checks
4040 may be optimized away in future Squid versions.
4041
4042 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 4043 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
dd9b1776 4044
41bd17a4 4045DOC_END
dd9b1776 4046
41bd17a4 4047NAME: neighbor_type_domain
4048TYPE: hostdomaintype
4049DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4050DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 4051LOC: none
4052DOC_START
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4053 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
4054 about specific domains to the peer.
cccac0a2 4055
638402dd 4056 Usage:
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4057 neighbor_type_domain peer-name parent|sibling domain...
4058
4059 For the required peer-name parameter, use either the value of the
4060 cache_peer name=value parameter or, if name=value is missing, the
4061 cache_peer hostname parameter.
6bf4f823 4062
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4063 For example:
4064 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
4065 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 4066
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4067 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
4068 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 4069DOC_END
6bf4f823 4070
41bd17a4 4071NAME: dead_peer_timeout
4072COMMENT: (seconds)
4073DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4074TYPE: time_t
4075LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
4076DOC_START
4077 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
4078 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
4079 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
4080 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
4081 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
4082 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 4083
41bd17a4 4084 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
4085 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
4086 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
4087 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
4088 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
4089 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
4090 instead of to your parents.
4091DOC_END
cccac0a2 4092
437823b4 4093NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 4094DEFAULT: 25
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4095TYPE: int
4096LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
4097DOC_START
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4098 Limits the number of attempts to forward the request.
4099
4100 For the purpose of this limit, Squid counts all high-level request
4101 forwarding attempts, including any same-destination retries after
4102 certain persistent connection failures and any attempts to use a
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4103 different peer. However, these low-level attempts are not counted:
4104 * connection reopening attempts (enabled using connect_retries)
4105 * unfinished Happy Eyeballs connection attempts (prevented by setting
4106 happy_eyeballs_connect_limit to 0)
9603207d 4107
e7a9b7a8 4108 See also: forward_timeout, connect_retries, and %request_attempts.
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4109DOC_END
4110
41bd17a4 4111COMMENT_START
4112 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
4113 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4114COMMENT_END
4115
4116NAME: cache_mem
4117COMMENT: (bytes)
4118TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4119DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 4120LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 4121DOC_START
41bd17a4 4122 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
4123 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
4124 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
4125 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
4126
4127 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
4128 for:
4129 * In-Transit objects
4130 * Hot Objects
4131 * Negative-Cached objects
4132
4133 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
4134 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
4135 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
4136 priority.
4137
4138 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
4139 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
4140 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
4141 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
4142 not needed for in-transit objects.
4143
4144 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
4145 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
4146 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
4147 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
4148 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
4149 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
4150 objects.
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4151
4152 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
4153 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
4154 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
4155 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 4156DOC_END
0976f8db 4157
41bd17a4 4158NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
4159COMMENT: (bytes)
4160TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4161DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 4162LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 4163DOC_START
41bd17a4 4164 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
4165 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
4166 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
4167 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 4168DOC_END
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4170NAME: memory_cache_shared
4171COMMENT: on|off
4172TYPE: YesNoNone
4173LOC: Config.memShared
4174DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 4175DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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4176DOC_START
4177 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
4178
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4179 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
4180 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
4181 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
4182 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
4183 caching is enabled).
4184
65b81b27 4185 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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4186 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
4187 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
4188 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
4189 and GCC-style atomic operations).
4190
4191 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
4192 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
4193 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
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4194DOC_END
4195
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4196NAME: memory_cache_mode
4197TYPE: memcachemode
4198LOC: Config
4199DEFAULT: always
638402dd 4200DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 4201DOC_START
ea21d497 4202 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 4203
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4204 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
4205
4206 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
4207 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
4208 a second time before cached in memory.
4209
4210 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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4211DOC_END
4212
41bd17a4 4213NAME: memory_replacement_policy
4214TYPE: removalpolicy
4215LOC: Config.memPolicy
4216DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 4217DOC_START
41bd17a4 4218 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
4219 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 4220
638402dd 4221 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 4222DOC_END
6b698a21 4223
41bd17a4 4224COMMENT_START
4225 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
4226 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4227COMMENT_END
6b698a21 4228
41bd17a4 4229NAME: cache_replacement_policy
4230TYPE: removalpolicy
4231LOC: Config.replPolicy
4232DEFAULT: lru
4233DOC_START
4234 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
4235 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 4236
41bd17a4 4237 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
4238 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
4239 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
4240 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 4241
638402dd 4242 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 4243
41bd17a4 4244 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 4245
41bd17a4 4246 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
4247 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
4248 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
4249 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 4250
41bd17a4 4251 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
4252 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
4253 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
4254 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 4255
41bd17a4 4256 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
4257 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
4258 replacement policies.
7d90757b 4259
41bd17a4 4260 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 4261 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 4262 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 4263
41bd17a4 4264 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
4265 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
4266 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 4267DOC_END
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4269NAME: minimum_object_size
4270COMMENT: (bytes)
4271TYPE: b_int64_t
4272DEFAULT: 0 KB
4273DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
4274LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
4275DOC_START
4276 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
4277 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
4278 means all responses can be stored.
4279DOC_END
4280
4281NAME: maximum_object_size
4282COMMENT: (bytes)
4283TYPE: b_int64_t
4284DEFAULT: 4 MB
4285LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
4286DOC_START
499f852c 4287 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
a345387f 4288 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
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4290 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
4291 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
4292 hits).
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4294 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
4295 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
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4297 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
4298 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
4299 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
4300DOC_END
4301
41bd17a4 4302NAME: cache_dir
4303TYPE: cachedir
4304DEFAULT: none
2f8abb64 4305DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache objects only in memory.
41bd17a4 4306LOC: Config.cacheSwap
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4308 Format:
4309 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 4310
41bd17a4 4311 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
4312 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 4313
41bd17a4 4314 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
4315 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
4316 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 4317
41bd17a4 4318 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
4319 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
4320 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
4321 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
4322 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 4323
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4325 store types in configurations with multiple workers is not
4326 supported and may lead to HTTP violations or undefined behavior,
4327 even when each such cache_dir is given a dedicated worker using
4328 configuration conditionals.
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4330
4331 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 4332
41bd17a4 4333 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
4334 been there.
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4336 Usage:
4337 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 4338
41bd17a4 4339 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
4340 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
4341 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
4342 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
4343 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 4344
56fba4d0 4345 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 4346 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 4347
56fba4d0 4348 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 4349 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
4350 is 256.
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4352
4353 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 4354
41bd17a4 4355 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
4356 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
4357 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 4358
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4359 Usage:
4360 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 4361
41bd17a4 4362 see argument descriptions under ufs above
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4365 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 4366
41bd17a4 4367 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
4368 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
4369 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 4370
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4371 Usage:
4372 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 4373
41bd17a4 4374 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 4375
41bd17a4 4376 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
4377 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
4378 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 4379
41bd17a4 4380 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
4381 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
4382 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 4383
41bd17a4 4384 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
4385 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
4386 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
4387 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
4388 time.
0976f8db 4389
e2851fe7 4390
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4391 ==== The rock store type ====
4392
4393 Usage:
e51ce7da 4394 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 4395
2e55f083 4396 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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4398 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
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4400 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
4401 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
4402 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
4403 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
4404 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
4405
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4407 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
4408 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
4409 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
4410 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
4411 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
4412 expected swap wait time.
4413
df881a0f 4414 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 4415 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 4416 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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4417 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
4418 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
4419 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
4420 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
4421 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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4422 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
4423 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
4424 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
4425 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
4426 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
4427 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
4428
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4430 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
4431 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
4432 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
4433 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
4434 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
4435 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
4436 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
4437 100 bytes.
4438
df881a0f 4439
638402dd 4440 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
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4442 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
4443
4444 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
4445 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
4446 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
4447 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 4448 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 4449 Defaults to 0.
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4451 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
4452 supports.
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4453 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
4454 the default unless more specific details are
4455 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 4456
41bd17a4 4457 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 4458 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 4459
47f0eaea 4460CONFIG_START
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4461
4462# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
4463#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
47f0eaea 4464CONFIG_END
6b698a21 4465DOC_END
0976f8db 4466
41bd17a4 4467NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4468TYPE: string
4469LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4470DEFAULT: least-load
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4472 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
4473 object will fit into more than one.
4474
4475 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
4476 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
4477 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
4478 cache_dir.
4479
4480 Algorithms:
4481
4482 least-load
4483
4484 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
4485 sizes and disk speeds.
4486
4487 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
4488 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
4489 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
4490
4491 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
4492 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
4493 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
4494 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
4495
4496
4497 round-robin
4498
4499 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
4500 disk sizes.
4501
4502 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
4503 cache_dir is used.
4504
4505 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
4506 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
4507 max-size parameters.
4508
4509 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
4510 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
4511 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
4512
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4514 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
4515 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
4516 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
4517 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
4518
4519 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
4520 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
4521 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
4522 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
4523 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
4524 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
4525 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
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4528NAME: paranoid_hit_validation
4529COMMENT: time-units-small
4530TYPE: time_nanoseconds
4531DEFAULT: 0
4532DEFAULT_DOC: validation disabled
4533LOC: Config.paranoid_hit_validation
4534DOC_START
4535 Controls whether Squid should perform paranoid validation of cache entry
4536 metadata integrity every time a cache entry is hit. This low-level
4537 validation should always succeed. Each failed validation results in a
4538 cache miss, a BUG line reported to cache.log, and the invalid entry
4539 marked as unusable (and eventually purged from the cache).
4540
4541 Squid can only validate shared cache memory and rock cache_dir entries.
4542
4543 * Zero (default) value means that the validation is disabled.
4544
4545 * Positive values enable validation:
4546 - values less than 1 day approximate the maximum time that Squid is allowed
4547 to spend validating a single cache hit.
4548 - values greater or equal to 1 day are considered as no limitation:
4549 in this case all checks will be performed, regardless of how much time
4550 they take.
4551
4552 Hits are usually stored using 16KB slots (for rock, the size is
4553 configurable via cache_dir slot-size). Larger hits require scanning more
4554 slots and, hence, take more time. When validation is enabled, at least one
4555 slot is always validated, regardless of the configured time limit.
4556
4557 A worker process validating an entry cannot do anything else (i.e. the
4558 validation is blocking). The validation overhead is environment dependent,
4559 but developers have observed Squid spending 3-10 microseconds to check each
4560 slot of a Rock or shared memory hit entry. If Squid cuts validation short
4561 because it runs out of configured time, it treats the entry as valid.
4562
4563 When hit validation is enabled, its statistics is included in Cache
4564 Manager mgr:counters, mgr:5min, and mgr:60min reports.
4565DOC_END
4566
41bd17a4 4567NAME: max_open_disk_fds
4568TYPE: int
4569LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
4570DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 4571DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 4572DOC_START
41bd17a4 4573 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
4574 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
4575 descriptors are open.
4576
4577 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 4578DOC_END
0976f8db 4579
41bd17a4 4580NAME: cache_swap_low
4581COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 4582TYPE: int
41bd17a4 4583DEFAULT: 90
4584LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
638402dd 4585DOC_START
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4586 The low-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4587 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4588
4589 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4590 above this low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization
4591 near the low-water mark.
4592
4593 As swap utilization increases towards the high-water mark set
2f8abb64 4594 by cache_swap_high object eviction becomes more aggressive.
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4595
4596 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4597 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
2f8abb64 4598 the rate continues to scale in aggressiveness by multiples of
5f662601 4599 this above the high-water mark.
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4600
4601 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4602 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4603 numbers closer together.
4604
5f662601 4605 See also cache_swap_high and cache_replacement_policy
638402dd 4606DOC_END
41bd17a4 4607
4608NAME: cache_swap_high
4609COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4610TYPE: int
4611DEFAULT: 95
4612LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 4613DOC_START
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4614 The high-water mark for AUFS/UFS/diskd cache object eviction by
4615 the cache_replacement_policy algorithm.
4616
4617 Removal begins when the swap (disk) usage of a cache_dir is
4618 above the low-water mark set by cache_swap_low and attempts to
4619 maintain utilization near the low-water mark.
4620
4621 As swap utilization increases towards this high-water mark object
2f8abb64 4622 eviction becomes more aggressive.
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4623
4624 The value difference in percentages between low- and high-water
7bcaf76f 4625 marks represent an eviction rate of 300 objects per second and
2f8abb64 4626 the rate continues to scale in aggressiveness by multiples of
5f662601 4627 this above the high-water mark.
41bd17a4 4628
4629 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4630 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4631 numbers closer together.
638402dd 4632
5f662601 4633 See also cache_swap_low and cache_replacement_policy
6b698a21 4634DOC_END
0976f8db 4635
5473c134 4636COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 4637 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 4638 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4639COMMENT_END
0976f8db 4640
41bd17a4 4641NAME: logformat
4642TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 4643LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 4644DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4645DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 4646DOC_START
41bd17a4 4647 Usage:
0976f8db 4648
41bd17a4 4649 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 4650
41bd17a4 4651 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 4652
41bd17a4 4653 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 4654
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4655 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all
4656 components but the formatcode are optional and usually unnecessary,
4657 especially when dealing with common codes.
6b698a21 4658
bec110e4 4659 % [encoding] [-] [[0]width] [{arg}] formatcode [{arg}]
0976f8db 4660
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4661 encoding escapes or otherwise protects "special" characters:
4662
4663 " Quoted string encoding where quote(") and
4664 backslash(\) characters are \-escaped while
4665 CR, LF, and TAB characters are encoded as \r,
4666 \n, and \t two-character sequences.
4667
4668 [ Custom Squid encoding where percent(%), square
4669 brackets([]), backslash(\) and characters with
4670 codes outside of [32,126] range are %-encoded.
4671 SP is not encoded. Used by log_mime_hdrs.
4672
4673 # URL encoding (a.k.a. percent-encoding) where
4674 all URL unsafe and control characters (per RFC
4675 1738) are %-encoded.
4676
4677 / Shell-like encoding where quote(") and
4678 backslash(\) characters are \-escaped while CR
4679 and LF characters are encoded as \r and \n
4680 two-character sequences. Values containing SP
4681 character(s) are surrounded by quotes(").
4682
4683 ' Raw/as-is encoding with no escaping/quoting.
4684
4685 Default encoding: When no explicit encoding is
4686 specified, each %code determines its own encoding.
4687 Most %codes use raw/as-is encoding, but some codes use
4688 a so called "pass-through URL encoding" where all URL
4689 unsafe and control characters (per RFC 1738) are
4690 %-encoded, but the percent character(%) is left as is.
5473c134 4691
41bd17a4 4692 - left aligned
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4693
4694 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
4695 [width_min][.width_max]
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4696 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
4697 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 4698
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4699 {arg} argument such as header name etc. This field may be
4700 placed before or after the token, but not both at once.
5473c134 4701
41bd17a4 4702 Format codes:
5473c134 4703
3ff65596 4704 % a literal % character
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4705
4706 byte{value} Adds a single byte with the given value (e.g., %byte{10}
4707 adds an ASCII LF character a.k.a. "new line" or "\n"). The value
4708 parameter is required and must be a positive decimal integer not
4709 exceeding 255. Zero-valued bytes (i.e. ASCII NUL characters) are
4710 not yet supported.
4711
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4712 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
4713 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
4714 a similar internal error identifier.
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4715
4716 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information. Multiple
4717 details are separated by the plus sign ('+'). Admins should not
4718 rely on a particular detail listing order, the uniqueness of the
4719 entries, or individual detail text stability. All those properties
4720 depend on many unstable factors, including external libraries.
4721
c7bcf010 4722 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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4723 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
4724 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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4725 If no argument given all annotations logged.
4726 The argument may include a separator to use with
4727 annotation values:
4728 name[:separator]
4729 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
4730 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
4731 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
4732 explicitly configured separator is used between note
4733 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
4734 explicitly configured separator is used between
4735 individual notes. There is currently no way to
4736 specify both value and notes separators when logging
4737 all notes with %note.
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4738 master_xaction The master transaction identifier is an unsigned
4739 integer. These IDs are guaranteed to monotonically
4740 increase within a single worker process lifetime, with
4741 higher values corresponding to transactions that were
4742 accepted or initiated later. Due to current implementation
4743 deficiencies, some IDs are skipped (i.e. never logged).
4744 Concurrent workers and restarted workers use similar,
4745 overlapping sequences of master transaction IDs.
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4746
4747 Connection related format codes:
4748
41bd17a4 4749 >a Client source IP address
4750 >A Client FQDN
4751 >p Client source port
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4752 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
4753 >la Local IP address the client connected to
4754 >lp Local port number the client connected to
f123f5e9 4755 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
244da4ad 4756 >nfmark Client connection netfilter packet MARK set by Squid
8652f8e7 4757
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4758 transport::>connection_id Identifies a transport connection
4759 accepted by Squid (e.g., a connection carrying the
4760 logged HTTP request). Currently, Squid only supports
4761 TCP transport connections.
4762
4763 The logged identifier is an unsigned integer. These
4764 IDs are guaranteed to monotonically increase within a
4765 single worker process lifetime, with higher values
4766 corresponding to connections that were accepted later.
4767 Many IDs are skipped (i.e. never logged). Concurrent
4768 workers and restarted workers use similar, partially
4769 overlapping sequences of IDs.
4770
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4771 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
4772 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
4773
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4774 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
4775 <A Server FQDN or peer name
4776 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 4777 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 4778 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
f123f5e9 4779 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
244da4ad 4780 <nfmark Server connection netfilter packet MARK set by Squid
f4b68e1a 4781
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4782 >handshake Raw client handshake
4783 Initial client bytes received by Squid on a newly
4784 accepted TCP connection or inside a just established
4785 CONNECT tunnel. Squid stops accumulating handshake
4786 bytes as soon as the handshake parser succeeds or
4787 fails (determining whether the client is using the
4788 expected protocol).
4789
4790 For HTTP clients, the handshake is the request line.
4791 For TLS clients, the handshake consists of all TLS
4792 records up to and including the TLS record that
4793 contains the last byte of the first ClientHello
4794 message. For clients using an unsupported protocol,
4795 this field contains the bytes received by Squid at the
4796 time of the handshake parsing failure.
4797
4798 See the on_unsupported_protocol directive for more
4799 information on Squid handshake traffic expectations.
4800
4801 Current support is limited to these contexts:
4802 - http_port connections, but only when the
4803 on_unsupported_protocol directive is in use.
4804 - https_port connections (and CONNECT tunnels) that
4805 are subject to the ssl_bump peek or stare action.
4806
4807 To protect binary handshake data, this field is always
4808 base64-encoded (RFC 4648 Section 4). If logformat
4809 field encoding is configured, that encoding is applied
4810 on top of base64. Otherwise, the computed base64 value
4811 is recorded as is.
4812
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4813 Time related format codes:
4814
41bd17a4 4815 ts Seconds since epoch
4816 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
4817 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4818 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4819 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4820 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4821 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 4822 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
9603207d 4823 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
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4824 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
4825 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
4826 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
4827 the transaction is received from the client. This is
4828 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
4829 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
4830 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
4831 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
4832 (%ts.%03tu).
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4834 busy_time Time spent in transaction-related code (nanoseconds)
4835 This cumulative measurement excludes periods of time when the
4836 transaction was waiting (e.g., for a server or helper response)
4837 while Squid worked on other transactions or was engaged in
4838 transaction-unrelated activities (e.g., generating a cache index).
4839 In other words, this measurement represents the total amount of
4840 physical time when Squid was busy working on this transaction.
4841
4842 WARNING: This measurement relies on Squid transaction context
4843 tracking features that currently have known context leak bugs and
4844 coverage gaps. Until those features are fully implemented, logged
4845 values may significantly understate or exaggerate actual times.
4846 Do not use this measurement unless you know it works in your case.
4847
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4848 Access Control related format codes:
4849
4850 et Tag returned by external acl
4851 ea Log string returned by external acl
4852 un User name (any available)
4853 ul User name from authentication
4854 ue User name from external acl helper
4855 ui User name from ident
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4856 un A user name. Expands to the first available name
4857 from the following list of information sources:
4858 - authenticated user name, like %ul
4859 - user name supplied by an external ACL, like %ue
4860 - SSL client name, like %us
4861 - ident user name, like %ui
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4862 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
4863 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
4864 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
4865 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
4866 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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4867
4868 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 4869
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4870 REQUEST
4871
4872 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
4873 [http::]>rm Request method from client
4874 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
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4875
4876 [http::]ru Request URL received (or computed) and sanitized
4877
4878 Logs request URI received from the client, a
4879 request adaptation service, or a request
4880 redirector (whichever was applied last).
4881
4882 Computed URLs are URIs of internally generated
4883 requests and various "error:..." URIs.
4884
4885 Honors strip_query_terms and uri_whitespace.
4886
4887 This field is not encoded by default. Encoding
4888 this field using variants of %-encoding will
4889 clash with uri_whitespace modifications that
4890 also use %-encoding.
4891
4892 [http::]>ru Request URL received from the client (or computed)
4893
4894 Computed URLs are URIs of internally generated
4895 requests and various "error:..." URIs.
4896
4897 Unlike %ru, this request URI is not affected
4898 by request adaptation, URL rewriting services,
4899 and strip_query_terms.
4900
4901 Honors uri_whitespace.
4902
4903 This field is using pass-through URL encoding
4904 by default. Encoding this field using other
4905 variants of %-encoding will clash with
4906 uri_whitespace modifications that also use
4907 %-encoding.
4908
d6df21d2 4909 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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4910 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
4911 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 4912 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
f42ac6e6 4913 [http::]<rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
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4914 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
4915 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
4916 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
4917 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
4918 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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4919 [http::]rv Request protocol version
4920 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
4921 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
4922
5aca9cf2 4923 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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4924 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4925 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
4926 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
4927 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
4928 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
4929 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
4930 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4931 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 4932 Optional header name argument as for >h
d6df21d2 4933
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4934 RESPONSE
4935
4936 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
4937 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
4938
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4939 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
4940 as for >h
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4941
4942 [http::]mt MIME content type
4943
4944
4945 SIZE COUNTERS
4946
4947 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
4948 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
4949 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
4950 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
4951
4952 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
4953 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
4954
4955 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
4956 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
4957
9603207d 4958 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
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4959 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
4960 transfer encoding and control messages.
6ea12e8f 4961 Generated FTP listings are treated as
bae917ac 4962 received bodies.
d6df21d2 4963
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4964 TIMING
4965
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4966 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
4967 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
4968 and stops when the last response byte is received.
9603207d 4969 [http::]<tt Total time in milliseconds. The timer
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4970 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
4971 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
4972 with the last I/O with the last peer.
4973
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4974 Squid handling related format codes:
4975
4976 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
4977 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
4978
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4979 [http::]request_attempts Number of request forwarding attempts
4980
4981 See forward_max_tries documentation that details what Squid counts
4982 as a forwarding attempt. Pure cache hits log zero, but cache hits
4983 that triggered HTTP cache revalidation log the number of attempts
4984 made when sending an internal revalidation request. DNS, ICMP,
4985 ICP, HTCP, ESI, ICAP, eCAP, helper, and other secondary requests
4986 sent by Squid as a part of a master transaction do not increment
4987 the counter logged for the received request.
4988
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4989 SSL-related format codes:
4990
4991 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
4992
4993 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
4994 a connection and for any request received on
4995 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
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4996 corresponding SslBump mode ("splice", "bump",
4997 "peek", "stare", "terminate", "server-first"
9603207d 4998 or "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option
bf352fb2 4999 for more information about these modes.
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5000
5001 A "none" token is logged for requests that
5002 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
bf352fb2 5003 a "none" rule.
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5004
5005 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
5006 logged.
5007
4f6990ec 5008 ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid.
cedca6e7 5009
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5010 ssl::>cert_subject
5011 The Subject field of the received client
5012 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
5013 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
5014 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
5015 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
5016
5017 ssl::>cert_issuer
5018 The Issuer field of the received client
5019 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
5020 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
5021 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
5022 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
5023
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5024 ssl::<cert_subject
5025 The Subject field of the received server
5026 TLS certificate or a dash ('-') if this is
5027 not available. Consider encoding the logged
5028 value because Subject often has spaces.
5029
8f1c6091 5030 ssl::<cert_issuer
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5031 The Issuer field of the received server
5032 TLS certificate or a dash ('-') if this is
5033 not available. Consider encoding the logged
5034 value because Issuer often has spaces.
5035
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DN
5036 ssl::<cert
5037 The received server x509 certificate in PEM
5038 format, including BEGIN and END lines (or a
5039 dash ('-') if the certificate is unavailable).
5040
5041 WARNING: Large certificates will exceed the
5042 current 8KB access.log record limit, resulting
5043 in truncated records. Such truncation usually
5044 happens in the middle of a record field. The
5045 limit applies to all access logging modules.
5046
5047 The logged certificate may have failed
5048 validation and may not be trusted by Squid.
5049 This field does not include any intermediate
5050 certificates that may have been received from
5051 the server or fetched during certificate
5052 validation process.
5053
5054 Currently, Squid only collects server
5055 certificates during step3 of SslBump
5056 processing; connections that were not subject
5057 to ssl_bump rules or that did not match a peek
5058 or stare rule at step2 will not have the
5059 server certificate information.
5060
5061 This field is using pass-through URL encoding
5062 by default.
5063
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5064 ssl::<cert_errors
5065 The list of certificate validation errors
5066 detected by Squid (including OpenSSL and
5067 certificate validation helper components). The
5068 errors are listed in the discovery order. By
5069 default, the error codes are separated by ':'.
5070 Accepts an optional separator argument.
5071
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5072 %ssl::>negotiated_version The negotiated TLS version of the
5073 client connection.
5074
5075 %ssl::<negotiated_version The negotiated TLS version of the
5076 last server or peer connection.
5077
5078 %ssl::>received_hello_version The TLS version of the Hello
5079 message received from TLS client.
5080
5081 %ssl::<received_hello_version The TLS version of the Hello
5082 message received from TLS server.
5083
5084 %ssl::>received_supported_version The maximum TLS version
5085 supported by the TLS client.
5086
5087 %ssl::<received_supported_version The maximum TLS version
5088 supported by the TLS server.
5089
5090 %ssl::>negotiated_cipher The negotiated cipher of the
5091 client connection.
5092
5093 %ssl::<negotiated_cipher The negotiated cipher of the
5094 last server or peer connection.
5095
5038f9d8 5096 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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5097 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
5098
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5099 icap::tt Total ICAP "blocking" time for the HTTP transaction. The
5100 timer ticks while Squid checks adaptation_access and while
5101 ICAP transaction(s) expect ICAP response headers, including
5102 the embedded adapted HTTP message headers (where applicable).
5103 This measurement is meant to estimate ICAP impact on HTTP
5104 transaction response times, but it does not currently account
5105 for slow ICAP response body delivery blocking HTTP progress.
5106
5107 Once Squid receives the final ICAP response headers (e.g.,
5108 ICAP 200 or 204) and the associated adapted HTTP message
5109 headers (if any) from the ICAP service, the corresponding ICAP
5110 transaction stops affecting this measurement, even though the
5111 transaction itself may continue for a long time (e.g., to
5112 finish sending the ICAP request and/or to finish receiving the
5113 ICAP response body).
5114
5115 When "blocking" sections of multiple concurrent ICAP
5116 transactions overlap in time, the overlapping segment is
5117 counted only once.
5118
5119 To see complete ICAP transaction response times (rather than
5120 the cumulative effect of their blocking sections) use the
5121 %adapt::all_trs logformat code or the icap_log directive.
3ff65596 5122
c28b9a0e 5123 If adaptation is enabled the following codes become available:
3ff65596 5124
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5125 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
5126 meta-information from the last eCAP
5127 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
5128 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
5129 argument.
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5130
5131 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
5132 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
5133 the order of transaction start time. Each time
5134 value is recorded as an integer number,
5135 representing response time of one or more
5136 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
5137 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
5138 being retried or repeated, its time is not
5139 logged individually but added to the
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5140 replacement (next) transaction. Lifetimes of individually
5141 listed adaptation transactions may overlap.
5142 See also: %icap::tt and %adapt::all_trs.
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5143
5144 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
40dc90df 5145 Same as %adapt::sum_trs but response times of
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5146 individual transactions are never added
5147 together. Instead, all transaction response
5148 times are recorded individually.
5149
5150 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
5151 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
5152 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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5154 Format codes related to the PROXY protocol:
5155
5156 proxy_protocol::>h PROXY protocol header, including optional TLVs.
5157
5158 Supports the same field and element reporting/extraction logic
5159 as %http::>h. For configuration and reporting purposes, Squid
5160 maps each PROXY TLV to an HTTP header field: the TLV type
5161 (configured as a decimal integer) is the field name, and the
5162 TLV value is the field value. All TLVs of "LOCAL" connections
5163 (in PROXY protocol terminology) are currently skipped/ignored.
5164
5165 Squid also maps the following standard PROXY protocol header
5166 blocks to pseudo HTTP headers (their names use PROXY
5167 terminology and start with a colon, following HTTP tradition
5168 for pseudo headers): :command, :version, :src_addr, :dst_addr,
5169 :src_port, and :dst_port.
5170
5171 Without optional parameters, this logformat code logs
5172 pseudo headers and TLVs.
5173
5174 This format code uses pass-through URL encoding by default.
5175
5176 Example:
5177 # relay custom PROXY TLV #224 to adaptation services
5178 adaptation_meta Client-Foo "%proxy_protocol::>h{224}"
5179
5180 See also: %http::>h
5181
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5182 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
5183
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5184logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
5185logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
5186logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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5187logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
5188logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
5189
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5190 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
5191 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
5192 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
5193
5194 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
5195 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 5196
5473c134 5197DOC_END
5198
41bd17a4 5199NAME: access_log cache_access_log
5200TYPE: access_log
5201LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 5202DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 5203DOC_START
fb0c2f17 5204 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
9603207d 5205 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
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5206 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
5207
5208 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
5209 access_log none [acl acl ...]
5210
5211 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 5212 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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5213
5214 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
5215 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
5216 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
9603207d 5217
82b7abe3 5218 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 5219 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
5220 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
82b7abe3 5221 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
9603207d 5222
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5223 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
5224
5225 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
5226 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
5227 to 'squid'.
5228
5229 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
5230 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
5231 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
5232 should flush records before the buffer becomes
5233 full to avoid overflows under normal
5234 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
5235 module-dependent though). The on-error option
5236 controls overflow handling.
5237
5238 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
5239 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
5240 affected log records. The default 'die' action
9603207d 5241 kills the affected worker. The drop action
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5242 support has not been tested for modules other
5243 than tcp.
5244
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5245 rotate=N Specifies the number of log file rotations to
5246 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. The default
5247 is to obey the logfile_rotate directive. Setting
5248 rotate=0 will disable the file name rotation,
5249 but the log files are still closed and re-opened.
5250 This will enable you to rename the logfiles
5251 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5252 Only supported by the stdio module.
5253
82b7abe3 5254 ===== Modules Currently available =====
9603207d 5255
bb7a1781 5256 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
82b7abe3 5257 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
9603207d 5258
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5259 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
5260 each request.
5261 Place: the filename and path to be written.
9603207d 5262
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5263 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
5264 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
5265 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
9603207d 5266
82b7abe3 5267 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
9603207d 5268
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5269 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
5270 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
5271 Place Format: facility.priority
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5273 where facility could be any of:
5274 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 5275
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5276 And priority could be any of:
5277 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
9603207d 5278
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5279 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
5280 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 5281 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 5282
2bf4e8fa 5283 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 5284 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 5285 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 5286 Place Format: //host:port
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5287
5288 Default:
82b7abe3 5289 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 5290DOC_END
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5292NAME: icap_log
5293TYPE: access_log
5294IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5295LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
5296DEFAULT: none
5297DOC_START
5298 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
5299 transaction.
5300
5301 The icap_log option format is:
5302 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
5303 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
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5306 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
5307 features.
5308
5309 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
5310 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
5311 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
5312 log line.
5313
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5314 ICAP log supports many access.log logformat %codes. In ICAP context,
5315 HTTP message-related %codes are applied to the HTTP message embedded
5316 in an ICAP message. Logformat "%http::>..." codes are used for HTTP
5317 messages embedded in ICAP requests while "%http::<..." codes are used
5318 for HTTP messages embedded in ICAP responses. For example:
5319
5320 http::>h To-be-adapted HTTP message headers sent by Squid to
5321 the ICAP service. For REQMOD transactions, these are
5322 HTTP request headers. For RESPMOD, these are HTTP
5323 response headers, but Squid currently cannot log them
5324 (i.e., %http::>h will expand to "-" for RESPMOD).
5325
5326 http::<h Adapted HTTP message headers sent by the ICAP
5327 service to Squid (i.e., HTTP request headers in regular
5328 REQMOD; HTTP response headers in RESPMOD and during
5329 request satisfaction in REQMOD).
5330
5331 ICAP OPTIONS transactions do not embed HTTP messages.
5332
5333 Several logformat codes below deal with ICAP message bodies. An ICAP
5334 message body, if any, typically includes a complete HTTP message
5335 (required HTTP headers plus optional HTTP message body). When
5336 computing HTTP message body size for these logformat codes, Squid
5337 either includes or excludes chunked encoding overheads; see
5338 code-specific documentation for details.
5339
5340 For Secure ICAP services, all size-related information is currently
5341 computed before/after TLS encryption/decryption, as if TLS was not
5342 in use at all.
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5344 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
5345
5346 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
5347
5348 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
5349 option in Squid configuration file.
5350
5351 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
5352
9603207d 5353 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
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5355
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5356 icap::>st The total size of the ICAP request sent to the ICAP
5357 server (ICAP headers + ICAP body), including chunking
5358 metadata (if any).
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5360 icap::<st The total size of the ICAP response received from the
5361 ICAP server (ICAP headers + ICAP body), including
5362 chunking metadata (if any).
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5364 icap::<bs The size of the ICAP response body received from the
5365 ICAP server, excluding chunking metadata (if any).
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5367 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
5368 milliseconds). The timer starts when
5369 the ICAP transaction is created and
5370 stops when the transaction is completed.
5371 Similar to tr.
5372
5373 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
5374 timer starts when the first ICAP request
5375 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
5376 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
5377 is received.
5378
5379 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
5380 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
5381 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
5382 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
5383 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
5384 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
5385
5386 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
5387
5388 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
5389
5390 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
5391
5392 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
5393 definition, is called icap_squid:
5394
bd59d61c 5395logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>A %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<st %icap::rm %icap::ru %un -/%icap::<A -
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5399
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5400NAME: logfile_daemon
5401TYPE: string
5402DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
5403LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
5404DOC_START
5405 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
5406 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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5407
5408 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
5409 L<data>\n - logfile data
5410 R\n - rotate file
5411 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 5412 O\n - reopen file
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5413 F\n - flush file
5414 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
5415 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
5416
5417 No responses is expected.
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5418DOC_END
5419
8ebad780 5420NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 5421TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 5422LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 5423DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5424DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 5425COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
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5427 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
5428 in performance counters.
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5429
5430 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 5431 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5433
41bd17a4 5434NAME: cache_store_log
5435TYPE: string
df2eec10 5436DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5437LOC: Config.Log.store
5438DOC_START
5439 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
5440 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 5441 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 5442 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
6d1dfcfc 5443 disable it (the default).
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5445 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
5446 of modules supported.
9603207d 5447
e0855596 5448 Example:
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5449 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5450 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 5451DOC_END
5452
41bd17a4 5453NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
5454TYPE: string
5455LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 5456DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5457DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 5458DOC_START
41bd17a4 5459 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
5460 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
5461 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
5462 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
5463 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
5464 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
5465 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 5466
41bd17a4 5467 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
5468 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
5469 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
5470 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 5471
41bd17a4 5472 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
5473 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 5474
41bd17a4 5475 cache_swap_log.00
5476 cache_swap_log.01
5477 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 5478
41bd17a4 5479 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
5480 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
5481 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
5482 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
5483 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
5484 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
5485 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 5486DOC_END
5487
41bd17a4 5488NAME: logfile_rotate
5489TYPE: int
5490DEFAULT: 10
5491LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 5492DOC_START
efc23871 5493 Specifies the default number of logfile rotations to make when you
41bd17a4 5494 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
5495 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
5496 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
5497 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
5498 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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5500 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
5501 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
5502
66f92ffc 5503 Note, from Squid-4 this option is only a default for access.log
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5504 recorded by stdio: module. Those logs can be rotated separately by
5505 using the rotate=N option on their access_log directive.
5506
41bd17a4 5507 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
5508 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
5509 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
5510 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
5511 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
5512 <pid>'.
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41bd17a4 5514DOC_END
5473c134 5515
41bd17a4 5516NAME: mime_table
5517TYPE: string
5518DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
5519LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
5520DOC_START
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5521 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
5522
5523 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
5524 examples and formatting information if you do.
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5526
41bd17a4 5527NAME: log_mime_hdrs
5528COMMENT: on|off
5529TYPE: onoff
5530LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
5531DEFAULT: off
5532DOC_START
5533 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
5534 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
5535 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
5536 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
5537 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
5538DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5540NAME: pid_filename
5541TYPE: string
5542DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
5543LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 5544DOC_START
41bd17a4 5545 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 5546DOC_END
5547
41bd17a4 5548NAME: client_netmask
5549TYPE: address
5550LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 5551DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 5552DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 5553DOC_START
41bd17a4 5554 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
5555 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
5556 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
5557 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 5558DOC_END
5559
41bd17a4 5560NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 5561TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 5562LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 5563DEFAULT: on
5564DOC_START
41bd17a4 5565 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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5566 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
5567
5568 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
5569 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 5570DOC_END
5571
41bd17a4 5572NAME: buffered_logs
5573COMMENT: on|off
5574TYPE: onoff
5575DEFAULT: off
5576LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 5577DOC_START
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5578 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
5579 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
5580 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
5581 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
5582 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
5583 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
5584
5585 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
5586 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
5587 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
5588
dc797de0 5589 Currently honored by 'daemon', 'tcp' and 'udp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 5590DOC_END
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2b753521 5592NAME: netdb_filename
5593TYPE: string
221faecb 5594DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 5595LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 5596IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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5598 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
5599 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
5600
2b753521 5601 To disable, enter "none".
5602DOC_END
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5604NAME: tls_key_log
5605TYPE: Security::KeyLog*
5606DEFAULT: none
5607LOC: Config.Log.tlsKeys
5608IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
5609DOC_START
5610 Configures whether and where Squid records pre-master secret and
5611 related encryption details for TLS connections accepted or established
5612 by Squid. These connections include connections accepted at
5613 https_port, TLS connections opened to origin servers/cache_peers/ICAP
5614 services, and TLS tunnels bumped by Squid using the SslBump feature.
5615 This log (a.k.a. SSLKEYLOGFILE) is meant for triage with traffic
5616 inspection tools like Wireshark.
5617
5618 tls_key_log <destination> [options] [if [!]<acl>...]
5619
5620 WARNING: This log allows anybody to decrypt the corresponding
5621 encrypted TLS connections, both in-flight and postmortem.
5622
5623 At most one log file is supported at this time. Repeated tls_key_log
5624 directives are treated as fatal configuration errors. By default, no
5625 log is created or updated.
5626
5627 If the log file does not exist, Squid creates it. Otherwise, Squid
5628 appends an existing log file.
5629
5630 The directive is consulted whenever a TLS connection is accepted or
5631 established by Squid. TLS connections that fail the handshake may be
5632 logged if Squid got enough information to form a log record. A record
5633 is logged only if all of the configured ACLs match.
5634
5635 While transport-related ACLs like src and dst should work, Squid may
5636 not have access to higher-level information. For example, when logging
5637 accepted https_port connections, Squid does not yet have access to the
5638 expected HTTPS request. Similarly, an HTTPS response is not available
5639 when logging most TLS connections established by Squid.
5640
5641 The log record format is meant to be compatible with TLS deciphering
5642 features of Wireshark which relies on fields like CLIENT_RANDOM and
5643 RSA Master-Key. A single log record usually spans multiple lines.
5644 Technical documentation for that format is maintained inside the
5645 Wireshark code (e.g., see tls_keylog_process_lines() comments as of
5646 Wireshark commit e3d44136f0f0026c5e893fa249f458073f3b7328). TLS key
5647 log does not support custom record formats.
5648
5649 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 5650 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5652 See access_log's <module>:<place> parameter for a list of supported
5653 logging destinations.
5654
5655 TLS key log supports all access_log key=value options with the
5656 exception of logformat=name.
5657
5658 Requires Squid built with OpenSSL support.
5659DOC_END
5660
5661
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5662COMMENT_START
5663 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
5664 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5665COMMENT_END
5666
5667NAME: cache_log
5668TYPE: string
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5669DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
5670LOC: Debug::cache_log
5671DOC_START
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5672 Squid administrative logging file.
5673
5674 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
5675 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
5676 rotated with "debug_options"
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5677DOC_END
5678
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5680TYPE: cache_log_message
5681DEFAULT: none
5682DEFAULT_DOC: Use debug_options.
9259c796 5683LOC: DebugMessagesConfig
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5685 Configures logging of individual cache.log messages.
5686
5687 cache_log_message id=<number> option...
5688 cache_log_message ids=<number>-<number> option...
5689
5690 Most messages have _not_ been instrumented to support this directive
5691 yet. For the list of instrumented messages and their IDs, please see
5692 the doc/debug-messages.txt file.
5693
5694 Message ID corresponds to the message semantics rather than message
5695 text or source code location. The ID is stable across Squid
5696 instances and versions. Substantial changes in message semantics
5697 result in a new ID assignment. To reduce the danger of suppressing
5698 an important log message, the old IDs of removed (or substantially
5699 changed) messages are never reused.
5700
5701 If more than one cache_log_message directive refers to the same
5702 message ID, the last directive wins.
5703
5704 Use ids=min-max syntax to apply the same message configuration to an
5705 inclusive range of message IDs. An ID range with N values has
5706 exactly the same effect as typing N cache_log_message lines.
5707
5708 At least one option is required. Supported options are:
5709
5710 level=<number>: The logging level to use for the message. Squid
5711 command line options (-s and -d) as well as the debug_options
5712 directive control which levels go to syslog, stderr, and/or
5713 cache.log. In most environments, using level=2 or higher stops
5714 Squid from logging the message anywhere. By default, the
5715 hard-coded message-specific level is used.
5716
5717 limit=<number>: After logging the specified number of messages at
5718 the configured (or default) debugging level DL, start using
5719 level 3 (for DL 0 and 1) or 8 (for higher DL values). Usually,
5720 level-3+ messages are not logged anywhere so this option can
5721 often be used to effectively suppress the message. Each SMP
5722 Squid process gets the same limit.
5723DOC_END
5724
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5725NAME: debug_options
5726TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 5727DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 5728DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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5729LOC: Debug::debugOptions
5730DOC_START
5731 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
5732 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
5733 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
5734 log file, so be careful.
5735
5736 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 5737 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 5738
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5739 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
5740 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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5741 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
5742 events affecting Squid.
5743DOC_END
5744
5745NAME: coredump_dir
5746TYPE: string
5747LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 5748DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 5749DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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5750DOC_START
5751 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5752 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5753 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5754 and coredump files will be left there.
5755
321223fe
DC
5756 In addition to changing the directory, the process permissions are updated
5757 to enable process tracing and/or coredump file generation. The details are
5758 OS-specific, but look for prctl(2) PR_SET_DUMPABLE and procctl(2)
5759 PROC_TRACE_CTL documentation as guiding examples.
5760
47f0eaea 5761CONFIG_START
e0855596 5762
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5763# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5764coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
47f0eaea 5765CONFIG_END
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5766DOC_END
5767
5768
41bd17a4 5769COMMENT_START
5770 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
5771 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5772COMMENT_END
5773
5774NAME: ftp_user
5775TYPE: string
5776DEFAULT: Squid@
5777LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 5778DOC_START
41bd17a4 5779 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 5780 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 5781 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 5782
41bd17a4 5783 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
5784 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
5785 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 5786 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 5787 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 5788DOC_END
0976f8db 5789
41bd17a4 5790NAME: ftp_passive
5791TYPE: onoff
5792DEFAULT: on
5793LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 5794DOC_START
41bd17a4 5795 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
5796 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 5797
5798 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
5799DOC_END
5800
5801NAME: ftp_epsv_all
5802TYPE: onoff
5803DEFAULT: off
5804LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
5805DOC_START
5806 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
5807
5808 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
5809 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
5810 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
5811
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5812 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
5813 useful.
a689bd4e 5814 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
5815 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
5816
5817 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
5818 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
5819
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5820 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
5821DOC_END
5822
5823NAME: ftp_epsv
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5824TYPE: ftp_epsv
5825DEFAULT: none
5826LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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5827DOC_START
5828 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
5829
5830 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
b3567eb5 5831 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
9603207d 5832 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
b3567eb5 5833 will never be needed.
51ee534d 5834
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5835 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
5836 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
5837
5838 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
5839 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
5840 using ACLs:
5841
5842 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
5843
5844 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 5845
ddf5aa2b 5846 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 5847 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 5848DOC_END
9e7dbc51 5849
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5850NAME: ftp_eprt
5851TYPE: onoff
5852DEFAULT: on
5853LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
5854DOC_START
5855 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
5856
5857 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
5858 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
5859 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
5860
5861 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
5862 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
5863
5864 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
2f8abb64 5865 may result in crashes. Devices which support EPRT enough to fail
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5866 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
5867 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
5868
5869 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
5870 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
5871DOC_END
5872
41bd17a4 5873NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
5874TYPE: onoff
5875DEFAULT: on
5876LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
5877DOC_START
5878 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
5879 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
5880 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
5881 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
5882 connection turn this off.
5883DOC_END
9e7dbc51 5884
41bd17a4 5885NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
5886TYPE: onoff
5887DEFAULT: on
5888LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
5889DOC_START
5890 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
5891 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
5892 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
5893 the FTP protocol.
5894
5895 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
5896 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
5897 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
5898 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
5899 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
5900DOC_END
5901
5902COMMENT_START
5903 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
5904 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5905COMMENT_END
5906
5907NAME: diskd_program
5908TYPE: string
5909DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
5910LOC: Config.Program.diskd
5911DOC_START
5912 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
5913 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
5914 diskd as one of the store io modules.
5915DOC_END
5916
5917NAME: unlinkd_program
5918IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
5919TYPE: string
5920DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
5921LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
5922DOC_START
5923 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
5924DOC_END
5925
5926NAME: pinger_program
41bd17a4 5927IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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5928TYPE: icmp
5929DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
5930LOC: IcmpCfg
41bd17a4 5931DOC_START
5932 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
5933DOC_END
5934
cc192b50 5935NAME: pinger_enable
5936TYPE: onoff
5937DEFAULT: on
7a9d36e3 5938LOC: IcmpCfg.enable
cc192b50 5939IFDEF: USE_ICMP
5940DOC_START
5941 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
b3567eb5
FC
5942 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
5943 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 5944DOC_END
5945
5946
41bd17a4 5947COMMENT_START
5948 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
5949 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5950COMMENT_END
5951
5952NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
5953TYPE: wordlist
5954LOC: Config.Program.redirect
5955DEFAULT: none
5956DOC_START
32f90fcf
PSB
5957 The name and command line parameters of an admin-provided executable
5958 for redirecting clients or adjusting/replacing client request URLs.
41bd17a4 5959
32f90fcf
PSB
5960 This helper is consulted after the received request is cleared by
5961 http_access and adapted using eICAP/ICAP services (if any). If the
5962 helper does not redirect the client, Squid checks adapted_http_access
5963 and may consult the cache or forward the request to the next hop.
41bd17a4 5964
5269ec0e 5965
32f90fcf 5966 For each request, the helper gets one line in the following format:
5269ec0e 5967
32f90fcf 5968 [channel-ID <SP>] request-URL [<SP> extras] <NL>
5269ec0e 5969
32f90fcf 5970 Use url_rewrite_extras to configure what Squid sends as 'extras'.
5269ec0e 5971
32f90fcf
PSB
5972
5973 The helper must reply to each query using a single line:
5974
5975 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs] <NL>
5976
5977 The result section must match exactly one of the following outcomes:
5978
5979 OK [status=30N] url="..."
5980
5981 Redirect the client to a URL supplied in the 'url' parameter.
5982 Optional 'status' specifies the status code to send to the
5983 client in Squid's HTTP redirect response. It must be one of
5984 the standard HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307,
5985 or 308. When no specific status is requested, Squid uses 302.
c71adec1 5986
5269ec0e 5987 OK rewrite-url="..."
32f90fcf
PSB
5988
5989 Replace the current request URL with the one supplied in the
5990 'rewrite-url' parameter. Squid fetches the resource specified
5991 by the new URL and forwards the received response (or its
5992 cached copy) to the client.
5993
5994 WARNING: Avoid rewriting URLs! When possible, redirect the
5995 client using an "OK url=..." helper response instead.
5996 Rewriting URLs may create inconsistent requests and/or break
5997 synchronization between internal client and origin server
5998 states, especially when URLs or other message parts contain
5999 snippets of that state. For example, Squid does not adjust
6000 Location headers and embedded URLs after the helper rewrites
6001 the request URL.
5269ec0e 6002
c2cbbb02 6003 OK
32f90fcf 6004 Keep the client request intact.
c2cbbb02 6005
5269ec0e 6006 ERR
32f90fcf 6007 Keep the client request intact.
5269ec0e 6008
32f90fcf
PSB
6009 BH [message="..."]
6010 A helper problem that should be reported to the Squid admin
6011 via a level-1 cache.log message. The 'message' parameter is
6012 reserved for specifying the log message.
5269ec0e 6013
32f90fcf
PSB
6014 In addition to the kv-pairs mentioned above, Squid also understands
6015 the following optional kv-pairs in URL rewriter responses:
5269ec0e 6016
457857fe
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6017 clt_conn_tag=TAG
6018 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
41bd17a4 6019
32f90fcf
PSB
6020 The clt_conn_tag=TAG pair is treated as a regular transaction
6021 annotation for the current request and also annotates future
6022 requests on the same client connection. A helper may update
6023 the TAG during subsequent requests by returning a new kv-pair.
5269ec0e 6024
41bd17a4 6025
32f90fcf
PSB
6026 Helper messages contain the channel-ID part if and only if the
6027 url_rewrite_children directive specifies positive concurrency. As a
6028 channel-ID value, Squid sends a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
6029 The helper must echo back the received channel-ID in its response.
41bd17a4 6030
32f90fcf 6031 By default, Squid does not use a URL rewriter.
41bd17a4 6032DOC_END
6033
6034NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 6035TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 6036DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 6037LOC: Config.redirectChildren
6038DOC_START
79933cd6
AR
6039 Specifies the maximum number of redirector processes that Squid may
6040 spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using too few of
6041 these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request queues.
6042 Using too many helpers wastes your system resources.
6043
6044 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
6045
48d54e4d
AJ
6046 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6047 tuning.
9603207d 6048
48d54e4d 6049 startup=
9603207d 6050
48d54e4d
AJ
6051 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6052 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6053 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
9603207d 6054
48d54e4d
AJ
6055 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6056 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
9603207d 6057
48d54e4d 6058 idle=
9603207d 6059
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AJ
6060 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6061 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6062 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6063 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
6064
6065 concurrency=
41bd17a4 6066
41bd17a4 6067 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
6068 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
6069 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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AJ
6070
6071 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
6072 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
9bef05b1
AJ
6073 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
6074 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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6075
6076 queue-size=N
6077
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AR
6078 Sets the maximum number of queued requests. A request is queued when
6079 no existing child can accept it due to concurrency limit and no new
6080 child can be started due to numberofchildren limit. The default
6081 maximum is zero if url_rewrite_bypass is enabled and
6082 2*numberofchildren otherwise. If the queued requests exceed queue size
6083 and redirector_bypass configuration option is set, then redirector is
6084 bypassed. Otherwise, Squid is allowed to temporarily exceed the
6085 configured maximum, marking the affected helper as "overloaded". If
6086 the helper overload lasts more than 3 minutes, the action prescribed
6087 by the on-persistent-overload option applies.
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6088
6089 on-persistent-overload=action
6090
6091 Specifies Squid reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
6092 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number of queued
6093 requests determines whether the helper is overloaded (see the queue-size
6094 option).
6095
6096 Two actions are supported:
6097
6098 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
6099
6100 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
6101 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
6102 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
6103 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
41bd17a4 6104DOC_END
6105
6106NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
6107TYPE: onoff
6108DEFAULT: on
6109LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
6110DOC_START
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6111 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
6112 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
6113 any Host: header in redirected requests.
9603207d 6114
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6115 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
6116 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
6117 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
9603207d 6118
41bd17a4 6119 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
6120 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
9603207d 6121
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6122 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
6123 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
6124 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 6125DOC_END
6126
6127NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
6128TYPE: acl_access
6129DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6130DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 6131LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
6132DOC_START
6133 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 6134 sent to the redirector processes.
b3567eb5
FC
6135
6136 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 6137 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 6138DOC_END
6139
6140NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
6141TYPE: onoff
6142LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
6143DEFAULT: off
6144DOC_START
6145 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
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EB
6146 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off' and the
6147 redirector queue grows too large, the action is prescribed by the
6148 on-persistent-overload option. You should only enable this if the
6149 redirectors are not critical to your caching system. If you use
41bd17a4 6150 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
6151 users may have access to pages they should not
6152 be allowed to request.
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6153
6154 Enabling this option sets the default url_rewrite_children queue-size
6155 option value to 0.
41bd17a4 6156DOC_END
6157
fe7966ec 6158NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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6159TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
6160LOC: Config.redirector_extras
6161DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
6162DOC_START
6163 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
6164 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
6165 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
6166 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
6167 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
6168DOC_END
6169
32fd6d8a 6170NAME: url_rewrite_timeout
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6171TYPE: UrlHelperTimeout
6172LOC: Config.onUrlRewriteTimeout
32fd6d8a
CT
6173DEFAULT: none
6174DEFAULT_DOC: Squid waits for the helper response forever
6175DOC_START
6176 Squid times active requests to redirector. The timeout value and Squid
6177 reaction to a timed out request are configurable using the following
6178 format:
6179
ced8def3 6180 url_rewrite_timeout timeout time-units on_timeout=<action> [response=<quoted-response>]
32fd6d8a
CT
6181
6182 supported timeout actions:
ced8def3 6183 fail Squid return a ERR_GATEWAY_FAILURE error page
32fd6d8a 6184
ced8def3 6185 bypass Do not re-write the URL
32fd6d8a 6186
ced8def3 6187 retry Send the lookup to the helper again
32fd6d8a 6188
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AJ
6189 use_configured_response
6190 Use the <quoted-response> as helper response
32fd6d8a
CT
6191DOC_END
6192
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6193COMMENT_START
6194 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
6195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6196COMMENT_END
6197
6198NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
6199TYPE: wordlist
6200LOC: Config.Program.store_id
6201DEFAULT: none
6202DOC_START
6203 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
6204 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
6205
6206 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
6207
b11724bb 6208 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
a8a0b1c2
EC
6209
6210
6211 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
6212
6213 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
6214
6215 The result code can be:
6216
6217 OK store-id="..."
6218 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
6219
6220 ERR
6221 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
6222
6223 BH
61beade2 6224 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
a8a0b1c2
EC
6225 a result being identified.
6226
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6227 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
6228 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
6229 clt_conn_tag=TAG
6230 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
6231 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
6232 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 6233
b11724bb
CT
6234 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
6235 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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EC
6236
6237 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
6238 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
6239 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
6240 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
6241 of the response relating to its request.
6242
6243 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
6244 returned from the helper and not the URL.
6245
6246 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
6247 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
6248
6249 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
6250DOC_END
6251
fe7966ec 6252NAME: store_id_extras
b11724bb
CT
6253TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
6254LOC: Config.storeId_extras
6255DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
6256DOC_START
6257 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
6258 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
6259 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
6260 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
6261 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
6262DOC_END
6263
a8a0b1c2
EC
6264NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
6265TYPE: HelperChildConfig
6266DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
6267LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
6268DOC_START
79933cd6
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6269 Specifies the maximum number of StoreID helper processes that Squid
6270 may spawn (numberofchildren) and several related options. Using
6271 too few of these helper processes (a.k.a. "helpers") creates request
6272 queues. Using too many helpers wastes your system resources.
6273
6274 Usage: numberofchildren [option]...
9603207d 6275
a8a0b1c2
EC
6276 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6277 tuning.
9603207d 6278
a8a0b1c2 6279 startup=
9603207d 6280
a8a0b1c2
EC
6281 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6282 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6283 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
9603207d 6284
a8a0b1c2
EC
6285 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6286 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
9603207d 6287
a8a0b1c2 6288 idle=
9603207d 6289
a8a0b1c2
EC
6290 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6291 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6292 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6293 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
6294
6295 concurrency=
6296
6297 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
6298 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
6299 is a old-style single threaded program.
6300
6301 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
6302 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
6303 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
6304 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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6305
6306 queue-size=N
6307
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AR
6308 Sets the maximum number of queued requests to N. A request is queued
6309 when no existing child can accept it due to concurrency limit and no
6310 new child can be started due to numberofchildren limit. The default
6311 maximum is 2*numberofchildren. If the queued requests exceed queue
6312 size and redirector_bypass configuration option is set, then
6313 redirector is bypassed. Otherwise, Squid is allowed to temporarily
6314 exceed the configured maximum, marking the affected helper as
6315 "overloaded". If the helper overload lasts more than 3 minutes, the
6316 action prescribed by the on-persistent-overload option applies.
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6317
6318 on-persistent-overload=action
6319
6320 Specifies Squid reaction to a new helper request arriving when the helper
6321 has been overloaded for more that 3 minutes already. The number of queued
6322 requests determines whether the helper is overloaded (see the queue-size
6323 option).
6324
6325 Two actions are supported:
6326
6327 die Squid worker quits. This is the default behavior.
6328
6329 ERR Squid treats the helper request as if it was
6330 immediately submitted, and the helper immediately
6331 replied with an ERR response. This action has no effect
6332 on the already queued and in-progress helper requests.
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6334
6335NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
6336TYPE: acl_access
6337DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6338DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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6339LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
6340DOC_START
6341 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
6342 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
6343 are sent.
6344
6345 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 6346 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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6347DOC_END
6348
6349NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
6350TYPE: onoff
6351LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
6352DEFAULT: on
6353DOC_START
6354 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
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6355 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off' and the helper
6356 queue grows too large, the action is prescribed by the
6357 on-persistent-overload option. You should only enable this if the
6358 helpers are not critical to your caching system. If you use
9603207d 6359 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
a8a0b1c2 6360 option, users may not get objects from cache.
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6362 to 0.
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6363DOC_END
6364
41bd17a4 6365COMMENT_START
6366 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
6367 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6368COMMENT_END
6369
f04b37d8 6370NAME: cache no_cache
6371TYPE: acl_access
6372DEFAULT: none
70706149 6373DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 6374LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 6375DOC_START
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6376 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
6377 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
6378 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 6379
b3567eb5 6380 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 6381 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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6382
6383 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
6384 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
6385 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
6386 and differ in slow ACLs support:
6387
6388 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
6389 No access to reply information!
6390 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
6391 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
6392 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
6393 Has access to reply (hit) information.
6394 Denies serving a hit only.
6395 Supports fast ACLs only.
6396 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
6397 Has access to reply (miss) information.
6398 Denies storing a miss only.
6399 Supports fast ACLs only.
6400
6401 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
6402 following decision logic:
6403
6404 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
6405 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
6406 Otherwise:
6407 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
6408 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
6409 Otherwise:
6410 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
6411 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
6412DOC_END
6413
6414NAME: send_hit
6415TYPE: acl_access
6416DEFAULT: none
6417DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
6418LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
6419DOC_START
6420 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
6421 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
6422 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
6423
6424 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
6425 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
6426
6427 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
7409131e 6428 types. See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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6429
6430 For example:
6431
6432 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
6433 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
6434 store_id_program ...
6435 store_id_access allow MapMe
6436
6437 # but prevent caching of special responses
6438 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
6439 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
6440 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
6441
6442 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
6443 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
6444 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
6445 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
6446DOC_END
6447
6448NAME: store_miss
6449TYPE: acl_access
6450DEFAULT: none
6451DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
6452LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
6453DOC_START
6454 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
6455 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
6456 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
6457
6458 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
6459 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
6460 send_hit directive for a usage example.
6461
6462 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
7409131e 6463 types. See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 6464DOC_END
6465
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6466NAME: max_stale
6467COMMENT: time-units
6468TYPE: time_t
6469LOC: Config.maxStale
6470DEFAULT: 1 week
6471DOC_START
6472 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
6473 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
2f8abb64 6474 Can be overridden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
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6475DOC_END
6476
41bd17a4 6477NAME: refresh_pattern
6478TYPE: refreshpattern
6479LOC: Config.Refresh
6480DEFAULT: none
6481DOC_START
6482 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 6483
6b698a21 6484 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
6485 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 6486
41bd17a4 6487 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
6488 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
6489 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
6490 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
6491 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 6492
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6493 'Percent' is used to compute the max-age value for responses
6494 with a Last-Modified header and no Cache-Control:max-age nor Expires.
6495 Cache-Control:max-age = ( Date - Last-Modified ) * percent
5b807763 6496
41bd17a4 6497 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
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6498 expiry time will be considered fresh. The value is also used
6499 to form Cache-Control: max-age header for a request sent from
6500 Squid to origin/parent.
9e7dbc51 6501
41bd17a4 6502 options: override-expire
6503 override-lastmod
6504 reload-into-ims
6505 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 6506 ignore-no-store
6507 ignore-private
570d3f75 6508 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 6509 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 6510 store-stale
a0ec9f68 6511
41bd17a4 6512 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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6513 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
6514 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
6515 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
6516 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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6518 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
6519 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
6520 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
6521 the object fresh for that period of time.
6522
41bd17a4 6523 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
6524 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 6525
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6526 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
6527 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
6528 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
6529 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
6530 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
6531 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 6532
41bd17a4 6533 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
6534 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6535 this feature could make you liable for problems which
6536 it causes.
9bc73deb 6537
41bd17a4 6538 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
6539 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
6540 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
6541 liable for problems which it causes.
6542
6543 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
6544 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
6545 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
6546 liable for problems which it causes.
6547
41bd17a4 6548 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
6549 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
6550 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
6551 if one is available.
6552
9603207d 6553 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
6554 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
6555 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
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6556 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
6557 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
6558
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6559 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
6560 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
6561 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
6562
41bd17a4 6563 Basically a cached object is:
6564
fb41bbb2 6565 FRESH if expire > now, else STALE
41bd17a4 6566 STALE if age > max
6567 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
6568 FRESH if age < min
6569 else STALE
6570
6571 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
6572 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
6573 match the default will be used.
6574
6575 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
6576 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
6577 used.
6578
47f0eaea 6579CONFIG_START
e0855596 6580
638402dd 6581#
e0855596 6582# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 6583#
41bd17a4 6584refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
89db45fa 6585refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 6586refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
47f0eaea 6587CONFIG_END
41bd17a4 6588DOC_END
6589
6590NAME: quick_abort_min
6591COMMENT: (KB)
6592TYPE: kb_int64_t
6593DEFAULT: 16 KB
6594LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
6595DOC_NONE
6596
6597NAME: quick_abort_max
6598COMMENT: (KB)
6599TYPE: kb_int64_t
6600DEFAULT: 16 KB
6601LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
6602DOC_NONE
6603
6604NAME: quick_abort_pct
6605COMMENT: (percent)
6606TYPE: int
6607DEFAULT: 95
6608LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
6609DOC_START
6610 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
6611 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
6612 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
6613 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
6614 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
6615 downloads.
6616
6617 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 6618 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 6619 then.
6620
6621 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
6622 it will finish the retrieval.
6623
6624 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
6625 it will abort the retrieval.
6626
6627 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
6628 it will finish the retrieval.
6629
6630 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
6631 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
6632 to '0 KB'.
6633
6634 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
6635 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6636DOC_END
60d096f4 6637
41bd17a4 6638NAME: read_ahead_gap
6639COMMENT: buffer-size
6640TYPE: b_int64_t
6641LOC: Config.readAheadGap
6642DEFAULT: 16 KB
6643DOC_START
6644 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
6645 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
6646DOC_END
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41bd17a4 6648NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 6649IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 6650COMMENT: time-units
6651TYPE: time_t
6652LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 6653DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 6654DOC_START
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6655 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
6656 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
6657 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
6658 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
6659 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
6660 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
6661
6662 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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6663
6664 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6665 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6666 causes.
41bd17a4 6667DOC_END
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41bd17a4 6669NAME: positive_dns_ttl
6670COMMENT: time-units
6671TYPE: time_t
6672LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
6673DEFAULT: 6 hours
6674DOC_START
6675 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
6676 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
6677 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
6678DOC_END
c4ab8329 6679
41bd17a4 6680NAME: negative_dns_ttl
6681COMMENT: time-units
6682TYPE: time_t
6683LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
6684DEFAULT: 1 minutes
6685DOC_START
6686 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
6687 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
6688 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
6689 much below 10 seconds.
6690DOC_END
7df0bfd7 6691
41bd17a4 6692NAME: range_offset_limit
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6693COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
6694TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 6695LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 6696DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6697DOC_START
11e3fa1c 6698 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
9603207d 6699
6700 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
6701 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
6702 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
11e3fa1c 6703 the result is NOT cached.
9603207d 6704
41bd17a4 6705 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
6706 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
6707 sending anything to the client.
9603207d 6708
6709 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
6710 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
6711 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
11e3fa1c 6712 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
9603207d 6713
11e3fa1c 6714 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
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6716 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
6717 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
9603207d 6718
11e3fa1c 6719 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 6720 client requested. (default)
9603207d 6721
11e3fa1c 6722 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 6723 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
9603207d 6724
11e3fa1c 6725 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
9603207d 6726
6727 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
11e3fa1c 6728 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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6729 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
6730 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 6731DOC_END
d95b862f 6732
41bd17a4 6733NAME: minimum_expiry_time
6734COMMENT: (seconds)
6735TYPE: time_t
6736LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
6737DEFAULT: 60 seconds
6738DOC_START
6739 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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6740 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
6741 The default is 60 seconds.
6742
6743 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
6744 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
6745 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
6746
6747 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
6748 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 6749DOC_END
c68e9c6b 6750
41bd17a4 6751NAME: store_avg_object_size
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6752COMMENT: (bytes)
6753TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 6754DEFAULT: 13 KB
6755LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
6756DOC_START
6757 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
6758 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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6759
6760 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
6761 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
6762 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
6763 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
6764
6765 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
6766 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 6767DOC_END
6768
41bd17a4 6769NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
6770TYPE: int
6771DEFAULT: 20
6772LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
6773DOC_START
6774 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
6775 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
6776 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
6777DOC_END
6778
6779COMMENT_START
6780 HTTP OPTIONS
6781 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6782COMMENT_END
6783
f04b37d8 6784NAME: request_header_max_size
6785COMMENT: (KB)
6786TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 6787DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 6788LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
6789DOC_START
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6790 This directives limits the header size of a received HTTP request
6791 (including request-line). Increasing this limit beyond its 64 KB default
6792 exposes certain old Squid code to various denial-of-service attacks. This
6793 limit also applies to received FTP commands.
6794
6795 This limit has no direct affect on Squid memory consumption.
6796
6797 Squid does not check this limit when sending requests.
f04b37d8 6798DOC_END
6799
6800NAME: reply_header_max_size
6801COMMENT: (KB)
6802TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 6803DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 6804LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
6805DOC_START
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6806 This directives limits the header size of a received HTTP response
6807 (including status-line). Increasing this limit beyond its 64 KB default
6808 exposes certain old Squid code to various denial-of-service attacks. This
6809 limit also applies to FTP command responses.
6810
6811 Squid also checks this limit when loading hit responses from disk cache.
6812
6813 Squid does not check this limit when sending responses.
f04b37d8 6814DOC_END
6815
6816NAME: request_body_max_size
6817COMMENT: (bytes)
6818TYPE: b_int64_t
6819DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 6820DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 6821LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
6822DOC_START
6823 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
6824 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
6825 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
6826 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
6827 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
6828 be no limit imposed.
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6830 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
6831 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 6832DOC_END
6833
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6834NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
6835COMMENT: (bytes)
6836TYPE: b_size_t
6837DEFAULT: 512 KB
6838LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
6839DOC_START
6840 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
6841 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
6842 a large file.
6843DOC_END
6844
41bd17a4 6845NAME: broken_posts
626096be 6846IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 6847TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 6848DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6849DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 6850LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 6851DOC_START
41bd17a4 6852 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
6853 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 6854
41bd17a4 6855 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
6856 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 6857
41bd17a4 6858 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 6859
41bd17a4 6860 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
6861 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
6862 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
6863 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 6864
b3567eb5 6865 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 6866 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
b3567eb5 6867
41bd17a4 6868Example:
6869 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
6870 broken_posts allow buggy_server
6871DOC_END
cccac0a2 6872
22fff3bf 6873NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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6874COMMENT: on|off
6875TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6876IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 6877DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 6878LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 6879DOC_START
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6880 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
6881 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
6882
6883 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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6884DOC_END
6885
41bd17a4 6886NAME: via
626096be 6887IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 6888COMMENT: on|off
6889TYPE: onoff
6890DEFAULT: on
6891LOC: Config.onoff.via
6892DOC_START
6893 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
6894 replies as required by RFC2616.
6895DOC_END
4cc6eb12 6896
41bd17a4 6897NAME: vary_ignore_expire
6898COMMENT: on|off
6899TYPE: onoff
6900LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
6901DEFAULT: off
6902DOC_START
6903 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
6904 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
6905 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
6906 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
6907 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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6908
6909 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
6910 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 6911DOC_END
c4ab8329 6912
41bd17a4 6913NAME: request_header_access
626096be 6914IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6915TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6916LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6917DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6918DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6919DOC_START
41bd17a4 6920 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 6921
41bd17a4 6922 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6923 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6924 causes.
0976f8db 6925
41bd17a4 6926 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
6927 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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6928 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
6929 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
6930
6931 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
6932 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
6933 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
6934 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
6935 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6936
6937 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
6938 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
6939 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
6940
6941 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
6942 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
6943 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
6944 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
6945
6946 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
6947 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
6948 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
6949 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
6950 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
6951 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 6952
41bd17a4 6953 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
6954 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 6955
41bd17a4 6956 request_header_access From deny all
6957 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 6958 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 6959
41bd17a4 6960 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6961 you should use:
5401aa8d 6962
41bd17a4 6963 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 6964 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 6965 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 6966 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
6967 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
6968 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 6969 request_header_access Host allow all
6970 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 6971 request_header_access Pragma allow all
6972 request_header_access Accept allow all
6973 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
6974 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
6975 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6976 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6977 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 6978
638402dd 6979 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 6980
638402dd 6981 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 6982DOC_END
6983
41bd17a4 6984NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 6985IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6986TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 6987LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 6988DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6989DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 6990DOC_START
41bd17a4 6991 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 6992
41bd17a4 6993 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
6994 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
6995 causes.
934b03fc 6996
41bd17a4 6997 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
6998 server to the client.
934b03fc 6999
41bd17a4 7000 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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7001 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
7002 documentation.
cccac0a2 7003
41bd17a4 7004 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
7005 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 7006
41bd17a4 7007 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 7008 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
7009 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 7010
41bd17a4 7011 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
7012 you should use:
cccac0a2 7013
41bd17a4 7014 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 7015 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 7016 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
7017 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
7018 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
7019 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
7020 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
7021 reply_header_access Date allow all
7022 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 7023 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
7024 reply_header_access Location allow all
7025 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 7026 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 7027 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
7028 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 7029 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 7030 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 7031 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 7032
638402dd 7033 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 7034
41bd17a4 7035 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
7036 performed).
cccac0a2 7037DOC_END
7038
75e4f2ea 7039NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 7040IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 7041TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 7042LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 7043DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 7044DOC_START
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7045 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
7046 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 7047
41bd17a4 7048 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 7049 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 7050 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 7051
41bd17a4 7052 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 7053
41bd17a4 7054 By default, headers are removed if denied.
7055DOC_END
cccac0a2 7056
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7057NAME: reply_header_replace
7058IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 7059TYPE: http_header_replace
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7060LOC: Config.reply_header_access
7061DEFAULT: none
7062DOC_START
7063 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
7064 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
7065
7066 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
7067 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
7068 with some fixed string.
7069
7070 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
7071
7072 By default, headers are removed if denied.
7073DOC_END
7074
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7075NAME: request_header_add
7076TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
7077LOC: Config.request_header_add
7078DEFAULT: none
7079DOC_START
cde8f31b 7080 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value [ acl ... ]
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7081 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
7082
7083 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
7084 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
7085 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
7086 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
7087 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
7088
7089 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
7090 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
7091 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
7092 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
7093 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
7094 header field values are not merged.
7095
7096 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
7097 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
7098 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
7099
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7100 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
7101 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
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7102 ACLs in the ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion to
7103 happen. The request_header_add supports fast ACLs only.
7104
7105 See also: reply_header_add.
7106DOC_END
7107
7108NAME: reply_header_add
7109TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
7110LOC: Config.reply_header_add
7111DEFAULT: none
7112DOC_START
7113 Usage: reply_header_add field-name field-value [ acl ... ]
7114 Example: reply_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
7115
7116 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP responses (i.e., response
7117 headers delivered by Squid to the client). This option has no effect on
7118 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in
7119 ICAP terminology is post-cache RESPMOD. This option does not apply to
7120 successful CONNECT replies.
7121
7122 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
7123 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
7124 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
7125 HTTP rules. If the response to be modified already contains a
7126 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
7127 header field values are not merged.
7128
7129 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
7130 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
7131 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
7132
7133 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
7134 injection to matching responses. As always in squid.conf, all
7135 ACLs in the ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion to
7136 happen. The reply_header_add option supports fast ACLs only.
7137
7138 See also: request_header_add.
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7139DOC_END
7140
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7141NAME: note
7142TYPE: note
7143LOC: Config.notes
7144DEFAULT: none
7145DOC_START
7146 This option used to log custom information about the master
7147 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
7148 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
7149 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
7150 authentication information.
7151 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
7152
7153 note key value acl ...
7154 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
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7155
7156 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 7157 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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7158DOC_END
7159
41bd17a4 7160NAME: relaxed_header_parser
7161COMMENT: on|off|warn
7162TYPE: tristate
7163LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
7164DEFAULT: on
7165DOC_START
7166 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
7167 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
7168 what the sending application intended even if the message
7169 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
7170 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 7171
41bd17a4 7172 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
7173 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 7174
41bd17a4 7175 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
7176 or response to be rejected.
7177DOC_END
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7179NAME: collapsed_forwarding
7180COMMENT: (on|off)
7181TYPE: onoff
7182LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
7183DEFAULT: off
7184DOC_START
7185 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
7186 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
7187 whether the response is going to be cachable.
7188
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7189 When enabled, instead of forwarding each concurrent request for
7190 the same URL, Squid just sends the first of them. The other, so
7191 called "collapsed" requests, wait for the response to the first
7192 request and, if it happens to be cachable, use that response.
7193 Here, "concurrent requests" means "received after the first
7194 request headers were parsed and before the corresponding response
7195 headers were parsed".
7196
7197 This feature is disabled by default: enabling collapsed
7198 forwarding needlessly delays forwarding requests that look
7199 cachable (when they are collapsed) but then need to be forwarded
7200 individually anyway because they end up being for uncachable
7201 content. However, in some cases, such as acceleration of highly
7202 cachable content with periodic or grouped expiration times, the
7203 gains from collapsing [large volumes of simultaneous refresh
7204 requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
7205
7206 Squid collapses two kinds of requests: regular client requests
7207 received on one of the listening ports and internal "cache
7208 revalidation" requests which are triggered by those regular
7209 requests hitting a stale cached object. Revalidation collapsing
7210 is currently disabled for Squid instances containing SMP-aware
7211 disk or memory caches and for Vary-controlled cached objects.
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7212DOC_END
7213
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7214NAME: collapsed_forwarding_access
7215TYPE: acl_access
7216DEFAULT: none
7217DEFAULT_DOC: Requests may be collapsed if collapsed_forwarding is on.
7218LOC: Config.accessList.collapsedForwardingAccess
7219DOC_START
7220 Use this directive to restrict collapsed forwarding to a subset of
7221 eligible requests. The directive is checked for regular HTTP
7222 requests, internal revalidation requests, and HTCP/ICP requests.
7223
7224 collapsed_forwarding_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7225
7226 This directive cannot force collapsing. It has no effect on
7227 collapsing unless collapsed_forwarding is 'on', and all other
7228 collapsing preconditions are satisfied.
7229
7230 * A denied request will not collapse, and future transactions will
7231 not collapse on it (even if they are allowed to collapse).
7232
7233 * An allowed request may collapse, or future transactions may
7234 collapse on it (provided they are allowed to collapse).
7235
7236 This directive is evaluated before receiving HTTP response headers
7237 and without access to Squid-to-peer connection (if any).
7238
7239 Only fast ACLs are supported.
7240
7241 See also: collapsed_forwarding.
7242DOC_END
7243
daed75a9 7244NAME: shared_transient_entries_limit collapsed_forwarding_shared_entries_limit
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7245COMMENT: (number of entries)
7246TYPE: int64_t
daed75a9 7247LOC: Config.shared_transient_entries_limit
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7248DEFAULT: 16384
7249DOC_START
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7250 This directive limits the size of a table used for sharing current
7251 transaction information among SMP workers. A table entry stores meta
7252 information about a single cache entry being delivered to Squid
7253 client(s) by one or more SMP workers. A single table entry consumes
7254 less than 128 shared memory bytes.
8f7dbf74 7255
daed75a9
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7256 The limit should be significantly larger than the number of
7257 concurrent non-collapsed cachable responses leaving Squid. For a
7258 cache that handles less than 5000 concurrent requests, the default
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7259 setting of 16384 should be plenty.
7260
daed75a9
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7261 Using excessively large values wastes shared memory. Limiting the
7262 table size too much results in hash collisions, leading to lower hit
7263 ratio and missed SMP request collapsing opportunities: Transactions
7264 left without a table entry cannot cache their responses and are
7265 invisible to other concurrent requests for the same resource.
7266
7267 A zero limit is allowed but unsupported. A positive small limit
7268 lowers hit ratio, but zero limit disables a lot of essential
7269 synchronization among SMP workers, leading to HTTP violations (e.g.,
7270 stale hit responses). It also disables shared collapsed forwarding:
7271 A worker becomes unable to collapse its requests on transactions in
7272 other workers, resulting in more trips to the origin server and more
7273 cache thrashing.
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7274DOC_END
7275
41bd17a4 7276COMMENT_START
7277 TIMEOUTS
7278 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7279COMMENT_END
7280
7281NAME: forward_timeout
7282COMMENT: time-units
7283TYPE: time_t
7284LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
7285DEFAULT: 4 minutes
7286DOC_START
7287 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
7288 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 7289DOC_END
7290
41bd17a4 7291NAME: connect_timeout
7292COMMENT: time-units
7293TYPE: time_t
7294LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
7295DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 7296DOC_START
41bd17a4 7297 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7298 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
7299 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 7300DOC_END
7301
41bd17a4 7302NAME: peer_connect_timeout
7303COMMENT: time-units
7304TYPE: time_t
7305LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
7306DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 7307DOC_START
41bd17a4 7308 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
7309 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
7310 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
7311 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
7312DOC_END
7f7db318 7313
41bd17a4 7314NAME: read_timeout
7315COMMENT: time-units
7316TYPE: time_t
7317LOC: Config.Timeout.read
7318DEFAULT: 15 minutes
7319DOC_START
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7320 Applied on peer server connections.
7321
7322 After each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
41bd17a4 7323 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
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7324 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT.
7325
7326 The default is 15 minutes.
41bd17a4 7327DOC_END
cccac0a2 7328
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7329NAME: write_timeout
7330COMMENT: time-units
7331TYPE: time_t
7332LOC: Config.Timeout.write
7333DEFAULT: 15 minutes
7334DOC_START
7335 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
7336 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
7337 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
7338 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
7339 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
7340 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
7341 default is 15 minutes.
7342DOC_END
7343
41bd17a4 7344NAME: request_timeout
7345TYPE: time_t
7346LOC: Config.Timeout.request
7347DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7348DOC_START
6b2a2108 7349 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 7350 connection establishment.
7351DOC_END
cccac0a2 7352
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7353NAME: request_start_timeout
7354TYPE: time_t
7355LOC: Config.Timeout.request_start_timeout
7356DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7357DOC_START
7358 How long to wait for the first request byte after initial
7359 connection establishment.
7360DOC_END
7361
97b32442 7362NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 7363TYPE: time_t
97b32442 7364LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 7365DEFAULT: 2 minutes
7366DOC_START
7367 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 7368 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 7369DOC_END
cccac0a2 7370
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7371NAME: ftp_client_idle_timeout
7372TYPE: time_t
7373LOC: Config.Timeout.ftpClientIdle
7374DEFAULT: 30 minutes
7375DOC_START
7376 How long to wait for an FTP request on a connection to Squid ftp_port.
7377 Many FTP clients do not deal with idle connection closures well,
7378 necessitating a longer default timeout than client_idle_pconn_timeout
7379 used for incoming HTTP requests.
7380DOC_END
7381
41bd17a4 7382NAME: client_lifetime
7383COMMENT: time-units
7384TYPE: time_t
7385LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
7386DEFAULT: 1 day
7387DOC_START
7388 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
7389 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
7390 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
7391 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
7392 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
7393 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
7394 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 7395
41bd17a4 7396 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
7397 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
7398 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
7399 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
7400 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
7401 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 7402DOC_END
7403
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7404NAME: pconn_lifetime
7405COMMENT: time-units
7406TYPE: time_t
7407LOC: Config.Timeout.pconnLifetime
7408DEFAULT: 0 seconds
7409DOC_START
7410 Desired maximum lifetime of a persistent connection.
7411 When set, Squid will close a now-idle persistent connection that
7412 exceeded configured lifetime instead of moving the connection into
7413 the idle connection pool (or equivalent). No effect on ongoing/active
7414 transactions. Connection lifetime is the time period from the
7415 connection acceptance or opening time until "now".
9603207d 7416
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7417 This limit is useful in environments with long-lived connections
7418 where Squid configuration or environmental factors change during a
7419 single connection lifetime. If unrestricted, some connections may
7420 last for hours and even days, ignoring those changes that should
7421 have affected their behavior or their existence.
9603207d 7422
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7423 Currently, a new lifetime value supplied via Squid reconfiguration
7424 has no effect on already idle connections unless they become busy.
9603207d 7425
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7426 When set to '0' this limit is not used.
7427DOC_END
7428
41bd17a4 7429NAME: half_closed_clients
7430TYPE: onoff
7431LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 7432DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 7433DOC_START
41bd17a4 7434 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
7435 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
7436 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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7437 fully-closed TCP connection.
7438
7439 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
7440 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
7441
abdf1651 7442 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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7443 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
7444 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
7445 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 7446DOC_END
7447
97b32442 7448NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 7449TYPE: time_t
97b32442 7450LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 7451DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 7452DOC_START
41bd17a4 7453 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
7454 proxies.
7455DOC_END
cccac0a2 7456
41bd17a4 7457NAME: ident_timeout
7458TYPE: time_t
7459IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 7460LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 7461DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7462DOC_START
7463 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 7464
41bd17a4 7465 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7466 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
7467 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 7468DOC_END
7469
41bd17a4 7470NAME: shutdown_lifetime
7471COMMENT: time-units
7472TYPE: time_t
7473LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
7474DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 7475DOC_START
41bd17a4 7476 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
7477 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
7478 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
7479 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
7480 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 7481DOC_END
0976f8db 7482
cccac0a2 7483COMMENT_START
7484 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
7485 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7486COMMENT_END
7487
7488NAME: cache_mgr
7489TYPE: string
7490DEFAULT: webmaster
7491LOC: Config.adminEmail
7492DOC_START
7493 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 7494 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 7495DOC_END
7496
abacf776 7497NAME: mail_from
7498TYPE: string
7499DEFAULT: none
7500LOC: Config.EmailFrom
7501DOC_START
7502 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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7503 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
7504
7505 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 7506DOC_END
7507
d084bf20 7508NAME: mail_program
7509TYPE: eol
7510DEFAULT: mail
7511LOC: Config.EmailProgram
7512DOC_START
7513 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 7514 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 7515 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 7516 mail-program recipient < mailfile
7517
d084bf20 7518 Optional command line options can be specified.
7519DOC_END
7520
cccac0a2 7521NAME: cache_effective_user
7522TYPE: string
5483d916 7523DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 7524LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 7525DOC_START
7526 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
7527 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 7528 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 7529 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 7530DOC_END
7531
cccac0a2 7532NAME: cache_effective_group
7533TYPE: string
7534DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7535DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 7536LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
7537DOC_START
64e288bd 7538 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
7539 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
7540 from the groups membership.
7541
e3d74828 7542 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
7543 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
7544 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 7545 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 7546 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 7547 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 7548 group.
64e288bd 7549
7550 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
7551 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
7552 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 7553DOC_END
7554
d3caee79 7555NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
7556COMMENT: on|off
7557TYPE: onoff
7558DEFAULT: off
7559LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
7560DOC_START
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7561 Do not send Squid version string in HTTP metadata and generated content
7562 such as HTML error pages. Squid version string is still present in certain
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7563 SNMP responses, HTTP(S) Server response header field,
7564 various console output, and cache.log.
d3caee79 7565DOC_END
7566
cccac0a2 7567NAME: visible_hostname
7568TYPE: string
7569LOC: Config.visibleHostname
7570DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7571DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 7572DOC_START
7573 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 7574 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 7575 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
7576 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
7577 names with this setting.
7578DOC_END
7579
cccac0a2 7580NAME: unique_hostname
7581TYPE: string
7582LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
7583DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7584DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 7585DOC_START
7586 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 7587 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
7588 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 7589DOC_END
7590
cccac0a2 7591NAME: hostname_aliases
7592TYPE: wordlist
7593LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
7594DEFAULT: none
7595DOC_START
7f7db318 7596 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 7597DOC_END
0976f8db 7598
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7599NAME: umask
7600TYPE: int
7601LOC: Config.umask
7602DEFAULT: 027
7603DOC_START
7604 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
7605 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
7606
7607 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
7608 your value with 0.
7609DOC_END
7610
8d6275c0 7611COMMENT_START
7612 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
7613 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7614COMMENT_END
7615
cccac0a2 7616NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 7617TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 7618DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7619DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 7620LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 7621DOC_START
7622 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
7623 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
7624 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
7625 an identification token.
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7626
7627 When the surrogate is a reverse-proxy, this ID is also
7628 used as cdn-id for CDN-Loop detection (RFC 8586).
cccac0a2 7629DOC_END
7630
7631NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 7632COMMENT: on|off
7633TYPE: onoff
7634DEFAULT: off
7635LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
7636DOC_START
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7637 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
7638 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
7639
cccac0a2 7640 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
7641DOC_END
7642
7643NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 7644IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
799b66d1 7645COMMENT: libxml2|expat
cccac0a2 7646TYPE: string
7647LOC: ESIParser::Type
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7648DEFAULT: auto
7649DEFAULT_DOC: Selects libxml2 if available at ./configure time or libexpat otherwise.
cccac0a2 7650DOC_START
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7651 Selects the XML parsing library to use when interpreting responses with
7652 Edge Side Includes.
7653
7654 To disable ESI handling completely, ./configure Squid with --disable-esi.
cccac0a2 7655DOC_END
0976f8db 7656
9edd9041 7657COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 7658 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 7659 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7660COMMENT_END
7661
7662NAME: delay_pools
7663TYPE: delay_pool_count
7664DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 7665IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7666LOC: Config.Delay
7667DOC_START
7668 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
7669 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
7670 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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7671
7672 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
7673 configuration details.
9edd9041 7674DOC_END
7675
7676NAME: delay_class
7677TYPE: delay_pool_class
7678DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7679IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7680LOC: Config.Delay
7681DOC_START
7682 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
7683 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
7684 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
7685 and here would be:
7686
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7687 Example:
7688 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
7689 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
7690 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
7691 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
7692 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 7693
7694 The delay pool classes are:
7695
7696 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7697 bucket.
7698
7699 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7700 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 7701 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 7702
7703 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
7704 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
7705 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
7706 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 7707 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 7708
7709 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
7710 additional limit on a per user basis. This
7711 only takes effect if the username is established
7712 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
7713 http_access rules.
7714
7715 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
7716 external_acl's tag= reply).
7717
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7718
7719 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
7720 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
7721 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
7722
9edd9041 7723 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
7724 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
7725 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
7726 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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7727
7728 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
7729 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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7730
7731 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 7732 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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7733
7734 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 7735DOC_END
7736
7737NAME: delay_access
7738TYPE: delay_pool_access
7739DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7740DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 7741IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7742LOC: Config.Delay
7743DOC_START
7744 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
7745
7746 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
7747 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
7748 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
7749 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
7750
7751 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
7752 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
7753
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7754 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
7755 delay_access 1 deny all
7756 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
7757 delay_access 2 deny all
7758 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
7759
7760 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
7761
9edd9041 7762DOC_END
7763
7764NAME: delay_parameters
7765TYPE: delay_pool_rates
7766DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7767IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7768LOC: Config.Delay
7769DOC_START
7770 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
7771 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 7772 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 7773
0b68481a 7774 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6e7502cc 7775 delay_class pool 1
0b68481a 7776 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 7777
7778 For a class 2 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7779 delay_class pool 2
0b68481a 7780 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 7781
7782 For a class 3 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7783 delay_class pool 3
0b68481a 7784 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 7785
7786 For a class 4 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7787 delay_class pool 4
0b68481a 7788 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 7789
7790 For a class 5 delay pool:
6e7502cc 7791 delay_class pool 5
0b68481a 7792 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 7793
0b68481a 7794 The option variables are:
9edd9041 7795
7796 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
7797 number specified in delay_pools as used in
7798 delay_class lines.
7799
fdb47ac6 7800 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 7801 (class 1, 2, 3).
7802
fdb47ac6 7803 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 7804 buckets (class 2, 3).
7805
fdb47ac6 7806 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 7807 (class 3).
7808
fdb47ac6 7809 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 7810 (class 4).
7811
fdb47ac6 7812 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 7813 (class 5).
7814
7815 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
7816 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
7817 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
7818 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
7819
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7820 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
7821
7822
9edd9041 7823 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 7824 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 7825 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
7826
6e7502cc 7827 delay_parameters 1 none 8000/8000
0b68481a 7828
c3e31a3a 7829 Note that 8 x 8K Byte/sec -> 64K bit/sec.
9edd9041 7830
6e7502cc 7831 Note that the word 'none' is used to represent no limit.
9edd9041 7832
0b68481a 7833
9edd9041 7834 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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7835 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
7836 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
7837 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 7838 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
7839 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
7840 large downloads more significantly:
7841
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7842 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
7843
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7844 Note that 8 x 32K Byte/sec -> 256K bit/sec.
7845 8 x 8K Byte/sec -> 64K bit/sec.
7846 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800 bit/sec.
9edd9041 7847
9edd9041 7848
7849 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 7850 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 7851
0b68481a 7852 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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7853
7854
7855 See also delay_class and delay_access.
7856
9edd9041 7857DOC_END
7858
7859NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
7860COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 7861TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 7862DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 7863IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 7864LOC: Config.Delay.initial
7865DOC_START
7866 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
7867 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
7868 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
7869 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
7870 "seen" by squid).
7871DOC_END
7872
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7873COMMENT_START
7874 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
7875 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7876COMMENT_END
7877
7878NAME: client_delay_pools
7879TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
7880DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 7881IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7882LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7883DOC_START
7884 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
7885 preceed other client_delay_* options.
7886
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7887 Example:
7888 client_delay_pools 2
7889
7890 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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7891DOC_END
7892
7893NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
7894COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 7895TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 7896DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 7897IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7898LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
7899DOC_START
7900 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
7901 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
7902 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
7903 buckets are periodically deleted up.
7904
7905 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
7906 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
7907 from client_delay_parameters.
7908
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7909 Example:
7910 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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7911DOC_END
7912
7913NAME: client_delay_parameters
7914TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
7915DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 7916IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7917LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7918DOC_START
7919
7920 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
7921 following format:
7922
7923 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
7924
7925 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
7926
7927 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
7928
7929 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
7930 speed_limit additions.
7931
7932 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
7933 examples.
7934
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7935 Example:
7936 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
7937 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
7938
7939 See also client_delay_access.
7940
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7941DOC_END
7942
7943NAME: client_delay_access
7944TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
7945DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7946DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 7947IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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7948LOC: Config.ClientDelay
7949DOC_START
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7950 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
7951 request:
7952
7953 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
7954
7955 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
7956 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
7957 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
7958 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
7959 limited.
7960
7961 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
7962 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
7963 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
7964 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
7965
638402dd 7966 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 7967 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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7968 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
7969 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
7970
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7971 Please see delay_access for more examples.
7972
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7973 Example:
7974 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
7975 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
7976
7977
7978 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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7979DOC_END
7980
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7981NAME: response_delay_pool
7982TYPE: response_delay_pool_parameters
7983DEFAULT: none
7984IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
7985LOC: Config.MessageDelay
7986DOC_START
7987 This option configures client response bandwidth limits using the
7988 following format:
7989
7990 response_delay_pool name [option=value] ...
7991
7992 name the response delay pool name
7993
7994 available options:
7995
7996 individual-restore The speed limit of an individual
7997 bucket(bytes/s). To be used in conjunction
7998 with 'individual-maximum'.
7999
8000 individual-maximum The maximum number of bytes which can
8001 be placed into the individual bucket. To be used
8002 in conjunction with 'individual-restore'.
8003
8004 aggregate-restore The speed limit for the aggregate
8005 bucket(bytes/s). To be used in conjunction with
8006 'aggregate-maximum'.
8007
8008 aggregate-maximum The maximum number of bytes which can
8009 be placed into the aggregate bucket. To be used
8010 in conjunction with 'aggregate-restore'.
8011
8012 initial-bucket-level The initial bucket size as a percentage
8013 of individual-maximum.
8014
8015 Individual and(or) aggregate bucket options may not be specified,
8016 meaning no individual and(or) aggregate speed limitation.
8017 See also response_delay_pool_access and delay_parameters for
8018 terminology details.
8019DOC_END
8020
8021NAME: response_delay_pool_access
8022TYPE: response_delay_pool_access
8023DEFAULT: none
8024DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
8025IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
8026LOC: Config.MessageDelay
8027DOC_START
8028 Determines whether a specific named response delay pool is used
8029 for the transaction. The syntax for this directive is:
8030
8031 response_delay_pool_access pool_name allow|deny acl_name
8032
8033 All response_delay_pool_access options are checked in the order
8034 they appear in this configuration file. The first rule with a
8035 matching ACL wins. If (and only if) an "allow" rule won, Squid
8036 assigns the response to the corresponding named delay pool.
8037DOC_END
8038
cccac0a2 8039COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 8040 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 8041 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8042COMMENT_END
8043
8d6275c0 8044NAME: wccp_router
8045TYPE: address
8046LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 8047DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 8048DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 8049IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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8050DOC_START
8051 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
8052 Squid.
8053
8054 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
8055
8056 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
8057
8058 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
8059 which version of WCCP to use.
8060DOC_END
df2eec10 8061
8d6275c0 8062NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 8063TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 8064LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 8065DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8066DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 8067IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 8068DOC_START
8d6275c0 8069 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
8070 Squid.
cccac0a2 8071
8d6275c0 8072 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 8073
8d6275c0 8074 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 8075
8d6275c0 8076 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
8077 which version of WCCP to use.
8078DOC_END
8079
8080NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 8081TYPE: int
8d6275c0 8082LOC: Config.Wccp.version
8083DEFAULT: 4
8084IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 8085DOC_START
8d6275c0 8086 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
8087 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
8088 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
8089 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
8090 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 8091
8d6275c0 8092 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
8093 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
8094 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
8095 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 8096DOC_END
8097
8d6275c0 8098NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
8099TYPE: onoff
8100LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
8101DEFAULT: on
8102IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
8103DOC_START
8104 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
8105 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
8106DOC_END
cccac0a2 8107
8d6275c0 8108NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 8109TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 8110LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 8111DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 8112IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 8113DOC_START
699acd19 8114 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 8115 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 8116
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8117 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
8118 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 8119
8d6275c0 8120 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
8121 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 8122DOC_END
8123
8d6275c0 8124NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 8125TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 8126LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 8127DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 8128IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 8129DOC_START
699acd19 8130 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 8131 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
8132 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 8133
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8134 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
8135 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 8136
8d6275c0 8137 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
8138 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 8139
699acd19 8140 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 8141 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
8142 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
8143 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 8144DOC_END
8145
8d6275c0 8146NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 8147TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 8148LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 8149DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 8150IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 8151DOC_START
8d6275c0 8152 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
8153 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 8154
451c4786 8155 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 8156 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 8157
8d6275c0 8158 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
8159 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
8160DOC_END
cccac0a2 8161
8d6275c0 8162NAME: wccp2_service
8163TYPE: wccp2_service
8164LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 8165DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 8166DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 8167IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
8168DOC_START
8169 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
8170 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
8171 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
8172 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
8173 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
8174 using the wccp2_service_info option.
8175
8176 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
8177 just specifying the service id will suffice.
8178
8179 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
8180 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
8181
8182 Examples:
8183
8184 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
8185 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
8186 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
8187 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 8188DOC_END
8189
8190NAME: wccp2_service_info
8191TYPE: wccp2_service_info
8192LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8193DEFAULT: none
8194IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
8195DOC_START
8196 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
8197 traffic you wish to have diverted.
8198
8199 The format is:
8200
8201 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
8202 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
8203
8204 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
8205 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 8206 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 8207 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
8208 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
8209 + ports_source
8210
8211 The port list can be one to eight entries.
8212
8213 Example:
8214
8215 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
8216 priority=240 ports=80
8217
8218 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
8219 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
8220DOC_END
8221
8222NAME: wccp2_weight
8223TYPE: int
8224LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
8225DEFAULT: 10000
8226IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
8227DOC_START
8228 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
8229 hash proportional to their weight.
8230DOC_END
8231
8232NAME: wccp_address
8233TYPE: address
8234LOC: Config.Wccp.address
8235DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 8236DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 8237IFDEF: USE_WCCP
638402dd 8238DOC_START
dfd5ce0a 8239 Use this option if you require WCCP(v1) to use a specific
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8240 interface address.
8241
8242 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
8243DOC_END
df2eec10 8244
8d6275c0 8245NAME: wccp2_address
8246TYPE: address
8247LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
8248DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 8249DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 8250IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
8251DOC_START
dfd5ce0a 8252 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
8d6275c0 8253 interface address.
8254
8255 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
8256DOC_END
8257
8258COMMENT_START
8259 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
8260 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8261
8262 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
8263COMMENT_END
8264
8265NAME: client_persistent_connections
8266TYPE: onoff
8267LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
8268DEFAULT: on
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8269DOC_START
8270 Persistent connection support for clients.
8271 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
8272 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
8273DOC_END
8d6275c0 8274
8275NAME: server_persistent_connections
8276TYPE: onoff
8277LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
8278DEFAULT: on
8279DOC_START
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8280 Persistent connection support for servers.
8281 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
8282 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 8283DOC_END
8284
8285NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
8286TYPE: onoff
8287LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 8288DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 8289DOC_START
8290 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
8291 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
8292 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
8293DOC_END
8294
8295NAME: detect_broken_pconn
8296TYPE: onoff
8297LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
8298DEFAULT: off
8299DOC_START
8300 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
8301 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
8302 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
8303 has mostly been seen on redirects.
8304
8305 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
8306 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
8307 after 10 seconds timeout.
8308DOC_END
8309
8310COMMENT_START
8311 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
8312 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8313COMMENT_END
8314
8315NAME: digest_generation
8316IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8317TYPE: onoff
8318LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
8319DEFAULT: on
8320DOC_START
8321 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
8322 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 8323 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 8324DOC_END
8325
8326NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
8327IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8328TYPE: int
8329LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
8330DEFAULT: 5
8331DOC_START
8332 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
8333 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
8334 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
8335DOC_END
8336
8337NAME: digest_rebuild_period
8338IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8339COMMENT: (seconds)
8340TYPE: time_t
8341LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
8342DEFAULT: 1 hour
8343DOC_START
749ceff8 8344 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 8345DOC_END
8346
8347NAME: digest_rewrite_period
8348COMMENT: (seconds)
8349IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8350TYPE: time_t
8351LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
8352DEFAULT: 1 hour
8353DOC_START
749ceff8 8354 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 8355 disk.
8356DOC_END
8357
8358NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
8359COMMENT: (bytes)
8360TYPE: b_size_t
8361IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8362LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
8363DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
8364DOC_START
8365 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
8366 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
8367 default swap page.
8368DOC_END
8369
8370NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
8371COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
8372IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
8373TYPE: int
8374LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
8375DEFAULT: 10
8376DOC_START
8377 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
8378 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
8379DOC_END
8380
1db9eacd 8381COMMENT_START
5473c134 8382 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 8383 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8384COMMENT_END
8385
5473c134 8386NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 8387TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8388LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 8389DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8390DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 8391IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 8392DOC_START
87630341 8393 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
8394 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
8395 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
8396 set to "0" (disabled)
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8397
8398 Example:
8399 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 8400DOC_END
8401
5473c134 8402NAME: snmp_access
8403TYPE: acl_access
8404LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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8405DEFAULT: none
8406DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 8407IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 8408DOC_START
5473c134 8409 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 8410
5473c134 8411 All access to the agent is denied by default.
8412 usage:
8d6275c0 8413
5473c134 8414 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 8415
b3567eb5 8416 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 8417 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 8418
5473c134 8419Example:
8420 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
8421 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 8422DOC_END
8423
5473c134 8424NAME: snmp_incoming_address
8425TYPE: address
8426LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 8427DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 8428DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 8429IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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8430DOC_START
8431 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
8432
8433 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
8434 messages from SNMP agents.
8435
8436 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
8437 available network interfaces.
8438DOC_END
df2eec10 8439
5473c134 8440NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
8441TYPE: address
8442LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 8443DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 8444DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 8445IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 8446DOC_START
638402dd 8447 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 8448
5473c134 8449 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
8450 agents.
cccac0a2 8451
0eb08770
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8452 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
8453 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
8454 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
8455 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 8456
5473c134 8457 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 8458 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 8459DOC_END
8460
5473c134 8461COMMENT_START
8462 ICP OPTIONS
8463 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8464COMMENT_END
8465
8466NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 8467TYPE: u_short
5473c134 8468DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8469DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 8470LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 8471DOC_START
5473c134 8472 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
8473 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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8474
8475 Example:
8476 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 8477DOC_END
8478
5473c134 8479NAME: htcp_port
8480IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 8481TYPE: u_short
87630341 8482DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8483DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 8484LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 8485DOC_START
5473c134 8486 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 8487 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 8488 4827.
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8489
8490 Example:
8491 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 8492DOC_END
8493
8494NAME: log_icp_queries
8495COMMENT: on|off
8496TYPE: onoff
8497DEFAULT: on
8498LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
8499DOC_START
8500 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
8501 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
8502 up or to simplify log analysis.
8503DOC_END
8504
5473c134 8505NAME: udp_incoming_address
8506TYPE: address
8507LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 8508DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 8509DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 8510DOC_START
8511 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
8512 caches.
8513
8514 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
8515
8516 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
8517 a specific interface/address.
8518
8519 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
8520 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
8521
8522 see also; udp_outgoing_address
8523
8524 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8525 have the same value since they both use the same port.
8526DOC_END
cccac0a2 8527
5473c134 8528NAME: udp_outgoing_address
8529TYPE: address
8530LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 8531DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 8532DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 8533DOC_START
8524d4b2 8534 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 8535 caches.
cccac0a2 8536
5473c134 8537 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 8538
8524d4b2 8539 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
8540 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
8541 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 8542 caches.
8543
8524d4b2 8544 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
8545 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
8546
8547 see also; udp_incoming_address
8548
5473c134 8549 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 8550 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 8551DOC_END
8552
3d1e3e43 8553NAME: icp_hit_stale
8554COMMENT: on|off
8555TYPE: onoff
8556DEFAULT: off
8557LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
8558DOC_START
8559 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
8560 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
8561 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
8562 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
8563 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
8564 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
8565 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
8566DOC_END
8567
5473c134 8568NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 8569TYPE: int
5473c134 8570DEFAULT: 4
8571LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 8572DOC_START
5473c134 8573 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
8574 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 8575DOC_END
8576
5473c134 8577NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 8578COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 8579TYPE: int
8580DEFAULT: 400
8581LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 8582DOC_START
5473c134 8583 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
8584 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 8585DOC_END
8586
cccac0a2 8587NAME: netdb_low
8588TYPE: int
8589DEFAULT: 900
8590LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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8591DOC_START
8592 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
8593
8594 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
8595
8596 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
8597 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
8598 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
8599 mark is reached.
8600DOC_END
cccac0a2 8601
8602NAME: netdb_high
8603TYPE: int
8604DEFAULT: 1000
8605LOC: Config.Netdb.high
8606DOC_START
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8607 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
8608
8609 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
8610
8611 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
8612 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
8613 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
8614 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 8615DOC_END
8616
cccac0a2 8617NAME: netdb_ping_period
8618TYPE: time_t
8619LOC: Config.Netdb.period
8620DEFAULT: 5 minutes
8621DOC_START
8622 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
8623 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
8624 network. The default is five minutes.
8625DOC_END
8626
cccac0a2 8627NAME: query_icmp
8628COMMENT: on|off
8629TYPE: onoff
8630DEFAULT: off
8631LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
8632DOC_START
8633 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
8634 replies, enable this option.
8635
8636 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 8637 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
8638 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 8639 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
8640 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
8641 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
8642 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
8643 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
8644DOC_END
8645
8646NAME: test_reachability
8647COMMENT: on|off
8648TYPE: onoff
8649DEFAULT: off
8650LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
8651DOC_START
8652 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
8653 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
8654 database, or has a zero RTT.
8655DOC_END
8656
5473c134 8657NAME: icp_query_timeout
8658COMMENT: (msec)
8659DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8660DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 8661TYPE: int
8662LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 8663DOC_START
5473c134 8664 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
8665 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
8666 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
8667 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
8668 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
8669 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 8670
5473c134 8671 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 8672DOC_END
8673
5473c134 8674NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
8675COMMENT: (msec)
8676DEFAULT: 2000
8677TYPE: int
8678LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 8679DOC_START
5473c134 8680 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
8681 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
8682 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
8683 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
8684 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
8685 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 8686DOC_END
8687
5473c134 8688NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
8689COMMENT: (msec)
8690DEFAULT: 5
8691TYPE: int
8692LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 8693DOC_START
5473c134 8694 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
8695 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
8696 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
8697 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
8698 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
8699 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
8700 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 8701DOC_END
8702
5473c134 8703NAME: background_ping_rate
8704COMMENT: time-units
8705TYPE: time_t
8706DEFAULT: 10 seconds
8707LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 8708DOC_START
5473c134 8709 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
8710 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 8711DOC_END
8712
5473c134 8713COMMENT_START
8714 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
8715 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8716COMMENT_END
8717
8718NAME: mcast_groups
8719TYPE: wordlist
8720LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 8721DEFAULT: none
8722DOC_START
5473c134 8723 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
8724 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 8725
5473c134 8726 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
8727 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
8728 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
8729 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
8730 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
8731 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
8732 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 8733
5473c134 8734 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
8735 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 8736
5473c134 8737 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
8738 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 8739
5473c134 8740 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 8741
5473c134 8742 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
8743DOC_END
8c01ada0 8744
5473c134 8745NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
8746COMMENT: (msec)
8747DEFAULT: 2000
8748TYPE: int
8749LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
8750DOC_START
8751 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
8752 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
8753 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
8754 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
8755 seconds.
cccac0a2 8756DOC_END
8757
5473c134 8758COMMENT_START
8759 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
8760 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8761COMMENT_END
8762
cccac0a2 8763NAME: icon_directory
8764TYPE: string
8765LOC: Config.icons.directory
8766DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
8767DOC_START
8768 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
8769 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
8770DOC_END
8771
f024c970 8772NAME: global_internal_static
8773TYPE: onoff
8774LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
8775DEFAULT: on
8776DOC_START
8777 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
8778 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
8779 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
8780 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
8781 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
8782 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
8783 the server generating a directory listing.
8784DOC_END
8785
5473c134 8786NAME: short_icon_urls
8787TYPE: onoff
8788LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
8789DEFAULT: on
8790DOC_START
8791 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
8792 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
8793 it's own name and port in the URL.
8794
8795 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
8796 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
8797DOC_END
8798
8799COMMENT_START
8800 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
8801 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8802COMMENT_END
8803
8804NAME: error_directory
8805TYPE: string
8806LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 8807DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8808DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 8809DOC_START
8810 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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8811 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
8812 the error/template files to another directory and point
8813 this tag at them.
8814
8815 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
8816 on error pages if used.
5473c134 8817
8818 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
8819 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 8820 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 8821 contributing your translation back to the project.
7409131e 8822 https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
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8823
8824 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
8825 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
8826DOC_END
8827
8828NAME: error_default_language
8829IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
8830TYPE: string
8831LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
8832DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8833DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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8834DOC_START
8835 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
8836 if no existing translation matches the clients language
8837 preferences.
8838
8839 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
8840
8841 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
8842 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
8843 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7409131e 8844 https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 8845DOC_END
8846
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8847NAME: error_log_languages
8848IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
8849TYPE: onoff
8850LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
8851DEFAULT: on
8852DOC_START
8853 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
8854 auto-negotiate for translations.
8855
8856 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
8857 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 8858 of its error page translations.
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8859DOC_END
8860
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8861NAME: err_page_stylesheet
8862TYPE: string
8863LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
8864DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
8865DOC_START
8866 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
8867
8868 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
8869DOC_END
8870
5473c134 8871NAME: err_html_text
8872TYPE: eol
8873LOC: Config.errHtmlText
8874DEFAULT: none
8875DOC_START
8876 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
8877 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
8878 organizations Web page.
8879
8880 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
8881 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
8882 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
8883 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
8884DOC_END
8885
8886NAME: email_err_data
8887COMMENT: on|off
8888TYPE: onoff
8889LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
8890DEFAULT: on
8891DOC_START
8892 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
8893 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
8894 so that the email body contains the data.
8895 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
8896DOC_END
8897
8898NAME: deny_info
8899TYPE: denyinfo
8900LOC: Config.denyInfoList
8901DEFAULT: none
8902DOC_START
8903 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
8904 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 8905 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 8906
8907 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
8908 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
8909 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
8910 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
8911
8912 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
8913 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
8914 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
8915 the first authentication related acl encountered
8916 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
8917 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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8918 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
8919 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 8920
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8921 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
8922 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
8923 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 8924
2f8abb64 8925 By default Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
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8926 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
8927 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
8928
5473c134 8929 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
8930 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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8931
8932 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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8933 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
8934 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
8935 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
8936 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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8937
8938 URL FORMAT TAGS:
8939 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
ea35939b 8940 %A - Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to
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8941 %B - FTP path URL
8942 %e - Error number
8943 %E - Error description
8944 %h - Squid hostname
8945 %H - Request domain name
8946 %i - Client IP Address
8947 %M - Request Method
05dbf66c 8948 %O - Unescaped message result from external ACL helper
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8949 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
8950 %p - Request Port number
8951 %P - Request Protocol name
8952 %R - Request URL path
8953 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
8954 %U - Full canonical URL from client
8955 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
8956 %u - Full canonical URL from client
8957 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 8958 %x - Error name
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8959 %% - Literal percent (%) code
8960
5473c134 8961DOC_END
8962
8963COMMENT_START
9603207d 8964 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
5473c134 8965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8966COMMENT_END
8967
8968NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 8969TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8970LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 8971DEFAULT: on
8972DOC_START
5473c134 8973 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
9967aef6 8974 (not cacheable request type) direct to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 8975
638402dd 8976 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 8977 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 8978
5473c134 8979 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
8980 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
8981 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 8982
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8983 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
8984 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
8985 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 8986DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 8987
5473c134 8988NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 8989TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8990LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 8991DEFAULT: off
8992DOC_START
5473c134 8993 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
8994 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
8995 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 8996
5473c134 8997 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
8998 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
8999 fails.
9000
9001 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
9002 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
9003 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 9004DOC_END
9005
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9006NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
9007COMMENT: on|off
9008TYPE: onoff
9009DEFAULT: on
9010LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
9011DOC_START
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9012 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
9013 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
9014 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
9015 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
9016
9017 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
9018 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
9019 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
9020 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
9021 non-conditional GETs.
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9022
9023 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
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9024 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
9025 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
96598f93
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9026
9027 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
9028 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
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9029 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
9030 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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9031DOC_END
9032
5473c134 9033NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 9034TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 9035LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 9036DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9037DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 9038DOC_START
5473c134 9039 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 9040
5473c134 9041 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
9042 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
9043 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
9044 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
9045 something like:
0b0cfcf2 9046
5473c134 9047 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
9048 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 9049
5473c134 9050 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 9051
5473c134 9052 acl FTP proto FTP
9053 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 9054
5473c134 9055 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
9056 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
9057 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
9058 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
9059 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 9060
5473c134 9061 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
9062 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
9063 always_direct deny local-external
9064 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 9065
5473c134 9066 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
9067 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
9068 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
9069 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 9070
5473c134 9071 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
9072 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 9073 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 9074
b3567eb5 9075 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 9076 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 9077DOC_END
0976f8db 9078
5473c134 9079NAME: never_direct
9080TYPE: acl_access
9081LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
9082DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9083DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 9084DOC_START
5473c134 9085 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
9086
9087 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
9088 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
9089
9090 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
9091 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
9092 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
9093 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
9094
9095 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 9096 never_direct deny local-servers
9097 never_direct allow all
9098
9099 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
9100 servers inside the firewall use something like:
9101
9102 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
9103 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
9104 always_direct deny local-external
9105 always_direct allow local-intranet
9106 never_direct allow all
9107
b3567eb5 9108 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7409131e 9109 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 9110DOC_END
0976f8db 9111
5473c134 9112COMMENT_START
9113 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
9114 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9115COMMENT_END
9116
65d448bc 9117NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 9118TYPE: int
9119DEFAULT: 6
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9120LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
9121DOC_START
9122 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
9123 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
9124 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
9125DOC_END
cccac0a2 9126
65d448bc 9127NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 9128TYPE: int
9129DEFAULT: 4
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9130LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
9131DOC_START
9132 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
9133 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
9134 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
9135DOC_END
cccac0a2 9136
9137NAME: incoming_dns_average
9138TYPE: int
9139DEFAULT: 4
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9140LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
9141DOC_START
9142 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
9143 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
9144 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
9145DOC_END
cccac0a2 9146
65d448bc 9147NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 9148TYPE: int
9149DEFAULT: 8
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9150LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
9151DOC_START
9152 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
9153 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
9154 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
9155DOC_END
cccac0a2 9156
9157NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
9158TYPE: int
9159DEFAULT: 8
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9160LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
9161DOC_START
9162 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
9163 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
9164 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
9165DOC_END
cccac0a2 9166
65d448bc 9167NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 9168TYPE: int
9169DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 9170LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 9171DOC_START
5473c134 9172 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
9173 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
9174 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
9175DOC_END
9176
9177NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 9178TYPE: string
9179DEFAULT: none
9180LOC: Config.accept_filter
9181DOC_START
0b4d4be5 9182 FreeBSD:
9183
5473c134 9184 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
9185 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
9186 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
9187
9188 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 9189 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 9190 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
9191
9192 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
9193 to Squid until there is some data to process.
9194 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
9195
9196 Linux:
9603207d 9197
0b4d4be5 9198 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
9199 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
9200 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
9201 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
9202 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 9203EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 9204# FreeBSD
5473c134 9205accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 9206# Linux
9207accept_filter data
5473c134 9208DOC_END
9209
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9210NAME: client_ip_max_connections
9211TYPE: int
9212LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
9213DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 9214DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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9215DOC_START
9216 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
9217 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
9218 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
9219
6ea12e8f 9220 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, and FTP
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9221 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
9222
9223 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
9224
2f8abb64 9225 WARNING: This may noticeably slow down traffic received via external proxies
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9226 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
9227DOC_END
9228
5473c134 9229NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
9230COMMENT: (bytes)
9231TYPE: b_size_t
9232DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 9233DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 9234LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
9235DOC_START
9236 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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9237 as easy to change your kernel's default.
9238 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 9239DOC_END
9240
9241COMMENT_START
9242 ICAP OPTIONS
9243 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9244COMMENT_END
9245
9246NAME: icap_enable
9247TYPE: onoff
9248IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9249COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9250LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 9251DEFAULT: off
9252DOC_START
53e738c6 9253 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 9254DOC_END
9255
9256NAME: icap_connect_timeout
9257TYPE: time_t
9258DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 9259LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 9260IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9261DOC_START
9262 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
9263 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
9264 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
9265
9266 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
9267 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
9268 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
9269DOC_END
9270
9271NAME: icap_io_timeout
9272COMMENT: time-units
9273TYPE: time_t
9274DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9275DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 9276LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 9277IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9278DOC_START
9279 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
9280 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
9281 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
9282 failure.
5473c134 9283DOC_END
9284
9285NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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9287TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 9288IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 9289LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 9290DEFAULT: 10
9291DOC_START
9292 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
9293 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
9294 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
9295 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 9296 OPTIONS.
5473c134 9297
9298 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
9299 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
9300 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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9301
9302 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
9603207d 9303 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
9304 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
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9305 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
9306 value into ten time slots of equal length.
9307
9603207d 9308 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
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9309 effect on service failure expiration.
9310
9311 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
9312 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
9313 setting.
9314
9315 For example,
9316 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
9317 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 9318DOC_END
9319
5473c134 9320NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 9321TYPE: int
5473c134 9322IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9323LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 9324DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 9325DOC_START
5473c134 9326 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
9327 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
9328 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
9329 fetched.
cccac0a2 9330
5473c134 9331 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
9332 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 9333DOC_END
9334
5473c134 9335NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 9336TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9337IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9338COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9339LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 9340DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 9341DOC_START
ac7a62f9 9342 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
9343 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
9603207d 9344 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
ac7a62f9 9345 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
9346
9347 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
9348 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
9349 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
9350
9351 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
9352 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
9353Example:
9354icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 9355DOC_END
9356
5473c134 9357NAME: icap_preview_size
9358TYPE: int
9359IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9360LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 9361DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 9362DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 9363DOC_START
53e738c6 9364 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 9365 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 9366DOC_END
9367
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9368NAME: icap_206_enable
9369TYPE: onoff
9370IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9371COMMENT: on|off
9372LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
9373DEFAULT: on
9374DOC_START
9375 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
9376 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
9377 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
9378 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
9379
9380 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
9381 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
2f8abb64 9382 negotiation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
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9383 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
9384 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
9385
9386 Example:
9387 icap_206_enable off
9388DOC_END
9389
5473c134 9390NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
9391TYPE: int
9392IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9393LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 9394DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 9395DOC_START
53e738c6 9396 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 9397 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 9398DOC_END
9399
5473c134 9400NAME: icap_persistent_connections
9401TYPE: onoff
9402IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9403COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9404LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 9405DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 9406DOC_START
5473c134 9407 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
9408 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 9409DOC_END
9410
22fff3bf 9411NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 9412TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 9413IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 9414COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 9415LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 9416DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 9417DOC_START
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9418 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
9419 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
9420 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
9421
9422 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 9423DOC_END
9424
22fff3bf 9425NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 9426TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 9427IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 9428COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 9429LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 9430DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 9431DOC_START
5473c134 9432 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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9433 the adaptation service.
9434
9435 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 9436 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
9437 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 9438DOC_END
9439
5473c134 9440NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 9441TYPE: string
5473c134 9442IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9443LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 9444DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 9445DOC_START
db49f682 9446 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 9447DOC_END
9448
5473c134 9449NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 9450TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9451IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9452COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 9453LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 9454DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 9455DOC_START
5473c134 9456 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 9457DOC_END
9458
5473c134 9459NAME: icap_service
9460TYPE: icap_service_type
9461IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 9462LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 9463DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9464DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9465 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 9466
c25c2836 9467 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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9469 id: ID
9470 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
9471 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
9472 services in squid.conf.
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9473
9474 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 9475 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
9476 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
9477 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 9478
c25c2836 9479 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3 9480 ICAP server and service location.
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9481 icaps://servername:port/servicepath
9482 The "icap:" URI scheme is used for traditional ICAP server and
9483 service location (default port is 1344, connections are not
9484 encrypted). The "icaps:" URI scheme is for Secure ICAP
9485 services that use SSL/TLS-encrypted ICAP connections (by
9486 default, on port 11344).
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9487
9488 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
9489 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
9490 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
9491 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
9492 service_names differ.
9493
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9494 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
9495 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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9496
9497 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
9498 the following name=value options:
9499
9500 bypass=on|off|1|0
9501 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
9502 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
9503 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
9504 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
9505 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
9506 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
9507 returned to the HTTP client.
9508
9509 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
9510
9511 routing=on|off|1|0
9512 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
9513 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
9514 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
9515 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
9516 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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9517 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
9518 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
9519 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
9520
9521 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
9522 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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9523
9524 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
9525 response header is ignored.
9526
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9527 ipv6=on|off
9528 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
9529 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
9530 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
9531
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9532 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
9533 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
9534 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
9535 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
9536 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
9537 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
9603207d 9538 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
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9539
9540 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
9541 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
9542 workers may use a given service.
9543
9544 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
9545 otherwise it is set to "wait".
9603207d 9546
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9547
9548 max-conn=number
9549 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
9550 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
9551
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9552 connection-encryption=on|off
9553 Determines the ICAP service effect on the connections_encrypted
9554 ACL.
9555
9556 The default is "on" for Secure ICAP services (i.e., those
9557 with the icaps:// service URIs scheme) and "off" for plain ICAP
9558 services.
9559
9560 Does not affect ICAP connections (e.g., does not turn Secure
9561 ICAP on or off).
9562
4dd2c9d6 9563 ==== ICAPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
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9564
9565 These options are used for Secure ICAP (icaps://....) services only.
9566
4dd2c9d6 9567 tls-cert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
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9568 A client X.509 certificate to use when connecting to
9569 this ICAP server.
1b091aec 9570
4dd2c9d6 9571 tls-key=/path/to/ssl/key
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9572 The private key corresponding to the previous
9573 tls-cert= option.
9574
9575 If tls-key= is not specified tls-cert= is assumed to
9576 reference a PEM file containing both the certificate
9577 and private key.
1b091aec 9578
4dd2c9d6 9579 tls-cipher=... The list of valid TLS/SSL ciphers to use when connecting
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9580 to this icap server.
9581
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9582 tls-min-version=1.N
9583 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3f5b28fe 9584 SSLv3 use the tls-options= parameter.
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9585 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
9586
4dd2c9d6 9587 tls-options=... Specify various OpenSSL library options:
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9588
9589 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
4dd2c9d6 9590
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9591 SINGLE_DH_USE
9592 Always create a new key when using
9593 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
4dd2c9d6 9594
1b091aec 9595 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
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9596 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
9597 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
9598 strength to some attacks.
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9599
9600 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
4dd2c9d6
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9601 more complete list. Options relevant only to SSLv2 are
9602 not supported.
1b091aec 9603
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9604 tls-cafile= PEM file containing CA certificates to use when verifying
9605 the icap server certificate.
9606 Use to specify intermediate CA certificate(s) if not sent
9607 by the server. Or the full CA chain for the server when
435c72b0 9608 using the tls-default-ca=off flag.
86a84cc0 9609 May be repeated to load multiple files.
1b091aec 9610
4dd2c9d6 9611 tls-capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
1b091aec 9612 use when verifying the icap server certificate.
86a84cc0 9613 Requires OpenSSL or LibreSSL.
1b091aec 9614
4dd2c9d6 9615 tls-crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
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9616 verifying the icap server certificate.
9617
4dd2c9d6 9618 tls-flags=... Specify various flags modifying the Squid TLS implementation:
1b091aec
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9619
9620 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
9621 Accept certificates even if they fail to
9622 verify.
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9623 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
9624 Don't verify the icap server certificate
9625 matches the server name
9626
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9627 tls-default-ca[=off]
9628 Whether to use the system Trusted CAs. Default is ON.
8b253b83 9629
4dd2c9d6 9630 tls-domain= The icap server name as advertised in it's certificate.
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9631 Used for verifying the correctness of the received icap
9632 server certificate. If not specified the icap server
9633 hostname extracted from ICAP URI will be used.
9634
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9635 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
9636 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 9637
5473c134 9638Example:
c25c2836 9639icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
1b091aec 9640icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icaps://icap2.mydomain.net:11344/reqmod routing=on
cccac0a2 9641DOC_END
9642
5473c134 9643NAME: icap_class
9644TYPE: icap_class_type
9645IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 9646LOC: none
5473c134 9647DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9648DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9649 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
62c7f90e 9650 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
9603207d 9651 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 9652
62c7f90e 9653 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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9654 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
9655 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 9656DOC_END
9657
5473c134 9658NAME: icap_access
9659TYPE: icap_access_type
9660IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 9661LOC: none
cccac0a2 9662DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 9663DOC_START
a22e6cd3 9664 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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9665 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
9666 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 9667DOC_END
9668
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9669COMMENT_START
9670 eCAP OPTIONS
9671 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9672COMMENT_END
9673
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9674NAME: ecap_enable
9675TYPE: onoff
9676IFDEF: USE_ECAP
9677COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 9678LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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9679DEFAULT: off
9680DOC_START
9681 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
9682DOC_END
9683
9684NAME: ecap_service
9685TYPE: ecap_service_type
9686IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 9687LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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9688DEFAULT: none
9689DOC_START
9690 Defines a single eCAP service
9691
c25c2836 9692 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 9693
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9694 id: ID
9695 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
9696 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
9697 services in squid.conf.
9698
9699 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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9700 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
9701 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
9702 are not yet supported.
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9703
9704 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
9705 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
9706 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
9707 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
9708 the service provider.
9709
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9710 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
9711 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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9712
9713 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
9714 the following name=value options:
9715
9716 bypass=on|off|1|0
9717 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
9718 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
9719 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 9720 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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9721 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
9722 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 9723 HTTP client.
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9724
9725 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
9726
9727 routing=on|off|1|0
9728 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
9729 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
9730 returning a chain of services to be used next.
9731
9732 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
9733 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
9734
9735 Routing is not allowed by default.
9736
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9737 connection-encryption=on|off
9738 Determines the eCAP service effect on the connections_encrypted
9603207d 9739 ACL.
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9740
9741 Defaults to "on", which does not taint the master transaction
9742 w.r.t. that ACL.
9743
9744 Does not affect eCAP API calls.
9745
c25c2836
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9746 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
9747 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
9748
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9749
9750Example:
c25c2836
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9751ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
9752ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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9753DOC_END
9754
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9755NAME: loadable_modules
9756TYPE: wordlist
9757IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
9758LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
9759DEFAULT: none
9760DOC_START
9761 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
9762 preloaded module(s).
9763Example:
9764loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
9765DOC_END
9766
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9767COMMENT_START
9768 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
9769 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9770COMMENT_END
9771
9772NAME: adaptation_service_set
9773TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
9774IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9775LOC: none
9776DEFAULT: none
9777DOC_START
9778
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9779 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
9780 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
9781
9782 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
9783
9784 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
9785 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
9786 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
9787 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
9788 intact.
62c7f90e 9789
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9790 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
9791 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 9792
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9793 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
9794 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
9795
9796 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
9797 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
9798 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
9799 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
9800 transaction fails as well.
9801
9802 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
9803 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
9804 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
9805 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
9806 matters.
9807
9808 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
62c7f90e
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9809
9810Example:
9811adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
9812adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
9813DOC_END
9814
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9815NAME: adaptation_service_chain
9816TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
9817IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9818LOC: none
9819DEFAULT: none
9820DOC_START
9821
9822 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
9823 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
9824 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
9825
9826 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
9827
9828 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
9829 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
9830 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
9831 the previous service in the chain.
9832
9833 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
9834 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
9835
9836 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
9837 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
9838 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
9839
9840 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
9841 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
9842
9843 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
9844 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
9845 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
9846 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
9847
9848 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
9849
9850Example:
9851adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
9852DOC_END
9853
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9854NAME: adaptation_access
9855TYPE: adaptation_access_type
9856IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9857LOC: none
9858DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9859DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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9860DOC_START
9861 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
9862
9863 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
9864 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
9865
9866 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
9867 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
9868 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
9869 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
9870
9871 - services serving different vectoring points
9872 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
9873 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
9874 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
9875
9876 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
9877 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
9878 adaptation_service_set for details.
9879
9880 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
9881 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
9882 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
9883 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
9884
9885 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
9886 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
9887
9888 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
9889
9890Example:
9891adaptation_access service_1 allow all
9892DOC_END
9893
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9894NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
9895TYPE: int
9896IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9897LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
9898DEFAULT: 16
9899DOC_START
9900 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
9901 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
9902 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
9903 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
9904 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
9905 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
9906
9907 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
9908
9909 See also: icap_service routing=1
9910DOC_END
9911
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9912NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
9913TYPE: string
9914IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9915LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
9916DEFAULT: none
9917DOC_START
9918 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
9919 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
9920 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
9921 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
9922 with the master transaction.
9923
9924 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
9925 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
9926
9603207d 9927 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
9928 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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9929 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
9930
9931 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
9932 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
9933 to provide an option with a name specified in
9934 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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9935
9936 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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9937 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
9938
9939 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
9940
9941Example:
9942# share authentication information among ICAP services
9943adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
9944DOC_END
9945
71be37e0 9946NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 9947TYPE: note
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9948IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
9949LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
9950DEFAULT: none
9951DOC_START
9952 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
9953 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
9954 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
9955 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
9603207d 9956
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9957 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
9958 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
9603207d 9959
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9960 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
9961 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
9603207d 9962 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
71be37e0 9963 example:
9603207d 9964
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9965 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
9966 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
9603207d 9967
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9968 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
9969 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
9603207d 9970
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9971 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
9972 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
9603207d 9973
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9974 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
9975 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
9976 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
9977 and double quotes. For example,
9978 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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9979
9980 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
9981 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
9982 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
9983 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
9984 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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9985DOC_END
9986
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9987NAME: icap_retry
9988TYPE: acl_access
9989IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
9990LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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9991DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9992DOC_START
9993 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
9994 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
9995 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
9996 that response are usually retriable.
9997
9998 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
9999
10000 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
10001 due to persistent connection race conditions.
10002
10003 See also: icap_retry_limit
10004DOC_END
10005
10006NAME: icap_retry_limit
10007TYPE: int
10008IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
10009LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
10010DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10011DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 10012DOC_START
638402dd 10013 Limits the number of retries allowed.
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10014
10015 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
10016 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
10017 count against this limit.
10018
10019 See also: icap_retry
10020DOC_END
10021
10022
5473c134 10023COMMENT_START
10024 DNS OPTIONS
10025 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
10026COMMENT_END
10027
10028NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 10029TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 10030DEFAULT: off
5473c134 10031LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 10032DOC_START
5473c134 10033 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
10034 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
10035 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 10036DOC_END
10037
5473c134 10038NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 10039TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 10040DEFAULT: on
5473c134 10041LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 10042DOC_START
5473c134 10043 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
10044 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
10045 Squid to be strict about the standard.
10046 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 10047DOC_END
10048
5473c134 10049NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 10050TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 10051DEFAULT: 5 seconds
10052LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 10053DOC_START
5473c134 10054 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
10055 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 10056DOC_END
10057
5473c134 10058NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 10059TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 10060DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 10061LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 10062DOC_START
5473c134 10063 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
10064 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
10065 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 10066DOC_END
10067
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10068NAME: dns_packet_max
10069TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 10070DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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10071DEFAULT: none
10072LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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10073DOC_START
10074 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
10075 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
9603207d 10076
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10077 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
10078 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
10079 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
10080 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
10081 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
9603207d 10082
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10083 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
10084 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
10085 necessary.
9603207d 10086
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10087 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
10088 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
10089 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
10090 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
10091 sizes being advertised by Squid.
10092 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
10093 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
10094DOC_END
10095
5473c134 10096NAME: dns_defnames
10097COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 10098TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 10099DEFAULT: off
638402dd 10100DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 10101LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 10102DOC_START
5473c134 10103 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
10104 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
10105 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
10106 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 10107DOC_END
10108
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10109NAME: dns_multicast_local
10110COMMENT: on|off
10111TYPE: onoff
10112DEFAULT: off
10113DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
10114LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
10115DOC_START
10116 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
10117 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
10118 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
10119 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
10120DOC_END
10121
5473c134 10122NAME: dns_nameservers
5a1098fb 10123TYPE: SBufList
5473c134 10124DEFAULT: none
638402dd 10125DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5a1098fb 10126LOC: Config.dns.nameservers
cccac0a2 10127DOC_START
5473c134 10128 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
10129 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
10130 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 10131
5473c134 10132 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
10133 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
10134 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
10135 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 10136
5473c134 10137 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 10138DOC_END
10139
5473c134 10140NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 10141TYPE: string
5473c134 10142DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
10143LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 10144DOC_START
5473c134 10145 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
10146 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
10147 default locations:
10148 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
10149 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
10150 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
10151 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
10152 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
10153 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
10154 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
10155 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 10156
5473c134 10157 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
10158 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
10159 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
10160 character are comments.
cccac0a2 10161
5473c134 10162 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
10163 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
10164 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
10165 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
10166 definitions.
cccac0a2 10167DOC_END
10168
5473c134 10169NAME: append_domain
10170TYPE: string
10171LOC: Config.appendDomain
10172DEFAULT: none
638402dd 10173DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 10174DOC_START
5473c134 10175 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
10176 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
10177
10178 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
10179 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
10180 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
10181
10182Example:
10183 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 10184DOC_END
10185
5473c134 10186NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
10187TYPE: onoff
10188LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 10189DEFAULT: on
10190DOC_START
5473c134 10191 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
10192 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
10193 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
10194 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
10195 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 10196DOC_END
10197
6bc15a4f 10198NAME: ipcache_size
10199COMMENT: (number of entries)
10200TYPE: int
10201DEFAULT: 1024
10202LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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10203DOC_START
10204 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
10205DOC_END
6bc15a4f 10206
10207NAME: ipcache_low
10208COMMENT: (percent)
10209TYPE: int
10210DEFAULT: 90
10211LOC: Config.ipcache.low
10212DOC_NONE
10213
10214NAME: ipcache_high
10215COMMENT: (percent)
10216TYPE: int
10217DEFAULT: 95
10218LOC: Config.ipcache.high
10219DOC_START
10220 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
10221DOC_END
10222
10223NAME: fqdncache_size
10224COMMENT: (number of entries)
10225TYPE: int
10226DEFAULT: 1024
10227LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
10228DOC_START
10229 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
10230DOC_END
10231
a58ff010 10232COMMENT_START
5473c134 10233 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 10234 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
10235COMMENT_END
10236
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10237NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
10238COMMENT: on|off
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10239TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
10240DEFAULT: off
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10241LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
10242DOC_START
10243 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
10244 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
10245 parameter value is interpreted or used.
10246 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
10247 section for more details.
10248DOC_END
10249
5473c134 10250NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 10251COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 10252TYPE: onoff
10253DEFAULT: on
10254LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 10255DOC_START
5473c134 10256 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
10257 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
10258 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
10259 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 10260DOC_END
10261
5473c134 10262NAME: memory_pools_limit
10263COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 10264TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 10265DEFAULT: 5 MB
10266LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 10267DOC_START
5473c134 10268 Used only with memory_pools on:
10269 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 10270
5473c134 10271 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
10272 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
10273 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
10274 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
10275 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
10276 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
10277 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 10278
89646bd7 10279 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 10280 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 10281
5473c134 10282 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 10283 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 10284
10285 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
10286 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
10287 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
10288 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 10289DOC_END
10290
5473c134 10291NAME: forwarded_for
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10292COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
10293TYPE: string
5473c134 10294DEFAULT: on
10295LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 10296DOC_START
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10297 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
10298 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 10299
5473c134 10300 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
10301
67c06f0d 10302 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 10303
10304 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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10305
10306 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
10307 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
10308
10309 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
10310 X-Forwarded-For header.
10311
10312 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 10313 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 10314DOC_END
10315
5473c134 10316NAME: cachemgr_passwd
10317TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
10318DEFAULT: none
638402dd 10319DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 10320LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 10321DOC_START
5473c134 10322 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 10323
5473c134 10324 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
10325
10326 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
10327 5min
10328 60min
10329 asndb
10330 authenticator
10331 cbdata
10332 client_list
10333 comm_incoming
10334 config *
10335 counters
10336 delay
10337 digest_stats
10338 dns
10339 events
10340 filedescriptors
10341 fqdncache
10342 histograms
10343 http_headers
10344 info
10345 io
10346 ipcache
10347 mem
10348 menu
10349 netdb
5473c134 10350 objects
10351 offline_toggle *
10352 pconn
10353 peer_select
b360c477 10354 reconfigure *
5473c134 10355 redirector
10356 refresh
10357 server_list
10358 shutdown *
10359 store_digest
10360 storedir
10361 utilization
10362 via_headers
10363 vm_objects
10364
10365 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
10366 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
10367
10368 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
10369 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
10370 password to "none".
10371
10372 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
10373
10374Example:
10375 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
10376 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
10377 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 10378DOC_END
10379
5473c134 10380NAME: client_db
a58ff010 10381COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 10382TYPE: onoff
10383DEFAULT: on
10384LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 10385DOC_START
5473c134 10386 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
10387 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 10388DOC_END
10389
5473c134 10390NAME: refresh_all_ims
10391COMMENT: on|off
10392TYPE: onoff
10393DEFAULT: off
10394LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 10395DOC_START
5473c134 10396 When you enable this option, squid will always check
10397 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
10398 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
10399 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
10400 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 10401
5473c134 10402 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
10403 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 10404DOC_END
10405
5473c134 10406NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 10407IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 10408COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 10409TYPE: onoff
10410DEFAULT: off
10411LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 10412DOC_START
5473c134 10413 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
10414 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
10415 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
10416 feature could make you liable for problems which it
10417 causes.
10418
10419 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 10420DOC_END
10421
31ef19cd 10422NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 10423TYPE: int
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10424LOC: Config.connect_retries
10425DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10426DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 10427DOC_START
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10428 Limits the number of reopening attempts when establishing a single
10429 TCP connection. All these attempts must still complete before the
10430 applicable connection opening timeout expires.
10431
10432 By default and when connect_retries is set to zero, Squid does not
10433 retry failed connection opening attempts.
31ef19cd 10434
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10435 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries. An attempt to configure a
10436 higher value results in the value of 10 being used (with a warning).
5473c134 10437
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10438 Squid may open connections to retry various high-level forwarding
10439 failures. For an outside observer, that activity may look like a
10440 low-level connection reopening attempt, but those high-level retries
10441 are governed by forward_max_tries instead.
5473c134 10442
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10443 See also: connect_timeout, forward_timeout, icap_connect_timeout,
10444 ident_timeout, and forward_max_tries.
a58ff010 10445DOC_END
10446
5473c134 10447NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 10448TYPE: onoff
5473c134 10449LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 10450DEFAULT: off
10451DOC_START
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10452 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
10453 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
10454 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
10455 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
9603207d 10456
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10457 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
10458 work around access control errors.
9603207d 10459
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10460 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
10461 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 10462DOC_END
10463
5473c134 10464NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 10465TYPE: string
5473c134 10466LOC: Config.as_whois_server
10467DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 10468DOC_START
5473c134 10469 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
10470 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 10471DOC_END
10472
5473c134 10473NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 10474TYPE: onoff
5473c134 10475LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 10476DEFAULT: off
10477DOC_START
5473c134 10478 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
10479 objects.
a58ff010 10480DOC_END
10481
5473c134 10482NAME: uri_whitespace
10483TYPE: uri_whitespace
10484LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
10485DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 10486DOC_START
5473c134 10487 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
10488 URI. Options:
a58ff010 10489
5473c134 10490 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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10491 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
10492 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
10493 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
10494
5473c134 10495 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
10496 Request" message.
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10497 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
10498 handling of HTTP request URL.
10499
5473c134 10500 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
10501 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
10502 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
10503 are in use.
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10504 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
10505 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
10506 URL field.
10507
5473c134 10508 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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10509 encoded according to RFC1738.
10510
5473c134 10511 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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10512 first whitespace.
10513
10514
10515 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
10516 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 10517DOC_END
a58ff010 10518
5473c134 10519NAME: chroot
10520TYPE: string
10521LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 10522DEFAULT: none
10523DOC_START
9f37c18a 10524 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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10525 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
10526 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
10527 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
10528 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 10529DOC_END
a58ff010 10530
5473c134 10531NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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10532TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
10533LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
10534DEFAULT: 0
10535DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 10536DOC_START
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10537 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
10538 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
10539 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
10540 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
10541 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
10542 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 10543
079a8480 10544 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 10545 reasons.
a0e23afd 10546
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10547 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
10548
a0e23afd 10549 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 10550DOC_END
a58ff010 10551
5473c134 10552NAME: high_response_time_warning
10553TYPE: int
10554COMMENT: (msec)
10555LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
10556DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10557DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 10558DOC_START
10559 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
10560 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
10561 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 10562DOC_END
10563
5473c134 10564NAME: high_page_fault_warning
10565TYPE: int
10566LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
10567DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 10568DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 10569DOC_START
5473c134 10570 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
10571 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
10572 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
10573 per second.
10574DOC_END
cc9f92d4 10575
5473c134 10576NAME: high_memory_warning
10577TYPE: b_size_t
10578LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 10579IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 10580DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 10581DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 10582DOC_START
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10583 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
10584 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 10585 the administrators attention.
10586DOC_END
4bf2a476 10587# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 10588
5473c134 10589NAME: sleep_after_fork
10590COMMENT: (microseconds)
10591TYPE: int
10592LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
10593DEFAULT: 0
10594DOC_START
10595 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
10596 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
10597 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
10598 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
10599 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
10600 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
10601 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
10602 until all the child processes have been started.
cc9f92d4 10603DOC_END
10604
b6696974 10605NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 10606IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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10607COMMENT: on|off
10608TYPE: onoff
10609DEFAULT: on
10610LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
10611DOC_START
9603207d 10612 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
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10613 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
10614 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
10615 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
10616 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
10617 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
10618DOC_END
10619
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10620NAME: eui_lookup
10621TYPE: onoff
10622IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
10623DEFAULT: on
10624LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
10625DOC_START
10626 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
10627DOC_END
10628
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10629NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
10630TYPE: int
10631DEFAULT: 0
cfab2c11 10632DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system soft limit set by ulimit.
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10633LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
10634DOC_START
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10635 Set the maximum number of filedescriptors, either below the
10636 operating system default or up to the hard limit.
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10638 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit soft
10639 limit setting.
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10640
10641 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 10642 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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10643DOC_END
10644
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10645NAME: force_request_body_continuation
10646TYPE: acl_access
10647LOC: Config.accessList.forceRequestBodyContinuation
10648DEFAULT: none
10649DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
10650DOC_START
10651 This option controls how Squid handles data upload requests from HTTP
10652 and FTP agents that require a "Please Continue" control message response
10653 to actually send the request body to Squid. It is mostly useful in
10654 adaptation environments.
9603207d 10655
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10656 When Squid receives an HTTP request with an "Expect: 100-continue"
10657 header or an FTP upload command (e.g., STOR), Squid normally sends the
10658 request headers or FTP command information to an adaptation service (or
10659 peer) and waits for a response. Most adaptation services (and some
10660 broken peers) may not respond to Squid at that stage because they may
10661 decide to wait for the HTTP request body or FTP data transfer. However,
10662 that request body or data transfer may never come because Squid has not
10663 responded with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150 (Please Continue) control message
10664 to the request sender yet!
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10666 An allow match tells Squid to respond with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150
10667 (Please Continue) control message on its own, before forwarding the
10668 request to an adaptation service or peer. Such a response usually forces
10669 the request sender to proceed with sending the body. A deny match tells
10670 Squid to delay that control response until the origin server confirms
10671 that the request body is needed. Delaying is the default behavior.
10672DOC_END
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10673
10674NAME: http_upgrade_request_protocols
10675TYPE: http_upgrade_request_protocols
10676LOC: Config.http_upgrade_request_protocols
10677DEFAULT: none
10678DEFAULT_DOC: Upgrade header dropped, effectively blocking an upgrade attempt.
10679DOC_START
10680 Controls client-initiated and server-confirmed switching from HTTP to
10681 another protocol (or to several protocols) using HTTP Upgrade mechanism
10682 defined in RFC 7230 Section 6.7. Squid itself does not understand the
10683 protocols being upgraded to and participates in the upgraded
10684 communication only as a dumb TCP proxy. Admins should not allow
10685 upgrading to protocols that require a more meaningful proxy
10686 participation.
10687
10688 Usage: http_upgrade_request_protocols <protocol> allow|deny [!]acl ...
10689
10690 The required "protocol" parameter is either an all-caps word OTHER or an
10691 explicit protocol name (e.g. "WebSocket") optionally followed by a slash
10692 and a version token (e.g. "HTTP/3"). Explicit protocol names and
10693 versions are case sensitive.
10694
10695 When an HTTP client sends an Upgrade request header, Squid iterates over
10696 the client-offered protocols and, for each protocol P (with an optional
10697 version V), evaluates the first non-empty set of
10698 http_upgrade_request_protocols rules (if any) from the following list:
10699
10700 * All rules with an explicit protocol name equal to P.
10701 * All rules that use OTHER instead of a protocol name.
10702
10703 In other words, rules using OTHER are considered for protocol P if and
10704 only if there are no rules mentioning P by name.
10705
10706 If both of the above sets are empty, then Squid removes protocol P from
10707 the Upgrade offer.
10708
10709 If the client sent a versioned protocol offer P/X, then explicit rules
10710 referring to the same-name but different-version protocol P/Y are
10711 declared inapplicable. Inapplicable rules are not evaluated (i.e. are
10712 ignored). However, inapplicable rules still belong to the first set of
10713 rules for P.
10714
10715 Within the applicable rule subset, individual rules are evaluated in
10716 their configuration order. If all ACLs of an applicable "allow" rule
10717 match, then the protocol offered by the client is forwarded to the next
10718 hop as is. If all ACLs of an applicable "deny" rule match, then the
10719 offer is dropped. If no applicable rules have matching ACLs, then the
10720 offer is also dropped. The first matching rule also ends rules
10721 evaluation for the offered protocol.
10722
10723 If all client-offered protocols are removed, then Squid forwards the
10724 client request without the Upgrade header. Squid never sends an empty
10725 Upgrade request header.
10726
10727 An Upgrade request header with a value violating HTTP syntax is dropped
10728 and ignored without an attempt to use extractable individual protocol
10729 offers.
10730
10731 Upon receiving an HTTP 101 (Switching Protocols) control message, Squid
10732 checks that the server listed at least one protocol name and sent a
10733 Connection:upgrade response header. Squid does not understand individual
10734 protocol naming and versioning concepts enough to implement stricter
10735 checks, but an admin can restrict HTTP 101 (Switching Protocols)
10736 responses further using http_reply_access. Responses denied by
10737 http_reply_access rules and responses flagged by the internal Upgrade
10738 checks result in HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway) ERR_INVALID_RESP errors and
10739 Squid-to-server connection closures.
10740
10741 If Squid sends an Upgrade request header, and the next hop (e.g., the
10742 origin server) responds with an acceptable HTTP 101 (Switching
10743 Protocols), then Squid forwards that message to the client and becomes
10744 a TCP tunnel.
10745
10746 The presence of an Upgrade request header alone does not preclude cache
10747 lookups. In other words, an Upgrade request might be satisfied from the
10748 cache, using regular HTTP caching rules.
10749
10750 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 10751 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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10752
10753 Each of the following groups of configuration lines represents a
10754 separate configuration example:
10755
10756 # never upgrade to protocol Foo; all others are OK
10757 http_upgrade_request_protocols Foo deny all
10758 http_upgrade_request_protocols OTHER allow all
10759
10760 # only allow upgrades to protocol Bar (except for its first version)
10761 http_upgrade_request_protocols Bar/1 deny all
10762 http_upgrade_request_protocols Bar allow all
10763 http_upgrade_request_protocols OTHER deny all # this rule is optional
10764
10765 # only allow upgrades to protocol Baz, and only if Baz is the only offer
10766 acl UpgradeHeaderHasMultipleOffers ...
10767 http_upgrade_request_protocols Baz deny UpgradeHeaderHasMultipleOffers
10768 http_upgrade_request_protocols Baz allow all
10769DOC_END
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10771NAME: server_pconn_for_nonretriable
10772TYPE: acl_access
10773DEFAULT: none
10774DEFAULT_DOC: Open new connections for forwarding requests Squid cannot retry safely.
10775LOC: Config.accessList.serverPconnForNonretriable
10776DOC_START
10777 This option provides fine-grained control over persistent connection
10778 reuse when forwarding HTTP requests that Squid cannot retry. It is useful
10779 in environments where opening new connections is very expensive
10780 (e.g., all connections are secured with TLS with complex client and server
10781 certificate validation) and race conditions associated with persistent
10782 connections are very rare and/or only cause minor problems.
10783
10784 HTTP prohibits retrying unsafe and non-idempotent requests (e.g., POST).
10785 Squid limitations also prohibit retrying all requests with bodies (e.g., PUT).
10786 By default, when forwarding such "risky" requests, Squid opens a new
10787 connection to the server or cache_peer, even if there is an idle persistent
10788 connection available. When Squid is configured to risk sending a non-retriable
10789 request on a previously used persistent connection, and the server closes
10790 the connection before seeing that risky request, the user gets an error response
10791 from Squid. In most cases, that error response will be HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway)
10792 with ERR_ZERO_SIZE_OBJECT or ERR_WRITE_ERROR (peer connection reset) error detail.
10793
10794 If an allow rule matches, Squid reuses an available idle persistent connection
10795 (if any) for the request that Squid cannot retry. If a deny rule matches, then
10796 Squid opens a new connection for the request that Squid cannot retry.
10797
10798 This option does not affect requests that Squid can retry. They will reuse idle
10799 persistent connections (if any).
10800
10801 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7409131e 10802 See https://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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10803
10804 Example:
10805 acl SpeedIsWorthTheRisk method POST
10806 server_pconn_for_nonretriable allow SpeedIsWorthTheRisk
10807DOC_END
10808
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10809NAME: happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout
10810COMMENT: (msec)
10811TYPE: int
10812DEFAULT: 250
10813LOC: Config.happyEyeballs.connect_timeout
10814DOC_START
10815 This Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) tuning directive specifies the minimum
10816 delay between opening a primary to-server connection and opening a
10817 spare to-server connection for the same master transaction. This delay
10818 is similar to the Connection Attempt Delay in RFC 8305, but it is only
10819 applied to the first spare connection attempt. Subsequent spare
10820 connection attempts use happy_eyeballs_connect_gap, and primary
10821 connection attempts are not artificially delayed at all.
10822
10823 Terminology: The "primary" and "spare" designations are determined by
10824 the order of DNS answers received by Squid: If Squid DNS AAAA query
10825 was answered first, then primary connections are connections to IPv6
10826 peer addresses (while spare connections use IPv4 addresses).
10827 Similarly, if Squid DNS A query was answered first, then primary
10828 connections are connections to IPv4 peer addresses (while spare
10829 connections use IPv6 addresses).
10830
10831 Shorter happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout values reduce master
10832 transaction response time, potentially improving user-perceived
10833 response times (i.e., making user eyeballs happier). Longer delays
10834 reduce both concurrent connection level and server bombardment with
10835 connection requests, potentially improving overall Squid performance
10836 and reducing the chance of being blocked by servers for opening too
10837 many unused connections.
10838
10839 RFC 8305 prohibits happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout values smaller than
10840 10 (milliseconds) to "avoid congestion collapse in the presence of
10841 high packet-loss rates".
10842
10843 The following Happy Eyeballs directives place additional connection
10844 opening restrictions: happy_eyeballs_connect_gap and
10845 happy_eyeballs_connect_limit.
10846DOC_END
10847
10848NAME: happy_eyeballs_connect_gap
10849COMMENT: (msec)
10850TYPE: int
10851DEFAULT: -1
10852DEFAULT_DOC: no artificial delays between spare attempts
10853LOC: Config.happyEyeballs.connect_gap
10854DOC_START
10855 This Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) tuning directive specifies the
10856 minimum delay between opening spare to-server connections (to any
10857 server; i.e. across all concurrent master transactions in a Squid
10858 instance). Each SMP worker currently multiplies the configured gap
10859 by the total number of workers so that the combined spare connection
10860 opening rate of a Squid instance obeys the configured limit. The
10861 workers do not coordinate connection openings yet; a micro burst
10862 of spare connection openings may violate the configured gap.
10863
10864 This directive has similar trade-offs as
10865 happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout, but its focus is on limiting traffic
10866 amplification effects for Squid as a whole, while
10867 happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout works on an individual master
10868 transaction level.
10869
10870 The following Happy Eyeballs directives place additional connection
10871 opening restrictions: happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout and
10872 happy_eyeballs_connect_limit. See the former for related terminology.
10873DOC_END
10874
10875NAME: happy_eyeballs_connect_limit
10876TYPE: int
10877DEFAULT: -1
10878DEFAULT_DOC: no artificial limit on the number of concurrent spare attempts
10879LOC: Config.happyEyeballs.connect_limit
10880DOC_START
10881 This Happy Eyeballs (RFC 8305) tuning directive specifies the
10882 maximum number of spare to-server connections (to any server; i.e.
10883 across all concurrent master transactions in a Squid instance).
10884 Each SMP worker gets an equal share of the total limit. However,
10885 the workers do not share the actual connection counts yet, so one
10886 (busier) worker cannot "borrow" spare connection slots from another
10887 (less loaded) worker.
10888
10889 Setting this limit to zero disables concurrent use of primary and
10890 spare TCP connections: Spare connection attempts are made only after
10891 all primary attempts fail. However, Squid would still use the
10892 DNS-related optimizations of the Happy Eyeballs approach.
10893
10894 This directive has similar trade-offs as happy_eyeballs_connect_gap,
10895 but its focus is on limiting Squid overheads, while
10896 happy_eyeballs_connect_gap focuses on the origin server and peer
10897 overheads.
10898
10899 The following Happy Eyeballs directives place additional connection
10900 opening restrictions: happy_eyeballs_connect_timeout and
10901 happy_eyeballs_connect_gap. See the former for related terminology.
10902DOC_END
10903
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