]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/squid.git/blame - src/cf.data.pre
Bug #1000: Content gets corrupted during upload
[thirdparty/squid.git] / src / cf.data.pre
CommitLineData
3a278cb8 1
9cef6668 2#
777831e0 3# $Id: cf.data.pre,v 1.359 2004/10/10 02:49:04 hno Exp $
9cef6668 4#
5#
2b6662ba 6# SQUID Web Proxy Cache http://www.squid-cache.org/
9cef6668 7# ----------------------------------------------------------
8#
2b6662ba 9# Squid is the result of efforts by numerous individuals from
10# the Internet community; see the CONTRIBUTORS file for full
11# details. Many organizations have provided support for Squid's
12# development; see the SPONSORS file for full details. Squid is
13# Copyrighted (C) 2000 by the Regents of the University of
14# California; see the COPYRIGHT file for full details. Squid
15# incorporates software developed and/or copyrighted by other
16# sources; see the CREDITS file for full details.
9cef6668 17#
18# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
19# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
20# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
21# (at your option) any later version.
96d88dcb 22#
9cef6668 23# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
24# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
25# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
26# GNU General Public License for more details.
96d88dcb 27#
9cef6668 28# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
29# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
30# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
31#
32
0f74202c 33COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 34 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
35 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
38 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
39 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 40
cccac0a2 41 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
42 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
43 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
44 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
45 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
46 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
47 case.
debd9a31 48
cccac0a2 49COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_START
52 NETWORK OPTIONS
53 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
54COMMENT_END
55
56NAME: http_port ascii_port
57TYPE: http_port_list
58DEFAULT: none
59LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
60DOC_START
61 Usage: port [options]
62 hostname:port [options]
63 1.2.3.4:port [options]
64
65 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
66 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
67 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
68 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
7f7db318 69 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
cccac0a2 70 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
71 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
72 address, so you can use the port number alone.
73
7f7db318 74 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
cccac0a2 75 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
76
77 The -a command line option will override the *first* port
78 number listed here. That option will NOT override an IP
79 address, however.
80
81 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
82
116c6cca 83 Options:
84
85 transparent Support for transparent proxies
86
87 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
88 accelerator directives
89
90 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
91 domain support
92
93 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
94
95 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
96 than the http_port number
97
98 defaultsite= Main web site name for accelerators
99
100 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
101 Defaults to http
cccac0a2 102
103 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
7f7db318 104 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
cccac0a2 105 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
106 visible on the internal address.
107NOCOMMENT_START
108# Squid normally listens to port 3128
109http_port 3128
110NOCOMMENT_END
111DOC_END
112
113NAME: https_port
114IFDEF: USE_SSL
115TYPE: https_port_list
116DEFAULT: none
117LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
118DOC_START
119 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
120
121 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
122 requests.
123
124 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
125 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
126 accelerator level.
127
128 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
129 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
7f7db318 130
cccac0a2 131 Options:
132
133 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
116c6cca 134 this port
cccac0a2 135
136 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests
116c6cca 137 with. Defaults to https
cccac0a2 138
139 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format)
7f7db318 140
cccac0a2 141 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
142 if not specified, the certificate file is
143 assumed to be a combined certificate and
144 key file
145
146 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
147 1 automatic (default)
148 2 SSLv2 only
149 3 SSLv3 only
150 4 TLSv1 only
151
152 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers
153
154 options= Varions SSL engine options. The most important
155 being:
156 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
157 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
158 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
159 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
160 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
161 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
116c6cca 162 documentation for a complete list of options
cccac0a2 163
164 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
165 requesting a client certificate
166
167 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
168 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
116c6cca 169 clientca will be used
cccac0a2 170
171 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
172 to use when verifying client certificates
173
174 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
175 DH key exchanges
176
177 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
178 DELAYED_AUTH
179 Don't request client certificates
180 immediately, but wait until acl processing
181 requires a certificate
7f7db318 182 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 183 Don't use the default CA list built in
116c6cca 184 to OpenSSL
185
186 accel Accelerator mode. Also set implicit by the other
187 accelerator directives
188
189 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
190 domain support
191
192 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support
193
194 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
195 than the https_port number
cccac0a2 196
197DOC_END
198
199NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
200IFDEF: USE_SSL
201TYPE: onoff
202DEFAULT: off
203LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
204DOC_START
205 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
206 messages.
207DOC_END
208
209NAME: ssl_engine
210IFDEF: USE_SSL
211TYPE: string
212LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
213DEFAULT: none
214DOC_START
215 The openssl engine to use. You will need to set this if you
216 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
217DOC_END
218
219NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
220IFDEF: USE_SSL
221DEFAULT: none
222LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
223TYPE: string
224DOC_START
225 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
226DOC_END
227
228NAME: sslproxy_client_key
229IFDEF: USE_SSL
230DEFAULT: none
231LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
232TYPE: string
233DOC_START
234 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
235DOC_END
236
237NAME: sslproxy_version
238IFDEF: USE_SSL
239DEFAULT: 1
240LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
241TYPE: int
242DOC_START
243 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
244DOC_END
245
246NAME: sslproxy_options
247IFDEF: USE_SSL
248DEFAULT: none
249LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
250TYPE: string
251DOC_START
252 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
253DOC_END
254
255NAME: sslproxy_cipher
256IFDEF: USE_SSL
257DEFAULT: none
258LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
259TYPE: string
260DOC_START
261 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
262DOC_END
263
264NAME: sslproxy_cafile
265IFDEF: USE_SSL
266DEFAULT: none
267LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
268TYPE: string
269DOC_START
270 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
271 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
272DOC_END
273
274NAME: sslproxy_capath
275IFDEF: USE_SSL
276DEFAULT: none
277LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
278TYPE: string
279DOC_START
280 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
281 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
282DOC_END
283
284NAME: sslproxy_flags
285IFDEF: USE_SSL
286DEFAULT: none
287LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
288TYPE: string
289DOC_START
290 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
291 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
292 verify.
293 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
294 to OpenSSL.
295DOC_END
296
307b83b7 297NAME: sslpassword_program
298IFDEF: USE_SSL
299DEFAULT: none
300LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
301TYPE: string
302DOC_START
303 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
304 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
305 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
306 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
307DOC_END
308
cccac0a2 309NAME: icp_port udp_port
310TYPE: ushort
311DEFAULT: 0
312LOC: Config.Port.icp
313DOC_START
314 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
315 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
316 Default is disabled (0).
317NOCOMMENT_START
318icp_port 3130
319NOCOMMENT_END
320DOC_END
321
322NAME: htcp_port
323IFDEF: USE_HTCP
324TYPE: ushort
325DEFAULT: 4827
326LOC: Config.Port.htcp
327DOC_START
328 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
329 and from neighbor caches. Default is 4827. To disable use
330 "0".
331DOC_END
332
333
334NAME: mcast_groups
335TYPE: wordlist
336LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
337DEFAULT: none
338DOC_START
339 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
340 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
341
342 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
343 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
344 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
345 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
346 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
347 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
348 receive replies from multicast group members.
349
350 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
351 is already in use by another group of caches.
352
353 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
354 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
355
356 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
357
358 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
359DOC_END
360
361
362NAME: udp_incoming_address
363TYPE: address
364LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
365DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
366DOC_NONE
367
368NAME: udp_outgoing_address
369TYPE: address
370LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
371DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
372DOC_START
373 udp_incoming_address is used for the ICP socket receiving packets
374 from other caches.
375 udp_outgoing_address is used for ICP packets sent out to other
376 caches.
377
378 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
379
f939c0ca 380 A udp_incoming_address value of 0.0.0.0 indicates Squid
381 should listen for UDP messages on all available interfaces.
cccac0a2 382
383 If udp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 384 it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 385 change this if you want to have ICP queries sent using another
386 address than where this Squid listens for ICP queries from other
387 caches.
388
389 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
390 have the same value since they both use port 3130.
391DOC_END
9e7dbc51 392
cccac0a2 393COMMENT_START
394 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
395 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
396COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 397
cccac0a2 398NAME: cache_peer
399TYPE: peer
400DEFAULT: none
401LOC: Config.peers
402DOC_START
403 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
9e7dbc51 404
cccac0a2 405 cache_peer hostname type http_port icp_port [options]
0fdafae7 406
cccac0a2 407 For example,
d1b63fc8 408
cccac0a2 409 # proxy icp
410 # hostname type port port options
411 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
412 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
413 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
414 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 [proxy-only]
415
416 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
417
418 proxy_port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
419 requests.
420
421 icp_port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
422 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
423 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
424 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
425 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
426
427 options: proxy-only
428 weight=n
429 basetime=n
430 ttl=n
431 no-query
432 background-ping
433 default
434 round-robin
435 weighted-round-robin
436 carp
437 multicast-responder
438 closest-only
439 no-digest
440 no-netdb-exchange
441 no-delay
442 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
443 connect-timeout=nn
444 digest-url=url
445 allow-miss
446 max-conn
447 htcp
448 originserver
449 name=xxx
450 forceddomain=name
451 ssl
452 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
453 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
454 sslversion=1|2|3|4
455 sslcipher=...
456 ssloptions=...
457 front-end-https[=on|auto]
7f7db318 458
459 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
cccac0a2 460 from this cache should not be saved locally.
461
462 use 'weight=n' to specify a weighted parent.
463 The weight must be an integer. The default weight
464 is 1, larger weights are favored more.
465
466 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
467 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
468 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
469 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
7f7db318 470 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 471
472 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
473 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
474 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
475 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
476 hosts, you must configure other group members as
477 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
478
479 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
480 neighbor.
481
482 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
7f7db318 483 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
484 round trip time updated and is usually used in
cccac0a2 485 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
486
487 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
488 be used as a "last-resort." You should probably
489 only use 'default' in situations where you cannot
490 use ICP with your parent cache(s).
491
492 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
493 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
494 absence of any ICP queries.
495
7f7db318 496 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
497 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
498 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
499 time. Closer parents are used more often.
cccac0a2 500 Usually used for background-ping parents.
501
502 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
7f7db318 503 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
cccac0a2 504 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
505 balancing hash function based on their weigth.
506
7f7db318 507 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
cccac0a2 508 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
509 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
510 will be accepted from it.
511
512 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
513 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
514 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
515
516 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
517 this neighbor.
518
519 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
520 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
521
522 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
523 from influencing the delay pools.
524
525 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
526 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
527 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
7f7db318 528 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
cccac0a2 529
530 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
531 the upstream proxy. This will pass the users credentials
532 as they are to the peer proxy. This only works for the
533 Basic HTTP authentication sheme. Note: To combine this
534 with proxy_auth both proxies must share the same user
535 database as HTTP only allows for one proxy login.
7f7db318 536 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
cccac0a2 537 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
538
539 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
540 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
541 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
542 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
543 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
544 information which is added to the username. This can
545 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
546 the login=username:password option above.
547
548 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
549 specific connect timeout (also see the
550 peer_connect_timeout directive)
551
552 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
553 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
554 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
555 location.
556
557 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
558 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
559 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
560 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
561 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
562 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
563 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
564 source is a peer)
565
566 use 'max-conn' to limit the amount of connections Squid
567 may open to this peer.
568
569 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
570 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
571 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
7f7db318 572
cccac0a2 573 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
574 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
575
576 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
7f7db318 577 host but different ports. This name can be used to
cccac0a2 578 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
579 directives.
580
581 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
582 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
583 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
584 name and using redirectors to feed this domainname
585 is not feasible.
586
7f7db318 587 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
cccac0a2 588 bs SSL/TLS encrypted.
589
590 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
591 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
592
593 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
594 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
7f7db318 595 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
cccac0a2 596 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
597
598 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
599 when connecting to this peer
600 1 = automatic (default)
601 2 = SSL v2 only
602 3 = SSL v3 only
603 4 = TLS v1 only
604
605 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL chipers
606 to use when connecting to this peer
607
608 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
609 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
610 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
611 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
612 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
613 a more complete list.
614
615 use cafile=... to specify a file containing additional
616 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
617
618 use capath=... to specify a directory containing additional
619 CA certificates to use when verifying the peer certificate
620
621 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
622 SSL implementation:
623 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
624 Accept certificates even if they fail to
625 verify.
7f7db318 626 NO_DEFAULT_CA
cccac0a2 627 Don't use the default CA list built in
628 to OpenSSL.
629 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
7f7db318 630 Don't verify the peer certificate
cccac0a2 631 matches the server name
632
633 use sslname= to specify the peer name as advertised
634 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
635 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
636 peer hostname will be used.
637
638 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
639 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend infront
640 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
7f7db318 641 on this header. If set to auto the header will
cccac0a2 642 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
643 URL.
644
645 NOTE: non-ICP neighbors must be specified as 'parent'.
646DOC_END
647
648NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
649TYPE: hostdomain
650DEFAULT: none
651LOC: none
652DOC_START
653 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
654 queried. Usage:
655
656 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
657 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
658
659 For example, specifying
660
661 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
662
663 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
664 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
665 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
7f7db318 666 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
cccac0a2 667 NOT in that domain.
668
669 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
670 either on the same or separate lines.
671 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
672 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
673 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
674 for all requests.
675 * There are no defaults.
676 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
677 section.
678DOC_END
679
680
681NAME: neighbor_type_domain
682TYPE: hostdomaintype
683DEFAULT: none
684LOC: none
685DOC_START
686 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
687
688 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
689 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
690 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
691 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
692 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
693 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
694
695EXAMPLE:
696 cache_peer parent cache.foo.org 3128 3130
697 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
698 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
699DOC_END
700
701NAME: icp_query_timeout
702COMMENT: (msec)
703DEFAULT: 0
704TYPE: int
705LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
706DOC_START
707 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
708 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
709 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
710 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
711 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
712 timeout (the old default), you would write:
713
714 icp_query_timeout 2000
715DOC_END
716
717NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
718COMMENT: (msec)
719DEFAULT: 2000
720TYPE: int
721LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
722DOC_START
723 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
724 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
725 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
726 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
727 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
728 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
729DOC_END
730
731NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
732COMMENT: (msec)
733DEFAULT: 5
734TYPE: int
735LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
736DOC_START
737 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
738 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
739 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
740 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
741 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
742 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
743 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
744DOC_END
745
746NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
747COMMENT: (msec)
748DEFAULT: 2000
749TYPE: int
750LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
751DOC_START
752 For Multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
753 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
754 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
755 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
756 seconds.
757DOC_END
758
759NAME: dead_peer_timeout
760COMMENT: (seconds)
761DEFAULT: 10 seconds
762TYPE: time_t
763LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
764DOC_START
765 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
766 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
767 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
768 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
769 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
770 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
771
772 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
773 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
774 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
775 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
776 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
777 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
778 instead of to your parents.
779DOC_END
780
781
782NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
783TYPE: wordlist
784DEFAULT: none
785LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
786DOC_START
787 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
788 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
789 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
790 list this option multiple times.
791NOCOMMENT_START
792#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
793hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
794NOCOMMENT_END
795DOC_END
934b03fc 796
6a566b9c 797
cccac0a2 798NAME: no_cache
799TYPE: acl_access
800DEFAULT: none
801LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
802DOC_START
803 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause the request to
804 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
805 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
6a566b9c 806
cccac0a2 807 You must use the word 'DENY' to indicate the ACL names which should
808 NOT be cached.
1e5562e3 809
cccac0a2 810NOCOMMENT_START
811#We recommend you to use the following two lines.
812acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
813no_cache deny QUERY
814NOCOMMENT_END
815DOC_END
816
817NAME: background_ping_rate
818COMMENT: time-units
819TYPE: time_t
820DEFAULT: 10 seconds
821LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
822DOC_START
823 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
824 have background-ping set.
825DOC_END
1e5562e3 826
934b03fc 827
cccac0a2 828COMMENT_START
829 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE CACHE SIZE
830 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
831COMMENT_END
832
833NAME: cache_mem
834COMMENT: (bytes)
835TYPE: b_size_t
836DEFAULT: 8 MB
837LOC: Config.memMaxSize
838DOC_START
839 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
840 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
841 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
842 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
843
844 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
845 for:
846 * In-Transit objects
847 * Hot Objects
848 * Negative-Cached objects
849
850 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
851 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
852 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
853 priority.
854
855 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
856 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
857 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
858 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
859 not needed for in-transit objects.
860
861 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
862 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
863 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
864 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
865 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
866 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
867 objects.
868DOC_END
869
870
871NAME: cache_swap_low
872COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
873TYPE: int
874DEFAULT: 90
875LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
876DOC_NONE
877
878NAME: cache_swap_high
879COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
880TYPE: int
881DEFAULT: 95
882LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
883DOC_START
884
885 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
886 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
887 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
888 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
889 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
890 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
7f7db318 891
cccac0a2 892 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
893 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
894 numbers closer together.
895DOC_END
896
897NAME: maximum_object_size
898COMMENT: (bytes)
899TYPE: b_size_t
900DEFAULT: 4096 KB
901LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
902DOC_START
903 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
904 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
905 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
906 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
907 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
908 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
909
910 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
911 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
912 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
913DOC_END
914
915NAME: minimum_object_size
916COMMENT: (bytes)
917TYPE: b_size_t
918DEFAULT: 0 KB
919LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
920DOC_START
921 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
922 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
923 means there is no minimum.
924DOC_END
925
926NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
927COMMENT: (bytes)
928TYPE: b_size_t
929DEFAULT: 8 KB
930LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
931DOC_START
932 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
933 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
934 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
935 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem .
936DOC_END
937
938NAME: ipcache_size
939COMMENT: (number of entries)
940TYPE: int
941DEFAULT: 1024
942LOC: Config.ipcache.size
943DOC_NONE
944
945NAME: ipcache_low
946COMMENT: (percent)
947TYPE: int
948DEFAULT: 90
949LOC: Config.ipcache.low
950DOC_NONE
951
952NAME: ipcache_high
953COMMENT: (percent)
954TYPE: int
955DEFAULT: 95
956LOC: Config.ipcache.high
957DOC_START
958 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
959DOC_END
960
961NAME: fqdncache_size
962COMMENT: (number of entries)
963TYPE: int
964DEFAULT: 1024
965LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
966DOC_START
967 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
968DOC_END
969
970NAME: cache_replacement_policy
971TYPE: removalpolicy
972LOC: Config.replPolicy
973DEFAULT: lru
974DOC_START
975 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
976 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
977
978 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
979 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
980 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
981 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
982
983 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
984
985 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
986
987 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
988 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
989 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
990 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
991
992 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
993 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
994 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
995 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
996
997 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
998 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
999 replacement policies.
1000
1001 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1002 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1003 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
1004
1005 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1006 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1007 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
1008DOC_END
1009
1010NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1011TYPE: removalpolicy
1012LOC: Config.memPolicy
1013DEFAULT: lru
1014DOC_START
1015 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1016 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
1017
1018 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1019DOC_END
934b03fc 1020
1f7c9178 1021
cccac0a2 1022COMMENT_START
1023 LOGFILE PATHNAMES AND CACHE DIRECTORIES
1024 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1025COMMENT_END
9bc73deb 1026
cccac0a2 1027NAME: cache_dir
1028TYPE: cachedir
1029DEFAULT: none
1030DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1031LOC: Config.cacheSwap
1032DOC_START
1033 Usage:
7f7db318 1034
cccac0a2 1035 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
cf5cc17e 1036
cccac0a2 1037 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1038 cache among different disk partitions.
8e8d4f30 1039
cccac0a2 1040 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
1041 is built by default. To eanble any of the other storage systems
1042 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
934b03fc 1043
cccac0a2 1044 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1045 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
7f7db318 1046 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
cccac0a2 1047 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1048 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
1e5562e3 1049
cccac0a2 1050 The ufs store type:
1051
1052 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1053 been there.
1054
1055 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1056
1057 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1058 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1059 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1060 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1061 subtract 20% and use that value.
1062
1063 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1064 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
1065
1066 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1067 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1068 is 256.
1069
1070 The aufs store type:
1071
1072 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1073 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1074 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
1075
1076 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
1077
1078 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1079
1080 The diskd store type:
1081
1082 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1083 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1084 disk-I/O.
1085
1086 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
1087
1088 see argument descriptions under ufs above
1089
1090 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1091 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1092 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
1093
1094 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1095 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
44f991b5 1096 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
cccac0a2 1097
af9ad249 1098 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1099 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1100 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1101 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1102 time.
1103
1a224843 1104 The coss store type:
1105
1106 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1107 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1108 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1109 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1110 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
7f7db318 1111 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1a224843 1112 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
1113
cccac0a2 1114 Common options:
1115
1116 read-only, this cache_dir is read only.
1117
1118 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1119 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1120 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1121 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1122 ones with no max-size specification last.
1a224843 1123
7f7db318 1124 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1a224843 1125 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1126 option.
cccac0a2 1127DOC_END
1128
1129
1130NAME: logformat
1131TYPE: logformat
1132LOC: Config.Log.logformats
1133DEFAULT: none
1134DOC_START
1135 Usage:
1136
1137 logformat <name> <format specification>
1138
1139 Defines an access log format.
1140
1141 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
7f7db318 1142
cccac0a2 1143 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
1144 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically quoted
1145 as required according to their context and the output format
1146 modifiers are usually unneeded but can be specified if an explicit
1147 quoting format is desired.
1148
1149 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
7f7db318 1150
cccac0a2 1151 " quoted string output format
1152 [ squid log quoted format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1153 # URL quoted output format
1154 ' No automatic quoting
1155 - left aligned
7f7db318 1156 width field width. If starting with 0 the
cccac0a2 1157 output is zero padded
1158 {arg} argument such as header name etc
1159
1160 Format codes:
1161
1162 >a Client source IP address
1163 >A Client FQDN
1164 <A Server IP address or peer name
1165 la Local IP address (http_port)
1166 lp Local port number (http_port)
1167 ts Seconds since epoch
1168 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1169 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1170 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1171 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1172 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:S %z
1173 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1174 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1175 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1176 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1177 as for >h
1178 un User name
1179 ul User login
1180 ui User ident
1181 ue User from external acl
1182 Hs HTTP status code
1183 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
1184 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
1185 mt MIME content type
1186 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
1187 ru Request URL
1188 rv Request protocol version
1189 et Tag returned by external acl
1190 ea Log string returned by external acl
1191 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
03b29b6c 1192 <sH Reply high offset sent
1193 <sS Upstream object size
cccac0a2 1194 % a literal % character
1195
1196logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
1197logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
1198logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
1199logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
1200DOC_END
1201
1202NAME: access_log cache_access_log
1203TYPE: access_log
1204LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
1205DEFAULT: none
1206DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@
1207DOC_START
1208 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
1209 ICP request. The format is:
1210 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
1211 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
1212
1213 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
1214 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
1215 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
1216 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
7f7db318 1217
cccac0a2 1218 To disable logging of a request specify "none".
1219DOC_END
1220
1221
1222NAME: cache_log
1223TYPE: string
1224DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
1225LOC: Config.Log.log
1226DOC_START
1227 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
1228 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
1229 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
1230DOC_END
1231
1232
1233NAME: cache_store_log
1234TYPE: string
1235DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
1236LOC: Config.Log.store
1237DOC_START
1238 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
1239 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
1240 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
1241 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
1242 disable it.
1243DOC_END
1244
1245
e2529a2c 1246NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
cccac0a2 1247TYPE: string
1248LOC: Config.Log.swap
1249DEFAULT: none
1250DOC_START
e2529a2c 1251 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
1252 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
1253 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
cccac0a2 1254 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
1255 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
1256 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
1257 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
1258
7f7db318 1259 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
cccac0a2 1260 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
1261 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
1262 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
7f7db318 1263
cccac0a2 1264 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
7f7db318 1265 these swap logs will have names such as:
cccac0a2 1266
1267 cache_swap_log.00
1268 cache_swap_log.01
1269 cache_swap_log.02
1270
1271 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
1272 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
1273 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
7f7db318 1274 lines in this file, these log files will NOT correspond to
cccac0a2 1275 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
7f7db318 1276 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
cccac0a2 1277 better to keep these log files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
1278DOC_END
1279
1280
1281NAME: emulate_httpd_log
1282COMMENT: on|off
1283TYPE: onoff
1284DEFAULT: off
1285LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
1286DOC_START
1287 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
1288 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
1289 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
1290 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
7f7db318 1291 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
cccac0a2 1292DOC_END
1293
1294NAME: log_ip_on_direct
1295COMMENT: on|off
1296TYPE: onoff
1297DEFAULT: on
1298LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
1299DOC_START
1300 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
1301 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
1302 prefer the old way set this to off.
1303DOC_END
1304
1305NAME: mime_table
1306TYPE: string
1307DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
1308LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
1309DOC_START
1310 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
1311 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
1312 information if you do.
1313DOC_END
1314
1315
1316NAME: log_mime_hdrs
1317COMMENT: on|off
1318TYPE: onoff
1319LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
1320DEFAULT: off
1321DOC_START
1322 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
1323 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
1324 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
1325 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
1326 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
1327DOC_END
1328
1329
1330NAME: useragent_log
1331TYPE: string
1332LOC: Config.Log.useragent
1333DEFAULT: none
1334IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
1335DOC_START
1336 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
1337 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
1338 is disabled.
1339DOC_END
1340
1341
1342NAME: referer_log
1343TYPE: string
1344LOC: Config.Log.referer
1345DEFAULT: none
1346IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
1347DOC_START
1348 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
1349 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
1350DOC_END
1351
1352
1353NAME: pid_filename
1354TYPE: string
1355DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
1356LOC: Config.pidFilename
1357DOC_START
1358 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
1359DOC_END
1360
1361
1362NAME: debug_options
d9e04dc7 1363TYPE: debug
cccac0a2 1364DEFAULT: ALL,1
1365LOC: Config.debugOptions
1366DOC_START
1367 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
1368 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
1369 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
1370 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
1371 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
1372 "ALL,1".
1373DOC_END
1374
1375
1376NAME: log_fqdn
1377COMMENT: on|off
1378TYPE: onoff
1379DEFAULT: off
1380LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
1381DOC_START
1382 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
1383 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
1384 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
1385 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
1386 browsing.
1387DOC_END
1388
1389
1390NAME: client_netmask
1391TYPE: address
1392LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
1393DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
1394DOC_START
1395 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
1396 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
1397 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
1398 the last digit set to '0'.
1399DOC_END
0976f8db 1400
0976f8db 1401
cccac0a2 1402COMMENT_START
1403 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
1404 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1405COMMENT_END
1406
1407NAME: ftp_user
1408TYPE: string
1409DEFAULT: Squid@
1410LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
1411DOC_START
1412 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
1413 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
1414 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
1415
7f7db318 1416 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
cccac0a2 1417 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
1418 depending on how the cache is used.
7f7db318 1419 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
cccac0a2 1420 (for example perl.com).
1421DOC_END
1422
1423NAME: ftp_list_width
1424TYPE: size_t
1425DEFAULT: 32
1426LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
1427DOC_START
1428 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
1429 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
1430 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
1431DOC_END
1432
1433NAME: ftp_passive
1434TYPE: onoff
1435DEFAULT: on
1436LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
1437DOC_START
1438 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
7f7db318 1439 connections, turn off this option.
cccac0a2 1440DOC_END
1441
1442NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
1443TYPE: onoff
1444DEFAULT: on
1445LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
1446DOC_START
1447 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
1448 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
1449 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
1450 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
7f7db318 1451 connection turn this off.
cccac0a2 1452DOC_END
1453
1454NAME: check_hostnames
1455TYPE: onoff
1456DEFAULT: on
1457LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
1458DOC_START
1459 For security and stability reasons Squid by default checks
1460 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you do not want
7f7db318 1461 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive off.
cccac0a2 1462DOC_END
1463
dad0fe12 1464NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
1465TYPE: onoff
1466DEFAULT: on
1467LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
1468DOC_START
1469The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
1470as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
1471implemenations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
1472the FTP protocol.
1473
1474If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
7f7db318 1475path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
1476try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
dad0fe12 1477operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
1478is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
1479DOC_END
1480
cccac0a2 1481NAME: cache_dns_program
1482TYPE: string
1483IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1484DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
1485LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
1486DOC_START
1487 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
1488DOC_END
1489
1490NAME: dns_children
1491TYPE: int
1492IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1493DEFAULT: 5
1494LOC: Config.dnsChildren
1495DOC_START
1496 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
1497 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
1498 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
1499 is 32. The default is 5.
1500
1501 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
1502DOC_END
1503
1504NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
1505TYPE: time_t
1506DEFAULT: 5 seconds
1507LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
1508IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1509DOC_START
1510 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
1511 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
1512
1513DOC_END
1514
1515NAME: dns_timeout
1516TYPE: time_t
1517DEFAULT: 5 minutes
1518LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
1519IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
1520DOC_START
1521 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7f7db318 1522 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
1523 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 1524DOC_END
1525
1526NAME: dns_defnames
1527COMMENT: on|off
1528IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1529TYPE: onoff
1530DEFAULT: off
1531LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
1532IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
1533DOC_START
1534 Normally the 'dnsserver' disables the RES_DEFNAMES resolver
1535 option (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
1536 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
1537 dnsserver to handle single-component names, enable this
1538 option.
1539DOC_END
1540
1541NAME: dns_nameservers
1542TYPE: wordlist
1543DEFAULT: none
1544LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
1545DOC_START
1546 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
1547 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
1548 /etc/resolv.conf file.
1549 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
1550 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
1551 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
1552 configurations are supported.
1553
1554 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
1555DOC_END
1556
1557NAME: hosts_file
1558TYPE: string
1559DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
1560LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
1561DOC_START
1562 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
1563 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7f7db318 1564 default locations:
cccac0a2 1565 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
1566 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
1567 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
1568 - Windows XP: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
1569 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
1570 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
1571 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
1572 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
1573
1574 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
1575 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
1576 whitespace-separated. Lines beginnng with an hash (#)
1577 character are comments.
1578
7f7db318 1579 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
cccac0a2 1580 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7f7db318 1581 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
cccac0a2 1582 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
1583 definitions.
1584DOC_END
1585
1586NAME: diskd_program
1587TYPE: string
1588DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
1589LOC: Config.Program.diskd
1590DOC_START
1591 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
7f7db318 1592 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
cccac0a2 1593 diskd as one of the store io modules.
1594DOC_END
1595
1596NAME: unlinkd_program
1597IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
1598TYPE: string
1599DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
1600LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
1601DOC_START
1602 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
1603DOC_END
1604
1605NAME: pinger_program
1606TYPE: string
1607DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
1608LOC: Config.Program.pinger
1609IFDEF: USE_ICMP
1610DOC_START
1611 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
1612DOC_END
1613
1614
1615NAME: redirect_program
1616TYPE: wordlist
1617LOC: Config.Program.redirect
1618DEFAULT: none
1619DOC_START
1620 Specify the location of the executable for the URL redirector.
1621 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
1622 See the FAQ (section 15) for information on how to write one.
1623 By default, a redirector is not used.
1624DOC_END
1625
1626
1627NAME: redirect_children
1628TYPE: int
1629DEFAULT: 5
1630LOC: Config.redirectChildren
1631DOC_START
1632 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
1633 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
1634 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
1635 and other system resources.
1636DOC_END
1637
1638NAME: redirect_concurrency
1639TYPE: int
1640DEFAULT: 0
1641LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
1642DOC_START
1643 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
7f7db318 1644 parallell. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
cccac0a2 1645 is a old-style singlethreaded redirector.
1646DOC_END
1647
1648NAME: redirect_rewrites_host_header
1649TYPE: onoff
1650DEFAULT: on
1651LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
1652DOC_START
1653 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
7f7db318 1654 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
cccac0a2 1655 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
1656
1657 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
1658 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
1659DOC_END
1660
1661NAME: redirector_access
1662TYPE: acl_access
1663DEFAULT: none
1664LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
1665DOC_START
1666 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
1667 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
1668 are sent.
1669DOC_END
1670
1671NAME: auth_param
1672TYPE: authparam
1673LOC: Config.authConfiguration
1674DEFAULT: none
1675DOC_START
1676 This is used to pass parameters to the various authentication
1677 schemes.
1678 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
7f7db318 1679
1680 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
cccac0a2 1681 would tell the basic authentication scheme it's program parameter.
1682
7f7db318 1683 The order authentication prompts are presented to the client_agent
cccac0a2 1684 is dependant on the order the scheme first appears in config file.
1685 IE has a bug (it's not rfc 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
1686 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure schemes
1687 are presented. For now use the order in the file below. If other browsers
1688 have difficulties (don't recognise the schemes offered even if you are using
7f7db318 1689 basic) either put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting
cccac0a2 1690 out their program entry).
1691
1692 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be shutdown
1693 by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on the fly and
1694 activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a different helper,
1695 but not unconfigure the helper completely.
1696
1697 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
7f7db318 1698
cccac0a2 1699 "program" cmdline
1700 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a
1701 program reads a line containing "username password" and replies
1702 "OK" or "ERR" in an endless loop. If you use an authenticator,
1703 make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth. By default, the
1704 basic authentication sheme is not used unless a program is specified.
1705
1706 If you want to use the traditional proxy authentication,
1707 jump over to the ../auth_modules/NCSA directory and
1708 type:
1709 % make
1710 % make install
1711
1712 Then, set this line to something like
1713
1714 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
1715
1716 "children" numberofchildren
1717 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1718 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1719 process a backlog of usercode/password verifications, slowing
1720 it down. When password verifications are done via a (slow)
1721 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1722 processes.
1723 auth_param basic children 5
1724
1725 "concurrency" concurrency
1726 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
1727 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
1728 one request at a time.
1729 auth_param basic concurrency 0
1730
1731 "realm" realmstring
1732 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1733 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
1734 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1735 password). There is no default.
1736 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1737
1738 "credentialsttl" timetolive
1739 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
1740 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
1741 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
1742 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
7f7db318 1743 setting this high does not impact your susceptability
cccac0a2 1744 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
1745 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
1746 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
1747 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
1748
64658378 1749 "casesensitive" on|off
1750 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
1751 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
1752 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
1753 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
1754 auth_param basic casesensitive off
1755
cccac0a2 1756 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
1757
1758 "program" cmdline
1759 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
1760 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
4c9fa5d5 1761 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value base64 encoded or
1762 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
1763 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
1764
1765 By default, the digest authentication is not used unless a
1766 program is specified.
1767
1768 If you want to use a digest authenticator, jump over to the
1769 helpers/digest_auth/ directory and choose the authenticator
1770 to use. In it's directory type
cccac0a2 1771 % make
1772 % make install
1773
1774 Then, set this line to something like
1775
1776 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
1777
1778
1779 "children" numberofchildren
1780 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1781 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1782 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
1783 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
1784 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
1785 auth_param digest children 5
1786
1787 "realm" realmstring
1788 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
1789 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
1790 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
1791 password). There is no default.
1792 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1793
1794 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
1795 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
1796 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
1797
1798 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
1799 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
1800 valid for.
1801
1802 "nonce_max_count" number
1803 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
1804 used.
1805
1806 "nonce_strictness" on|off
1807 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behaviour
1808 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
1809 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
1810 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
1811
1812 "check_nonce_count" on|off
1813 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
1814 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
1815 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
1816 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
1817
1818 "post_workaround" on|off
1819 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
1820 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
1821 the same nonce as aquired earlier on a GET request.
1822
1823
1824 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
1825
1826 "program" cmdline
1827 Specify the command for the external ntlm authenticator.
bdf7e1b4 1828 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
1829 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
cccac0a2 1830 If you use an ntlm authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
1831 of type proxy_auth. By default, the ntlm authenticator_program
1832 is not used.
1833
1834 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
1835
1836 "children" numberofchildren
1837 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
1838 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
1839 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
1840 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
1841 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
1842 processes.
1843 auth_param ntlm children 5
1844
1845 "max_challenge_reuses" number
1846 The maximum number of times a challenge given by a ntlm
1847 authentication helper can be reused. Increasing this number
1848 increases your exposure to replay attacks on your network.
1849 0 means use the challenge only once. (disable challenge
1850 caching) See max_ntlm_challenge_lifetime for more information.
1851 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1852
1853 "max_challenge_lifetime" timespan
7f7db318 1854 The maximum time period a ntlm challenge is reused
cccac0a2 1855 over. The actual period will be the minimum of this time
1856 AND the number of reused challenges.
1857 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
1858
1859NOCOMMENT_START
94439e4e 1860#Recommended minimum configuration:
2d70df72 1861#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
1862#auth_param digest children 5
1863#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1864#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
1865#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
1866#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
94439e4e 1867#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
2d70df72 1868#auth_param ntlm children 5
1869#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
1870#auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
94439e4e 1871#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6b698a21 1872auth_param basic children 5
1873auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
1874auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
1875NOCOMMENT_END
1876DOC_END
0976f8db 1877
6b698a21 1878NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
1879TYPE: time_t
1880DEFAULT: 1 hour
1881LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
1882DOC_START
1883 The time period between garbage collection across the
1884 username cache. This is a tradeoff between memory utilisation
1885 (long intervals - say 2 days) and CPU (short intervals -
1886 say 1 minute). Only change if you have good reason to.
1887DOC_END
0976f8db 1888
6b698a21 1889NAME: authenticate_ttl
1890TYPE: time_t
1891DEFAULT: 1 hour
1892LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
1893DOC_START
1894 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
1895 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
1896 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
1897 TTL are removed from memory.
1898DOC_END
0976f8db 1899
6b698a21 1900NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
1901TYPE: time_t
1902LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
1903DEFAULT: 0 seconds
1904DOC_START
1905 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
1906 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
1907 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
1908 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
1909 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
1910 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
1911 environment with relatively static address assignments.
1912DOC_END
0976f8db 1913
6b698a21 1914NAME: external_acl_type
1915TYPE: externalAclHelper
1916LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
1917DEFAULT: none
1918DOC_START
1919 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
1920 to look up the status
7f7db318 1921
6b698a21 1922 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
7f7db318 1923
6b698a21 1924 Options:
0976f8db 1925
6b698a21 1926 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
1927 for 1 hour)
1928 negative_ttl=n
1929 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
1930 as ttl)
1931 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
1932 external acl lookups of this type.
1933 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Use 0 for old style
1934 helpers who can only process a single request at a
1935 time.
1936 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
1937 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
1938 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
1939 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
dc1af3cf 1940 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
7f7db318 1941
6b698a21 1942 FORMAT specifications
1943
1944 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
1945 %IDENT Ident user name
1946 %SRC Client IP
1947 %SRCPORT Client source port
1948 %DST Requested host
1949 %PROTO Requested protocol
1950 %PORT Requested port
1951 %PATH Requested URL path
1952 %METHOD Request method
1953 %MYADDR Squid interface address
1954 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
1955 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate attribute xx
1956 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate CA attribute xx
1957 %{Header} HTTP request header
1958 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
1959 %{Hdr:;member}
1960 HTTP request header list member using ; as
1961 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
1962 character.
1963
1964 In addition, any string specified in the referencing acl will
1965 also be included in the helper request line, after the specified
1966 formats (see the "acl external" directive)
1967
1968 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
1969 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
1970 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
dc1af3cf 1971 more details. To protect from odd characters the data is URL
1972 escaped.
6b698a21 1973
1974 General result syntax:
7f7db318 1975
6b698a21 1976 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
0976f8db 1977
6b698a21 1978 Defined keywords:
0976f8db 1979
6b698a21 1980 user= The users name (login)
1981 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
1982 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
1983 in error pages
1984 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
1985 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
1986 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
1987 %ea in logformat specifications
0976f8db 1988
dc1af3cf 1989 Keyword values need to be URL escaped if they may contain
1990 contain whitespace or quotes.
1991
1992 In Squid-2.5 compatibility mode quoting using " and \ is used
1993 instead of URL escaping.
6b698a21 1994DOC_END
0976f8db 1995
6b698a21 1996COMMENT_START
1997 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
1998 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1999COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2000
6b698a21 2001NAME: wais_relay_host
2002TYPE: string
2003DEFAULT: none
2004LOC: Config.Wais.relayHost
2005DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2006
6b698a21 2007NAME: wais_relay_port
2008TYPE: ushort
2009DEFAULT: 0
2010LOC: Config.Wais.relayPort
2011DOC_START
2012 Relay WAIS request to host (1st arg) at port (2 arg).
2013DOC_END
0976f8db 2014
0976f8db 2015
6b698a21 2016NAME: request_header_max_size
2017COMMENT: (KB)
2018TYPE: b_size_t
5b648f60 2019DEFAULT: 20 KB
6b698a21 2020LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2021DOC_START
2022 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2023 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2024 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2025 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2026 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2027DOC_END
0976f8db 2028
6b698a21 2029NAME: request_body_max_size
2030COMMENT: (KB)
2031TYPE: b_size_t
2032DEFAULT: 0 KB
2033LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2034DOC_START
2035 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2036 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2037 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2038 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2039 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2040 be no limit imposed.
2041DOC_END
0976f8db 2042
6b698a21 2043NAME: refresh_pattern
2044TYPE: refreshpattern
2045LOC: Config.Refresh
2046DEFAULT: none
2047DOC_START
2048 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
0976f8db 2049
6b698a21 2050 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2051 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
0976f8db 2052
6b698a21 2053 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2054 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2055 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2056 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2057 has taken the appropriate actions.
0976f8db 2058
6b698a21 2059 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2060 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2061 will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2062
6b698a21 2063 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2064 expiry time will be considered fresh.
0976f8db 2065
6b698a21 2066 options: override-expire
2067 override-lastmod
2068 reload-into-ims
2069 ignore-reload
0976f8db 2070
6b698a21 2071 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2072 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2073 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2074 for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2075
6b698a21 2076 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
7f7db318 2077 that were modified recently.
0976f8db 2078
6b698a21 2079 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2080 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2081 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2082 liable for problems which it causes.
0976f8db 2083
6b698a21 2084 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2085 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2086 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2087 it causes.
7f7db318 2088
6b698a21 2089 Basically a cached object is:
0976f8db 2090
6b698a21 2091 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2092 STALE if age > max
2093 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2094 FRESH if age < min
2095 else STALE
0976f8db 2096
6b698a21 2097 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2098 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
7f7db318 2099 match the default will be used.
0976f8db 2100
6b698a21 2101 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2102 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2103 used.
0976f8db 2104
6b698a21 2105Suggested default:
2106NOCOMMENT_START
2107refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2108refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
2109refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2110NOCOMMENT_END
2111DOC_END
0976f8db 2112
6b698a21 2113NAME: quick_abort_min
2114COMMENT: (KB)
2115TYPE: kb_size_t
2116DEFAULT: 16 KB
2117LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2118DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2119
6b698a21 2120NAME: quick_abort_max
2121COMMENT: (KB)
2122TYPE: kb_size_t
2123DEFAULT: 16 KB
2124LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2125DOC_NONE
0976f8db 2126
6b698a21 2127NAME: quick_abort_pct
2128COMMENT: (percent)
2129TYPE: int
2130DEFAULT: 95
2131LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2132DOC_START
2133 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2134 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2135 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2136 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2137 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2138 downloads.
0976f8db 2139
6b698a21 2140 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2141 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2142 then.
0976f8db 2143
6b698a21 2144 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2145 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2146
6b698a21 2147 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2148 it will abort the retrieval.
0976f8db 2149
6b698a21 2150 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2151 it will finish the retrieval.
0976f8db 2152
6b698a21 2153 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2154 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2155 to '0 KB'.
0976f8db 2156
6b698a21 2157 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
7f7db318 2158 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
6b698a21 2159DOC_END
0976f8db 2160
6b698a21 2161NAME: read_ahead_gap
2162COMMENT: buffer-size
2163TYPE: kb_size_t
2164LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2165DEFAULT: 16 KB
2166DOC_START
2167 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2168 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2169DOC_END
0976f8db 2170
6b698a21 2171NAME: negative_ttl
2172COMMENT: time-units
2173TYPE: time_t
2174LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2175DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2176DOC_START
2177 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2178 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2179 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2180 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2181 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2182DOC_END
0976f8db 2183
0976f8db 2184
6b698a21 2185NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2186COMMENT: time-units
2187TYPE: time_t
2188LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2189DEFAULT: 6 hours
2190DOC_START
2191 Time-to-Live (TTL) for positive caching of successful DNS lookups.
2192 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). If you want to minimize the
2193 use of Squid's ipcache, set this to 1, not 0.
2194DOC_END
0976f8db 2195
0976f8db 2196
6b698a21 2197NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2198COMMENT: time-units
2199TYPE: time_t
2200LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2201DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2202DOC_START
2203 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2204DOC_END
0976f8db 2205
6b698a21 2206NAME: range_offset_limit
2207COMMENT: (bytes)
2208TYPE: b_size_t
2209LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2210DEFAULT: 0 KB
2211DOC_START
2212 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2213 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
7f7db318 2214 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
6b698a21 2215 is NOT cached.
0976f8db 2216
6b698a21 2217 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2218 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2219 sending anything to the client.
0976f8db 2220
6b698a21 2221 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
7f7db318 2222 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
0976f8db 2223
6b698a21 2224 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2225 client requested. (default)
2226DOC_END
0976f8db 2227
0976f8db 2228
6b698a21 2229COMMENT_START
2230 TIMEOUTS
2231 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2232COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2233
777831e0 2234NAME: forward_timeout
2235COMMENT: time-units
2236TYPE: time_t
2237LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
2238DEFAULT: 4 minutes
2239DOC_START
2240 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
2241 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
2242DOC_END
2243
6b698a21 2244NAME: connect_timeout
2245COMMENT: time-units
2246TYPE: time_t
2247LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
777831e0 2248DEFAULT: 1 minute
6b698a21 2249DOC_START
777831e0 2250 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
2251 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
2252 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
6b698a21 2253DOC_END
0976f8db 2254
6b698a21 2255NAME: peer_connect_timeout
2256COMMENT: time-units
2257TYPE: time_t
2258LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
2259DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2260DOC_START
2261 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
2262 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
2263 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
2264 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
2265DOC_END
0976f8db 2266
6b698a21 2267NAME: read_timeout
2268COMMENT: time-units
2269TYPE: time_t
2270LOC: Config.Timeout.read
2271DEFAULT: 15 minutes
2272DOC_START
2273 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
2274 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
2275 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
2276 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
2277 default is 15 minutes.
2278DOC_END
0976f8db 2279
0976f8db 2280
6b698a21 2281NAME: request_timeout
2282TYPE: time_t
2283LOC: Config.Timeout.request
2284DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2285DOC_START
2286 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
2287 connection establishment.
2288DOC_END
0976f8db 2289
0976f8db 2290
6b698a21 2291NAME: persistent_request_timeout
2292TYPE: time_t
2293LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
2294DEFAULT: 1 minute
2295DOC_START
2296 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
2297 connection after the previous request completes.
2298DOC_END
0976f8db 2299
0976f8db 2300
6b698a21 2301NAME: client_lifetime
2302COMMENT: time-units
2303TYPE: time_t
2304LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
2305DEFAULT: 1 day
2306DOC_START
7f7db318 2307 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6b698a21 2308 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
2309 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
2310 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
2311 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
2312 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
2313 day, 1440 minutes.
2314
2315 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
2316 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
2317 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
2318 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
2319 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
2320 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
2321DOC_END
2322
2323NAME: half_closed_clients
2324TYPE: onoff
2325LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
2326DEFAULT: on
2327DOC_START
2328 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
2329 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
2330 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
2331 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
2332 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
2333 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
2334 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
2335 "no more data to read."
2336DOC_END
0976f8db 2337
6b698a21 2338NAME: pconn_timeout
2339TYPE: time_t
2340LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
2341DEFAULT: 120 seconds
2342DOC_START
2343 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
2344 proxies.
2345DOC_END
0976f8db 2346
6b698a21 2347NAME: ident_timeout
2348TYPE: time_t
2349IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2350LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
2351DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2352DOC_START
2353 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
7f7db318 2354
6b698a21 2355 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
7f7db318 2356 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6b698a21 2357 many ident requests going at once.
2358DOC_END
0976f8db 2359
0976f8db 2360
6b698a21 2361NAME: shutdown_lifetime
2362COMMENT: time-units
2363TYPE: time_t
2364LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
2365DEFAULT: 30 seconds
2366DOC_START
2367 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
2368 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
2369 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
2370 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
2371 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
2372DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2373
6b698a21 2374COMMENT_START
2375 ACCESS CONTROLS
2376 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2377COMMENT_END
9e7dbc51 2378
6b698a21 2379NAME: acl
2380TYPE: acl
2381LOC: Config.aclList
2382DEFAULT: none
2383DOC_START
2384 Defining an Access List
9e7dbc51 2385
6b698a21 2386 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
2387 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
9e7dbc51 2388
6b698a21 2389 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
9e7dbc51 2390
6b698a21 2391 acltype is one of the types described below
9e7dbc51 2392
6b698a21 2393 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2394 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2395
6b698a21 2396 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
2397 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
2398 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
2399 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
9e7dbc51 2400
6b698a21 2401 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
2402 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
2403 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
2404 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
9e7dbc51 2405 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
2406 # based URL is used. The name "none" is used if the reverse lookup
2407 # fails.
2408
6b698a21 2409 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
2410 day-abbrevs:
2411 S - Sunday
2412 M - Monday
2413 T - Tuesday
2414 W - Wednesday
2415 H - Thursday
2416 F - Friday
2417 A - Saturday
2418 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
2419 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
2420 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
2421 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
2422 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
2423 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
2424 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
2425 acl aclname method GET POST ...
2426 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
2427 # pattern match on User-Agent header
2428 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
2429 # pattern match on Referer header
9e7dbc51 2430 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
6b698a21 2431 acl aclname ident username ...
2432 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
2433 # string match on ident output.
9e7dbc51 2434 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
6b698a21 2435 acl aclname src_as number ...
2436 acl aclname dst_as number ...
2437 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
9e7dbc51 2438 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
2439 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
6468fe10 2440 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
2441 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
d87ebd78 2442 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
2443 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
6468fe10 2444
6b698a21 2445 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
2446 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
2447 # list of valid usernames
c68e9c6b 2448 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
73e67ee0 2449 #
2450 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
2451 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
2452 # in access.log.
c68e9c6b 2453 #
2454 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
2455 # to check username/password combinations (see
f7d2a450 2456 # auth_param directive).
c68e9c6b 2457 #
d048c262 2458 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
2459 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
2460 # to respond to proxy authentication.
934b03fc 2461
6b698a21 2462 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
2463 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
dba79ac5 2464 # Example:
96d88dcb 2465 #
dba79ac5 2466 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
2467
6b698a21 2468 acl aclname maxconn number
2469 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
9bc73deb 2470 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
2471
6b698a21 2472 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
2473 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
c23e89cd 2474 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
60d096f4 2475 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
7f7db318 2476 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
be5caa55 2477 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
c23e89cd 2478 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
7f7db318 2479 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
be5caa55 2480 # request is denied)
2481 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
c23e89cd 2482 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
be5caa55 2483 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
60d096f4 2484
cccac0a2 2485 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2486 # regex match agains the mime type of the request generated
ba2b31a8 2487 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
2488 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2489 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
2490 # to match the returned file type.
c68e9c6b 2491
cccac0a2 2492 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
2493 # regex match against the mime type of the reply recieved by
c4ab8329 2494 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
2495 # types HTTP tunelling requests.
2496 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
2497 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
2498 # http_reply_access.
2499
cccac0a2 2500 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
2501 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
d9572179 2502 # external_acl_type directive.
c4ab8329 2503
cccac0a2 2504 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
2505 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2506 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2507
cccac0a2 2508 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
2509 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
a7ad6e4e 2510 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
2511
cccac0a2 2512 acl aclname ext_user username ...
2513 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
2514 # string match on username returned by external acl processing
d95b862f 2515 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
2516
cccac0a2 2517Examples:
2518acl myexample dst_as 1241
2519acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
2520acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
2521acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
c68e9c6b 2522
cccac0a2 2523NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2524#Recommended minimum configuration:
cccac0a2 2525acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
2526acl manager proto cache_object
2527acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
2528acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
2529acl SSL_ports port 443 563
2530acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
2531acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
2532acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
2533acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
2534acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
2535acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
2536acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
2537acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
2538acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
2539acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
2540acl CONNECT method CONNECT
2541NOCOMMENT_END
2542DOC_END
2543
2544NAME: http_access
2545TYPE: acl_access
2546LOC: Config.accessList.http
2547DEFAULT: none
2548DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2549DOC_START
2550 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
2551
2552 Access to the HTTP port:
2553 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2554
2555 NOTE on default values:
2556
2557 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
2558 the request.
2559
2560 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
2561 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
7f7db318 2562 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
cccac0a2 2563 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
2564 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
2565 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
2566
2567NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2568#Recommended minimum configuration:
2569#
2570# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
cccac0a2 2571http_access allow manager localhost
2572http_access deny manager
6b53c392 2573# Deny requests to unknown ports
cccac0a2 2574http_access deny !Safe_ports
6b53c392 2575# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
cccac0a2 2576http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
c68e9c6b 2577#
7f7db318 2578# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
2579# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
4cc6eb12 2580# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
2581#http_access deny to_localhost
c68e9c6b 2582#
4cc6eb12 2583# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
2584
59f4a63e 2585# Example rule allowing access from your local networks. Adapt
b9d7fe3e 2586# to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing should
2587# be allowed
2588#acl our_networks src 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24
2589#http_access allow our_networks
2590
6b53c392 2591# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
cccac0a2 2592http_access deny all
2593NOCOMMENT_END
2594DOC_END
c4ab8329 2595
cccac0a2 2596NAME: http_reply_access
2597TYPE: acl_access
2598LOC: Config.accessList.reply
2599DEFAULT: none
2600DEFAULT_IF_NONE: allow all
2601DOC_START
2602 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
c4ab8329 2603
cccac0a2 2604 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
0976f8db 2605
cccac0a2 2606 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
2607 all replies
0976f8db 2608
7f7db318 2609 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
cccac0a2 2610 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
2611 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
0976f8db 2612
cccac0a2 2613NOCOMMENT_START
c4ab8329 2614#Recommended minimum configuration:
2615#
2616# Insert your own rules here.
2617#
2618#
2619# and finally allow by default
cccac0a2 2620http_reply_access allow all
2621NOCOMMENT_END
2622DOC_END
6b53c392 2623
6b53c392 2624
cccac0a2 2625NAME: icp_access
2626TYPE: acl_access
2627LOC: Config.accessList.icp
2628DEFAULT: none
2629DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2630DOC_START
2631 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
2632 access lists
934b03fc 2633
cccac0a2 2634 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2635
cccac0a2 2636 See http_access for details
0976f8db 2637
cccac0a2 2638NOCOMMENT_START
403b5e7b 2639#Allow ICP queries from everyone
cccac0a2 2640icp_access allow all
2641NOCOMMENT_END
2642DOC_END
934b03fc 2643
2644
cccac0a2 2645NAME: miss_access
2646TYPE: acl_access
2647LOC: Config.accessList.miss
2648DEFAULT: none
2649DOC_START
2650 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
2651 a parent. For example:
934b03fc 2652
cccac0a2 2653 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
2654 miss_access allow localclients
2655 miss_access deny !localclients
934b03fc 2656
7f7db318 2657 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
cccac0a2 2658 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
934b03fc 2659
cccac0a2 2660 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
2661 to fetch MISSES from us.
6b53c392 2662
cccac0a2 2663NOCOMMENT_START
6b53c392 2664#Default setting:
2665# miss_access allow all
cccac0a2 2666NOCOMMENT_END
2667DOC_END
2668
2669
2670NAME: cache_peer_access
2671TYPE: peer_access
2672DEFAULT: none
2673LOC: none
2674DOC_START
2675 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2676 using ACL elements.
2677
2678 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2679
2680 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2681 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2682 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
2683DOC_END
2684
2685NAME: ident_lookup_access
2686TYPE: acl_access
2687IFDEF: USE_IDENT
2688DEFAULT: none
2689DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
2690LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
2691DOC_START
2692 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
2693 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
2694 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
2695 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
2696 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
2697 any requests.
2698
2699 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
2700 can follow this example:
2701
2702 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
2703 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
2704 ident_lookup_access deny all
2705
2706 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
2707 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
2708 the correct result.
2709DOC_END
2710
2711NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2712TYPE: acl_tos
2713DEFAULT: none
2714LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
2715DOC_START
2716 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
2717 connections with, based on the username or source address
2718 making the request.
2719
2720 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2721
2722 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2723 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
2724
2725 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2726 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2727 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net 0x00
2728 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2729
2730 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
2731 know what you're specifying. For more, see RFC 2474
2732
2733 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a byte, value 0 - 255, or
2734 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2735
2736 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2737 matching line.
2738DOC_END
2739
2740NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2741TYPE: acl_address
2742DEFAULT: none
2743LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2744DOC_START
2745 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2746 based on the username or sourceaddress of the user making
2747 the request.
7f7db318 2748
cccac0a2 2749 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
2750
2751 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwareded
7f7db318 2752 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
cccac0a2 2753 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
2754 source address 10.1.0.3.
2755
2756 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
2757 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2758 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.1 normal_service_net
2759 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.2 good_service_net
2760 tcp_outgoing_address 10.0.0.3
2761
2762 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2763 matching line.
2764DOC_END
2765
2766NAME: reply_body_max_size
2767COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
2768TYPE: acl_b_size_t
2769DEFAULT: none
2770LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
2771DOC_START
2772 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
2773 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
2774 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are recieved, the
2775 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
2776 all (if any) listed acls are true is used as the maximum body size
2777 for this reply.
2778
7f7db318 2779 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
cccac0a2 2780 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
2781 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
2782 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
2783 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
2784 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
2785 and they will receive a partial reply.
2786
2787 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
2788 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
2789 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
2790 use this option if you have downstream caches.
2791
2792 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
2793 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
2794 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
2795 the size of your largest error page.
2796
2797 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
2798 no limit imposed.
2799DOC_END
2800
2801NAME: log_access
2802TYPE: acl_access
2803LOC: Config.accessList.log
2804DEFAULT: none
2805COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2806DOC_START
2807 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2808 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2809 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2810DOC_END
0976f8db 2811
cccac0a2 2812COMMENT_START
2813 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
2814 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2815COMMENT_END
2816
2817NAME: cache_mgr
2818TYPE: string
2819DEFAULT: webmaster
2820LOC: Config.adminEmail
2821DOC_START
2822 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
2823 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
2824DOC_END
2825
2826
2827NAME: cache_effective_user
2828TYPE: string
2829DEFAULT: nobody
2830LOC: Config.effectiveUser
2831DOC_NONE
2832
2833NAME: cache_effective_group
2834TYPE: string
2835DEFAULT: none
2836LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
2837DOC_START
2838
2839 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
2840 UID/GID to the UID/GID specified below. The default is to
2841 change to UID to nobody. If you define cache_effective_user,
2842 but not cache_effective_group, Squid sets the GID the
2843 effective user's default group ID (taken from the password
2844 file).
2845
2846 If Squid is not started as root, the cache_effective_user
2847 value is ignored and the GID value is unchanged by default.
2848 However, you can make Squid change its GID to another group
2849 that the process owner is a member of. Note that if Squid
7f7db318 2850 is not started as root you cannot set http_port to a
cccac0a2 2851 value lower than 1024.
2852DOC_END
2853
2854
2855NAME: visible_hostname
2856TYPE: string
2857LOC: Config.visibleHostname
2858DEFAULT: none
2859DOC_START
2860 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 2861 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 2862 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
2863 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
2864 names with this setting.
2865DOC_END
2866
2867
2868NAME: unique_hostname
2869TYPE: string
2870LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
2871DEFAULT: none
2872DOC_START
2873 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 2874 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
2875 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 2876DOC_END
2877
2878
2879NAME: hostname_aliases
2880TYPE: wordlist
2881LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
2882DEFAULT: none
2883DOC_START
7f7db318 2884 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 2885DOC_END
0976f8db 2886
cccac0a2 2887COMMENT_START
2888 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
2889 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2890
2891 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
2892 announcement service. This service is provided to help
2893 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
2894 create cache hierarchies.
2895
2896 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
2897 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
2898 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
2899
2900 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
2901 following information from this configuration file:
2902
2903 http_port
2904 icp_port
2905 cache_mgr
2906
2907 All current information is processed regularly and made
2908 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
2909COMMENT_END
2910
2911NAME: announce_period
2912TYPE: time_t
2913LOC: Config.Announce.period
2914DEFAULT: 0
2915DOC_START
2916 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
2917 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
2918 messages.
2919
2920 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
2921 below.
2922
2923NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 2924#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
2925#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 2926NOCOMMENT_END
2927DOC_END
2928
2929
2930NAME: announce_host
2931TYPE: string
2932DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
2933LOC: Config.Announce.host
2934DOC_NONE
2935
2936NAME: announce_file
2937TYPE: string
2938DEFAULT: none
2939LOC: Config.Announce.file
2940DOC_NONE
2941
2942NAME: announce_port
2943TYPE: ushort
2944DEFAULT: 3131
2945LOC: Config.Announce.port
2946DOC_START
2947 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
2948 number where the registration message will be sent.
2949
2950 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
2951 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
2952 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
2953 message.
2954DOC_END
2955
2956NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
2957IFDEF: ESI
2958TYPE: string
2959LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
2960DEFAULT: unset-id
2961DOC_START
2962 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
2963 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
2964 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
2965 an identification token.
2966DOC_END
2967
2968NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
2969IFDEF: ESI
2970COMMENT: on|off
2971TYPE: onoff
2972DEFAULT: off
2973LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
2974DOC_START
2975 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
2976 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
2977DOC_END
2978
2979NAME: esi_parser
2980IFDEF: ESI
2981COMMENT: expat|custom
2982TYPE: string
2983LOC: ESIParser::Type
2984DEFAULT: custom
2985DOC_START
2986 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
2987 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
2988 encodings.
2989DOC_END
0976f8db 2990
cccac0a2 2991COMMENT_START
2992 MISCELLANEOUS
2993 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2994COMMENT_END
2995
2996NAME: dns_testnames
2997TYPE: wordlist
2998LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
2999DEFAULT: none
3000DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
3001DOC_START
3002 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
3003
3004 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
3005DOC_END
3006
3007
3008NAME: logfile_rotate
3009TYPE: int
3010DEFAULT: 10
3011LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3012DOC_START
3013 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3014 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3015 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3016 disable the rotation, but the logfiles are still closed and
3017 re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3018 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3019
3020 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3021 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3022 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3023 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3024 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3025 <pid>'.
3026DOC_END
3027
3028
3029NAME: append_domain
3030TYPE: string
3031LOC: Config.appendDomain
3032DEFAULT: none
3033DOC_START
3034 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
3035 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
3036
7f7db318 3037 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
cccac0a2 3038 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
3039 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
3040
3041Example:
3042 append_domain .yourdomain.com
3043DOC_END
3044
3045
3046NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
3047COMMENT: (bytes)
3048TYPE: b_size_t
3049DEFAULT: 0 bytes
3050LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
3051DOC_START
3052 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
3053 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
3054 the default buffer size.
3055DOC_END
3056
3057NAME: err_html_text
3058TYPE: eol
3059LOC: Config.errHtmlText
3060DEFAULT: none
3061DOC_START
3062 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
3063 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
3064 organizations Web page.
3065
3066 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
3067 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
3068 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
3069 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
3070DOC_END
3071
3072NAME: email_err_data
3073COMMENT: on|off
3074TYPE: onoff
3075LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
3076DEFAULT: on
3077DOC_START
3078 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
3079 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7f7db318 3080 so that the email body contains the data.
cccac0a2 3081 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
3082DOC_END
3083
3084
3085NAME: deny_info
3086TYPE: denyinfo
3087LOC: Config.denyInfoList
3088DEFAULT: none
3089DOC_START
3090 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
3091 or deny_info http://... acl
3092 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
3093
3094 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
3095 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. A single ACL will cause
3096 the http_access check to fail. If a 'deny_info' line exists
7f7db318 3097 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
cccac0a2 3098
3099 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
3100 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
3101
7f7db318 3102 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
cccac0a2 3103 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
3104 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
3105
3106 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
3107 by specifying TCP_RESET.
3108DOC_END
3109
3110NAME: memory_pools
3111COMMENT: on|off
3112TYPE: onoff
3113DEFAULT: on
3114LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
3115DOC_START
3116 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
3117 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
3118 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
3119 routines, disable this.
3120DOC_END
3121
3122NAME: memory_pools_limit
3123COMMENT: (bytes)
3124TYPE: b_size_t
e838cf2f 3125DEFAULT: 5 MB
cccac0a2 3126LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
3127DOC_START
3128 Used only with memory_pools on:
3129 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
3130
3131 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
3132 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
3133 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
3134 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
3135 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
3136 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
3137 configuration will use less memory.
3138
3139 If not set (default) or set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it
3140 can. That is, there will be no limit on the total amount of memory
3141 used for safe-keeping.
3142
3143 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
3144 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
3145
3146 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
3147 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
3148 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
3149 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
3150DOC_END
3151
3152NAME: via
3153IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3154COMMENT: on|off
3155TYPE: onoff
3156DEFAULT: on
3157LOC: Config.onoff.via
3158DOC_START
3159 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3160 replies as required by RFC2616.
3161DOC_END
3162
3163NAME: forwarded_for
3164COMMENT: on|off
3165TYPE: onoff
3166DEFAULT: on
3167LOC: opt_forwarded_for
3168DOC_START
3169 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
3170 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
3171 this:
3172
3173 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
3174
3175 If you disable this, it will appear as
3176
3177 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
3178DOC_END
3179
3180NAME: log_icp_queries
3181COMMENT: on|off
3182TYPE: onoff
3183DEFAULT: on
3184LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
3185DOC_START
3186 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
3187 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
3188 up or to simplify log analysis.
3189DOC_END
3190
3191NAME: icp_hit_stale
3192COMMENT: on|off
3193TYPE: onoff
3194DEFAULT: off
3195LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
3196DOC_START
3197 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
3198 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
3199 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7f7db318 3200 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
cccac0a2 3201 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7f7db318 3202 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
cccac0a2 3203 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
3204DOC_END
3205
3206
3207NAME: minimum_direct_hops
3208TYPE: int
3209DEFAULT: 4
3210LOC: Config.minDirectHops
3211DOC_START
3212 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3213 which are no more than this many hops away.
3214DOC_END
3215
3216NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
3217TYPE: int
3218DEFAULT: 400
3219LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
3220DOC_START
3221 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
3222 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
3223DOC_END
3224
3225NAME: cachemgr_passwd
3226TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
3227DEFAULT: none
3228LOC: Config.passwd_list
3229DOC_START
3230 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
3231
3232 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
3233
3234 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
3235 5min
3236 60min
3237 asndb
3238 authenticator
3239 cbdata
3240 client_list
3241 comm_incoming
3242 config *
3243 counters
3244 delay
3245 digest_stats
3246 dns
3247 events
3248 filedescriptors
3249 fqdncache
3250 histograms
3251 http_headers
3252 info
3253 io
3254 ipcache
3255 mem
3256 menu
3257 netdb
3258 non_peers
3259 objects
3260 offline_toggle *
3261 pconn
3262 peer_select
3263 redirector
3264 refresh
3265 server_list
3266 shutdown *
3267 store_digest
3268 storedir
3269 utilization
3270 via_headers
3271 vm_objects
3272
3273 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
3274 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
3275
3276 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
3277 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
3278 password to "none".
3279
3280 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
3281
3282Example:
3283 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
3284 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
3285 cachemgr_passwd disable all
3286DOC_END
3287
3288NAME: store_avg_object_size
3289COMMENT: (kbytes)
3290TYPE: kb_size_t
3291DEFAULT: 13 KB
3292LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3293DOC_START
3294 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3295 cache can hold. See doc/Release-Notes-1.1.txt. The default is
3296 13 KB.
3297DOC_END
3298
3299NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3300TYPE: int
3301DEFAULT: 20
3302LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3303DOC_START
3304 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3305 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3306 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 50.
3307DOC_END
3308
3309NAME: client_db
3310COMMENT: on|off
3311TYPE: onoff
3312DEFAULT: on
3313LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
3314DOC_START
7f7db318 3315 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
cccac0a2 3316 turn off client_db here.
3317DOC_END
3318
3319
3320NAME: netdb_low
3321TYPE: int
3322DEFAULT: 900
3323LOC: Config.Netdb.low
3324DOC_NONE
3325
3326NAME: netdb_high
3327TYPE: int
3328DEFAULT: 1000
3329LOC: Config.Netdb.high
3330DOC_START
3331 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
3332 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
3333 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
3334 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
3335DOC_END
3336
3337
3338NAME: netdb_ping_period
3339TYPE: time_t
3340LOC: Config.Netdb.period
3341DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3342DOC_START
3343 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
3344 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
3345 network. The default is five minutes.
3346DOC_END
3347
3348
3349NAME: query_icmp
3350COMMENT: on|off
3351TYPE: onoff
3352DEFAULT: off
3353LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
3354DOC_START
3355 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
3356 replies, enable this option.
3357
3358 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 3359 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
3360 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 3361 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
3362 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
3363 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
3364 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
3365 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
3366DOC_END
3367
3368NAME: test_reachability
3369COMMENT: on|off
3370TYPE: onoff
3371DEFAULT: off
3372LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
3373DOC_START
3374 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
3375 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
3376 database, or has a zero RTT.
3377DOC_END
3378
3379NAME: buffered_logs
3380COMMENT: on|off
3381TYPE: onoff
3382DEFAULT: off
3383LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3384DOC_START
3385 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3386 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3387 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3388 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3389 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3390DOC_END
3391
3392NAME: reload_into_ims
3393IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3394COMMENT: on|off
3395TYPE: onoff
3396DEFAULT: off
3397LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
3398DOC_START
3399 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
3400 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
3401 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
3402 feature could make you liable for problems which it
3403 causes.
7f7db318 3404
cccac0a2 3405 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
3406DOC_END
3407
3408NAME: always_direct
3409TYPE: acl_access
3410LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
3411DEFAULT: none
3412DOC_START
3413 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3414
3415 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
3416 ALWAYS be forwarded directly to origin servers. For example,
3417 to always directly forward requests for local servers use
3418 something like:
3419
3420 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
3421 always_direct allow local-servers
3422
3423 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
3424
3425 acl FTP proto FTP
3426 always_direct allow FTP
3427
3428 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
3429 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
3430 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
3431 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
3432 some other rule. Example:
3433
3434 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3435 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3436 always_direct deny local-external
3437 always_direct allow local-servers
3438
3439 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
3440 and local_ip.
3441DOC_END
3442
3443NAME: never_direct
3444TYPE: acl_access
3445LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
3446DEFAULT: none
3447DOC_START
3448 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3449
3450 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
3451 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
3452
3453 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
3454 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
3455 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
3456 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
3457
3458 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
3459 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
3460 never_direct deny local-servers
3461 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3462
3463 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
f939c0ca 3464 servers inside the firewall use something like:
cccac0a2 3465
3466 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
3467 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
3468 always_direct deny local-external
3469 always_direct allow local-intranet
3470 never_direct allow all
7f7db318 3471
cccac0a2 3472 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
3473 and firewall_ip.
3474DOC_END
3475
3476NAME: header_access
3477IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3478TYPE: http_header_access[]
3479LOC: Config.header_access
3480DEFAULT: none
3481DOC_START
3482 Usage: header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3483
3484 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3485 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3486 causes.
3487
3488 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3489 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3490 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3491 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3492 mangling.
3493
3494 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3495 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3496 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3497
3498 For example, to achieve the same behaviour as the old
3499 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3500
3501 header_access From deny all
3502 header_access Referer deny all
3503 header_access Server deny all
3504 header_access User-Agent deny all
3505 header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3506 header_access Link deny all
3507
3508 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3509 you should use:
3510
3511 header_access Allow allow all
3512 header_access Authorization allow all
3513 header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3514 header_access Cache-Control allow all
3515 header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3516 header_access Content-Length allow all
3517 header_access Content-Type allow all
3518 header_access Date allow all
3519 header_access Expires allow all
3520 header_access Host allow all
3521 header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3522 header_access Last-Modified allow all
3523 header_access Location allow all
3524 header_access Pragma allow all
3525 header_access Accept allow all
3526 header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3527 header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3528 header_access Accept-Language allow all
3529 header_access Content-Language allow all
3530 header_access Mime-Version allow all
3531 header_access Retry-After allow all
3532 header_access Title allow all
3533 header_access Connection allow all
3534 header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3535 header_access All deny all
3536
3537 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3538 performed).
3539DOC_END
3540
3541NAME: header_replace
3542IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3543TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3544LOC: Config.header_access
3545DEFAULT: none
3546DOC_START
3547 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3548 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
3549
3550 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3551 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3552 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3553 option.
3554
3555 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3556DOC_END
3557
3558NAME: icon_directory
3559TYPE: string
3560LOC: Config.icons.directory
3561DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3562DOC_START
3563 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
3564 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
3565DOC_END
3566
e72a0ec0 3567NAME: short_icon_urls
3568TYPE: onoff
3569LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
3570DEFAULT: on
3571DOC_START
7f7db318 3572 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
e72a0ec0 3573 If disabled it will revert to the old behaviour of including
3574 it's own name and port in the URL.
3575
3576 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7f7db318 3577 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
e72a0ec0 3578DOC_END
3579
cccac0a2 3580NAME: error_directory
3581TYPE: string
3582LOC: Config.errorDirectory
3583DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
3584DOC_START
3585 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
3586 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
3587 language or company copy the template English files to another
3588 directory and point this tag at them.
3589DOC_END
3590
3591NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
3592TYPE: int
3593LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
4ed0e075 3594DEFAULT: 1
cccac0a2 3595DOC_START
3596 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
3597 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
3598 each address is tried once).
3599
4ed0e075 3600 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
cccac0a2 3601 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
3602 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
4ed0e075 3603
3604 Note: This is in addition to the request reforwarding which
3605 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
cccac0a2 3606DOC_END
3607
3608NAME: snmp_port
3609TYPE: ushort
3610LOC: Config.Port.snmp
3611DEFAULT: 3401
3612IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3613DOC_START
3614 Squid can now serve statistics and status information via SNMP.
3615 By default it listens to port 3401 on the machine. If you don't
3616 wish to use SNMP, set this to "0".
4ed0e075 3617
7f7db318 3618 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4ed0e075 3619 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
3620 acts on cachable requests.
cccac0a2 3621DOC_END
3622
3623NAME: snmp_access
3624TYPE: acl_access
3625LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
3626DEFAULT: none
3627DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
3628IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3629DOC_START
3630 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
3631
3632 All access to the agent is denied by default.
3633 usage:
3634
3635 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3636
3637Example:
3638 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
3639 snmp_access deny all
3640DOC_END
3641
3642NAME: snmp_incoming_address
3643TYPE: address
3644LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
3645DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3646IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3647DOC_NONE
3648NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
3649TYPE: address
3650LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
3651DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3652IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
3653DOC_START
3654 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
3655
3656 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
3657 messages from SNMP agents.
3658 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
3659 agents.
3660
3661 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
3662 available network interfaces.
3663
3664 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
7f7db318 3665 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
cccac0a2 3666 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
3667 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
3668
3669 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
3670 the same value since they both use port 3401.
3671DOC_END
3672
3673NAME: as_whois_server
3674TYPE: string
3675LOC: Config.as_whois_server
3676DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
3677DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
3678DOC_START
3679 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
3680 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
3681DOC_END
3682
3683NAME: wccp_router
3684TYPE: address
3685LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3686DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3687IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3688DOC_START
3689 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3690 Squid. Setting the 'wccp_router' to 0.0.0.0 (the default)
3691 disables WCCP.
3692DOC_END
3693
3694NAME: wccp_version
3695TYPE: int
3696LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3697DEFAULT: 4
3698IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3699DOC_START
3700 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 only supports WCCP
3701 version 3. If you're using that version of IOS, change
3702 this value to 3.
3703DOC_END
3704
3705NAME: wccp_incoming_address
3706TYPE: address
3707LOC: Config.Wccp.incoming
3708DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3709IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3710DOC_NONE
3711NAME: wccp_outgoing_address
3712TYPE: address
3713LOC: Config.Wccp.outgoing
3714DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
3715IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3716DOC_START
3717 wccp_incoming_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3718 messages to be received on only one
3719 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3720 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3721 have, or if you know you have only one
3722 interface.
3723
3724 wccp_outgoing_address Use this option if you require WCCP
3725 messages to be sent out on only one
3726 interface. Do NOT use this option if
3727 you're unsure how many interfaces you
3728 have, or if you know you have only one
3729 interface.
3730
3731 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
3732
3733 NOTE, wccp_incoming_address and wccp_outgoing_address can not have
3734 the same value since they both use port 2048.
3735DOC_END
0976f8db 3736
0976f8db 3737
cccac0a2 3738COMMENT_START
3739 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS (all require DELAY_POOLS compilation option)
3740 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3741COMMENT_END
3742
3743NAME: delay_pools
3744TYPE: delay_pool_count
3745DEFAULT: 0
3746IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3747LOC: Config.Delay
3748DOC_START
3749 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3750 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3751 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3752DOC_END
3753
3754NAME: delay_class
3755TYPE: delay_pool_class
3756DEFAULT: none
3757IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3758LOC: Config.Delay
3759DOC_START
3760 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3761 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3762 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3763 and here would be:
3764
3765Example:
3766 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3767 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3768 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3769 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3770 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3771
3772 The delay pool classes are:
3773
3774 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3775 bucket.
3776
3777 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3778 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3779 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3780
3781 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3782 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3783 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3784 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3785 32 of the IP address.
7f7db318 3786
3787 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
cccac0a2 3788 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3789 only takes effect if the username is established
3790 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3791 http_access rules.
3792
7f7db318 3793 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
cccac0a2 3794 external_acl's tag= reply).
3795
3796 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3797 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3798 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3799 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3800DOC_END
3801
3802NAME: delay_access
3803TYPE: delay_pool_access
3804DEFAULT: none
3805IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3806LOC: Config.Delay
3807DOC_START
3808 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3809 The first matched delay pool is always used, i.e., if a request falls
3810 into delay pool number one, no more delay are checked, otherwise the
3811 rest are checked in order of their delay pool number until they have
3812 all been checked. For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3813 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3814
3815Example:
3816 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3817 delay_access 1 deny all
3818 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3819 delay_access 2 deny all
3820 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3821DOC_END
3822
3823NAME: delay_parameters
3824TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3825DEFAULT: none
3826IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3827LOC: Config.Delay
3828DOC_START
3829 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3830 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3831 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3832
3833delay_parameters pool aggregate
3834
3835 For a class 2 delay pool:
3836
3837delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3838
3839 For a class 3 delay pool:
3840
3841delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3842
3843 For a class 4 delay pool:
3844
3845delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3846
3847 For a class 5 delay pool:
3848
3849delay_parameters pool tag
3850
3851 The variables here are:
3852
3853 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3854 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3855 delay_class lines.
3856
3857 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3858 (class 1, 2, 3).
3859
3860 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3861 buckets (class 2, 3).
3862
3863 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3864 (class 3).
3865
3866 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3867 (class 4).
3868
3869 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3870 (class 5).
3871
3872 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3873 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3874 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3875 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3876
3877 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3878 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3879 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3880
3881delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3882
3883 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3884
3885 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3886 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3887 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3888 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3889 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3890 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3891 large downloads more significantly:
3892
3893delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3894
3895 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3896
3897 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3898 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
7f7db318 3899
cccac0a2 3900delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3901DOC_END
3902
3903NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3904COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3905TYPE: ushort
3906DEFAULT: 50
3907IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3908LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3909DOC_START
3910 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3911 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3912 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3913 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3914 "seen" by squid).
3915DOC_END
3916
3917NAME: incoming_icp_average
3918TYPE: int
3919DEFAULT: 6
3920LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
3921DOC_NONE
3922
3923NAME: incoming_http_average
3924TYPE: int
3925DEFAULT: 4
3926LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
3927DOC_NONE
3928
3929NAME: incoming_dns_average
3930TYPE: int
3931DEFAULT: 4
3932LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
3933DOC_NONE
3934
3935NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
3936TYPE: int
3937DEFAULT: 8
3938LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
3939DOC_NONE
3940
3941NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
3942TYPE: int
3943DEFAULT: 8
3944LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
3945DOC_NONE
3946
3947NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
3948TYPE: int
3949DEFAULT: 8
3950LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
3951DOC_START
3952 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
3953 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
3954 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
3955DOC_END
3956
3957NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3958TYPE: int
3959LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3960DEFAULT: 0
3961DOC_START
3962 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3963 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3964 descriptors are open.
3965
3966 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
3967DOC_END
3968
3969NAME: offline_mode
3970TYPE: onoff
3971LOC: Config.onoff.offline
3972DEFAULT: off
3973DOC_START
3974 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
3975 objects.
3976DOC_END
3977
3978NAME: uri_whitespace
3979TYPE: uri_whitespace
3980LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
3981DEFAULT: strip
3982DOC_START
3983 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
3984 URI. Options:
3985
3986 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
3987 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
3988 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
3989 Request" message.
3990 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
3991 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
3992 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
3993 are in use.
3994 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
3995 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
3996 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
3997 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
3998 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
3999 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
4000 violation.
4001DOC_END
4002
4003NAME: broken_posts
4004TYPE: acl_access
4005DEFAULT: none
4006LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4007DOC_START
4008 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4009 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4010
4011 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4012 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4013
4014 Quote from RFC 2068 section 4.1 on this matter:
4015
4016 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4017 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4018 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4019 a request with an extra CRLF.
4020
4021Example:
4022 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4023 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4024DOC_END
4025
4026NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4027IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4028TYPE: address
4029LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4030DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4031DOC_START
4032 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4033 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
4034
4035 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4036 certain you understand what you are doing.
4037DOC_END
4038
4039NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4040IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_TTL
4041TYPE: ushort
4042LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4043DEFAULT: 16
4044DOC_START
4045 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4046 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4047 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4048DOC_END
4049
4050NAME: mcast_miss_port
4051IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4052TYPE: ushort
4053LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4054DEFAULT: 3135
4055DOC_START
4056 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4057 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4058DOC_END
4059
4060NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4061IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4062TYPE: string
4063LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4064DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4065DOC_START
4066 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4067 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4068DOC_END
4069
4070NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
4071TYPE: onoff
4072LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
4073DEFAULT: on
4074DOC_START
4075 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4076 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cachable request type) direct
4077 to origin servers.
4078
7f7db318 4079 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
cccac0a2 4080 requests to parents.
4081
4082 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4083 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4084 ratio.
4085
7f7db318 4086 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
cccac0a2 4087 this directive.
4088DOC_END
4089
4090NAME: prefer_direct
4091TYPE: onoff
4092LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
4093DEFAULT: off
4094DOC_START
7f7db318 4095 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
cccac0a2 4096 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7f7db318 4097 going direct fails set this to on.
cccac0a2 4098
4099 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4100 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4101 fails.
4102DOC_END
4103
4104NAME: strip_query_terms
4105TYPE: onoff
4106LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
4107DEFAULT: on
4108DOC_START
4109 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4110 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
4111DOC_END
4112
4113NAME: coredump_dir
4114TYPE: string
4115LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4116DEFAULT: none
4117DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4118DOC_START
4119 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4120 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4121 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4122 and coredump files will be left there.
4123
4124NOCOMMENT_START
5ff76111 4125# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
cccac0a2 4126coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4127NOCOMMENT_END
4128DOC_END
4129
4130NAME: redirector_bypass
4131TYPE: onoff
4132LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4133DEFAULT: off
4134DOC_START
4135 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4136 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4137 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4138 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4139 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4140 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4141 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
7f7db318 4142 users may have access to pages they should not
cccac0a2 4143 be allowed to request.
4144DOC_END
4145
4146NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
4147TYPE: onoff
4148LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
4149DEFAULT: on
4150DOC_START
4151 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7f7db318 4152 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
cccac0a2 4153 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
4154 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
4155 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
4156DOC_END
4157
4158NAME: digest_generation
4159IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4160TYPE: onoff
4161LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4162DEFAULT: on
4163DOC_START
4164 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4165 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
4166 enabled if Squid is compiled with USE_CACHE_DIGESTS defined.
4167DOC_END
4168
4169NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4170IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4171TYPE: int
4172LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4173DEFAULT: 5
4174DOC_START
4175 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4176 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4177 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4178DOC_END
4179
4180NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4181IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4182COMMENT: (seconds)
4183TYPE: time_t
4184LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4185DEFAULT: 1 hour
4186DOC_START
4187 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest rebuilds.
4188DOC_END
4189
4190NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4191COMMENT: (seconds)
4192IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4193TYPE: time_t
4194LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4195DEFAULT: 1 hour
4196DOC_START
4197 This is the number of seconds between Cache Digest writes to
4198 disk.
4199DOC_END
4200
4201NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4202COMMENT: (bytes)
4203TYPE: b_size_t
4204IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4205LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4206DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4207DOC_START
4208 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4209 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4210 default swap page.
4211DOC_END
4212
4213NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4214COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4215IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4216TYPE: int
4217LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4218DEFAULT: 10
4219DOC_START
4220 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4221 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4222DOC_END
4223
4224NAME: chroot
4225TYPE: string
4226LOC: Config.chroot_dir
4227DEFAULT: none
4228DOC_START
4229 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
4230 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
7f7db318 4231 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
cccac0a2 4232 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will get an
4233 error.
4234DOC_END
4235
4236NAME: client_persistent_connections
4237TYPE: onoff
4238LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4239DEFAULT: on
4240DOC_NONE
4241
4242NAME: server_persistent_connections
4243TYPE: onoff
4244LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4245DEFAULT: on
4246DOC_START
4247 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4248 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4249 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4250 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4251DOC_END
4252
4253NAME: pipeline_prefetch
4254TYPE: onoff
4255LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
4256DEFAULT: off
4257DOC_START
4258 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
4259 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
4260 up to two requests in parallell from a pipeline.
4261
4262 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
4263 reasons.
4264DOC_END
4265
4266NAME: extension_methods
4267TYPE: wordlist
4268LOC: Config.ext_methods
4269DEFAULT: none
4270DOC_START
4271 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
4272 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
4273DOC_END
4274
4275NAME: request_entities
4276TYPE: onoff
4277LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4278DEFAULT: off
4279DOC_START
4280 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4281 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4282 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4283
4284 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4285 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests.
4286DOC_END
4287
4288NAME: high_response_time_warning
4289TYPE: int
4290COMMENT: (msec)
4291LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
4292DEFAULT: 0
4293DOC_START
4294 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
4295 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
4296 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
4297DOC_END
4298
4299NAME: high_page_fault_warning
4300TYPE: int
4301LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
4302DEFAULT: 0
4303DOC_START
4304 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
4305 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4306 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
4307 per second.
4308DOC_END
4309
4310NAME: high_memory_warning
4311TYPE: b_size_t
4312LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
4313DEFAULT: 0
4314DOC_START
4315 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
4316 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
4317 the administrators attention.
4318DOC_END
4319
4320NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
4321TYPE: string
4322LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
4323DEFAULT: least-load
4324DOC_START
4325 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
4326DOC_END
4327
4328NAME: forward_log
4329IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
4330TYPE: string
4331DEFAULT: none
4332LOC: Config.Log.forward
4333DOC_START
4334 Logs the server-side requests.
4335
4336 This is currently work in progress.
4337DOC_END
4338
4339NAME: ie_refresh
4340COMMENT: on|off
4341TYPE: onoff
4342LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4343DEFAULT: off
4344DOC_START
4345 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4346 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4347 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4348 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4349 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4350 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4351 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
7f7db318 4352 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
cccac0a2 4353 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4354 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4355 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4356 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4357 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4358 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4359 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4360 force fresh content.
4361DOC_END
4362
4363NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4364COMMENT: on|off
4365TYPE: onoff
4366LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4367DEFAULT: off
4368DOC_START
4369 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4370 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4371 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4372 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4373 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4374 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
4375 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4376DOC_END
4377
4378NAME: sleep_after_fork
4379COMMENT: (microseconds)
4380TYPE: int
4381LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
4382DEFAULT: 0
4383DOC_START
4384 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
4385 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
4386 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
4387 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7f7db318 4388 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
4389 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
cccac0a2 4390 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
4391 until all the child processes have been started.
4392DOC_END
4393
4394EOF