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31
0f74202c 32COMMENT_START
cccac0a2 33 WELCOME TO SQUID @VERSION@
34 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 35
cccac0a2 36 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
37 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
38 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 39
cccac0a2 40 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
41 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
42 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
43 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
44 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
45 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
46 case.
debd9a31 47
cccac0a2 48COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 49
592a09dc 50COMMENT_START
51 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
52 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
53 supported.
54
55 For example,
56
57 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
58
59 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
60 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
61 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
62 configuration files.
63COMMENT_END
64
5473c134 65COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 66 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 67 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
68COMMENT_END
69
41bd17a4 70NAME: auth_param
71TYPE: authparam
72LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 73DEFAULT: none
74DOC_START
41bd17a4 75 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
76 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 77
41bd17a4 78 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 79
41bd17a4 80 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
81 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
82 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
83 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
84 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
85 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
86 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
87 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
88 program entry).
cccac0a2 89
41bd17a4 90 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
91 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
92 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
93 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 94
41bd17a4 95 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
96 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
97 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
98 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
99 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
100 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
101 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
102 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
103 type acl.
cccac0a2 104
41bd17a4 105 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
106 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
107 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
108 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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109 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have authentication
110 disabled.
cccac0a2 111
41bd17a4 112 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 113
41bd17a4 114 "program" cmdline
115 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
116 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
117 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
118 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
119 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 120
41bd17a4 121 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
122 program is specified.
cccac0a2 123
41bd17a4 124 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
125 this line to something like
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41bd17a4 127 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 128
41bd17a4 129 "children" numberofchildren
130 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
131 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
132 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
133 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
134 authenticator processes.
135 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 136
41bd17a4 137 "concurrency" concurrency
138 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
139 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
140 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
141 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
142 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
143 wating for the response.
144 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
145 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 146
41bd17a4 147 "realm" realmstring
148 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
149 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
150 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
151 password). There is no default.
152 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 153
41bd17a4 154 "credentialsttl" timetolive
155 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
156 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
157 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
158 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
159 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
160 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
161 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
162 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
163 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 164
41bd17a4 165 "casesensitive" on|off
166 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
167 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
168 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
169 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
170 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 171
41bd17a4 172 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "program" cmdline
175 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
176 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
177 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
178 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
179 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
180 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
181 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 182
41bd17a4 183 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
184 program is specified.
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41bd17a4 186 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
187 something like
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41bd17a4 189 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 190
41bd17a4 191 "children" numberofchildren
192 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
193 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
194 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
195 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
196 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
197 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 198
41bd17a4 199 "realm" realmstring
200 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
201 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
202 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
203 password). There is no default.
204 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 205
41bd17a4 206 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
207 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
208 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 209
41bd17a4 210 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
211 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
212 valid for.
cccac0a2 213
41bd17a4 214 "nonce_max_count" number
215 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
216 used.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 "nonce_strictness" on|off
219 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
220 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
221 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
222 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 "check_nonce_count" on|off
225 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
226 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
227 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
228 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 "post_workaround" on|off
231 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
232 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
233 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 234
41bd17a4 235 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 236
41bd17a4 237 "program" cmdline
238 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
239 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
240 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
241 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
242 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
243 is not used.
cccac0a2 244
41bd17a4 245 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 "children" numberofchildren
248 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
249 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
250 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
251 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
252 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
253 processes.
cccac0a2 254
41bd17a4 255 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 256
41bd17a4 257 "keep_alive" on|off
258 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
259 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
260 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
261 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
262 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 263
41bd17a4 264 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 265
41bd17a4 266 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 267
41bd17a4 268 "program" cmdline
269 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
270 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
271 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
272 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
273 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
274 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
275 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
276 is not used.
277 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
278 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 279
41bd17a4 280 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 281
41bd17a4 282 "children" numberofchildren
283 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
284 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
285 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
286 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
287 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
288 processes.
289 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 290
41bd17a4 291 "keep_alive" on|off
292 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
293 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
294 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
295 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
296 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 297
41bd17a4 298 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 299
41bd17a4 300NOCOMMENT_START
301#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
302#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
303#auth_param negotiate children 5
304#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
305#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
306#auth_param ntlm children 5
307#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
308#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
309#auth_param digest children 5
310#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
311#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
312#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
313#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
314#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
315#auth_param basic children 5
316#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
317#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
318NOCOMMENT_END
319DOC_END
cccac0a2 320
41bd17a4 321NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
322TYPE: time_t
323DEFAULT: 1 hour
324LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
325DOC_START
326 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
327 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
328 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
329 have good reason to.
330DOC_END
cccac0a2 331
41bd17a4 332NAME: authenticate_ttl
333TYPE: time_t
334DEFAULT: 1 hour
335LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
336DOC_START
337 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
338 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
339 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
340 TTL are removed from memory.
341DOC_END
cccac0a2 342
41bd17a4 343NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
344TYPE: time_t
345LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
346DEFAULT: 0 seconds
347DOC_START
348 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
349 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
350 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
351 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
352 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
353 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
354 environment with relatively static address assignments.
355DOC_END
cccac0a2 356
3d1e3e43 357COMMENT_START
358 ACCESS CONTROLS
359 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
360COMMENT_END
361
41bd17a4 362NAME: external_acl_type
363TYPE: externalAclHelper
364LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 365DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 366DOC_START
41bd17a4 367 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
368 to look up the status
cccac0a2 369
41bd17a4 370 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 371
41bd17a4 372 Options:
cccac0a2 373
41bd17a4 374 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
375 for 1 hour)
376 negative_ttl=n
377 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
378 as ttl)
379 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
380 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
381 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
382 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
383 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
384 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
385 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
386 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
387 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 388 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
389 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
390 'ipv4' is the default unless --with-localhost-ipv6 is used.
391 --with-localhost-ipv6 changes the default to 'ipv6'.
392 SPECIAL NOTE: these options override --with-localhost-ipv6
cccac0a2 393
41bd17a4 394 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
397 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
398 %IDENT Ident user name
399 %SRC Client IP
400 %SRCPORT Client source port
401 %URI Requested URI
402 %DST Requested host
403 %PROTO Requested protocol
404 %PORT Requested port
405 %PATH Requested URL path
406 %METHOD Request method
407 %MYADDR Squid interface address
408 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
409 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
410 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
411 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
412 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
413 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
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415 %>{Header} HTTP request header
416 %>{Hdr:member}
417 HTTP request header list member
418 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 419 HTTP request header list member using ; as
420 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
421 character.
cccac0a2 422
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423 %<{Header} HTTP reply header
424 %<{Hdr:member}
425 HTTP reply header list member
426 %<{Hdr:;member}
427 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
428 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
429 character.
430
41bd17a4 431 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
432 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
433 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 434
41bd17a4 435 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
436 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
437 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
438 more details.
cccac0a2 439
41bd17a4 440 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 441
41bd17a4 442 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 443
41bd17a4 444 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 445
41bd17a4 446 user= The users name (login)
447 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
448 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
449 in error pages
450 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
451 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
452 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
453 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 454
41bd17a4 455 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
456 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 457
41bd17a4 458 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
459 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
460 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 461
41bd17a4 462 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
463 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
464 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 465DOC_END
466
41bd17a4 467NAME: acl
468TYPE: acl
469LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 470DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 471DOC_START
41bd17a4 472 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 473
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474 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
475 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
476 they are read from.
cccac0a2 477
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478 acl aclname acltype argument ...
479 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 480
375eeb3b 481 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 482
41bd17a4 483 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
484 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 485
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486
487 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
488
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489 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address
490 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses
491 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address
492 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address
cccac0a2 493
41bd17a4 494 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
495 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
496 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
497 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
498 #
499 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
500 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
501 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 502
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503 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, from client IP
504 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
505 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching client name
506 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ... # regex matching server
41bd17a4 507 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
508 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
509 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 510
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511 acl aclname src_as number ...
512 acl aclname dst_as number ...
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513 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
514 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
515 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
516 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
517 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
518 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
519 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 520
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521 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
522 # day-abbrevs:
523 # S - Sunday
524 # M - Monday
525 # T - Tuesday
526 # W - Wednesday
527 # H - Thursday
528 # F - Friday
529 # A - Saturday
530 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
531
532 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
41bd17a4 533 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
e988aa40 534
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535 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
536 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
537 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
197f6b3c 538 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name
e988aa40 539
375eeb3b 540 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
e988aa40 541
375eeb3b 542 acl aclname method GET POST ...
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543
544 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
545
375eeb3b 546 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 547 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
e988aa40 548
375eeb3b 549 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
41bd17a4 550 # pattern match on Referer header
551 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 552
375eeb3b 553 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 554 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
555 # string match on ident output.
556 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 557
41bd17a4 558 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
559 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
560 # list of valid usernames
561 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
562 #
563 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
564 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
565 # in access.log.
566 #
567 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
568 # to check username/password combinations (see
569 # auth_param directive).
570 #
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571 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
572 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 573 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 574
41bd17a4 575 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
576 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
577 # Example:
578 #
579 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 580
41bd17a4 581 acl aclname maxconn number
582 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
583 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 584
41bd17a4 585 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
586 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
587 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
588 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
589 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
590 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
591 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
592 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
593 # request is denied)
594 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
595 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
596 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 597
375eeb3b 598 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 599 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
600 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
601 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
602 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
603 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
606 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
607 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
608 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 609
375eeb3b 610 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 611 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
612 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
613 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
614 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
615 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
616 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 617
41bd17a4 618 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
619 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
620 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
621 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 622
375eeb3b 623 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 624 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
625 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 626
41bd17a4 627 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
628 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
629 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 630
41bd17a4 631 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
632 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
633 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 634
41bd17a4 635 acl aclname ext_user username ...
636 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
637 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
638 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 639
41bd17a4 640Examples:
641acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
642acl myexample dst_as 1241
643acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
644acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
645acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 646
41bd17a4 647NOCOMMENT_START
648#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 649acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 650acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 651acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 652#
653# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
654# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
655# should be allowed
656acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
657acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
658acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
659#
41bd17a4 660acl SSL_ports port 443
661acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
662acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
663acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
664acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
665acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
666acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
667acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
668acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
669acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
670acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
671acl CONNECT method CONNECT
672NOCOMMENT_END
673DOC_END
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675NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
676TYPE: acl_access
677IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
678LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
679DEFAULT: none
680DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
681DOC_START
682 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
683 find the original source of a request.
684
685 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
686 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
687 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
688 rightmost address being the most recent.
689
690 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
691 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
692 to see where that host received the request from. If the
693 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, and if
694 acl_uses_indirect_client is on, then we continue backtracking
695 until we reach an address for which we are not allowed to
696 follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
697 address in the list. (If acl_uses_indirect_client is off, then
698 it's impossible to backtrack through more than one level of
699 X-Forwarded-For addresses.)
700
701 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
702 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
703 be treated as the client address for access control, delay
704 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
705 delay_pool_uses_indirect_client and log_uses_indirect_client
706 options.
707
708 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
709
710 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
711 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
712 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
713 source address of the request. This may enable remote
714 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
715 based on the client's source addresses.
716
717 For example:
718
719 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
720 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
721 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
722 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
723DOC_END
724
725NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
726COMMENT: on|off
727TYPE: onoff
728IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
729DEFAULT: on
730LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
731DOC_START
732 Controls whether the indirect client address
733 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
734 direct client address in acl matching.
735DOC_END
736
737NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
738COMMENT: on|off
739TYPE: onoff
740IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR && DELAY_POOLS
741DEFAULT: on
742LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
743DOC_START
744 Controls whether the indirect client address
745 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
746 direct client address in delay pools.
747DOC_END
748
749NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
750COMMENT: on|off
751TYPE: onoff
752IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
753DEFAULT: on
754LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
755DOC_START
756 Controls whether the indirect client address
757 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
758 direct client address in the access log.
759DOC_END
760
41bd17a4 761NAME: http_access
762TYPE: acl_access
763LOC: Config.accessList.http
764DEFAULT: none
765DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
766DOC_START
767 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 768
41bd17a4 769 Access to the HTTP port:
770 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 771
41bd17a4 772 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 773
41bd17a4 774 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
775 the request.
cccac0a2 776
41bd17a4 777 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
778 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
779 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
780 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
781 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
782 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 783
41bd17a4 784NOCOMMENT_START
785#Recommended minimum configuration:
786#
787# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
788http_access allow manager localhost
789http_access deny manager
790# Deny requests to unknown ports
791http_access deny !Safe_ports
792# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
793http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
794#
795# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
796# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
797# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
798#http_access deny to_localhost
799#
800# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 801
ee776778 802# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
803# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
804# from where browsing should be allowed
805http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 806
41bd17a4 807# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
808http_access deny all
809NOCOMMENT_END
810DOC_END
7d90757b 811
41bd17a4 812NAME: http_reply_access
813TYPE: acl_access
814LOC: Config.accessList.reply
815DEFAULT: none
816DOC_START
817 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 818
41bd17a4 819 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 820
41bd17a4 821 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
822 all replies
1a224843 823
41bd17a4 824 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
825 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
826 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 827DOC_END
828
41bd17a4 829NAME: icp_access
830TYPE: acl_access
831LOC: Config.accessList.icp
832DEFAULT: none
833DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 834DOC_START
41bd17a4 835 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
836 access lists
5473c134 837
41bd17a4 838 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 839
41bd17a4 840 See http_access for details
841
842NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 843#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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844#icp_access allow localnet
845#icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 846NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 847DOC_END
848
41bd17a4 849NAME: htcp_access
850IFDEF: USE_HTCP
851TYPE: acl_access
852LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
853DEFAULT: none
854DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 855DOC_START
41bd17a4 856 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
857 access lists
5473c134 858
41bd17a4 859 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 860
41bd17a4 861 See http_access for details
5473c134 862
0b48417e 863 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
864 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
865 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
866
ee776778 867NOCOMMENT_START
868#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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869#htcp_access allow localnet
870#htcp_access deny all
ee776778 871NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 872DOC_END
5473c134 873
41bd17a4 874NAME: htcp_clr_access
875IFDEF: USE_HTCP
876TYPE: acl_access
877LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
878DEFAULT: none
879DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
880DOC_START
881 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
882 on defined access lists
5473c134 883
41bd17a4 884 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 885
41bd17a4 886 See http_access for details
5473c134 887
41bd17a4 888#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
889acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
890htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 891DOC_END
892
41bd17a4 893NAME: miss_access
894TYPE: acl_access
895LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 896DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 897DOC_START
41bd17a4 898 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
899 a parent. For example:
5473c134 900
41bd17a4 901 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
902 miss_access allow localclients
903 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 904
41bd17a4 905 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
906 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 907
41bd17a4 908 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
909 to fetch MISSES from us.
41bd17a4 910DOC_END
911
912NAME: ident_lookup_access
913TYPE: acl_access
914IFDEF: USE_IDENT
915DEFAULT: none
916DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
917LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 918DOC_START
41bd17a4 919 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
920 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
921 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
922 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
923 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
924 any requests.
5473c134 925
41bd17a4 926 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
927 can follow this example:
5473c134 928
41bd17a4 929 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
930 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
931 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 932
41bd17a4 933 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
934 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
935 the correct result.
936DOC_END
5473c134 937
5b0f5383 938NAME: reply_body_max_size
939COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
940TYPE: acl_b_size_t
941DEFAULT: none
942LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
943DOC_START
944 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
945 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
946 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
947 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
948 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
949 for this reply.
950
951 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
952 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
953 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
954 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
955 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
956 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
957 and they will receive a partial reply.
958
959 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
960 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
961 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
962 use this option if you have downstream caches.
963
964 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
965 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
966 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
967 the size of your largest error page.
968
969 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
970 no limit imposed.
971DOC_END
972
973COMMENT_START
974 NETWORK OPTIONS
975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
976COMMENT_END
977
978NAME: http_port ascii_port
979TYPE: http_port_list
980DEFAULT: none
981LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
982DOC_START
983 Usage: port [options]
984 hostname:port [options]
985 1.2.3.4:port [options]
986
987 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
988 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
989 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
990 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
991 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
992 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
993 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
994 address, so you can use the port number alone.
995
996 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
997 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
998
999 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1000 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1001 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1002
1003 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1004
1005 Options:
1006
e77bdb4e 1007 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1008 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1009 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1010
1011 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1012 connections using the client IP address.
13b5cd0c 1013 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1014
1015 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1016 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1017
1018 defaultsite=domainname
1019 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1020 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1021 accelerators should consider the default.
1022 Implies accel.
1023
1024 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1025 domain support. Implies accel.
1026
1027 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1028 Implies accel.
1029
1030 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1031 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
1032
1033 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1034 Defaults to http.
1035
1036 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1037 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1038 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1039 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1040 support is enabled.
1041 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1042
1043 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1044 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1045 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1046 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1047 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1048 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1049 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1050 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1051
4c9da963 1052 sslBump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1053 establish secure connection with the client and with
1054 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1055 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1056 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1057
1058 When this option is enabled, additional options become
1059 available to specify SSL-related properties of the
1060 client-side connection: cert, key, version, cipher,
1061 options, clientca, cafile, capath, crlfile, dhparams,
1062 sslflags, and sslcontext. See the https_port directive
1063 for more information on these options.
1064
1065 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1066 the SslBump feature.
1067
81b6e9a7 1068 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1069 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1070
b2130d58 1071 keepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1072 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1073 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1074 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1075 timeout the time before giving up.
1076
5b0f5383 1077 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1078 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1079 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1080 visible on the internal address.
1081
1082NOCOMMENT_START
1083# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1084http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1085NOCOMMENT_END
1086DOC_END
1087
1088NAME: https_port
1089IFDEF: USE_SSL
1090TYPE: https_port_list
1091DEFAULT: none
1092LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1093DOC_START
1094 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1095
1096 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1097 requests.
1098
1099 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1100 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1101 accelerator level.
1102
1103 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1104 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1105
1106 Options:
1107
1108 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1109 defaultsite or vhost.
1110
1111 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1112 this port. Implies accel.
1113
1114 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1115 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1116 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1117 Implies accel.
1118
1119 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1120 Defaults to https.
1121
1122 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1123
1124 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1125 if not specified, the certificate file is
1126 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1127 key file.
1128
1129 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1130 1 automatic (default)
1131 2 SSLv2 only
1132 3 SSLv3 only
1133 4 TLSv1 only
1134
1135 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1136
1137 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1138 being:
1139 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1140 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1141 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1142 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1143 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1144 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1145 documentation for a complete list of options.
1146
1147 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1148 requesting a client certificate.
1149
1150 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1151 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1152 clientca will be used.
1153
1154 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1155 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1156
1157 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1158 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1159 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1160
1161 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1162 DH key exchanges.
1163
1164 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1165 DELAYED_AUTH
1166 Don't request client certificates
1167 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1168 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1169 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1170 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1171 to OpenSSL.
1172 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1173 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1174 will result in a new SSL session.
1175 VERIFY_CRL
1176 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1177 certificates.
1178 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1179 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1180 client certificate chain.
1181
1182 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1183
1184 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1185
1186 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1187 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1188
81b6e9a7 1189 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1190 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1191
5b0f5383 1192DOC_END
1193
41bd17a4 1194NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1195TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1196DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1197LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1198DOC_START
41bd17a4 1199 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1200 connections with, based on the username or source address
1201 making the request.
5473c134 1202
41bd17a4 1203 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1204
41bd17a4 1205 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1206 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1207
41bd17a4 1208 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1209 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1210 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1211 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1212
41bd17a4 1213 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1214 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1215 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1216
41bd17a4 1217 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1218 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1219 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1220 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1221
41bd17a4 1222 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1223 matching line.
cccac0a2 1224
41bd17a4 1225 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1226 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1227 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1228 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1229DOC_END
1230
41bd17a4 1231NAME: clientside_tos
1232TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1233DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1234LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1235DOC_START
41bd17a4 1236 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1237 connections with, based on the username or source address
1238 making the request.
1239DOC_END
cccac0a2 1240
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1241NAME: zph_tos_local
1242TYPE: int
1243IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1244DEFAULT: 0
1245LOC: Config.zph_tos_local
1246DOC_START
1247 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark local hits. Read above
1248 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1249 Default: 0 (disabled).
1250DOC_END
1251
1252NAME: zph_tos_peer
1253TYPE: int
1254IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1255DEFAULT: 0
1256LOC: Config.zph_tos_peer
1257DOC_START
1258 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark peer hits. Read above
1259 (tcp_outgoing_tos) for details/requirements about TOS.
1260 Default: 0 (disabled).
1261DOC_END
1262
1263NAME: zph_tos_parent
1264COMMENT: on|off
1265TYPE: onoff
1266IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1267DEFAULT: on
1268LOC: Config.onoff.zph_tos_parent
1269DOC_START
1270 Set this to off if you want only sibling hits to be marked.
1271 If set to on (default), parent hits are being marked too.
1272DOC_END
1273
1274NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos
1275COMMENT: on|off
1276TYPE: onoff
1277IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1278DEFAULT: on
1279LOC: Config.onoff.zph_preserve_miss_tos
1280DOC_START
1281 If set to on (default), any HTTP response towards clients will
1282 have the TOS value of the response comming from the remote
1283 server masked with the value of zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask.
1284 For this to work correctly, you will need to patch your linux
1285 kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1286 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1287DOC_END
1288
1289NAME: zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1290TYPE: int
1291IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1292DEFAULT: 255
1293LOC: Config.zph_preserve_miss_tos_mask
1294DOC_START
1295 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1296 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS send towards
1297 clients.
1298 Default: 255 (TOS from server is not changed).
1299DOC_END
1300
41bd17a4 1301NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1302TYPE: acl_address
1303DEFAULT: none
1304LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1305DOC_START
1306 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1307 based on the username or source address of the user making
1308 the request.
7f7db318 1309
41bd17a4 1310 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1311
41bd17a4 1312 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1313 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1314 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1315 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1316
17148b2f 1317 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1318 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1319 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1320 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1321 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1322
41bd17a4 1323 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1324 matching line.
cccac0a2 1325
41bd17a4 1326 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1327 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1328 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1329 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1330
1331
1332 IPv6 Magic:
1333
1334 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 internets.
1335 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1336 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1337 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1338
1339 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1340 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1341 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1342
1343 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1344 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1345 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1346
1347 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1348 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1349
1350 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1351 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
cccac0a2 1352DOC_END
1353
41bd17a4 1354COMMENT_START
1355 SSL OPTIONS
1356 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1357COMMENT_END
1358
1359NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1360IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1361TYPE: onoff
1362DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1363LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1364DOC_START
41bd17a4 1365 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1366 messages.
cccac0a2 1367DOC_END
1368
41bd17a4 1369NAME: ssl_engine
1370IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1371TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1372LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1373DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1374DOC_START
41bd17a4 1375 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1376 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1377DOC_END
1378
41bd17a4 1379NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1380IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1381DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1382LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1383TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1384DOC_START
41bd17a4 1385 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1386DOC_END
1387
41bd17a4 1388NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1389IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1390DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1391LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1392TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1393DOC_START
41bd17a4 1394 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1395DOC_END
1396
41bd17a4 1397NAME: sslproxy_version
1398IFDEF: USE_SSL
1399DEFAULT: 1
1400LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1401TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1402DOC_START
41bd17a4 1403 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1404DOC_END
1405
41bd17a4 1406NAME: sslproxy_options
1407IFDEF: USE_SSL
1408DEFAULT: none
1409LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1410TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1411DOC_START
41bd17a4 1412 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1413DOC_END
1414
41bd17a4 1415NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1416IFDEF: USE_SSL
1417DEFAULT: none
1418LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1419TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1420DOC_START
41bd17a4 1421 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1422DOC_END
1423
41bd17a4 1424NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1425IFDEF: USE_SSL
1426DEFAULT: none
1427LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1428TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1429DOC_START
41bd17a4 1430 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1431 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1432DOC_END
0976f8db 1433
41bd17a4 1434NAME: sslproxy_capath
1435IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1436DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1437LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1438TYPE: string
5473c134 1439DOC_START
41bd17a4 1440 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1441 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1442DOC_END
1443
4c9da963 1444NAME: ssl_bump
1445IFDEF: USE_SSL
1446TYPE: acl_access
1447LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1448DEFAULT: none
1449DOC_START
1450 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1451 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1452 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1453 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1454
1455 By default, no requests are bumped.
1456
1457 See also: http_port sslBump
1458
1459NOCOMMENT_START
1460# Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1461# those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1462#
1463# acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1464# acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1465# acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1466# ssl_bump deny localhost
1467# ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1468# ssl_bump allow all
1469NOCOMMENT_END
1470DOC_END
1471
41bd17a4 1472NAME: sslproxy_flags
1473IFDEF: USE_SSL
1474DEFAULT: none
1475LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1476TYPE: string
5473c134 1477DOC_START
41bd17a4 1478 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1479 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1480 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1481 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1482 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1483DOC_END
1484
4c9da963 1485
1486NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1487IFDEF: USE_SSL
1488DEFAULT: none
1489LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1490TYPE: acl_access
1491DOC_START
1492 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1493
1494 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1495 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1496 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1497
1498 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1499 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1500 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1501
1502 This option must use fast ACL expressions only. Expressions that use
1503 external lookups or communication result in unpredictable behavior or
1504 crashes.
1505
1506 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1507 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1508 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1509 the connection may be insecure.
1510
1511 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1512
1513NOCOMMENT_START
1514#Default setting:
1515# sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1516NOCOMMENT_END
1517DOC_END
1518
1519
1520
41bd17a4 1521NAME: sslpassword_program
1522IFDEF: USE_SSL
1523DEFAULT: none
1524LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1525TYPE: string
5473c134 1526DOC_START
41bd17a4 1527 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1528 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1529 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1530 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1531DOC_END
1532
cccac0a2 1533COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1534 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1535 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1536COMMENT_END
1537
41bd17a4 1538NAME: cache_peer
1539TYPE: peer
1540DEFAULT: none
1541LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1542DOC_START
41bd17a4 1543 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1544
41bd17a4 1545 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1546
41bd17a4 1547 For example,
cccac0a2 1548
41bd17a4 1549 # proxy icp
1550 # hostname type port port options
1551 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1552 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1553 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1554 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1555
41bd17a4 1556 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1557
41bd17a4 1558 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1559 requests.
8d6275c0 1560
41bd17a4 1561 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1562 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
df2eec10 1563 specify '0' for the ICP port.
41bd17a4 1564 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1565 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1566
41bd17a4 1567 options: proxy-only
1568 weight=n
1569 basetime=n
1570 ttl=n
1571 no-query
1572 background-ping
1573 default
1574 round-robin
1575 weighted-round-robin
1576 carp
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1577 userhash
1578 sourcehash
41bd17a4 1579 multicast-responder
1580 closest-only
1581 no-digest
1582 no-netdb-exchange
1583 no-delay
1584 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1585 connect-timeout=nn
1586 digest-url=url
1587 allow-miss
1588 max-conn=n
1589 htcp
1590 htcp-oldsquid
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1591 htcp-no-clr
1592 htcp-no-purge-clr
1593 htcp-only-clr
1594 htcp-forward-clr
41bd17a4 1595 originserver
1596 name=xxx
1597 forceddomain=name
1598 ssl
1599 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1600 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1601 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1602 sslcipher=...
1603 ssloptions=...
1604 front-end-https[=on|auto]
cccac0a2 1605
41bd17a4 1606 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1607 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1608
41bd17a4 1609 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1610 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1611 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1612 larger weights are favored more.
1613 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1614 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1615
41bd17a4 1616 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1617 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1618 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1619 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1620 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1621
41bd17a4 1622 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1623 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1624 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1625 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1626 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1627 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1628
41bd17a4 1629 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1630 neighbor.
5473c134 1631
41bd17a4 1632 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1633 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1634 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1635 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1636
41bd17a4 1637 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1638 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1639 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1640 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1641
41bd17a4 1642 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1643 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1644 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1645
41bd17a4 1646 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1647 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1648 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1649 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1650 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1651
41bd17a4 1652 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1653 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1654 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
382db7eb 1655 balancing hash function based on their weight.
cccac0a2 1656
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1657 use 'userhash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1658 based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1659
1660 use 'sourcehash' to load-balance amongst a set of parents
1661 based on the client source ip.
1662
41bd17a4 1663 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1664 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1665 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1666 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1667
41bd17a4 1668 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1669 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1670 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1671
41bd17a4 1672 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1673 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1674
41bd17a4 1675 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1676 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1677
41bd17a4 1678 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1679 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1680
41bd17a4 1681 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1682 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1683 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1684 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1685
41bd17a4 1686 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1687 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1688 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1689 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1690 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1691 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1692 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1693 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1694 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1695 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1696
41bd17a4 1697 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1698 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1699 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1700 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1701 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1702 information which is added to the username. This can
1703 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1704 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1705
41bd17a4 1706 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1707 specific connect timeout (also see the
1708 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1709
41bd17a4 1710 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1711 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1712 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1713 location.
cccac0a2 1714
41bd17a4 1715 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1716 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1717 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1718 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1719 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1720 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1721 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1722 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1723
41bd17a4 1724 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1725 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1726
41bd17a4 1727 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1728 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1729 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
0b48417e 1730 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1731 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1732
41bd17a4 1733 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
0b48417e 1734 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1735 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1736
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1737 use 'htcp-no-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1738 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1739 htcp-only-clr.
1740
1741 use 'htcp-no-purge-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor
1742 including CLRs but only when they do not result from
1743 PURGE requests.
1744
1745 use 'htcp-only-clr' to send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY
1746 CLR requests. This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1747
1748 use 'htcp-forward-clr' to forward any HTCP CLR requests
1749 this proxy receives to the peer.
1750
41bd17a4 1751 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1752 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1753
41bd17a4 1754 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1755 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1756 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1757 directives.
cccac0a2 1758
41bd17a4 1759 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1760 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1761 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1762 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1763 is not feasible.
64658378 1764
41bd17a4 1765 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1766 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1767
41bd17a4 1768 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1769 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1770
41bd17a4 1771 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1772 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1773 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1774 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1775
41bd17a4 1776 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1777 when connecting to this peer
1778 1 = automatic (default)
1779 2 = SSL v2 only
1780 3 = SSL v3 only
1781 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1782
41bd17a4 1783 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1784 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1785
41bd17a4 1786 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1787 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1788 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1789 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1790 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1791 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1792
41bd17a4 1793 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1794 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1795 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1796
41bd17a4 1797 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1798 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1799 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1800
41bd17a4 1801 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1802 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1803
1804 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1805 SSL implementation:
1806 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1807 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1808 verify.
1809 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1810 Don't use the default CA list built in
1811 to OpenSSL.
1812 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1813 Don't verify the peer certificate
1814 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1815
41bd17a4 1816 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1817 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1818 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1819 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1820
41bd17a4 1821 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1822 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1823 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1824 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1825 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1826 URL.
1827DOC_END
cccac0a2 1828
41bd17a4 1829NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1830TYPE: hostdomain
1831DEFAULT: none
1832LOC: none
1833DOC_START
1834 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1835 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1836
41bd17a4 1837 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1838 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1839
41bd17a4 1840 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1841
41bd17a4 1842 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1843
41bd17a4 1844 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1845 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1846 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1847 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1848 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1849
41bd17a4 1850 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1851 either on the same or separate lines.
1852 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1853 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1854 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1855 for all requests.
1856 * There are no defaults.
1857 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1858 section.
1859DOC_END
dd9b1776 1860
41bd17a4 1861NAME: cache_peer_access
1862TYPE: peer_access
1863DEFAULT: none
1864LOC: none
1865DOC_START
1866 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1867 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1868
41bd17a4 1869 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1870
41bd17a4 1871 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1872 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1873 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1874DOC_END
dd9b1776 1875
41bd17a4 1876NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1877TYPE: hostdomaintype
1878DEFAULT: none
1879LOC: none
1880DOC_START
1881 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1882
41bd17a4 1883 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1884 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1885 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1886 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1887 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1888 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1889
41bd17a4 1890EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1891 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1892 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1893 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1894DOC_END
6bf4f823 1895
41bd17a4 1896NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1897COMMENT: (seconds)
1898DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1899TYPE: time_t
1900LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1901DOC_START
1902 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1903 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1904 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1905 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1906 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1907 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1908
41bd17a4 1909 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1910 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1911 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1912 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1913 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1914 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1915 instead of to your parents.
1916DOC_END
cccac0a2 1917
41bd17a4 1918NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1919TYPE: wordlist
1920DEFAULT: none
1921LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1922DOC_START
1923 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1924 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1925 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1926 list this option multiple times.
1927 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1928NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1929#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1930hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1931NOCOMMENT_END
1932DOC_END
0976f8db 1933
41bd17a4 1934COMMENT_START
1935 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1936 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1937COMMENT_END
1938
1939NAME: cache_mem
1940COMMENT: (bytes)
1941TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 1942DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 1943LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1944DOC_START
41bd17a4 1945 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1946 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1947 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1948 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1949
1950 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1951 for:
1952 * In-Transit objects
1953 * Hot Objects
1954 * Negative-Cached objects
1955
1956 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1957 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1958 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1959 priority.
1960
1961 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1962 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1963 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1964 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1965 not needed for in-transit objects.
1966
1967 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1968 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1969 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1970 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1971 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1972 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1973 objects.
6b698a21 1974DOC_END
0976f8db 1975
41bd17a4 1976NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1977COMMENT: (bytes)
1978TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 1979DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 1980LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1981DOC_START
41bd17a4 1982 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1983 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1984 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1985 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1986DOC_END
0976f8db 1987
41bd17a4 1988NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1989TYPE: removalpolicy
1990LOC: Config.memPolicy
1991DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 1992DOC_START
41bd17a4 1993 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1994 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 1995
41bd17a4 1996 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1997DOC_END
6b698a21 1998
41bd17a4 1999COMMENT_START
2000 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2001 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2002COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2003
41bd17a4 2004NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2005TYPE: removalpolicy
2006LOC: Config.replPolicy
2007DEFAULT: lru
2008DOC_START
2009 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2010 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2011
41bd17a4 2012 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2013 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2014 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2015 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2016
41bd17a4 2017 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2018
41bd17a4 2019 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2020
41bd17a4 2021 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2022 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2023 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2024 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2025
41bd17a4 2026 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2027 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2028 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2029 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2030
41bd17a4 2031 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2032 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2033 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2034
41bd17a4 2035 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2036 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2037 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2038
41bd17a4 2039 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2040 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2041 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2042DOC_END
0976f8db 2043
41bd17a4 2044NAME: cache_dir
2045TYPE: cachedir
2046DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2047LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2048DOC_START
41bd17a4 2049 Usage:
0976f8db 2050
41bd17a4 2051 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2052
41bd17a4 2053 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2054 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2055
41bd17a4 2056 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2057 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2058 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2059
41bd17a4 2060 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2061 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2062 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2063 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2064 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2065
41bd17a4 2066 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2067
41bd17a4 2068 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2069 been there.
0976f8db 2070
41bd17a4 2071 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2072
41bd17a4 2073 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2074 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2075 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2076 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2077 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2078
41bd17a4 2079 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2080 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2081
41bd17a4 2082 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2083 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2084 is 256.
0976f8db 2085
41bd17a4 2086 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2087
41bd17a4 2088 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2089 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2090 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2091
41bd17a4 2092 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2093
41bd17a4 2094 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2095
41bd17a4 2096 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2097
41bd17a4 2098 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2099 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2100 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2101
41bd17a4 2102 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2103
41bd17a4 2104 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2105
41bd17a4 2106 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2107 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2108 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2109
41bd17a4 2110 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2111 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2112 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2113
41bd17a4 2114 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2115 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2116 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2117 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2118 time.
0976f8db 2119
41bd17a4 2120 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2121
41bd17a4 2122 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2123 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2124 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2125 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2126 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2127 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2128 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2129
41bd17a4 2130 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2131 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2132 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2133
41bd17a4 2134 Common options:
0976f8db 2135
41bd17a4 2136 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2137
41bd17a4 2138 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2139 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2140 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2141 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2142 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2143
41bd17a4 2144 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2145 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2146 option.
bebc043b 2147NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 2148# cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2149NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2150DOC_END
0976f8db 2151
41bd17a4 2152NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2153TYPE: string
2154LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2155DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2156DOC_START
41bd17a4 2157 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2158DOC_END
0976f8db 2159
41bd17a4 2160NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2161TYPE: int
2162LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2163DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2164DOC_START
41bd17a4 2165 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2166 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2167 descriptors are open.
2168
2169 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2170DOC_END
0976f8db 2171
41bd17a4 2172NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2173COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2174TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2175DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2176LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2177DOC_START
41bd17a4 2178 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2179 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2180 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2181DOC_END
0976f8db 2182
41bd17a4 2183NAME: maximum_object_size
2184COMMENT: (bytes)
2185TYPE: b_int64_t
2186DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2187LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2188DOC_START
41bd17a4 2189 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2190 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2191 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2192 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2193 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2194 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2195
41bd17a4 2196 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2197 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2198 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2199DOC_END
0976f8db 2200
41bd17a4 2201NAME: cache_swap_low
2202COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2203TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2204DEFAULT: 90
2205LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2206DOC_NONE
2207
2208NAME: cache_swap_high
2209COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2210TYPE: int
2211DEFAULT: 95
2212LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2213DOC_START
41bd17a4 2214
2215 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2216 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2217 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2218 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2219 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2220 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2221
2222 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2223 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2224 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2225DOC_END
0976f8db 2226
5473c134 2227COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2228 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2229 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2230COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2231
41bd17a4 2232NAME: logformat
2233TYPE: logformat
2234LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2235DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2236DOC_START
41bd17a4 2237 Usage:
0976f8db 2238
41bd17a4 2239 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2240
41bd17a4 2241 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2242
41bd17a4 2243 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2244
41bd17a4 2245 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2246 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2247 as required according to their context and the output format
2248 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2249 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2250
41bd17a4 2251 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2252
41bd17a4 2253 " output in quoted string format
2254 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2255 # output in URL quoted format
2256 ' output as-is
5473c134 2257
41bd17a4 2258 - left aligned
2259 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2260 output is zero padded
2261 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2262
41bd17a4 2263 Format codes:
5473c134 2264
41bd17a4 2265 >a Client source IP address
2266 >A Client FQDN
2267 >p Client source port
2268 <A Server IP address or peer name
2269 la Local IP address (http_port)
2270 lp Local port number (http_port)
2271 ts Seconds since epoch
2272 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2273 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2274 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2275 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2276 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2277 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2278 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
2279 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2280 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2281 as for >h
2282 un User name
2283 ul User name from authentication
2284 ui User name from ident
2285 us User name from SSL
2286 ue User name from external acl helper
2287 Hs HTTP status code
2288 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2289 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2290 mt MIME content type
2291 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2292 ru Request URL
2293 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2294 rv Request protocol version
2295 et Tag returned by external acl
2296 ea Log string returned by external acl
2297 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
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2298 >st Request size including HTTP headers
2299 st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
41bd17a4 2300 <sH Reply high offset sent
2301 <sS Upstream object size
2302 % a literal % character
5473c134 2303
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2304 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2305
2306logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2307logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
41bd17a4 2308logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2309logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2310DOC_END
2311
41bd17a4 2312NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2313TYPE: access_log
2314LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
02424612 2315DEFAULT: none
01ddaf65 2316DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2317DOC_START
41bd17a4 2318 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2319 ICP request. The format is:
2320 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2321 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2322
41bd17a4 2323 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2324 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2325 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2326 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2327
41bd17a4 2328 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2329 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2330
41bd17a4 2331 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2332
41bd17a4 2333 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2334 where facility could be any of:
2335 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2336
41bd17a4 2337 And priority could be any of:
2338 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
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2339
2340 Default:
2341 access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2342DOC_END
5473c134 2343
5b0f5383 2344NAME: log_access
2345TYPE: acl_access
2346LOC: Config.accessList.log
2347DEFAULT: none
2348COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2349DOC_START
2350 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2351 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2352 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2353DOC_END
2354
41bd17a4 2355NAME: cache_log
2356TYPE: string
02424612 2357DEFAULT: none
01ddaf65 2358DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
41bd17a4 2359LOC: Config.Log.log
2360DOC_START
2361 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2362 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2363 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2364DOC_END
5473c134 2365
41bd17a4 2366NAME: cache_store_log
2367TYPE: string
df2eec10 2368DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2369LOC: Config.Log.store
2370DOC_START
2371 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2372 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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2373 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
2374 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 2375 disable it.
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2376NOCOMMENT_START
2377# cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2378NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 2379DOC_END
2380
41bd17a4 2381NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2382TYPE: string
2383LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2384DEFAULT: none
2385DOC_START
41bd17a4 2386 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2387 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2388 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2389 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2390 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2391 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2392 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2393
41bd17a4 2394 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2395 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2396 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2397 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2398
41bd17a4 2399 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2400 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2401
41bd17a4 2402 cache_swap_log.00
2403 cache_swap_log.01
2404 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2405
41bd17a4 2406 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2407 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2408 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2409 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2410 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2411 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2412 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2413DOC_END
2414
41bd17a4 2415NAME: logfile_rotate
2416TYPE: int
2417DEFAULT: 10
2418LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2419DOC_START
41bd17a4 2420 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2421 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2422 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2423 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2424 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2425 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2426
41bd17a4 2427 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2428 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2429 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2430 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2431 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2432 <pid>'.
2433DOC_END
5473c134 2434
41bd17a4 2435NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2436COMMENT: on|off
2437TYPE: onoff
2438DEFAULT: off
2439LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2440DOC_START
2441 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2442 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2443 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2444 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2445 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2446DOC_END
2447
41bd17a4 2448NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2449COMMENT: on|off
2450TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2451DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2452LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2453DOC_START
41bd17a4 2454 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2455 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2456 prefer the old way set this to off.
2457DOC_END
5473c134 2458
41bd17a4 2459NAME: mime_table
2460TYPE: string
2461DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2462LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2463DOC_START
2464 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2465 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2466 information if you do.
5473c134 2467DOC_END
2468
41bd17a4 2469NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2470COMMENT: on|off
2471TYPE: onoff
2472LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2473DEFAULT: off
2474DOC_START
2475 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2476 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2477 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2478 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2479 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2480DOC_END
5473c134 2481
41bd17a4 2482NAME: useragent_log
2483TYPE: string
2484LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2485DEFAULT: none
2486IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2487DOC_START
41bd17a4 2488 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2489 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2490 is disabled.
5473c134 2491DOC_END
2492
41bd17a4 2493NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2494TYPE: string
2495LOC: Config.Log.referer
2496DEFAULT: none
2497IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2498DOC_START
41bd17a4 2499 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2500 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2501 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2502 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2503 and we accept both.
5473c134 2504DOC_END
2505
41bd17a4 2506NAME: pid_filename
2507TYPE: string
2508DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2509LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2510DOC_START
41bd17a4 2511 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2512DOC_END
2513
41bd17a4 2514NAME: debug_options
fb6a61d1 2515TYPE: eol
41bd17a4 2516DEFAULT: ALL,1
2517LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2518DOC_START
41bd17a4 2519 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2520 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2521 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2522 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2523 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2524 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2525DOC_END
2526
41bd17a4 2527NAME: log_fqdn
2528COMMENT: on|off
2529TYPE: onoff
2530DEFAULT: off
2531LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2532DOC_START
41bd17a4 2533 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2534 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2535 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2536 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2537 browsing.
5473c134 2538DOC_END
2539
41bd17a4 2540NAME: client_netmask
2541TYPE: address
2542LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2543DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2544DOC_START
41bd17a4 2545 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2546 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2547 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2548 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2549DOC_END
2550
41bd17a4 2551NAME: forward_log
2552IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2553TYPE: string
2554DEFAULT: none
2555LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2556DOC_START
41bd17a4 2557 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2558
41bd17a4 2559 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2560DOC_END
2561
41bd17a4 2562NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2563TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2564LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2565DEFAULT: on
2566DOC_START
41bd17a4 2567 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2568 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2569DOC_END
2570
41bd17a4 2571NAME: buffered_logs
2572COMMENT: on|off
2573TYPE: onoff
2574DEFAULT: off
2575LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2576DOC_START
41bd17a4 2577 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2578 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2579 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2580 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2581 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2582DOC_END
0976f8db 2583
2b753521 2584NAME: netdb_filename
2585TYPE: string
2586DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2587LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2588IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2589DOC_START
2590 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2591 To disable, enter "none".
2592DOC_END
2593
41bd17a4 2594COMMENT_START
2595 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2596 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2597COMMENT_END
2598
2599NAME: ftp_user
2600TYPE: string
2601DEFAULT: Squid@
2602LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2603DOC_START
41bd17a4 2604 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2605 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2606 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2607
41bd17a4 2608 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2609 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2610 depending on how the cache is used.
2611 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2612 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2613DOC_END
0976f8db 2614
41bd17a4 2615NAME: ftp_list_width
2616TYPE: size_t
2617DEFAULT: 32
2618LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2619DOC_START
41bd17a4 2620 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2621 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2622 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2623DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2624
41bd17a4 2625NAME: ftp_passive
2626TYPE: onoff
2627DEFAULT: on
2628LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2629DOC_START
41bd17a4 2630 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2631 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 2632
2633 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
2634DOC_END
2635
2636NAME: ftp_epsv_all
2637TYPE: onoff
2638DEFAULT: off
2639LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
2640DOC_START
2641 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
2642
2643 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
2644 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
2645 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
2646
2647 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be useful.
2648 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
2649 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
2650
2651 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
2652 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
2653
2654 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default)
41bd17a4 2655DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2656
41bd17a4 2657NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2658TYPE: onoff
2659DEFAULT: on
2660LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2661DOC_START
2662 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2663 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2664 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2665 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2666 connection turn this off.
2667DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2668
41bd17a4 2669NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2670TYPE: onoff
2671DEFAULT: on
2672LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2673DOC_START
2674 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2675 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2676 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2677 the FTP protocol.
2678
2679 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2680 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2681 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2682 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2683 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2684DOC_END
2685
2686COMMENT_START
2687 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2688 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2689COMMENT_END
2690
2691NAME: diskd_program
2692TYPE: string
2693DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2694LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2695DOC_START
2696 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2697 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2698 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2699DOC_END
2700
2701NAME: unlinkd_program
2702IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2703TYPE: string
2704DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2705LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2706DOC_START
2707 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2708DOC_END
2709
2710NAME: pinger_program
2711TYPE: string
2712DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 2713LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 2714IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2715DOC_START
2716 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2717DOC_END
2718
cc192b50 2719NAME: pinger_enable
2720TYPE: onoff
2721DEFAULT: on
2722LOC: Config.pinger.enable
2723IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2724DOC_START
2725 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
2726 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple squid -k reconfigure.
2727DOC_END
2728
2729
41bd17a4 2730COMMENT_START
2731 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2732 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2733COMMENT_END
2734
2735NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2736TYPE: wordlist
2737LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2738DEFAULT: none
2739DOC_START
2740 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2741 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2742
2743 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2744
c71adec1 2745 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
2746
2747 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
2748 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
2749 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
2750 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 2751
2752 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2753 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2754
2755 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2756 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2757 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2758
2759 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2760DOC_END
2761
2762NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2763TYPE: int
2764DEFAULT: 5
2765LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2766DOC_START
2767 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2768 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2769 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2770 and other system resources.
2771DOC_END
2772
2773NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2774TYPE: int
2775DEFAULT: 0
2776LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2777DOC_START
2778 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2779 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2780 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2781DOC_END
2782
2783NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2784TYPE: onoff
2785DEFAULT: on
2786LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2787DOC_START
2788 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2789 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2790 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2791
2792 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2793 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2794DOC_END
2795
2796NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2797TYPE: acl_access
2798DEFAULT: none
2799LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2800DOC_START
2801 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2802 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2803 are sent.
2804DOC_END
2805
2806NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2807TYPE: onoff
2808LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2809DEFAULT: off
2810DOC_START
2811 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2812 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2813 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2814 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2815 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2816 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2817 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2818 users may have access to pages they should not
2819 be allowed to request.
2820DOC_END
2821
2822COMMENT_START
2823 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2824 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2825COMMENT_END
2826
f04b37d8 2827NAME: cache no_cache
2828TYPE: acl_access
2829DEFAULT: none
2830LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2831DOC_START
240887f0 2832 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 2833 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2834 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2835
240887f0 2836 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
2837 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 2838
240887f0 2839 Default is to allow all to be cached.
41bd17a4 2840DOC_END
2841
2842NAME: refresh_pattern
2843TYPE: refreshpattern
2844LOC: Config.Refresh
2845DEFAULT: none
2846DOC_START
2847 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2848
6b698a21 2849 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2850 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2851
41bd17a4 2852 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2853 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2854 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2855 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2856 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2857
41bd17a4 2858 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2859 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2860 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2861
41bd17a4 2862 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2863 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2864
41bd17a4 2865 options: override-expire
2866 override-lastmod
2867 reload-into-ims
2868 ignore-reload
2869 ignore-no-cache
2870 ignore-no-store
2871 ignore-private
2872 ignore-auth
2873 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2874
41bd17a4 2875 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
9b2ad080
HN
2876 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
2877 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
2878 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
2879 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2880
41bd17a4 2881 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2882 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2883
41bd17a4 2884 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2885 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2886 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2887 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2888
41bd17a4 2889 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2890 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2891 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2892 it causes.
9bc73deb 2893
41bd17a4 2894 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2895 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2896 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2897 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2898 send it anyway.
2899
2900 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2901 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2902 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2903 liable for problems which it causes.
2904
2905 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2906 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2907 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2908 liable for problems which it causes.
2909
2910 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2911 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2912 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2913 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2914 it causes.
2915
2916 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2917 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2918 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2919 if one is available.
2920
2921 Basically a cached object is:
2922
2923 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2924 STALE if age > max
2925 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2926 FRESH if age < min
2927 else STALE
2928
2929 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2930 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2931 match the default will be used.
2932
2933 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2934 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2935 used.
2936
2937Suggested default:
2938NOCOMMENT_START
2939refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2940refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 2941refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 2942refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2943NOCOMMENT_END
2944DOC_END
2945
2946NAME: quick_abort_min
2947COMMENT: (KB)
2948TYPE: kb_int64_t
2949DEFAULT: 16 KB
2950LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2951DOC_NONE
2952
2953NAME: quick_abort_max
2954COMMENT: (KB)
2955TYPE: kb_int64_t
2956DEFAULT: 16 KB
2957LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2958DOC_NONE
2959
2960NAME: quick_abort_pct
2961COMMENT: (percent)
2962TYPE: int
2963DEFAULT: 95
2964LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2965DOC_START
2966 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2967 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2968 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2969 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2970 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2971 downloads.
2972
2973 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2974 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2975 then.
2976
2977 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2978 it will finish the retrieval.
2979
2980 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2981 it will abort the retrieval.
2982
2983 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2984 it will finish the retrieval.
2985
2986 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2987 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2988 to '0 KB'.
2989
2990 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2991 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
2992DOC_END
60d096f4 2993
41bd17a4 2994NAME: read_ahead_gap
2995COMMENT: buffer-size
2996TYPE: b_int64_t
2997LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2998DEFAULT: 16 KB
2999DOC_START
3000 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3001 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3002DOC_END
53e738c6 3003
41bd17a4 3004NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 3005IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3006COMMENT: time-units
3007TYPE: time_t
3008LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3009DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3010DOC_START
ac9cc053
AJ
3011 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3012 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3013 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3014 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3015 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3016 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3017
3018 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
39956c7c
AJ
3019
3020 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3021 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3022 causes.
41bd17a4 3023DOC_END
53e738c6 3024
41bd17a4 3025NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3026COMMENT: time-units
3027TYPE: time_t
3028LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3029DEFAULT: 6 hours
3030DOC_START
3031 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3032 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3033 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3034DOC_END
c4ab8329 3035
41bd17a4 3036NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3037COMMENT: time-units
3038TYPE: time_t
3039LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3040DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3041DOC_START
3042 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3043 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3044 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3045 much below 10 seconds.
3046DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3047
41bd17a4 3048NAME: range_offset_limit
3049COMMENT: (bytes)
3050TYPE: b_int64_t
3051LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3052DEFAULT: 0 KB
3053DOC_START
3054 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
3055 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
3056 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
3057 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 3058
41bd17a4 3059 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3060 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3061 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 3062
41bd17a4 3063 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3064 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 3065
41bd17a4 3066 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3067 client requested. (default)
3068DOC_END
d95b862f 3069
41bd17a4 3070NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3071COMMENT: (seconds)
3072TYPE: time_t
3073LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3074DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3075DOC_START
3076 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3077 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3078 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3079 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3080 is most likely better to make your server return a
3081 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3082 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3083 often be best set to 0.
3084DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3085
41bd17a4 3086NAME: store_avg_object_size
3087COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3088TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3089DEFAULT: 13 KB
3090LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3091DOC_START
3092 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3093 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3094DOC_END
3095
41bd17a4 3096NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3097TYPE: int
3098DEFAULT: 20
3099LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3100DOC_START
3101 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3102 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3103 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3104DOC_END
3105
3106COMMENT_START
3107 HTTP OPTIONS
3108 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3109COMMENT_END
3110
f04b37d8 3111NAME: request_header_max_size
3112COMMENT: (KB)
3113TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3114DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3115LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3116DOC_START
3117 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3118 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3119 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3120 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3121 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3122DOC_END
3123
3124NAME: reply_header_max_size
3125COMMENT: (KB)
3126TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3127DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3128LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3129DOC_START
3130 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3131 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3132 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3133 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3134 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3135DOC_END
3136
3137NAME: request_body_max_size
3138COMMENT: (bytes)
3139TYPE: b_int64_t
3140DEFAULT: 0 KB
3141LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3142DOC_START
3143 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3144 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3145 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3146 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3147 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3148 be no limit imposed.
3149DOC_END
3150
41bd17a4 3151NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 3152TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3153DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3154LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3155DOC_START
41bd17a4 3156 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3157 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3158
41bd17a4 3159 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3160 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3161
41bd17a4 3162 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3163
41bd17a4 3164 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3165 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3166 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3167 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3168
41bd17a4 3169Example:
3170 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3171 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3172DOC_END
cccac0a2 3173
41bd17a4 3174NAME: via
3175IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3176COMMENT: on|off
3177TYPE: onoff
3178DEFAULT: on
3179LOC: Config.onoff.via
3180DOC_START
3181 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3182 replies as required by RFC2616.
3183DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3184
41bd17a4 3185NAME: ie_refresh
3186COMMENT: on|off
3187TYPE: onoff
3188LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3189DEFAULT: off
3190DOC_START
3191 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3192 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3193 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3194 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3195 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3196 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3197 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3198 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3199 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3200 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3201 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3202 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3203 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3204 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3205 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3206 force fresh content.
3207DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3208
41bd17a4 3209NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3210COMMENT: on|off
3211TYPE: onoff
3212LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3213DEFAULT: off
3214DOC_START
3215 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3216 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3217 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3218 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3219 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
3220 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
3221 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3222DOC_END
c4ab8329 3223
41bd17a4 3224NAME: request_entities
3225TYPE: onoff
3226LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3227DEFAULT: off
3228DOC_START
3229 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3230 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3231 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3232
41bd17a4 3233 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3234 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3235 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3236 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3237 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3238DOC_END
6b53c392 3239
41bd17a4 3240NAME: request_header_access
3241IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3242TYPE: http_header_access[]
3243LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3244DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3245DOC_START
41bd17a4 3246 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3247
41bd17a4 3248 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3249 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3250 causes.
0976f8db 3251
41bd17a4 3252 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3253 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3254 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3255 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3256 mangling.
934b03fc 3257
41bd17a4 3258 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3259 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3260
41bd17a4 3261 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3262 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3263 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3264
41bd17a4 3265 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3266 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3267
41bd17a4 3268 request_header_access From deny all
3269 request_header_access Referer deny all
3270 request_header_access Server deny all
3271 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
3272 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3273 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 3274
41bd17a4 3275 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3276 you should use:
5401aa8d 3277
41bd17a4 3278 request_header_access Allow allow all
3279 request_header_access Authorization allow all
3280 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3281 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3282 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3283 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3284 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3285 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
3286 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
3287 request_header_access Date allow all
3288 request_header_access Expires allow all
3289 request_header_access Host allow all
3290 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3291 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3292 request_header_access Location allow all
3293 request_header_access Pragma allow all
3294 request_header_access Accept allow all
3295 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3296 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3297 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3298 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3299 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3300 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3301 request_header_access Title allow all
3302 request_header_access Connection allow all
3303 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3304 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3305
41bd17a4 3306 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3307 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3308
41bd17a4 3309 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3310 performed).
5401aa8d 3311DOC_END
3312
41bd17a4 3313NAME: reply_header_access
3314IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3315TYPE: http_header_access[]
3316LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3317DEFAULT: none
3318DOC_START
41bd17a4 3319 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3320
41bd17a4 3321 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3322 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3323 causes.
934b03fc 3324
41bd17a4 3325 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3326 server to the client.
934b03fc 3327
41bd17a4 3328 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3329 direction.
6b53c392 3330
41bd17a4 3331 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3332 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3333 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3334 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3335 mangling.
cccac0a2 3336
41bd17a4 3337 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3338 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3339 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3340
41bd17a4 3341 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3342 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3343
41bd17a4 3344 reply_header_access From deny all
3345 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3346 reply_header_access Server deny all
3347 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3348 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3349 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3350
41bd17a4 3351 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3352 you should use:
cccac0a2 3353
41bd17a4 3354 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3355 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3356 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3357 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3358 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3359 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3360 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3361 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3362 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3363 reply_header_access Date allow all
3364 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3365 reply_header_access Host allow all
3366 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3367 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3368 reply_header_access Location allow all
3369 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3370 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3371 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3372 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3373 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3374 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3375 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3376 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3377 reply_header_access Title allow all
3378 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3379 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3380 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3381
41bd17a4 3382 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3383 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3384
41bd17a4 3385 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3386 performed).
cccac0a2 3387DOC_END
3388
41bd17a4 3389NAME: header_replace
3390IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3391TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3392LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3393DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3394DOC_START
3395 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3396 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3397
41bd17a4 3398 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3399 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3400 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3401 option.
cccac0a2 3402
41bd17a4 3403 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3404
41bd17a4 3405 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3406DOC_END
cccac0a2 3407
41bd17a4 3408NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3409COMMENT: on|off|warn
3410TYPE: tristate
3411LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3412DEFAULT: on
3413DOC_START
3414 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3415 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3416 what the sending application intended even if the message
3417 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3418 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3419
41bd17a4 3420 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3421 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3422
41bd17a4 3423 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3424 or response to be rejected.
3425DOC_END
7d90757b 3426
41bd17a4 3427COMMENT_START
3428 TIMEOUTS
3429 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3430COMMENT_END
3431
3432NAME: forward_timeout
3433COMMENT: time-units
3434TYPE: time_t
3435LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3436DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3437DOC_START
3438 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3439 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3440DOC_END
3441
41bd17a4 3442NAME: connect_timeout
3443COMMENT: time-units
3444TYPE: time_t
3445LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3446DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3447DOC_START
41bd17a4 3448 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3449 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3450 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3451DOC_END
3452
41bd17a4 3453NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3454COMMENT: time-units
3455TYPE: time_t
3456LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3457DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3458DOC_START
41bd17a4 3459 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3460 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3461 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3462 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3463DOC_END
7f7db318 3464
41bd17a4 3465NAME: read_timeout
3466COMMENT: time-units
3467TYPE: time_t
3468LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3469DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3470DOC_START
3471 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3472 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3473 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3474 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3475 default is 15 minutes.
3476DOC_END
cccac0a2 3477
41bd17a4 3478NAME: request_timeout
3479TYPE: time_t
3480LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3481DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3482DOC_START
3483 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3484 connection establishment.
3485DOC_END
cccac0a2 3486
41bd17a4 3487NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3488TYPE: time_t
3489LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3490DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3491DOC_START
3492 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3493 connection after the previous request completes.
3494DOC_END
cccac0a2 3495
41bd17a4 3496NAME: client_lifetime
3497COMMENT: time-units
3498TYPE: time_t
3499LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3500DEFAULT: 1 day
3501DOC_START
3502 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3503 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3504 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3505 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3506 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3507 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3508 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3509
41bd17a4 3510 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3511 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3512 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3513 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3514 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3515 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3516DOC_END
3517
41bd17a4 3518NAME: half_closed_clients
3519TYPE: onoff
3520LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3521DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3522DOC_START
41bd17a4 3523 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3524 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3525 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3526 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3527 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3528 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3529 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3530 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3531DOC_END
3532
41bd17a4 3533NAME: pconn_timeout
3534TYPE: time_t
3535LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3536DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3537DOC_START
41bd17a4 3538 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3539 proxies.
3540DOC_END
cccac0a2 3541
41bd17a4 3542NAME: ident_timeout
3543TYPE: time_t
3544IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3545LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3546DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3547DOC_START
3548 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3549
41bd17a4 3550 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3551 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3552 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3553DOC_END
3554
41bd17a4 3555NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3556COMMENT: time-units
3557TYPE: time_t
3558LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3559DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3560DOC_START
41bd17a4 3561 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3562 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3563 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3564 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3565 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3566DOC_END
0976f8db 3567
cccac0a2 3568COMMENT_START
3569 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3570 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3571COMMENT_END
3572
3573NAME: cache_mgr
3574TYPE: string
3575DEFAULT: webmaster
3576LOC: Config.adminEmail
3577DOC_START
3578 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3579 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3580DOC_END
3581
abacf776 3582NAME: mail_from
3583TYPE: string
3584DEFAULT: none
3585LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3586DOC_START
3587 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3588 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3589 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3590 src/globals.h before building squid.
3591DOC_END
3592
d084bf20 3593NAME: mail_program
3594TYPE: eol
3595DEFAULT: mail
3596LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3597DOC_START
3598 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3599 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3600 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3601 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3602
d084bf20 3603 Optional command line options can be specified.
3604DOC_END
3605
cccac0a2 3606NAME: cache_effective_user
3607TYPE: string
5483d916 3608DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3609LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3610DOC_START
3611 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3612 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3613 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3614 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3615DOC_END
3616
cccac0a2 3617NAME: cache_effective_group
3618TYPE: string
3619DEFAULT: none
3620LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3621DOC_START
64e288bd 3622 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3623 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3624 from the groups membership.
3625
e3d74828 3626 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3627 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3628 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3629 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3630 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3631 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3632 group.
64e288bd 3633
3634 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3635 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3636 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3637DOC_END
3638
d3caee79 3639NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3640COMMENT: on|off
3641TYPE: onoff
3642DEFAULT: off
3643LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3644DOC_START
3645 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3646DOC_END
3647
cccac0a2 3648NAME: visible_hostname
3649TYPE: string
3650LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3651DEFAULT: none
3652DOC_START
3653 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3654 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3655 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3656 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3657 names with this setting.
3658DOC_END
3659
cccac0a2 3660NAME: unique_hostname
3661TYPE: string
3662LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3663DEFAULT: none
3664DOC_START
3665 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3666 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3667 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3668DOC_END
3669
cccac0a2 3670NAME: hostname_aliases
3671TYPE: wordlist
3672LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3673DEFAULT: none
3674DOC_START
7f7db318 3675 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3676DOC_END
0976f8db 3677
c642c141
AJ
3678NAME: umask
3679TYPE: int
3680LOC: Config.umask
3681DEFAULT: 027
3682DOC_START
3683 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
3684 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
3685
3686 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
3687 your value with 0.
3688DOC_END
3689
cccac0a2 3690COMMENT_START
3691 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3692 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3693
3694 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3695 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3696 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3697 create cache hierarchies.
3698
3699 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3700 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3701 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3702
3703 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3704 following information from this configuration file:
3705
3706 http_port
3707 icp_port
3708 cache_mgr
3709
3710 All current information is processed regularly and made
3711 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3712COMMENT_END
3713
3714NAME: announce_period
3715TYPE: time_t
3716LOC: Config.Announce.period
3717DEFAULT: 0
3718DOC_START
3719 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3720 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3721 messages.
3722
3723 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3724 below.
3725
3726NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3727#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3728#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3729NOCOMMENT_END
3730DOC_END
3731
cccac0a2 3732NAME: announce_host
3733TYPE: string
3734DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3735LOC: Config.Announce.host
3736DOC_NONE
3737
3738NAME: announce_file
3739TYPE: string
3740DEFAULT: none
3741LOC: Config.Announce.file
3742DOC_NONE
3743
3744NAME: announce_port
3745TYPE: ushort
3746DEFAULT: 3131
3747LOC: Config.Announce.port
3748DOC_START
3749 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3750 number where the registration message will be sent.
3751
3752 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3753 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3754 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3755 message.
3756DOC_END
3757
8d6275c0 3758COMMENT_START
3759 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3760 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3761COMMENT_END
3762
cccac0a2 3763NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 3764IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3765TYPE: string
3766LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3767DEFAULT: unset-id
3768DOC_START
3769 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3770 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3771 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3772 an identification token.
3773DOC_END
3774
3775NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 3776IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3777COMMENT: on|off
3778TYPE: onoff
3779DEFAULT: off
3780LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3781DOC_START
3782 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3783 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3784DOC_END
3785
3786NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 3787IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 3788COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3789TYPE: string
3790LOC: ESIParser::Type
3791DEFAULT: custom
3792DOC_START
3793 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3794 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3795 encodings.
3796DOC_END
0976f8db 3797
9edd9041 3798COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3799 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3800 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3801COMMENT_END
3802
3803NAME: delay_pools
3804TYPE: delay_pool_count
3805DEFAULT: 0
3806IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3807LOC: Config.Delay
3808DOC_START
3809 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3810 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3811 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3812DOC_END
3813
3814NAME: delay_class
3815TYPE: delay_pool_class
3816DEFAULT: none
3817IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3818LOC: Config.Delay
3819DOC_START
3820 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3821 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3822 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3823 and here would be:
3824
3825Example:
3826 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3827 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3828 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3829 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3830 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3831
3832 The delay pool classes are:
3833
3834 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3835 bucket.
3836
3837 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3838 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3839 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3840
3841 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3842 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3843 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3844 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3845 32 of the IP address.
3846
3847 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3848 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3849 only takes effect if the username is established
3850 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3851 http_access rules.
3852
3853 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3854 external_acl's tag= reply).
3855
3856 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3857 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3858 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3859 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3860DOC_END
3861
3862NAME: delay_access
3863TYPE: delay_pool_access
3864DEFAULT: none
3865IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3866LOC: Config.Delay
3867DOC_START
3868 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3869
3870 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3871 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3872 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3873 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3874
3875 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3876 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3877
3878Example:
3879 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3880 delay_access 1 deny all
3881 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3882 delay_access 2 deny all
3883 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3884DOC_END
3885
3886NAME: delay_parameters
3887TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3888DEFAULT: none
3889IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3890LOC: Config.Delay
3891DOC_START
3892 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3893 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3894 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3895
3896delay_parameters pool aggregate
3897
3898 For a class 2 delay pool:
3899
3900delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3901
3902 For a class 3 delay pool:
3903
3904delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3905
3906 For a class 4 delay pool:
3907
3908delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3909
3910 For a class 5 delay pool:
3911
3912delay_parameters pool tag
3913
3914 The variables here are:
3915
3916 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3917 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3918 delay_class lines.
3919
3920 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3921 (class 1, 2, 3).
3922
3923 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3924 buckets (class 2, 3).
3925
3926 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3927 (class 3).
3928
3929 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3930 (class 4).
3931
3932 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3933 (class 5).
3934
3935 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3936 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3937 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3938 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3939
3940 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3941 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3942 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3943
3944delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3945
3946 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3947
3948 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3949 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3950 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3951 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3952 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3953 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3954 large downloads more significantly:
3955
3956delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3957
3958 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3959
3960 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3961 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3962
3963delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3964DOC_END
3965
3966NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3967COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3968TYPE: ushort
3969DEFAULT: 50
3970IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3971LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3972DOC_START
3973 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3974 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3975 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3976 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3977 "seen" by squid).
3978DOC_END
3979
cccac0a2 3980COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3981 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3982 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3983COMMENT_END
3984
8d6275c0 3985NAME: wccp_router
3986TYPE: address
3987LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3988DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3989IFDEF: USE_WCCP
e313ab0a
AJ
3990DOC_START
3991 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3992 Squid.
3993
3994 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
3995
3996 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
3997
3998 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
3999 which version of WCCP to use.
4000DOC_END
df2eec10 4001
8d6275c0 4002NAME: wccp2_router
cc192b50 4003TYPE: IPAddress_list
8d6275c0 4004LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 4005DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4006IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4007DOC_START
8d6275c0 4008 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4009 Squid.
cccac0a2 4010
8d6275c0 4011 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 4012
8d6275c0 4013 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 4014
8d6275c0 4015 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4016 which version of WCCP to use.
4017DOC_END
4018
4019NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 4020TYPE: int
8d6275c0 4021LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4022DEFAULT: 4
4023IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 4024DOC_START
8d6275c0 4025 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4026 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4027 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4028 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4029 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4030
8d6275c0 4031 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4032 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4033 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4034 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4035DOC_END
4036
8d6275c0 4037NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4038TYPE: onoff
4039LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4040DEFAULT: on
4041IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4042DOC_START
4043 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4044 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4045DOC_END
cccac0a2 4046
8d6275c0 4047NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 4048TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4049LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 4050DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4051IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4052DOC_START
699acd19 4053 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4054 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4055
451c4786
AJ
4056 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4057 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4058
8d6275c0 4059 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4060 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4061DOC_END
4062
8d6275c0 4063NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 4064TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4065LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 4066DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4067IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4068DOC_START
699acd19 4069 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4070 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4071 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4072
451c4786
AJ
4073 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4074 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4075
8d6275c0 4076 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4077 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4078
699acd19 4079 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4080 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4081 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4082 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4083DOC_END
4084
8d6275c0 4085NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 4086TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 4087LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 4088DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 4089IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4090DOC_START
8d6275c0 4091 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4092 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4093
451c4786
AJ
4094 hash - Hash assignment
4095 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4096
8d6275c0 4097 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4098 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4099DOC_END
cccac0a2 4100
8d6275c0 4101NAME: wccp2_service
4102TYPE: wccp2_service
4103LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4104DEFAULT: none
4105DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4106IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4107DOC_START
4108 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4109 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4110 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4111 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4112 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4113 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4114
4115 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4116 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4117
4118 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4119 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4120
4121 Examples:
4122
4123 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4124 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4125 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4126 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 4127DOC_END
4128
4129NAME: wccp2_service_info
4130TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4131LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4132DEFAULT: none
4133IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4134DOC_START
4135 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4136 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4137
4138 The format is:
4139
4140 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4141 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4142
4143 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4144 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4145 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4146 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4147 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4148 + ports_source
4149
4150 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4151
4152 Example:
4153
4154 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4155 priority=240 ports=80
4156
4157 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4158 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4159DOC_END
4160
4161NAME: wccp2_weight
4162TYPE: int
4163LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4164DEFAULT: 10000
4165IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4166DOC_START
4167 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4168 hash proportional to their weight.
4169DOC_END
4170
4171NAME: wccp_address
4172TYPE: address
4173LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4174DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4175IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4176DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4177
8d6275c0 4178NAME: wccp2_address
4179TYPE: address
4180LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4181DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4182IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4183DOC_START
4184 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4185 interface address.
4186
4187 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4188DOC_END
4189
4190COMMENT_START
4191 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4192 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4193
4194 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4195COMMENT_END
4196
4197NAME: client_persistent_connections
4198TYPE: onoff
4199LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4200DEFAULT: on
4201DOC_NONE
4202
4203NAME: server_persistent_connections
4204TYPE: onoff
4205LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4206DEFAULT: on
4207DOC_START
4208 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4209 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4210 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4211 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4212DOC_END
4213
4214NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4215TYPE: onoff
4216LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4217DEFAULT: off
4218DOC_START
4219 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4220 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4221 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4222DOC_END
4223
4224NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4225TYPE: onoff
4226LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4227DEFAULT: off
4228DOC_START
4229 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4230 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4231 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4232 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4233
4234 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4235 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4236 after 10 seconds timeout.
4237DOC_END
4238
4239COMMENT_START
4240 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
4241 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4242COMMENT_END
4243
4244NAME: digest_generation
4245IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4246TYPE: onoff
4247LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
4248DEFAULT: on
4249DOC_START
4250 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
4251 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 4252 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 4253DOC_END
4254
4255NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
4256IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4257TYPE: int
4258LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
4259DEFAULT: 5
4260DOC_START
4261 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
4262 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
4263 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
4264DOC_END
4265
4266NAME: digest_rebuild_period
4267IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4268COMMENT: (seconds)
4269TYPE: time_t
4270LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
4271DEFAULT: 1 hour
4272DOC_START
749ceff8 4273 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 4274DOC_END
4275
4276NAME: digest_rewrite_period
4277COMMENT: (seconds)
4278IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4279TYPE: time_t
4280LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
4281DEFAULT: 1 hour
4282DOC_START
749ceff8 4283 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 4284 disk.
4285DOC_END
4286
4287NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
4288COMMENT: (bytes)
4289TYPE: b_size_t
4290IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4291LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
4292DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
4293DOC_START
4294 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
4295 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
4296 default swap page.
4297DOC_END
4298
4299NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
4300COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4301IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
4302TYPE: int
4303LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
4304DEFAULT: 10
4305DOC_START
4306 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
4307 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
4308DOC_END
4309
1db9eacd 4310COMMENT_START
5473c134 4311 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 4312 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4313COMMENT_END
4314
5473c134 4315NAME: snmp_port
4316TYPE: ushort
4317LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 4318DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4319IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4320DOC_START
87630341 4321 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4322 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4323 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4324 set to "0" (disabled)
4325NOCOMMENT_START
4326#snmp_port 3401
4327NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 4328DOC_END
4329
5473c134 4330NAME: snmp_access
4331TYPE: acl_access
4332LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4333DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4334DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4335IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4336DOC_START
5473c134 4337 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4338
5473c134 4339 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4340 usage:
8d6275c0 4341
5473c134 4342 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4343
5473c134 4344Example:
4345 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4346 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4347DOC_END
4348
5473c134 4349NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4350TYPE: address
4351LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4352DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4353IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4354DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4355
5473c134 4356NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4357TYPE: address
4358LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4359DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4360IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4361DOC_START
df2eec10 4362 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4363
5473c134 4364 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4365 messages from SNMP agents.
4366 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4367 agents.
cccac0a2 4368
5473c134 4369 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4370 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4371
5473c134 4372 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4373 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4374 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4375 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4376
5473c134 4377 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4378 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4379DOC_END
4380
5473c134 4381COMMENT_START
4382 ICP OPTIONS
4383 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4384COMMENT_END
4385
4386NAME: icp_port udp_port
4387TYPE: ushort
4388DEFAULT: 0
4389LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4390DOC_START
5473c134 4391 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4392 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4393 Default is disabled (0).
4394NOCOMMENT_START
df2eec10 4395#icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5473c134 4396NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4397DOC_END
4398
5473c134 4399NAME: htcp_port
4400IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4401TYPE: ushort
87630341 4402DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4403LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4404DOC_START
5473c134 4405 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4406 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4407 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4408NOCOMMENT_START
4409#htcp_port 4827
4410NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4411DOC_END
4412
4413NAME: log_icp_queries
4414COMMENT: on|off
4415TYPE: onoff
4416DEFAULT: on
4417LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4418DOC_START
4419 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4420 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4421 up or to simplify log analysis.
4422DOC_END
4423
5473c134 4424NAME: udp_incoming_address
4425TYPE: address
4426LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4427DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4428DOC_START
4429 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4430 caches.
4431
4432 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4433
4434 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4435 a specific interface/address.
4436
4437 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4438 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4439
4440 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4441
4442 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4443 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4444DOC_END
cccac0a2 4445
5473c134 4446NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4447TYPE: address
4448LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4449DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4450DOC_START
8524d4b2 4451 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4452 caches.
cccac0a2 4453
5473c134 4454 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4455
8524d4b2 4456 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4457 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4458 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4459 caches.
4460
8524d4b2 4461 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4462 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4463
4464 see also; udp_incoming_address
4465
5473c134 4466 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4467 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4468DOC_END
4469
3d1e3e43 4470NAME: icp_hit_stale
4471COMMENT: on|off
4472TYPE: onoff
4473DEFAULT: off
4474LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4475DOC_START
4476 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4477 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4478 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4479 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4480 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4481 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4482 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4483DOC_END
4484
5473c134 4485NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4486TYPE: int
5473c134 4487DEFAULT: 4
4488LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4489DOC_START
5473c134 4490 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4491 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4492DOC_END
4493
5473c134 4494NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4495TYPE: int
4496DEFAULT: 400
4497LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4498DOC_START
5473c134 4499 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4500 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4501DOC_END
4502
cccac0a2 4503NAME: netdb_low
4504TYPE: int
4505DEFAULT: 900
4506LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4507DOC_NONE
4508
4509NAME: netdb_high
4510TYPE: int
4511DEFAULT: 1000
4512LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4513DOC_START
4514 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4515 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4516 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4517 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4518DOC_END
4519
cccac0a2 4520NAME: netdb_ping_period
4521TYPE: time_t
4522LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4523DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4524DOC_START
4525 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4526 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4527 network. The default is five minutes.
4528DOC_END
4529
cccac0a2 4530NAME: query_icmp
4531COMMENT: on|off
4532TYPE: onoff
4533DEFAULT: off
4534LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4535DOC_START
4536 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4537 replies, enable this option.
4538
4539 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4540 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4541 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4542 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4543 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4544 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4545 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4546 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4547DOC_END
4548
4549NAME: test_reachability
4550COMMENT: on|off
4551TYPE: onoff
4552DEFAULT: off
4553LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4554DOC_START
4555 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4556 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4557 database, or has a zero RTT.
4558DOC_END
4559
5473c134 4560NAME: icp_query_timeout
4561COMMENT: (msec)
4562DEFAULT: 0
4563TYPE: int
4564LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4565DOC_START
5473c134 4566 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4567 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4568 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4569 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4570 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4571 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4572
5473c134 4573 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4574DOC_END
4575
5473c134 4576NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4577COMMENT: (msec)
4578DEFAULT: 2000
4579TYPE: int
4580LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4581DOC_START
5473c134 4582 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4583 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4584 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4585 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4586 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4587 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4588DOC_END
4589
5473c134 4590NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4591COMMENT: (msec)
4592DEFAULT: 5
4593TYPE: int
4594LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4595DOC_START
5473c134 4596 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4597 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4598 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4599 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4600 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4601 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4602 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4603DOC_END
4604
5473c134 4605NAME: background_ping_rate
4606COMMENT: time-units
4607TYPE: time_t
4608DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4609LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4610DOC_START
5473c134 4611 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4612 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4613DOC_END
4614
5473c134 4615COMMENT_START
4616 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4617 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4618COMMENT_END
4619
4620NAME: mcast_groups
4621TYPE: wordlist
4622LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4623DEFAULT: none
4624DOC_START
5473c134 4625 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4626 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4627
5473c134 4628 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4629 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4630 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4631 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4632 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4633 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4634 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4635
5473c134 4636 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4637 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4638
5473c134 4639 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4640 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4641
5473c134 4642 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4643
5473c134 4644 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4645DOC_END
8c01ada0 4646
5473c134 4647NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4648IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4649TYPE: address
4650LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4651DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4652DOC_START
4653 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4654 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4655
5473c134 4656 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4657 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4658DOC_END
4659
5473c134 4660NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4661IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4662TYPE: ushort
4663LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4664DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4665DOC_START
5473c134 4666 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4667 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4668 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4669DOC_END
cccac0a2 4670
5473c134 4671NAME: mcast_miss_port
4672IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4673TYPE: ushort
4674LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4675DEFAULT: 3135
4676DOC_START
4677 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4678 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4679DOC_END
cccac0a2 4680
5473c134 4681NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4682IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4683TYPE: string
4684LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4685DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4686DOC_START
4687 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4688 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4689DOC_END
8c01ada0 4690
5473c134 4691NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4692COMMENT: (msec)
4693DEFAULT: 2000
4694TYPE: int
4695LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4696DOC_START
4697 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4698 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4699 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4700 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4701 seconds.
cccac0a2 4702DOC_END
4703
5473c134 4704COMMENT_START
4705 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4706 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4707COMMENT_END
4708
cccac0a2 4709NAME: icon_directory
4710TYPE: string
4711LOC: Config.icons.directory
4712DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4713DOC_START
4714 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4715 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4716DOC_END
4717
f024c970 4718NAME: global_internal_static
4719TYPE: onoff
4720LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4721DEFAULT: on
4722DOC_START
4723 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4724 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4725 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4726 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4727 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4728 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4729 the server generating a directory listing.
4730DOC_END
4731
5473c134 4732NAME: short_icon_urls
4733TYPE: onoff
4734LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4735DEFAULT: on
4736DOC_START
4737 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4738 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4739 it's own name and port in the URL.
4740
4741 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4742 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4743DOC_END
4744
4745COMMENT_START
4746 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4747 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4748COMMENT_END
4749
4750NAME: error_directory
4751TYPE: string
4752LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 4753DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4754DOC_START
4755 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
43000484
AJ
4756 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
4757 the error/template files to another directory and point
4758 this tag at them.
4759
4760 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
4761 on error pages if used.
5473c134 4762
4763 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4764 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 4765 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 4766 contributing your translation back to the project.
43000484
AJ
4767 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
4768
4769 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
4770 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
4771DOC_END
4772
4773NAME: error_default_language
4774IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
4775TYPE: string
4776LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
4777DEFAULT: none
4778DOC_START
4779 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
4780 if no existing translation matches the clients language
4781 preferences.
4782
4783 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
4784
4785 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4786 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
4787 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
4788 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 4789DOC_END
4790
c411820c
AJ
4791NAME: error_log_languages
4792IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
4793TYPE: onoff
4794LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
4795DEFAULT: on
4796DOC_START
4797 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
4798 auto-negotiate for translations.
4799
4800 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
4801 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
4802 of is error page translations.
4803DOC_END
4804
5473c134 4805NAME: err_html_text
4806TYPE: eol
4807LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4808DEFAULT: none
4809DOC_START
4810 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4811 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4812 organizations Web page.
4813
4814 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4815 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4816 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4817 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4818DOC_END
4819
4820NAME: email_err_data
4821COMMENT: on|off
4822TYPE: onoff
4823LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4824DEFAULT: on
4825DOC_START
4826 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4827 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4828 so that the email body contains the data.
4829 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4830DOC_END
4831
4832NAME: deny_info
4833TYPE: denyinfo
4834LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4835DEFAULT: none
4836DOC_START
4837 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4838 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 4839 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 4840
4841 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4842 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4843 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4844 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4845
4846 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4847 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4848 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4849 the first authentication related acl encountered
4850 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4851 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4852
43000484
AJ
4853 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
4854 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
4855 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 4856
4857 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4858 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4859 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4860
4861 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4862 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4863DOC_END
4864
4865COMMENT_START
4866 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4867 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4868COMMENT_END
4869
4870NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4871TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4872LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4873DEFAULT: on
4874DOC_START
5473c134 4875 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4876 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4877 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4878
5473c134 4879 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4880 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4881
5473c134 4882 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4883 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4884 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4885
5473c134 4886 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4887 this directive.
8d6275c0 4888DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4889
5473c134 4890NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4891TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4892LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4893DEFAULT: off
4894DOC_START
5473c134 4895 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4896 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4897 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4898
5473c134 4899 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4900 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4901 fails.
4902
4903 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4904 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4905 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4906DOC_END
4907
5473c134 4908NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4909TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4910LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4911DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4912DOC_START
5473c134 4913 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4914
5473c134 4915 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4916 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4917 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4918 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4919 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4920
5473c134 4921 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4922 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4923
5473c134 4924 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4925
5473c134 4926 acl FTP proto FTP
4927 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4928
5473c134 4929 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4930 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4931 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4932 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4933 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4934
5473c134 4935 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4936 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4937 always_direct deny local-external
4938 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4939
5473c134 4940 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4941 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4942 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4943 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4944
5473c134 4945 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4946 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4947 the replies see no_cache.
4948
4949 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4950 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4951DOC_END
0976f8db 4952
5473c134 4953NAME: never_direct
4954TYPE: acl_access
4955LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4956DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4957DOC_START
5473c134 4958 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4959
4960 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4961 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4962
4963 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4964 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4965 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4966 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4967
4968 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 4969 never_direct deny local-servers
4970 never_direct allow all
4971
4972 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4973 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4974
4975 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4976 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4977 always_direct deny local-external
4978 always_direct allow local-intranet
4979 never_direct allow all
4980
4981 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4982 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4983DOC_END
0976f8db 4984
5473c134 4985COMMENT_START
4986 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4987 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4988COMMENT_END
4989
cccac0a2 4990NAME: incoming_icp_average
4991TYPE: int
4992DEFAULT: 6
4993LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4994DOC_NONE
4995
4996NAME: incoming_http_average
4997TYPE: int
4998DEFAULT: 4
4999LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
5000DOC_NONE
5001
5002NAME: incoming_dns_average
5003TYPE: int
5004DEFAULT: 4
5005LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
5006DOC_NONE
5007
5008NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
5009TYPE: int
5010DEFAULT: 8
5011LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
5012DOC_NONE
5013
5014NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
5015TYPE: int
5016DEFAULT: 8
5017LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
5018DOC_NONE
5019
5020NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
5021TYPE: int
5022DEFAULT: 8
5023LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
5024DOC_START
5473c134 5025 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
5026 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
5027 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
5028DOC_END
5029
5030NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 5031TYPE: string
5032DEFAULT: none
5033LOC: Config.accept_filter
5034DOC_START
0b4d4be5 5035 FreeBSD:
5036
5473c134 5037 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5038 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5039 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5040
5041 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 5042 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 5043 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5044
5045 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5046 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5047 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5048
5049 Linux:
5050
5051 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5052 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5053 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5054 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5055 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5056EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5057# FreeBSD
5473c134 5058accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5059# Linux
5060accept_filter data
5473c134 5061DOC_END
5062
5063NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5064COMMENT: (bytes)
5065TYPE: b_size_t
5066DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5067LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5068DOC_START
5069 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5070 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5071 the default buffer size.
5072DOC_END
5073
5074COMMENT_START
5075 ICAP OPTIONS
5076 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5077COMMENT_END
5078
5079NAME: icap_enable
5080TYPE: onoff
5081IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5082COMMENT: on|off
5083LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
5084DEFAULT: off
5085DOC_START
53e738c6 5086 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5087DOC_END
5088
5089NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5090TYPE: time_t
5091DEFAULT: none
5092LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5093IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5094DOC_START
5095 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5096 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5097 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5098
5099 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5100 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5101 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5102DOC_END
5103
5104NAME: icap_io_timeout
5105COMMENT: time-units
5106TYPE: time_t
5107DEFAULT: none
5108LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
5109IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5110DOC_START
5111 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5112 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5113 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5114 failure.
5115
5116 The default is read_timeout.
5117DOC_END
5118
5119NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
5120TYPE: int
5121IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5122LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
5123DEFAULT: 10
5124DOC_START
5125 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5126 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5127 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5128 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
5129 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
5130 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
5131
5132 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5133 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5134 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5135DOC_END
5136
5473c134 5137NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5138TYPE: int
5473c134 5139IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5140LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
5141DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5142DOC_START
5473c134 5143 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5144 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5145 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5146 fetched.
cccac0a2 5147
5473c134 5148 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5149 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5150DOC_END
5151
5473c134 5152NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5153TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5154IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5155COMMENT: on|off
5156LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5157DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5158DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5159 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5160 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5161 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5162 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5163
5164 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5165 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5166 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5167
5168 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5169 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
5170Example:
5171icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 5172DOC_END
5173
5473c134 5174NAME: icap_preview_size
5175TYPE: int
5176IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5177LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
5178DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 5179DOC_START
53e738c6 5180 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
5181 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
5182 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 5183DOC_END
5184
5473c134 5185NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
5186TYPE: int
5187IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5188LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
5189DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 5190DOC_START
53e738c6 5191 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 5192 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 5193DOC_END
5194
5473c134 5195NAME: icap_persistent_connections
5196TYPE: onoff
5197IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5198COMMENT: on|off
5199LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
5200DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5201DOC_START
5473c134 5202 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
5203 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 5204DOC_END
5205
5473c134 5206NAME: icap_send_client_ip
5207TYPE: onoff
5208IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5209COMMENT: on|off
5210LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
5211DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5212DOC_START
53e738c6 5213 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 5214DOC_END
5215
5473c134 5216NAME: icap_send_client_username
5217TYPE: onoff
5218IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5219COMMENT: on|off
5220LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
5221DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5222DOC_START
5473c134 5223 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
5224 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
5225 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
5226 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 5227DOC_END
5228
5473c134 5229NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 5230TYPE: string
5473c134 5231IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5232LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
5233DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 5234DOC_START
5473c134 5235 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 5236DOC_END
5237
5473c134 5238NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 5239TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5240IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5241COMMENT: on|off
5242LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
5243DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 5244DOC_START
5473c134 5245 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 5246DOC_END
5247
5473c134 5248NAME: icap_service
5249TYPE: icap_service_type
5250IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5251LOC: TheICAPConfig
5252DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5253DOC_START
53e738c6 5254 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 5255
53e738c6 5256 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 5257
53e738c6 5258 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 5259 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5260 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5261 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 5262 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 5263 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
5264 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5265 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5266 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
5267 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
5268 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5269 HTTP client.
53e738c6 5270 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 5271
5473c134 5272Example:
5273icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
5274icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 5275DOC_END
5276
5473c134 5277NAME: icap_class
5278TYPE: icap_class_type
5279IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 5280LOC: none
5473c134 5281DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5282DOC_START
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5283 This depricated option was documented to define an ICAP service
5284 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
5285 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 5286
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5287 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
5288 adaptation_service_set directive.
5473c134 5289
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5290 If you need adaptation service chains, patches or sponsorship
5291 is welcome.
cccac0a2 5292DOC_END
5293
5473c134 5294NAME: icap_access
5295TYPE: icap_access_type
5296IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 5297LOC: none
cccac0a2 5298DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5299DOC_START
62c7f90e
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5300 This option is depricated. Please use adaptation_access, which
5301 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
5302 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 5303DOC_END
5304
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5305COMMENT_START
5306 eCAP OPTIONS
5307 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5308COMMENT_END
5309
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5310NAME: ecap_enable
5311TYPE: onoff
5312IFDEF: USE_ECAP
5313COMMENT: on|off
5314LOC: Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
5315DEFAULT: off
5316DOC_START
5317 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
5318DOC_END
5319
5320NAME: ecap_service
5321TYPE: ecap_service_type
5322IFDEF: USE_ECAP
5323LOC: Ecap::TheConfig
5324DEFAULT: none
5325DOC_START
5326 Defines a single eCAP service
5327
5328 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
5329
5330 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
5331 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
5332 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
5333 are not yet supported.
5334 bypass = 1|0
5335 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
5336 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
5337 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
5338 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
5339 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
5340 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
5341 HTTP client.
5342 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
5343
5344Example:
5345ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
5346ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
5347DOC_END
5348
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5349NAME: loadable_modules
5350TYPE: wordlist
5351IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
5352LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
5353DEFAULT: none
5354DOC_START
5355 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
5356 preloaded module(s).
5357Example:
5358loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
5359DOC_END
5360
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5361COMMENT_START
5362 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
5363 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5364COMMENT_END
5365
5366NAME: adaptation_service_set
5367TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
5368IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5369LOC: none
5370DEFAULT: none
5371DOC_START
5372
5373 Defines a named adaptation service set. The set is populated in
5374 the order of adaptation_service_set directives in this file.
5375 When adaptation ACLs are processed, the first and only the first
5376 applicable adaptation service from the set will be used. Thus,
5377 the set should group similar, redundant services, rather than a
5378 chain of complementary services.
5379
5380 If you have a single adaptation service, you do not need to
5381 define a set containing it because adaptation_access accepts
5382 service names.
5383
5384 See also: adaptation_access
5385
5386Example:
5387adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
5388adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
5389DOC_END
5390
5391NAME: adaptation_access
5392TYPE: adaptation_access_type
5393IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5394LOC: none
5395DEFAULT: none
5396DOC_START
5397 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
5398
5399 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5400 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
5401
5402 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
5403 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
5404 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
5405 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
5406
5407 - services serving different vectoring points
5408 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
5409 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
5410 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
5411
5412 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
5413 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
5414 adaptation_service_set for details.
5415
5416 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
5417 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
5418 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
5419 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
5420
5421 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
5422 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
5423
5424 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
5425
5426Example:
5427adaptation_access service_1 allow all
5428DOC_END
5429
5473c134 5430COMMENT_START
5431 DNS OPTIONS
5432 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5433COMMENT_END
5434
5435NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5436TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5437DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5438LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 5439DOC_START
5473c134 5440 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
5441 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
5442 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 5443DOC_END
5444
5473c134 5445NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5446TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5447DEFAULT: on
5473c134 5448LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 5449DOC_START
5473c134 5450 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
5451 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
5452 Squid to be strict about the standard.
5453 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 5454DOC_END
5455
5473c134 5456NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 5457TYPE: string
5473c134 5458IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5459DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
5460LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 5461DOC_START
5473c134 5462 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 5463DOC_END
5464
5473c134 5465NAME: dns_children
5466TYPE: int
5467IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
5468DEFAULT: 5
5469LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 5470DOC_START
5473c134 5471 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
5472 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
5473 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
5474 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 5475
5473c134 5476 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 5477DOC_END
5478
5473c134 5479NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
5480TYPE: time_t
5481DEFAULT: 5 seconds
5482LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
5483IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5484DOC_START
5473c134 5485 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
5486 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 5487
cccac0a2 5488DOC_END
5489
5473c134 5490NAME: dns_timeout
5491TYPE: time_t
5492DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5493LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
5494IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5495DOC_START
5473c134 5496 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
5497 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
5498 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 5499DOC_END
5500
5473c134 5501NAME: dns_defnames
5502COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 5503TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5504DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5505LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 5506DOC_START
5473c134 5507 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
5508 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
5509 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
5510 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 5511DOC_END
5512
5473c134 5513NAME: dns_nameservers
5514TYPE: wordlist
5515DEFAULT: none
5516LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 5517DOC_START
5473c134 5518 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
5519 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
5520 /etc/resolv.conf file.
5521 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
5522 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
5523 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
5524 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 5525
5473c134 5526 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 5527DOC_END
5528
5473c134 5529NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 5530TYPE: string
5473c134 5531DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
5532LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 5533DOC_START
5473c134 5534 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
5535 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
5536 default locations:
5537 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
5538 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5539 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
5540 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5541 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
5542 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
5543 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
5544 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 5545
5473c134 5546 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
5547 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5548 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
5549 character are comments.
cccac0a2 5550
5473c134 5551 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
5552 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
5553 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
5554 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
5555 definitions.
cccac0a2 5556DOC_END
5557
5473c134 5558NAME: append_domain
5559TYPE: string
5560LOC: Config.appendDomain
5561DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 5562DOC_START
5473c134 5563 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
5564 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
5565
5566 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
5567 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
5568 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
5569
5570Example:
5571 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 5572DOC_END
5573
5473c134 5574NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
5575TYPE: onoff
5576LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 5577DEFAULT: on
5578DOC_START
5473c134 5579 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
5580 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
5581 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
5582 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
5583 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 5584DOC_END
5585
cc192b50 5586NAME: dns_v4_fallback
5587TYPE: onoff
5588DEFAULT: on
5589LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
5590DOC_START
5591 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
5592 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
5593 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
5594
5595 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
5596 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
5597
5598 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
5599 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
5600
5601 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
5602 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
5603 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
5604DOC_END
5605
6bc15a4f 5606NAME: ipcache_size
5607COMMENT: (number of entries)
5608TYPE: int
5609DEFAULT: 1024
5610LOC: Config.ipcache.size
5611DOC_NONE
5612
5613NAME: ipcache_low
5614COMMENT: (percent)
5615TYPE: int
5616DEFAULT: 90
5617LOC: Config.ipcache.low
5618DOC_NONE
5619
5620NAME: ipcache_high
5621COMMENT: (percent)
5622TYPE: int
5623DEFAULT: 95
5624LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5625DOC_START
5626 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5627DOC_END
5628
5629NAME: fqdncache_size
5630COMMENT: (number of entries)
5631TYPE: int
5632DEFAULT: 1024
5633LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5634DOC_START
5635 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5636DOC_END
5637
a58ff010 5638COMMENT_START
5473c134 5639 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5640 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5641COMMENT_END
5642
5473c134 5643NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5644COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5645TYPE: onoff
5646DEFAULT: on
5647LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5648DOC_START
5473c134 5649 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5650 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5651 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5652 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5653DOC_END
5654
5473c134 5655NAME: memory_pools_limit
5656COMMENT: (bytes)
5657TYPE: b_size_t
5658DEFAULT: 5 MB
5659LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5660DOC_START
5473c134 5661 Used only with memory_pools on:
5662 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5663
5473c134 5664 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5665 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5666 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5667 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5668 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5669 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5670 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5671
5473c134 5672 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5673 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5674
5473c134 5675 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5676 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5677
5678 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5679 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5680 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5681 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5682DOC_END
5683
5473c134 5684NAME: forwarded_for
67c06f0d
AJ
5685COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
5686TYPE: string
5473c134 5687DEFAULT: on
5688LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5689DOC_START
67c06f0d
AJ
5690 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
5691 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 5692
5473c134 5693 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5694
67c06f0d 5695 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 5696
5697 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
AJ
5698
5699 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
5700 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
5701
5702 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
5703 X-Forwarded-For header.
5704
5705 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
5706 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 5707DOC_END
5708
5473c134 5709NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5710TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5711DEFAULT: none
5712LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5713DOC_START
5473c134 5714 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5715
5473c134 5716 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5717
5718 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5719 5min
5720 60min
5721 asndb
5722 authenticator
5723 cbdata
5724 client_list
5725 comm_incoming
5726 config *
5727 counters
5728 delay
5729 digest_stats
5730 dns
5731 events
5732 filedescriptors
5733 fqdncache
5734 histograms
5735 http_headers
5736 info
5737 io
5738 ipcache
5739 mem
5740 menu
5741 netdb
5742 non_peers
5743 objects
5744 offline_toggle *
5745 pconn
5746 peer_select
b360c477 5747 reconfigure *
5473c134 5748 redirector
5749 refresh
5750 server_list
5751 shutdown *
5752 store_digest
5753 storedir
5754 utilization
5755 via_headers
5756 vm_objects
5757
5758 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5759 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5760
5761 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5762 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5763 password to "none".
5764
5765 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5766
5767Example:
5768 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5769 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5770 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5771DOC_END
5772
5473c134 5773NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5774COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5775TYPE: onoff
5776DEFAULT: on
5777LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5778DOC_START
5473c134 5779 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5780 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5781DOC_END
5782
5473c134 5783NAME: refresh_all_ims
5784COMMENT: on|off
5785TYPE: onoff
5786DEFAULT: off
5787LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5788DOC_START
5473c134 5789 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5790 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5791 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5792 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5793 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5794
5473c134 5795 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5796 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5797DOC_END
5798
5473c134 5799NAME: reload_into_ims
5800IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5801COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5802TYPE: onoff
5803DEFAULT: off
5804LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5805DOC_START
5473c134 5806 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5807 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5808 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5809 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5810 causes.
5811
5812 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5813DOC_END
5814
5473c134 5815NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5816TYPE: int
5817LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5818DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5819DOC_START
5473c134 5820 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5821 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5822 each address is tried once).
5823
5824 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5825 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5826 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5827
5828 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5829 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5830DOC_END
5831
5473c134 5832NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5833TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5834LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5835DEFAULT: off
5836DOC_START
5473c134 5837 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5838 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5839 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5840 control errors.
5f8252d2 5841DOC_END
5842
5473c134 5843NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5844TYPE: string
5473c134 5845LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5846DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5847DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5848DOC_START
5473c134 5849 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5850 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5851DOC_END
5852
5473c134 5853NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5854TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5855LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5856DEFAULT: off
5857DOC_START
5473c134 5858 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5859 objects.
a58ff010 5860DOC_END
5861
5473c134 5862NAME: uri_whitespace
5863TYPE: uri_whitespace
5864LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5865DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5866DOC_START
5473c134 5867 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5868 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5869
5473c134 5870 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5871 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5872 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5873 Request" message.
5874 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5875 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5876 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5877 are in use.
5878 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5879 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5880 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5881 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5882 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5883 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5884 violation.
5885DOC_END
a58ff010 5886
5473c134 5887NAME: coredump_dir
5888TYPE: string
5889LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5890DEFAULT: none
5891DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5892DOC_START
5893 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5894 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5895 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5896 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5897
5473c134 5898NOCOMMENT_START
5899# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5900coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5901NOCOMMENT_END
5902DOC_END
a58ff010 5903
5473c134 5904NAME: chroot
5905TYPE: string
5906LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5907DEFAULT: none
5908DOC_START
5473c134 5909 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5910 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5911 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5912 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5913 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5914DOC_END
a58ff010 5915
5473c134 5916NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5917TYPE: onoff
5918LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 5919DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5920DOC_START
cc192b50 5921 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
5922 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
5923 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
5924
5473c134 5925 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5926 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5927 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5928
cc192b50 5929 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 5930DOC_END
5931
5473c134 5932NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5933TYPE: onoff
5934LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5935DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5936DOC_START
5473c134 5937 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5938 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5939 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5940
5473c134 5941 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5942 reasons.
5943DOC_END
a58ff010 5944
5473c134 5945NAME: high_response_time_warning
5946TYPE: int
5947COMMENT: (msec)
5948LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5949DEFAULT: 0
5950DOC_START
5951 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5952 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5953 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5954DOC_END
5955
5473c134 5956NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5957TYPE: int
5958LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5959DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5960DOC_START
5473c134 5961 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5962 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5963 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5964 per second.
5965DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5966
5473c134 5967NAME: high_memory_warning
5968TYPE: b_size_t
5969LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5970DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5971DOC_START
5972 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5973 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5974 the administrators attention.
5975DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5976
5473c134 5977NAME: sleep_after_fork
5978COMMENT: (microseconds)
5979TYPE: int
5980LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5981DEFAULT: 0
5982DOC_START
5983 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5984 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5985 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5986 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5987 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
5988 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
5989 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
5990 until all the child processes have been started.
5991 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
5992 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 5993DOC_END
5994
b6696974
GS
5995NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
5996COMMENT: on|off
5997TYPE: onoff
5998DEFAULT: on
5999LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
6000DOC_START
6001 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
6002 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
6003 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
6004 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
6005 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
6006 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
6007DOC_END
6008
cccac0a2 6009EOF