]> git.ipfire.org Git - thirdparty/squid.git/blame - src/cf.data.pre
TCP keepalive support
[thirdparty/squid.git] / src / cf.data.pre
CommitLineData
3a278cb8 1
9cef6668 2#
b2130d58 3# $Id: cf.data.pre,v 1.498 2008/02/08 01:56:32 hno Exp $
9cef6668 4#
6845f129 5# SQUID Web Proxy Cache http://www.squid-cache.org/
9cef6668 6# ----------------------------------------------------------
7#
2b6662ba 8# Squid is the result of efforts by numerous individuals from
9# the Internet community; see the CONTRIBUTORS file for full
10# details. Many organizations have provided support for Squid's
11# development; see the SPONSORS file for full details. Squid is
12# Copyrighted (C) 2000 by the Regents of the University of
13# California; see the COPYRIGHT file for full details. Squid
14# incorporates software developed and/or copyrighted by other
15# sources; see the CREDITS file for full details.
9cef6668 16#
17# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
18# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
19# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
20# (at your option) any later version.
96d88dcb 21#
9cef6668 22# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
23# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
24# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
25# GNU General Public License for more details.
96d88dcb 26#
9cef6668 27# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
28# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
29# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
30#
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
5473c134 50COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 51 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 52 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
53COMMENT_END
54
41bd17a4 55NAME: auth_param
56TYPE: authparam
57LOC: Config.authConfiguration
cccac0a2 58DEFAULT: none
59DOC_START
41bd17a4 60 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
61 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 62
41bd17a4 63 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 64
41bd17a4 65 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
66 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
67 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
68 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
69 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
70 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
71 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
72 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
73 program entry).
cccac0a2 74
41bd17a4 75 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
76 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
77 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
78 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 79
41bd17a4 80 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
81 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
82 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
83 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
84 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
85 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
86 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
87 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
88 type acl.
cccac0a2 89
41bd17a4 90 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
91 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
92 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
93 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
cccac0a2 94
41bd17a4 95 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 96
41bd17a4 97 "program" cmdline
98 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
99 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
100 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
101 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
102 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 103
41bd17a4 104 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
105 program is specified.
cccac0a2 106
41bd17a4 107 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
108 this line to something like
307b83b7 109
41bd17a4 110 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 111
41bd17a4 112 "children" numberofchildren
113 The number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
114 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
115 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
116 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
117 authenticator processes.
118 auth_param basic children 5
9e7dbc51 119
41bd17a4 120 "concurrency" concurrency
121 The number of concurrent requests the helper can process.
122 The default of 0 is used for helpers who only supports
123 one request at a time. Setting this changes the protocol used to
124 include a channel number first on the request/response line, allowing
125 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallell without
126 wating for the response.
127 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
128 auth_param basic concurrency 0
0fdafae7 129
41bd17a4 130 "realm" realmstring
131 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
132 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
133 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
134 password). There is no default.
135 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 136
41bd17a4 137 "credentialsttl" timetolive
138 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
139 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
140 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
141 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
142 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
143 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
144 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
145 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
146 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 147
41bd17a4 148 "casesensitive" on|off
149 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
150 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
151 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
152 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
153 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 154
41bd17a4 155 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 156
41bd17a4 157 "program" cmdline
158 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
159 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
160 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
161 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
162 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
163 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
164 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 165
41bd17a4 166 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
167 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 168
41bd17a4 169 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
170 something like
cccac0a2 171
41bd17a4 172 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_auth_pw @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 173
41bd17a4 174 "children" numberofchildren
175 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
176 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
177 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
178 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
179 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
180 auth_param digest children 5
cccac0a2 181
41bd17a4 182 "realm" realmstring
183 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
184 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
185 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
186 password). There is no default.
187 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 188
41bd17a4 189 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
190 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
191 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 192
41bd17a4 193 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
194 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
195 valid for.
cccac0a2 196
41bd17a4 197 "nonce_max_count" number
198 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
199 used.
cccac0a2 200
41bd17a4 201 "nonce_strictness" on|off
202 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
203 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
204 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
205 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 206
41bd17a4 207 "check_nonce_count" on|off
208 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
209 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
210 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
211 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 212
41bd17a4 213 "post_workaround" on|off
214 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
215 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
216 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 219
41bd17a4 220 "program" cmdline
221 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
222 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
223 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
224 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
225 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
226 is not used.
cccac0a2 227
41bd17a4 228 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 "children" numberofchildren
231 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
232 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
233 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
234 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
235 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
236 processes.
cccac0a2 237
41bd17a4 238 auth_param ntlm children 5
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 "keep_alive" on|off
241 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
242 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
243 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
244 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
245 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 246
41bd17a4 247 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 248
41bd17a4 249 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 250
41bd17a4 251 "program" cmdline
252 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
253 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
254 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
255 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
256 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
257 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least one acl
258 of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate authenticator_program
259 is not used.
260 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
261 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 262
41bd17a4 263 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 264
41bd17a4 265 "children" numberofchildren
266 The number of authenticator processes to spawn (no default).
267 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
268 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
269 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
270 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
271 processes.
272 auth_param negotiate children 5
d3803853 273
41bd17a4 274 "keep_alive" on|off
275 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
276 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
277 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
278 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
279 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 280
41bd17a4 281 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 282
41bd17a4 283NOCOMMENT_START
284#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
285#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
286#auth_param negotiate children 5
287#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
288#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
289#auth_param ntlm children 5
290#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
291#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
292#auth_param digest children 5
293#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
294#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
295#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
296#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
297#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
298#auth_param basic children 5
299#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
300#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
301NOCOMMENT_END
302DOC_END
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
305TYPE: time_t
306DEFAULT: 1 hour
307LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
308DOC_START
309 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
310 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
311 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
312 have good reason to.
313DOC_END
cccac0a2 314
41bd17a4 315NAME: authenticate_ttl
316TYPE: time_t
317DEFAULT: 1 hour
318LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
319DOC_START
320 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
321 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
322 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
323 TTL are removed from memory.
324DOC_END
cccac0a2 325
41bd17a4 326NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
327TYPE: time_t
328LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
329DEFAULT: 0 seconds
330DOC_START
331 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
332 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
333 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
334 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
335 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
336 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
337 environment with relatively static address assignments.
338DOC_END
cccac0a2 339
3d1e3e43 340COMMENT_START
341 ACCESS CONTROLS
342 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
343COMMENT_END
344
41bd17a4 345NAME: external_acl_type
346TYPE: externalAclHelper
347LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 348DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 349DOC_START
41bd17a4 350 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
351 to look up the status
cccac0a2 352
41bd17a4 353 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 354
41bd17a4 355 Options:
cccac0a2 356
41bd17a4 357 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
358 for 1 hour)
359 negative_ttl=n
360 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
361 as ttl)
362 children=n Number of acl helper processes spawn to service
363 external acl lookups of this type. (default 5)
364 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
365 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
366 cache=n result cache size, 0 is unbounded (default)
367 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
368 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
369 wait for a new reply. (default 0 for no grace period)
370 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 371 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
372 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
373 'ipv4' is the default unless --with-localhost-ipv6 is used.
374 --with-localhost-ipv6 changes the default to 'ipv6'.
375 SPECIAL NOTE: these options override --with-localhost-ipv6
cccac0a2 376
41bd17a4 377 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 378
41bd17a4 379 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
380 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
381 %IDENT Ident user name
382 %SRC Client IP
383 %SRCPORT Client source port
384 %URI Requested URI
385 %DST Requested host
386 %PROTO Requested protocol
387 %PORT Requested port
388 %PATH Requested URL path
389 %METHOD Request method
390 %MYADDR Squid interface address
391 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
392 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
393 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
394 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
395 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
396 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
397 %{Header} HTTP request header
398 %{Hdr:member} HTTP request header list member
399 %{Hdr:;member}
400 HTTP request header list member using ; as
401 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
402 character.
cccac0a2 403
41bd17a4 404 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
405 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
406 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 407
41bd17a4 408 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
409 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
410 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
411 more details.
cccac0a2 412
41bd17a4 413 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 414
41bd17a4 415 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 416
41bd17a4 417 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 418
41bd17a4 419 user= The users name (login)
420 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
421 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
422 in error pages
423 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
424 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
425 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
426 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 427
41bd17a4 428 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
429 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 430
41bd17a4 431 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
432 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
433 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 434
41bd17a4 435 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
436 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
437 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 438DOC_END
439
41bd17a4 440NAME: acl
441TYPE: acl
442LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 443DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 444DOC_START
41bd17a4 445 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 446
41bd17a4 447 acl aclname acltype string1 ...
448 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 449
41bd17a4 450 when using "file", the file should contain one item per line
cccac0a2 451
41bd17a4 452 acltype is one of the types described below
cccac0a2 453
41bd17a4 454 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
455 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 456
41bd17a4 457 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... (clients IP address)
458 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... (range of addresses)
459 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... (URL host's IP address)
460 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... (local socket IP address)
cccac0a2 461
41bd17a4 462 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
463 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
464 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
465 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some other *BSD variants.
466 #
467 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
468 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet, then Squid cannot
469 # find out its MAC address.
934b03fc 470
41bd17a4 471 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ... # reverse lookup, client IP
472 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ... # Destination server from URL
473 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching client name
474 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] xxx ... # regex matching server
475 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
476 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
477 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 478
41bd17a4 479 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ... # status code in reply
7f7db318 480
41bd17a4 481 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
482 day-abbrevs:
483 S - Sunday
484 M - Monday
485 T - Tuesday
486 W - Wednesday
487 H - Thursday
488 F - Friday
489 A - Saturday
490 h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
491 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ... # regex matching on whole URL
492 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ... # regex matching on URL path
493 acl aclname port 80 70 21 ...
494 acl aclname port 0-1024 ... # ranges allowed
495 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # (local socket TCP port)
197f6b3c 496 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name
41bd17a4 497 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ...
498 acl aclname method GET POST ...
499 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
500 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below)
501 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
502 # pattern match on Referer header
503 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
504 acl aclname ident username ...
505 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
506 # string match on ident output.
507 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
508 acl aclname src_as number ...
509 acl aclname dst_as number ...
510 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
511 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
512 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
513 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
514 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
515 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
516 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
cf5cc17e 517
41bd17a4 518 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
519 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
520 # list of valid usernames
521 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
522 #
523 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
524 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
525 # in access.log.
526 #
527 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
528 # to check username/password combinations (see
529 # auth_param directive).
530 #
531 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent proxy as
532 # the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
533 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 534
41bd17a4 535 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
536 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent
537 # Example:
538 #
539 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 540
41bd17a4 541 acl aclname maxconn number
542 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
543 # more than <number> HTTP connections established.
1e5562e3 544
41bd17a4 545 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
546 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
547 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
548 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries.
549 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
550 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
551 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
552 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
553 # request is denied)
554 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
555 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
556 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 557
41bd17a4 558 acl aclname req_mime_type mime-type1 ...
559 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
560 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
561 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
562 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
563 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 564
41bd17a4 565 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
566 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
567 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
568 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 569
41bd17a4 570 acl aclname rep_mime_type mime-type1 ...
571 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
572 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
573 # types HTTP tunneling requests.
574 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
575 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
576 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 577
41bd17a4 578 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
579 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
580 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
581 # ACLs.
cccac0a2 582
41bd17a4 583 acl acl_name external class_name [arguments...]
584 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
585 # external_acl_type directive.
cccac0a2 586
41bd17a4 587 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
588 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
589 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 590
41bd17a4 591 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
592 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
593 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST
cccac0a2 594
41bd17a4 595 acl aclname ext_user username ...
596 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
597 # string match on username returned by external acl helper
598 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
cccac0a2 599
41bd17a4 600Examples:
601acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
602acl myexample dst_as 1241
603acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
604acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
605acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 606
41bd17a4 607NOCOMMENT_START
608#Recommended minimum configuration:
41bd17a4 609acl manager proto cache_object
ee776778 610acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
41bd17a4 611acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
ee776778 612#
613# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
614# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
615# should be allowed
616acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
617acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
618acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
619#
41bd17a4 620acl SSL_ports port 443
621acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
622acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
623acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
624acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
625acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
626acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
627acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
628acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
629acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
630acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
631acl CONNECT method CONNECT
632NOCOMMENT_END
633DOC_END
cccac0a2 634
41bd17a4 635NAME: http_access
636TYPE: acl_access
637LOC: Config.accessList.http
638DEFAULT: none
639DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
640DOC_START
641 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 642
41bd17a4 643 Access to the HTTP port:
644 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 645
41bd17a4 646 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 647
41bd17a4 648 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
649 the request.
cccac0a2 650
41bd17a4 651 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
652 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
653 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
654 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
655 good idea to have an "deny all" or "allow all" entry at the end
656 of your access lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 657
41bd17a4 658NOCOMMENT_START
659#Recommended minimum configuration:
660#
661# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
662http_access allow manager localhost
663http_access deny manager
664# Deny requests to unknown ports
665http_access deny !Safe_ports
666# Deny CONNECT to other than SSL ports
667http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
668#
669# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
670# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
671# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
672#http_access deny to_localhost
673#
674# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
c8f4eac4 675
ee776778 676# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
677# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
678# from where browsing should be allowed
679http_access allow localnet
7d90757b 680
41bd17a4 681# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
682http_access deny all
683NOCOMMENT_END
684DOC_END
7d90757b 685
41bd17a4 686NAME: http_reply_access
687TYPE: acl_access
688LOC: Config.accessList.reply
689DEFAULT: none
690DOC_START
691 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 692
41bd17a4 693 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 694
41bd17a4 695 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
696 all replies
1a224843 697
41bd17a4 698 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
699 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
700 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
cccac0a2 701DOC_END
702
41bd17a4 703NAME: icp_access
704TYPE: acl_access
705LOC: Config.accessList.icp
706DEFAULT: none
707DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 708DOC_START
41bd17a4 709 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
710 access lists
5473c134 711
41bd17a4 712 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 713
41bd17a4 714 See http_access for details
715
716NOCOMMENT_START
ee776778 717#Allow ICP queries from local networks only
4e9c5ff8 718icp_access allow localnet
719icp_access deny all
41bd17a4 720NOCOMMENT_END
5473c134 721DOC_END
722
41bd17a4 723NAME: htcp_access
724IFDEF: USE_HTCP
725TYPE: acl_access
726LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
727DEFAULT: none
728DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 729DOC_START
41bd17a4 730 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
731 access lists
5473c134 732
41bd17a4 733 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 734
41bd17a4 735 See http_access for details
5473c134 736
0b48417e 737 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
738 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
739 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
740
ee776778 741NOCOMMENT_START
742#Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
4e9c5ff8 743htcp_access allow localnet
744htcp_access deny all
ee776778 745NOCOMMENT_END
41bd17a4 746DOC_END
5473c134 747
41bd17a4 748NAME: htcp_clr_access
749IFDEF: USE_HTCP
750TYPE: acl_access
751LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
752DEFAULT: none
753DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
754DOC_START
755 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
756 on defined access lists
5473c134 757
41bd17a4 758 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 759
41bd17a4 760 See http_access for details
5473c134 761
41bd17a4 762#Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
763acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
764htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 765DOC_END
766
41bd17a4 767NAME: miss_access
768TYPE: acl_access
769LOC: Config.accessList.miss
770DEFAULT: none
5473c134 771DOC_START
41bd17a4 772 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
773 a parent. For example:
5473c134 774
41bd17a4 775 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
776 miss_access allow localclients
777 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 778
41bd17a4 779 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
780 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 781
41bd17a4 782 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
783 to fetch MISSES from us.
5473c134 784
41bd17a4 785NOCOMMENT_START
786#Default setting:
787# miss_access allow all
788NOCOMMENT_END
789DOC_END
790
791NAME: ident_lookup_access
792TYPE: acl_access
793IFDEF: USE_IDENT
794DEFAULT: none
795DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
796LOC: Config.accessList.identLookup
5473c134 797DOC_START
41bd17a4 798 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
799 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
800 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
801 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
802 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
803 any requests.
5473c134 804
41bd17a4 805 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
806 can follow this example:
5473c134 807
41bd17a4 808 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
809 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
810 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 811
41bd17a4 812 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A src_domain
813 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
814 the correct result.
815DOC_END
5473c134 816
5b0f5383 817NAME: reply_body_max_size
818COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
819TYPE: acl_b_size_t
820DEFAULT: none
821LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
822DOC_START
823 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
824 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
825 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
826 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
827 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
828 for this reply.
829
830 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
831 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
832 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
833 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
834 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
835 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
836 and they will receive a partial reply.
837
838 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
839 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
840 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
841 use this option if you have downstream caches.
842
843 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
844 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
845 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
846 the size of your largest error page.
847
848 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
849 no limit imposed.
850DOC_END
851
852COMMENT_START
853 NETWORK OPTIONS
854 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
855COMMENT_END
856
857NAME: http_port ascii_port
858TYPE: http_port_list
859DEFAULT: none
860LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
861DOC_START
862 Usage: port [options]
863 hostname:port [options]
864 1.2.3.4:port [options]
865
866 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
867 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
868 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
869 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
870 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
871 address. This replaces the old 'tcp_incoming_address'
872 option. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
873 address, so you can use the port number alone.
874
875 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
876 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
877
878 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
879 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
880 be plain proxy ports with no options.
881
882 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
883
884 Options:
885
886 transparent Support for transparent interception of
887 outgoing requests without browser settings.
888
889 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
890 connections using the client IP address.
891
892 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
893 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
894
895 defaultsite=domainname
896 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
897 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
898 accelerators should consider the default.
899 Implies accel.
900
901 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
902 domain support. Implies accel.
903
904 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
905 Implies accel.
906
907 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
908 than the http_port number. Implies accel.
909
910 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
911 Defaults to http.
912
913 disable-pmtu-discovery=
914 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
915 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
916 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
917 support is enabled.
918 always disable always PMTU discovery.
919
920 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
921 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
922 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
923 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
924 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
925 have such setup and experience that certain clients
926 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
927 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
928
81b6e9a7 929 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
930 the port specification (port or addr:port)
931
b2130d58 932 keepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
933 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
934 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
935 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
936 timeout the time before giving up.
937
5b0f5383 938 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
939 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
940 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
941 visible on the internal address.
942
943NOCOMMENT_START
944# Squid normally listens to port 3128
945http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
946NOCOMMENT_END
947DOC_END
948
949NAME: https_port
950IFDEF: USE_SSL
951TYPE: https_port_list
952DEFAULT: none
953LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
954DOC_START
955 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
956
957 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
958 requests.
959
960 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
961 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
962 accelerator level.
963
964 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
965 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
966
967 Options:
968
969 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
970 defaultsite or vhost.
971
972 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
973 this port. Implies accel.
974
975 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
976 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
977 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
978 Implies accel.
979
980 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
981 Defaults to https.
982
983 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
984
985 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
986 if not specified, the certificate file is
987 assumed to be a combined certificate and
988 key file.
989
990 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
991 1 automatic (default)
992 2 SSLv2 only
993 3 SSLv3 only
994 4 TLSv1 only
995
996 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
997
998 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
999 being:
1000 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1001 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1002 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1003 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1004 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1005 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1006 documentation for a complete list of options.
1007
1008 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1009 requesting a client certificate.
1010
1011 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1012 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1013 clientca will be used.
1014
1015 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1016 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1017
1018 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1019 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1020 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1021
1022 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1023 DH key exchanges.
1024
1025 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1026 DELAYED_AUTH
1027 Don't request client certificates
1028 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1029 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1030 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1031 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1032 to OpenSSL.
1033 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1034 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1035 will result in a new SSL session.
1036 VERIFY_CRL
1037 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1038 certificates.
1039 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1040 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1041 client certificate chain.
1042
1043 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1044
1045 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1046
1047 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1048 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1049
81b6e9a7 1050 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1051 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1052
5b0f5383 1053DOC_END
1054
41bd17a4 1055NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1056TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1057DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1058LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1059DOC_START
41bd17a4 1060 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1061 connections with, based on the username or source address
1062 making the request.
5473c134 1063
41bd17a4 1064 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1065
41bd17a4 1066 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1067 and normal_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1068
41bd17a4 1069 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1070 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1071 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1072 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1073
41bd17a4 1074 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1075 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474 and
1076 RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1077
41bd17a4 1078 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1079 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1080 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1081 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1082
41bd17a4 1083 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1084 matching line.
cccac0a2 1085
41bd17a4 1086 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1087 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1088 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1089 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1090DOC_END
1091
41bd17a4 1092NAME: clientside_tos
1093TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1094DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1095LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1096DOC_START
41bd17a4 1097 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1098 connections with, based on the username or source address
1099 making the request.
1100DOC_END
cccac0a2 1101
41bd17a4 1102NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1103TYPE: acl_address
1104DEFAULT: none
1105LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1106DOC_START
1107 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1108 based on the username or source address of the user making
1109 the request.
7f7db318 1110
41bd17a4 1111 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1112
41bd17a4 1113 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1114 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1115 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1116 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1117
17148b2f 1118 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1119 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1120 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1121 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1122 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1123
41bd17a4 1124 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1125 matching line.
cccac0a2 1126
41bd17a4 1127 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1128 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1129 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1130 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1131
1132
1133 IPv6 Magic:
1134
1135 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 internets.
1136 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1137 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1138 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1139
1140 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1141 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1142 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1143
1144 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1145 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1146 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1147
1148 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1149 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
cc192b50 1150
1151 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1152 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
cccac0a2 1153DOC_END
1154
41bd17a4 1155COMMENT_START
1156 SSL OPTIONS
1157 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1158COMMENT_END
1159
1160NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1161IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1162TYPE: onoff
1163DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1164LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1165DOC_START
41bd17a4 1166 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1167 messages.
cccac0a2 1168DOC_END
1169
41bd17a4 1170NAME: ssl_engine
1171IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1172TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1173LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1174DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1175DOC_START
41bd17a4 1176 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1177 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1178DOC_END
1179
41bd17a4 1180NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1181IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1182DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1183LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1184TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1185DOC_START
41bd17a4 1186 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1187DOC_END
1188
41bd17a4 1189NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1190IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1191DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1192LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1193TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1194DOC_START
41bd17a4 1195 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1196DOC_END
1197
41bd17a4 1198NAME: sslproxy_version
1199IFDEF: USE_SSL
1200DEFAULT: 1
1201LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1202TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1203DOC_START
41bd17a4 1204 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1205DOC_END
1206
41bd17a4 1207NAME: sslproxy_options
1208IFDEF: USE_SSL
1209DEFAULT: none
1210LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1211TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1212DOC_START
41bd17a4 1213 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1214DOC_END
1215
41bd17a4 1216NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1217IFDEF: USE_SSL
1218DEFAULT: none
1219LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1220TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1221DOC_START
41bd17a4 1222 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1223DOC_END
1224
41bd17a4 1225NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1226IFDEF: USE_SSL
1227DEFAULT: none
1228LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1229TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1230DOC_START
41bd17a4 1231 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1232 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1233DOC_END
0976f8db 1234
41bd17a4 1235NAME: sslproxy_capath
1236IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1237DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1238LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1239TYPE: string
5473c134 1240DOC_START
41bd17a4 1241 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1242 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1243DOC_END
1244
41bd17a4 1245NAME: sslproxy_flags
1246IFDEF: USE_SSL
1247DEFAULT: none
1248LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1249TYPE: string
5473c134 1250DOC_START
41bd17a4 1251 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
1252 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates even if they fail to
1253 verify.
1254 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1255 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1256DOC_END
1257
41bd17a4 1258NAME: sslpassword_program
1259IFDEF: USE_SSL
1260DEFAULT: none
1261LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1262TYPE: string
5473c134 1263DOC_START
41bd17a4 1264 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1265 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1266 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1267 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
5473c134 1268DOC_END
1269
cccac0a2 1270COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1271 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 1272 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1273COMMENT_END
1274
41bd17a4 1275NAME: cache_peer
1276TYPE: peer
1277DEFAULT: none
1278LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1279DOC_START
41bd17a4 1280 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
cccac0a2 1281
41bd17a4 1282 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
cccac0a2 1283
41bd17a4 1284 For example,
cccac0a2 1285
41bd17a4 1286 # proxy icp
1287 # hostname type port port options
1288 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1289 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 proxy-only default
1290 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1291 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
cccac0a2 1292
41bd17a4 1293 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
d5277f40 1294
41bd17a4 1295 proxy-port: The port number where the cache listens for proxy
1296 requests.
8d6275c0 1297
41bd17a4 1298 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about
1299 objects. To have a non-ICP neighbor
1300 specify '7' for the ICP port and make sure the
1301 neighbor machine has the UDP echo port
1302 enabled in its /etc/inetd.conf file.
1303 NOTE: Also requires icp_port option enabled to send/receive
1304 requests via this method.
a78278e2 1305
41bd17a4 1306 options: proxy-only
1307 weight=n
1308 basetime=n
1309 ttl=n
1310 no-query
1311 background-ping
1312 default
1313 round-robin
1314 weighted-round-robin
1315 carp
1316 multicast-responder
1317 closest-only
1318 no-digest
1319 no-netdb-exchange
1320 no-delay
1321 login=user:password | PASS | *:password
1322 connect-timeout=nn
1323 digest-url=url
1324 allow-miss
1325 max-conn=n
1326 htcp
1327 htcp-oldsquid
1328 originserver
1329 name=xxx
1330 forceddomain=name
1331 ssl
1332 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
1333 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
1334 sslversion=1|2|3|4
1335 sslcipher=...
1336 ssloptions=...
1337 front-end-https[=on|auto]
cccac0a2 1338
41bd17a4 1339 use 'proxy-only' to specify objects fetched
1340 from this cache should not be saved locally.
cccac0a2 1341
41bd17a4 1342 use 'weight=n' to affect the selection of a peer
1343 during any weighted peer-selection mechanisms.
1344 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1345 larger weights are favored more.
1346 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1347 protocol is not in use.
cccac0a2 1348
41bd17a4 1349 use 'basetime=n' to specify a base amount to
1350 be subtracted from round trip times of parents.
1351 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1352 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1353 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
cccac0a2 1354
41bd17a4 1355 use 'ttl=n' to specify a IP multicast TTL to use
1356 when sending an ICP queries to this address.
1357 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1358 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1359 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1360 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option below.
5473c134 1361
41bd17a4 1362 use 'no-query' to NOT send ICP queries to this
1363 neighbor.
5473c134 1364
41bd17a4 1365 use 'background-ping' to only send ICP queries to this
1366 neighbor infrequently. This is used to keep the neighbor
1367 round trip time updated and is usually used in
1368 conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
cccac0a2 1369
41bd17a4 1370 use 'default' if this is a parent cache which can
1371 be used as a "last-resort" if a peer cannot be located
1372 by any of the peer-selection mechanisms.
1373 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
cccac0a2 1374
41bd17a4 1375 use 'round-robin' to define a set of parents which
1376 should be used in a round-robin fashion in the
1377 absence of any ICP queries.
cccac0a2 1378
41bd17a4 1379 use 'weighted-round-robin' to define a set of parents
1380 which should be used in a round-robin fashion with the
1381 frequency of each parent being based on the round trip
1382 time. Closer parents are used more often.
1383 Usually used for background-ping parents.
cccac0a2 1384
41bd17a4 1385 use 'carp' to define a set of parents which should
1386 be used as a CARP array. The requests will be
1387 distributed among the parents based on the CARP load
382db7eb 1388 balancing hash function based on their weight.
cccac0a2 1389
41bd17a4 1390 'multicast-responder' indicates the named peer
1391 is a member of a multicast group. ICP queries will
1392 not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP replies
1393 will be accepted from it.
cccac0a2 1394
41bd17a4 1395 'closest-only' indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS
1396 replies, we'll only forward CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes
1397 and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
cccac0a2 1398
41bd17a4 1399 use 'no-digest' to NOT request cache digests from
1400 this neighbor.
cccac0a2 1401
41bd17a4 1402 'no-netdb-exchange' disables requesting ICMP
1403 RTT database (NetDB) from the neighbor.
cccac0a2 1404
41bd17a4 1405 use 'no-delay' to prevent access to this neighbor
1406 from influencing the delay pools.
7d90757b 1407
41bd17a4 1408 use 'login=user:password' if this is a personal/workgroup
1409 proxy and your parent requires proxy authentication.
1410 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
1411 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
7d90757b 1412
41bd17a4 1413 use 'login=PASS' if users must authenticate against
1414 the upstream proxy or in the case of a reverse proxy
1415 configuration, the origin web server. This will pass
1416 the users credentials as they are to the peer.
1417 This only works for the Basic HTTP authentication scheme.
1418 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
1419 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
1420 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
1421 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
1422 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
7d90757b 1423
41bd17a4 1424 use 'login=*:password' to pass the username to the
1425 upstream cache, but with a fixed password. This is meant
1426 to be used when the peer is in another administrative
1427 domain, but it is still needed to identify each user.
1428 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
1429 information which is added to the username. This can
1430 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
1431 the login=username:password option above.
cccac0a2 1432
41bd17a4 1433 use 'connect-timeout=nn' to specify a peer
1434 specific connect timeout (also see the
1435 peer_connect_timeout directive)
7f7db318 1436
41bd17a4 1437 use 'digest-url=url' to tell Squid to fetch the cache
1438 digest (if digests are enabled) for this host from
1439 the specified URL rather than the Squid default
1440 location.
cccac0a2 1441
41bd17a4 1442 use 'allow-miss' to disable Squid's use of only-if-cached
1443 when forwarding requests to siblings. This is primarily
1444 useful when icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To
1445 extensive use of this option may result in forwarding
1446 loops, and you should avoid having two-way peerings
1447 with this option. (for example to deny peer usage on
1448 requests from peer by denying cache_peer_access if the
1449 source is a peer)
cccac0a2 1450
41bd17a4 1451 use 'max-conn=n' to limit the amount of connections Squid
1452 may open to this peer.
cccac0a2 1453
41bd17a4 1454 use 'htcp' to send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries
1455 to the neighbor. You probably also want to
1456 set the "icp port" to 4827 instead of 3130.
0b48417e 1457 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1458 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1459
41bd17a4 1460 use 'htcp-oldsquid' to send HTCP to old Squid versions
0b48417e 1461 You MUST also set htcp_access expicitly. The default of
1462 deny all will prevent peer traffic.
cccac0a2 1463
41bd17a4 1464 'originserver' causes this parent peer to be contacted as
1465 a origin server. Meant to be used in accelerator setups.
cccac0a2 1466
41bd17a4 1467 use 'name=xxx' if you have multiple peers on the same
1468 host but different ports. This name can be used to
1469 differentiate the peers in cache_peer_access and similar
1470 directives.
cccac0a2 1471
41bd17a4 1472 use 'forceddomain=name' to forcibly set the Host header
1473 of requests forwarded to this peer. Useful in accelerator
1474 setups where the server (peer) expects a certain domain
1475 name and using redirectors to feed this domain name
1476 is not feasible.
64658378 1477
41bd17a4 1478 use 'ssl' to indicate connections to this peer should
1479 be SSL/TLS encrypted.
cccac0a2 1480
41bd17a4 1481 use 'sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate' to specify a client
1482 SSL certificate to use when connecting to this peer.
4c9fa5d5 1483
41bd17a4 1484 use 'sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key' to specify the private SSL
1485 key corresponding to sslcert above. If 'sslkey' is not
1486 specified 'sslcert' is assumed to reference a
1487 combined file containing both the certificate and the key.
4c9fa5d5 1488
41bd17a4 1489 use sslversion=1|2|3|4 to specify the SSL version to use
1490 when connecting to this peer
1491 1 = automatic (default)
1492 2 = SSL v2 only
1493 3 = SSL v3 only
1494 4 = TLS v1 only
cccac0a2 1495
41bd17a4 1496 use sslcipher=... to specify the list of valid SSL ciphers
1497 to use when connecting to this peer.
cccac0a2 1498
41bd17a4 1499 use ssloptions=... to specify various SSL engine options:
1500 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1501 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1502 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1503 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
1504 a more complete list.
cccac0a2 1505
41bd17a4 1506 use sslcafile=... to specify a file containing
1507 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1508 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1509
41bd17a4 1510 use sslcapath=... to specify a directory containing
1511 additional CA certificates to use when verifying the
1512 peer certificate.
cccac0a2 1513
41bd17a4 1514 use sslcrlfile=... to specify a certificate revocation
1515 list file to use when verifying the peer certificate.
1516
1517 use sslflags=... to specify various flags modifying the
1518 SSL implementation:
1519 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
1520 Accept certificates even if they fail to
1521 verify.
1522 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1523 Don't use the default CA list built in
1524 to OpenSSL.
1525 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
1526 Don't verify the peer certificate
1527 matches the server name
cccac0a2 1528
41bd17a4 1529 use ssldomain= to specify the peer name as advertised
1530 in it's certificate. Used for verifying the correctness
1531 of the received peer certificate. If not specified the
1532 peer hostname will be used.
cccac0a2 1533
41bd17a4 1534 use front-end-https to enable the "Front-End-Https: On"
1535 header needed when using Squid as a SSL frontend in front
1536 of Microsoft OWA. See MS KB document Q307347 for details
1537 on this header. If set to auto the header will
1538 only be added if the request is forwarded as a https://
1539 URL.
1540DOC_END
cccac0a2 1541
41bd17a4 1542NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
1543TYPE: hostdomain
1544DEFAULT: none
1545LOC: none
1546DOC_START
1547 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
1548 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 1549
41bd17a4 1550 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
1551 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 1552
41bd17a4 1553 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 1554
41bd17a4 1555 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 1556
41bd17a4 1557 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
1558 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
1559 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
1560 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
1561 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 1562
41bd17a4 1563 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
1564 either on the same or separate lines.
1565 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
1566 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
1567 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
1568 for all requests.
1569 * There are no defaults.
1570 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
1571 section.
1572DOC_END
dd9b1776 1573
41bd17a4 1574NAME: cache_peer_access
1575TYPE: peer_access
1576DEFAULT: none
1577LOC: none
1578DOC_START
1579 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
1580 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 1581
41bd17a4 1582 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 1583
41bd17a4 1584 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
1585 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
1586 the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/FAQ-10.html).
1587DOC_END
dd9b1776 1588
41bd17a4 1589NAME: neighbor_type_domain
1590TYPE: hostdomaintype
1591DEFAULT: none
1592LOC: none
1593DOC_START
1594 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 1595
41bd17a4 1596 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
1597 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the the
1598 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
1599 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
1600 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
1601 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 1602
41bd17a4 1603EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 1604 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 1605 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
1606 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
1607DOC_END
6bf4f823 1608
41bd17a4 1609NAME: dead_peer_timeout
1610COMMENT: (seconds)
1611DEFAULT: 10 seconds
1612TYPE: time_t
1613LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
1614DOC_START
1615 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
1616 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
1617 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
1618 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
1619 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
1620 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 1621
41bd17a4 1622 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
1623 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
1624 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
1625 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
1626 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
1627 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
1628 instead of to your parents.
1629DOC_END
cccac0a2 1630
41bd17a4 1631NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
1632TYPE: wordlist
1633DEFAULT: none
1634LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
1635DOC_START
1636 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
1637 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
1638 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
1639 list this option multiple times.
1640 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
cccac0a2 1641NOCOMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1642#We recommend you to use at least the following line.
1643hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 1644NOCOMMENT_END
1645DOC_END
0976f8db 1646
41bd17a4 1647COMMENT_START
1648 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
1649 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1650COMMENT_END
1651
1652NAME: cache_mem
1653COMMENT: (bytes)
1654TYPE: b_size_t
1655DEFAULT: 8 MB
1656LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 1657DOC_START
41bd17a4 1658 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
1659 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
1660 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
1661 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
1662
1663 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
1664 for:
1665 * In-Transit objects
1666 * Hot Objects
1667 * Negative-Cached objects
1668
1669 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
1670 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
1671 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
1672 priority.
1673
1674 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
1675 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
1676 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
1677 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
1678 not needed for in-transit objects.
1679
1680 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
1681 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
1682 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
1683 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
1684 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
1685 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
1686 objects.
6b698a21 1687DOC_END
0976f8db 1688
41bd17a4 1689NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
1690COMMENT: (bytes)
1691TYPE: b_size_t
1692DEFAULT: 8 KB
1693LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 1694DOC_START
41bd17a4 1695 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
1696 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
1697 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
1698 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 1699DOC_END
0976f8db 1700
41bd17a4 1701NAME: memory_replacement_policy
1702TYPE: removalpolicy
1703LOC: Config.memPolicy
1704DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 1705DOC_START
41bd17a4 1706 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
1707 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 1708
41bd17a4 1709 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
1710DOC_END
6b698a21 1711
41bd17a4 1712COMMENT_START
1713 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
1714 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1715COMMENT_END
6b698a21 1716
41bd17a4 1717NAME: cache_replacement_policy
1718TYPE: removalpolicy
1719LOC: Config.replPolicy
1720DEFAULT: lru
1721DOC_START
1722 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
1723 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 1724
41bd17a4 1725 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
1726 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
1727 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
1728 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 1729
41bd17a4 1730 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 1731
41bd17a4 1732 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 1733
41bd17a4 1734 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
1735 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
1736 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
1737 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 1738
41bd17a4 1739 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
1740 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
1741 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
1742 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 1743
41bd17a4 1744 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
1745 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
1746 replacement policies.
7d90757b 1747
41bd17a4 1748 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1749 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
1750 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 1751
41bd17a4 1752 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
1753 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
1754 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 1755DOC_END
0976f8db 1756
41bd17a4 1757NAME: cache_dir
1758TYPE: cachedir
1759DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1760LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 1761DOC_START
41bd17a4 1762 Usage:
0976f8db 1763
41bd17a4 1764 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 1765
41bd17a4 1766 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
1767 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 1768
41bd17a4 1769 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
1770 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
1771 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 1772
41bd17a4 1773 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
1774 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
1775 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
1776 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
1777 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 1778
41bd17a4 1779 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 1780
41bd17a4 1781 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
1782 been there.
0976f8db 1783
41bd17a4 1784 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 1785
41bd17a4 1786 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
1787 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
1788 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
1789 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
1790 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 1791
41bd17a4 1792 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
1793 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 1794
41bd17a4 1795 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
1796 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
1797 is 256.
0976f8db 1798
41bd17a4 1799 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 1800
41bd17a4 1801 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
1802 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1803 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 1804
41bd17a4 1805 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 1806
41bd17a4 1807 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 1808
41bd17a4 1809 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 1810
41bd17a4 1811 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
1812 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
1813 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 1814
41bd17a4 1815 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 1816
41bd17a4 1817 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 1818
41bd17a4 1819 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
1820 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
1821 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 1822
41bd17a4 1823 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
1824 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
1825 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 1826
41bd17a4 1827 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
1828 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
1829 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
1830 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
1831 time.
0976f8db 1832
41bd17a4 1833 The coss store type:
0976f8db 1834
41bd17a4 1835 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
1836 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
1837 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
1838 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
1839 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
1840 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
1841 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 1842
41bd17a4 1843 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
1844 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
1845 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 1846
41bd17a4 1847 Common options:
0976f8db 1848
41bd17a4 1849 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 1850
41bd17a4 1851 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
1852 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
1853 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
1854 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
1855 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 1856
41bd17a4 1857 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
1858 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
1859 option.
bebc043b 1860NOCOMMENT_START
1861DEFAULT_IF_NONE: ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
1862NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 1863DOC_END
0976f8db 1864
41bd17a4 1865NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
1866TYPE: string
1867LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
1868DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 1869DOC_START
41bd17a4 1870 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 1871DOC_END
0976f8db 1872
41bd17a4 1873NAME: max_open_disk_fds
1874TYPE: int
1875LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
1876DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 1877DOC_START
41bd17a4 1878 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
1879 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
1880 descriptors are open.
1881
1882 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 1883DOC_END
0976f8db 1884
41bd17a4 1885NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 1886COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 1887TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 1888DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 1889LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 1890DOC_START
41bd17a4 1891 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
1892 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
1893 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 1894DOC_END
0976f8db 1895
41bd17a4 1896NAME: maximum_object_size
1897COMMENT: (bytes)
1898TYPE: b_int64_t
1899DEFAULT: 4096 KB
1900LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 1901DOC_START
41bd17a4 1902 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
1903 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
1904 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
1905 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
1906 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
1907 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 1908
41bd17a4 1909 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
1910 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
1911 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 1912DOC_END
0976f8db 1913
41bd17a4 1914NAME: cache_swap_low
1915COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 1916TYPE: int
41bd17a4 1917DEFAULT: 90
1918LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
1919DOC_NONE
1920
1921NAME: cache_swap_high
1922COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
1923TYPE: int
1924DEFAULT: 95
1925LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 1926DOC_START
41bd17a4 1927
1928 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
1929 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
1930 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
1931 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
1932 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
1933 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
1934
1935 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
1936 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
1937 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 1938DOC_END
0976f8db 1939
5473c134 1940COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 1941 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 1942 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1943COMMENT_END
0976f8db 1944
41bd17a4 1945NAME: logformat
1946TYPE: logformat
1947LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 1948DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 1949DOC_START
41bd17a4 1950 Usage:
0976f8db 1951
41bd17a4 1952 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 1953
41bd17a4 1954 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 1955
41bd17a4 1956 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 1957
41bd17a4 1958 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
1959 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
1960 as required according to their context and the output format
1961 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
1962 output format is desired.
6b698a21 1963
41bd17a4 1964 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 1965
41bd17a4 1966 " output in quoted string format
1967 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
1968 # output in URL quoted format
1969 ' output as-is
5473c134 1970
41bd17a4 1971 - left aligned
1972 width field width. If starting with 0 the
1973 output is zero padded
1974 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 1975
41bd17a4 1976 Format codes:
5473c134 1977
41bd17a4 1978 >a Client source IP address
1979 >A Client FQDN
1980 >p Client source port
1981 <A Server IP address or peer name
1982 la Local IP address (http_port)
1983 lp Local port number (http_port)
1984 ts Seconds since epoch
1985 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
1986 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
1987 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
1988 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
1989 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
1990 tr Response time (milliseconds)
1991 >h Request header. Optional header name argument
1992 on the format header[:[separator]element]
1993 <h Reply header. Optional header name argument
1994 as for >h
1995 un User name
1996 ul User name from authentication
1997 ui User name from ident
1998 us User name from SSL
1999 ue User name from external acl helper
2000 Hs HTTP status code
2001 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2002 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2003 mt MIME content type
2004 rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2005 ru Request URL
2006 rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2007 rv Request protocol version
2008 et Tag returned by external acl
2009 ea Log string returned by external acl
2010 <st Reply size including HTTP headers
2011 <sH Reply high offset sent
2012 <sS Upstream object size
2013 % a literal % character
5473c134 2014
41bd17a4 2015logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2016logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2017logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2018logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2019DOC_END
2020
41bd17a4 2021NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2022TYPE: access_log
2023LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
5473c134 2024DEFAULT: none
2025DOC_START
41bd17a4 2026 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2027 ICP request. The format is:
2028 access_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2029 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
5473c134 2030
41bd17a4 2031 Will log to the specified file using the specified format (which
2032 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2033 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2034 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this file.
5473c134 2035
41bd17a4 2036 To disable logging of a request use the filepath "none", in which case
2037 a logformat name should not be specified.
5473c134 2038
41bd17a4 2039 To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog":
5473c134 2040
41bd17a4 2041 access_log syslog[:facility.priority] [format [acl1 [acl2 ....]]]
2042 where facility could be any of:
2043 authpriv, daemon, local0 .. local7 or user.
5473c134 2044
41bd17a4 2045 And priority could be any of:
2046 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2047NOCOMMENT_START
2048access_log @DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
2049NOCOMMENT_END
2050DOC_END
5473c134 2051
5b0f5383 2052NAME: log_access
2053TYPE: acl_access
2054LOC: Config.accessList.log
2055DEFAULT: none
2056COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2057DOC_START
2058 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2059 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2060 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2061DOC_END
2062
41bd17a4 2063NAME: cache_log
2064TYPE: string
2065DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
2066LOC: Config.Log.log
2067DOC_START
2068 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
2069 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
2070 logged to this file with the "debug_options" tag below.
2071DOC_END
5473c134 2072
41bd17a4 2073NAME: cache_store_log
2074TYPE: string
2075DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2076LOC: Config.Log.store
2077DOC_START
2078 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2079 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
2080 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none". There are
2081 not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
2082 disable it.
5473c134 2083DOC_END
2084
41bd17a4 2085NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2086TYPE: string
2087LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2088DEFAULT: none
2089DOC_START
41bd17a4 2090 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2091 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2092 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2093 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2094 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2095 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2096 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2097
41bd17a4 2098 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2099 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2100 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2101 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2102
41bd17a4 2103 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2104 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2105
41bd17a4 2106 cache_swap_log.00
2107 cache_swap_log.01
2108 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2109
41bd17a4 2110 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2111 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2112 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2113 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2114 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2115 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2116 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2117DOC_END
2118
41bd17a4 2119NAME: logfile_rotate
2120TYPE: int
2121DEFAULT: 10
2122LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2123DOC_START
41bd17a4 2124 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2125 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2126 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2127 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2128 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2129 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2130
41bd17a4 2131 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2132 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2133 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2134 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2135 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2136 <pid>'.
2137DOC_END
5473c134 2138
41bd17a4 2139NAME: emulate_httpd_log
2140COMMENT: on|off
2141TYPE: onoff
2142DEFAULT: off
2143LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
2144DOC_START
2145 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
2146 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
2147 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
2148 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
2149 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 2150DOC_END
2151
41bd17a4 2152NAME: log_ip_on_direct
2153COMMENT: on|off
2154TYPE: onoff
5473c134 2155DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 2156LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 2157DOC_START
41bd17a4 2158 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
2159 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
2160 prefer the old way set this to off.
2161DOC_END
5473c134 2162
41bd17a4 2163NAME: mime_table
2164TYPE: string
2165DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
2166LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
2167DOC_START
2168 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
2169 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
2170 information if you do.
5473c134 2171DOC_END
2172
41bd17a4 2173NAME: log_mime_hdrs
2174COMMENT: on|off
2175TYPE: onoff
2176LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
2177DEFAULT: off
2178DOC_START
2179 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
2180 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
2181 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
2182 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
2183 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
2184DOC_END
5473c134 2185
41bd17a4 2186NAME: useragent_log
2187TYPE: string
2188LOC: Config.Log.useragent
2189DEFAULT: none
2190IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 2191DOC_START
41bd17a4 2192 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
2193 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
2194 is disabled.
5473c134 2195DOC_END
2196
41bd17a4 2197NAME: referer_log referrer_log
2198TYPE: string
2199LOC: Config.Log.referer
2200DEFAULT: none
2201IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 2202DOC_START
41bd17a4 2203 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
2204 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
2205 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
2206 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
2207 and we accept both.
5473c134 2208DOC_END
2209
41bd17a4 2210NAME: pid_filename
2211TYPE: string
2212DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
2213LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 2214DOC_START
41bd17a4 2215 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 2216DOC_END
2217
41bd17a4 2218NAME: debug_options
fb6a61d1 2219TYPE: eol
41bd17a4 2220DEFAULT: ALL,1
2221LOC: Config.debugOptions
5473c134 2222DOC_START
41bd17a4 2223 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
2224 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
2225 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
2226 log file, so be careful. The magic word "ALL" sets debugging
2227 levels for all sections. We recommend normally running with
2228 "ALL,1".
5473c134 2229DOC_END
2230
41bd17a4 2231NAME: log_fqdn
2232COMMENT: on|off
2233TYPE: onoff
2234DEFAULT: off
2235LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 2236DOC_START
41bd17a4 2237 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
2238 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
2239 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
2240 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
2241 browsing.
5473c134 2242DOC_END
2243
41bd17a4 2244NAME: client_netmask
2245TYPE: address
2246LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
2247DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
5473c134 2248DOC_START
41bd17a4 2249 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
2250 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
2251 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
2252 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 2253DOC_END
2254
41bd17a4 2255NAME: forward_log
2256IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
2257TYPE: string
2258DEFAULT: none
2259LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 2260DOC_START
41bd17a4 2261 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 2262
41bd17a4 2263 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 2264DOC_END
2265
41bd17a4 2266NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 2267TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 2268LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 2269DEFAULT: on
2270DOC_START
41bd17a4 2271 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
2272 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 2273DOC_END
2274
41bd17a4 2275NAME: buffered_logs
2276COMMENT: on|off
2277TYPE: onoff
2278DEFAULT: off
2279LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 2280DOC_START
41bd17a4 2281 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
2282 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
2283 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
2284 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
2285 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 2286DOC_END
0976f8db 2287
2b753521 2288NAME: netdb_filename
2289TYPE: string
2290DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2291LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 2292IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 2293DOC_START
2294 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
2295 To disable, enter "none".
2296DOC_END
2297
41bd17a4 2298COMMENT_START
2299 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
2300 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2301COMMENT_END
2302
2303NAME: ftp_user
2304TYPE: string
2305DEFAULT: Squid@
2306LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 2307DOC_START
41bd17a4 2308 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
2309 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
2310 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 2311
41bd17a4 2312 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
2313 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
2314 depending on how the cache is used.
2315 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
2316 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 2317DOC_END
0976f8db 2318
41bd17a4 2319NAME: ftp_list_width
2320TYPE: size_t
2321DEFAULT: 32
2322LOC: Config.Ftp.list_width
6b698a21 2323DOC_START
41bd17a4 2324 Sets the width of ftp listings. This should be set to fit in
2325 the width of a standard browser. Setting this too small
2326 can cut off long filenames when browsing ftp sites.
6b698a21 2327DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2328
41bd17a4 2329NAME: ftp_passive
2330TYPE: onoff
2331DEFAULT: on
2332LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 2333DOC_START
41bd17a4 2334 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
2335 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 2336
2337 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
2338DOC_END
2339
2340NAME: ftp_epsv_all
2341TYPE: onoff
2342DEFAULT: off
2343LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
2344DOC_START
2345 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
2346
2347 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
2348 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
2349 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
2350
2351 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be useful.
2352 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
2353 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
2354
2355 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
2356 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
2357
2358 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default)
41bd17a4 2359DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2360
41bd17a4 2361NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
2362TYPE: onoff
2363DEFAULT: on
2364LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
2365DOC_START
2366 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
2367 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
2368 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
2369 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
2370 connection turn this off.
2371DOC_END
9e7dbc51 2372
41bd17a4 2373NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
2374TYPE: onoff
2375DEFAULT: on
2376LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
2377DOC_START
2378 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
2379 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
2380 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
2381 the FTP protocol.
2382
2383 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
2384 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
2385 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
2386 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
2387 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
2388DOC_END
2389
2390COMMENT_START
2391 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
2392 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2393COMMENT_END
2394
2395NAME: diskd_program
2396TYPE: string
2397DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
2398LOC: Config.Program.diskd
2399DOC_START
2400 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
2401 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
2402 diskd as one of the store io modules.
2403DOC_END
2404
2405NAME: unlinkd_program
2406IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
2407TYPE: string
2408DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
2409LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
2410DOC_START
2411 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
2412DOC_END
2413
2414NAME: pinger_program
2415TYPE: string
2416DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 2417LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 2418IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2419DOC_START
2420 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
2421DOC_END
2422
cc192b50 2423NAME: pinger_enable
2424TYPE: onoff
2425DEFAULT: on
2426LOC: Config.pinger.enable
2427IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2428DOC_START
2429 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
2430 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple squid -k reconfigure.
2431DOC_END
2432
2433
41bd17a4 2434COMMENT_START
2435 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
2436 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2437COMMENT_END
2438
2439NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
2440TYPE: wordlist
2441LOC: Config.Program.redirect
2442DEFAULT: none
2443DOC_START
2444 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
2445 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
2446
2447 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
2448
c71adec1 2449 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
2450
2451 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
2452 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
2453 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
2454 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 2455
2456 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
2457 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
2458
2459 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
2460 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2461 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
2462
2463 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
2464DOC_END
2465
2466NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
2467TYPE: int
2468DEFAULT: 5
2469LOC: Config.redirectChildren
2470DOC_START
2471 The number of redirector processes to spawn. If you start
2472 too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
2473 URLs, slowing it down. If you start too many they will use RAM
2474 and other system resources.
2475DOC_END
2476
2477NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency redirect_concurrency
2478TYPE: int
2479DEFAULT: 0
2480LOC: Config.redirectConcurrency
2481DOC_START
2482 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
2483 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
2484 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2485DOC_END
2486
2487NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
2488TYPE: onoff
2489DEFAULT: on
2490LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
2491DOC_START
2492 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
2493 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
2494 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
2495
2496 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
2497 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
2498DOC_END
2499
2500NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
2501TYPE: acl_access
2502DEFAULT: none
2503LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
2504DOC_START
2505 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
2506 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
2507 are sent.
2508DOC_END
2509
2510NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
2511TYPE: onoff
2512LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
2513DEFAULT: off
2514DOC_START
2515 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
2516 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
2517 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
2518 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
2519 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
2520 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
2521 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
2522 users may have access to pages they should not
2523 be allowed to request.
2524DOC_END
2525
2526COMMENT_START
2527 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
2528 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2529COMMENT_END
2530
f04b37d8 2531NAME: cache no_cache
2532TYPE: acl_access
2533DEFAULT: none
2534LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 2535DOC_START
240887f0 2536 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 2537 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
2538 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 2539
240887f0 2540 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
2541 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 2542
240887f0 2543 Default is to allow all to be cached.
41bd17a4 2544DOC_END
2545
2546NAME: refresh_pattern
2547TYPE: refreshpattern
2548LOC: Config.Refresh
2549DEFAULT: none
2550DOC_START
2551 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 2552
6b698a21 2553 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
2554 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 2555
41bd17a4 2556 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
2557 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
2558 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
2559 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
2560 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 2561
41bd17a4 2562 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
2563 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
2564 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 2565
41bd17a4 2566 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
2567 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 2568
41bd17a4 2569 options: override-expire
2570 override-lastmod
2571 reload-into-ims
2572 ignore-reload
2573 ignore-no-cache
2574 ignore-no-store
2575 ignore-private
2576 ignore-auth
2577 refresh-ims
a0ec9f68 2578
41bd17a4 2579 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
2580 sent a Expires: header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP
2581 standard. Enabling this feature could make you liable
2582 for problems which it causes.
6468fe10 2583
41bd17a4 2584 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
2585 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 2586
41bd17a4 2587 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
2588 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
2589 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2590 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 2591
41bd17a4 2592 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
2593 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2594 this feature could make you liable for problems which
2595 it causes.
9bc73deb 2596
41bd17a4 2597 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
2598 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
2599 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
2600 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
2601 send it anyway.
2602
2603 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
2604 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2605 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2606 liable for problems which it causes.
2607
2608 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
2609 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
2610 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
2611 liable for problems which it causes.
2612
2613 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
2614 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
2615 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
2616 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
2617 it causes.
2618
2619 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
2620 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
2621 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
2622 if one is available.
2623
2624 Basically a cached object is:
2625
2626 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
2627 STALE if age > max
2628 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
2629 FRESH if age < min
2630 else STALE
2631
2632 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
2633 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
2634 match the default will be used.
2635
2636 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
2637 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
2638 used.
2639
2640Suggested default:
2641NOCOMMENT_START
2642refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
2643refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
240887f0 2644refresh_pattern (cgi-bin|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 2645refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
2646NOCOMMENT_END
2647DOC_END
2648
2649NAME: quick_abort_min
2650COMMENT: (KB)
2651TYPE: kb_int64_t
2652DEFAULT: 16 KB
2653LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
2654DOC_NONE
2655
2656NAME: quick_abort_max
2657COMMENT: (KB)
2658TYPE: kb_int64_t
2659DEFAULT: 16 KB
2660LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
2661DOC_NONE
2662
2663NAME: quick_abort_pct
2664COMMENT: (percent)
2665TYPE: int
2666DEFAULT: 95
2667LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
2668DOC_START
2669 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
2670 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
2671 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
2672 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
2673 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
2674 downloads.
2675
2676 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2677 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
2678 then.
2679
2680 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
2681 it will finish the retrieval.
2682
2683 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
2684 it will abort the retrieval.
2685
2686 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
2687 it will finish the retrieval.
2688
2689 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
2690 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
2691 to '0 KB'.
2692
2693 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
2694 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
2695DOC_END
60d096f4 2696
41bd17a4 2697NAME: read_ahead_gap
2698COMMENT: buffer-size
2699TYPE: b_int64_t
2700LOC: Config.readAheadGap
2701DEFAULT: 16 KB
2702DOC_START
2703 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
2704 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
2705DOC_END
53e738c6 2706
41bd17a4 2707NAME: negative_ttl
2708COMMENT: time-units
2709TYPE: time_t
2710LOC: Config.negativeTtl
2711DEFAULT: 5 minutes
2712DOC_START
2713 Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests. Certain types of
2714 failures (such as "connection refused" and "404 Not Found") are
2715 negatively-cached for a configurable amount of time. The
2716 default is 5 minutes. Note that this is different from
2717 negative caching of DNS lookups.
2718DOC_END
53e738c6 2719
41bd17a4 2720NAME: positive_dns_ttl
2721COMMENT: time-units
2722TYPE: time_t
2723LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
2724DEFAULT: 6 hours
2725DOC_START
2726 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
2727 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
2728 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
2729DOC_END
c4ab8329 2730
41bd17a4 2731NAME: negative_dns_ttl
2732COMMENT: time-units
2733TYPE: time_t
2734LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
2735DEFAULT: 1 minutes
2736DOC_START
2737 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
2738 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
2739 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
2740 much below 10 seconds.
2741DOC_END
7df0bfd7 2742
41bd17a4 2743NAME: range_offset_limit
2744COMMENT: (bytes)
2745TYPE: b_int64_t
2746LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
2747DEFAULT: 0 KB
2748DOC_START
2749 Sets a upper limit on how far into the the file a Range request
2750 may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file. If beyond this
2751 limit Squid forwards the Range request as it is and the result
2752 is NOT cached.
c4ab8329 2753
41bd17a4 2754 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
2755 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
2756 sending anything to the client.
a7ad6e4e 2757
41bd17a4 2758 A value of -1 causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
2759 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
a7ad6e4e 2760
41bd17a4 2761 A value of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
2762 client requested. (default)
2763DOC_END
d95b862f 2764
41bd17a4 2765NAME: minimum_expiry_time
2766COMMENT: (seconds)
2767TYPE: time_t
2768LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
2769DEFAULT: 60 seconds
2770DOC_START
2771 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
2772 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
2773 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy enorinments it
2774 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
2775 is most likely better to make your server return a
2776 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
2777 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
2778 often be best set to 0.
2779DOC_END
c68e9c6b 2780
41bd17a4 2781NAME: store_avg_object_size
2782COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 2783TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 2784DEFAULT: 13 KB
2785LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
2786DOC_START
2787 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
2788 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 2789DOC_END
2790
41bd17a4 2791NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
2792TYPE: int
2793DEFAULT: 20
2794LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
2795DOC_START
2796 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
2797 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
2798 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
2799DOC_END
2800
2801COMMENT_START
2802 HTTP OPTIONS
2803 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2804COMMENT_END
2805
f04b37d8 2806NAME: request_header_max_size
2807COMMENT: (KB)
2808TYPE: b_size_t
2809DEFAULT: 20 KB
2810LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
2811DOC_START
2812 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
2813 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2814 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
2815 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2816 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2817DOC_END
2818
2819NAME: reply_header_max_size
2820COMMENT: (KB)
2821TYPE: b_size_t
2822DEFAULT: 20 KB
2823LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
2824DOC_START
2825 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
2826 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
2827 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
2828 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
2829 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
2830DOC_END
2831
2832NAME: request_body_max_size
2833COMMENT: (bytes)
2834TYPE: b_int64_t
2835DEFAULT: 0 KB
2836LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
2837DOC_START
2838 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
2839 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
2840 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
2841 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
2842 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
2843 be no limit imposed.
2844DOC_END
2845
41bd17a4 2846NAME: broken_posts
cccac0a2 2847TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 2848DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2849LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 2850DOC_START
41bd17a4 2851 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
2852 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 2853
41bd17a4 2854 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
2855 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 2856
41bd17a4 2857 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 2858
41bd17a4 2859 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
2860 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
2861 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
2862 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 2863
41bd17a4 2864Example:
2865 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
2866 broken_posts allow buggy_server
2867DOC_END
cccac0a2 2868
41bd17a4 2869NAME: via
2870IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2871COMMENT: on|off
2872TYPE: onoff
2873DEFAULT: on
2874LOC: Config.onoff.via
2875DOC_START
2876 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
2877 replies as required by RFC2616.
2878DOC_END
4cc6eb12 2879
41bd17a4 2880NAME: ie_refresh
2881COMMENT: on|off
2882TYPE: onoff
2883LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
2884DEFAULT: off
2885DOC_START
2886 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
2887 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
2888 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
2889 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
2890 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
2891 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
2892 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
2893 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
2894 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
2895 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
2896 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
2897 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
2898 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
2899 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
2900 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
2901 force fresh content.
2902DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 2903
41bd17a4 2904NAME: vary_ignore_expire
2905COMMENT: on|off
2906TYPE: onoff
2907LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
2908DEFAULT: off
2909DOC_START
2910 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
2911 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
2912 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
2913 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
2914 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
2915 WARNING: This may eventually cause some varying
2916 objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 2917DOC_END
c4ab8329 2918
41bd17a4 2919NAME: extension_methods
2920TYPE: wordlist
2921LOC: Config.ext_methods
cccac0a2 2922DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2923DOC_START
41bd17a4 2924 Squid only knows about standardized HTTP request methods.
2925 You can add up to 20 additional "extension" methods here.
2926DOC_END
0976f8db 2927
41bd17a4 2928NAME: request_entities
2929TYPE: onoff
2930LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
2931DEFAULT: off
2932DOC_START
2933 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
2934 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
2935 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 2936
41bd17a4 2937 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
2938 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
2939 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
2940 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
2941 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 2942DOC_END
6b53c392 2943
41bd17a4 2944NAME: request_header_access
2945IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
2946TYPE: http_header_access[]
2947LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 2948DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2949DOC_START
41bd17a4 2950 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 2951
41bd17a4 2952 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
2953 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
2954 causes.
0976f8db 2955
41bd17a4 2956 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
2957 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
2958 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
2959 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
2960 mangling.
934b03fc 2961
41bd17a4 2962 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
2963 client to the server.
5401aa8d 2964
41bd17a4 2965 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
2966 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
2967 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 2968
41bd17a4 2969 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
2970 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 2971
41bd17a4 2972 request_header_access From deny all
2973 request_header_access Referer deny all
2974 request_header_access Server deny all
2975 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
2976 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
2977 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 2978
41bd17a4 2979 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
2980 you should use:
5401aa8d 2981
41bd17a4 2982 request_header_access Allow allow all
2983 request_header_access Authorization allow all
2984 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
2985 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
2986 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
2987 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
2988 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
2989 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
2990 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
2991 request_header_access Date allow all
2992 request_header_access Expires allow all
2993 request_header_access Host allow all
2994 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
2995 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
2996 request_header_access Location allow all
2997 request_header_access Pragma allow all
2998 request_header_access Accept allow all
2999 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3000 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3001 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3002 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
3003 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3004 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
3005 request_header_access Title allow all
3006 request_header_access Connection allow all
3007 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3008 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 3009
41bd17a4 3010 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
3011 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 3012
41bd17a4 3013 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3014 performed).
5401aa8d 3015DOC_END
3016
41bd17a4 3017NAME: reply_header_access
3018IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3019TYPE: http_header_access[]
3020LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 3021DEFAULT: none
3022DOC_START
41bd17a4 3023 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 3024
41bd17a4 3025 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3026 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3027 causes.
934b03fc 3028
41bd17a4 3029 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
3030 server to the client.
934b03fc 3031
41bd17a4 3032 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
3033 direction.
6b53c392 3034
41bd17a4 3035 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3036 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3037 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3038 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3039 mangling.
cccac0a2 3040
41bd17a4 3041 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3042 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3043 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 3044
41bd17a4 3045 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3046 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 3047
41bd17a4 3048 reply_header_access From deny all
3049 reply_header_access Referer deny all
3050 reply_header_access Server deny all
3051 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
3052 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
3053 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 3054
41bd17a4 3055 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
3056 you should use:
cccac0a2 3057
41bd17a4 3058 reply_header_access Allow allow all
3059 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
3060 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
3061 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
3062 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
3063 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
3064 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
3065 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
3066 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
3067 reply_header_access Date allow all
3068 reply_header_access Expires allow all
3069 reply_header_access Host allow all
3070 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
3071 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
3072 reply_header_access Location allow all
3073 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
3074 reply_header_access Accept allow all
3075 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
3076 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
3077 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
3078 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
3079 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
3080 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
3081 reply_header_access Title allow all
3082 reply_header_access Connection allow all
3083 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
3084 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 3085
41bd17a4 3086 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
3087 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 3088
41bd17a4 3089 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
3090 performed).
cccac0a2 3091DOC_END
3092
41bd17a4 3093NAME: header_replace
3094IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3095TYPE: http_header_replace[]
3096LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3097DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3098DOC_START
3099 Usage: header_replace header_name message
3100 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 3101
41bd17a4 3102 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
3103 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
3104 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
3105 option.
cccac0a2 3106
41bd17a4 3107 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 3108
41bd17a4 3109 By default, headers are removed if denied.
3110DOC_END
cccac0a2 3111
41bd17a4 3112NAME: relaxed_header_parser
3113COMMENT: on|off|warn
3114TYPE: tristate
3115LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
3116DEFAULT: on
3117DOC_START
3118 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
3119 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
3120 what the sending application intended even if the message
3121 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
3122 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 3123
41bd17a4 3124 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
3125 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 3126
41bd17a4 3127 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
3128 or response to be rejected.
3129DOC_END
7d90757b 3130
41bd17a4 3131COMMENT_START
3132 TIMEOUTS
3133 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3134COMMENT_END
3135
3136NAME: forward_timeout
3137COMMENT: time-units
3138TYPE: time_t
3139LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
3140DEFAULT: 4 minutes
3141DOC_START
3142 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
3143 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 3144DOC_END
3145
41bd17a4 3146NAME: connect_timeout
3147COMMENT: time-units
3148TYPE: time_t
3149LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
3150DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 3151DOC_START
41bd17a4 3152 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
3153 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
3154 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 3155DOC_END
3156
41bd17a4 3157NAME: peer_connect_timeout
3158COMMENT: time-units
3159TYPE: time_t
3160LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
3161DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3162DOC_START
41bd17a4 3163 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
3164 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
3165 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
3166 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
3167DOC_END
7f7db318 3168
41bd17a4 3169NAME: read_timeout
3170COMMENT: time-units
3171TYPE: time_t
3172LOC: Config.Timeout.read
3173DEFAULT: 15 minutes
3174DOC_START
3175 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
3176 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
3177 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
3178 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
3179 default is 15 minutes.
3180DOC_END
cccac0a2 3181
41bd17a4 3182NAME: request_timeout
3183TYPE: time_t
3184LOC: Config.Timeout.request
3185DEFAULT: 5 minutes
3186DOC_START
3187 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
3188 connection establishment.
3189DOC_END
cccac0a2 3190
41bd17a4 3191NAME: persistent_request_timeout
3192TYPE: time_t
3193LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
3194DEFAULT: 2 minutes
3195DOC_START
3196 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
3197 connection after the previous request completes.
3198DOC_END
cccac0a2 3199
41bd17a4 3200NAME: client_lifetime
3201COMMENT: time-units
3202TYPE: time_t
3203LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
3204DEFAULT: 1 day
3205DOC_START
3206 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
3207 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
3208 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
3209 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
3210 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
3211 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
3212 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 3213
41bd17a4 3214 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
3215 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
3216 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
3217 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
3218 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
3219 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 3220DOC_END
3221
41bd17a4 3222NAME: half_closed_clients
3223TYPE: onoff
3224LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
3225DEFAULT: on
4eb368f9 3226DOC_START
41bd17a4 3227 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
3228 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
3229 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
3230 fully-closed TCP connection. By default, half-closed client
3231 connections are kept open until a read(2) or write(2) on the
3232 socket returns an error. Change this option to 'off' and Squid
3233 will immediately close client connections when read(2) returns
3234 "no more data to read."
4eb368f9 3235DOC_END
3236
41bd17a4 3237NAME: pconn_timeout
3238TYPE: time_t
3239LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
3240DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 3241DOC_START
41bd17a4 3242 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
3243 proxies.
3244DOC_END
cccac0a2 3245
41bd17a4 3246NAME: ident_timeout
3247TYPE: time_t
3248IFDEF: USE_IDENT
3249LOC: Config.Timeout.ident
3250DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3251DOC_START
3252 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 3253
41bd17a4 3254 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
3255 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
3256 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 3257DOC_END
3258
41bd17a4 3259NAME: shutdown_lifetime
3260COMMENT: time-units
3261TYPE: time_t
3262LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
3263DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 3264DOC_START
41bd17a4 3265 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
3266 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
3267 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
3268 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
3269 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 3270DOC_END
0976f8db 3271
cccac0a2 3272COMMENT_START
3273 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
3274 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3275COMMENT_END
3276
3277NAME: cache_mgr
3278TYPE: string
3279DEFAULT: webmaster
3280LOC: Config.adminEmail
3281DOC_START
3282 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
3283 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
3284DOC_END
3285
abacf776 3286NAME: mail_from
3287TYPE: string
3288DEFAULT: none
3289LOC: Config.EmailFrom
3290DOC_START
3291 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
3292 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 3293 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 3294 src/globals.h before building squid.
3295DOC_END
3296
d084bf20 3297NAME: mail_program
3298TYPE: eol
3299DEFAULT: mail
3300LOC: Config.EmailProgram
3301DOC_START
3302 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 3303 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 3304 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 3305 mail-program recipient < mailfile
3306
d084bf20 3307 Optional command line options can be specified.
3308DOC_END
3309
cccac0a2 3310NAME: cache_effective_user
3311TYPE: string
5483d916 3312DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 3313LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 3314DOC_START
3315 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
3316 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 3317 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 3318 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 3319DOC_END
3320
cccac0a2 3321NAME: cache_effective_group
3322TYPE: string
3323DEFAULT: none
3324LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
3325DOC_START
64e288bd 3326 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
3327 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
3328 from the groups membership.
3329
e3d74828 3330 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
3331 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
3332 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 3333 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 3334 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 3335 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 3336 group.
64e288bd 3337
3338 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
3339 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
3340 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 3341DOC_END
3342
d3caee79 3343NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
3344COMMENT: on|off
3345TYPE: onoff
3346DEFAULT: off
3347LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
3348DOC_START
3349 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
3350DOC_END
3351
cccac0a2 3352NAME: visible_hostname
3353TYPE: string
3354LOC: Config.visibleHostname
3355DEFAULT: none
3356DOC_START
3357 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 3358 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 3359 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
3360 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
3361 names with this setting.
3362DOC_END
3363
cccac0a2 3364NAME: unique_hostname
3365TYPE: string
3366LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
3367DEFAULT: none
3368DOC_START
3369 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 3370 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
3371 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 3372DOC_END
3373
cccac0a2 3374NAME: hostname_aliases
3375TYPE: wordlist
3376LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
3377DEFAULT: none
3378DOC_START
7f7db318 3379 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 3380DOC_END
0976f8db 3381
cccac0a2 3382COMMENT_START
3383 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
3384 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3385
3386 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
3387 announcement service. This service is provided to help
3388 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
3389 create cache hierarchies.
3390
3391 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
3392 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
3393 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
3394
3395 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
3396 following information from this configuration file:
3397
3398 http_port
3399 icp_port
3400 cache_mgr
3401
3402 All current information is processed regularly and made
3403 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
3404COMMENT_END
3405
3406NAME: announce_period
3407TYPE: time_t
3408LOC: Config.Announce.period
3409DEFAULT: 0
3410DOC_START
3411 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
3412 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
3413 messages.
3414
3415 To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line
3416 below.
3417
3418NOCOMMENT_START
9e7dbc51 3419#To enable announcing your cache, just uncomment the line below.
3420#announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 3421NOCOMMENT_END
3422DOC_END
3423
cccac0a2 3424NAME: announce_host
3425TYPE: string
3426DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
3427LOC: Config.Announce.host
3428DOC_NONE
3429
3430NAME: announce_file
3431TYPE: string
3432DEFAULT: none
3433LOC: Config.Announce.file
3434DOC_NONE
3435
3436NAME: announce_port
3437TYPE: ushort
3438DEFAULT: 3131
3439LOC: Config.Announce.port
3440DOC_START
3441 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
3442 number where the registration message will be sent.
3443
3444 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
3445 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
3446 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
3447 message.
3448DOC_END
3449
8d6275c0 3450COMMENT_START
3451 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
3452 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3453COMMENT_END
3454
cccac0a2 3455NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
f41735ea 3456IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3457TYPE: string
3458LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
3459DEFAULT: unset-id
3460DOC_START
3461 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
3462 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
3463 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
3464 an identification token.
3465DOC_END
3466
3467NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
f41735ea 3468IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
cccac0a2 3469COMMENT: on|off
3470TYPE: onoff
3471DEFAULT: off
3472LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
3473DOC_START
3474 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
3475 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
3476DOC_END
3477
3478NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 3479IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 3480COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 3481TYPE: string
3482LOC: ESIParser::Type
3483DEFAULT: custom
3484DOC_START
3485 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
3486 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
3487 encodings.
3488DOC_END
0976f8db 3489
9edd9041 3490COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3491 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 3492 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3493COMMENT_END
3494
3495NAME: delay_pools
3496TYPE: delay_pool_count
3497DEFAULT: 0
3498IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3499LOC: Config.Delay
3500DOC_START
3501 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
3502 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
3503 have a total of 2 delay pools.
3504DOC_END
3505
3506NAME: delay_class
3507TYPE: delay_pool_class
3508DEFAULT: none
3509IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3510LOC: Config.Delay
3511DOC_START
3512 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
3513 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
3514 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
3515 and here would be:
3516
3517Example:
3518 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
3519 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
3520 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
3521 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
3522 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
3523
3524 The delay pool classes are:
3525
3526 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3527 bucket.
3528
3529 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3530 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
3531 from bits 25 through 32 of the IP address.
3532
3533 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
3534 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
3535 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
3536 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
3537 32 of the IP address.
3538
3539 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
3540 additional limit on a per user basis. This
3541 only takes effect if the username is established
3542 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
3543 http_access rules.
3544
3545 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
3546 external_acl's tag= reply).
3547
3548 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
3549 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
3550 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
3551 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
3552DOC_END
3553
3554NAME: delay_access
3555TYPE: delay_pool_access
3556DEFAULT: none
3557IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3558LOC: Config.Delay
3559DOC_START
3560 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
3561
3562 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
3563 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
3564 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
3565 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
3566
3567 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
3568 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
3569
3570Example:
3571 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
3572 delay_access 1 deny all
3573 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
3574 delay_access 2 deny all
3575 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
3576DOC_END
3577
3578NAME: delay_parameters
3579TYPE: delay_pool_rates
3580DEFAULT: none
3581IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3582LOC: Config.Delay
3583DOC_START
3584 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
3585 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
3586 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
3587
3588delay_parameters pool aggregate
3589
3590 For a class 2 delay pool:
3591
3592delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
3593
3594 For a class 3 delay pool:
3595
3596delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
3597
3598 For a class 4 delay pool:
3599
3600delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
3601
3602 For a class 5 delay pool:
3603
3604delay_parameters pool tag
3605
3606 The variables here are:
3607
3608 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
3609 number specified in delay_pools as used in
3610 delay_class lines.
3611
3612 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
3613 (class 1, 2, 3).
3614
3615 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
3616 buckets (class 2, 3).
3617
3618 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
3619 (class 3).
3620
3621 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
3622 (class 4).
3623
3624 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
3625 (class 5).
3626
3627 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
3628 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
3629 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
3630 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
3631
3632 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
3633 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
3634 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
3635
3636delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
3637
3638 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
3639
3640 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
3641 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
3642 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
3643 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
3644 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
3645 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
3646 large downloads more significantly:
3647
3648delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
3649
3650 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
3651
3652 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
3653 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
3654
3655delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
3656DOC_END
3657
3658NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
3659COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3660TYPE: ushort
3661DEFAULT: 50
3662IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
3663LOC: Config.Delay.initial
3664DOC_START
3665 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
3666 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
3667 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
3668 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
3669 "seen" by squid).
3670DOC_END
3671
cccac0a2 3672COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 3673 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 3674 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3675COMMENT_END
3676
8d6275c0 3677NAME: wccp_router
3678TYPE: address
3679LOC: Config.Wccp.router
3680DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3681IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3682DOC_NONE
3683NAME: wccp2_router
cc192b50 3684TYPE: IPAddress_list
8d6275c0 3685LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 3686DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 3687IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3688DOC_START
8d6275c0 3689 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
3690 Squid.
cccac0a2 3691
8d6275c0 3692 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 3693
8d6275c0 3694 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 3695
8d6275c0 3696 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
3697 which version of WCCP to use.
3698DOC_END
3699
3700NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 3701TYPE: int
8d6275c0 3702LOC: Config.Wccp.version
3703DEFAULT: 4
3704IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 3705DOC_START
8d6275c0 3706 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
3707 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
3708 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
3709 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
3710 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 3711
8d6275c0 3712 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
3713 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
3714 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
3715 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 3716DOC_END
3717
8d6275c0 3718NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
3719TYPE: onoff
3720LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
3721DEFAULT: on
3722IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3723DOC_START
3724 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
3725 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
3726DOC_END
cccac0a2 3727
8d6275c0 3728NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
3729TYPE: int
3730LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
3731DEFAULT: 1
3732IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3733DOC_START
699acd19 3734 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 3735 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3736
8d6275c0 3737 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
3738 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 3739
8d6275c0 3740 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
3741 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 3742DOC_END
3743
8d6275c0 3744NAME: wccp2_return_method
3745TYPE: int
3746LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
3747DEFAULT: 1
3748IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3749DOC_START
699acd19 3750 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 3751 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
3752 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3753
8d6275c0 3754 1 - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
3755 2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 3756
8d6275c0 3757 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
3758 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 3759
699acd19 3760 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 3761 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
3762 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
3763 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 3764DOC_END
3765
8d6275c0 3766NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
3767TYPE: int
3768LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
3769DEFAULT: 1
3770IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 3771DOC_START
8d6275c0 3772 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
3773 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 3774
8d6275c0 3775 1 - Hash assignment
3776 2 - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 3777
8d6275c0 3778 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
3779 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
3780DOC_END
cccac0a2 3781
8d6275c0 3782NAME: wccp2_service
3783TYPE: wccp2_service
3784LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
3785DEFAULT: none
3786DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
3787IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3788DOC_START
3789 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
3790 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
3791 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
3792 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
3793 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
3794 using the wccp2_service_info option.
3795
3796 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
3797 just specifying the service id will suffice.
3798
3799 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
3800 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
3801
3802 Examples:
3803
3804 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
3805 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
3806 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
3807 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
3808
3809DOC_END
3810
3811NAME: wccp2_service_info
3812TYPE: wccp2_service_info
3813LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
3814DEFAULT: none
3815IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3816DOC_START
3817 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
3818 traffic you wish to have diverted.
3819
3820 The format is:
3821
3822 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
3823 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
3824
3825 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
3826 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
3827 + source_port_hash, dest_port_hash
3828 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
3829 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
3830 + ports_source
3831
3832 The port list can be one to eight entries.
3833
3834 Example:
3835
3836 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
3837 priority=240 ports=80
3838
3839 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
3840 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
3841DOC_END
3842
3843NAME: wccp2_weight
3844TYPE: int
3845LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
3846DEFAULT: 10000
3847IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3848DOC_START
3849 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
3850 hash proportional to their weight.
3851DOC_END
3852
3853NAME: wccp_address
3854TYPE: address
3855LOC: Config.Wccp.address
3856DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3857IFDEF: USE_WCCP
3858DOC_NONE
3859NAME: wccp2_address
3860TYPE: address
3861LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
3862DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
3863IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
3864DOC_START
3865 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
3866 interface address.
3867
3868 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
3869DOC_END
3870
3871COMMENT_START
3872 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
3873 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3874
3875 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
3876COMMENT_END
3877
3878NAME: client_persistent_connections
3879TYPE: onoff
3880LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
3881DEFAULT: on
3882DOC_NONE
3883
3884NAME: server_persistent_connections
3885TYPE: onoff
3886LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
3887DEFAULT: on
3888DOC_START
3889 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
3890 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
3891 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
3892 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
3893DOC_END
3894
3895NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
3896TYPE: onoff
3897LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
3898DEFAULT: off
3899DOC_START
3900 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
3901 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
3902 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
3903DOC_END
3904
3905NAME: detect_broken_pconn
3906TYPE: onoff
3907LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
3908DEFAULT: off
3909DOC_START
3910 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
3911 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
3912 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
3913 has mostly been seen on redirects.
3914
3915 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
3916 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
3917 after 10 seconds timeout.
3918DOC_END
3919
3920COMMENT_START
3921 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
3922 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3923COMMENT_END
3924
3925NAME: digest_generation
3926IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3927TYPE: onoff
3928LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
3929DEFAULT: on
3930DOC_START
3931 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
3932 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 3933 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 3934DOC_END
3935
3936NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
3937IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3938TYPE: int
3939LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
3940DEFAULT: 5
3941DOC_START
3942 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
3943 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
3944 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
3945DOC_END
3946
3947NAME: digest_rebuild_period
3948IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3949COMMENT: (seconds)
3950TYPE: time_t
3951LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
3952DEFAULT: 1 hour
3953DOC_START
749ceff8 3954 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 3955DOC_END
3956
3957NAME: digest_rewrite_period
3958COMMENT: (seconds)
3959IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3960TYPE: time_t
3961LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
3962DEFAULT: 1 hour
3963DOC_START
749ceff8 3964 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 3965 disk.
3966DOC_END
3967
3968NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
3969COMMENT: (bytes)
3970TYPE: b_size_t
3971IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3972LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
3973DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
3974DOC_START
3975 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
3976 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
3977 default swap page.
3978DOC_END
3979
3980NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
3981COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3982IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
3983TYPE: int
3984LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
3985DEFAULT: 10
3986DOC_START
3987 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
3988 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
3989DOC_END
3990
1db9eacd 3991COMMENT_START
5473c134 3992 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 3993 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3994COMMENT_END
3995
5473c134 3996NAME: snmp_port
3997TYPE: ushort
3998LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 3999DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4000IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4001DOC_START
87630341 4002 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
4003 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
4004 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
4005 set to "0" (disabled)
4006NOCOMMENT_START
4007#snmp_port 3401
4008NOCOMMENT_END
8d6275c0 4009DOC_END
4010
5473c134 4011NAME: snmp_access
4012TYPE: acl_access
4013LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 4014DEFAULT: none
5473c134 4015DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4016IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 4017DOC_START
5473c134 4018 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 4019
5473c134 4020 All access to the agent is denied by default.
4021 usage:
8d6275c0 4022
5473c134 4023 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 4024
5473c134 4025Example:
4026 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
4027 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 4028DOC_END
4029
5473c134 4030NAME: snmp_incoming_address
4031TYPE: address
4032LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
4033DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4034IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
4035DOC_NONE
4036NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
4037TYPE: address
4038LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
4039DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4040IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 4041DOC_START
5473c134 4042 Just like 'udp_incoming_address' above, but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 4043
5473c134 4044 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
4045 messages from SNMP agents.
4046 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
4047 agents.
cccac0a2 4048
5473c134 4049 The default snmp_incoming_address (0.0.0.0) is to listen on all
4050 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 4051
5473c134 4052 If snmp_outgoing_address is set to 255.255.255.255 (the default)
4053 it will use the same socket as snmp_incoming_address. Only
4054 change this if you want to have SNMP replies sent using another
4055 address than where this Squid listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 4056
5473c134 4057 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
4058 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 4059DOC_END
4060
5473c134 4061COMMENT_START
4062 ICP OPTIONS
4063 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4064COMMENT_END
4065
4066NAME: icp_port udp_port
4067TYPE: ushort
4068DEFAULT: 0
4069LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 4070DOC_START
5473c134 4071 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
4072 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
4073 Default is disabled (0).
4074NOCOMMENT_START
4075icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
4076NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4077DOC_END
4078
5473c134 4079NAME: htcp_port
4080IFDEF: USE_HTCP
4081TYPE: ushort
87630341 4082DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 4083LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 4084DOC_START
5473c134 4085 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 4086 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
4087 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
4088NOCOMMENT_START
4089#htcp_port 4827
4090NOCOMMENT_END
cccac0a2 4091DOC_END
4092
4093NAME: log_icp_queries
4094COMMENT: on|off
4095TYPE: onoff
4096DEFAULT: on
4097LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
4098DOC_START
4099 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
4100 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
4101 up or to simplify log analysis.
4102DOC_END
4103
5473c134 4104NAME: udp_incoming_address
4105TYPE: address
4106LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
4107DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
8524d4b2 4108DOC_START
4109 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
4110 caches.
4111
4112 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4113
4114 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
4115 a specific interface/address.
4116
4117 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4118 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4119
4120 see also; udp_outgoing_address
4121
4122 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
4123 have the same value since they both use the same port.
4124DOC_END
cccac0a2 4125
5473c134 4126NAME: udp_outgoing_address
4127TYPE: address
4128LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
4129DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
cccac0a2 4130DOC_START
8524d4b2 4131 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 4132 caches.
cccac0a2 4133
5473c134 4134 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 4135
8524d4b2 4136 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
4137 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
4138 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 4139 caches.
4140
8524d4b2 4141 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
4142 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
4143
4144 see also; udp_incoming_address
4145
5473c134 4146 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 4147 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 4148DOC_END
4149
3d1e3e43 4150NAME: icp_hit_stale
4151COMMENT: on|off
4152TYPE: onoff
4153DEFAULT: off
4154LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
4155DOC_START
4156 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
4157 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
4158 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
4159 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
4160 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
4161 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
4162 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
4163DOC_END
4164
5473c134 4165NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 4166TYPE: int
5473c134 4167DEFAULT: 4
4168LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 4169DOC_START
5473c134 4170 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4171 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 4172DOC_END
4173
5473c134 4174NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
4175TYPE: int
4176DEFAULT: 400
4177LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 4178DOC_START
5473c134 4179 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
4180 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 4181DOC_END
4182
cccac0a2 4183NAME: netdb_low
4184TYPE: int
4185DEFAULT: 900
4186LOC: Config.Netdb.low
4187DOC_NONE
4188
4189NAME: netdb_high
4190TYPE: int
4191DEFAULT: 1000
4192LOC: Config.Netdb.high
4193DOC_START
4194 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
4195 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
4196 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
4197 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
4198DOC_END
4199
cccac0a2 4200NAME: netdb_ping_period
4201TYPE: time_t
4202LOC: Config.Netdb.period
4203DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4204DOC_START
4205 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
4206 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
4207 network. The default is five minutes.
4208DOC_END
4209
cccac0a2 4210NAME: query_icmp
4211COMMENT: on|off
4212TYPE: onoff
4213DEFAULT: off
4214LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
4215DOC_START
4216 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
4217 replies, enable this option.
4218
4219 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 4220 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
4221 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 4222 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
4223 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
4224 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
4225 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
4226 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
4227DOC_END
4228
4229NAME: test_reachability
4230COMMENT: on|off
4231TYPE: onoff
4232DEFAULT: off
4233LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
4234DOC_START
4235 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
4236 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
4237 database, or has a zero RTT.
4238DOC_END
4239
5473c134 4240NAME: icp_query_timeout
4241COMMENT: (msec)
4242DEFAULT: 0
4243TYPE: int
4244LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 4245DOC_START
5473c134 4246 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
4247 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
4248 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
4249 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
4250 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
4251 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 4252
5473c134 4253 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 4254DOC_END
4255
5473c134 4256NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
4257COMMENT: (msec)
4258DEFAULT: 2000
4259TYPE: int
4260LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 4261DOC_START
5473c134 4262 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4263 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
4264 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
4265 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4266 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4267 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4268DOC_END
4269
5473c134 4270NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
4271COMMENT: (msec)
4272DEFAULT: 5
4273TYPE: int
4274LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 4275DOC_START
5473c134 4276 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
4277 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
4278 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
4279 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
4280 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
4281 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
4282 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 4283DOC_END
4284
5473c134 4285NAME: background_ping_rate
4286COMMENT: time-units
4287TYPE: time_t
4288DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4289LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 4290DOC_START
5473c134 4291 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
4292 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 4293DOC_END
4294
5473c134 4295COMMENT_START
4296 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
4297 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4298COMMENT_END
4299
4300NAME: mcast_groups
4301TYPE: wordlist
4302LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 4303DEFAULT: none
4304DOC_START
5473c134 4305 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
4306 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 4307
5473c134 4308 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
4309 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
4310 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
4311 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
4312 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
4313 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
4314 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 4315
5473c134 4316 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
4317 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 4318
5473c134 4319 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
4320 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 4321
5473c134 4322 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 4323
5473c134 4324 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
4325DOC_END
8c01ada0 4326
5473c134 4327NAME: mcast_miss_addr
4328IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4329TYPE: address
4330LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
4331DEFAULT: 255.255.255.255
4332DOC_START
4333 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
4334 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 4335
5473c134 4336 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
4337 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 4338DOC_END
4339
5473c134 4340NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
4341IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4342TYPE: ushort
4343LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
4344DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 4345DOC_START
5473c134 4346 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
4347 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
4348 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
4349DOC_END
cccac0a2 4350
5473c134 4351NAME: mcast_miss_port
4352IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4353TYPE: ushort
4354LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
4355DEFAULT: 3135
4356DOC_START
4357 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
4358 'mcast_miss_addr'.
4359DOC_END
cccac0a2 4360
5473c134 4361NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
4362IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
4363TYPE: string
4364LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
4365DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4366DOC_START
4367 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
4368 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
4369DOC_END
8c01ada0 4370
5473c134 4371NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
4372COMMENT: (msec)
4373DEFAULT: 2000
4374TYPE: int
4375LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
4376DOC_START
4377 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
4378 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
4379 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
4380 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
4381 seconds.
cccac0a2 4382DOC_END
4383
5473c134 4384COMMENT_START
4385 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
4386 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4387COMMENT_END
4388
cccac0a2 4389NAME: icon_directory
4390TYPE: string
4391LOC: Config.icons.directory
4392DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4393DOC_START
4394 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
4395 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
4396DOC_END
4397
f024c970 4398NAME: global_internal_static
4399TYPE: onoff
4400LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
4401DEFAULT: on
4402DOC_START
4403 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
4404 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
4405 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
4406 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
4407 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
4408 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
4409 the server generating a directory listing.
4410DOC_END
4411
5473c134 4412NAME: short_icon_urls
4413TYPE: onoff
4414LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
4415DEFAULT: on
4416DOC_START
4417 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
4418 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
4419 it's own name and port in the URL.
4420
4421 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
4422 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
4423DOC_END
4424
4425COMMENT_START
4426 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
4427 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4428COMMENT_END
4429
4430NAME: error_directory
4431TYPE: string
4432LOC: Config.errorDirectory
4433DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@
4434DOC_START
4435 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
4436 (English) error files, either to customize them to suit your
4437 language or company copy the template English files to another
4438 directory and point this tag at them.
4439
4440 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
4441 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
4442 langauge that Squid does not currently provide please consider
4443 contributing your translation back to the project.
4444DOC_END
4445
4446NAME: err_html_text
4447TYPE: eol
4448LOC: Config.errHtmlText
4449DEFAULT: none
4450DOC_START
4451 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
4452 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
4453 organizations Web page.
4454
4455 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
4456 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
4457 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
4458 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
4459DOC_END
4460
4461NAME: email_err_data
4462COMMENT: on|off
4463TYPE: onoff
4464LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
4465DEFAULT: on
4466DOC_START
4467 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
4468 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
4469 so that the email body contains the data.
4470 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
4471DOC_END
4472
4473NAME: deny_info
4474TYPE: denyinfo
4475LOC: Config.denyInfoList
4476DEFAULT: none
4477DOC_START
4478 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
4479 or deny_info http://... acl
4480 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
4481
4482 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
4483 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
4484 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
4485 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
4486
4487 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
4488 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
4489 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
4490 the first authentication related acl encountered
4491 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
4492 acl processed on the last http_access line.
4493
4494 You may use ERR_ pages that come with Squid or create your own pages
4495 and put them into the configured errors/ directory.
4496
4497 Alternatively you can specify an error URL. The browsers will
4498 get redirected (302) to the specified URL. %s in the redirection
4499 URL will be replaced by the requested URL.
4500
4501 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
4502 by specifying TCP_RESET.
4503DOC_END
4504
4505COMMENT_START
4506 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
4507 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4508COMMENT_END
4509
4510NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4511TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4512LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 4513DEFAULT: on
4514DOC_START
5473c134 4515 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
4516 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
4517 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 4518
5473c134 4519 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
4520 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 4521
5473c134 4522 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
4523 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
4524 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 4525
5473c134 4526 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
4527 this directive.
8d6275c0 4528DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 4529
5473c134 4530NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4531TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4532LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 4533DEFAULT: off
4534DOC_START
5473c134 4535 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
4536 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
4537 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 4538
5473c134 4539 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
4540 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
4541 fails.
4542
4543 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
4544 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
4545 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 4546DOC_END
4547
5473c134 4548NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 4549TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 4550LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 4551DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 4552DOC_START
5473c134 4553 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 4554
5473c134 4555 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
4556 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
4557 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
4558 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
4559 something like:
0b0cfcf2 4560
5473c134 4561 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
4562 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 4563
5473c134 4564 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 4565
5473c134 4566 acl FTP proto FTP
4567 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 4568
5473c134 4569 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
4570 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
4571 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
4572 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
4573 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 4574
5473c134 4575 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4576 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4577 always_direct deny local-external
4578 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 4579
5473c134 4580 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
4581 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
4582 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
4583 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 4584
5473c134 4585 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
4586 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
4587 the replies see no_cache.
4588
4589 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as local_domain
4590 and local_ip.
cccac0a2 4591DOC_END
0976f8db 4592
5473c134 4593NAME: never_direct
4594TYPE: acl_access
4595LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
4596DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4597DOC_START
5473c134 4598 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4599
4600 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
4601 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
4602
4603 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
4604 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
4605 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
4606 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
4607
4608 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
4609 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
4610 never_direct deny local-servers
4611 never_direct allow all
4612
4613 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
4614 servers inside the firewall use something like:
4615
4616 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
4617 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
4618 always_direct deny local-external
4619 always_direct allow local-intranet
4620 never_direct allow all
4621
4622 This option replaces some v1.1 options such as inside_firewall
4623 and firewall_ip.
8d6275c0 4624DOC_END
0976f8db 4625
5473c134 4626COMMENT_START
4627 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
4628 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4629COMMENT_END
4630
cccac0a2 4631NAME: incoming_icp_average
4632TYPE: int
4633DEFAULT: 6
4634LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
4635DOC_NONE
4636
4637NAME: incoming_http_average
4638TYPE: int
4639DEFAULT: 4
4640LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
4641DOC_NONE
4642
4643NAME: incoming_dns_average
4644TYPE: int
4645DEFAULT: 4
4646LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
4647DOC_NONE
4648
4649NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
4650TYPE: int
4651DEFAULT: 8
4652LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
4653DOC_NONE
4654
4655NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
4656TYPE: int
4657DEFAULT: 8
4658LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
4659DOC_NONE
4660
4661NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
4662TYPE: int
4663DEFAULT: 8
4664LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
4665DOC_START
5473c134 4666 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
4667 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
4668 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
4669DOC_END
4670
4671NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 4672TYPE: string
4673DEFAULT: none
4674LOC: Config.accept_filter
4675DOC_START
0b4d4be5 4676 FreeBSD:
4677
5473c134 4678 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
4679 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
4680 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
4681
4682 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 4683 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 4684 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
4685
4686 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
4687 to Squid until there is some data to process.
4688 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
4689
4690 Linux:
4691
4692 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
4693 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
4694 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
4695 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
4696 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 4697EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 4698# FreeBSD
5473c134 4699accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 4700# Linux
4701accept_filter data
5473c134 4702DOC_END
4703
4704NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
4705COMMENT: (bytes)
4706TYPE: b_size_t
4707DEFAULT: 0 bytes
4708LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
4709DOC_START
4710 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
4711 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
4712 the default buffer size.
4713DOC_END
4714
4715COMMENT_START
4716 ICAP OPTIONS
4717 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4718COMMENT_END
4719
4720NAME: icap_enable
4721TYPE: onoff
4722IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4723COMMENT: on|off
4724LOC: TheICAPConfig.onoff
4725DEFAULT: off
4726DOC_START
53e738c6 4727 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 4728DOC_END
4729
4730NAME: icap_connect_timeout
4731TYPE: time_t
4732DEFAULT: none
4733LOC: TheICAPConfig.connect_timeout_raw
4734IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4735DOC_START
4736 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4737 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
4738 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
4739
4740 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
4741 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
4742 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
4743DOC_END
4744
4745NAME: icap_io_timeout
4746COMMENT: time-units
4747TYPE: time_t
4748DEFAULT: none
4749LOC: TheICAPConfig.io_timeout_raw
4750IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4751DOC_START
4752 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
4753 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
4754 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
4755 failure.
4756
4757 The default is read_timeout.
4758DOC_END
4759
4760NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
4761TYPE: int
4762IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4763LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_failure_limit
4764DEFAULT: 10
4765DOC_START
4766 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
4767 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
4768 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
4769 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
4770 OPTIONS. The per-service failure counter is reset to zero each
4771 time Squid fetches new service OPTIONS.
4772
4773 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
4774 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
4775 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 4776DOC_END
4777
5473c134 4778NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 4779TYPE: int
5473c134 4780IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4781LOC: TheICAPConfig.service_revival_delay
4782DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 4783DOC_START
5473c134 4784 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
4785 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
4786 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
4787 fetched.
cccac0a2 4788
5473c134 4789 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
4790 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 4791DOC_END
4792
5473c134 4793NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 4794TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4795IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4796COMMENT: on|off
4797LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 4798DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 4799DOC_START
ac7a62f9 4800 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
4801 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
4802 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
4803 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
4804
4805 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
4806 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
4807 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
4808
4809 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
4810 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
4811Example:
4812icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 4813DOC_END
4814
5473c134 4815NAME: icap_preview_size
4816TYPE: int
4817IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4818LOC: TheICAPConfig.preview_size
4819DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 4820DOC_START
53e738c6 4821 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
4822 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
4823 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 4824DOC_END
4825
5473c134 4826NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
4827TYPE: int
4828IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4829LOC: TheICAPConfig.default_options_ttl
4830DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 4831DOC_START
53e738c6 4832 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 4833 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 4834DOC_END
4835
5473c134 4836NAME: icap_persistent_connections
4837TYPE: onoff
4838IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4839COMMENT: on|off
4840LOC: TheICAPConfig.reuse_connections
4841DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 4842DOC_START
5473c134 4843 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
4844 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 4845DOC_END
4846
5473c134 4847NAME: icap_send_client_ip
4848TYPE: onoff
4849IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4850COMMENT: on|off
4851LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_ip
4852DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4853DOC_START
53e738c6 4854 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 4855DOC_END
4856
5473c134 4857NAME: icap_send_client_username
4858TYPE: onoff
4859IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4860COMMENT: on|off
4861LOC: TheICAPConfig.send_client_username
4862DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4863DOC_START
5473c134 4864 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
4865 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
4866 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
4867 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 4868DOC_END
4869
5473c134 4870NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 4871TYPE: string
5473c134 4872IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4873LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_header
4874DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 4875DOC_START
5473c134 4876 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 4877DOC_END
4878
5473c134 4879NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 4880TYPE: onoff
5473c134 4881IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4882COMMENT: on|off
4883LOC: TheICAPConfig.client_username_encode
4884DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 4885DOC_START
5473c134 4886 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 4887DOC_END
4888
5473c134 4889NAME: icap_service
4890TYPE: icap_service_type
4891IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4892LOC: TheICAPConfig
4893DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4894DOC_START
53e738c6 4895 Defines a single ICAP service
cccac0a2 4896
53e738c6 4897 icap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
7d90757b 4898
53e738c6 4899 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 4900 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
4901 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
4902 are not yet supported.
53e738c6 4903 bypass = 1|0
f3db09e2 4904 If set to 1, the ICAP service is treated as optional. If the
4905 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
4906 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
4907 was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be bypassed.
4908 If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as essential and all
4909 ICAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
4910 HTTP client.
53e738c6 4911 service_url = icap://servername:port/service
5473c134 4912
5473c134 4913Example:
4914icap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
4915icap_service service_2 respmod_precache 0 icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 4916DOC_END
4917
5473c134 4918NAME: icap_class
4919TYPE: icap_class_type
4920IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4921LOC: TheICAPConfig
4922DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4923DOC_START
ce3712b7 4924 Defines an ICAP service chain. Eventually, multiple services per
4925 vectoring point will be supported. For now, please specify a single
4926 service per class:
5473c134 4927
ce3712b7 4928 icap_class classname servicename
5473c134 4929
4930Example:
ce3712b7 4931icap_class class_1 service_1
4932icap class class_2 service_1
4933icap class class_3 service_3
cccac0a2 4934DOC_END
4935
5473c134 4936NAME: icap_access
4937TYPE: icap_access_type
4938IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4939LOC: TheICAPConfig
cccac0a2 4940DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4941DOC_START
53e738c6 4942 Redirects a request through an ICAP service class, depending
4943 on given acls
5473c134 4944
53e738c6 4945 icap_access classname allow|deny [!]aclname...
5473c134 4946
53e738c6 4947 The icap_access statements are processed in the order they appear in
4948 this configuration file. If an access list matches, the processing stops.
4949 For an "allow" rule, the specified class is used for the request. A "deny"
4950 rule simply stops processing without using the class. You can also use the
4951 special classname "None".
cccac0a2 4952
53e738c6 4953 For backward compatibility, it is also possible to use services
4954 directly here.
5473c134 4955Example:
4956icap_access class_1 allow all
cccac0a2 4957DOC_END
4958
5473c134 4959COMMENT_START
4960 DNS OPTIONS
4961 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4962COMMENT_END
4963
4964NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 4965TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4966DEFAULT: off
5473c134 4967LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 4968DOC_START
5473c134 4969 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
4970 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
4971 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 4972DOC_END
4973
5473c134 4974NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 4975TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 4976DEFAULT: on
5473c134 4977LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 4978DOC_START
5473c134 4979 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
4980 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
4981 Squid to be strict about the standard.
4982 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 4983DOC_END
4984
5473c134 4985NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 4986TYPE: string
5473c134 4987IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
4988DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
4989LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 4990DOC_START
5473c134 4991 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 4992DOC_END
4993
5473c134 4994NAME: dns_children
4995TYPE: int
4996IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
4997DEFAULT: 5
4998LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 4999DOC_START
5473c134 5000 The number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
5001 For heavily loaded caches on large servers, you should
5002 probably increase this value to at least 10. The maximum
5003 is 32. The default is 5.
58850d15 5004
5473c134 5005 You must have at least one dnsserver process.
58850d15 5006DOC_END
5007
5473c134 5008NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
5009TYPE: time_t
5010DEFAULT: 5 seconds
5011LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
5012IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5013DOC_START
5473c134 5014 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
5015 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 5016
cccac0a2 5017DOC_END
5018
5473c134 5019NAME: dns_timeout
5020TYPE: time_t
5021DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5022LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
5023IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 5024DOC_START
5473c134 5025 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
5026 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
5027 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 5028DOC_END
5029
5473c134 5030NAME: dns_defnames
5031COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 5032TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 5033DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5034LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 5035DOC_START
5473c134 5036 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
5037 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
5038 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
5039 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 5040DOC_END
5041
5473c134 5042NAME: dns_nameservers
5043TYPE: wordlist
5044DEFAULT: none
5045LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 5046DOC_START
5473c134 5047 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
5048 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
5049 /etc/resolv.conf file.
5050 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
5051 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
5052 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
5053 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 5054
5473c134 5055 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 5056DOC_END
5057
5473c134 5058NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 5059TYPE: string
5473c134 5060DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
5061LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 5062DOC_START
5473c134 5063 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
5064 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
5065 default locations:
5066 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
5067 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5068 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
5069 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
5070 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
5071 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
5072 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
5073 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 5074
5473c134 5075 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
5076 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
5077 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
5078 character are comments.
cccac0a2 5079
5473c134 5080 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
5081 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
5082 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
5083 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
5084 definitions.
cccac0a2 5085DOC_END
5086
5473c134 5087NAME: dns_testnames
5088TYPE: wordlist
5089LOC: Config.dns_testname_list
5090DEFAULT: none
5091DEFAULT_IF_NONE: netscape.com internic.net nlanr.net microsoft.com
5092DOC_START
5093 The DNS tests exit as soon as the first site is successfully looked up
5094
5095 This test can be disabled with the -D command line option.
cccac0a2 5096DOC_END
5097
5473c134 5098NAME: append_domain
5099TYPE: string
5100LOC: Config.appendDomain
5101DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 5102DOC_START
5473c134 5103 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
5104 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
5105
5106 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
5107 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
5108 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
5109
5110Example:
5111 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 5112DOC_END
5113
5473c134 5114NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
5115TYPE: onoff
5116LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 5117DEFAULT: on
5118DOC_START
5473c134 5119 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
5120 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
5121 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
5122 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
5123 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 5124DOC_END
5125
cc192b50 5126NAME: dns_v4_fallback
5127TYPE: onoff
5128DEFAULT: on
5129LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
5130DOC_START
5131 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
5132 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
5133 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
5134
5135 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
5136 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
5137
5138 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
5139 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
5140
5141 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
5142 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
5143 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
5144DOC_END
5145
6bc15a4f 5146NAME: ipcache_size
5147COMMENT: (number of entries)
5148TYPE: int
5149DEFAULT: 1024
5150LOC: Config.ipcache.size
5151DOC_NONE
5152
5153NAME: ipcache_low
5154COMMENT: (percent)
5155TYPE: int
5156DEFAULT: 90
5157LOC: Config.ipcache.low
5158DOC_NONE
5159
5160NAME: ipcache_high
5161COMMENT: (percent)
5162TYPE: int
5163DEFAULT: 95
5164LOC: Config.ipcache.high
5165DOC_START
5166 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
5167DOC_END
5168
5169NAME: fqdncache_size
5170COMMENT: (number of entries)
5171TYPE: int
5172DEFAULT: 1024
5173LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
5174DOC_START
5175 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
5176DOC_END
5177
a58ff010 5178COMMENT_START
5473c134 5179 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 5180 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5181COMMENT_END
5182
5473c134 5183NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 5184COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5185TYPE: onoff
5186DEFAULT: on
5187LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 5188DOC_START
5473c134 5189 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
5190 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
5191 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
5192 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 5193DOC_END
5194
5473c134 5195NAME: memory_pools_limit
5196COMMENT: (bytes)
5197TYPE: b_size_t
5198DEFAULT: 5 MB
5199LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 5200DOC_START
5473c134 5201 Used only with memory_pools on:
5202 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 5203
5473c134 5204 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
5205 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
5206 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
5207 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
5208 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
5209 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
5210 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 5211
5473c134 5212 If set to zero, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5213 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 5214
5473c134 5215 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
5216 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5217
5218 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
5219 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
5220 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
5221 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 5222DOC_END
5223
5473c134 5224NAME: forwarded_for
5225COMMENT: on|off
5226TYPE: onoff
5227DEFAULT: on
5228LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 5229DOC_START
5473c134 5230 If set, Squid will include your system's IP address or name
5231 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like
5232 this:
5f8252d2 5233
5473c134 5234 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
5235
5236 If you disable this, it will appear as
5237
5238 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
5f8252d2 5239DOC_END
5240
5473c134 5241NAME: cachemgr_passwd
5242TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
5243DEFAULT: none
5244LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 5245DOC_START
5473c134 5246 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 5247
5473c134 5248 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
5249
5250 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
5251 5min
5252 60min
5253 asndb
5254 authenticator
5255 cbdata
5256 client_list
5257 comm_incoming
5258 config *
5259 counters
5260 delay
5261 digest_stats
5262 dns
5263 events
5264 filedescriptors
5265 fqdncache
5266 histograms
5267 http_headers
5268 info
5269 io
5270 ipcache
5271 mem
5272 menu
5273 netdb
5274 non_peers
5275 objects
5276 offline_toggle *
5277 pconn
5278 peer_select
5279 redirector
5280 refresh
5281 server_list
5282 shutdown *
5283 store_digest
5284 storedir
5285 utilization
5286 via_headers
5287 vm_objects
5288
5289 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
5290 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
5291
5292 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
5293 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
5294 password to "none".
5295
5296 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
5297
5298Example:
5299 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
5300 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
5301 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 5302DOC_END
5303
5473c134 5304NAME: client_db
a58ff010 5305COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5306TYPE: onoff
5307DEFAULT: on
5308LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 5309DOC_START
5473c134 5310 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
5311 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 5312DOC_END
5313
5473c134 5314NAME: refresh_all_ims
5315COMMENT: on|off
5316TYPE: onoff
5317DEFAULT: off
5318LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 5319DOC_START
5473c134 5320 When you enable this option, squid will always check
5321 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
5322 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
5323 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
5324 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 5325
5473c134 5326 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
5327 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 5328DOC_END
5329
5473c134 5330NAME: reload_into_ims
5331IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 5332COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 5333TYPE: onoff
5334DEFAULT: off
5335LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 5336DOC_START
5473c134 5337 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
5338 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
5339 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
5340 feature could make you liable for problems which it
5341 causes.
5342
5343 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 5344DOC_END
5345
5473c134 5346NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
5347TYPE: int
5348LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
5349DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 5350DOC_START
5473c134 5351 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
5352 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
5353 each address is tried once).
5354
5355 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
5356 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
5357 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
5358
5359 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
5360 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 5361DOC_END
5362
5473c134 5363NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 5364TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5365LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 5366DEFAULT: off
5367DOC_START
5473c134 5368 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
5369 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
5370 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
5371 control errors.
5f8252d2 5372DOC_END
5373
5473c134 5374NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 5375TYPE: string
5473c134 5376LOC: Config.as_whois_server
5377DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5378DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 5379DOC_START
5473c134 5380 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
5381 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 5382DOC_END
5383
5473c134 5384NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 5385TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5386LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 5387DEFAULT: off
5388DOC_START
5473c134 5389 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
5390 objects.
a58ff010 5391DOC_END
5392
5473c134 5393NAME: uri_whitespace
5394TYPE: uri_whitespace
5395LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
5396DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 5397DOC_START
5473c134 5398 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
5399 URI. Options:
a58ff010 5400
5473c134 5401 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
5402 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
5403 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
5404 Request" message.
5405 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
5406 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
5407 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
5408 are in use.
5409 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
5410 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
5411 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
5412 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
5413 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
5414 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
5415 violation.
5416DOC_END
a58ff010 5417
5473c134 5418NAME: coredump_dir
5419TYPE: string
5420LOC: Config.coredump_dir
5421DEFAULT: none
5422DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
5423DOC_START
5424 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
5425 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
5426 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
5427 and coredump files will be left there.
a58ff010 5428
5473c134 5429NOCOMMENT_START
5430# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
5431coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
5432NOCOMMENT_END
5433DOC_END
a58ff010 5434
5473c134 5435NAME: chroot
5436TYPE: string
5437LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 5438DEFAULT: none
5439DOC_START
5473c134 5440 Use this to have Squid do a chroot() while initializing. This
5441 also causes Squid to fully drop root privileges after
5442 initializing. This means, for example, if you use a HTTP
5443 port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you will may get an
5444 error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5445DOC_END
a58ff010 5446
5473c134 5447NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
5448TYPE: onoff
5449LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 5450DEFAULT: off
5473c134 5451DOC_START
cc192b50 5452 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
5453 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
5454 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
5455
5473c134 5456 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
5457 found not to preserve user session state across requests
5458 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 5459
cc192b50 5460 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 5461DOC_END
5462
5473c134 5463NAME: pipeline_prefetch
5464TYPE: onoff
5465LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
5466DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 5467DOC_START
5473c134 5468 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
5469 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
5470 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 5471
5473c134 5472 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
5473 reasons.
5474DOC_END
a58ff010 5475
5473c134 5476NAME: high_response_time_warning
5477TYPE: int
5478COMMENT: (msec)
5479LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
5480DEFAULT: 0
5481DOC_START
5482 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
5483 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
5484 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 5485DOC_END
5486
5473c134 5487NAME: high_page_fault_warning
5488TYPE: int
5489LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
5490DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 5491DOC_START
5473c134 5492 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
5493 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5494 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
5495 per second.
5496DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5497
5473c134 5498NAME: high_memory_warning
5499TYPE: b_size_t
5500LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 5501DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 5502DOC_START
5503 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 5504 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 5505 the administrators attention.
5506DOC_END
cc9f92d4 5507
5473c134 5508NAME: sleep_after_fork
5509COMMENT: (microseconds)
5510TYPE: int
5511LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
5512DEFAULT: 0
5513DOC_START
5514 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
5515 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
5516 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
5517 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
5518 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
5519 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
5520 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
5521 until all the child processes have been started.
5522 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
5523 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 5524DOC_END
5525
cccac0a2 5526EOF