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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
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106
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107# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
108NAME: broken_vary_encoding
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
112DOC_END
113
114NAME: cache_vary
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
118DOC_END
119
120NAME: collapsed_forwarding
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3. see http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3495
124DOC_END
125
126NAME: error_map
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
130DOC_END
131
132NAME: external_refresh_check
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_START
135 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
136DOC_END
137
138NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
139TYPE: obsolete
140DOC_START
141 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
142DOC_END
143
144NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
145TYPE: obsolete
146DOC_START
147 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
148DOC_END
149
150NAME: refresh_stale_hit
151TYPE: obsolete
152DOC_START
153 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
154DOC_END
155
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156# no Options Removed in 3.3
157
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158# Options Removed in 3.2
159NAME: ignore_expect_100
160TYPE: obsolete
161DOC_START
162 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
163DOC_END
164
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165NAME: dns_v4_fallback
166TYPE: obsolete
167DOC_START
4ded749e 168 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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169DOC_END
170
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171NAME: ftp_list_width
172TYPE: obsolete
173DOC_START
174 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
175DOC_END
176
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177NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
178TYPE: obsolete
179DOC_START
180 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
181DOC_END
182
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183NAME: update_headers
184TYPE: obsolete
185DOC_START
186 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
187DOC_END
188
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189NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
190TYPE: obsolete
191DOC_START
192 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
193DOC_END
194
195# Options Removed in 3.1
196NAME: dns_testnames
197TYPE: obsolete
198DOC_START
199 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
200DOC_END
201
202NAME: extension_methods
203TYPE: obsolete
204DOC_START
205 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
206DOC_END
207
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208# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
209NAME: zero_buffers
210TYPE: obsolete
211DOC_NONE
212
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213# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
214NAME: incoming_rate
215TYPE: obsolete
216DOC_NONE
217
218NAME: server_http11
219TYPE: obsolete
220DOC_START
221 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
222DOC_END
223
224NAME: upgrade_http0.9
225TYPE: obsolete
226DOC_START
227 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
228DOC_END
229
230NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
231TYPE: obsolete
232DOC_START
233 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
234DOC_END
235
236# Options Removed in 3.0
237NAME: header_access
238TYPE: obsolete
239DOC_START
240 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
241 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
242DOC_END
243
244NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
245TYPE: obsolete
246DOC_START
247 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
248DOC_END
249
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250NAME: wais_relay_host
251TYPE: obsolete
252DOC_START
253 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
254DOC_END
255
256NAME: wais_relay_port
257TYPE: obsolete
258DOC_START
259 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
260DOC_END
261
5473c134 262COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 263 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 264 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
265COMMENT_END
266
41bd17a4 267NAME: auth_param
268TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 269IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 270LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 271DEFAULT: none
272DOC_START
41bd17a4 273 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
274 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 275
41bd17a4 276 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 277
41bd17a4 278 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
279 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
280 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
281 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
282 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
283 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
284 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
285 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
286 program entry).
cccac0a2 287
41bd17a4 288 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
289 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
290 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
291 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 292
41bd17a4 293 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
294 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
295 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
296 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
297 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
298 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
299 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
300 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
301 type acl.
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41bd17a4 303 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
304 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
305 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
306 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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307 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
308 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 309
41bd17a4 310 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 311
41bd17a4 312 "program" cmdline
313 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
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314 reads a line containing "username password" and replies with one of
315 three results:
316
317 OK
318 the user exists.
319
320 ERR
321 the user does not exist.
322
323 BH
4ded749e 324 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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325 a result being identified.
326
327 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
328 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
329
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330 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
331 proxy_auth.
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41bd17a4 333 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
334 program is specified.
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41bd17a4 336 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
337 this line to something like
307b83b7 338
41bd17a4 339 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 340
d2a89ac1 341 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 342 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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343 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
344 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
345 username & password to the helper.
346
7353861b 347 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 348 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 349 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
350 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
351 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
352 authenticator processes.
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353
354 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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355 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
356 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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357 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
358 the maximum.
359
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360 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
361 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
362 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
363 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
364 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 365 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
41bd17a4 366 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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367
368 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 369
41bd17a4 370 "realm" realmstring
371 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
372 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
373 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
374 password). There is no default.
375 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 376
41bd17a4 377 "credentialsttl" timetolive
378 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
379 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
380 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
381 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
382 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
383 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
384 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
385 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
386 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 387
41bd17a4 388 "casesensitive" on|off
389 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
390 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
391 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
392 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
393 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 394
41bd17a4 395 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 396
41bd17a4 397 "program" cmdline
398 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
399 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
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400 replies with one of three results:
401
402 OK ha1="..."
403 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
404 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
405 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
406
407 ERR
408 the user does not exist.
409
410 BH
4ded749e 411 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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412 a result being identified.
413
414 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
415 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 416
41bd17a4 417 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
418 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 419
41bd17a4 420 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
421 something like
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7ce93108 423 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 424
d2a89ac1 425 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 426 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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427 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
428 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
429 username & password to the helper.
430
7353861b 431 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 432 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 433 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
434 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
435 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
436 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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437
438 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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439 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
440 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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441 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
442 the maximum.
443
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444 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
445 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
446 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
447 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
448 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 449 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
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450 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
451
48d54e4d 452 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 453
41bd17a4 454 "realm" realmstring
455 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
456 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
457 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
458 password). There is no default.
459 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 460
41bd17a4 461 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
462 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
463 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 464
41bd17a4 465 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
466 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
467 valid for.
cccac0a2 468
41bd17a4 469 "nonce_max_count" number
470 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
471 used.
cccac0a2 472
41bd17a4 473 "nonce_strictness" on|off
474 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
475 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
4ded749e 476 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
41bd17a4 477 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 478
41bd17a4 479 "check_nonce_count" on|off
480 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
481 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
482 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
483 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 484
41bd17a4 485 "post_workaround" on|off
486 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
487 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
488 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 489
41bd17a4 490 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 491
41bd17a4 492 "program" cmdline
493 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
494 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
495 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
496 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
5269ec0e 497 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
41bd17a4 498 is not used.
cccac0a2 499
41bd17a4 500 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 501
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502 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
503 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 504 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
505 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
506 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
507 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
508 processes.
cccac0a2 509
48d54e4d 510 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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511 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
512 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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513 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
514 the maximum.
515
516 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 517
41bd17a4 518 "keep_alive" on|off
519 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
520 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
521 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
522 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
523 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 524
41bd17a4 525 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 526
41bd17a4 527 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 528
41bd17a4 529 "program" cmdline
530 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
531 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
532 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
533 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
534 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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535 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
536 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
5269ec0e 537 authenticator program is not used.
41bd17a4 538 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
539 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 540
41bd17a4 541 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 542
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543 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
544 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 545 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
546 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
4ded749e 547 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
41bd17a4 548 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
549 processes.
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550
551 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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552 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
553 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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554 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
555 the maximum.
556
557 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
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41bd17a4 559 "keep_alive" on|off
560 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
561 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
562 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
563 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
564 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 565
41bd17a4 566 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 567
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569 Examples:
570
41bd17a4 571#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
572#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 573#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 574#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 575#
41bd17a4 576#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 577#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 578#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 579#
41bd17a4 580#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 581#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 582#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
583#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
584#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
585#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 586#
41bd17a4 587#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 588#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 589#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
590#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 591DOC_END
cccac0a2 592
41bd17a4 593NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
594TYPE: time_t
595DEFAULT: 1 hour
596LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
597DOC_START
598 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 599 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 600 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
601 have good reason to.
602DOC_END
cccac0a2 603
41bd17a4 604NAME: authenticate_ttl
605TYPE: time_t
606DEFAULT: 1 hour
607LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
608DOC_START
609 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
610 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
611 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
612 TTL are removed from memory.
613DOC_END
cccac0a2 614
41bd17a4 615NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
616TYPE: time_t
617LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 618DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 619DOC_START
620 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
621 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
622 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
623 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 624 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 625 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
626 environment with relatively static address assignments.
627DOC_END
cccac0a2 628
3d1e3e43 629COMMENT_START
630 ACCESS CONTROLS
631 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
632COMMENT_END
633
41bd17a4 634NAME: external_acl_type
635TYPE: externalAclHelper
636LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 637DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 638DOC_START
41bd17a4 639 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
640 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 642 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 643
41bd17a4 644 Options:
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41bd17a4 646 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
647 for 1 hour)
648 negative_ttl=n
649 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
650 as ttl)
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651 children-max=n
652 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
653 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
654 children-startup=n
655 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
656 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
657 of this type. (default 0)
658 children-idle=n
659 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
660 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
661 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
662 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 663 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
664 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 665 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 666 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
667 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 668 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 669 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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670 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
671 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 673 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 675 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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676 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
677 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
678 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 679 %IDENT Ident user name
680 %SRC Client IP
681 %SRCPORT Client source port
682 %URI Requested URI
683 %DST Requested host
684 %PROTO Requested protocol
685 %PORT Requested port
686 %PATH Requested URL path
687 %METHOD Request method
688 %MYADDR Squid interface address
689 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
690 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
691 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
692 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
693 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
694 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 695
c68c9682 696 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 697 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 698 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 699 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 700 HTTP request header list member using ; as
701 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
702 character.
cccac0a2 703
c68c9682 704 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 705 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 706 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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707 %<{Hdr:;member}
708 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
709 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
710 character.
711
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712 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
713 an unchanging input format.
714
cccac0a2 715
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716 General request syntax:
717
718 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
719
720
721 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
722 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
723 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
724
725 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
726 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
727
728 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
729 each value in requests against whitespaces.
730
731 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
732 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
733
734 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
735
736 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
737 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
738 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
739 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
740 of the response relating to its request.
741
742
743 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
744 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
745 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
746
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41bd17a4 748 General result syntax:
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750 [channel-ID] result keyword=value ...
751
752 Result consists of one of the codes:
753
754 OK
755 the ACL test produced a match.
756
757 ERR
758 the ACL test does not produce a match.
759
760 BH
4ded749e 761 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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762 a result being identified.
763
764 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
765 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 767 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 769 user= The users name (login)
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41bd17a4 771 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
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05e52854 773 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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774 Available as %o in error pages.
775 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
776
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777 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
778 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 780 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 781 %ea in logformat specifications.
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05e52854 783 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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785 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
786 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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787 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
788 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
789 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 790
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791 Some example key values:
792
5269ec0e 793 user=John%20Smith
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794 user="John Smith"
795 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 796DOC_END
797
41bd17a4 798NAME: acl
799TYPE: acl
800LOC: Config.aclList
38450a50 801IF USE_SSL
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802DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
803DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
804DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
805DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
806DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
807ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 808DEFAULT: all src all
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809DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
810DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
811DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
812DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 813DOC_START
41bd17a4 814 Defining an Access List
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816 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
817 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
818 they are read from.
cccac0a2 819
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820 acl aclname acltype argument ...
821 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 822
375eeb3b 823 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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826 The available options are:
827
828 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
829 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
830 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
831 without -i.
832
833 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
834 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
835 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
836 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
837 without any warnings or lookups.
838
839 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
840 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
841 is a valid domain name)
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844 to access some external data source.
845 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
846 don't are marked as [fast].
847 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
848 for further information
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850 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
851
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852 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
853 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 854 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 855 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 856
41bd17a4 857 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
858 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
859 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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860 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
861 # other *BSD variants.
862 # [fast]
41bd17a4 863 #
864 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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866 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
867
868 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
869 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 870 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 871 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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873 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 874 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 875 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 876 #
41bd17a4 877 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
878 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
879 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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881 acl aclname src_as number ...
882 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 883 # [fast]
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884 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
885 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
886 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
887 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
888 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
889 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
890 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 891
6db78a1a 892 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 893 # [fast]
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894 # match against a named cache_peer entry
895 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
896
375eeb3b 897 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 898 # [fast]
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900 # S - Sunday
901 # M - Monday
902 # T - Tuesday
903 # W - Wednesday
904 # H - Thursday
905 # F - Friday
906 # A - Saturday
907 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
908
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909 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
910 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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911 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
912 # regex matching on URL login field
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913 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
914 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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916 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
917 # ranges are alloed
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918 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
919 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
920
b3567eb5 921 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
e988aa40 922
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923 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
924
925 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 926
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927 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
928 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 929
375eeb3b 930 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 931 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 933 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 934 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 935 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 937 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 938 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 939 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 940 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
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41bd17a4 942 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
943 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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945 # supplied credentials [slow]
946 #
947 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 948 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
949 #
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951 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
952 #
41bd17a4 953 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
954 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
955 # in access.log.
956 #
957 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
958 # to check username/password combinations (see
959 # auth_param directive).
960 #
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962 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 963 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 964
41bd17a4 965 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 966 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 967 # Example:
968 #
969 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 971 acl aclname maxconn number
972 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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973 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
974 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
975 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 976
41bd17a4 977 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
978 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
979 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 980 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 981 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
982 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
983 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
984 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
985 # request is denied)
986 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
987 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
988 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
cccac0a2 989
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990 acl aclname random probability
991 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
992 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
993 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
994
375eeb3b 995 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 996 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
997 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 998 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 999 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1000 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1002 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1003 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1004 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1005 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1007 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1008 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1009 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1010 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1011 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1012 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1013 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1015 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1016 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1017 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1018 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 1020 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1021 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1022 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 1023
41bd17a4 1024 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1025 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1026 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 1027
41bd17a4 1028 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1029 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1030 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 1031
41bd17a4 1032 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1033 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1034 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1035 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1036
0ab50441 1037 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 1038 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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1041 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1042 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1043 #
1044 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1045 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1046 # http_reply_access.
1047
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1050 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1051 #
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1052 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
1053 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1054 #
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1056 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1057 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1058 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1059 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1060 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1061 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1062 #
1063 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1064 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1065 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1066 #
1067 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1068 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1072 #
1073 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1074 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1075 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1076 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1077 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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1080 Examples:
1081 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1082 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1083 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1084 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1085 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1086
41bd17a4 1087NOCOMMENT_START
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1089# Recommended minimum configuration:
1090#
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ee776778 1092# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1093# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1094# should be allowed
1095acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1096acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1097acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1098acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1099acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1101acl SSL_ports port 443
1102acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1103acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1104acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1105acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1106acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1107acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1108acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1109acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1110acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1111acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1112acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1113NOCOMMENT_END
1114DOC_END
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1116NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1117TYPE: acl_access
1118IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1119LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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1121DOC_START
1122 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1123 find the original source of a request.
1124
1125 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1126 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1127 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1128 rightmost address being the most recent.
1129
1130 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1131 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1132 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1134 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1135 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1136 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1137 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1138 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1140 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1141 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1142 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1143 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1145 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1148 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1149
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1150 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1151
1152 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1153 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1154 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1155 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1156 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1157 based on the client's source addresses.
1158
1159 For example:
1160
1161 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1162 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1163 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1164 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1165DOC_END
1166
1167NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1168COMMENT: on|off
1169TYPE: onoff
1170IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1171DEFAULT: on
1172LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1173DOC_START
1174 Controls whether the indirect client address
1175 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1176 direct client address in acl matching.
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1178 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1179 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1181
1182NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1183COMMENT: on|off
1184TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1185IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1187LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1188DOC_START
1189 Controls whether the indirect client address
1190 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1191 direct client address in delay pools.
1192DOC_END
1193
1194NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1195COMMENT: on|off
1196TYPE: onoff
1197IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1198DEFAULT: on
1199LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1200DOC_START
1201 Controls whether the indirect client address
1202 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1203 direct client address in the access log.
1204DOC_END
1205
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1206NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1207COMMENT: on|off
1208TYPE: onoff
1209IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1210DEFAULT: off
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1211LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1212DOC_START
1213 Controls whether the indirect client address
1214 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1215 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1217 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1218 mode ports.
1219
1220 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1221 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1222 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1223 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1225
41bd17a4 1226NAME: http_access
1227TYPE: acl_access
1228LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1229DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1230DOC_START
1231 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1232
41bd17a4 1233 Access to the HTTP port:
1234 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1235
41bd17a4 1236 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1237
41bd17a4 1238 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1239 the request.
cccac0a2 1240
41bd17a4 1241 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1242 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1243 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1244 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1246 lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 1247
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1249 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1250
41bd17a4 1251NOCOMMENT_START
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1253#
1254# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1255#
e0855596 1256# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1257http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1259# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1260http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
e0855596 1261
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1263http_access allow localhost manager
1264http_access deny manager
1265
41bd17a4 1266# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1267# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1268# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1269#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1271#
1272# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1273#
c8f4eac4 1274
ee776778 1275# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1276# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1277# from where browsing should be allowed
1278http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1279http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1280
41bd17a4 1281# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1282http_access deny all
1283NOCOMMENT_END
1284DOC_END
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1286NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1287TYPE: acl_access
1288LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1289DEFAULT: none
1290DOC_START
1291 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1292
1293 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1294 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1295 output.
1296
1297 If not set then only http_access is used.
1298DOC_END
1299
41bd17a4 1300NAME: http_reply_access
1301TYPE: acl_access
1302LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1303DEFAULT: none
1304DOC_START
1305 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1306
41bd17a4 1307 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1308
41bd17a4 1309 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1310 all replies
1a224843 1311
41bd17a4 1312 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1313 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1314 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1316 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1317 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1318DOC_END
1319
41bd17a4 1320NAME: icp_access
1321TYPE: acl_access
1322LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1323DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1324DOC_START
41bd17a4 1325 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1326 access lists
5473c134 1327
41bd17a4 1328 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1329
41bd17a4 1330 See http_access for details
1331
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1333 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1335# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1337#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1338DOC_END
1339
41bd17a4 1340NAME: htcp_access
1341IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1342TYPE: acl_access
1343LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1344DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1345DOC_START
41bd17a4 1346 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1347 access lists
5473c134 1348
41bd17a4 1349 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1350
41bd17a4 1351 See http_access for details
5473c134 1352
0b48417e 1353 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1354 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1355 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1356
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1358 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1360# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1362#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1363DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1365NAME: htcp_clr_access
1366IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1367TYPE: acl_access
1368LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1369DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1370DOC_START
1371 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1372 on defined access lists
5473c134 1373
41bd17a4 1374 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1375
41bd17a4 1376 See http_access for details
5473c134 1377
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1379 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1381# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1382acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1383htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1384DOC_END
1385
41bd17a4 1386NAME: miss_access
1387TYPE: acl_access
1388LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1389DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1390DOC_START
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1391 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1392
1393 For example;
1394 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1395 a parent.
5473c134 1396
41bd17a4 1397 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1398 miss_access allow localclients
1399 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1400
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1401 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1402 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1403 objects (HITs).
1404
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1407 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1409 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1410 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1411DOC_END
1412
1413NAME: ident_lookup_access
1414TYPE: acl_access
1415IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1416DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1417LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1418DOC_START
41bd17a4 1419 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1420 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1421 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1422 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1423 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1424 any requests.
5473c134 1425
41bd17a4 1426 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1427 can follow this example:
5473c134 1428
4daaf3cb 1429 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1430 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1431 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1432
4daaf3cb 1433 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1434 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1435 the correct result.
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1437 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1438 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1439DOC_END
5473c134 1440
5b0f5383 1441NAME: reply_body_max_size
1442COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1443TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1444DEFAULT: none
1445LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1446DOC_START
1447 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1448 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1449 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1450 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1451 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1452 for this reply.
1453
1454 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1455 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1456 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1457 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1458 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1459 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1460 and they will receive a partial reply.
1461
1462 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1463 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1464 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1465 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1466
1467 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1468 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1469 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1470 the size of your largest error page.
1471
1472 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1473 no limit imposed.
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1475 Configuration Format is:
1476 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1477 ie.
1478 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1479
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1481
1482COMMENT_START
1483 NETWORK OPTIONS
1484 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1485COMMENT_END
1486
1487NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1488TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1489DEFAULT: none
1490LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1491DOC_START
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1492 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1493 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1494 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1495
1496 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1497 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1498 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1499 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1500 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1501 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1502 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1503
1504 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1505 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1506
1507 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1508 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1509 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1510
1511 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1512
c7b1dd5d 1513 Modes:
5b0f5383 1514
e77bdb4e 1515 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1516 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1517 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1518
1519 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1520 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1521 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1522
7f45065d 1523 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1524
caf3666d 1525 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1526 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1527 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1529 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1530
7a957a93 1531 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1532 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1534 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1535
1536
1537 Accelerator Mode Options:
1538
5b0f5383 1539 defaultsite=domainname
1540 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1541 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1542 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1543
cf673853 1544 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1545
1546 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1548 https_port
5b0f5383 1549
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1551 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1552
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1553 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1554 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1555
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1557 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1558 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1559 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1560
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1562
7f45065d 1563 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1565
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1567 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1568 never_direct was used.
1569
1570 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1571 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1572 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1573 http_access rules when using this.
1574
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1576 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1578
1579 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1580 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1581 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1582 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1583 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1584 certificate will be selfsigned.
1585 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1586 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1587 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1588 years.
1589 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1590 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1591
1592 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1593 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1594 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1595 default value is 4MB.
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1597 TLS / SSL Options:
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1599 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1600
1601 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1602 if not specified, the certificate file is
1603 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1604 key file.
1605
1606 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1607 1 automatic (default)
1608 2 SSLv2 only
1609 3 SSLv3 only
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1610 4 TLSv1.0 only
1611 5 TLSv1.1 only
1612 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1614 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1616 additional settings. If those settings are
1617 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1618 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1619
943c5f16 1620 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1621 being:
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1622 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1623 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1624 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1625 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1626 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1627 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1628 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1630 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1631 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1632 strength to some attacks.
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1633 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1634 complete list of options.
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1636 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1637 requesting a client certificate.
1638
1639 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1640 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1641 clientca will be used.
1642
1643 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1644 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1645
1646 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1647 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1648 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1649
1650 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1652 on how to create this file.
1653 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1654 option is not set.
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1655
1656 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1657 DELAYED_AUTH
1658 Don't request client certificates
1659 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1660 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1661 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1662 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1663 to OpenSSL.
1664 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1665 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1666 will result in a new SSL session.
1667 VERIFY_CRL
1668 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1669 certificates.
1670 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1671 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1672 client certificate chain.
1673
1674 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1675
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1677
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1679 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1680 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1682
5b0f5383 1683 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1684 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1685 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1686 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1687 support is enabled.
1688 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1689
1690 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1691 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1692 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1693 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1694 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1695 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1696 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1697 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1698
81b6e9a7 1699 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1700 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1701
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1704 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1705 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1706 timeout the time before giving up.
1707
5b0f5383 1708 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1709 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1710 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1711 visible on the internal address.
1712
1713NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1715# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1716http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1717NOCOMMENT_END
1718DOC_END
1719
1720NAME: https_port
1721IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1722TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1723DEFAULT: none
1724LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1725DOC_START
7f45065d 1726 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1727
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1729 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1730
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1732 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1733
1734 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1735 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1736
7f45065d 1737 Modes:
5b0f5383 1738
7f45065d 1739 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1740
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1742 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1743 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1744
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1746 connections using the client IP address.
1747 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1748
caf3666d 1749 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1750 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1751 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1753 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1754
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1756 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
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38450a50 1758 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1759
7f45065d 1760 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
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1764
1765
1766 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1767
1768 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1769
1770 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1771 if not specified, the certificate file is
1772 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1773 key file.
1774
1775 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1776 1 automatic (default)
1777 2 SSLv2 only
1778 3 SSLv3 only
1779 4 TLSv1 only
1780
1781 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1782
1783 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1784 being:
1785 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1786 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1787 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1788 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1789 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1790 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1791 documentation for a complete list of options.
1792
1793 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1794 requesting a client certificate.
1795
1796 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1797 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1798 clientca will be used.
1799
1800 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1801 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1802
1803 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1804 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1805 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1806
1807 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1808 DH key exchanges.
1809
1810 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1811 DELAYED_AUTH
1812 Don't request client certificates
1813 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1814 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1815 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1816 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1817 to OpenSSL.
1818 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1819 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1820 will result in a new SSL session.
1821 VERIFY_CRL
1822 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1823 certificates.
1824 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1825 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1826 client certificate chain.
1827
1828 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1829
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1831 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1832 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1833 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1834 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1835 certificate will be selfsigned.
1836 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1837 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1838 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1839 years.
1840 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1841 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1842
1843 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1844 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1845 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1846 default value is 4MB.
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859741ed 1848 See http_port for a list of available options.
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1850
41bd17a4 1851NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1852TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1853DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1854LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1855DOC_START
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1857 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1858
41bd17a4 1859 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1860
41bd17a4 1861 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1862 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1865 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1866 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1867 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1868
41bd17a4 1869 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1871 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1872
41bd17a4 1873 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1874 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1876 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1877
41bd17a4 1878 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1879 matching line.
cccac0a2 1880DOC_END
1881
41bd17a4 1882NAME: clientside_tos
1883TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1884DEFAULT: none
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1886DOC_START
1887 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1888 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1889
1890 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1891
1892 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1893 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1894
1895 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1896 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1897 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1898 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1899
1900 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1901 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1902DOC_END
1903
1904NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1905TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1906IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1908LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1909DOC_START
1910 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1911 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1912
1913 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1914
1915 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1916 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1917
1918 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1919 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1920 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1921 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1922DOC_END
1923
1924NAME: clientside_mark
1925TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1926IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1928LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1929DOC_START
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1930 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1931 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1932
1933 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1934
1935 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1936 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1937
1938 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1939 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1940 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1941 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1942
1943 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1944 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1945DOC_END
cccac0a2 1946
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1948TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1949IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1950DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1951LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1952DOC_START
575cb927 1953 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1955 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1956 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1957
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1958 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
1959 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1960 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
7172612f 1961
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1963 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1964 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1965
1966 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1967
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1969
1970 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1972 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1973
1974 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1975
1976 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1977
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1979 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1980 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1981 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 1982
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1984 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1985 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1986 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1987 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1988
575cb927 1989 disable-preserve-miss
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1991 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1992 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1993 and masked with miss-mark.
1994 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1995 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1996 (MARK target).
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1998 miss-mask=0xFF
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2000 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2001 the TOS sent towards clients.
2002 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2003 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2004
2005 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2006 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2007 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2008 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2011
41bd17a4 2012NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2013TYPE: acl_address
2014DEFAULT: none
2015LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2016DOC_START
2017 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2018 based on the username or source address of the user making
2019 the request.
7f7db318 2020
41bd17a4 2021 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2024 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2027 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2028
2029 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2030 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2031
2032 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2033 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2034
2035 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2036 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
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41bd17a4 2038 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2039 matching line.
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2042 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2043 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2044
2045
2046 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2047 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2048 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2049 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2050
2dd51400 2051 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2052 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2054 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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2059TYPE: onoff
2060DEFAULT: off
2061LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2062DOC_START
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2064 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2065 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2067 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2068 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2069 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2071 When set to ON:
2072 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2073 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2074
2075 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2076 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2077 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2078 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2079 and Request-URI components:
2080
2081 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2082 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2083 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2084 or FQDN.
2085
2086 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2087 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2088
2089
2090 When set to OFF (the default):
2091 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2092 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2093
2094 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2095
2096 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2097
2098 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2099 according to client_dst_passthru.
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2102 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2103 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2105 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2106 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2107
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2111 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2112 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2113 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2114 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2115
2116 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2117 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2118 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2119 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2120 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2122DOC_END
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2124NAME: client_dst_passthru
2125TYPE: onoff
2126DEFAULT: on
2127LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2128DOC_START
2129 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2130 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2131 source using the HTTP Host header.
2132
2133 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2134 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2135 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2136 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2137
2138 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2139 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2140 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2141
2142 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2143 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2144 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2145
2146 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2147DOC_END
2148
41bd17a4 2149COMMENT_START
2150 SSL OPTIONS
2151 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2152COMMENT_END
2153
2154NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
2155IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2156TYPE: onoff
2157DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2158LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2159DOC_START
41bd17a4 2160 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2161 messages.
cccac0a2 2162DOC_END
2163
41bd17a4 2164NAME: ssl_engine
2165IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2166TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2167LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2168DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2169DOC_START
41bd17a4 2170 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2171 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2172DOC_END
2173
41bd17a4 2174NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2175IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2176DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2177LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2178TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2179DOC_START
41bd17a4 2180 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2181DOC_END
2182
41bd17a4 2183NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2184IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2185DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2186LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2187TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2188DOC_START
41bd17a4 2189 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2190DOC_END
2191
41bd17a4 2192NAME: sslproxy_version
2193IFDEF: USE_SSL
2194DEFAULT: 1
2195LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2196TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2197DOC_START
41bd17a4 2198 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2200 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2201
2202 1 automatic (default)
2203 2 SSLv2 only
2204 3 SSLv3 only
2205 4 TLSv1.0 only
2206 5 TLSv1.1 only
2207 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2208DOC_END
2209
41bd17a4 2210NAME: sslproxy_options
2211IFDEF: USE_SSL
2212DEFAULT: none
2213LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2214TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2215DOC_START
943c5f16 2216 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2218 The most important being:
2219
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2220 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2221 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2222 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2223 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2224 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2226 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2227 DH key exchanges
2228 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2229 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2230 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2231 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2232 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2233 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2234 strength to some attacks.
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2237 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2238DOC_END
2239
41bd17a4 2240NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2241IFDEF: USE_SSL
2242DEFAULT: none
2243LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2244TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2245DOC_START
41bd17a4 2246 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2248 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2249DOC_END
2250
41bd17a4 2251NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2252IFDEF: USE_SSL
2253DEFAULT: none
2254LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2255TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2256DOC_START
41bd17a4 2257 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2258 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2259DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2261NAME: sslproxy_capath
2262IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2263DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2264LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2265TYPE: string
5473c134 2266DOC_START
41bd17a4 2267 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2268 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2269DOC_END
2270
4c9da963 2271NAME: ssl_bump
2272IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2273TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2274LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2275DEFAULT: none
2276DOC_START
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2278 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2279 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2280 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2281 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2282 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2283
2284 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2285
2286 The following bumping modes are supported:
2287
2288 client-first
2289 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2290 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2291 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2292 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2293
2294 server-first
2295 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2296 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2297 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2298 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2299
2300 none
2301 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2302 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2303 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2304 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2305
2306 By default, no connections are bumped.
2307
2308 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2309 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2310 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2311 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2312 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2313
e0c0d54c 2314 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2315 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2318
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2321 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2322
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2325 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2326 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2327DOC_END
2328
41bd17a4 2329NAME: sslproxy_flags
2330IFDEF: USE_SSL
2331DEFAULT: none
2332LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2333TYPE: string
5473c134 2334DOC_START
41bd17a4 2335 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2336 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2337 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2338 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2339 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2340DOC_END
2341
4c9da963 2342NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2343IFDEF: USE_SSL
2344DEFAULT: none
2345LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2346TYPE: acl_access
2347DOC_START
2348 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2349
2350 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2351 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2352 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2353
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2355 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2356 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2357
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2358 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2359 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2360 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
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2362 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2363 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2364 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2365 the connection may be insecure.
2366
2367 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2368
e0855596 2369 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
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2371
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2372NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2373IFDEF: USE_SSL
2374DEFAULT: none
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2375POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2376POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2377POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2378TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2379LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2380DOC_START
2381
69742b76 2382 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
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69742b76 2384 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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2386 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2387 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2388 default for trusted origin server certificates.
aebe6888 2389 signUntrusted
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2390 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2391 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2392 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2393 signSelf
69742b76 2394 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2395 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2396 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2397 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2399 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2400
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2401 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2402 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2403 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2404 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2405 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2407 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2408 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2409 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2410 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2411 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2412 bump-server-first is used.
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2414
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2415NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2416IFDEF: USE_SSL
2417DEFAULT: none
2418TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2419LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2420DOC_START
2421
2422 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2423
69742b76 2424 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
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2426 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
2427 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
fb2178bb 2428 setValidBefore
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2430 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2431 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2432 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2433 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2434 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2435 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2436 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2438 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2439
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2440 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2441 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2442 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2443 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2444 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2445 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2447 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2448 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2449 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2450 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2451 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2452 bump-server-first is used.
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2454
41bd17a4 2455NAME: sslpassword_program
2456IFDEF: USE_SSL
2457DEFAULT: none
2458LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2459TYPE: string
5473c134 2460DOC_START
41bd17a4 2461 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2462 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2463 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2464 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2466 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2467 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2468 keys.
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2470
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2472 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2473 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2474COMMENT_END
2475
2476NAME: sslcrtd_program
2477TYPE: eol
2478IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2479DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2480LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2481DOC_START
2482 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2483 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2484 For more information use:
2485 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2486DOC_END
2487
2488NAME: sslcrtd_children
2489TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2490IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2491DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2492LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2493DOC_START
2494 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2495 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2496
2497 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2498 tuning.
2499
2500 startup=N
2501
2502 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2503 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2504 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2505
2506 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2507 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2508
2509 idle=N
2510
2511 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2512 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2513 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2514 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2515
2516 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2517DOC_END
2518
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2519NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
2520TYPE: eol
2521IFDEF: USE_SSL
2522DEFAULT: none
2523LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2524DOC_START
2525 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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2527 sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
2528
2529 Options:
2530 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results.The default is 60 secs
2531 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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2533
2534NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2535TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2536IFDEF: USE_SSL
413bb969 2537DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2538LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2539DOC_START
2540 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2541 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2542
2543 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2544 tuning.
2545
2546 startup=N
2547
2548 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2549 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2550 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2551
2552 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2553 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2554
2555 idle=N
2556
2557 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2558 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2559 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2560 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2562 concurrency=
2563
2564 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2565 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the certficate validator
2566 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2567
2568 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2569 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2570 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2571 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2572 to that request.
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2574 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2575DOC_END
2576
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41bd17a4 2578 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2579 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2580COMMENT_END
2581
41bd17a4 2582NAME: cache_peer
2583TYPE: peer
2584DEFAULT: none
2585LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2586DOC_START
41bd17a4 2587 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 2588
41bd17a4 2589 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2590
41bd17a4 2591 For example,
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41bd17a4 2593 # proxy icp
2594 # hostname type port port options
2595 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2596 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2597 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2598 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2599 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2600 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2601
2602 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2603
2604 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2605 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2606 For web servers this is usually 80
2607
2608 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2609 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2610 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2611
2612
2613 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2614
2615 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2616 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2617
2618
2619 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2620
2621 multicast-responder
2622 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2623 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2624 replies will be accepted from it.
2625
2626 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2627 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2628
2629 background-ping
2630 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2631 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2632 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2633
2634
2635 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2636
2637 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2638 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2639
2640
2641 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2642 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2644 list of options described below.
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18191440 2646 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2647
18191440 2648 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2649 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2650 only-clr.
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2652 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2653 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2654
18191440 2655 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2656 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2657 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2658
18191440 2659 htcp=forward-clr
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2660 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2661
2662
2663 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2664
2665 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2666 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2667
2668
2669 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2670 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2671 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2672
2673 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2674 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2675 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2676
2677 weighted-round-robin
2678 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2679 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2680 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2681 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2682 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2683
2684 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2685 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2686 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2687
2688 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2689
2690 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2691
2692 multicast-siblings
2693 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2694 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2695 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2696 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2697 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2698 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2699 members of the same multicast group.
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2700
2701
2702 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2703
2704 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2705 peer-selection mechanisms.
2706 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2707 larger weights are favored more.
2708 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2709 protocol is not in use.
2710
2711 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2712 times of parents.
2713 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2714 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2715 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2716
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2717 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2718 to this address.
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2719 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2720 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2721 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2722 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2723
2724 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2725 delay pools.
2726
2727 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2728 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2729 than the Squid default location.
2730
2731
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2733
2734 carp-key=key-specification
2735 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2736 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2737 scheme, host, port, path, params
2738 Order is not important.
2739
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2740 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2741
2742 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2743 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2744 is a web server.
2745
2746 forceddomain=name
2747 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2748 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2749 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2750 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2751
2752 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2753
2754 no-netdb-exchange
2755 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2756
2757
2758 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2759
2760 login=user:password
2761 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2762 requires proxy authentication.
2763
2764 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2765 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2766
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2767 login=PASSTHRU
2768 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2769 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2770 without alteration to the peer.
2771 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2772
2773 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2774 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2775 connection-auth options are also used.
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2777 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2778 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2780 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2781 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2783 they may be sent instead.
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2784
2785 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2786 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2787 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2788 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2789 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2790
2791 login=*:password
2792 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2793 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2794 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2795 needed to identify each user.
2796 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2797 information which is added to the username. This can
2798 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2799 the login=username:password option above.
2800
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2801 login=NEGOTIATE
2802 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2803 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2804 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2805 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2806
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2808 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2809 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2810
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2811 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2812 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2813 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2814 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2815 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2816 used.
2817
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2818 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2819 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2820 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2821
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2822 connection-auth=on|off
2823 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2824 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2825 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2826 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2827 of the peer.
2828
2829
2830 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2831
2832 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2833
2834 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2835 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2836 this peer.
2837
2838 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2839 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2840 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2841 reference a combined file containing both the
2842 certificate and the key.
2843
3d96b0e8 2844 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2845 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2846 1 = automatic (default)
2847 2 = SSL v2 only
2848 3 = SSL v3 only
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2849 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2850 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2851 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2852
2853 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2854 to this peer.
2855
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2857
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2858 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2859 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2860 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2861 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2862 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2863 SINGLE_DH_USE
2864 Always create a new key when using
2865 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2866 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2867 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2868 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2869 strength to some attacks.
2870
2871 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2872 more complete list.
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2873
2874 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2875 when verifying the peer certificate.
2876
2877 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2878 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2879
2880 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2881 verifying the peer certificate.
2882
2883 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2884
41bd17a4 2885 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2886 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2887 verify.
2888 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2889 Don't use the default CA list built in
2890 to OpenSSL.
2891 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2892 Don't verify the peer certificate
2893 matches the server name
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2895 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2896 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2897 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2898 used.
2899
2900 front-end-https
2901 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2902 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2903 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2904 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2905 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2906
2907
2908 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2909
2910 connect-timeout=N
2911 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2912 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2913
2914 connect-fail-limit=N
2915 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2916 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2917
2918 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2919 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2920 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2921 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2922 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2923 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2924 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2925
2926 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2927 peer. see also
2928
2929 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2930 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2931 but different ports.
2932 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2933 directives to dentify the peer.
2934 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2935 peername ACL type.
2936
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2937 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2938 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2939
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2940 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2941
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41bd17a4 2944NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2945TYPE: hostdomain
2946DEFAULT: none
2947LOC: none
2948DOC_START
2949 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2950 queried. Usage:
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41bd17a4 2952 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2953 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2954
41bd17a4 2955 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2957 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
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41bd17a4 2959 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2960 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2961 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2962 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2963 NOT in that domain.
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41bd17a4 2965 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2966 either on the same or separate lines.
2967 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2968 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2969 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2970 for all requests.
2971 * There are no defaults.
2972 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2973 section.
2974DOC_END
dd9b1776 2975
41bd17a4 2976NAME: cache_peer_access
2977TYPE: peer_access
2978DEFAULT: none
2979LOC: none
2980DOC_START
2981 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2982 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2983
41bd17a4 2984 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2985
41bd17a4 2986 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2987 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2988 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2989DOC_END
dd9b1776 2990
41bd17a4 2991NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2992TYPE: hostdomaintype
2993DEFAULT: none
2994LOC: none
2995DOC_START
2996 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2997
41bd17a4 2998 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2999 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 3000 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
3001 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
3002 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
3003 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 3004
41bd17a4 3005EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 3006 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 3007 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
3008 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
3009DOC_END
6bf4f823 3010
41bd17a4 3011NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3012COMMENT: (seconds)
3013DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3014TYPE: time_t
3015LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3016DOC_START
3017 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3018 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3019 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3020 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3021 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3022 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3023
41bd17a4 3024 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3025 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3026 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3027 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3028 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3029 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3030 instead of to your parents.
3031DOC_END
cccac0a2 3032
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3033NAME: forward_max_tries
3034DEFAULT: 10
3035TYPE: int
3036LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3037DOC_START
3038 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3039 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3040
3041 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3042 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3043DOC_END
3044
41bd17a4 3045NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
3046TYPE: wordlist
3047DEFAULT: none
3048LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
3049DOC_START
3050 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
3051 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
3052 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
3053 list this option multiple times.
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3055 Example:
3056 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
3057
3058 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 3059DOC_END
0976f8db 3060
41bd17a4 3061COMMENT_START
3062 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3063 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3064COMMENT_END
3065
3066NAME: cache_mem
3067COMMENT: (bytes)
3068TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3069DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3070LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3071DOC_START
41bd17a4 3072 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3073 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3074 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3075 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3076
3077 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3078 for:
3079 * In-Transit objects
3080 * Hot Objects
3081 * Negative-Cached objects
3082
3083 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3084 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3085 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3086 priority.
3087
3088 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3089 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3090 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3091 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3092 not needed for in-transit objects.
3093
3094 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3095 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3096 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3097 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3098 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3099 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3100 objects.
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3101
3102 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3103 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3104 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3105 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3106DOC_END
0976f8db 3107
41bd17a4 3108NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3109COMMENT: (bytes)
3110TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3111DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3112LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3113DOC_START
41bd17a4 3114 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3115 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3116 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3117 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3118DOC_END
0976f8db 3119
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3120NAME: memory_cache_shared
3121COMMENT: on|off
3122TYPE: YesNoNone
3123LOC: Config.memShared
3124DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3125DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3126DOC_START
3127 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3128
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3129 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3130 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3131 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3132 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3133 caching is enabled).
3134
65b81b27 3135 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3136 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3137 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3138 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3139 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3140
3141 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3142 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3143 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3144
3145 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3146DOC_END
3147
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3148NAME: memory_cache_mode
3149TYPE: memcachemode
3150LOC: Config
3151DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 3152DOC_START
ea21d497 3153 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3154
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3155 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3156
3157 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3158 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3159 a second time before cached in memory.
3160
3161 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3162DOC_END
3163
41bd17a4 3164NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3165TYPE: removalpolicy
3166LOC: Config.memPolicy
3167DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3168DOC_START
41bd17a4 3169 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3170 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3171
41bd17a4 3172 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
3173DOC_END
6b698a21 3174
41bd17a4 3175COMMENT_START
3176 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3177 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3178COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3179
41bd17a4 3180NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3181TYPE: removalpolicy
3182LOC: Config.replPolicy
3183DEFAULT: lru
3184DOC_START
3185 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3186 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3187
41bd17a4 3188 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3189 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3190 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3191 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3192
41bd17a4 3193 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 3194
41bd17a4 3195 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3196
41bd17a4 3197 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3198 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3199 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3200 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3201
41bd17a4 3202 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3203 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3204 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3205 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3206
41bd17a4 3207 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3208 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3209 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3210
41bd17a4 3211 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3212 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3213 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3214
41bd17a4 3215 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3216 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3217 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3218DOC_END
0976f8db 3219
41bd17a4 3220NAME: cache_dir
3221TYPE: cachedir
3222DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3223LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3224DOC_START
41bd17a4 3225 Usage:
0976f8db 3226
41bd17a4 3227 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3228
41bd17a4 3229 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3230 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3231
41bd17a4 3232 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3233 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3234 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3235
41bd17a4 3236 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3237 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3238 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3239 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3240 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3242 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3243 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3244 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3245
41bd17a4 3246 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3247
41bd17a4 3248 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3249 been there.
0976f8db 3250
41bd17a4 3251 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3252
41bd17a4 3253 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3254 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3255 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3256 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3257 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3258
56fba4d0 3259 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3260 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3261
56fba4d0 3262 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3263 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3264 is 256.
0976f8db 3265
41bd17a4 3266 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3267
41bd17a4 3268 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3269 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3270 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3271
41bd17a4 3272 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3273
41bd17a4 3274 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3275
41bd17a4 3276 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3277
41bd17a4 3278 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3279 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3280 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3281
41bd17a4 3282 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3283
41bd17a4 3284 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3285
41bd17a4 3286 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3287 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3288 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3289
41bd17a4 3290 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3291 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3292 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3293
41bd17a4 3294 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3295 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3296 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3297 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3298 time.
0976f8db 3299
2e55f083 3300 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3301
df881a0f 3302 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3303
2e55f083 3304 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3305 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3306 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3307 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3308 below for more info on the max-size option.
3309
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3310 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3311 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3312 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3313 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3314 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3315
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3316 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3317 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3318 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3319 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3320 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3321 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3322 expected swap wait time.
3323
df881a0f 3324 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3325 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3326 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3327 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3328 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3329 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3330 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3331 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3332 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3333 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3334 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3335 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3336 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3337 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3338
3339
41bd17a4 3340 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3341
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3342 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3343 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3344 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3345
41bd17a4 3346 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3347 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3348 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3349 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3350 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3351 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3352 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3353
41bd17a4 3354 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3355 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3356 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3357
41bd17a4 3358 Common options:
0976f8db 3359
41bd17a4 3360 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3361
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3362 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3363 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3364 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3365 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3366
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3367 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3368 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3369 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3370 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3371 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3372
41bd17a4 3373 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3374 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3375 option.
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3377
3378# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3379#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3380NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3381DOC_END
0976f8db 3382
41bd17a4 3383NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3384TYPE: string
3385LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3386DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3387DOC_START
41bd17a4 3388 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3389DOC_END
0976f8db 3390
41bd17a4 3391NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3392TYPE: int
3393LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3394DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3395DOC_START
41bd17a4 3396 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3397 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3398 descriptors are open.
3399
3400 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3401DOC_END
0976f8db 3402
41bd17a4 3403NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3404COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3405TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3406DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3407LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3408DOC_START
41bd17a4 3409 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3410 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3411 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3412DOC_END
0976f8db 3413
41bd17a4 3414NAME: maximum_object_size
3415COMMENT: (bytes)
3416TYPE: b_int64_t
b51ec8c8 3417DEFAULT: 4 MB
41bd17a4 3418LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3419DOC_START
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3420 The default limit on size of objects stored to disk.
3421 This size is used for cache_dir where max-size is not set.
3422 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3423
3424 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
41bd17a4 3425 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
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3426 hits).
3427
3428 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
41bd17a4 3429 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3430
41bd17a4 3431 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3432 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3433 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3434DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3436NAME: cache_swap_low
3437COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3438TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3439DEFAULT: 90
3440LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3441DOC_NONE
3442
3443NAME: cache_swap_high
3444COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3445TYPE: int
3446DEFAULT: 95
3447LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3448DOC_START
41bd17a4 3449
3450 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3451 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3452 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3453 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3454 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3455 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3456
3457 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3458 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3459 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3460DOC_END
0976f8db 3461
5473c134 3462COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3463 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3464 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3465COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3466
41bd17a4 3467NAME: logformat
3468TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3469LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3470DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3471DOC_START
41bd17a4 3472 Usage:
0976f8db 3473
41bd17a4 3474 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3475
41bd17a4 3476 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3477
41bd17a4 3478 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3479
41bd17a4 3480 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3481 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3482 as required according to their context and the output format
3483 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3484 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3485
41bd17a4 3486 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3487
41bd17a4 3488 " output in quoted string format
3489 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3490 # output in URL quoted format
3491 ' output as-is
5473c134 3492
41bd17a4 3493 - left aligned
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3495 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3496 [width_min][.width_max]
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3498 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3499
41bd17a4 3500 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3501
41bd17a4 3502 Format codes:
5473c134 3503
3ff65596 3504 % a literal % character
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3505 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3506 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3507 a similar internal error identifier.
3508 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3510 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3511 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3512 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3513
3514 Connection related format codes:
3515
41bd17a4 3516 >a Client source IP address
3517 >A Client FQDN
3518 >p Client source port
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3519 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3520 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3521 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3522
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3523 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3524 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3525
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3526 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3527 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3528 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3529 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3530 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3531
3532 Time related format codes:
3533
41bd17a4 3534 ts Seconds since epoch
3535 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3536 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3537 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3538 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3539 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3540 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3542
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3544
3545 et Tag returned by external acl
3546 ea Log string returned by external acl
3547 un User name (any available)
3548 ul User name from authentication
3549 ue User name from external acl helper
3550 ui User name from ident
3551 us User name from SSL
3552
3553 HTTP related format codes:
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ca2e92d8 3555 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3556 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3557 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3558 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3560 as for >h
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3561 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3562 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3563 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3564 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3565 transfer encoding and control messages.
3566 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3567 received bodies.
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3568 [http::]mt MIME content type
3569 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3570 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3571 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3572 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3573 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3574 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3575 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3576 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3577 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3578 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3579 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3580 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3581 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3582 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3583 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3584 are not included
3585 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3586 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3587 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3588 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3589 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3590 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3591 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3592 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3593 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3594 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3595 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3596 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3597
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3599
3600 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3601 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3602
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3604
3605 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3606
3607 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3608 a connection and for any request received on
3609 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3610 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3611 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3612 more information about these modes.
3613
3614 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3615 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3616 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3617
3618 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3619 logged.
3620
5038f9d8 3621 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3623
3624 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3625 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3626 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3627 transaction is in progress.
3628
5038f9d8 3629 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3630
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3632 meta-information from the last eCAP
3633 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3634 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3635 argument.
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3637 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3638 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3639 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3640 value is recorded as an integer number,
3641 representing response time of one or more
3642 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3643 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3644 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3645 logged individually but added to the
3646 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3647 adapt::all_trs.
3648
3649 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3650 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3651 individual transactions are never added
3652 together. Instead, all transaction response
3653 times are recorded individually.
3654
3655 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3656 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3657 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3659 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3660
3661 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3662 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3663 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3664 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3665 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3666
3667 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3668 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3669 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3670 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3671 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3672
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3674
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3676logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3677logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3678logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3679logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3680
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3681 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3682 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3683 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3684
3685 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3686 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3687
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3689
41bd17a4 3690NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3691TYPE: access_log
3692LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3693DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3694DOC_START
41bd17a4 3695 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3696 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3697 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3698 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3699
3700 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3701 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3702 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3703 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3704
3705 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3706
bb7a1781 3707 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3708 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3709
3710 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3711 each request.
3712 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3713
3714 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3715 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3716 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3717
3718 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3719
3720 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3721 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3722 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3723
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3725 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3726
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3727 And priority could be any of:
3728 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3729
3730 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3731 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3732 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3733
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3734 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3735 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3736 Place Format: //host:port
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3738 Default:
82b7abe3 3739 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3740DOC_END
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3742NAME: icap_log
3743TYPE: access_log
3744IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3745LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3746DEFAULT: none
3747DOC_START
3748 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3749 transaction.
3750
3751 The icap_log option format is:
3752 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3753 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3754
3755 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3756 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3757 features.
3758
3759 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3760 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3761 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3762 log line.
3763
3764 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3765 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3766 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3767 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3768 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3769 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3770 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3771
3772 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3773
3774 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3775
3776 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3777 option in Squid configuration file.
3778
3779 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3780
3781 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3782 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3783
3784 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3785 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3786
3787 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3788 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3789 the socket).
3790
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3791 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3792 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3793 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3794 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3795 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3796 computed.
3797
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3799 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3800 the ICAP transaction is created and
3801 stops when the transaction is completed.
3802 Similar to tr.
3803
3804 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3805 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3806 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3807 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3808 is received.
3809
3810 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3811 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3812 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3813 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3814 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3815 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3816
3817 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3818
3819 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3820
3821 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3822
3823 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3824 definition, is called icap_squid:
3825
3826logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3827
5038f9d8 3828 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3830
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3831NAME: logfile_daemon
3832TYPE: string
3833DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3834LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3835DOC_START
3836 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3837 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3838
3839 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3840 L<data>\n - logfile data
3841 R\n - rotate file
3842 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3843 O\n - reopen file
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3844 F\n - flush file
3845 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3846 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3847
3848 No responses is expected.
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3850
5b0f5383 3851NAME: log_access
3852TYPE: acl_access
3853LOC: Config.accessList.log
3854DEFAULT: none
3855COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3856DOC_START
3857 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3858 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3859 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3860
3861 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3862 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3863DOC_END
3864
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3865NAME: log_icap
3866TYPE: acl_access
3867IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3868LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3869DEFAULT: none
3870DOC_START
3871 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3872 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3873DOC_END
3874
41bd17a4 3875NAME: cache_store_log
3876TYPE: string
df2eec10 3877DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3878LOC: Config.Log.store
3879DOC_START
3880 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3881 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 3882 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 3883 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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3884 disable it (the default).
3885
3886 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
3887 of modules supported.
3888
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3890 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3891 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
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3893
41bd17a4 3894NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3895TYPE: string
3896LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3897DEFAULT: none
3898DOC_START
41bd17a4 3899 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3900 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3901 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3902 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3903 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3904 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3905 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3906
41bd17a4 3907 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3908 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3909 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3910 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
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41bd17a4 3912 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3913 these swap logs will have names such as:
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41bd17a4 3915 cache_swap_log.00
3916 cache_swap_log.01
3917 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3918
41bd17a4 3919 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3920 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3921 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3922 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3923 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3924 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3925 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
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3927
41bd17a4 3928NAME: logfile_rotate
3929TYPE: int
3930DEFAULT: 10
3931LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
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41bd17a4 3933 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3934 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3935 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3936 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3937 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3938 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3940 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3941 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3942 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3943 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3944 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3945 <pid>'.
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3947 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3948 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3949DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3951NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3952TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3953DOC_START
20efa1c2 3954 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3955DOC_END
3956
41bd17a4 3957NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3958TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3959DOC_START
8652f8e7 3960 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3961DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3963NAME: mime_table
3964TYPE: string
3965DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3966LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3967DOC_START
3968 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3969 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3970 information if you do.
5473c134 3971DOC_END
3972
41bd17a4 3973NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3974COMMENT: on|off
3975TYPE: onoff
3976LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3977DEFAULT: off
3978DOC_START
3979 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3980 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3981 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3982 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3983 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3984DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3986NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3987TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3988DOC_START
20efa1c2 3989 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3990DOC_END
3991
41bd17a4 3992NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3993TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3994DOC_START
20efa1c2 3995 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3996DOC_END
3997
41bd17a4 3998NAME: pid_filename
3999TYPE: string
4000DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4001LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4002DOC_START
41bd17a4 4003 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4004DOC_END
4005
41bd17a4 4006NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 4007TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4008DOC_START
c581e96b 4009 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 4010DOC_END
4011
41bd17a4 4012NAME: client_netmask
4013TYPE: address
4014LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4015DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 4016DOC_START
41bd17a4 4017 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4018 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4019 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4020 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4021DOC_END
4022
41bd17a4 4023NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 4024TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4025DOC_START
20efa1c2 4026 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 4027DOC_END
4028
41bd17a4 4029NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4030TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4031LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4032DEFAULT: on
4033DOC_START
41bd17a4 4034 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
4035 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 4036DOC_END
4037
41bd17a4 4038NAME: buffered_logs
4039COMMENT: on|off
4040TYPE: onoff
4041DEFAULT: off
4042LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4043DOC_START
41bd17a4 4044 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
4045 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
4046 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
4047 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
4048 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 4049DOC_END
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2b753521 4051NAME: netdb_filename
4052TYPE: string
221faecb 4053DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4054LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4055IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4056DOC_START
4057 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
4058 To disable, enter "none".
4059DOC_END
4060
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4061COMMENT_START
4062 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4063 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4064COMMENT_END
4065
4066NAME: cache_log
4067TYPE: string
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4069LOC: Debug::cache_log
4070DOC_START
4071 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
4072 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
4073 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
4074DOC_END
4075
4076NAME: debug_options
4077TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4078DEFAULT: ALL,1
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4079LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4080DOC_START
4081 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4082 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4083 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4084 log file, so be careful.
4085
4086 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
4087 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
4088
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4090 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4092 events affecting Squid.
4093DOC_END
4094
4095NAME: coredump_dir
4096TYPE: string
4097LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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4099DOC_START
4100 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4101 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4102 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4103 and coredump files will be left there.
4104
4105NOCOMMENT_START
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4108coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4109NOCOMMENT_END
4110DOC_END
4111
4112
41bd17a4 4113COMMENT_START
4114 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4115 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4116COMMENT_END
4117
4118NAME: ftp_user
4119TYPE: string
4120DEFAULT: Squid@
4121LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4122DOC_START
41bd17a4 4123 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
4124 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
4125 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4126
41bd17a4 4127 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4128 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4129 depending on how the cache is used.
4130 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
4131 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4132DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4134NAME: ftp_passive
4135TYPE: onoff
4136DEFAULT: on
4137LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4138DOC_START
41bd17a4 4139 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4140 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4141
4142 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4143DOC_END
4144
4145NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4146TYPE: onoff
4147DEFAULT: off
4148LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4149DOC_START
4150 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4151
4152 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4153 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4154 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4155
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4156 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
4157 useful.
a689bd4e 4158 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4159 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4160
4161 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4162 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4163
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4164 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4165DOC_END
4166
4167NAME: ftp_epsv
4168TYPE: onoff
4169DEFAULT: on
4170LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
4171DOC_START
4172 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4173
4174 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4175 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4176 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4177 will never be needed.
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4178
4179 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
4180 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4181 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
4182
4183 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4184DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4185
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4186NAME: ftp_eprt
4187TYPE: onoff
4188DEFAULT: on
4189LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4190DOC_START
4191 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4192
4193 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4194 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4195 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4196
4197 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4198 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4199
4200 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4201 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4202 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4203 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4204
4205 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4206 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4207DOC_END
4208
41bd17a4 4209NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4210TYPE: onoff
4211DEFAULT: on
4212LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4213DOC_START
4214 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4215 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4216 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4217 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4218 connection turn this off.
4219DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4220
41bd17a4 4221NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4222TYPE: onoff
4223DEFAULT: on
4224LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4225DOC_START
4226 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4227 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4228 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4229 the FTP protocol.
4230
4231 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4232 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4233 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4234 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4235 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4236DOC_END
4237
4238COMMENT_START
4239 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4240 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4241COMMENT_END
4242
4243NAME: diskd_program
4244TYPE: string
4245DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4246LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4247DOC_START
4248 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4249 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4250 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4251DOC_END
4252
4253NAME: unlinkd_program
4254IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4255TYPE: string
4256DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4257LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4258DOC_START
4259 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4260DOC_END
4261
4262NAME: pinger_program
4263TYPE: string
4264DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4265LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4266IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4267DOC_START
4268 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4269DOC_END
4270
cc192b50 4271NAME: pinger_enable
4272TYPE: onoff
4273DEFAULT: on
4274LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4275IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4276DOC_START
4277 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4278 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4279 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4280DOC_END
4281
4282
41bd17a4 4283COMMENT_START
4284 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4285 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4286COMMENT_END
4287
4288NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4289TYPE: wordlist
4290LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4291DEFAULT: none
4292DOC_START
2c7aad89 4293 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4294 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4295
2c7aad89 4296 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4297
24eac830 4298 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
5269ec0e 4299
c71adec1 4300
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4301 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4302
24eac830 4303 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4305 The result code can be:
4306
4307 OK status=30N url="..."
4308 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4309 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4310 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4311 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4312 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
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4314 OK rewrite-url="..."
4315 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4316 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4317 the client as the response to its request.
4318
4319 ERR
4320 Do not change the URL.
4321
4322 BH
4ded749e 4323 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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4324 a result being identified.
4325
4326
4327 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4328 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4329 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4330 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4331
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4332 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4333 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4334 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4335 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4336 of the response relating to its request.
4337
4338 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4339 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4340
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4341 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4342 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4343 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4344 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4345 interface.
41bd17a4 4346
4347 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4348DOC_END
4349
4350NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4351TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4352DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4353LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4354DOC_START
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4355 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4356 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4357 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4358 and other system resources noticably.
4359
4360 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4361 tuning.
4362
4363 startup=
4364
4365 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4366 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4367 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4368
4369 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4370 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4371
4372 idle=
4373
4374 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4375 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4376 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4377 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4378
4379 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4380
41bd17a4 4381 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4382 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4383 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4384
4385 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4386 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4387 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4388 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4389DOC_END
4390
4391NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4392TYPE: onoff
4393DEFAULT: on
4394LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4395DOC_START
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4396 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4397 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4398 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4399
4400 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4401 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4402 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4403
41bd17a4 4404 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4405 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4406
4407 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4408 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4409 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4410DOC_END
4411
4412NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4413TYPE: acl_access
4414DEFAULT: none
4415LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4416DOC_START
4417 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4418 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4419 are sent.
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4420
4421 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4422 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4423DOC_END
4424
4425NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4426TYPE: onoff
4427LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4428DEFAULT: off
4429DOC_START
4430 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4431 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4432 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4433 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4434 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4435 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4436 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4437 users may have access to pages they should not
4438 be allowed to request.
4439DOC_END
4440
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4441COMMENT_START
4442 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
4443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4444COMMENT_END
4445
4446NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
4447TYPE: wordlist
4448LOC: Config.Program.store_id
4449DEFAULT: none
4450DOC_START
4451 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
4452 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4453
4454 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
4455
4456 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
4457
4458
4459 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4460
4461 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4462
4463 The result code can be:
4464
4465 OK store-id="..."
4466 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
4467
4468 ERR
4469 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
4470
4471 BH
4472 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4473 a result being identified.
4474
4475
4476 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4477 kv-pairs with keys they do not support.
4478
4479 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4480 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4481 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4482 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4483 of the response relating to its request.
4484
4485 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
4486 returned from the helper and not the URL.
4487
4488 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
4489 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
4490
4491 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
4492DOC_END
4493
4494NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
4495TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4496DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4497LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
4498DOC_START
4499 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
4500 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4501 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4502 and other system resources noticably.
4503
4504 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4505 tuning.
4506
4507 startup=
4508
4509 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4510 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4511 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4512
4513 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4514 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4515
4516 idle=
4517
4518 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4519 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4520 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4521 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4522
4523 concurrency=
4524
4525 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
4526 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
4527 is a old-style single threaded program.
4528
4529 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4530 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4531 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4532 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4533DOC_END
4534
4535NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
4536TYPE: acl_access
4537DEFAULT: none
4538LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
4539DOC_START
4540 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4541 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
4542 are sent.
4543
4544 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4545 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4546DOC_END
4547
4548NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
4549TYPE: onoff
4550LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
4551DEFAULT: on
4552DOC_START
4553 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4554 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
4555 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4556 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4557 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
4558 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4559 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
4560 option, users may not get objects from cache.
4561DOC_END
4562
41bd17a4 4563COMMENT_START
4564 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4565 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4566COMMENT_END
4567
f04b37d8 4568NAME: cache no_cache
4569TYPE: acl_access
4570DEFAULT: none
4571LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4572DOC_START
240887f0 4573 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4574 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4575 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4576
240887f0 4577 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4578 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4579
240887f0 4580 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4581
4582 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4583 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4584DOC_END
4585
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4586NAME: max_stale
4587COMMENT: time-units
4588TYPE: time_t
4589LOC: Config.maxStale
4590DEFAULT: 1 week
4591DOC_START
4592 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4593 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4594 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4595DOC_END
4596
41bd17a4 4597NAME: refresh_pattern
4598TYPE: refreshpattern
4599LOC: Config.Refresh
4600DEFAULT: none
4601DOC_START
4602 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4603
6b698a21 4604 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4605 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4606
41bd17a4 4607 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4608 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4609 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4610 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4611 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4612
41bd17a4 4613 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4614 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4615 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4616
41bd17a4 4617 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4618 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4619
41bd17a4 4620 options: override-expire
4621 override-lastmod
4622 reload-into-ims
4623 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 4624 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4625 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4626 ignore-private
4627 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4628 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4629 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4630 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4631
41bd17a4 4632 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4633 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4634 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4635 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4636 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4638 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4639 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4640 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4641 the object fresh for that period of time.
4642
41bd17a4 4643 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4644 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4645
41bd17a4 4646 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4647 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4648 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4649 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4650
41bd17a4 4651 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4652 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4653 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4654 it causes.
9bc73deb 4655
41bd17a4 4656 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4657 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4658 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4659 liable for problems which it causes.
4660
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4661 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4662 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4663 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4664 liable for problems which it causes.
4665
41bd17a4 4666 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4667 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4668 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4669 liable for problems which it causes.
4670
4671 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4672 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4673 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4674 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4675 it causes.
4676
4677 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4678 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4679 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4680 if one is available.
4681
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4682 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4683 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4684 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4685 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4686 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4687
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4688 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4689 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4690 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4691
41bd17a4 4692 Basically a cached object is:
4693
4694 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4695 STALE if age > max
4696 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4697 FRESH if age < min
4698 else STALE
4699
4700 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4701 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4702 match the default will be used.
4703
4704 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4705 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4706 used.
4707
41bd17a4 4708NOCOMMENT_START
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4710# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4711refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4712refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4713refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4714refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4715NOCOMMENT_END
4716DOC_END
4717
4718NAME: quick_abort_min
4719COMMENT: (KB)
4720TYPE: kb_int64_t
4721DEFAULT: 16 KB
4722LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4723DOC_NONE
4724
4725NAME: quick_abort_max
4726COMMENT: (KB)
4727TYPE: kb_int64_t
4728DEFAULT: 16 KB
4729LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4730DOC_NONE
4731
4732NAME: quick_abort_pct
4733COMMENT: (percent)
4734TYPE: int
4735DEFAULT: 95
4736LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4737DOC_START
4738 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4739 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4740 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4741 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4742 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4743 downloads.
4744
4745 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4746 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4747 then.
4748
4749 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4750 it will finish the retrieval.
4751
4752 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4753 it will abort the retrieval.
4754
4755 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4756 it will finish the retrieval.
4757
4758 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4759 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4760 to '0 KB'.
4761
4762 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4763 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4764DOC_END
60d096f4 4765
41bd17a4 4766NAME: read_ahead_gap
4767COMMENT: buffer-size
4768TYPE: b_int64_t
4769LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4770DEFAULT: 16 KB
4771DOC_START
4772 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4773 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4774DOC_END
53e738c6 4775
41bd17a4 4776NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4777IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4778COMMENT: time-units
4779TYPE: time_t
4780LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4781DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4782DOC_START
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4783 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4784 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4785 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4786 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4787 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4788 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4789
4790 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4791
4792 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4793 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4794 causes.
41bd17a4 4795DOC_END
53e738c6 4796
41bd17a4 4797NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4798COMMENT: time-units
4799TYPE: time_t
4800LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4801DEFAULT: 6 hours
4802DOC_START
4803 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4804 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4805 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4806DOC_END
c4ab8329 4807
41bd17a4 4808NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4809COMMENT: time-units
4810TYPE: time_t
4811LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4812DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4813DOC_START
4814 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4815 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4816 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4817 much below 10 seconds.
4818DOC_END
7df0bfd7 4819
41bd17a4 4820NAME: range_offset_limit
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4821COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4822TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4823LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4824DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4825DOC_START
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4826 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4827
4828 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4829 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4830 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4831 the result is NOT cached.
4832
41bd17a4 4833 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4834 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4835 sending anything to the client.
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4836
4837 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4838 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4839 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4840 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4841
4842 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4843
4844 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4845 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4846
4847 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4848 client requested. (default)
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4849
4850 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4851 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4852
4853 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4854
4855 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4856 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4857 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4858 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4859DOC_END
d95b862f 4860
41bd17a4 4861NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4862COMMENT: (seconds)
4863TYPE: time_t
4864LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4865DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4866DOC_START
4867 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4868 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4869 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4870 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4871 is most likely better to make your server return a
4872 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4873 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4874 often be best set to 0.
4875DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4877NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4878COMMENT: (bytes)
4879TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4880DEFAULT: 13 KB
4881LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4882DOC_START
4883 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4884 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4885DOC_END
4886
41bd17a4 4887NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4888TYPE: int
4889DEFAULT: 20
4890LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4891DOC_START
4892 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4893 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4894 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4895DOC_END
4896
4897COMMENT_START
4898 HTTP OPTIONS
4899 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4900COMMENT_END
4901
f04b37d8 4902NAME: request_header_max_size
4903COMMENT: (KB)
4904TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4905DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4906LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4907DOC_START
4908 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4909 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4910 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4911 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4912 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4913DOC_END
4914
4915NAME: reply_header_max_size
4916COMMENT: (KB)
4917TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4918DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4919LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4920DOC_START
4921 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4922 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4923 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4924 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4925 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4926DOC_END
4927
4928NAME: request_body_max_size
4929COMMENT: (bytes)
4930TYPE: b_int64_t
4931DEFAULT: 0 KB
4932LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4933DOC_START
4934 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4935 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4936 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4937 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4938 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4939 be no limit imposed.
4940DOC_END
4941
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4942NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4943COMMENT: (bytes)
4944TYPE: b_size_t
4945DEFAULT: 512 KB
4946LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4947DOC_START
4948 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4949 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4950 a large file.
4951DOC_END
4952
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4953NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4954COMMENT: (bytes)
4955TYPE: b_int64_t
4956DEFAULT: 64 KB
4957LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4958DOC_START
4959 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4960 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4961 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4962 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4963 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4964 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4965
4966 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4967 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4968 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4969 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4970 as if dechunking was disabled.
4971
4972 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4973 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4974
4975 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4976 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4977 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4978DOC_END
4979
41bd17a4 4980NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4981IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4982TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4983DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4984LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4985DOC_START
41bd17a4 4986 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4987 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4988
41bd17a4 4989 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4990 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4991
41bd17a4 4992 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4993
41bd17a4 4994 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4995 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4996 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4997 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4999 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5000 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5001
41bd17a4 5002Example:
5003 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5004 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5005DOC_END
cccac0a2 5006
22fff3bf 5007NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5008COMMENT: on|off
5009TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5010IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5011DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5012LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5013DOC_START
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5014 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5015 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5016
5017 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5018DOC_END
5019
41bd17a4 5020NAME: via
626096be 5021IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5022COMMENT: on|off
5023TYPE: onoff
5024DEFAULT: on
5025LOC: Config.onoff.via
5026DOC_START
5027 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5028 replies as required by RFC2616.
5029DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5030
41bd17a4 5031NAME: ie_refresh
5032COMMENT: on|off
5033TYPE: onoff
5034LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5035DEFAULT: off
5036DOC_START
5037 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5038 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5039 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5040 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5041 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5042 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5043 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5044 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5045 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5046 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5047 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5048 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5049 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5050 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5051 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5052 force fresh content.
5053DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 5054
41bd17a4 5055NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5056COMMENT: on|off
5057TYPE: onoff
5058LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5059DEFAULT: off
5060DOC_START
5061 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5062 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5063 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5064 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5065 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5066
5067 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5068 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5069DOC_END
c4ab8329 5070
41bd17a4 5071NAME: request_entities
5072TYPE: onoff
5073LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5074DEFAULT: off
5075DOC_START
5076 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5077 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5078 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5079
41bd17a4 5080 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5081 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5082 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5083 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5084 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5085DOC_END
6b53c392 5086
41bd17a4 5087NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5088IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5089TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5090LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5091DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5092DOC_START
41bd17a4 5093 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5094
41bd17a4 5095 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5096 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5097 causes.
0976f8db 5098
41bd17a4 5099 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5100 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5101 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5102 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5103
5104 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5105 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5106 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5107 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5108 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5109
5110 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5111 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5112 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5113
5114 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5115 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5116 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5117 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5118
5119 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5120 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5121 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5122 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5123 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5124 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5125
41bd17a4 5126 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5127 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5128
41bd17a4 5129 request_header_access From deny all
5130 request_header_access Referer deny all
5131 request_header_access Server deny all
5132 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5133 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5134 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 5135
41bd17a4 5136 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5137 you should use:
5401aa8d 5138
41bd17a4 5139 request_header_access Allow allow all
5140 request_header_access Authorization allow all
5141 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
5142 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
5143 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5144 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5145 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5146 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5147 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5148 request_header_access Date allow all
5149 request_header_access Expires allow all
5150 request_header_access Host allow all
5151 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
5152 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5153 request_header_access Location allow all
5154 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5155 request_header_access Accept allow all
5156 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5157 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5158 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
5159 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
5160 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
5161 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
5162 request_header_access Title allow all
5163 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5164 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5165
41bd17a4 5166 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
5167 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5168
41bd17a4 5169 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5170 performed).
5401aa8d 5171DOC_END
5172
41bd17a4 5173NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5174IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5175TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5176LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5177DEFAULT: none
5178DOC_START
41bd17a4 5179 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5180
41bd17a4 5181 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5182 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5183 causes.
934b03fc 5184
41bd17a4 5185 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5186 server to the client.
934b03fc 5187
41bd17a4 5188 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5189 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5190 documentation.
cccac0a2 5191
41bd17a4 5192 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5193 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5194
41bd17a4 5195 reply_header_access From deny all
5196 reply_header_access Referer deny all
5197 reply_header_access Server deny all
5198 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
5199 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5200 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 5201
41bd17a4 5202 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5203 you should use:
cccac0a2 5204
41bd17a4 5205 reply_header_access Allow allow all
5206 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
5207 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
5208 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
5209 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5210 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5211 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5212 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5213 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5214 reply_header_access Date allow all
5215 reply_header_access Expires allow all
5216 reply_header_access Host allow all
5217 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
5218 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5219 reply_header_access Location allow all
5220 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
5221 reply_header_access Accept allow all
5222 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5223 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5224 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
5225 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
5226 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
5227 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5228 reply_header_access Title allow all
5229 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5230 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5231
41bd17a4 5232 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
5233 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 5234
41bd17a4 5235 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5236 performed).
cccac0a2 5237DOC_END
5238
75e4f2ea 5239NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5240IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5241TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5242LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5243DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5244DOC_START
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5245 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5246 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5247
41bd17a4 5248 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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5249 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
5250 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 5251 option.
cccac0a2 5252
41bd17a4 5253 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5254
41bd17a4 5255 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5256DOC_END
cccac0a2 5257
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5258NAME: reply_header_replace
5259IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5260TYPE: http_header_replace
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5261LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5262DEFAULT: none
5263DOC_START
5264 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5265 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5266
5267 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5268 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5269 with some fixed string.
5270
5271 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5272
5273 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5274DOC_END
5275
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5276NAME: request_header_add
5277TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5278LOC: Config.request_header_add
5279DEFAULT: none
5280DOC_START
5281 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5282 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5283
5284 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5285 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5286 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5287 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5288 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5289
5290 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5291 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5292 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5293 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5294 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5295 header field values are not merged.
5296
5297 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5298 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5299 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5300
5301 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5302 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5303 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5304 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5305 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5306 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5307 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5308 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5309
5310 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5311 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5312 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5313 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5314 only.
5315DOC_END
5316
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5317NAME: note
5318TYPE: note
5319LOC: Config.notes
5320DEFAULT: none
5321DOC_START
5322 This option used to log custom information about the master
5323 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5324 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5325 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5326 authentication information.
5327 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5328
5329 note key value acl ...
5330 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5331DOC_END
5332
41bd17a4 5333NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5334COMMENT: on|off|warn
5335TYPE: tristate
5336LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5337DEFAULT: on
5338DOC_START
5339 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5340 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5341 what the sending application intended even if the message
5342 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5343 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5344
41bd17a4 5345 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5346 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5347
41bd17a4 5348 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5349 or response to be rejected.
5350DOC_END
7d90757b 5351
41bd17a4 5352COMMENT_START
5353 TIMEOUTS
5354 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5355COMMENT_END
5356
5357NAME: forward_timeout
5358COMMENT: time-units
5359TYPE: time_t
5360LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5361DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5362DOC_START
5363 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5364 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5365DOC_END
5366
41bd17a4 5367NAME: connect_timeout
5368COMMENT: time-units
5369TYPE: time_t
5370LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5371DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5372DOC_START
41bd17a4 5373 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5374 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5375 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5376DOC_END
5377
41bd17a4 5378NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5379COMMENT: time-units
5380TYPE: time_t
5381LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5382DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5383DOC_START
41bd17a4 5384 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5385 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5386 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5387 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5388DOC_END
7f7db318 5389
41bd17a4 5390NAME: read_timeout
5391COMMENT: time-units
5392TYPE: time_t
5393LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5394DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5395DOC_START
5396 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5397 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5398 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5399 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5400 default is 15 minutes.
5401DOC_END
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5403NAME: write_timeout
5404COMMENT: time-units
5405TYPE: time_t
5406LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5407DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5408DOC_START
5409 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5410 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5411 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5412 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5413 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5414 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5415 default is 15 minutes.
5416DOC_END
5417
41bd17a4 5418NAME: request_timeout
5419TYPE: time_t
5420LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5421DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5422DOC_START
6b2a2108 5423 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5424 connection establishment.
5425DOC_END
cccac0a2 5426
97b32442 5427NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5428TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5429LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5430DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5431DOC_START
5432 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5433 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5434DOC_END
cccac0a2 5435
41bd17a4 5436NAME: client_lifetime
5437COMMENT: time-units
5438TYPE: time_t
5439LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5440DEFAULT: 1 day
5441DOC_START
5442 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5443 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5444 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5445 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5446 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5447 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5448 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5449
41bd17a4 5450 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5451 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5452 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5453 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5454 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5455 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5456DOC_END
5457
41bd17a4 5458NAME: half_closed_clients
5459TYPE: onoff
5460LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5461DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5462DOC_START
41bd17a4 5463 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5464 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5465 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5466 fully-closed TCP connection.
5467
5468 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5469 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5470
abdf1651 5471 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5472 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5473 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5474 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5475DOC_END
5476
97b32442 5477NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5478TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5479LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5480DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5481DOC_START
41bd17a4 5482 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5483 proxies.
5484DOC_END
cccac0a2 5485
41bd17a4 5486NAME: ident_timeout
5487TYPE: time_t
5488IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5489LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5490DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5491DOC_START
5492 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5493
41bd17a4 5494 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5495 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5496 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5497DOC_END
5498
41bd17a4 5499NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5500COMMENT: time-units
5501TYPE: time_t
5502LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5503DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5504DOC_START
41bd17a4 5505 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5506 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5507 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5508 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5509 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5510DOC_END
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cccac0a2 5512COMMENT_START
5513 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5514 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5515COMMENT_END
5516
5517NAME: cache_mgr
5518TYPE: string
5519DEFAULT: webmaster
5520LOC: Config.adminEmail
5521DOC_START
5522 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5523 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5524DOC_END
5525
abacf776 5526NAME: mail_from
5527TYPE: string
5528DEFAULT: none
5529LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5530DOC_START
5531 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5532 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5533 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5534 src/globals.h before building squid.
5535DOC_END
5536
d084bf20 5537NAME: mail_program
5538TYPE: eol
5539DEFAULT: mail
5540LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5541DOC_START
5542 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5543 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5544 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5545 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5546
d084bf20 5547 Optional command line options can be specified.
5548DOC_END
5549
cccac0a2 5550NAME: cache_effective_user
5551TYPE: string
5483d916 5552DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5553LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5554DOC_START
5555 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5556 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5557 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5558 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5559DOC_END
5560
cccac0a2 5561NAME: cache_effective_group
5562TYPE: string
5563DEFAULT: none
5564LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5565DOC_START
64e288bd 5566 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5567 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5568 from the groups membership.
5569
e3d74828 5570 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5571 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5572 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5573 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5574 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5575 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5576 group.
64e288bd 5577
5578 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5579 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5580 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5581DOC_END
5582
d3caee79 5583NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5584COMMENT: on|off
5585TYPE: onoff
5586DEFAULT: off
5587LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5588DOC_START
5589 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5590DOC_END
5591
cccac0a2 5592NAME: visible_hostname
5593TYPE: string
5594LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5595DEFAULT: none
5596DOC_START
5597 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5598 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5599 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5600 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5601 names with this setting.
5602DOC_END
5603
cccac0a2 5604NAME: unique_hostname
5605TYPE: string
5606LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5607DEFAULT: none
5608DOC_START
5609 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5610 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5611 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5612DOC_END
5613
cccac0a2 5614NAME: hostname_aliases
5615TYPE: wordlist
5616LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5617DEFAULT: none
5618DOC_START
7f7db318 5619 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5620DOC_END
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5622NAME: umask
5623TYPE: int
5624LOC: Config.umask
5625DEFAULT: 027
5626DOC_START
5627 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5628 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5629
5630 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5631 your value with 0.
5632DOC_END
5633
cccac0a2 5634COMMENT_START
5635 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5636 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5637
5638 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5639 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5640 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5641 create cache hierarchies.
5642
5643 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5644 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5645 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5646
5647 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5648 following information from this configuration file:
5649
5650 http_port
5651 icp_port
5652 cache_mgr
5653
5654 All current information is processed regularly and made
5655 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5656COMMENT_END
5657
5658NAME: announce_period
5659TYPE: time_t
5660LOC: Config.Announce.period
5661DEFAULT: 0
5662DOC_START
5663 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5664 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5665 messages.
5666
e0855596 5667 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
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5669 Example:
5670 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5671DOC_END
5672
cccac0a2 5673NAME: announce_host
5674TYPE: string
5675DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5676LOC: Config.Announce.host
5677DOC_NONE
5678
5679NAME: announce_file
5680TYPE: string
5681DEFAULT: none
5682LOC: Config.Announce.file
5683DOC_NONE
5684
5685NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5686TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5687DEFAULT: 3131
5688LOC: Config.Announce.port
5689DOC_START
5690 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5691 number where the registration message will be sent.
5692
5693 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5694 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5695 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5696 message.
5697DOC_END
5698
8d6275c0 5699COMMENT_START
5700 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5701 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5702COMMENT_END
5703
cccac0a2 5704NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5705TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5706DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5707LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5708DOC_START
5709 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5710 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5711 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5712 an identification token.
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5713
5714 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5715DOC_END
5716
5717NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5718COMMENT: on|off
5719TYPE: onoff
5720DEFAULT: off
5721LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5722DOC_START
5723 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5724 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5725DOC_END
5726
5727NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5728IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5729COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5730TYPE: string
5731LOC: ESIParser::Type
5732DEFAULT: custom
5733DOC_START
5734 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5735 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5736 encodings.
5737DOC_END
0976f8db 5738
9edd9041 5739COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5740 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5741 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5742COMMENT_END
5743
5744NAME: delay_pools
5745TYPE: delay_pool_count
5746DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5747IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5748LOC: Config.Delay
5749DOC_START
5750 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5751 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5752 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5753DOC_END
5754
5755NAME: delay_class
5756TYPE: delay_pool_class
5757DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5758IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5759LOC: Config.Delay
5760DOC_START
5761 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5762 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5763 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5764 and here would be:
5765
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5766 Example:
5767 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5768 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5769 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5770 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5771 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5772
5773 The delay pool classes are:
5774
5775 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5776 bucket.
5777
5778 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5779 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5780 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5781
5782 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5783 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5784 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5785 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5786 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5787
5788 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5789 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5790 only takes effect if the username is established
5791 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5792 http_access rules.
5793
5794 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5795 external_acl's tag= reply).
5796
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5797
5798 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5799 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5800 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5801
9edd9041 5802 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5803 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5804 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5805 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5806
5807 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5808 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5809DOC_END
5810
5811NAME: delay_access
5812TYPE: delay_pool_access
5813DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5814IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5815LOC: Config.Delay
5816DOC_START
5817 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5818
5819 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5820 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5821 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5822 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5823
5824 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5825 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5826
5827Example:
5828 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5829 delay_access 1 deny all
5830 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5831 delay_access 2 deny all
5832 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5833DOC_END
5834
5835NAME: delay_parameters
5836TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5837DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5838IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5839LOC: Config.Delay
5840DOC_START
5841 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5842 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5843 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5844
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5845 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5846 delay_pools pool 1
5847 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5848
5849 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5850 delay_pools pool 2
5851 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5852
5853 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5854 delay_pools pool 3
5855 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5856
5857 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5858 delay_pools pool 4
5859 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5860
5861 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5862 delay_pools pool 5
5863 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5864
0b68481a 5865 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5866
5867 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5868 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5869 delay_class lines.
5870
fdb47ac6 5871 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5872 (class 1, 2, 3).
5873
fdb47ac6 5874 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5875 buckets (class 2, 3).
5876
fdb47ac6 5877 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5878 (class 3).
5879
fdb47ac6 5880 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5881 (class 4).
5882
fdb47ac6 5883 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5884 (class 5).
5885
5886 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5887 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5888 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5889 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5890
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5891 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5892
5893
9edd9041 5894 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5895 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5896 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5897
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5898 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5899
5900 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5901
5902 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5903
0b68481a 5904
9edd9041 5905 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5906 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5907 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5908 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5909 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5910 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5911 large downloads more significantly:
5912
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5913 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5914
5915 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5916 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5917 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5918
9edd9041 5919
5920 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5921 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5922
0b68481a 5923 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5924DOC_END
5925
5926NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5927COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5928TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5929DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5930IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5931LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5932DOC_START
5933 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5934 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5935 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5936 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5937 "seen" by squid).
5938DOC_END
5939
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5941 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5942 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5943COMMENT_END
5944
5945NAME: client_delay_pools
5946TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5947DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5948IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5949LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5950DOC_START
5951 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5952 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5953
5954Example:
5955 client_delay_pools 2
5956DOC_END
5957
5958NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5959COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5960TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5961DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5962IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5963LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5964DOC_START
5965 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5966 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5967 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5968 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5969
5970 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5971 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5972 from client_delay_parameters.
5973
5974Example:
5975 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5976DOC_END
5977
5978NAME: client_delay_parameters
5979TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5980DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5981IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5982LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5983DOC_START
5984
5985 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5986 following format:
5987
5988 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5989
5990 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5991
5992 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5993
5994 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5995 speed_limit additions.
5996
5997 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5998 examples.
5999
6000Example:
6001 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6002 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6003DOC_END
6004
6005NAME: client_delay_access
6006TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6007DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6008IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6009LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6010DOC_START
6011
6012 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6013 request:
6014
6015 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6016
6017 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6018 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6019 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6020 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6021 limited.
6022
6023 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6024 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6025 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6026 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6027
6028 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6029
6030Example:
6031 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6032 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6033DOC_END
6034
cccac0a2 6035COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6036 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6037 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6038COMMENT_END
6039
8d6275c0 6040NAME: wccp_router
6041TYPE: address
6042LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6043DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 6044IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6045DOC_START
6046 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6047 Squid.
6048
6049 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6050
6051 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6052
6053 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6054 which version of WCCP to use.
6055DOC_END
df2eec10 6056
8d6275c0 6057NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6058TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6059LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6060DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6061IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6062DOC_START
8d6275c0 6063 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6064 Squid.
cccac0a2 6065
8d6275c0 6066 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6067
8d6275c0 6068 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6069
8d6275c0 6070 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6071 which version of WCCP to use.
6072DOC_END
6073
6074NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6075TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6076LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6077DEFAULT: 4
6078IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6079DOC_START
8d6275c0 6080 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6081 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6082 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6083 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6084 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6085
8d6275c0 6086 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6087 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6088 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6089 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6090DOC_END
6091
8d6275c0 6092NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6093TYPE: onoff
6094LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6095DEFAULT: on
6096IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6097DOC_START
6098 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6099 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6100DOC_END
cccac0a2 6101
8d6275c0 6102NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6103TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6104LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6105DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6106IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6107DOC_START
699acd19 6108 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 6109 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6110
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6111 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6112 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6113
8d6275c0 6114 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6115 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 6116DOC_END
6117
8d6275c0 6118NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 6119TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6120LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 6121DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6122IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6123DOC_START
699acd19 6124 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 6125 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
6126 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6127
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6128 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6129 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6130
8d6275c0 6131 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6132 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 6133
699acd19 6134 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 6135 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
6136 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
6137 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 6138DOC_END
6139
8d6275c0 6140NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 6141TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 6142LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 6143DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 6144IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6145DOC_START
8d6275c0 6146 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
6147 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6148
451c4786 6149 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 6150 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 6151
8d6275c0 6152 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
6153 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
6154DOC_END
cccac0a2 6155
8d6275c0 6156NAME: wccp2_service
6157TYPE: wccp2_service
6158LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 6159DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
6160IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6161DOC_START
6162 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
6163 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
6164 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
6165 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
6166 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
6167 using the wccp2_service_info option.
6168
6169 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
6170 just specifying the service id will suffice.
6171
6172 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
6173 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
6174
6175 Examples:
6176
6177 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
6178 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
6179 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
6180 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 6181DOC_END
6182
6183NAME: wccp2_service_info
6184TYPE: wccp2_service_info
6185LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
6186DEFAULT: none
6187IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6188DOC_START
6189 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
6190 traffic you wish to have diverted.
6191
6192 The format is:
6193
6194 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
6195 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
6196
6197 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
6198 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 6199 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 6200 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
6201 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
6202 + ports_source
6203
6204 The port list can be one to eight entries.
6205
6206 Example:
6207
6208 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6209 priority=240 ports=80
6210
6211 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6212 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6213DOC_END
6214
6215NAME: wccp2_weight
6216TYPE: int
6217LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6218DEFAULT: 10000
6219IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6220DOC_START
6221 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6222 hash proportional to their weight.
6223DOC_END
6224
6225NAME: wccp_address
6226TYPE: address
6227LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6228DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6229IFDEF: USE_WCCP
6230DOC_NONE
df2eec10 6231
8d6275c0 6232NAME: wccp2_address
6233TYPE: address
6234LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6235DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6236IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6237DOC_START
6238 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6239 interface address.
6240
6241 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6242DOC_END
6243
6244COMMENT_START
6245 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6246 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6247
6248 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6249COMMENT_END
6250
6251NAME: client_persistent_connections
6252TYPE: onoff
6253LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6254DEFAULT: on
6255DOC_NONE
6256
6257NAME: server_persistent_connections
6258TYPE: onoff
6259LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6260DEFAULT: on
6261DOC_START
6262 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
6263 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
6264 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
6265 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
6266DOC_END
6267
6268NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6269TYPE: onoff
6270LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6271DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6272DOC_START
6273 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6274 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6275 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6276DOC_END
6277
6278NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6279TYPE: onoff
6280LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6281DEFAULT: off
6282DOC_START
6283 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6284 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6285 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6286 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6287
6288 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6289 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6290 after 10 seconds timeout.
6291DOC_END
6292
6293COMMENT_START
6294 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6295 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6296COMMENT_END
6297
6298NAME: digest_generation
6299IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6300TYPE: onoff
6301LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6302DEFAULT: on
6303DOC_START
6304 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6305 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6306 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6307DOC_END
6308
6309NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6310IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6311TYPE: int
6312LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6313DEFAULT: 5
6314DOC_START
6315 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6316 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6317 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6318DOC_END
6319
6320NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6321IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6322COMMENT: (seconds)
6323TYPE: time_t
6324LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6325DEFAULT: 1 hour
6326DOC_START
749ceff8 6327 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6328DOC_END
6329
6330NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6331COMMENT: (seconds)
6332IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6333TYPE: time_t
6334LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6335DEFAULT: 1 hour
6336DOC_START
749ceff8 6337 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6338 disk.
6339DOC_END
6340
6341NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6342COMMENT: (bytes)
6343TYPE: b_size_t
6344IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6345LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6346DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6347DOC_START
6348 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6349 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6350 default swap page.
6351DOC_END
6352
6353NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6354COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6355IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6356TYPE: int
6357LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6358DEFAULT: 10
6359DOC_START
6360 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6361 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6362DOC_END
6363
1db9eacd 6364COMMENT_START
5473c134 6365 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6366 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6367COMMENT_END
6368
5473c134 6369NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6370TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6371LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6372DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6373IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6374DOC_START
87630341 6375 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6376 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6377 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6378 set to "0" (disabled)
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6379
6380 Example:
6381 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6382DOC_END
6383
5473c134 6384NAME: snmp_access
6385TYPE: acl_access
6386LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 6387DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6388IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6389DOC_START
5473c134 6390 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6391
5473c134 6392 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6393 usage:
8d6275c0 6394
5473c134 6395 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6396
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6397 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6398 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 6399Example:
6400 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6401 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6402DOC_END
6403
5473c134 6404NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6405TYPE: address
6406LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6407DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 6408IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6409DOC_NONE
df2eec10 6410
5473c134 6411NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6412TYPE: address
6413LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6414DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6415IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6416DOC_START
df2eec10 6417 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6418
5473c134 6419 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6420 messages from SNMP agents.
6421 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6422 agents.
cccac0a2 6423
0eb08770 6424 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 6425 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 6426
0eb08770
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6427 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6428 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6429 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6430 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6431
5473c134 6432 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6433 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 6434DOC_END
6435
5473c134 6436COMMENT_START
6437 ICP OPTIONS
6438 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6439COMMENT_END
6440
6441NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6442TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6443DEFAULT: 0
6444LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6445DOC_START
5473c134 6446 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6447 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6448 Default is disabled (0).
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6449
6450 Example:
6451 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6452DOC_END
6453
5473c134 6454NAME: htcp_port
6455IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6456TYPE: u_short
87630341 6457DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6458LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6459DOC_START
5473c134 6460 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6461 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6462 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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6463
6464 Example:
6465 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6466DOC_END
6467
6468NAME: log_icp_queries
6469COMMENT: on|off
6470TYPE: onoff
6471DEFAULT: on
6472LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6473DOC_START
6474 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6475 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6476 up or to simplify log analysis.
6477DOC_END
6478
5473c134 6479NAME: udp_incoming_address
6480TYPE: address
6481LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6482DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 6483DOC_START
6484 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6485 caches.
6486
6487 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6488
6489 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6490 a specific interface/address.
6491
6492 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6493 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6494
6495 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6496
6497 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6498 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6499DOC_END
cccac0a2 6500
5473c134 6501NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6502TYPE: address
6503LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6504DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 6505DOC_START
8524d4b2 6506 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6507 caches.
cccac0a2 6508
5473c134 6509 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6510
8524d4b2 6511 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6512 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6513 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6514 caches.
6515
8524d4b2 6516 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6517 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6518
6519 see also; udp_incoming_address
6520
5473c134 6521 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6522 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6523DOC_END
6524
3d1e3e43 6525NAME: icp_hit_stale
6526COMMENT: on|off
6527TYPE: onoff
6528DEFAULT: off
6529LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6530DOC_START
6531 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6532 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6533 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6534 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6535 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6536 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6537 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6538DOC_END
6539
5473c134 6540NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6541TYPE: int
5473c134 6542DEFAULT: 4
6543LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6544DOC_START
5473c134 6545 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6546 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6547DOC_END
6548
5473c134 6549NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6550TYPE: int
6551DEFAULT: 400
6552LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6553DOC_START
5473c134 6554 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6555 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6556DOC_END
6557
cccac0a2 6558NAME: netdb_low
6559TYPE: int
6560DEFAULT: 900
6561LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6562DOC_NONE
6563
6564NAME: netdb_high
6565TYPE: int
6566DEFAULT: 1000
6567LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6568DOC_START
6569 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6570 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6571 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6572 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6573DOC_END
6574
cccac0a2 6575NAME: netdb_ping_period
6576TYPE: time_t
6577LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6578DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6579DOC_START
6580 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6581 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6582 network. The default is five minutes.
6583DOC_END
6584
cccac0a2 6585NAME: query_icmp
6586COMMENT: on|off
6587TYPE: onoff
6588DEFAULT: off
6589LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6590DOC_START
6591 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6592 replies, enable this option.
6593
6594 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6595 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6596 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6597 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6598 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6599 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6600 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6601 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6602DOC_END
6603
6604NAME: test_reachability
6605COMMENT: on|off
6606TYPE: onoff
6607DEFAULT: off
6608LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6609DOC_START
6610 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6611 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6612 database, or has a zero RTT.
6613DOC_END
6614
5473c134 6615NAME: icp_query_timeout
6616COMMENT: (msec)
6617DEFAULT: 0
6618TYPE: int
6619LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6620DOC_START
5473c134 6621 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6622 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6623 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6624 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6625 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6626 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6627
5473c134 6628 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6629DOC_END
6630
5473c134 6631NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6632COMMENT: (msec)
6633DEFAULT: 2000
6634TYPE: int
6635LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6636DOC_START
5473c134 6637 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6638 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6639 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6640 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6641 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6642 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6643DOC_END
6644
5473c134 6645NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6646COMMENT: (msec)
6647DEFAULT: 5
6648TYPE: int
6649LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6650DOC_START
5473c134 6651 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6652 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6653 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6654 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6655 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6656 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6657 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6658DOC_END
6659
5473c134 6660NAME: background_ping_rate
6661COMMENT: time-units
6662TYPE: time_t
6663DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6664LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6665DOC_START
5473c134 6666 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6667 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6668DOC_END
6669
5473c134 6670COMMENT_START
6671 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6672 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6673COMMENT_END
6674
6675NAME: mcast_groups
6676TYPE: wordlist
6677LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6678DEFAULT: none
6679DOC_START
5473c134 6680 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6681 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6682
5473c134 6683 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6684 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6685 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6686 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6687 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6688 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6689 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6690
5473c134 6691 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6692 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6693
5473c134 6694 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6695 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6696
5473c134 6697 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6698
5473c134 6699 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6700DOC_END
8c01ada0 6701
5473c134 6702NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6703IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6704TYPE: address
6705LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6706DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6707DOC_START
6708 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6709 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6710
5473c134 6711 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6712 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6713DOC_END
6714
5473c134 6715NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6716IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6717TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6718LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6719DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6720DOC_START
5473c134 6721 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6722 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6723 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6724DOC_END
cccac0a2 6725
5473c134 6726NAME: mcast_miss_port
6727IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6728TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6729LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6730DEFAULT: 3135
6731DOC_START
6732 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6733 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6734DOC_END
cccac0a2 6735
5473c134 6736NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6737IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6738TYPE: string
6739LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6740DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6741DOC_START
6742 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6743 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6744DOC_END
8c01ada0 6745
5473c134 6746NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6747COMMENT: (msec)
6748DEFAULT: 2000
6749TYPE: int
6750LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6751DOC_START
6752 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6753 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6754 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6755 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6756 seconds.
cccac0a2 6757DOC_END
6758
5473c134 6759COMMENT_START
6760 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6761 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6762COMMENT_END
6763
cccac0a2 6764NAME: icon_directory
6765TYPE: string
6766LOC: Config.icons.directory
6767DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6768DOC_START
6769 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6770 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6771DOC_END
6772
f024c970 6773NAME: global_internal_static
6774TYPE: onoff
6775LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6776DEFAULT: on
6777DOC_START
6778 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6779 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6780 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6781 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6782 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6783 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6784 the server generating a directory listing.
6785DOC_END
6786
5473c134 6787NAME: short_icon_urls
6788TYPE: onoff
6789LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6790DEFAULT: on
6791DOC_START
6792 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6793 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6794 it's own name and port in the URL.
6795
6796 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6797 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6798DOC_END
6799
6800COMMENT_START
6801 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6802 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6803COMMENT_END
6804
6805NAME: error_directory
6806TYPE: string
6807LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6808DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6809DOC_START
6810 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6811 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6812 the error/template files to another directory and point
6813 this tag at them.
6814
6815 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6816 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6817
6818 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6819 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6820 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6821 contributing your translation back to the project.
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AJ
6822 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6823
6824 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6825 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6826DOC_END
6827
6828NAME: error_default_language
6829IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6830TYPE: string
6831LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6832DEFAULT: none
6833DOC_START
6834 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6835 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6836 preferences.
6837
6838 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6839
6840 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6841 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6842 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6843 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6844DOC_END
6845
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6846NAME: error_log_languages
6847IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6848TYPE: onoff
6849LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6850DEFAULT: on
6851DOC_START
6852 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6853 auto-negotiate for translations.
6854
6855 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6856 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6857 of its error page translations.
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6858DOC_END
6859
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6860NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6861TYPE: string
6862LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6863DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6864DOC_START
6865 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6866
6867 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6868DOC_END
6869
5473c134 6870NAME: err_html_text
6871TYPE: eol
6872LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6873DEFAULT: none
6874DOC_START
6875 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6876 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6877 organizations Web page.
6878
6879 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6880 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6881 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6882 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6883DOC_END
6884
6885NAME: email_err_data
6886COMMENT: on|off
6887TYPE: onoff
6888LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6889DEFAULT: on
6890DOC_START
6891 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6892 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6893 so that the email body contains the data.
6894 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6895DOC_END
6896
6897NAME: deny_info
6898TYPE: denyinfo
6899LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6900DEFAULT: none
6901DOC_START
6902 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6903 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6904 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6905
6906 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6907 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6908 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6909 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6910
6911 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6912 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6913 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6914 the first authentication related acl encountered
6915 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6916 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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6917 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6918 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6919
43000484
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6920 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6921 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6922 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6923
aed9a15b
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6924 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6925 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6926 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6927
5473c134 6928 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6929 by specifying TCP_RESET.
15b02e9a
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6930
6931 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
aed9a15b
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6932 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6933 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6934 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6935 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
15b02e9a
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6936
6937 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6938 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6939 %B - FTP path URL
6940 %e - Error number
6941 %E - Error description
6942 %h - Squid hostname
6943 %H - Request domain name
6944 %i - Client IP Address
6945 %M - Request Method
6946 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6947 %p - Request Port number
6948 %P - Request Protocol name
6949 %R - Request URL path
6950 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6951 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6952 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6953 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6954 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6955 %x - Error name
15b02e9a
AJ
6956 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6957
5473c134 6958DOC_END
6959
6960COMMENT_START
6961 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6962 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6963COMMENT_END
6964
6965NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6966TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6967LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6968DEFAULT: on
6969DOC_START
5473c134 6970 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6971 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6972 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6973
5473c134 6974 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6975 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6976
5473c134 6977 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6978 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6979 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6980
5473c134 6981 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6982 this directive.
8d6275c0 6983DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6984
5473c134 6985NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6986TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6987LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6988DEFAULT: off
6989DOC_START
5473c134 6990 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6991 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6992 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6993
5473c134 6994 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6995 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6996 fails.
6997
6998 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6999 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7000 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7001DOC_END
7002
5473c134 7003NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7004TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7005LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7006DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 7007DOC_START
5473c134 7008 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7009
5473c134 7010 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7011 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7012 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7013 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7014 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7015
5473c134 7016 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7017 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7018
5473c134 7019 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7020
5473c134 7021 acl FTP proto FTP
7022 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7023
5473c134 7024 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7025 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7026 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7027 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7028 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7029
5473c134 7030 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7031 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7032 always_direct deny local-external
7033 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7034
5473c134 7035 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7036 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7037 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
7038 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 7039
5473c134 7040 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
7041 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 7042 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 7043
b3567eb5
FC
7044 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7045 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 7046DOC_END
0976f8db 7047
5473c134 7048NAME: never_direct
7049TYPE: acl_access
7050LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
7051DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 7052DOC_START
5473c134 7053 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7054
7055 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
7056 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
7057
7058 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
7059 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
7060 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
7061 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
7062
7063 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 7064 never_direct deny local-servers
7065 never_direct allow all
7066
7067 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
7068 servers inside the firewall use something like:
7069
7070 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
7071 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7072 always_direct deny local-external
7073 always_direct allow local-intranet
7074 never_direct allow all
7075
b3567eb5
FC
7076 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7077 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 7078DOC_END
0976f8db 7079
5473c134 7080COMMENT_START
7081 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
7082 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7083COMMENT_END
7084
65d448bc 7085NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 7086TYPE: int
7087DEFAULT: 6
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AJ
7088LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
7089DOC_START
7090 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7091 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7092 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7093DOC_END
cccac0a2 7094
65d448bc 7095NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 7096TYPE: int
7097DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7098LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
7099DOC_START
7100 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7101 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7102 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7103DOC_END
cccac0a2 7104
7105NAME: incoming_dns_average
7106TYPE: int
7107DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7108LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
7109DOC_START
7110 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7111 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7112 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7113DOC_END
cccac0a2 7114
65d448bc 7115NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7116TYPE: int
7117DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7118LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
7119DOC_START
7120 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7121 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7122 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7123DOC_END
cccac0a2 7124
7125NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
7126TYPE: int
7127DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7128LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
7129DOC_START
7130 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7131 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7132 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7133DOC_END
cccac0a2 7134
65d448bc 7135NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7136TYPE: int
7137DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 7138LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 7139DOC_START
5473c134 7140 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7141 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7142 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7143DOC_END
7144
7145NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 7146TYPE: string
7147DEFAULT: none
7148LOC: Config.accept_filter
7149DOC_START
0b4d4be5 7150 FreeBSD:
7151
5473c134 7152 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
7153 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
7154 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
7155
7156 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 7157 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 7158 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
7159
7160 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
7161 to Squid until there is some data to process.
7162 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
7163
7164 Linux:
7165
7166 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
7167 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
7168 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
7169 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
7170 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 7171EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 7172# FreeBSD
5473c134 7173accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 7174# Linux
7175accept_filter data
5473c134 7176DOC_END
7177
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7178NAME: client_ip_max_connections
7179TYPE: int
7180LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
7181DEFAULT: -1
7182DOC_START
7183 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
7184 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
7185 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
7186
7187 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
7188 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
7189
7190 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
7191
7192 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
7193 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
7194DOC_END
7195
5473c134 7196NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
7197COMMENT: (bytes)
7198TYPE: b_size_t
7199DEFAULT: 0 bytes
7200LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
7201DOC_START
7202 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
7203 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
7204 the default buffer size.
7205DOC_END
7206
7207COMMENT_START
7208 ICAP OPTIONS
7209 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7210COMMENT_END
7211
7212NAME: icap_enable
7213TYPE: onoff
7214IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7215COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7216LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 7217DEFAULT: off
7218DOC_START
53e738c6 7219 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7220DOC_END
7221
7222NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7223TYPE: time_t
7224DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7225LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7226IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7227DOC_START
7228 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7229 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7230 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7231
7232 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7233 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7234 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7235DOC_END
7236
7237NAME: icap_io_timeout
7238COMMENT: time-units
7239TYPE: time_t
7240DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7241LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7242IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7243DOC_START
7244 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7245 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7246 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7247 failure.
7248
7249 The default is read_timeout.
7250DOC_END
7251
7252NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
8277060a
CT
7253COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7254TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7255IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7256LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7257DEFAULT: 10
7258DOC_START
7259 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7260 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7261 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7262 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7263 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7264
7265 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7266 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7267 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
8277060a
CT
7268
7269 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7270 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7271 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7272 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7273 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7274
7275 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7276 effect on service failure expiration.
7277
7278 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7279 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7280 setting.
7281
7282 For example,
7283 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7284 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7285DOC_END
7286
5473c134 7287NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7288TYPE: int
5473c134 7289IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7290LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7291DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7292DOC_START
5473c134 7293 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7294 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7295 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7296 fetched.
cccac0a2 7297
5473c134 7298 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7299 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7300DOC_END
7301
5473c134 7302NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7303TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7304IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7305COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7306LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7307DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7308DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7309 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7310 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7311 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7312 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7313
7314 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7315 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7316 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7317
7318 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7319 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7320Example:
7321icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7322DOC_END
7323
5473c134 7324NAME: icap_preview_size
7325TYPE: int
7326IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7327LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7328DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 7329DOC_START
53e738c6 7330 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
7331 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
7332 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7333DOC_END
7334
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7335NAME: icap_206_enable
7336TYPE: onoff
7337IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7338COMMENT: on|off
7339LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7340DEFAULT: on
7341DOC_START
7342 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7343 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7344 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7345 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7346
7347 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7348 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7349 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7350 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7351 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7352
7353 Example:
7354 icap_206_enable off
7355DOC_END
7356
5473c134 7357NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7358TYPE: int
7359IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7360LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7361DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7362DOC_START
53e738c6 7363 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7364 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7365DOC_END
7366
5473c134 7367NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7368TYPE: onoff
7369IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7370COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7371LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7372DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7373DOC_START
5473c134 7374 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7375 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7376DOC_END
7377
22fff3bf 7378NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7379TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7380IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7381COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7382LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7383DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7384DOC_START
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7385 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7386 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7387 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7388
7389 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7390DOC_END
7391
22fff3bf 7392NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7393TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7394IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7395COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7396LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7397DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7398DOC_START
5473c134 7399 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7400 the adaptation service.
7401
7402 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7403 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7404 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7405DOC_END
7406
5473c134 7407NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7408TYPE: string
5473c134 7409IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7410LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7411DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7412DOC_START
db49f682 7413 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7414DOC_END
7415
5473c134 7416NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7417TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7418IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7419COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7420LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7421DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7422DOC_START
5473c134 7423 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7424DOC_END
7425
5473c134 7426NAME: icap_service
7427TYPE: icap_service_type
7428IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7429LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7430DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7431DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7432 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7433
c25c2836 7434 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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7436 id: ID
7437 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7438 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7439 services in squid.conf.
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7440
7441 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7442 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7443 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7444 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7445
c25c2836 7446 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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7447 ICAP server and service location.
7448
7449 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7450 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7451 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7452 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7453 service_names differ.
7454
7455
7456 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7457 the following name=value options:
7458
7459 bypass=on|off|1|0
7460 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7461 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7462 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7463 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7464 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7465 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7466 returned to the HTTP client.
7467
7468 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7469
7470 routing=on|off|1|0
7471 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7472 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7473 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7474 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7475 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7476 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7477 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7478 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7479
7480 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7481 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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7482
7483 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7484 response header is ignored.
7485
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7486 ipv6=on|off
7487 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7488 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7489 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7490
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7491 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7492 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7493 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7494 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7495 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7496 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7497 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7498
7499 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7500 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7501 workers may use a given service.
7502
7503 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7504 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7505
7506
7507 max-conn=number
7508 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7509 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7510
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7511 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7512 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7513
5473c134 7514Example:
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7515icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7516icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7517DOC_END
7518
5473c134 7519NAME: icap_class
7520TYPE: icap_class_type
7521IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7522LOC: none
5473c134 7523DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7524DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7525 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7526 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7527 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7528
62c7f90e 7529 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7530 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7531 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7532DOC_END
7533
5473c134 7534NAME: icap_access
7535TYPE: icap_access_type
7536IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7537LOC: none
cccac0a2 7538DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7539DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7540 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7541 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7542 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7543DOC_END
7544
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7545COMMENT_START
7546 eCAP OPTIONS
7547 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7548COMMENT_END
7549
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7550NAME: ecap_enable
7551TYPE: onoff
7552IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7553COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7554LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7555DEFAULT: off
7556DOC_START
7557 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7558DOC_END
7559
7560NAME: ecap_service
7561TYPE: ecap_service_type
7562IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7563LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7564DEFAULT: none
7565DOC_START
7566 Defines a single eCAP service
7567
c25c2836 7568 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7569
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7570 id: ID
7571 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7572 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7573 services in squid.conf.
7574
7575 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7576 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7577 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7578 are not yet supported.
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7579
7580 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7581 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7582 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7583 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7584 the service provider.
7585
7586
7587 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7588 the following name=value options:
7589
7590 bypass=on|off|1|0
7591 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7592 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7593 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7594 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7595 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7596 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7597 HTTP client.
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7598
7599 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7600
7601 routing=on|off|1|0
7602 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7603 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7604 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7605
7606 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7607 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7608
7609 Routing is not allowed by default.
7610
7611 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7612 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7613
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7614
7615Example:
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7616ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7617ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7618DOC_END
7619
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7620NAME: loadable_modules
7621TYPE: wordlist
7622IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7623LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7624DEFAULT: none
7625DOC_START
7626 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7627 preloaded module(s).
7628Example:
7629loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7630DOC_END
7631
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7632COMMENT_START
7633 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7634 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7635COMMENT_END
7636
7637NAME: adaptation_service_set
7638TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7639IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7640LOC: none
7641DEFAULT: none
7642DOC_START
7643
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7644 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7645 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7646
7647 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7648
7649 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7650 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7651 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7652 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7653 intact.
62c7f90e 7654
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7655 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7656 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7657
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7658 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7659 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7660
7661 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7662 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7663 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7664 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7665 transaction fails as well.
7666
7667 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7668 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7669 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7670 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7671 matters.
7672
7673 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7674
7675Example:
7676adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7677adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7678DOC_END
7679
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7680NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7681TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7682IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7683LOC: none
7684DEFAULT: none
7685DOC_START
7686
7687 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7688 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7689 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7690
7691 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7692
7693 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7694 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7695 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7696 the previous service in the chain.
7697
7698 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7699 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7700
7701 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7702 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7703 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7704
7705 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7706 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7707
7708 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7709 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7710 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7711 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7712
7713 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7714
7715Example:
7716adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7717DOC_END
7718
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7719NAME: adaptation_access
7720TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7721IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7722LOC: none
7723DEFAULT: none
7724DOC_START
7725 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7726
7727 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7728 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7729
7730 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7731 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7732 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7733 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7734
7735 - services serving different vectoring points
7736 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7737 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7738 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7739
7740 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7741 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7742 adaptation_service_set for details.
7743
7744 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7745 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7746 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7747 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7748
7749 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7750 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7751
7752 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7753
7754Example:
7755adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7756DOC_END
7757
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7758NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7759TYPE: int
7760IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7761LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7762DEFAULT: 16
7763DOC_START
7764 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7765 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7766 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7767 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7768 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7769 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7770
7771 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7772
7773 See also: icap_service routing=1
7774DOC_END
7775
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7776NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7777TYPE: string
7778IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7779LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7780DEFAULT: none
7781DOC_START
7782 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7783 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7784 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7785 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7786 with the master transaction.
7787
7788 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7789 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7790
7791 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7792 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7793 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7794
7795 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7796 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7797 to provide an option with a name specified in
7798 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7800 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7801 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7802
7803 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7804
7805Example:
7806# share authentication information among ICAP services
7807adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7808DOC_END
7809
71be37e0 7810NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 7811TYPE: note
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7812IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7813LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7814DEFAULT: none
7815DOC_START
7816 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7817 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7818 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7819 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7820
7821 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7822 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7823
7824 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7825 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7826 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7827 example:
7828
7829 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7830 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7831
7832 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7833 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7834
7835 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7836 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7837
7838 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7839 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7840 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7841 and double quotes. For example,
7842 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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7843
7844 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
7845 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
7846 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
7847 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
7848 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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7849DOC_END
7850
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7851NAME: icap_retry
7852TYPE: acl_access
7853IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7854LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7855DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7856DOC_START
7857 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7858 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7859 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7860 that response are usually retriable.
7861
7862 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7863
7864 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7865 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7866
7867 See also: icap_retry_limit
7868DOC_END
7869
7870NAME: icap_retry_limit
7871TYPE: int
7872IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7873LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7874DEFAULT: 0
7875DOC_START
7876 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7877 no retries are allowed.
7878
7879 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7880 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7881 count against this limit.
7882
7883 See also: icap_retry
7884DOC_END
7885
7886
5473c134 7887COMMENT_START
7888 DNS OPTIONS
7889 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7890COMMENT_END
7891
7892NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7893TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7894DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7895LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7896DOC_START
5473c134 7897 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7898 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7899 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7900DOC_END
7901
5473c134 7902NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7903TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7904DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7905LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7906DOC_START
5473c134 7907 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7908 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7909 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7910 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7911DOC_END
7912
5473c134 7913NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7914TYPE: string
f64091a7 7915IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7916DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7917LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7918DOC_START
5473c134 7919 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7920DOC_END
7921
5473c134 7922NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7923TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7924IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7925DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7926LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7927DOC_START
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7928 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7929 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7930 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7931 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7932 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7933
7934 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7935 tuning.
7936
7937 startup=
7938
7939 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7940 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7941 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7942
7943 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7944 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7945
7946 idle=
7947
7948 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7949 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7950 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7951 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7952DOC_END
7953
5473c134 7954NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7955TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7956DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7957LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7958IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7959DOC_START
5473c134 7960 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7961 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7962DOC_END
7963
5473c134 7964NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7965TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7966DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7967LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7968IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7969DOC_START
5473c134 7970 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7971 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7972 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7973DOC_END
7974
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7975NAME: dns_packet_max
7976TYPE: b_ssize_t
7977DEFAULT: none
7978LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7979IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7980DOC_START
7981 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7982 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7983
7984 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7985 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7986 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7987 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7988 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7989
7990 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7991 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7992 necessary.
7993
7994 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7995 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7996 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7997 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7998 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7999 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
8000 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
8001DOC_END
8002
5473c134 8003NAME: dns_defnames
8004COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 8005TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8006DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8007LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 8008DOC_START
5473c134 8009 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
8010 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
8011 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
8012 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 8013DOC_END
8014
5473c134 8015NAME: dns_nameservers
8016TYPE: wordlist
8017DEFAULT: none
8018LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 8019DOC_START
5473c134 8020 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
8021 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
8022 /etc/resolv.conf file.
8023 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
8024 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
8025 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
8026 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 8027
5473c134 8028 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 8029DOC_END
8030
5473c134 8031NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 8032TYPE: string
5473c134 8033DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
8034LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 8035DOC_START
5473c134 8036 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
8037 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
8038 default locations:
8039 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
8040 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8041 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
8042 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8043 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
8044 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
8045 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
8046 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 8047
5473c134 8048 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
8049 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
8050 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
8051 character are comments.
cccac0a2 8052
5473c134 8053 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
8054 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
8055 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
8056 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
8057 definitions.
cccac0a2 8058DOC_END
8059
5473c134 8060NAME: append_domain
8061TYPE: string
8062LOC: Config.appendDomain
8063DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 8064DOC_START
5473c134 8065 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
8066 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
8067
8068 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
8069 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
8070 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
8071
8072Example:
8073 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 8074DOC_END
8075
5473c134 8076NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
8077TYPE: onoff
8078LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 8079DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 8080IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 8081DOC_START
5473c134 8082 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
8083 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
8084 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
8085 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
8086 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 8087DOC_END
8088
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8089NAME: dns_v4_first
8090TYPE: onoff
8091DEFAULT: off
8092LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 8093IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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8094DOC_START
8095 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
8096 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
8097
8098 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
8099 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
8100 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
8101
8102 WARNING:
8103 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
8104 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
8105 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
8106DOC_END
8107
6bc15a4f 8108NAME: ipcache_size
8109COMMENT: (number of entries)
8110TYPE: int
8111DEFAULT: 1024
8112LOC: Config.ipcache.size
8113DOC_NONE
8114
8115NAME: ipcache_low
8116COMMENT: (percent)
8117TYPE: int
8118DEFAULT: 90
8119LOC: Config.ipcache.low
8120DOC_NONE
8121
8122NAME: ipcache_high
8123COMMENT: (percent)
8124TYPE: int
8125DEFAULT: 95
8126LOC: Config.ipcache.high
8127DOC_START
8128 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
8129DOC_END
8130
8131NAME: fqdncache_size
8132COMMENT: (number of entries)
8133TYPE: int
8134DEFAULT: 1024
8135LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
8136DOC_START
8137 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
8138DOC_END
8139
a58ff010 8140COMMENT_START
5473c134 8141 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 8142 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8143COMMENT_END
8144
5473c134 8145NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 8146COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8147TYPE: onoff
8148DEFAULT: on
8149LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 8150DOC_START
5473c134 8151 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
8152 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
8153 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
8154 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 8155DOC_END
8156
5473c134 8157NAME: memory_pools_limit
8158COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 8159TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 8160DEFAULT: 5 MB
8161LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 8162DOC_START
5473c134 8163 Used only with memory_pools on:
8164 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 8165
5473c134 8166 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
8167 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
8168 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
8169 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
8170 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
8171 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
8172 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 8173
89646bd7 8174 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 8175 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 8176
5473c134 8177 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 8178 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 8179
8180 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
8181 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
8182 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
8183 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 8184DOC_END
8185
5473c134 8186NAME: forwarded_for
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8187COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
8188TYPE: string
5473c134 8189DEFAULT: on
8190LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 8191DOC_START
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8192 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
8193 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 8194
5473c134 8195 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
8196
67c06f0d 8197 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 8198
8199 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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8200
8201 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
8202 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
8203
8204 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
8205 X-Forwarded-For header.
8206
8207 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 8208 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 8209DOC_END
8210
5473c134 8211NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8212TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8213DEFAULT: none
8214LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 8215DOC_START
5473c134 8216 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 8217
5473c134 8218 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8219
8220 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8221 5min
8222 60min
8223 asndb
8224 authenticator
8225 cbdata
8226 client_list
8227 comm_incoming
8228 config *
8229 counters
8230 delay
8231 digest_stats
8232 dns
8233 events
8234 filedescriptors
8235 fqdncache
8236 histograms
8237 http_headers
8238 info
8239 io
8240 ipcache
8241 mem
8242 menu
8243 netdb
8244 non_peers
8245 objects
8246 offline_toggle *
8247 pconn
8248 peer_select
b360c477 8249 reconfigure *
5473c134 8250 redirector
8251 refresh
8252 server_list
8253 shutdown *
8254 store_digest
8255 storedir
8256 utilization
8257 via_headers
8258 vm_objects
8259
8260 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8261 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8262
8263 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8264 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8265 password to "none".
8266
8267 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8268
8269Example:
8270 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8271 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8272 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8273DOC_END
8274
5473c134 8275NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8276COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8277TYPE: onoff
8278DEFAULT: on
8279LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8280DOC_START
5473c134 8281 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8282 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8283DOC_END
8284
5473c134 8285NAME: refresh_all_ims
8286COMMENT: on|off
8287TYPE: onoff
8288DEFAULT: off
8289LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8290DOC_START
5473c134 8291 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8292 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8293 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8294 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8295 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8296
5473c134 8297 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8298 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8299DOC_END
8300
5473c134 8301NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8302IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8303COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8304TYPE: onoff
8305DEFAULT: off
8306LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8307DOC_START
5473c134 8308 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8309 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8310 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8311 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8312 causes.
8313
8314 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8315DOC_END
8316
31ef19cd 8317NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8318TYPE: int
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8319LOC: Config.connect_retries
8320DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 8321DOC_START
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8322 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8323 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8324 complete within the connection timeout period.
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8325
8326 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8327 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8328
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8329 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8330 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8331
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8332 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8333 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8334 a useful server.
a58ff010 8335DOC_END
8336
5473c134 8337NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8338TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8339LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8340DEFAULT: off
8341DOC_START
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8342 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8343 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8344 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8345 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8346
8347 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8348 work around access control errors.
8349
8350 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8351 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8352DOC_END
8353
5473c134 8354NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8355TYPE: string
5473c134 8356LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8357DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8358DOC_START
5473c134 8359 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8360 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8361DOC_END
8362
5473c134 8363NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8364TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8365LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8366DEFAULT: off
8367DOC_START
5473c134 8368 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8369 objects.
a58ff010 8370DOC_END
8371
5473c134 8372NAME: uri_whitespace
8373TYPE: uri_whitespace
8374LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8375DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8376DOC_START
5473c134 8377 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8378 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8379
5473c134 8380 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
8381 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
8382 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8383 Request" message.
8384 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8385 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8386 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8387 are in use.
8388 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
8389 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
8390 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
8391 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
8392 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
8393 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
8394 violation.
8395DOC_END
a58ff010 8396
5473c134 8397NAME: chroot
8398TYPE: string
8399LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8400DEFAULT: none
8401DOC_START
9f37c18a 8402 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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8403 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8404 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8405 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8406 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8407DOC_END
a58ff010 8408
5473c134 8409NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8410TYPE: onoff
8411LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8412DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8413DOC_START
cc192b50 8414 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8415 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8416 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8417
5473c134 8418 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8419 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8420 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8421
cc192b50 8422 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8423DOC_END
8424
5473c134 8425NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8426TYPE: onoff
8427LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8428DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8429DOC_START
5473c134 8430 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8431 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8432 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8433
5473c134 8434 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8435 reasons.
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8436
8437 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8438DOC_END
a58ff010 8439
5473c134 8440NAME: high_response_time_warning
8441TYPE: int
8442COMMENT: (msec)
8443LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8444DEFAULT: 0
8445DOC_START
8446 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8447 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8448 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8449DOC_END
8450
5473c134 8451NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8452TYPE: int
8453LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8454DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 8455DOC_START
5473c134 8456 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8457 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8458 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8459 per second.
8460DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8461
5473c134 8462NAME: high_memory_warning
8463TYPE: b_size_t
8464LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8465DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 8466DOC_START
8467 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8468 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8469 the administrators attention.
8470DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8471
5473c134 8472NAME: sleep_after_fork
8473COMMENT: (microseconds)
8474TYPE: int
8475LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8476DEFAULT: 0
8477DOC_START
8478 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8479 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8480 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8481 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8482 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8483 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8484 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8485 until all the child processes have been started.
8486 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8487 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8488DOC_END
8489
b6696974 8490NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 8491IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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8492COMMENT: on|off
8493TYPE: onoff
8494DEFAULT: on
8495LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8496DOC_START
8497 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8498 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8499 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8500 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8501 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8502 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8503DOC_END
8504
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8505NAME: eui_lookup
8506TYPE: onoff
8507IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8508DEFAULT: on
8509LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8510DOC_START
8511 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8512DOC_END
8513
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8514NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8515TYPE: int
8516DEFAULT: 0
8517LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8518DOC_START
8519 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8520
8521 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8522
8523 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8524 not all comm loops supports large values.
8525DOC_END
8526
13aeac35 8527NAME: workers
007d775d 8528TYPE: int
13aeac35 8529LOC: Config.workers
007d775d
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8530DEFAULT: 1
8531DOC_START
13aeac35 8532 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
007d775d
AR
8533 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8534 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
AR
8535 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8536
b87f6632
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8537 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8538 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
007d775d
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8539DOC_END
8540
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8541NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8542TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8543LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8544DEFAULT: none
8545DOC_START
8546 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8547
8548 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8549
8550 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8551
8552 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8553 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8554
8555 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8556 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8557
8558 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8559
8560 See also: workers
8561DOC_END
8562
cccac0a2 8563EOF