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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
3a278cb8 32
cccac0a2 33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
3a278cb8 36
cccac0a2 37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
debd9a31 44
cccac0a2 45COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 46
592a09dc 47COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
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60
61
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62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
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87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 97COMMENT_END
98
5473c134 99COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 100 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 101 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
102COMMENT_END
103
41bd17a4 104NAME: auth_param
105TYPE: authparam
5817ee13 106LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 107DEFAULT: none
108DOC_START
41bd17a4 109 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
110 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 111
41bd17a4 112 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 113
41bd17a4 114 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
115 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
116 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
117 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
118 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
119 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
120 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
121 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
122 program entry).
cccac0a2 123
41bd17a4 124 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
125 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
126 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
127 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 128
41bd17a4 129 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
130 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
131 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
132 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
133 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
134 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
135 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
136 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
137 type acl.
cccac0a2 138
41bd17a4 139 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
140 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
141 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
142 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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143 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
144 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 145
41bd17a4 146 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 147
41bd17a4 148 "program" cmdline
149 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
150 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
151 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
152 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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153 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
154 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 155
41bd17a4 156 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
157 program is specified.
cccac0a2 158
41bd17a4 159 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
160 this line to something like
307b83b7 161
41bd17a4 162 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 163
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164 "utf8" on|off
165 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
166 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
167 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
168 username & password to the helper.
169
7353861b 170 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 171 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 172 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
173 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
174 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
175 authenticator processes.
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176
177 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
178 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
179 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
180 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
181 the maximum.
182
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183 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
184 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
185 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
186 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
187 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
188 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 189 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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190
191 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 192
41bd17a4 193 "realm" realmstring
194 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
195 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
196 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
197 password). There is no default.
198 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 199
41bd17a4 200 "credentialsttl" timetolive
201 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
202 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
203 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
204 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
205 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
206 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
207 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
208 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
209 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 210
41bd17a4 211 "casesensitive" on|off
212 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
213 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
214 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
215 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
216 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 217
41bd17a4 218 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 219
41bd17a4 220 "program" cmdline
221 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
222 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
223 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
224 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
225 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
226 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
227 available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 228
41bd17a4 229 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
230 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 231
41bd17a4 232 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
233 something like
cccac0a2 234
7ce93108 235 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 236
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237 "utf8" on|off
238 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
239 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
240 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
241 username & password to the helper.
242
7353861b 243 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 244 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 245 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
246 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
247 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
248 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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249
250 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
251 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
252 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
253 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
254 the maximum.
255
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256 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
257 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
258 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
259 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
260 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
261 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
262 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
263
48d54e4d 264 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 265
41bd17a4 266 "realm" realmstring
267 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
268 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
269 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
270 password). There is no default.
271 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 272
41bd17a4 273 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
274 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
275 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 276
41bd17a4 277 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
278 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
279 valid for.
cccac0a2 280
41bd17a4 281 "nonce_max_count" number
282 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
283 used.
cccac0a2 284
41bd17a4 285 "nonce_strictness" on|off
286 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
287 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
288 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
289 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 290
41bd17a4 291 "check_nonce_count" on|off
292 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
293 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
294 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
295 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 296
41bd17a4 297 "post_workaround" on|off
298 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
299 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
300 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 301
41bd17a4 302 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304 "program" cmdline
305 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
306 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
307 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
308 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
309 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
310 is not used.
cccac0a2 311
41bd17a4 312 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 313
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314 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
315 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 316 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
317 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
318 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
319 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
320 processes.
cccac0a2 321
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322 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
323 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
324 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
325 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
326 the maximum.
327
328 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 329
41bd17a4 330 "keep_alive" on|off
331 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
332 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
333 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
334 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
335 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 336
41bd17a4 337 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 338
41bd17a4 339 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 340
41bd17a4 341 "program" cmdline
342 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
343 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
344 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
345 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
346 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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347 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
348 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
349 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 350 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
351 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 352
41bd17a4 353 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 354
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355 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
356 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 357 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
358 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
359 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
360 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
361 processes.
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362
363 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
364 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
365 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
366 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
367 the maximum.
368
369 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 370
41bd17a4 371 "keep_alive" on|off
372 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
373 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
374 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
375 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
376 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 377
41bd17a4 378 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 379
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380
381 Examples:
382
41bd17a4 383#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
384#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 385#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 386#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 387#
41bd17a4 388#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 389#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 390#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 391#
41bd17a4 392#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 393#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 394#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
395#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
396#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
397#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 398#
41bd17a4 399#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 400#auth_param basic children 5 stratup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 401#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
402#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 403DOC_END
cccac0a2 404
41bd17a4 405NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
406TYPE: time_t
407DEFAULT: 1 hour
408LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
409DOC_START
410 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
411 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
412 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
413 have good reason to.
414DOC_END
cccac0a2 415
41bd17a4 416NAME: authenticate_ttl
417TYPE: time_t
418DEFAULT: 1 hour
419LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
420DOC_START
421 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
422 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
423 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
424 TTL are removed from memory.
425DOC_END
cccac0a2 426
41bd17a4 427NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
428TYPE: time_t
429LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
430DEFAULT: 0 seconds
431DOC_START
432 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
433 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
434 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
435 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
436 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
437 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
438 environment with relatively static address assignments.
439DOC_END
cccac0a2 440
3d1e3e43 441COMMENT_START
442 ACCESS CONTROLS
443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
444COMMENT_END
445
41bd17a4 446NAME: external_acl_type
447TYPE: externalAclHelper
448LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 449DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 450DOC_START
41bd17a4 451 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
452 to look up the status
cccac0a2 453
41bd17a4 454 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 455
41bd17a4 456 Options:
cccac0a2 457
41bd17a4 458 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
459 for 1 hour)
460 negative_ttl=n
461 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
462 as ttl)
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463 children-max=n
464 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
465 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
466 children-startup=n
467 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
468 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
469 of this type. (default 0)
470 children-idle=n
471 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
472 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
473 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
474 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 475 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
476 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 477 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 478 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
479 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 480 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 481 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
cc192b50 482 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
483 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
055421ee 484 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
cccac0a2 485
41bd17a4 486 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 487
41bd17a4 488 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
489 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
490 %IDENT Ident user name
491 %SRC Client IP
492 %SRCPORT Client source port
493 %URI Requested URI
494 %DST Requested host
495 %PROTO Requested protocol
496 %PORT Requested port
497 %PATH Requested URL path
498 %METHOD Request method
499 %MYADDR Squid interface address
500 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
501 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
502 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
503 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
504 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
505 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 506
c68c9682 507 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 508 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 509 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 510 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 511 HTTP request header list member using ; as
512 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
513 character.
cccac0a2 514
c68c9682 515 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 516 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 517 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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518 %<{Hdr:;member}
519 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
520 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
521 character.
522
41bd17a4 523 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
524 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
525 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 526
41bd17a4 527 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
528 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
529 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
530 more details.
cccac0a2 531
41bd17a4 532 General result syntax:
cccac0a2 533
41bd17a4 534 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 535
41bd17a4 536 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 537
41bd17a4 538 user= The users name (login)
539 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
540 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
541 in error pages
542 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
543 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
544 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
545 %ea in logformat specifications
934b03fc 546
41bd17a4 547 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
548 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 549
41bd17a4 550 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
551 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
552 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 553
41bd17a4 554 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
555 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
556 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 557DOC_END
558
41bd17a4 559NAME: acl
560TYPE: acl
561LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 562DEFAULT: all src all
cccac0a2 563DOC_START
41bd17a4 564 Defining an Access List
cccac0a2 565
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566 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
567 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
568 they are read from.
cccac0a2 569
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570 acl aclname acltype argument ...
571 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 572
375eeb3b 573 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
cccac0a2 574
41bd17a4 575 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
576 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
cccac0a2 577
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578 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
579 to access some external data source.
580 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
581 don't are marked as [fast].
582 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
583 for further information
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585 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
586
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587 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
588 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
589 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
590 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
cccac0a2 591
41bd17a4 592 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
593 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
594 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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596 # other *BSD variants.
597 # [fast]
41bd17a4 598 #
599 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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601 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
602
603 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
604 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
605 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 606 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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607 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
608 # regex matching client name [slow]
609 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 610 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 611 #
41bd17a4 612 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
613 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
614 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 615
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616 acl aclname src_as number ...
617 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 618 # [fast]
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620 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
621 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
622 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
623 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
624 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
625 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 626
6db78a1a 627 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 628 # [fast]
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630 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
631
375eeb3b 632 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 633 # [fast]
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635 # S - Sunday
636 # M - Monday
637 # T - Tuesday
638 # W - Wednesday
639 # H - Thursday
640 # F - Friday
641 # A - Saturday
642 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
643
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645 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
646 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
647 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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649 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
650 # ranges are alloed
651 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
652 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
e988aa40 653
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655
656 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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658 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
659 # status code in reply [fast]
e988aa40 660
375eeb3b 661 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 662 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 663
375eeb3b 664 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 665 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 666 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 667
375eeb3b 668 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 669 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 670 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 671 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 672
41bd17a4 673 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
674 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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676 # supplied credentials [slow]
677 #
678 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 679 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
680 #
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682 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
683 #
41bd17a4 684 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
685 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
686 # in access.log.
687 #
688 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
689 # to check username/password combinations (see
690 # auth_param directive).
691 #
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693 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 694 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 695
41bd17a4 696 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 697 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 698 # Example:
699 #
700 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
934b03fc 701
41bd17a4 702 acl aclname maxconn number
703 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
b3567eb5 704 # more than <number> HTTP connections established. [fast]
1e5562e3 705
41bd17a4 706 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
707 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
708 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 709 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 710 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
711 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
712 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
713 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
714 # request is denied)
715 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
716 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
717 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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720 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
721 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
722 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
723
375eeb3b 724 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 725 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
726 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 727 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 728 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
729 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 730
41bd17a4 731 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
732 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
733 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 734 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 735
375eeb3b 736 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 737 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
738 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 739 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 740 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
741 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
742 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 743
41bd17a4 744 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
745 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
746 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 747 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 748
375eeb3b 749 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 750 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 751 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 752
41bd17a4 753 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
754 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 755 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 756
41bd17a4 757 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
758 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 759 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 760
41bd17a4 761 acl aclname ext_user username ...
762 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 763 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 764 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 765
0ab50441 766 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 767 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
cccac0a2 768
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769 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
770 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
771 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
772 #
773 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
774 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
775 # http_reply_access.
776
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778 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
779 acl myexample dst_as 1241
780 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
781 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
782 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 783
41bd17a4 784NOCOMMENT_START
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786# Recommended minimum configuration:
787#
41bd17a4 788acl manager proto cache_object
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789acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
790acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
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ee776778 792# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
793# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
794# should be allowed
795acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
796acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
797acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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798acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
799acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 801acl SSL_ports port 443
802acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
803acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
804acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
805acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
806acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
807acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
808acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
809acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
810acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
811acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
812acl CONNECT method CONNECT
813NOCOMMENT_END
814DOC_END
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816NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
817TYPE: acl_access
818IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
819LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
820DEFAULT: none
821DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
822DOC_START
823 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
824 find the original source of a request.
825
826 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
827 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
828 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
829 rightmost address being the most recent.
830
831 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
832 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
833 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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834 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
835 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
836 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
837 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
838 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
839 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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841 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
842 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 843 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 844 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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845 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
846 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 847
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849 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
850
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851 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
852
853 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
854 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
855 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
856 source address of the request. This may enable remote
857 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
858 based on the client's source addresses.
859
860 For example:
861
862 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
863 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
864 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
865 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
866DOC_END
867
868NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
869COMMENT: on|off
870TYPE: onoff
871IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
872DEFAULT: on
873LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
874DOC_START
875 Controls whether the indirect client address
876 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
877 direct client address in acl matching.
878DOC_END
879
880NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
881COMMENT: on|off
882TYPE: onoff
0dae2bca 883IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&DELAY_POOLS
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885LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
886DOC_START
887 Controls whether the indirect client address
888 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
889 direct client address in delay pools.
890DOC_END
891
892NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
893COMMENT: on|off
894TYPE: onoff
895IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
896DEFAULT: on
897LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
898DOC_START
899 Controls whether the indirect client address
900 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
901 direct client address in the access log.
902DOC_END
903
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904NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
905COMMENT: on|off
906TYPE: onoff
907IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 908DEFAULT: off
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909LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
910DOC_START
911 Controls whether the indirect client address
912 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
913 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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915 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
916 mode ports.
917
918 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
919 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
920 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
921 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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923
41bd17a4 924NAME: http_access
925TYPE: acl_access
926LOC: Config.accessList.http
927DEFAULT: none
928DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
929DOC_START
930 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 931
41bd17a4 932 Access to the HTTP port:
933 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 934
41bd17a4 935 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 936
41bd17a4 937 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
938 the request.
cccac0a2 939
41bd17a4 940 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
941 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
942 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
943 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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945 lists to avoid potential confusion.
cccac0a2 946
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948 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
949
41bd17a4 950NOCOMMENT_START
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952#
953# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 954#
955# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
956http_access allow manager localhost
957http_access deny manager
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959# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 960http_access deny !Safe_ports
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962# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 963http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 965# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
966# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
967# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
968#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 970#
971# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 972#
c8f4eac4 973
ee776778 974# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
975# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
976# from where browsing should be allowed
977http_access allow localnet
afb33856 978http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 979
41bd17a4 980# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
981http_access deny all
982NOCOMMENT_END
983DOC_END
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986TYPE: acl_access
987LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
988DEFAULT: none
989DOC_START
990 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
991
992 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
993 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
994 output.
995
996 If not set then only http_access is used.
997DOC_END
998
41bd17a4 999NAME: http_reply_access
1000TYPE: acl_access
1001LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1002DEFAULT: none
1003DOC_START
1004 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
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41bd17a4 1006 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1007
41bd17a4 1008 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1009 all replies
1a224843 1010
41bd17a4 1011 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1012 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1013 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1015 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1016 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1017DOC_END
1018
41bd17a4 1019NAME: icp_access
1020TYPE: acl_access
1021LOC: Config.accessList.icp
1022DEFAULT: none
1023DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1024DOC_START
41bd17a4 1025 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1026 access lists
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41bd17a4 1028 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1030 See http_access for details
1031
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1033 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1035# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1037#icp_access deny all
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1039
41bd17a4 1040NAME: htcp_access
1041IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1042TYPE: acl_access
1043LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
1044DEFAULT: none
1045DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1046DOC_START
41bd17a4 1047 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1048 access lists
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41bd17a4 1050 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1052 See http_access for details
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0b48417e 1054 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1055 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1056 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
1057
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1059 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1061# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1063#htcp_access deny all
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41bd17a4 1066NAME: htcp_clr_access
1067IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1068TYPE: acl_access
1069LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
1070DEFAULT: none
1071DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1072DOC_START
1073 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1074 on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1076 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1078 See http_access for details
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1081 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1083# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1084acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1085htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
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1087
41bd17a4 1088NAME: miss_access
1089TYPE: acl_access
1090LOC: Config.accessList.miss
df2eec10 1091DEFAULT: allow all
5473c134 1092DOC_START
41bd17a4 1093 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1094 a parent. For example:
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41bd17a4 1096 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1097 miss_access allow localclients
1098 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1099
41bd17a4 1100 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1101 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
5473c134 1102
41bd17a4 1103 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1104 to fetch MISSES from us.
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1106 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1107 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1108DOC_END
1109
1110NAME: ident_lookup_access
1111TYPE: acl_access
1112IFDEF: USE_IDENT
1113DEFAULT: none
1114DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1115LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1116DOC_START
41bd17a4 1117 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1118 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1119 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1120 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1121 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1122 any requests.
5473c134 1123
41bd17a4 1124 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1125 can follow this example:
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4daaf3cb 1127 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1128 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1129 ident_lookup_access deny all
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4daaf3cb 1131 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1132 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1133 the correct result.
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1135 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1136 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1137DOC_END
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5b0f5383 1139NAME: reply_body_max_size
1140COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1141TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1142DEFAULT: none
1143LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1144DOC_START
1145 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1146 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1147 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1148 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1149 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1150 for this reply.
1151
1152 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1153 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1154 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1155 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1156 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1157 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1158 and they will receive a partial reply.
1159
1160 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1161 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1162 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1163 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1164
1165 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1166 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1167 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1168 the size of your largest error page.
1169
1170 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1171 no limit imposed.
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1173 Configuration Format is:
1174 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1175 ie.
1176 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1177
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1179
1180COMMENT_START
1181 NETWORK OPTIONS
1182 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1183COMMENT_END
1184
1185NAME: http_port ascii_port
1186TYPE: http_port_list
1187DEFAULT: none
1188LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1189DOC_START
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1190 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1191 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1192 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1193
1194 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1195 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1196 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1197 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1198 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1199 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1200 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1201
1202 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1203 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1204
1205 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1206 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1207 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1208
1209 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1210
c7b1dd5d 1211 Modes:
5b0f5383 1212
e77bdb4e 1213 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1214 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1215 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1216
1217 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1218 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1219 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1220
1221 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1222 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1223
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1224 sslbump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1225 establish secure connection with the client and with
1226 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1227 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1228 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1229
1230 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1231 the SslBump feature.
1232
1233 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1234
1235
1236 Accelerator Mode Options:
1237
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1238 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1239 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1240 never_direct was used.
1241
5b0f5383 1242 defaultsite=domainname
1243 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1244 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1245 accelerators should consider the default.
1246 Implies accel.
1247
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1248 vhost Using the Host header for virtual domain support.
1249 Also uses the port as specified in Host: header.
5b0f5383 1250
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1251 vport IP based virtual host support. Using the http_port number
1252 in passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1253
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1255 http_port number.
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1257 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
c7b1dd5d 1258 Defaults to http://.
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1261
1262 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1263 used in non-accelerator setups.
1264
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1266 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1267
1268 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1269
1270 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1271 if not specified, the certificate file is
1272 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1273 key file.
1274
1275 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1276 1 automatic (default)
1277 2 SSLv2 only
1278 3 SSLv3 only
1279 4 TLSv1 only
1280
1281 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1282
1283 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1284 being:
1285 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1286 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1287 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1288 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1289 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1290 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1291 documentation for a complete list of options.
1292
1293 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1294 requesting a client certificate.
1295
1296 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1297 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1298 clientca will be used.
1299
1300 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1301 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1302
1303 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1304 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1305 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1306
1307 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1308 DH key exchanges.
1309
1310 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1311 DELAYED_AUTH
1312 Don't request client certificates
1313 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1314 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1315 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1316 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1317 to OpenSSL.
1318 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1319 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1320 will result in a new SSL session.
1321 VERIFY_CRL
1322 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1323 certificates.
1324 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1325 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1326 client certificate chain.
1327
1328 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1329
1330
1331 Other Options:
1332
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1334 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1335 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1337
5b0f5383 1338 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1339 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1340 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1341 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1342 support is enabled.
1343 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1344
1345 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1346 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1347 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1348 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1349 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1350 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1351 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1352 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1353
81b6e9a7 1354 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1355 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1356
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1359 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1360 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1361 timeout the time before giving up.
1362
5b0f5383 1363 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1364 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1365 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1366 visible on the internal address.
1367
1368NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1370# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1371http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1372NOCOMMENT_END
1373DOC_END
1374
1375NAME: https_port
1376IFDEF: USE_SSL
1377TYPE: https_port_list
1378DEFAULT: none
1379LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1380DOC_START
1381 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1382
1383 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1384 requests.
1385
1386 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1387 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1388 accelerator level.
1389
1390 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1391 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1392
1393 Options:
1394
1395 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1396 defaultsite or vhost.
1397
1398 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1399 this port. Implies accel.
1400
1401 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1402 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1403 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1404 Implies accel.
1405
1406 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1407 Defaults to https.
1408
1409 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1410
1411 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1412 if not specified, the certificate file is
1413 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1414 key file.
1415
1416 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1417 1 automatic (default)
1418 2 SSLv2 only
1419 3 SSLv3 only
1420 4 TLSv1 only
1421
1422 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1423
1424 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1425 being:
1426 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1427 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1428 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1429 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1430 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1431 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1432 documentation for a complete list of options.
1433
1434 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1435 requesting a client certificate.
1436
1437 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1438 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1439 clientca will be used.
1440
1441 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1442 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1443
1444 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1445 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1446 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1447
1448 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1449 DH key exchanges.
1450
1451 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1452 DELAYED_AUTH
1453 Don't request client certificates
1454 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1455 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1456 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1457 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1458 to OpenSSL.
1459 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1460 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1461 will result in a new SSL session.
1462 VERIFY_CRL
1463 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1464 certificates.
1465 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1466 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1467 client certificate chain.
1468
1469 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1470
1471 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1472
1473 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1474 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1475
81b6e9a7 1476 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1477 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1478
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1480
41bd17a4 1481NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1482TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1483DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1484LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
5473c134 1485DOC_START
41bd17a4 1486 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1487 connections with, based on the username or source address
1488 making the request.
5473c134 1489
41bd17a4 1490 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1491
41bd17a4 1492 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1493 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1494
41bd17a4 1495 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1496 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
2c73de90 1497 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1498 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1499
41bd17a4 1500 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1502 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1503
41bd17a4 1504 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1505 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1506 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1507 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
cccac0a2 1508
41bd17a4 1509 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1510 matching line.
cccac0a2 1511
41bd17a4 1512 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1513 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1514 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1515 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cccac0a2 1516DOC_END
1517
41bd17a4 1518NAME: clientside_tos
1519TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1520DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1521LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
cccac0a2 1522DOC_START
41bd17a4 1523 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1524 connections with, based on the username or source address
1525 making the request.
1526DOC_END
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1529TYPE: QosConfig
7172612f 1530IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
575cb927 1531DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1532LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1533DOC_START
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1534 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1535 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced.
7172612f 1536
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1538 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1539 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1542 Note that in practice often only values up to 0x3F are usable
1543 as the two highest bits have been redefined for use by ECN
1544 (RFC3168).
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1547
1548 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1549
1550 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1551
1552 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1553
1554
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1556
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1558 linux kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1559 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1560
575cb927 1561 disable-preserve-miss
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1563 from the remote server will be retained and masked with
1564 miss-mark. This option disables that feature.
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1566 miss-mask=0xFF
1567 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1568 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS sent
1569 towards clients.
1570 Default: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
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1573
41bd17a4 1574NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1575TYPE: acl_address
1576DEFAULT: none
1577LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1578DOC_START
1579 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1580 based on the username or source address of the user making
1581 the request.
7f7db318 1582
41bd17a4 1583 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1584
41bd17a4 1585 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1586 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1587 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1588 source address 10.1.0.3.
9197cd13 1589
17148b2f 1590 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1591 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1592 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1593 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1594 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1595
41bd17a4 1596 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1597 matching line.
cccac0a2 1598
41bd17a4 1599 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1600 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1601 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1602 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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1605 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1606 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option to
1607 re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1608
1609 IPv6 Magic:
1610
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1612 internets.
cc192b50 1613 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1614 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1615 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1616
1617 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1618 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1619 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1620
1621 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1622 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1623 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
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1625 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
17148b2f 1626 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
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1628 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
17148b2f 1629 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
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1631 WARNING:
1632 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1633 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1634 address which can link to the peer.
1635
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1637 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1638 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1639 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1640 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1641
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1643
41bd17a4 1644COMMENT_START
1645 SSL OPTIONS
1646 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1647COMMENT_END
1648
1649NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1650IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1651TYPE: onoff
1652DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1653LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1654DOC_START
41bd17a4 1655 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1656 messages.
cccac0a2 1657DOC_END
1658
41bd17a4 1659NAME: ssl_engine
1660IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1661TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1662LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1663DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1664DOC_START
41bd17a4 1665 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1666 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1667DOC_END
1668
41bd17a4 1669NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1670IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1671DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1672LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1673TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1674DOC_START
41bd17a4 1675 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1676DOC_END
1677
41bd17a4 1678NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1679IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1680DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1681LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1682TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1683DOC_START
41bd17a4 1684 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1685DOC_END
1686
41bd17a4 1687NAME: sslproxy_version
1688IFDEF: USE_SSL
1689DEFAULT: 1
1690LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1691TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1692DOC_START
41bd17a4 1693 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1694DOC_END
1695
41bd17a4 1696NAME: sslproxy_options
1697IFDEF: USE_SSL
1698DEFAULT: none
1699LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1700TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1701DOC_START
41bd17a4 1702 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1704 The most important being:
1705
1706 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1707 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1708 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1709 SINGLE_DH_USE
1710 Always create a new key when using
1711 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1712
1713 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1714 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1715 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1716DOC_END
1717
41bd17a4 1718NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1719IFDEF: USE_SSL
1720DEFAULT: none
1721LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1722TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1723DOC_START
41bd17a4 1724 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1726 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1727DOC_END
1728
41bd17a4 1729NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1730IFDEF: USE_SSL
1731DEFAULT: none
1732LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1733TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1734DOC_START
41bd17a4 1735 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1736 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1737DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1739NAME: sslproxy_capath
1740IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1741DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1742LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1743TYPE: string
5473c134 1744DOC_START
41bd17a4 1745 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1746 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1747DOC_END
1748
4c9da963 1749NAME: ssl_bump
1750IFDEF: USE_SSL
1751TYPE: acl_access
1752LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1753DEFAULT: none
1754DOC_START
1755 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1756 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1757 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1758 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1759
1760 By default, no requests are bumped.
1761
1762 See also: http_port sslBump
1763
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1765 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1767
1768 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1769 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1770
1771 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1772 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1773 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1774 ssl_bump deny localhost
1775 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1776 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1777DOC_END
1778
41bd17a4 1779NAME: sslproxy_flags
1780IFDEF: USE_SSL
1781DEFAULT: none
1782LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1783TYPE: string
5473c134 1784DOC_START
41bd17a4 1785 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1786 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1787 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1788 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1789 to OpenSSL.
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1791
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1793NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1794IFDEF: USE_SSL
1795DEFAULT: none
1796LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1797TYPE: acl_access
1798DOC_START
1799 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1800
1801 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1802 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1803 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1804
1805 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1806 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1807 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1808
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1810 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1811 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
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1813 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1814 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1815 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1816 the connection may be insecure.
1817
1818 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1819
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1822
1823
1824
41bd17a4 1825NAME: sslpassword_program
1826IFDEF: USE_SSL
1827DEFAULT: none
1828LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1829TYPE: string
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41bd17a4 1831 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1832 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1833 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1834 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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1836 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
1837 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
1838 keys.
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1840
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41bd17a4 1842 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
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1844COMMENT_END
1845
41bd17a4 1846NAME: cache_peer
1847TYPE: peer
1848DEFAULT: none
1849LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 1850DOC_START
41bd17a4 1851 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 1853 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 1854
41bd17a4 1855 For example,
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41bd17a4 1857 # proxy icp
1858 # hostname type port port options
1859 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 1860 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 1861 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1862 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
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1864 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
1865
1866 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
1867
1868 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
1869 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
1870 For web servers this is usually 80
1871
1872 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
1873 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
1874 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
1875
1876
1877 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
1878
1879 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
1880 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
1881
1882
1883 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
1884
1885 multicast-responder
1886 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
1887 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
1888 replies will be accepted from it.
1889
1890 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
1891 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
1892
1893 background-ping
1894 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
1895 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
1896 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
1897
1898
1899 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
1900
1901 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
1902 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
1903
1904
1905 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
1906 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
1907 instead of 3130.
1908
1909 htcp-oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions.
1910
1911 htcp-no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1912 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1913 htcp-only-clr.
1914
1915 htcp-only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
1916 This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1917
1918 htcp-no-purge-clr
1919 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
1920 they do not result from PURGE requests.
1921
1922 htcp-forward-clr
1923 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
1924
1925
1926 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
1927
1928 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
1929 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
1930
1931
1932 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
1933 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
1934 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
1935
1936 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1937 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
1938 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1939
1940 weighted-round-robin
1941 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1942 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
1943 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
1944 Usually used for background-ping parents.
1945 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1946
1947 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
1948 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
1949 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
1950
1951 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1952
1953 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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1955 multicast-siblings
1956 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
1957 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
1958 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
1959 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
1960 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
1961 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
1962 members of the same multicast group.
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1964
1965 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
1966
1967 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
1968 peer-selection mechanisms.
1969 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1970 larger weights are favored more.
1971 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1972 protocol is not in use.
1973
1974 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
1975 times of parents.
1976 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1977 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1978 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
1979
1980 ttl=N Specify a IP multicast TTL to use when sending an ICP
1981 queries to this address.
1982 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1983 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1984 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1985 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
1986
1987 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
1988 delay pools.
1989
1990 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
1991 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
1992 than the Squid default location.
1993
1994
1995 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
1996
1997 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
1998 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
1999 is a web server.
2000
2001 forceddomain=name
2002 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2003 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2004 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2005 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2006
2007 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2008
2009 no-netdb-exchange
2010 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2011
2012
2013 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2014
2015 login=user:password
2016 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2017 requires proxy authentication.
2018
2019 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2020 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2021
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2023 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2024 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2025 without alteration to the peer.
2026 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2027
2028 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2029 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2030 connection-auth options are also used.
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2032 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2033 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2036 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2038 they may be sent instead.
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2040 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2041 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2042 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2043 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2044 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2045
2046 login=*:password
2047 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2048 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2049 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2050 needed to identify each user.
2051 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2052 information which is added to the username. This can
2053 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2054 the login=username:password option above.
2055
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2056 login=NEGOTIATE
2057 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2058 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2059 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2060 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2061
2062 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2063 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2064 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2065 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2066 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2067 used.
2068
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2070 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2071 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2072 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2073 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2074 of the peer.
2075
2076
2077 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2078
2079 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2080
2081 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2082 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2083 this peer.
2084
2085 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2086 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2087 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2088 reference a combined file containing both the
2089 certificate and the key.
2090
2091 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2092 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2093 1 = automatic (default)
2094 2 = SSL v2 only
2095 3 = SSL v3 only
2096 4 = TLS v1 only
2097
2098 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2099 to this peer.
2100
2101 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2102 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2103 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2104 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2105 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2106 a more complete list.
2107
2108 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2109 when verifying the peer certificate.
2110
2111 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2112 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2113
2114 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2115 verifying the peer certificate.
2116
2117 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2118
41bd17a4 2119 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2120 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2121 verify.
2122 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2123 Don't use the default CA list built in
2124 to OpenSSL.
2125 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2126 Don't verify the peer certificate
2127 matches the server name
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2129 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2130 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2131 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2132 used.
2133
2134 front-end-https
2135 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2136 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2137 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2138 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2139 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2140
2141
2142 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2143
2144 connect-timeout=N
2145 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2146 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2147
2148 connect-fail-limit=N
2149 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2150 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2151
2152 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2153 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2154 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2155 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2156 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2157 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2158 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2159
2160 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2161 peer. see also
2162
2163 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2164 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2165 but different ports.
2166 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2167 directives to dentify the peer.
2168 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2169 peername ACL type.
2170
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2172 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2173
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2174 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2175
41bd17a4 2176DOC_END
cccac0a2 2177
41bd17a4 2178NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2179TYPE: hostdomain
2180DEFAULT: none
2181LOC: none
2182DOC_START
2183 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2184 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2185
41bd17a4 2186 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2187 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2188
41bd17a4 2189 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2190
41bd17a4 2191 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2192
41bd17a4 2193 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2194 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2195 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2196 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2197 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2198
41bd17a4 2199 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2200 either on the same or separate lines.
2201 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2202 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2203 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2204 for all requests.
2205 * There are no defaults.
2206 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2207 section.
2208DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2210NAME: cache_peer_access
2211TYPE: peer_access
2212DEFAULT: none
2213LOC: none
2214DOC_START
2215 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2216 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2217
41bd17a4 2218 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2219
41bd17a4 2220 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2221 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2222 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2223DOC_END
dd9b1776 2224
41bd17a4 2225NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2226TYPE: hostdomaintype
2227DEFAULT: none
2228LOC: none
2229DOC_START
2230 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2231
41bd17a4 2232 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2233 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2234 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2235 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2236 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2237 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2238
41bd17a4 2239EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2240 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2241 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2242 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2243DOC_END
6bf4f823 2244
41bd17a4 2245NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2246COMMENT: (seconds)
2247DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2248TYPE: time_t
2249LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2250DOC_START
2251 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2252 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2253 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2254 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2255 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2256 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2257
41bd17a4 2258 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2259 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2260 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2261 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2262 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2263 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2264 instead of to your parents.
2265DOC_END
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2267NAME: forward_max_tries
2268DEFAULT: 10
2269TYPE: int
2270LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2271DOC_START
2272 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2273 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2274DOC_END
2275
41bd17a4 2276NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2277TYPE: wordlist
2278DEFAULT: none
2279LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2280DOC_START
2281 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2282 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2283 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2284 list this option multiple times.
2285 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
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2288# We recommend you to use at least the following line.
41bd17a4 2289hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
6b698a21 2290NOCOMMENT_END
2291DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2293COMMENT_START
2294 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2295 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2296COMMENT_END
2297
2298NAME: cache_mem
2299COMMENT: (bytes)
2300TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2301DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2302LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2303DOC_START
41bd17a4 2304 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2305 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2306 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2307 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2308
2309 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2310 for:
2311 * In-Transit objects
2312 * Hot Objects
2313 * Negative-Cached objects
2314
2315 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2316 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2317 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2318 priority.
2319
2320 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2321 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2322 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2323 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2324 not needed for in-transit objects.
2325
2326 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2327 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2328 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2329 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2330 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2331 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2332 objects.
6b698a21 2333DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2335NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2336COMMENT: (bytes)
2337TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2338DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2339LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2340DOC_START
41bd17a4 2341 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2342 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2343 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2344 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2345DOC_END
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2348TYPE: memcachemode
2349LOC: Config
2350DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2351DOC_START
ea21d497 2352 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2353
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2355
2356 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2357 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2358 a second time before cached in memory.
2359
2360 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2362
41bd17a4 2363NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2364TYPE: removalpolicy
2365LOC: Config.memPolicy
2366DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2367DOC_START
41bd17a4 2368 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2369 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
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41bd17a4 2371 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2372DOC_END
6b698a21 2373
41bd17a4 2374COMMENT_START
2375 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2376 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2377COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2378
41bd17a4 2379NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2380TYPE: removalpolicy
2381LOC: Config.replPolicy
2382DEFAULT: lru
2383DOC_START
2384 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2385 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2386
41bd17a4 2387 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2388 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2389 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2390 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2391
41bd17a4 2392 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2393
41bd17a4 2394 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2395
41bd17a4 2396 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2397 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2398 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2399 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
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41bd17a4 2401 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2402 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2403 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2404 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2405
41bd17a4 2406 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2407 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2408 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2409
41bd17a4 2410 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2411 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2412 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2413
41bd17a4 2414 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2415 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2416 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2417DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2419NAME: cache_dir
2420TYPE: cachedir
2421DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2422LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2423DOC_START
41bd17a4 2424 Usage:
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41bd17a4 2426 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2427
41bd17a4 2428 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2429 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2430
41bd17a4 2431 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2432 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2433 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2434
41bd17a4 2435 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2436 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2437 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2438 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2439 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 2440
41bd17a4 2441 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2442
41bd17a4 2443 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2444 been there.
0976f8db 2445
41bd17a4 2446 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2447
41bd17a4 2448 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2449 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2450 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2451 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2452 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2453
41bd17a4 2454 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2455 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2456
41bd17a4 2457 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2458 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2459 is 256.
0976f8db 2460
41bd17a4 2461 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2462
41bd17a4 2463 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2464 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2465 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2466
41bd17a4 2467 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2468
41bd17a4 2469 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2470
41bd17a4 2471 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2472
41bd17a4 2473 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2474 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2475 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2476
41bd17a4 2477 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2478
41bd17a4 2479 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2480
41bd17a4 2481 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2482 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2483 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2484
41bd17a4 2485 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2486 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2487 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2488
41bd17a4 2489 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2490 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2491 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2492 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2493 time.
0976f8db 2494
41bd17a4 2495 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2496
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2497 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2498 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2499 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2500
41bd17a4 2501 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2502 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2503 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2504 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2505 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2506 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2507 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2508
41bd17a4 2509 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2510 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2511 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2512
41bd17a4 2513 Common options:
0976f8db 2514
41bd17a4 2515 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2516
41bd17a4 2517 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2518 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2519 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2520 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2521 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2522
41bd17a4 2523 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2524 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2525 option.
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2528# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2529#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2530NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2531DOC_END
0976f8db 2532
41bd17a4 2533NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2534TYPE: string
2535LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2536DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2537DOC_START
41bd17a4 2538 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2539DOC_END
0976f8db 2540
41bd17a4 2541NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2542TYPE: int
2543LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2544DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2545DOC_START
41bd17a4 2546 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2547 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2548 descriptors are open.
2549
2550 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2551DOC_END
0976f8db 2552
41bd17a4 2553NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2554COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2555TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2556DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2557LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2558DOC_START
41bd17a4 2559 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2560 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2561 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2562DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2564NAME: maximum_object_size
2565COMMENT: (bytes)
2566TYPE: b_int64_t
2567DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2568LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2569DOC_START
41bd17a4 2570 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2571 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2572 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2573 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2574 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2575 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2576
41bd17a4 2577 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2578 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2579 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2580DOC_END
0976f8db 2581
41bd17a4 2582NAME: cache_swap_low
2583COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2584TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2585DEFAULT: 90
2586LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2587DOC_NONE
2588
2589NAME: cache_swap_high
2590COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2591TYPE: int
2592DEFAULT: 95
2593LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2594DOC_START
41bd17a4 2595
2596 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2597 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2598 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2599 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2600 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2601 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2602
2603 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2604 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2605 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2606DOC_END
0976f8db 2607
5473c134 2608COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2609 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2610 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2611COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2612
41bd17a4 2613NAME: logformat
2614TYPE: logformat
2615LOC: Config.Log.logformats
5473c134 2616DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2617DOC_START
41bd17a4 2618 Usage:
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41bd17a4 2620 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2621
41bd17a4 2622 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2623
41bd17a4 2624 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2625
41bd17a4 2626 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2627 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2628 as required according to their context and the output format
2629 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2630 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2631
41bd17a4 2632 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2633
41bd17a4 2634 " output in quoted string format
2635 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2636 # output in URL quoted format
2637 ' output as-is
5473c134 2638
41bd17a4 2639 - left aligned
2640 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2641 output is zero padded
2642 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2643
41bd17a4 2644 Format codes:
5473c134 2645
3ff65596 2646 % a literal % character
41bd17a4 2647 >a Client source IP address
2648 >A Client FQDN
2649 >p Client source port
2650 <A Server IP address or peer name
2651 la Local IP address (http_port)
2652 lp Local port number (http_port)
152e24b3 2653 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
17fde513 2654 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
41bd17a4 2655 ts Seconds since epoch
2656 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2657 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2658 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2659 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 2660 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 2661 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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2663
2664 HTTP cache related format codes:
2665
ca2e92d8 2666 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 2667 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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2669 Optional header name argument as for >h
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2670 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2671 as for >h
2672 [http::]un User name
2673 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2674 [http::]ui User name from ident
2675 [http::]us User name from SSL
2676 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2677 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2678 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
2679 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2680 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2681 [http::]mt MIME content type
2682 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2683 [http::]ru Request URL
2684 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2685 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2686 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2687 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2688 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2689 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2690 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2691 are not included
2692 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2693 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2694 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2695 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2696 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2697 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2698 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2699 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2700 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2701 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2702 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2703 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2704
2705 If ICAP is enabled, the following two codes become available (as
2706 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2707
2708 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2709 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2710 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2711 transaction is in progress.
2712
2713 icap::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response
2714 related to the HTTP transaction. Like
2715 <h, accepts an optional header name
2716 argument. Will not change semantics
2717 when multiple ICAP transactions per HTTP
2718 transaction are supported.
2719
2720 If adaptation is enabled the following two codes become available:
2721
2722 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2723 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2724 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2725 value is recorded as an integer number,
2726 representing response time of one or more
2727 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2728 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2729 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2730 logged individually but added to the
2731 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2732 adapt::all_trs.
2733
2734 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2735 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2736 individual transactions are never added
2737 together. Instead, all transaction response
2738 times are recorded individually.
2739
2740 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2741 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2742 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 2743
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2745
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2747logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2748logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2749logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
5473c134 2750DOC_END
2751
41bd17a4 2752NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2753TYPE: access_log
2754LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
02424612 2755DEFAULT: none
82b7abe3 2756DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 2757DOC_START
41bd17a4 2758 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2759 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 2760 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 2761 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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2762
2763 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 2764 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2765 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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2766 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
2767
2768 ===== Modules Currently available =====
2769
2770 none Do not log any requests matchign these ACL.
2771 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
2772
2773 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
2774 each request.
2775 Place: the filename and path to be written.
2776
2777 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
2778 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
2779 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
2780
2781 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
2782
2783 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
2784 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
2785 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 2786
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2787 where facility could be any of:
2788 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 2789
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2790 And priority could be any of:
2791 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2792
2793 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
2794 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2795 Place Format: \\host:port
df2eec10 2796
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2797 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
2798 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2799 Place Format: \\host:port
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2800
2801 Default:
82b7abe3 2802 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 2803DOC_END
5473c134 2804
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2805NAME: icap_log
2806TYPE: access_log
2807IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2808LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
2809DEFAULT: none
2810DOC_START
2811 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
2812 transaction.
2813
2814 The icap_log option format is:
2815 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2816 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
2817
2818 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
2819 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
2820 features.
2821
2822 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
2823 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
2824 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
2825 log line.
2826
2827 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
2828 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
2829 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
2830 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
2831 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
2832 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
2833 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
2834
2835 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
2836
2837 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
2838
2839 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
2840 option in Squid configuration file.
2841
2842 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
2843
2844 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
2845 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
2846
2847 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
2848 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
2849
2850 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
2851 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
2852 the socket).
2853
2854 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
2855 milliseconds). The timer starts when
2856 the ICAP transaction is created and
2857 stops when the transaction is completed.
2858 Similar to tr.
2859
2860 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
2861 timer starts when the first ICAP request
2862 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
2863 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
2864 is received.
2865
2866 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
2867 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
2868 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
2869 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
2870 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
2871 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
2872
2873 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
2874
2875 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
2876
2877 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
2878
2879 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
2880 definition, is called icap_squid:
2881
2882logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
2883
2884 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %icap::<last_h
2885DOC_END
2886
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2887NAME: logfile_daemon
2888TYPE: string
2889DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
2890LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
2891DOC_START
2892 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
2893 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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2894
2895 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
2896 L<data>\n - logfile data
2897 R\n - rotate file
2898 T\n - truncate file
2899 O\n - repoen file
2900 F\n - flush file
2901 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
2902 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
2903
2904 No responses is expected.
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2905DOC_END
2906
5b0f5383 2907NAME: log_access
2908TYPE: acl_access
2909LOC: Config.accessList.log
2910DEFAULT: none
2911COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2912DOC_START
2913 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2914 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2915 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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2916
2917 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2918 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 2919DOC_END
2920
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2921NAME: log_icap
2922TYPE: acl_access
2923IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2924LOC: Config.accessList.icap
2925DEFAULT: none
2926DOC_START
2927 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
2928 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
2929DOC_END
2930
41bd17a4 2931NAME: cache_store_log
2932TYPE: string
df2eec10 2933DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2934LOC: Config.Log.store
2935DOC_START
2936 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2937 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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2938 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
2939 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 2940 disable it.
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2941
2942 Example:
2943 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 2944DOC_END
2945
41bd17a4 2946NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2947TYPE: string
2948LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 2949DEFAULT: none
2950DOC_START
41bd17a4 2951 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2952 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2953 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2954 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2955 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2956 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2957 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 2958
41bd17a4 2959 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2960 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2961 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2962 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 2963
41bd17a4 2964 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2965 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 2966
41bd17a4 2967 cache_swap_log.00
2968 cache_swap_log.01
2969 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 2970
41bd17a4 2971 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2972 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2973 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2974 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2975 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2976 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2977 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 2978DOC_END
2979
41bd17a4 2980NAME: logfile_rotate
2981TYPE: int
2982DEFAULT: 10
2983LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 2984DOC_START
41bd17a4 2985 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2986 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2987 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2988 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2989 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2990 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 2991
41bd17a4 2992 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2993 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2994 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2995 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2996 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2997 <pid>'.
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2999 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3000 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3001DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3003NAME: emulate_httpd_log
3004COMMENT: on|off
3005TYPE: onoff
3006DEFAULT: off
3007LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
3008DOC_START
3009 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
3010 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
3011 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
3012 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
3013 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
5473c134 3014DOC_END
3015
41bd17a4 3016NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3017COMMENT: on|off
3018TYPE: onoff
5473c134 3019DEFAULT: on
41bd17a4 3020LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
5473c134 3021DOC_START
41bd17a4 3022 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
3023 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
3024 prefer the old way set this to off.
3025DOC_END
5473c134 3026
41bd17a4 3027NAME: mime_table
3028TYPE: string
3029DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3030LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3031DOC_START
3032 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3033 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3034 information if you do.
5473c134 3035DOC_END
3036
41bd17a4 3037NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3038COMMENT: on|off
3039TYPE: onoff
3040LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3041DEFAULT: off
3042DOC_START
3043 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3044 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3045 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3046 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3047 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3048DOC_END
5473c134 3049
41bd17a4 3050NAME: useragent_log
3051TYPE: string
3052LOC: Config.Log.useragent
3053DEFAULT: none
3054IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
5473c134 3055DOC_START
41bd17a4 3056 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
3057 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
3058 is disabled.
5473c134 3059DOC_END
3060
41bd17a4 3061NAME: referer_log referrer_log
3062TYPE: string
3063LOC: Config.Log.referer
3064DEFAULT: none
3065IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
5473c134 3066DOC_START
41bd17a4 3067 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
3068 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
3069 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
3070 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
3071 and we accept both.
5473c134 3072DOC_END
3073
41bd17a4 3074NAME: pid_filename
3075TYPE: string
3076DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3077LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3078DOC_START
41bd17a4 3079 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3080DOC_END
3081
41bd17a4 3082NAME: log_fqdn
3083COMMENT: on|off
3084TYPE: onoff
3085DEFAULT: off
3086LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
5473c134 3087DOC_START
41bd17a4 3088 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
3089 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
3090 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
3091 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
3092 browsing.
5473c134 3093DOC_END
3094
41bd17a4 3095NAME: client_netmask
3096TYPE: address
3097LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3098DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3099DOC_START
41bd17a4 3100 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3101 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3102 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3103 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3104DOC_END
3105
41bd17a4 3106NAME: forward_log
3107IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
3108TYPE: string
3109DEFAULT: none
3110LOC: Config.Log.forward
5473c134 3111DOC_START
41bd17a4 3112 Logs the server-side requests.
5473c134 3113
41bd17a4 3114 This is currently work in progress.
5473c134 3115DOC_END
3116
41bd17a4 3117NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3118TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3119LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3120DEFAULT: on
3121DOC_START
41bd17a4 3122 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3123 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3124DOC_END
3125
41bd17a4 3126NAME: buffered_logs
3127COMMENT: on|off
3128TYPE: onoff
3129DEFAULT: off
3130LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3131DOC_START
41bd17a4 3132 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3133 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3134 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3135 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3136 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3137DOC_END
0976f8db 3138
2b753521 3139NAME: netdb_filename
3140TYPE: string
3141DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3142LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3143IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3144DOC_START
3145 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3146 To disable, enter "none".
3147DOC_END
3148
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3149COMMENT_START
3150 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3151 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3152COMMENT_END
3153
3154NAME: cache_log
3155TYPE: string
3156DEFAULT: none
3157DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3158LOC: Debug::cache_log
3159DOC_START
3160 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3161 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3162 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3163DOC_END
3164
3165NAME: debug_options
3166TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3167DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3168LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3169DOC_START
3170 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3171 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3172 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3173 log file, so be careful.
3174
3175 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3176 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3177
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3178 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3179 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3180 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3181 events affecting Squid.
3182DOC_END
3183
3184NAME: coredump_dir
3185TYPE: string
3186LOC: Config.coredump_dir
3187DEFAULT: none
3188DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3189DOC_START
3190 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3191 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3192 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3193 and coredump files will be left there.
3194
3195NOCOMMENT_START
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3197# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3198coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3199NOCOMMENT_END
3200DOC_END
3201
3202
41bd17a4 3203COMMENT_START
3204 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3205 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3206COMMENT_END
3207
3208NAME: ftp_user
3209TYPE: string
3210DEFAULT: Squid@
3211LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3212DOC_START
41bd17a4 3213 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3214 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3215 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3216
41bd17a4 3217 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3218 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3219 depending on how the cache is used.
3220 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3221 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3222DOC_END
0976f8db 3223
41bd17a4 3224NAME: ftp_passive
3225TYPE: onoff
3226DEFAULT: on
3227LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3228DOC_START
41bd17a4 3229 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3230 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 3231
3232 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3233DOC_END
3234
3235NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3236TYPE: onoff
3237DEFAULT: off
3238LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3239DOC_START
3240 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3241
3242 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3243 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3244 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3245
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3246 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3247 useful.
a689bd4e 3248 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3249 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3250
3251 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3252 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3253
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3254 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3255DOC_END
3256
3257NAME: ftp_epsv
3258TYPE: onoff
3259DEFAULT: on
3260LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3261DOC_START
3262 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3263
3264 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3265 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3266 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3267 will never be needed.
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3268
3269 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3270 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3271 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3272
3273 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3274DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3275
41bd17a4 3276NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3277TYPE: onoff
3278DEFAULT: on
3279LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3280DOC_START
3281 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3282 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3283 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3284 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3285 connection turn this off.
3286DOC_END
9e7dbc51 3287
41bd17a4 3288NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3289TYPE: onoff
3290DEFAULT: on
3291LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3292DOC_START
3293 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3294 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3295 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3296 the FTP protocol.
3297
3298 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3299 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3300 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3301 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3302 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3303DOC_END
3304
3305COMMENT_START
3306 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3307 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3308COMMENT_END
3309
3310NAME: diskd_program
3311TYPE: string
3312DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3313LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3314DOC_START
3315 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3316 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3317 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3318DOC_END
3319
3320NAME: unlinkd_program
3321IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3322TYPE: string
3323DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3324LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3325DOC_START
3326 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3327DOC_END
3328
3329NAME: pinger_program
3330TYPE: string
3331DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3332LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3333IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3334DOC_START
3335 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3336DOC_END
3337
cc192b50 3338NAME: pinger_enable
3339TYPE: onoff
3340DEFAULT: on
3341LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3342IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3343DOC_START
3344 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3345 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3346 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3347DOC_END
3348
3349
41bd17a4 3350COMMENT_START
3351 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3352 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3353COMMENT_END
3354
3355NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3356TYPE: wordlist
3357LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3358DEFAULT: none
3359DOC_START
3360 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
3361 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3362
3363 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
3364
c71adec1 3365 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3366
3367 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3368 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3369 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3370 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3371
3372 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3373 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3374
3375 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3376 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3377 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
3378
3379 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3380DOC_END
3381
3382NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3383TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3384DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3385LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3386DOC_START
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3387 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3388 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3389 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3390 and other system resources noticably.
3391
3392 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3393 tuning.
3394
3395 startup=
3396
3397 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3398 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3399 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3400
3401 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3402 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3403
3404 idle=
3405
3406 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3407 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3408 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3409 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3410
3411 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3412
41bd17a4 3413 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3414 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3415 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3416
3417 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3418 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3419 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3420 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3421 to that request.
41bd17a4 3422DOC_END
3423
3424NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3425TYPE: onoff
3426DEFAULT: on
3427LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3428DOC_START
3429 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3430 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3431 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3432
3433 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3434 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3435DOC_END
3436
3437NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3438TYPE: acl_access
3439DEFAULT: none
3440LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3441DOC_START
3442 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3443 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3444 are sent.
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3445
3446 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3447 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3448DOC_END
3449
3450NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3451TYPE: onoff
3452LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3453DEFAULT: off
3454DOC_START
3455 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3456 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3457 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3458 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3459 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3460 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3461 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3462 users may have access to pages they should not
3463 be allowed to request.
3464DOC_END
3465
3466COMMENT_START
3467 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3468 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3469COMMENT_END
3470
f04b37d8 3471NAME: cache no_cache
3472TYPE: acl_access
3473DEFAULT: none
3474LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3475DOC_START
240887f0 3476 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3477 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3478 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3479
240887f0 3480 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3481 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3482
240887f0 3483 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3484
3485 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3486 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3487DOC_END
3488
3489NAME: refresh_pattern
3490TYPE: refreshpattern
3491LOC: Config.Refresh
3492DEFAULT: none
3493DOC_START
3494 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3495
6b698a21 3496 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3497 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3498
41bd17a4 3499 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3500 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3501 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3502 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3503 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3504
41bd17a4 3505 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3506 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3507 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3508
41bd17a4 3509 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3510 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3511
41bd17a4 3512 options: override-expire
3513 override-lastmod
3514 reload-into-ims
3515 ignore-reload
3516 ignore-no-cache
3517 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3518 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3519 ignore-private
3520 ignore-auth
3521 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3522 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3523
41bd17a4 3524 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3525 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3526 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3527 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3528 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3530 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3531 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3532 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3533 the object fresh for that period of time.
3534
41bd17a4 3535 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3536 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3537
41bd17a4 3538 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3539 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3540 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3541 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3542
41bd17a4 3543 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3544 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3545 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3546 it causes.
9bc73deb 3547
41bd17a4 3548 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3549 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3550 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3551 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3552 send it anyway.
3553
3554 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3555 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3556 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3557 liable for problems which it causes.
3558
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3559 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3560 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3561 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3562 liable for problems which it causes.
3563
41bd17a4 3564 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3565 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3566 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3567 liable for problems which it causes.
3568
3569 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3570 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3571 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3572 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3573 it causes.
3574
3575 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3576 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3577 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3578 if one is available.
3579
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3580 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3581 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3582 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3583 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3584 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3585
41bd17a4 3586 Basically a cached object is:
3587
3588 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3589 STALE if age > max
3590 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3591 FRESH if age < min
3592 else STALE
3593
3594 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3595 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3596 match the default will be used.
3597
3598 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3599 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3600 used.
3601
41bd17a4 3602NOCOMMENT_START
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3604# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 3605refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3606refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 3607refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 3608refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3609NOCOMMENT_END
3610DOC_END
3611
3612NAME: quick_abort_min
3613COMMENT: (KB)
3614TYPE: kb_int64_t
3615DEFAULT: 16 KB
3616LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3617DOC_NONE
3618
3619NAME: quick_abort_max
3620COMMENT: (KB)
3621TYPE: kb_int64_t
3622DEFAULT: 16 KB
3623LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3624DOC_NONE
3625
3626NAME: quick_abort_pct
3627COMMENT: (percent)
3628TYPE: int
3629DEFAULT: 95
3630LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3631DOC_START
3632 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3633 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3634 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3635 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3636 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3637 downloads.
3638
3639 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3640 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3641 then.
3642
3643 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3644 it will finish the retrieval.
3645
3646 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3647 it will abort the retrieval.
3648
3649 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3650 it will finish the retrieval.
3651
3652 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3653 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3654 to '0 KB'.
3655
3656 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3657 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3658DOC_END
60d096f4 3659
41bd17a4 3660NAME: read_ahead_gap
3661COMMENT: buffer-size
3662TYPE: b_int64_t
3663LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3664DEFAULT: 16 KB
3665DOC_START
3666 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3667 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3668DOC_END
53e738c6 3669
41bd17a4 3670NAME: negative_ttl
ac9cc053 3671IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 3672COMMENT: time-units
3673TYPE: time_t
3674LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 3675DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 3676DOC_START
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3677 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3678 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3679 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3680 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3681 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3682 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3683
3684 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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3685
3686 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3687 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3688 causes.
41bd17a4 3689DOC_END
53e738c6 3690
41bd17a4 3691NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3692COMMENT: time-units
3693TYPE: time_t
3694LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3695DEFAULT: 6 hours
3696DOC_START
3697 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3698 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3699 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3700DOC_END
c4ab8329 3701
41bd17a4 3702NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3703COMMENT: time-units
3704TYPE: time_t
3705LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3706DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3707DOC_START
3708 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3709 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3710 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3711 much below 10 seconds.
3712DOC_END
7df0bfd7 3713
41bd17a4 3714NAME: range_offset_limit
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3715COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3716TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 3717LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 3718DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3719DOC_START
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3720 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3721
3722 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3723 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3724 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3725 the result is NOT cached.
3726
41bd17a4 3727 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3728 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3729 sending anything to the client.
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3730
3731 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3732 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3733 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3734 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3735
3736 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3737
3738 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
3739 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
3740
3741 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 3742 client requested. (default)
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3743
3744 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 3745 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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3746
3747 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
3748
3749 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
3750 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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3751 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
3752 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 3753DOC_END
d95b862f 3754
41bd17a4 3755NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3756COMMENT: (seconds)
3757TYPE: time_t
3758LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3759DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3760DOC_START
3761 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3762 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 3763 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 3764 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3765 is most likely better to make your server return a
3766 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3767 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3768 often be best set to 0.
3769DOC_END
c68e9c6b 3770
41bd17a4 3771NAME: store_avg_object_size
3772COMMENT: (kbytes)
3e62bd58 3773TYPE: kb_int64_t
41bd17a4 3774DEFAULT: 13 KB
3775LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3776DOC_START
3777 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3778 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 3779DOC_END
3780
41bd17a4 3781NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3782TYPE: int
3783DEFAULT: 20
3784LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3785DOC_START
3786 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3787 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3788 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3789DOC_END
3790
3791COMMENT_START
3792 HTTP OPTIONS
3793 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3794COMMENT_END
3795
f04b37d8 3796NAME: request_header_max_size
3797COMMENT: (KB)
3798TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3799DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3800LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3801DOC_START
3802 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3803 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3804 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3805 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3806 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3807DOC_END
3808
3809NAME: reply_header_max_size
3810COMMENT: (KB)
3811TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3812DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 3813LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3814DOC_START
3815 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3816 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3817 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3818 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3819 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3820DOC_END
3821
3822NAME: request_body_max_size
3823COMMENT: (bytes)
3824TYPE: b_int64_t
3825DEFAULT: 0 KB
3826LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3827DOC_START
3828 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3829 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3830 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3831 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3832 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3833 be no limit imposed.
3834DOC_END
3835
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3836NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
3837COMMENT: (bytes)
3838TYPE: b_int64_t
3839DEFAULT: 64 KB
3840LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
3841DOC_START
3842 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
3843 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
3844 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
3845 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
3846 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
3847 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
3848
3849 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
3850 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
3851 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
3852 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
3853 as if dechunking was disabled.
3854
3855 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
3856 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
3857
3858 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
3859 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
3860 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
3861DOC_END
3862
41bd17a4 3863NAME: broken_posts
aa49962c 3864IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 3865TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 3866DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3867LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 3868DOC_START
41bd17a4 3869 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3870 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 3871
41bd17a4 3872 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3873 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 3874
41bd17a4 3875 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 3876
41bd17a4 3877 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3878 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3879 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3880 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 3881
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3882 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3883 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3884
41bd17a4 3885Example:
3886 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3887 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3888DOC_END
cccac0a2 3889
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3890NAME: icap_uses_indirect_client
3891COMMENT: on|off
3892TYPE: onoff
0dae2bca 3893IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&ICAP_CLIENT
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3894DEFAULT: on
3895LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.icap_uses_indirect_client
3896DOC_START
3897 Controls whether the indirect client address
3898 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) instead of the
3899 direct client address is passed to an ICAP
3900 server as "X-Client-IP".
3901DOC_END
3902
41bd17a4 3903NAME: via
3904IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3905COMMENT: on|off
3906TYPE: onoff
3907DEFAULT: on
3908LOC: Config.onoff.via
3909DOC_START
3910 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3911 replies as required by RFC2616.
3912DOC_END
4cc6eb12 3913
41bd17a4 3914NAME: ie_refresh
3915COMMENT: on|off
3916TYPE: onoff
3917LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3918DEFAULT: off
3919DOC_START
3920 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3921 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3922 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3923 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3924 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3925 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3926 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3927 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3928 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3929 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3930 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3931 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3932 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3933 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3934 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3935 force fresh content.
3936DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 3937
41bd17a4 3938NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3939COMMENT: on|off
3940TYPE: onoff
3941LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3942DEFAULT: off
3943DOC_START
3944 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3945 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3946 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3947 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3948 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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3949
3950 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
3951 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 3952DOC_END
c4ab8329 3953
41bd17a4 3954NAME: request_entities
3955TYPE: onoff
3956LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3957DEFAULT: off
3958DOC_START
3959 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3960 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3961 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 3962
41bd17a4 3963 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3964 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3965 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3966 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3967 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 3968DOC_END
6b53c392 3969
41bd17a4 3970NAME: request_header_access
3971IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3972TYPE: http_header_access[]
3973LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 3974DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 3975DOC_START
41bd17a4 3976 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 3977
41bd17a4 3978 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3979 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3980 causes.
0976f8db 3981
41bd17a4 3982 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3983 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3984 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3985 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3986 mangling.
934b03fc 3987
41bd17a4 3988 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3989 client to the server.
5401aa8d 3990
41bd17a4 3991 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3992 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3993 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
5401aa8d 3994
41bd17a4 3995 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3996 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 3997
41bd17a4 3998 request_header_access From deny all
3999 request_header_access Referer deny all
4000 request_header_access Server deny all
4001 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4002 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4003 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4004
41bd17a4 4005 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4006 you should use:
5401aa8d 4007
41bd17a4 4008 request_header_access Allow allow all
4009 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4010 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4011 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4012 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4013 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4014 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4015 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4016 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4017 request_header_access Date allow all
4018 request_header_access Expires allow all
4019 request_header_access Host allow all
4020 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4021 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4022 request_header_access Location allow all
4023 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4024 request_header_access Accept allow all
4025 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4026 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4027 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4028 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4029 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4030 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4031 request_header_access Title allow all
4032 request_header_access Connection allow all
4033 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
4034 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4035
41bd17a4 4036 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4037 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4038
41bd17a4 4039 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4040 performed).
5401aa8d 4041DOC_END
4042
41bd17a4 4043NAME: reply_header_access
4044IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4045TYPE: http_header_access[]
4046LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4047DEFAULT: none
4048DOC_START
41bd17a4 4049 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4050
41bd17a4 4051 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4052 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4053 causes.
934b03fc 4054
41bd17a4 4055 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4056 server to the client.
934b03fc 4057
41bd17a4 4058 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4059 direction.
6b53c392 4060
41bd17a4 4061 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4062 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4063 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4064 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4065 mangling.
cccac0a2 4066
41bd17a4 4067 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4068 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4069 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
cccac0a2 4070
41bd17a4 4071 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4072 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4073
41bd17a4 4074 reply_header_access From deny all
4075 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4076 reply_header_access Server deny all
4077 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4078 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4079 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4080
41bd17a4 4081 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4082 you should use:
cccac0a2 4083
41bd17a4 4084 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4085 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4086 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4087 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4088 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4089 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4090 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4091 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4092 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4093 reply_header_access Date allow all
4094 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4095 reply_header_access Host allow all
4096 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4097 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4098 reply_header_access Location allow all
4099 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4100 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4101 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4102 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4103 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4104 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4105 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4106 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4107 reply_header_access Title allow all
4108 reply_header_access Connection allow all
4109 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
4110 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4111
41bd17a4 4112 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4113 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4114
41bd17a4 4115 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4116 performed).
cccac0a2 4117DOC_END
4118
41bd17a4 4119NAME: header_replace
4120IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4121TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4122LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4123DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4124DOC_START
4125 Usage: header_replace header_name message
4126 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4127
41bd17a4 4128 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4129 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
4130 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
4131 option.
cccac0a2 4132
41bd17a4 4133 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4134
41bd17a4 4135 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4136DOC_END
cccac0a2 4137
41bd17a4 4138NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4139COMMENT: on|off|warn
4140TYPE: tristate
4141LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4142DEFAULT: on
4143DOC_START
4144 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4145 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4146 what the sending application intended even if the message
4147 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4148 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4149
41bd17a4 4150 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4151 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4152
41bd17a4 4153 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4154 or response to be rejected.
4155DOC_END
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4157NAME: ignore_expect_100
4158COMMENT: on|off
4159IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4160TYPE: onoff
4161LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_expect_100
4162DEFAULT: off
4163DOC_START
4164 This option makes Squid ignore any Expect: 100-continue header present
4165 in the request. RFC 2616 requires that Squid being unable to satisfy
4166 the response expectation MUST return a 417 error.
4167
4168 Note: Enabling this is a HTTP protocol violation, but some clients may
4169 not handle it well..
4170DOC_END
4171
41bd17a4 4172COMMENT_START
4173 TIMEOUTS
4174 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4175COMMENT_END
4176
4177NAME: forward_timeout
4178COMMENT: time-units
4179TYPE: time_t
4180LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4181DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4182DOC_START
4183 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4184 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4185DOC_END
4186
41bd17a4 4187NAME: connect_timeout
4188COMMENT: time-units
4189TYPE: time_t
4190LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4191DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4192DOC_START
41bd17a4 4193 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4194 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4195 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4196DOC_END
4197
41bd17a4 4198NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4199COMMENT: time-units
4200TYPE: time_t
4201LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4202DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4203DOC_START
41bd17a4 4204 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4205 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4206 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4207 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4208DOC_END
7f7db318 4209
41bd17a4 4210NAME: read_timeout
4211COMMENT: time-units
4212TYPE: time_t
4213LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4214DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4215DOC_START
4216 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4217 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4218 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4219 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4220 default is 15 minutes.
4221DOC_END
cccac0a2 4222
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4223NAME: write_timeout
4224COMMENT: time-units
4225TYPE: time_t
4226LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4227DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4228DOC_START
4229 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4230 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4231 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4232 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4233 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4234 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4235 default is 15 minutes.
4236DOC_END
4237
41bd17a4 4238NAME: request_timeout
4239TYPE: time_t
4240LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4241DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4242DOC_START
4243 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4244 connection establishment.
4245DOC_END
cccac0a2 4246
41bd17a4 4247NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4248TYPE: time_t
4249LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4250DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4251DOC_START
4252 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4253 connection after the previous request completes.
4254DOC_END
cccac0a2 4255
41bd17a4 4256NAME: client_lifetime
4257COMMENT: time-units
4258TYPE: time_t
4259LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4260DEFAULT: 1 day
4261DOC_START
4262 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4263 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4264 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4265 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4266 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4267 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4268 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4269
41bd17a4 4270 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4271 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4272 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4273 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4274 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4275 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4276DOC_END
4277
41bd17a4 4278NAME: half_closed_clients
4279TYPE: onoff
4280LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4281DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4282DOC_START
41bd17a4 4283 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4284 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4285 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4286 fully-closed TCP connection.
4287
4288 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4289 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4290
abdf1651 4291 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4292 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4293 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4294 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4295DOC_END
4296
41bd17a4 4297NAME: pconn_timeout
4298TYPE: time_t
4299LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4300DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4301DOC_START
41bd17a4 4302 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4303 proxies.
4304DOC_END
cccac0a2 4305
41bd17a4 4306NAME: ident_timeout
4307TYPE: time_t
4308IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4309LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4310DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4311DOC_START
4312 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4313
41bd17a4 4314 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4315 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4316 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4317DOC_END
4318
41bd17a4 4319NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4320COMMENT: time-units
4321TYPE: time_t
4322LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4323DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4324DOC_START
41bd17a4 4325 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4326 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4327 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4328 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4329 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4330DOC_END
0976f8db 4331
cccac0a2 4332COMMENT_START
4333 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4334 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4335COMMENT_END
4336
4337NAME: cache_mgr
4338TYPE: string
4339DEFAULT: webmaster
4340LOC: Config.adminEmail
4341DOC_START
4342 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4343 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4344DOC_END
4345
abacf776 4346NAME: mail_from
4347TYPE: string
4348DEFAULT: none
4349LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4350DOC_START
4351 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4352 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4353 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4354 src/globals.h before building squid.
4355DOC_END
4356
d084bf20 4357NAME: mail_program
4358TYPE: eol
4359DEFAULT: mail
4360LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4361DOC_START
4362 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4363 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4364 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4365 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4366
d084bf20 4367 Optional command line options can be specified.
4368DOC_END
4369
cccac0a2 4370NAME: cache_effective_user
4371TYPE: string
5483d916 4372DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4373LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4374DOC_START
4375 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4376 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4377 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4378 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4379DOC_END
4380
cccac0a2 4381NAME: cache_effective_group
4382TYPE: string
4383DEFAULT: none
4384LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4385DOC_START
64e288bd 4386 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4387 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4388 from the groups membership.
4389
e3d74828 4390 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4391 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4392 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4393 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4394 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4395 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4396 group.
64e288bd 4397
4398 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4399 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4400 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4401DOC_END
4402
d3caee79 4403NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4404COMMENT: on|off
4405TYPE: onoff
4406DEFAULT: off
4407LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4408DOC_START
4409 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4410DOC_END
4411
cccac0a2 4412NAME: visible_hostname
4413TYPE: string
4414LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4415DEFAULT: none
4416DOC_START
4417 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4418 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4419 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4420 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4421 names with this setting.
4422DOC_END
4423
cccac0a2 4424NAME: unique_hostname
4425TYPE: string
4426LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4427DEFAULT: none
4428DOC_START
4429 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4430 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4431 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4432DOC_END
4433
cccac0a2 4434NAME: hostname_aliases
4435TYPE: wordlist
4436LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4437DEFAULT: none
4438DOC_START
7f7db318 4439 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4440DOC_END
0976f8db 4441
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4442NAME: umask
4443TYPE: int
4444LOC: Config.umask
4445DEFAULT: 027
4446DOC_START
4447 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4448 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4449
4450 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4451 your value with 0.
4452DOC_END
4453
cccac0a2 4454COMMENT_START
4455 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4456 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4457
4458 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4459 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4460 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4461 create cache hierarchies.
4462
4463 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4464 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4465 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4466
4467 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4468 following information from this configuration file:
4469
4470 http_port
4471 icp_port
4472 cache_mgr
4473
4474 All current information is processed regularly and made
4475 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4476COMMENT_END
4477
4478NAME: announce_period
4479TYPE: time_t
4480LOC: Config.Announce.period
4481DEFAULT: 0
4482DOC_START
4483 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4484 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4485 messages.
4486
e0855596 4487 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 4488
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4489 Example:
4490 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4491DOC_END
4492
cccac0a2 4493NAME: announce_host
4494TYPE: string
4495DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4496LOC: Config.Announce.host
4497DOC_NONE
4498
4499NAME: announce_file
4500TYPE: string
4501DEFAULT: none
4502LOC: Config.Announce.file
4503DOC_NONE
4504
4505NAME: announce_port
4506TYPE: ushort
4507DEFAULT: 3131
4508LOC: Config.Announce.port
4509DOC_START
4510 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4511 number where the registration message will be sent.
4512
4513 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4514 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4515 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4516 message.
4517DOC_END
4518
8d6275c0 4519COMMENT_START
4520 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4521 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4522COMMENT_END
4523
cccac0a2 4524NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4525TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 4526DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4527LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 4528DOC_START
4529 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4530 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4531 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4532 an identification token.
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4533
4534 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 4535DOC_END
4536
4537NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 4538COMMENT: on|off
4539TYPE: onoff
4540DEFAULT: off
4541LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4542DOC_START
4543 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4544 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4545DOC_END
4546
4547NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 4548IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 4549COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 4550TYPE: string
4551LOC: ESIParser::Type
4552DEFAULT: custom
4553DOC_START
4554 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4555 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4556 encodings.
4557DOC_END
0976f8db 4558
9edd9041 4559COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4560 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 4561 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4562COMMENT_END
4563
4564NAME: delay_pools
4565TYPE: delay_pool_count
4566DEFAULT: 0
4567IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4568LOC: Config.Delay
4569DOC_START
4570 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4571 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4572 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4573DOC_END
4574
4575NAME: delay_class
4576TYPE: delay_pool_class
4577DEFAULT: none
4578IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4579LOC: Config.Delay
4580DOC_START
4581 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4582 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4583 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4584 and here would be:
4585
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4586 Example:
4587 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4588 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4589 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4590 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4591 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 4592
4593 The delay pool classes are:
4594
4595 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4596 bucket.
4597
4598 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4599 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 4600 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4601
4602 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4603 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4604 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4605 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 4606 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 4607
4608 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4609 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4610 only takes effect if the username is established
4611 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4612 http_access rules.
4613
4614 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4615 external_acl's tag= reply).
4616
4617 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4618 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4619 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4620 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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4621
4622 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4623 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 4624DOC_END
4625
4626NAME: delay_access
4627TYPE: delay_pool_access
4628DEFAULT: none
4629IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4630LOC: Config.Delay
4631DOC_START
4632 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4633
4634 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4635 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4636 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4637 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4638
4639 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4640 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4641
4642Example:
4643 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4644 delay_access 1 deny all
4645 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4646 delay_access 2 deny all
4647 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4648DOC_END
4649
4650NAME: delay_parameters
4651TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4652DEFAULT: none
4653IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4654LOC: Config.Delay
4655DOC_START
4656 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4657 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4658 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4659
4660delay_parameters pool aggregate
4661
4662 For a class 2 delay pool:
4663
4664delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4665
4666 For a class 3 delay pool:
4667
4668delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4669
4670 For a class 4 delay pool:
4671
4672delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4673
4674 For a class 5 delay pool:
4675
4676delay_parameters pool tag
4677
4678 The variables here are:
4679
4680 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4681 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4682 delay_class lines.
4683
4684 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4685 (class 1, 2, 3).
4686
4687 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4688 buckets (class 2, 3).
4689
4690 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4691 (class 3).
4692
4693 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4694 (class 4).
4695
4696 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4697 (class 5).
4698
4699 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4700 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4701 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4702 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4703
4704 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4705 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4706 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4707
4708delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4709
4710 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4711
4712 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4713 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4714 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4715 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4716 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4717 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4718 large downloads more significantly:
4719
4720delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4721
4722 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4723
4724 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4725 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4726
4727delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4728DOC_END
4729
4730NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4731COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4732TYPE: ushort
4733DEFAULT: 50
4734IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4735LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4736DOC_START
4737 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4738 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4739 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4740 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4741 "seen" by squid).
4742DOC_END
4743
cccac0a2 4744COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 4745 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 4746 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4747COMMENT_END
4748
8d6275c0 4749NAME: wccp_router
4750TYPE: address
4751LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 4752DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 4753IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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4754DOC_START
4755 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4756 Squid.
4757
4758 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4759
4760 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4761
4762 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4763 which version of WCCP to use.
4764DOC_END
df2eec10 4765
8d6275c0 4766NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 4767TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 4768LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 4769DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 4770IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4771DOC_START
8d6275c0 4772 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4773 Squid.
cccac0a2 4774
8d6275c0 4775 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 4776
8d6275c0 4777 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 4778
8d6275c0 4779 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4780 which version of WCCP to use.
4781DOC_END
4782
4783NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 4784TYPE: int
8d6275c0 4785LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4786DEFAULT: 4
4787IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 4788DOC_START
8d6275c0 4789 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4790 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4791 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4792 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4793 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 4794
8d6275c0 4795 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4796 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4797 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4798 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 4799DOC_END
4800
8d6275c0 4801NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4802TYPE: onoff
4803LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4804DEFAULT: on
4805IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4806DOC_START
4807 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4808 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4809DOC_END
cccac0a2 4810
8d6275c0 4811NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 4812TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4813LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 4814DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4815IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4816DOC_START
699acd19 4817 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 4818 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4819
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4820 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4821 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4822
8d6275c0 4823 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4824 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 4825DOC_END
4826
8d6275c0 4827NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 4828TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 4829LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 4830DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 4831IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4832DOC_START
699acd19 4833 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 4834 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4835 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4836
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4837 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4838 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 4839
8d6275c0 4840 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4841 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 4842
699acd19 4843 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 4844 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4845 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4846 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 4847DOC_END
4848
8d6275c0 4849NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 4850TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 4851LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 4852DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 4853IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 4854DOC_START
8d6275c0 4855 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4856 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 4857
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4858 hash - Hash assignment
4859 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 4860
8d6275c0 4861 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4862 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4863DOC_END
cccac0a2 4864
8d6275c0 4865NAME: wccp2_service
4866TYPE: wccp2_service
4867LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4868DEFAULT: none
4869DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4870IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4871DOC_START
4872 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4873 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4874 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4875 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4876 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4877 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4878
4879 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4880 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4881
4882 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4883 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4884
4885 Examples:
4886
4887 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4888 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4889 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4890 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 4891DOC_END
4892
4893NAME: wccp2_service_info
4894TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4895LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4896DEFAULT: none
4897IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4898DOC_START
4899 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4900 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4901
4902 The format is:
4903
4904 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4905 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4906
4907 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4908 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 4909 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 4910 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4911 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4912 + ports_source
4913
4914 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4915
4916 Example:
4917
4918 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4919 priority=240 ports=80
4920
4921 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4922 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4923DOC_END
4924
4925NAME: wccp2_weight
4926TYPE: int
4927LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4928DEFAULT: 10000
4929IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4930DOC_START
4931 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4932 hash proportional to their weight.
4933DOC_END
4934
4935NAME: wccp_address
4936TYPE: address
4937LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4938DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4939IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4940DOC_NONE
df2eec10 4941
8d6275c0 4942NAME: wccp2_address
4943TYPE: address
4944LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4945DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4946IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4947DOC_START
4948 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4949 interface address.
4950
4951 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4952DOC_END
4953
4954COMMENT_START
4955 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4956 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4957
4958 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4959COMMENT_END
4960
4961NAME: client_persistent_connections
4962TYPE: onoff
4963LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4964DEFAULT: on
4965DOC_NONE
4966
4967NAME: server_persistent_connections
4968TYPE: onoff
4969LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4970DEFAULT: on
4971DOC_START
4972 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4973 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4974 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4975 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4976DOC_END
4977
4978NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4979TYPE: onoff
4980LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 4981DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 4982DOC_START
4983 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4984 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4985 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4986DOC_END
4987
4988NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4989TYPE: onoff
4990LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4991DEFAULT: off
4992DOC_START
4993 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4994 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4995 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4996 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4997
4998 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4999 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5000 after 10 seconds timeout.
5001DOC_END
5002
5003COMMENT_START
5004 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5005 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5006COMMENT_END
5007
5008NAME: digest_generation
5009IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5010TYPE: onoff
5011LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5012DEFAULT: on
5013DOC_START
5014 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5015 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5016 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5017DOC_END
5018
5019NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5020IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5021TYPE: int
5022LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5023DEFAULT: 5
5024DOC_START
5025 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5026 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5027 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5028DOC_END
5029
5030NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5031IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5032COMMENT: (seconds)
5033TYPE: time_t
5034LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5035DEFAULT: 1 hour
5036DOC_START
749ceff8 5037 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5038DOC_END
5039
5040NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5041COMMENT: (seconds)
5042IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5043TYPE: time_t
5044LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5045DEFAULT: 1 hour
5046DOC_START
749ceff8 5047 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5048 disk.
5049DOC_END
5050
5051NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5052COMMENT: (bytes)
5053TYPE: b_size_t
5054IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5055LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5056DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5057DOC_START
5058 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5059 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5060 default swap page.
5061DOC_END
5062
5063NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5064COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5065IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5066TYPE: int
5067LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5068DEFAULT: 10
5069DOC_START
5070 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5071 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5072DOC_END
5073
1db9eacd 5074COMMENT_START
5473c134 5075 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5076 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5077COMMENT_END
5078
5473c134 5079NAME: snmp_port
5080TYPE: ushort
5081LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5082DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5083IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5084DOC_START
87630341 5085 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5086 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5087 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5088 set to "0" (disabled)
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5089
5090 Example:
5091 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5092DOC_END
5093
5473c134 5094NAME: snmp_access
5095TYPE: acl_access
5096LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
8d6275c0 5097DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5098DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5099IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5100DOC_START
5473c134 5101 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5102
5473c134 5103 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5104 usage:
8d6275c0 5105
5473c134 5106 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5107
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5108 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5109 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5110Example:
5111 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5112 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5113DOC_END
5114
5473c134 5115NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5116TYPE: address
5117LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5118DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5119IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5120DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5121
5473c134 5122NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5123TYPE: address
5124LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5125DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5126IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5127DOC_START
df2eec10 5128 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5129
5473c134 5130 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5131 messages from SNMP agents.
5132 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5133 agents.
cccac0a2 5134
0eb08770 5135 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5136 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5137
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5138 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5139 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5140 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5141 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5142
5473c134 5143 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5144 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5145DOC_END
5146
5473c134 5147COMMENT_START
5148 ICP OPTIONS
5149 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5150COMMENT_END
5151
5152NAME: icp_port udp_port
5153TYPE: ushort
5154DEFAULT: 0
5155LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5156DOC_START
5473c134 5157 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5158 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5159 Default is disabled (0).
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5160
5161 Example:
5162 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5163DOC_END
5164
5473c134 5165NAME: htcp_port
5166IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5167TYPE: ushort
87630341 5168DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5169LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5170DOC_START
5473c134 5171 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5172 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5173 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5174
5175 Example:
5176 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5177DOC_END
5178
5179NAME: log_icp_queries
5180COMMENT: on|off
5181TYPE: onoff
5182DEFAULT: on
5183LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5184DOC_START
5185 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5186 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5187 up or to simplify log analysis.
5188DOC_END
5189
5473c134 5190NAME: udp_incoming_address
5191TYPE: address
5192LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5193DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5194DOC_START
5195 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5196 caches.
5197
5198 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5199
5200 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5201 a specific interface/address.
5202
5203 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5204 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5205
5206 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5207
5208 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5209 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5210DOC_END
cccac0a2 5211
5473c134 5212NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5213TYPE: address
5214LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5215DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5216DOC_START
8524d4b2 5217 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5218 caches.
cccac0a2 5219
5473c134 5220 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5221
8524d4b2 5222 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5223 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5224 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5225 caches.
5226
8524d4b2 5227 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5228 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5229
5230 see also; udp_incoming_address
5231
5473c134 5232 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5233 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5234DOC_END
5235
3d1e3e43 5236NAME: icp_hit_stale
5237COMMENT: on|off
5238TYPE: onoff
5239DEFAULT: off
5240LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5241DOC_START
5242 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5243 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5244 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5245 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5246 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5247 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5248 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5249DOC_END
5250
5473c134 5251NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5252TYPE: int
5473c134 5253DEFAULT: 4
5254LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5255DOC_START
5473c134 5256 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5257 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5258DOC_END
5259
5473c134 5260NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5261TYPE: int
5262DEFAULT: 400
5263LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5264DOC_START
5473c134 5265 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5266 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5267DOC_END
5268
cccac0a2 5269NAME: netdb_low
5270TYPE: int
5271DEFAULT: 900
5272LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5273DOC_NONE
5274
5275NAME: netdb_high
5276TYPE: int
5277DEFAULT: 1000
5278LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5279DOC_START
5280 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5281 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5282 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5283 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5284DOC_END
5285
cccac0a2 5286NAME: netdb_ping_period
5287TYPE: time_t
5288LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5289DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5290DOC_START
5291 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5292 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5293 network. The default is five minutes.
5294DOC_END
5295
cccac0a2 5296NAME: query_icmp
5297COMMENT: on|off
5298TYPE: onoff
5299DEFAULT: off
5300LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5301DOC_START
5302 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5303 replies, enable this option.
5304
5305 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5306 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5307 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5308 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5309 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5310 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5311 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5312 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5313DOC_END
5314
5315NAME: test_reachability
5316COMMENT: on|off
5317TYPE: onoff
5318DEFAULT: off
5319LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5320DOC_START
5321 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5322 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5323 database, or has a zero RTT.
5324DOC_END
5325
5473c134 5326NAME: icp_query_timeout
5327COMMENT: (msec)
5328DEFAULT: 0
5329TYPE: int
5330LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5331DOC_START
5473c134 5332 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5333 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5334 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5335 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5336 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5337 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5338
5473c134 5339 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5340DOC_END
5341
5473c134 5342NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5343COMMENT: (msec)
5344DEFAULT: 2000
5345TYPE: int
5346LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5347DOC_START
5473c134 5348 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5349 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5350 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5351 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5352 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5353 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5354DOC_END
5355
5473c134 5356NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5357COMMENT: (msec)
5358DEFAULT: 5
5359TYPE: int
5360LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5361DOC_START
5473c134 5362 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5363 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5364 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5365 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5366 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5367 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5368 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5369DOC_END
5370
5473c134 5371NAME: background_ping_rate
5372COMMENT: time-units
5373TYPE: time_t
5374DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5375LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5376DOC_START
5473c134 5377 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5378 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5379DOC_END
5380
5473c134 5381COMMENT_START
5382 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5383 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5384COMMENT_END
5385
5386NAME: mcast_groups
5387TYPE: wordlist
5388LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5389DEFAULT: none
5390DOC_START
5473c134 5391 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5392 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5393
5473c134 5394 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5395 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5396 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5397 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5398 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5399 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5400 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5401
5473c134 5402 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5403 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5404
5473c134 5405 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5406 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 5407
5473c134 5408 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 5409
5473c134 5410 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5411DOC_END
8c01ada0 5412
5473c134 5413NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5414IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5415TYPE: address
5416LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 5417DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5418DOC_START
5419 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5420 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 5421
5473c134 5422 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5423 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 5424DOC_END
5425
5473c134 5426NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5427IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5428TYPE: ushort
5429LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5430DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 5431DOC_START
5473c134 5432 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5433 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5434 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5435DOC_END
cccac0a2 5436
5473c134 5437NAME: mcast_miss_port
5438IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5439TYPE: ushort
5440LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5441DEFAULT: 3135
5442DOC_START
5443 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5444 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5445DOC_END
cccac0a2 5446
5473c134 5447NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5448IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5449TYPE: string
5450LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5451DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5452DOC_START
5453 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5454 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5455DOC_END
8c01ada0 5456
5473c134 5457NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5458COMMENT: (msec)
5459DEFAULT: 2000
5460TYPE: int
5461LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5462DOC_START
5463 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5464 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5465 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5466 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5467 seconds.
cccac0a2 5468DOC_END
5469
5473c134 5470COMMENT_START
5471 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5472 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5473COMMENT_END
5474
cccac0a2 5475NAME: icon_directory
5476TYPE: string
5477LOC: Config.icons.directory
5478DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5479DOC_START
5480 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5481 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5482DOC_END
5483
f024c970 5484NAME: global_internal_static
5485TYPE: onoff
5486LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5487DEFAULT: on
5488DOC_START
5489 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5490 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5491 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5492 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5493 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5494 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5495 the server generating a directory listing.
5496DOC_END
5497
5473c134 5498NAME: short_icon_urls
5499TYPE: onoff
5500LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5501DEFAULT: on
5502DOC_START
5503 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5504 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5505 it's own name and port in the URL.
5506
5507 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5508 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5509DOC_END
5510
5511COMMENT_START
5512 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5514COMMENT_END
5515
5516NAME: error_directory
5517TYPE: string
5518LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 5519DEFAULT: none
5473c134 5520DOC_START
5521 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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5522 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5523 the error/template files to another directory and point
5524 this tag at them.
5525
5526 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5527 on error pages if used.
5473c134 5528
5529 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5530 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 5531 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 5532 contributing your translation back to the project.
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5533 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5534
5535 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5536 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5537DOC_END
5538
5539NAME: error_default_language
5540IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5541TYPE: string
5542LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5543DEFAULT: none
5544DOC_START
5545 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5546 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5547 preferences.
5548
5549 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5550
5551 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5552 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5553 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5554 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 5555DOC_END
5556
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5557NAME: error_log_languages
5558IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5559TYPE: onoff
5560LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5561DEFAULT: on
5562DOC_START
5563 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5564 auto-negotiate for translations.
5565
5566 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5567 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 5568 of its error page translations.
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5569DOC_END
5570
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5571NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5572TYPE: string
5573LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5574DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5575DOC_START
5576 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5577
5578 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5579DOC_END
5580
5473c134 5581NAME: err_html_text
5582TYPE: eol
5583LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5584DEFAULT: none
5585DOC_START
5586 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5587 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5588 organizations Web page.
5589
5590 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5591 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5592 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5593 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5594DOC_END
5595
5596NAME: email_err_data
5597COMMENT: on|off
5598TYPE: onoff
5599LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5600DEFAULT: on
5601DOC_START
5602 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5603 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5604 so that the email body contains the data.
5605 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5606DOC_END
5607
5608NAME: deny_info
5609TYPE: denyinfo
5610LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5611DEFAULT: none
5612DOC_START
5613 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5614 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 5615 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 5616
5617 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5618 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5619 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5620 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5621
5622 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5623 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5624 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5625 the first authentication related acl encountered
5626 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5627 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5628
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5629 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5630 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5631 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 5632
5473c134 5633 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
5634 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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5635
5636 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
5637 get redirected (302) to the specified URL after formattgin tags have
5638 been replaced.
5639
5640 URL FORMAT TAGS:
5641 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
5642 %B - FTP path URL
5643 %e - Error number
5644 %E - Error description
5645 %h - Squid hostname
5646 %H - Request domain name
5647 %i - Client IP Address
5648 %M - Request Method
5649 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
5650 %p - Request Port number
5651 %P - Request Protocol name
5652 %R - Request URL path
5653 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
5654 %U - Full canonical URL from client
5655 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
5656 %u - Full canonical URL from client
5657 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
5658 %% - Literal percent (%) code
5659
5473c134 5660DOC_END
5661
5662COMMENT_START
5663 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
5664 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5665COMMENT_END
5666
5667NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5668TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5669LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 5670DEFAULT: on
5671DOC_START
5473c134 5672 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
5673 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
5674 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 5675
5473c134 5676 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
5677 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 5678
5473c134 5679 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
5680 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
5681 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 5682
5473c134 5683 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
5684 this directive.
8d6275c0 5685DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 5686
5473c134 5687NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5688TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5689LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 5690DEFAULT: off
5691DOC_START
5473c134 5692 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
5693 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
5694 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 5695
5473c134 5696 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
5697 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
5698 fails.
5699
5700 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
5701 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
5702 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 5703DOC_END
5704
5473c134 5705NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 5706TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 5707LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 5708DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 5709DOC_START
5473c134 5710 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 5711
5473c134 5712 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
5713 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
5714 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
5715 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
5716 something like:
0b0cfcf2 5717
5473c134 5718 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
5719 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 5720
5473c134 5721 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 5722
5473c134 5723 acl FTP proto FTP
5724 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 5725
5473c134 5726 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
5727 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
5728 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
5729 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
5730 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 5731
5473c134 5732 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5733 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5734 always_direct deny local-external
5735 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 5736
5473c134 5737 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
5738 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
5739 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
5740 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 5741
5473c134 5742 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
5743 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 5744 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 5745
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5746 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5747 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 5748DOC_END
0976f8db 5749
5473c134 5750NAME: never_direct
5751TYPE: acl_access
5752LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
5753DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5754DOC_START
5473c134 5755 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5756
5757 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
5758 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
5759
5760 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
5761 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
5762 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
5763 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
5764
5765 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 5766 never_direct deny local-servers
5767 never_direct allow all
5768
5769 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
5770 servers inside the firewall use something like:
5771
5772 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
5773 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5774 always_direct deny local-external
5775 always_direct allow local-intranet
5776 never_direct allow all
5777
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5778 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5779 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 5780DOC_END
0976f8db 5781
5473c134 5782COMMENT_START
5783 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
5784 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5785COMMENT_END
5786
cccac0a2 5787NAME: incoming_icp_average
5788TYPE: int
5789DEFAULT: 6
5790LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
5791DOC_NONE
5792
5793NAME: incoming_http_average
5794TYPE: int
5795DEFAULT: 4
5796LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
5797DOC_NONE
5798
5799NAME: incoming_dns_average
5800TYPE: int
5801DEFAULT: 4
5802LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
5803DOC_NONE
5804
5805NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
5806TYPE: int
5807DEFAULT: 8
5808LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
5809DOC_NONE
5810
5811NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
5812TYPE: int
5813DEFAULT: 8
5814LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
5815DOC_NONE
5816
5817NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
5818TYPE: int
5819DEFAULT: 8
5820LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
5821DOC_START
5473c134 5822 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
5823 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
5824 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
5825DOC_END
5826
5827NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 5828TYPE: string
5829DEFAULT: none
5830LOC: Config.accept_filter
5831DOC_START
0b4d4be5 5832 FreeBSD:
5833
5473c134 5834 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5835 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5836 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5837
5838 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 5839 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 5840 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5841
5842 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5843 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5844 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5845
5846 Linux:
5847
5848 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5849 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5850 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5851 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5852 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 5853EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 5854# FreeBSD
5473c134 5855accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 5856# Linux
5857accept_filter data
5473c134 5858DOC_END
5859
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5860NAME: client_ip_max_connections
5861TYPE: int
5862LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
5863DEFAULT: -1
5864DOC_START
5865 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
5866 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
5867 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
5868
5869 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
5870 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
5871
5872 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
5873
5874 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
5875 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
5876DOC_END
5877
5473c134 5878NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5879COMMENT: (bytes)
5880TYPE: b_size_t
5881DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5882LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5883DOC_START
5884 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5885 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5886 the default buffer size.
5887DOC_END
5888
5889COMMENT_START
5890 ICAP OPTIONS
5891 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5892COMMENT_END
5893
5894NAME: icap_enable
5895TYPE: onoff
5896IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5897COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5898LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 5899DEFAULT: off
5900DOC_START
53e738c6 5901 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 5902DOC_END
5903
5904NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5905TYPE: time_t
5906DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 5907LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 5908IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5909DOC_START
5910 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5911 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5912 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5913
5914 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5915 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5916 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5917DOC_END
5918
5919NAME: icap_io_timeout
5920COMMENT: time-units
5921TYPE: time_t
5922DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 5923LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 5924IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5925DOC_START
5926 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5927 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5928 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5929 failure.
5930
5931 The default is read_timeout.
5932DOC_END
5933
5934NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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5935COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
5936TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 5937IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 5938LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 5939DEFAULT: 10
5940DOC_START
5941 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5942 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5943 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5944 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 5945 OPTIONS.
5473c134 5946
5947 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5948 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5949 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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5950
5951 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
5952 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
5953 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
5954 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
5955 value into ten time slots of equal length.
5956
5957 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
5958 effect on service failure expiration.
5959
5960 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
5961 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
5962 setting.
5963
5964 For example,
5965 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
5966 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 5967DOC_END
5968
5473c134 5969NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 5970TYPE: int
5473c134 5971IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 5972LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 5973DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 5974DOC_START
5473c134 5975 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5976 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5977 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5978 fetched.
cccac0a2 5979
5473c134 5980 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5981 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 5982DOC_END
5983
5473c134 5984NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 5985TYPE: onoff
5473c134 5986IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5987COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 5988LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 5989DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 5990DOC_START
ac7a62f9 5991 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5992 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5993 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5994 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5995
5996 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5997 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5998 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5999
6000 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6001 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6002Example:
6003icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6004DOC_END
6005
5473c134 6006NAME: icap_preview_size
6007TYPE: int
6008IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6009LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6010DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6011DOC_START
53e738c6 6012 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6013 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6014 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6015DOC_END
6016
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6017NAME: icap_206_enable
6018TYPE: onoff
6019IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6020COMMENT: on|off
6021LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6022DEFAULT: on
6023DOC_START
6024 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6025 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6026 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6027 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6028
6029 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6030 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6031 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6032 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6033 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6034
6035 Example:
6036 icap_206_enable off
6037DOC_END
6038
5473c134 6039NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6040TYPE: int
6041IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6042LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6043DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6044DOC_START
53e738c6 6045 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6046 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6047DOC_END
6048
5473c134 6049NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6050TYPE: onoff
6051IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6052COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6053LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6054DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6055DOC_START
5473c134 6056 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6057 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6058DOC_END
6059
5473c134 6060NAME: icap_send_client_ip
6061TYPE: onoff
6062IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6063COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6064LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_ip
5473c134 6065DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6066DOC_START
53e738c6 6067 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
cccac0a2 6068DOC_END
6069
5473c134 6070NAME: icap_send_client_username
6071TYPE: onoff
6072IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6073COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6074LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_username
5473c134 6075DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6076DOC_START
5473c134 6077 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
6078 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
6079 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6080 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6081DOC_END
6082
5473c134 6083NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6084TYPE: string
5473c134 6085IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6086LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6087DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6088DOC_START
5473c134 6089 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
cccac0a2 6090DOC_END
6091
5473c134 6092NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6093TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6094IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6095COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6096LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6097DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6098DOC_START
5473c134 6099 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6100DOC_END
6101
5473c134 6102NAME: icap_service
6103TYPE: icap_service_type
6104IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6105LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6106DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6107DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6108 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6109
a22e6cd3 6110 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
7d90757b 6111
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6112 service_name: ID
6113 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6114
6115 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6116 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6117 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6118 are not yet supported.
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6119
6120 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6121 ICAP server and service location.
6122
6123 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6124 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6125 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6126 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6127 service_names differ.
6128
6129
6130 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6131 the following name=value options:
6132
6133 bypass=on|off|1|0
6134 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6135 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6136 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6137 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6138 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6139 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6140 returned to the HTTP client.
6141
6142 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6143
6144 routing=on|off|1|0
6145 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6146 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6147 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6148 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6149 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
6150 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
6151 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
6152 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
6153 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
6154 ends the current adaptation.
6155
6156 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6157 response header is ignored.
6158
6159 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6160 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6161
5473c134 6162Example:
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6163icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6164icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
cccac0a2 6165DOC_END
6166
5473c134 6167NAME: icap_class
6168TYPE: icap_class_type
6169IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6170LOC: none
5473c134 6171DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6172DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6173 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6174 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6175 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6176
62c7f90e 6177 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6178 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6179 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6180DOC_END
6181
5473c134 6182NAME: icap_access
6183TYPE: icap_access_type
6184IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6185LOC: none
cccac0a2 6186DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6187DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6188 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6189 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6190 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6191DOC_END
6192
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6193COMMENT_START
6194 eCAP OPTIONS
6195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6196COMMENT_END
6197
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6198NAME: ecap_enable
6199TYPE: onoff
6200IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6201COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6202LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6203DEFAULT: off
6204DOC_START
6205 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6206DOC_END
6207
6208NAME: ecap_service
6209TYPE: ecap_service_type
6210IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6211LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6212DEFAULT: none
6213DOC_START
6214 Defines a single eCAP service
6215
6216 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6217
6218 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6219 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6220 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6221 are not yet supported.
6222 bypass = 1|0
6223 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6224 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6225 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6226 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6227 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6228 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6229 HTTP client.
6230 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6231
6232Example:
6233ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6234ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6235DOC_END
6236
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6237NAME: loadable_modules
6238TYPE: wordlist
6239IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6240LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6241DEFAULT: none
6242DOC_START
6243 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6244 preloaded module(s).
6245Example:
6246loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6247DOC_END
6248
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6249COMMENT_START
6250 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6251 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6252COMMENT_END
6253
6254NAME: adaptation_service_set
6255TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6256IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6257LOC: none
6258DEFAULT: none
6259DOC_START
6260
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6261 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6262 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6263
6264 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6265
6266 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6267 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6268 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6269 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6270 intact.
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6272 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6273 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6274
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6275 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6276 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6277
6278 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6279 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6280 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6281 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6282 transaction fails as well.
6283
6284 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6285 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6286 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6287 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6288 matters.
6289
6290 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6291
6292Example:
6293adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6294adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6295DOC_END
6296
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6297NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6298TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6299IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6300LOC: none
6301DEFAULT: none
6302DOC_START
6303
6304 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6305 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6306 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6307
6308 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6309
6310 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6311 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6312 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6313 the previous service in the chain.
6314
6315 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6316 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6317
6318 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6319 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6320 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6321
6322 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6323 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6324
6325 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6326 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6327 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6328 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6329
6330 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6331
6332Example:
6333adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6334DOC_END
6335
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6336NAME: adaptation_access
6337TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6338IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6339LOC: none
6340DEFAULT: none
6341DOC_START
6342 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6343
6344 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6345 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6346
6347 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6348 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6349 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6350 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6351
6352 - services serving different vectoring points
6353 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6354 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6355 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6356
6357 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6358 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6359 adaptation_service_set for details.
6360
6361 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6362 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6363 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6364 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6365
6366 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6367 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6368
6369 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6370
6371Example:
6372adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6373DOC_END
6374
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6375NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6376TYPE: int
6377IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6378LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6379DEFAULT: 16
6380DOC_START
6381 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6382 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6383 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6384 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6385 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6386 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6387
6388 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6389
6390 See also: icap_service routing=1
6391DOC_END
6392
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6393NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6394TYPE: string
6395IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6396LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6397DEFAULT: none
6398DOC_START
6399 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6400 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6401 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6402 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6403 with the master transaction.
6404
6405 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6406 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6407
6408 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6409 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
6410 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names. Squid will store
6411 and forward that ICAP header field to subsequent ICAP
6412 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6413
6414 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6415
6416Example:
6417# share authentication information among ICAP services
6418adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6419DOC_END
6420
6421NAME: icap_retry
6422TYPE: acl_access
6423IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6424LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
6425DEFAULT: none
6426DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6427DOC_START
6428 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6429 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6430 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6431 that response are usually retriable.
6432
6433 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6434
6435 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6436 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6437
6438 See also: icap_retry_limit
6439DOC_END
6440
6441NAME: icap_retry_limit
6442TYPE: int
6443IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6444LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6445DEFAULT: 0
6446DOC_START
6447 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6448 no retries are allowed.
6449
6450 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6451 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6452 count against this limit.
6453
6454 See also: icap_retry
6455DOC_END
6456
6457
5473c134 6458COMMENT_START
6459 DNS OPTIONS
6460 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6461COMMENT_END
6462
6463NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6464TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6465DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6466LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 6467DOC_START
5473c134 6468 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6469 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6470 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 6471DOC_END
6472
5473c134 6473NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6474TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6475DEFAULT: on
5473c134 6476LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 6477DOC_START
5473c134 6478 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6479 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6480 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6481 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 6482DOC_END
6483
5473c134 6484NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 6485TYPE: string
5473c134 6486IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6487DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6488LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 6489DOC_START
5473c134 6490 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 6491DOC_END
6492
5473c134 6493NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 6494TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5473c134 6495IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
48d54e4d 6496DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 6497LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 6498DOC_START
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6499 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6500 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6501 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6502 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6503 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6504
6505 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6506 tuning.
6507
6508 startup=
6509
6510 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6511 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6512 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6513
6514 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6515 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6516
6517 idle=
6518
6519 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6520 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6521 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6522 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 6523DOC_END
6524
5473c134 6525NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6526TYPE: time_t
6527DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6528LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6529IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6530DOC_START
5473c134 6531 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6532 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 6533DOC_END
6534
5473c134 6535NAME: dns_timeout
6536TYPE: time_t
6537DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6538LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6539IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
cccac0a2 6540DOC_START
5473c134 6541 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6542 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6543 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 6544DOC_END
6545
5473c134 6546NAME: dns_defnames
6547COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 6548TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 6549DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6550LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 6551DOC_START
5473c134 6552 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6553 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6554 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6555 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 6556DOC_END
6557
5473c134 6558NAME: dns_nameservers
6559TYPE: wordlist
6560DEFAULT: none
6561LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 6562DOC_START
5473c134 6563 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6564 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6565 /etc/resolv.conf file.
6566 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
6567 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
6568 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
6569 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 6570
5473c134 6571 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 6572DOC_END
6573
5473c134 6574NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 6575TYPE: string
5473c134 6576DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
6577LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 6578DOC_START
5473c134 6579 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
6580 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
6581 default locations:
6582 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
6583 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6584 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
6585 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6586 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
6587 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6588 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
6589 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 6590
5473c134 6591 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
6592 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
6593 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
6594 character are comments.
cccac0a2 6595
5473c134 6596 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
6597 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
6598 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
6599 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
6600 definitions.
cccac0a2 6601DOC_END
6602
5473c134 6603NAME: append_domain
6604TYPE: string
6605LOC: Config.appendDomain
6606DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 6607DOC_START
5473c134 6608 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
6609 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
6610
6611 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
6612 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
6613 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
6614
6615Example:
6616 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 6617DOC_END
6618
5473c134 6619NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
6620TYPE: onoff
6621LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 6622DEFAULT: on
6623DOC_START
5473c134 6624 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
6625 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
6626 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
6627 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
6628 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 6629DOC_END
6630
cc192b50 6631NAME: dns_v4_fallback
6632TYPE: onoff
6633DEFAULT: on
6634LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
6635DOC_START
6636 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
6637 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
6638 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
6639
6640 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
6641 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
6642
6643 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
6644 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
6645
6646 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
6647 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
6648 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
6649DOC_END
6650
6bc15a4f 6651NAME: ipcache_size
6652COMMENT: (number of entries)
6653TYPE: int
6654DEFAULT: 1024
6655LOC: Config.ipcache.size
6656DOC_NONE
6657
6658NAME: ipcache_low
6659COMMENT: (percent)
6660TYPE: int
6661DEFAULT: 90
6662LOC: Config.ipcache.low
6663DOC_NONE
6664
6665NAME: ipcache_high
6666COMMENT: (percent)
6667TYPE: int
6668DEFAULT: 95
6669LOC: Config.ipcache.high
6670DOC_START
6671 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
6672DOC_END
6673
6674NAME: fqdncache_size
6675COMMENT: (number of entries)
6676TYPE: int
6677DEFAULT: 1024
6678LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
6679DOC_START
6680 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
6681DOC_END
6682
a58ff010 6683COMMENT_START
5473c134 6684 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 6685 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6686COMMENT_END
6687
5473c134 6688NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 6689COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6690TYPE: onoff
6691DEFAULT: on
6692LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 6693DOC_START
5473c134 6694 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
6695 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
6696 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
6697 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 6698DOC_END
6699
5473c134 6700NAME: memory_pools_limit
6701COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 6702TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 6703DEFAULT: 5 MB
6704LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 6705DOC_START
5473c134 6706 Used only with memory_pools on:
6707 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 6708
5473c134 6709 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
6710 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
6711 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
6712 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
6713 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
6714 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
6715 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 6716
89646bd7 6717 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 6718 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 6719
5473c134 6720 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 6721 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 6722
6723 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
6724 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
6725 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
6726 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 6727DOC_END
6728
5473c134 6729NAME: forwarded_for
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6730COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
6731TYPE: string
5473c134 6732DEFAULT: on
6733LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 6734DOC_START
67c06f0d
AJ
6735 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
6736 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 6737
5473c134 6738 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
6739
67c06f0d 6740 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 6741
6742 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
67c06f0d
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6743
6744 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
6745 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
6746
6747 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
6748 X-Forwarded-For header.
6749
6750 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
6751 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 6752DOC_END
6753
5473c134 6754NAME: cachemgr_passwd
6755TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
6756DEFAULT: none
6757LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 6758DOC_START
5473c134 6759 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 6760
5473c134 6761 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
6762
6763 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
6764 5min
6765 60min
6766 asndb
6767 authenticator
6768 cbdata
6769 client_list
6770 comm_incoming
6771 config *
6772 counters
6773 delay
6774 digest_stats
6775 dns
6776 events
6777 filedescriptors
6778 fqdncache
6779 histograms
6780 http_headers
6781 info
6782 io
6783 ipcache
6784 mem
6785 menu
6786 netdb
6787 non_peers
6788 objects
6789 offline_toggle *
6790 pconn
6791 peer_select
b360c477 6792 reconfigure *
5473c134 6793 redirector
6794 refresh
6795 server_list
6796 shutdown *
6797 store_digest
6798 storedir
6799 utilization
6800 via_headers
6801 vm_objects
6802
6803 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
6804 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
6805
6806 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
6807 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
6808 password to "none".
6809
6810 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
6811
6812Example:
6813 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
6814 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
6815 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 6816DOC_END
6817
5473c134 6818NAME: client_db
a58ff010 6819COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6820TYPE: onoff
6821DEFAULT: on
6822LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 6823DOC_START
5473c134 6824 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
6825 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 6826DOC_END
6827
5473c134 6828NAME: refresh_all_ims
6829COMMENT: on|off
6830TYPE: onoff
6831DEFAULT: off
6832LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 6833DOC_START
5473c134 6834 When you enable this option, squid will always check
6835 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
6836 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
6837 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
6838 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 6839
5473c134 6840 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
6841 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 6842DOC_END
6843
5473c134 6844NAME: reload_into_ims
6845IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 6846COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 6847TYPE: onoff
6848DEFAULT: off
6849LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 6850DOC_START
5473c134 6851 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
6852 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
6853 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
6854 feature could make you liable for problems which it
6855 causes.
6856
6857 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 6858DOC_END
6859
5473c134 6860NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
6861TYPE: int
6862LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
6863DEFAULT: 1
a58ff010 6864DOC_START
5473c134 6865 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
6866 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
6867 each address is tried once).
6868
6869 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
6870 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
6871 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
6872
6873 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
6874 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
a58ff010 6875DOC_END
6876
5473c134 6877NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 6878TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6879LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 6880DEFAULT: off
6881DOC_START
5473c134 6882 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
6883 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
6884 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
6885 control errors.
5f8252d2 6886DOC_END
6887
5473c134 6888NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 6889TYPE: string
5473c134 6890LOC: Config.as_whois_server
6891DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
6892DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 6893DOC_START
5473c134 6894 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
6895 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 6896DOC_END
6897
5473c134 6898NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 6899TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6900LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 6901DEFAULT: off
6902DOC_START
5473c134 6903 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
6904 objects.
a58ff010 6905DOC_END
6906
5473c134 6907NAME: uri_whitespace
6908TYPE: uri_whitespace
6909LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
6910DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 6911DOC_START
5473c134 6912 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
6913 URI. Options:
a58ff010 6914
5473c134 6915 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
6916 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
6917 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
6918 Request" message.
6919 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
6920 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
6921 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
6922 are in use.
6923 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
6924 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
6925 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
6926 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
6927 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
6928 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
6929 violation.
6930DOC_END
a58ff010 6931
5473c134 6932NAME: chroot
6933TYPE: string
6934LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 6935DEFAULT: none
6936DOC_START
9f37c18a 6937 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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6938 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
6939 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
6940 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
6941 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 6942DOC_END
a58ff010 6943
5473c134 6944NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
6945TYPE: onoff
6946LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 6947DEFAULT: off
5473c134 6948DOC_START
cc192b50 6949 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
6950 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
6951 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
6952
5473c134 6953 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
6954 found not to preserve user session state across requests
6955 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 6956
cc192b50 6957 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 6958DOC_END
6959
5473c134 6960NAME: pipeline_prefetch
6961TYPE: onoff
6962LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
6963DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 6964DOC_START
5473c134 6965 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
6966 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
6967 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 6968
5473c134 6969 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
6970 reasons.
6971DOC_END
a58ff010 6972
5473c134 6973NAME: high_response_time_warning
6974TYPE: int
6975COMMENT: (msec)
6976LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
6977DEFAULT: 0
6978DOC_START
6979 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
6980 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
6981 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 6982DOC_END
6983
5473c134 6984NAME: high_page_fault_warning
6985TYPE: int
6986LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
6987DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 6988DOC_START
5473c134 6989 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
6990 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
6991 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
6992 per second.
6993DOC_END
cc9f92d4 6994
5473c134 6995NAME: high_memory_warning
6996TYPE: b_size_t
6997LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 6998DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 6999DOC_START
7000 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7001 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7002 the administrators attention.
7003DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7004
5473c134 7005NAME: sleep_after_fork
7006COMMENT: (microseconds)
7007TYPE: int
7008LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7009DEFAULT: 0
7010DOC_START
7011 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7012 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7013 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7014 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7015 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7016 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7017 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7018 until all the child processes have been started.
7019 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7020 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7021DOC_END
7022
b6696974 7023NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7024IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
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7025COMMENT: on|off
7026TYPE: onoff
7027DEFAULT: on
7028LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7029DOC_START
7030 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7031 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7032 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7033 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7034 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7035 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7036DOC_END
7037
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7038NAME: eui_lookup
7039TYPE: onoff
7040IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7041DEFAULT: on
7042LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7043DOC_START
7044 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7045DOC_END
7046
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7047NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7048TYPE: int
7049DEFAULT: 0
7050LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7051DOC_START
7052 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7053
7054 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7055
7056 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7057 not all comm loops supports large values.
7058DOC_END
7059
13aeac35 7060NAME: workers
007d775d 7061TYPE: int
13aeac35 7062LOC: Config.workers
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7063DEFAULT: 1
7064DOC_START
13aeac35 7065 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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7066 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7067 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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7068 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7069
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7070 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7071 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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7072DOC_END
7073
cccac0a2 7074EOF