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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
d4a3e179 66
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67 Values with byte units
68
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69 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
70 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
71 a unit.
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72
73 Units accepted by Squid are:
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74 bytes - byte
75 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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76 MB - Megabyte
77 GB - Gigabyte
d4a3e179 78
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79 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
80
81 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
82 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
83 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
84 disable that support.
85
86 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
87 files using the syntax:
88 parameters("/path/filename")
89 For example:
90 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
91
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92 Conditional configuration
93
94 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
95 depend on conditions:
96
97 if <CONDITION>
98 ... regular configuration directives ...
99 [else
100 ... regular configuration directives ...]
101 endif
102
103 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
104 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
105 configuration directives.
106
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107 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
108
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109 These individual conditions types are supported:
110
111 true
112 Always evaluates to true.
113 false
114 Always evaluates to false.
115 <integer> = <integer>
116 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
117
118
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119 SMP-Related Macros
120
121 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
122
123 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
124 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
125
126 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
127 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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128 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
129
130 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
131 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
132
592a09dc 133COMMENT_END
134
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135# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
136NAME: broken_vary_encoding
137TYPE: obsolete
138DOC_START
139 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
140DOC_END
141
142NAME: cache_vary
143TYPE: obsolete
144DOC_START
145 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
146DOC_END
147
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148NAME: error_map
149TYPE: obsolete
150DOC_START
151 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
152DOC_END
153
154NAME: external_refresh_check
155TYPE: obsolete
156DOC_START
157 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
158DOC_END
159
96598f93 160NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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161TYPE: obsolete
162DOC_START
163 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
164DOC_END
165
96598f93 166NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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167TYPE: obsolete
168DOC_START
169 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
170DOC_END
171
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172# Options Removed in 3.3
173NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
96598f93 176 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
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177DOC_END
178
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179# Options Removed in 3.2
180NAME: ignore_expect_100
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
184DOC_END
185
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186NAME: dns_v4_fallback
187TYPE: obsolete
188DOC_START
4ded749e 189 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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190DOC_END
191
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192NAME: ftp_list_width
193TYPE: obsolete
194DOC_START
195 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
196DOC_END
197
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198NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
199TYPE: obsolete
200DOC_START
201 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
202DOC_END
203
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204NAME: update_headers
205TYPE: obsolete
206DOC_START
207 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
208DOC_END
209
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210NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
211TYPE: obsolete
212DOC_START
213 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
214DOC_END
215
216# Options Removed in 3.1
217NAME: dns_testnames
218TYPE: obsolete
219DOC_START
220 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
221DOC_END
222
223NAME: extension_methods
224TYPE: obsolete
225DOC_START
226 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
227DOC_END
228
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229# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
230NAME: zero_buffers
231TYPE: obsolete
232DOC_NONE
233
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234# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
235NAME: incoming_rate
236TYPE: obsolete
237DOC_NONE
238
239NAME: server_http11
240TYPE: obsolete
241DOC_START
242 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
243DOC_END
244
245NAME: upgrade_http0.9
246TYPE: obsolete
247DOC_START
248 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
249DOC_END
250
251NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
252TYPE: obsolete
253DOC_START
254 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
255DOC_END
256
257# Options Removed in 3.0
258NAME: header_access
259TYPE: obsolete
260DOC_START
261 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
262 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
263DOC_END
264
265NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
266TYPE: obsolete
267DOC_START
268 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
269DOC_END
270
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271NAME: wais_relay_host
272TYPE: obsolete
273DOC_START
274 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
275DOC_END
276
277NAME: wais_relay_port
278TYPE: obsolete
279DOC_START
280 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
281DOC_END
282
5473c134 283COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 284 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 285 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
286COMMENT_END
287
41bd17a4 288NAME: auth_param
289TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 290IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 291LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 292DEFAULT: none
293DOC_START
41bd17a4 294 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
295 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 296
41bd17a4 297 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 298
41bd17a4 299 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
300 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
301 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
302 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
303 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
304 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
305 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
306 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
307 program entry).
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41bd17a4 309 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
310 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
311 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
312 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 313
41bd17a4 314 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
315 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
316 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
317 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
318 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
319 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
320 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
321 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
322 type acl.
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41bd17a4 324 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
325 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
326 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
327 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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328 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
329 authentication disabled.
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331 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
332
333 "program" cmdline
334 Specifies the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
335 runs a loop that, on every iteration, reads a request line from
336 the standard and responds with a scheme-specific answer. The loop
337 stops when all input is exchausted (EOF). See scheme-specific
338 "program" descriptions below for details.
339
340 "key_extras" format
341 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
342 authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
343 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
344 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
345 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
346 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in scheme-specific
347 examples below (search for %credentials).
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348 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
349 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
350 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g., when user
351 authentication depends on http_port).
352 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
353 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
354 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat every
355 user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL and
356 wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also force
357 users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP changes.
d4806c91 358
41bd17a4 359 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "program" cmdline
362 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
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363 reads a request_format line ("username password" by default) and
364 replies with one of three results:
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366 OK
367 the user exists.
368
369 ERR
370 the user does not exist.
371
372 BH
4ded749e 373 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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374 a result being identified.
375
376 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
377 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
378
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379 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
380 proxy_auth.
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41bd17a4 382 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
383 program is specified.
cccac0a2 384
41bd17a4 385 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
386 this line to something like
307b83b7 387
f6c0fef2 388 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/basic_ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 389
d2a89ac1 390 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 391 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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392 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
393 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
394 username & password to the helper.
395
7353861b 396 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 397 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 398 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
399 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
400 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
401 authenticator processes.
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402
403 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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404 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
405 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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406 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
407 the maximum.
408
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409 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
410 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
411 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
412 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
413 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 414 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
41bd17a4 415 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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416
417 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
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41bd17a4 419 "realm" realmstring
420 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
421 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
422 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
423 password). There is no default.
424 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 425
41bd17a4 426 "credentialsttl" timetolive
427 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
428 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
429 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
430 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
431 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
432 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
433 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
434 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
435 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 436
41bd17a4 437 "casesensitive" on|off
438 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
439 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
440 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
441 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
442 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 443
41bd17a4 444 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 445
41bd17a4 446 "program" cmdline
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447 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
448 reads a request_format line ("username":"realm" by default) and
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449 replies with one of three results:
450
451 OK ha1="..."
452 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
453 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
454 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
455
456 ERR
457 the user does not exist.
458
459 BH
4ded749e 460 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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461 a result being identified.
462
463 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
464 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 465
41bd17a4 466 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
467 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 468
41bd17a4 469 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
470 something like
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7ce93108 472 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 473
d2a89ac1 474 "utf8" on|off
4ded749e 475 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
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476 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
477 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
478 username & password to the helper.
479
7353861b 480 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 481 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 482 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
483 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
484 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
485 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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486
487 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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488 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
489 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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490 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
491 the maximum.
492
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493 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
494 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
495 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
496 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
497 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
4ded749e 498 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
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499 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
500
48d54e4d 501 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 502
41bd17a4 503 "realm" realmstring
504 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
505 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
506 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
507 password). There is no default.
508 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 509
41bd17a4 510 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
511 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
512 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 513
41bd17a4 514 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
515 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
516 valid for.
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41bd17a4 518 "nonce_max_count" number
519 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
520 used.
cccac0a2 521
41bd17a4 522 "nonce_strictness" on|off
523 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
524 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
4ded749e 525 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
41bd17a4 526 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 527
41bd17a4 528 "check_nonce_count" on|off
529 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
530 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
531 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
532 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 533
41bd17a4 534 "post_workaround" on|off
535 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
536 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
537 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 538
41bd17a4 539 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 540
41bd17a4 541 "program" cmdline
542 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
543 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
544 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
545 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
5269ec0e 546 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
41bd17a4 547 is not used.
cccac0a2 548
e4752e21 549 auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 550
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551 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
552 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 553 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
554 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
555 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
556 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
557 processes.
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48d54e4d 559 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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560 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
561 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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562 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
563 the maximum.
564
565 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
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41bd17a4 567 "keep_alive" on|off
568 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
569 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
570 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
571 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
572 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 574 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 575
41bd17a4 576 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 577
41bd17a4 578 "program" cmdline
579 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
580 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
581 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
582 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
583 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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584 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
585 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
5269ec0e 586 authenticator program is not used.
41bd17a4 587 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
588 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 589
e4752e21 590 auth_param negotiate program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
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592 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
593 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 594 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
595 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
4ded749e 596 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
41bd17a4 597 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
598 processes.
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599
600 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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601 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
602 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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603 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
604 the maximum.
605
606 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 607
41bd17a4 608 "keep_alive" on|off
609 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
610 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
611 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
612 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
613 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 615 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
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617 Examples:
618
41bd17a4 619#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
620#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 621#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 622#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
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41bd17a4 624#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 625#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 626#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 627#
41bd17a4 628#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 629#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 630#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
631#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
632#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
633#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 635#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 636#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 637#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
638#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 639DOC_END
cccac0a2 640
41bd17a4 641NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
642TYPE: time_t
643DEFAULT: 1 hour
644LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
645DOC_START
646 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 647 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 648 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
649 have good reason to.
650DOC_END
cccac0a2 651
41bd17a4 652NAME: authenticate_ttl
653TYPE: time_t
654DEFAULT: 1 hour
655LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
656DOC_START
657 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
658 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
659 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
660 TTL are removed from memory.
661DOC_END
cccac0a2 662
41bd17a4 663NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
664TYPE: time_t
665LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 666DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 667DOC_START
668 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
669 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
670 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
671 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 672 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 673 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
674 environment with relatively static address assignments.
675DOC_END
cccac0a2 676
3d1e3e43 677COMMENT_START
678 ACCESS CONTROLS
679 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
680COMMENT_END
681
41bd17a4 682NAME: external_acl_type
683TYPE: externalAclHelper
684LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 685DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 686DOC_START
41bd17a4 687 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
688 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 690 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 691
41bd17a4 692 Options:
cccac0a2 693
41bd17a4 694 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
695 for 1 hour)
696 negative_ttl=n
697 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
698 as ttl)
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700 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
701 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
702 children-startup=n
703 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
704 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
705 of this type. (default 0)
706 children-idle=n
707 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
708 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
709 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
710 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 711 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
712 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 713 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 714 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
715 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 716 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 717 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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718 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
719 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 720
41bd17a4 721 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 722
41bd17a4 723 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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724 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
725 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
726 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 727 %IDENT Ident user name
728 %SRC Client IP
729 %SRCPORT Client source port
730 %URI Requested URI
731 %DST Requested host
732 %PROTO Requested protocol
733 %PORT Requested port
734 %PATH Requested URL path
735 %METHOD Request method
736 %MYADDR Squid interface address
737 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
738 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
739 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
740 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
741 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
742 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 743
c68c9682 744 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 745 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 746 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 747 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 748 HTTP request header list member using ; as
749 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
750 character.
cccac0a2 751
c68c9682 752 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 753 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 754 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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755 %<{Hdr:;member}
756 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
757 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
758 character.
759
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760 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
761 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
762 is automatically added at the end of the line
763 sent to the helper.
764 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
765 whereas the default will pass each separately.
766
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767 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
768 an unchanging input format.
769
cccac0a2 770
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771 General request syntax:
772
773 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
774
775
776 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
777 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
778 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
779
780 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
781 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
782
783 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
784 each value in requests against whitespaces.
785
786 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
787 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
788
789 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
790
791 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
792 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
793 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
794 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
795 of the response relating to its request.
796
797
798 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
799 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
800 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
801
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41bd17a4 803 General result syntax:
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806
807 Result consists of one of the codes:
808
809 OK
810 the ACL test produced a match.
811
812 ERR
813 the ACL test does not produce a match.
814
815 BH
4ded749e 816 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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817 a result being identified.
818
819 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
820 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
cccac0a2 821
41bd17a4 822 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 823
41bd17a4 824 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 825
41bd17a4 826 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 827
05e52854 828 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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829 Available as %o in error pages.
830 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
831
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832 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
833 does not alter existing tags.
5269ec0e 834
41bd17a4 835 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 836 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 837
05e52854 838 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
6a566b9c 839
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840 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
841 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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842 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
843 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
844 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 845
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846 Some example key values:
847
5269ec0e 848 user=John%20Smith
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849 user="John Smith"
850 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
cccac0a2 851DOC_END
852
41bd17a4 853NAME: acl
854TYPE: acl
855LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 856IF USE_OPENSSL
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857DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
858DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
859DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
860DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
861DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
862ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 863DEFAULT: all src all
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864DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
865DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
866DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
867DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 868DOC_START
41bd17a4 869 Defining an Access List
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871 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
872 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
873 they are read from.
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876 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 877
375eeb3b 878 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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881 The available options are:
882
883 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
884 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
885 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
886 without -i.
887
888 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
889 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
890 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
891 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
892 without any warnings or lookups.
893
894 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
895 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
896 is a valid domain name)
cccac0a2 897
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899 to access some external data source.
900 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
901 don't are marked as [fast].
902 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
903 for further information
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905 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
906
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907 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
908 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 909 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 910 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 911
41bd17a4 912 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
913 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
914 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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915 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
916 # other *BSD variants.
917 # [fast]
41bd17a4 918 #
919 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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920 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
921 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
922
923 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
924 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 925 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 926 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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927 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
928 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 929 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 930 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 931 #
41bd17a4 932 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
933 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
934 # if the reverse lookup fails.
9bc73deb 935
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936 acl aclname src_as number ...
937 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 938 # [fast]
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939 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
940 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
941 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
942 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
943 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
944 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
945 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 946
6db78a1a 947 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 948 # [fast]
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949 # match against a named cache_peer entry
950 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
951
375eeb3b 952 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 953 # [fast]
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954 # day-abbrevs:
955 # S - Sunday
956 # M - Monday
957 # T - Tuesday
958 # W - Wednesday
959 # H - Thursday
960 # F - Friday
961 # A - Saturday
962 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
963
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964 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
965 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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966 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
967 # regex matching on URL login field
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968 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
969 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
e988aa40 970
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971 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
972 # ranges are alloed
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973 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
974 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
975
b3567eb5 976 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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978 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
979
980 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
e988aa40 981
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982 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
983 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 985 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 986 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 988 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 989 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 990 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
e988aa40 991
375eeb3b 992 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 993 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 994 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 995 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 996
41bd17a4 997 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
998 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1000 # supplied credentials [slow]
1001 #
1002 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1003 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1004 #
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1006 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
1007 #
41bd17a4 1008 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1009 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1010 # in access.log.
1011 #
1012 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1013 # to check username/password combinations (see
1014 # auth_param directive).
1015 #
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1017 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1018 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 1019
41bd17a4 1020 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1021 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1022 # Example:
1023 #
1024 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 1026 acl aclname maxconn number
1027 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1029 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1030 # indirect clients are not counted.
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41bd17a4 1032 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1033 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1034 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1035 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1036 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1037 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1038 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1039 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1040 # request is denied)
1041 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1042 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1043 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1045 acl aclname random probability
1046 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1047 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1048 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1049
375eeb3b 1050 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1051 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1052 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1053 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1054 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1055 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1057 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1058 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1059 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1060 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 1061
375eeb3b 1062 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1063 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1064 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1065 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1066 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1067 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1068 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1070 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1071 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1072 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1073 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 1074
375eeb3b 1075 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1076 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1077 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 1079 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1080 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1081 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 1082
41bd17a4 1083 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1084 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 1085 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 1087 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1088 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1089 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1090 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1091
0ab50441 1092 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 1093 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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1096 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1097 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1098 #
1099 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1100 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1101 # http_reply_access.
1102
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1104 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1105 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1106 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1107 # also has one of the given values.
1108 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
1109 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1110 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1111
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1113 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1114 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1115 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1116 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1117 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1118 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1119 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1120
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1123 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1124 #
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1125 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
1126 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1127 #
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1129 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1130 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1131 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1132 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1133 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1134 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1135 #
1136 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1137 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1138 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1139 #
1140 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1141 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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1145 #
1146 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1147 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1148 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1149 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1150 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
cf1c09f6 1151ENDIF
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1152 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1153 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1154 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1155 #
1156 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1157 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1158 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1159 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1160 #
1161 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1162 # and slow otherwise.
1163
1164 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1165 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1166 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1167 #
1168 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1169 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1170 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1171 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1172 #
1173 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1174 # and slow otherwise.
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1177 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1178 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1179 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1180 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1181 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1182
41bd17a4 1183NOCOMMENT_START
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1185# Recommended minimum configuration:
1186#
e0855596 1187
ee776778 1188# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1189# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1190# should be allowed
1191acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1192acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1193acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1194acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1195acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
e0855596 1196
41bd17a4 1197acl SSL_ports port 443
1198acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1199acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1200acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1201acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1202acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1203acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1204acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1205acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1206acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1207acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1208acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1209NOCOMMENT_END
1210DOC_END
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1212NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1213TYPE: acl_access
1214IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1215LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1216DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1217DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
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1219 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1220 find the original source of a request.
1221
1222 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1223 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1224 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1225 rightmost address being the most recent.
1226
1227 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1228 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1229 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1231 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1232 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1233 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1234 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1235 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1237 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1238 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1239 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1240 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1242 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
3d674977 1243
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1245 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1246
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1248
1249 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1250 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1251 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1252 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1253 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1254 based on the client's source addresses.
1255
1256 For example:
1257
1258 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1259 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1260 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1261 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1262DOC_END
1263
1264NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1265COMMENT: on|off
1266TYPE: onoff
1267IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1268DEFAULT: on
1269LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1270DOC_START
1271 Controls whether the indirect client address
1272 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1273 direct client address in acl matching.
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1275 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1276 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1278
1279NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1280COMMENT: on|off
1281TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1282IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1284LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1285DOC_START
1286 Controls whether the indirect client address
1287 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1288 direct client address in delay pools.
1289DOC_END
1290
1291NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1292COMMENT: on|off
1293TYPE: onoff
1294IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1295DEFAULT: on
1296LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1297DOC_START
1298 Controls whether the indirect client address
1299 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1300 direct client address in the access log.
1301DOC_END
1302
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1303NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1304COMMENT: on|off
1305TYPE: onoff
1306IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1307DEFAULT: off
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1308LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1309DOC_START
1310 Controls whether the indirect client address
1311 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1312 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1314 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1315 mode ports.
1316
1317 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1318 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1319 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1320 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1322
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1323NAME: spoof_client_ip
1324TYPE: acl_access
1325LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1326DEFAULT: none
1327DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1328DOC_START
1329 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1330 defined access lists.
1331
1332 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1333
1334 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1335 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1336
1337 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1338
1339 This clause supports fast acl types.
1340 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1341DOC_END
1342
41bd17a4 1343NAME: http_access
1344TYPE: acl_access
1345LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1346DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1347DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1348DOC_START
1349 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1350
41bd17a4 1351 Access to the HTTP port:
1352 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1353
41bd17a4 1354 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1355
41bd17a4 1356 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1357 the request.
cccac0a2 1358
41bd17a4 1359 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1360 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1361 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1362 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1364 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1367 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1368
41bd17a4 1369NOCOMMENT_START
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1371#
1372# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1373#
e0855596 1374# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1375http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1377# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1378http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1381http_access allow localhost manager
1382http_access deny manager
1383
41bd17a4 1384# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1385# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1386# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1387#http_access deny to_localhost
e0855596 1388
41bd17a4 1389#
1390# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1391#
c8f4eac4 1392
ee776778 1393# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1394# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1395# from where browsing should be allowed
1396http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1397http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1398
41bd17a4 1399# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1400http_access deny all
1401NOCOMMENT_END
1402DOC_END
7d90757b 1403
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1404NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1405TYPE: acl_access
1406LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1407DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1408DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1410 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1411
1412 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1413 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1414 output.
1415
1416 If not set then only http_access is used.
1417DOC_END
1418
41bd17a4 1419NAME: http_reply_access
1420TYPE: acl_access
1421LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1422DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1423DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1424DOC_START
1425 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1426
41bd17a4 1427 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1428
41bd17a4 1429 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1430 all replies.
1a224843 1431
41bd17a4 1432 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1433 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1434 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1436 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1437 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1438DOC_END
1439
41bd17a4 1440NAME: icp_access
1441TYPE: acl_access
1442LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1444DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1445DOC_START
41bd17a4 1446 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1447 access lists
5473c134 1448
41bd17a4 1449 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1450
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1452 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1453 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1454
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1456 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1458# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1459#icp_access allow localnet
1460#icp_access deny all
5473c134 1461DOC_END
1462
41bd17a4 1463NAME: htcp_access
1464IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1465TYPE: acl_access
1466LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1468DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1469DOC_START
41bd17a4 1470 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1471 access lists
5473c134 1472
41bd17a4 1473 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1474
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1476 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
5473c134 1477
0b48417e 1478 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1479 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1480 using the htcp option.
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1483 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1485# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1486#htcp_access allow localnet
1487#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1488DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1490NAME: htcp_clr_access
1491IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1492TYPE: acl_access
1493LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1495DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1496DOC_START
1497 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1499 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1500
41bd17a4 1501 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1504 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1506# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1507acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1508htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1509htcp_clr_access deny all
5473c134 1510DOC_END
1511
41bd17a4 1512NAME: miss_access
1513TYPE: acl_access
1514LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1515DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1516DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1517DOC_START
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1518 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1519
1520 For example;
1521 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1522 a parent.
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638402dd 1524 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1525 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1526 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1527
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1529 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1530 objects (HITs).
1531
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1533 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1535 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1536 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1537DOC_END
1538
1539NAME: ident_lookup_access
1540TYPE: acl_access
1541IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1543DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1544LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1545DOC_START
41bd17a4 1546 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1547 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1548 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1549 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1550 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1551 any requests.
5473c134 1552
41bd17a4 1553 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1554 can follow this example:
5473c134 1555
4daaf3cb 1556 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1557 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1558 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1559
4daaf3cb 1560 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1561 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1562 the correct result.
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1564 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1565 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1566DOC_END
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5b0f5383 1568NAME: reply_body_max_size
1569COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1570TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1571DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1572DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1573LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1574DOC_START
1575 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1576 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1577 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1578 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1579 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1580 for this reply.
1581
1582 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1583 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1584 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1585 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1586 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1587 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1588 and they will receive a partial reply.
1589
1590 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1591 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1592 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1593 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1594
1595 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1596 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1597 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1598 the size of your largest error page.
1599
1600 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1601 no limit imposed.
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1603 Configuration Format is:
1604 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1605 ie.
1606 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1607
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1609
1610COMMENT_START
1611 NETWORK OPTIONS
1612 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1613COMMENT_END
1614
1615NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1616TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1617DEFAULT: none
1618LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1619DOC_START
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1620 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1621 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1622 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1623
1624 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1625 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1626 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1627 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1628 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1629 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1630 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1631
1632 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1633 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1634
1635 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1636 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1637 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1638
1639 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1640
c7b1dd5d 1641 Modes:
5b0f5383 1642
e77bdb4e 1643 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1644 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1645 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1646
1647 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1648 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1649 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1650
7f45065d 1651 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1652
caf3666d 1653 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1654 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1655 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1657 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1658
7a957a93 1659 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1660 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1662 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1663
1664
1665 Accelerator Mode Options:
1666
5b0f5383 1667 defaultsite=domainname
1668 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1669 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1670 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1671
cf673853 1672 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
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1675 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1676 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1677 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1678 produce a FATAL error.
1679 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 1680
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1682 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1683
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1685 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1686
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1688 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1689 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1690 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1691
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1693
7f45065d 1694 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1696
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1698 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1699 never_direct was used.
1700
1701 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1702 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1703 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1704 http_access rules when using this.
1705
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1707 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1709
1710 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1711 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1712 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1713 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1714 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1715 certificate will be selfsigned.
1716 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1717 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1718 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1719 years.
1720 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1721 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1722
1723 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1724 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1725 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1726 default value is 4MB.
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1728 TLS / SSL Options:
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1730 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1731
1732 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1733 if not specified, the certificate file is
1734 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1735 key file.
1736
1737 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1738 1 automatic (default)
1739 2 SSLv2 only
1740 3 SSLv3 only
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1741 4 TLSv1.0 only
1742 5 TLSv1.1 only
1743 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1745 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1747 additional settings. If those settings are
1748 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1749 by the OpenSSL library.
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c7b1dd5d 1752 being:
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1753 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1754 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1755 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1756 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1757 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1758 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1759 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1761 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1762 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1763 strength to some attacks.
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1764 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1765 complete list of options.
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1767 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1768 requesting a client certificate.
1769
1770 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1771 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1772 clientca will be used.
1773
1774 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1775 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1776
1777 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1778 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1779 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1780
1781 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1783 on how to create this file.
1784 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1785 option is not set.
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1787 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1788 DELAYED_AUTH
1789 Don't request client certificates
1790 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1791 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1792 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1793 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1794 to OpenSSL.
1795 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1796 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1797 will result in a new SSL session.
1798 VERIFY_CRL
1799 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1800 certificates.
1801 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1802 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1803 client certificate chain.
1804
1805 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1806
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1808
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1809 connection-auth[=on|off]
1810 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1811 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1812 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1813
5b0f5383 1814 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1815 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1816 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1817 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1818 support is enabled.
1819 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1820
1821 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1822 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1823 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1824 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1825 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1826 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1827 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1828 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1829
81b6e9a7 1830 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1831 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1832
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1835 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1836 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1837 timeout the time before giving up.
1838
5b0f5383 1839 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1840 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1841 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1842 visible on the internal address.
1843
1844NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 1845
5b0f5383 1846# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1847http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1848NOCOMMENT_END
1849DOC_END
1850
1851NAME: https_port
cb4f4424 1852IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 1853TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1854DEFAULT: none
1855LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1856DOC_START
7f45065d 1857 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1858
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1860 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1861
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1863 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1864
1865 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1866 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1867
7f45065d 1868 Modes:
5b0f5383 1869
7f45065d 1870 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1871
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1873 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1874 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1875
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1877 connections using the client IP address.
1878 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1879
caf3666d 1880 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1881 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1882 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1884 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1885
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1887 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1888
38450a50 1889 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1890
7f45065d 1891 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
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1895
1896
1897 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1898
1899 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1900
1901 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1902 if not specified, the certificate file is
1903 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1904 key file.
1905
1906 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1907 1 automatic (default)
1908 2 SSLv2 only
1909 3 SSLv3 only
1910 4 TLSv1 only
1911
1912 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1913
1914 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1915 being:
1916 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1917 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1918 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1919 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1920 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1921 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1922 documentation for a complete list of options.
1923
1924 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1925 requesting a client certificate.
1926
1927 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1928 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1929 clientca will be used.
1930
1931 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1932 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1933
1934 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1935 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1936 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1937
1938 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1939 DH key exchanges.
1940
1941 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1942 DELAYED_AUTH
1943 Don't request client certificates
1944 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1945 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1946 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1947 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1948 to OpenSSL.
1949 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1950 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1951 will result in a new SSL session.
1952 VERIFY_CRL
1953 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1954 certificates.
1955 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1956 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1957 client certificate chain.
1958
1959 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1960
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1962 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1963 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1964 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1965 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1966 certificate will be selfsigned.
1967 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1968 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1969 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1970 years.
1971 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1972 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1973
1974 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1975 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1976 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1977 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1978
859741ed 1979 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1980DOC_END
1981
41bd17a4 1982NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1983TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1984DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1985LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1986DOC_START
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1987 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1988 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1989
41bd17a4 1990 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1991
41bd17a4 1992 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1993 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1994
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1996 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1997 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1998 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 2000 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2002 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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41bd17a4 2004 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2005 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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2007 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
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41bd17a4 2009 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2010 matching line.
cccac0a2 2011DOC_END
2012
41bd17a4 2013NAME: clientside_tos
2014TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 2015DEFAULT: none
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2016LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
2017DOC_START
2018 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
2019 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2020
2021 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2022
2023 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2024 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2025
2026 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2027 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2028 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2029 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2030
2031 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2032 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
2033DOC_END
2034
2035NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2036TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2037IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2039LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2040DOC_START
2041 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2042 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2043
2044 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2045
2046 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2047 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2048
2049 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2050 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2051 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2052 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2053DOC_END
2054
2055NAME: clientside_mark
2056TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2057IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2059LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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2061 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
2062 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2063
2064 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2065
2066 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2067 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2068
2069 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2070 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2071 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2072 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2073
2074 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2075 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 2076DOC_END
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2079TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2080IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2081DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2082LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2083DOC_START
575cb927 2084 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2086 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2087 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2090 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2091 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2092 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2093 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2094
2095 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2096 client to the upstream connection request.
2097
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2099 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2100 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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2103 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
2104 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2105
2106 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
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2108 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2109
2110 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2112 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2113
2114 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2115
2116 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2117
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2119 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2120 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2121 specified in the mask are written.
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2123 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2124 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2125 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2126 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2127 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2128
575cb927 2129 disable-preserve-miss
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2130 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2131 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2132 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2133 and masked with miss-mark.
2134 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2135 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2136 (MARK target).
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2138 miss-mask=0xFF
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2139 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2140 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2141 the TOS sent towards clients.
2142 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2143 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2144
2145 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2146 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2147 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2148 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2151
41bd17a4 2152NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2153TYPE: acl_address
2154DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2155DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2156LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2157DOC_START
2158 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2159 based on the username or source address of the user making
2160 the request.
7f7db318 2161
41bd17a4 2162 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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2165 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2168 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2169
2170 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2171 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2172
2173 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2174 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2175
2176 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2177 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2178
41bd17a4 2179 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2180 matching line.
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2183 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2184 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2185
2186
2187 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2188 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2189 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2190 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 2192 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
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2195 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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2200TYPE: onoff
2201DEFAULT: off
2202LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2203DOC_START
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2205 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2206 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2208 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2209 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2210 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2212 When set to ON:
2213 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2214 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2215
2216 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2217 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2218 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2219 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2220 and Request-URI components:
2221
2222 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2223 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2224 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2225 or FQDN.
2226
2227 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2228 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2229
2230
2231 When set to OFF (the default):
2232 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2233 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2234
2235 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2236
2237 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2238
2239 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2240 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2241
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2243 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2244 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2246 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2247 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2248
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2252 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2253 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2254 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2255 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2256
2257 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2258 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2259 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2260 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2261 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2263DOC_END
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2265NAME: client_dst_passthru
2266TYPE: onoff
2267DEFAULT: on
2268LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2269DOC_START
2270 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2271 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2272 source using the HTTP Host header.
2273
2274 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2275 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2276 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2277 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2278
2279 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2280 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2281 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2282
2283 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2284 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2285 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2286
2287 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2288DOC_END
2289
41bd17a4 2290COMMENT_START
2291 SSL OPTIONS
2292 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2293COMMENT_END
2294
2295NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2296IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2297TYPE: onoff
2298DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2299LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2300DOC_START
41bd17a4 2301 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2302 messages.
cccac0a2 2303DOC_END
2304
41bd17a4 2305NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2306IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2307TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2308LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2309DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2310DOC_START
41bd17a4 2311 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2312 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2313DOC_END
2314
41bd17a4 2315NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
cb4f4424 2316IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2317DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2318LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2319TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2320DOC_START
41bd17a4 2321 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2322DOC_END
2323
41bd17a4 2324NAME: sslproxy_client_key
cb4f4424 2325IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2326DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2327LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2328TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2329DOC_START
41bd17a4 2330 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2331DOC_END
2332
41bd17a4 2333NAME: sslproxy_version
cb4f4424 2334IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2335DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 2336DEFAULT_DOC: automatic SSL/TLS version negotiation
41bd17a4 2337LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2338TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2339DOC_START
41bd17a4 2340 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2341
2342 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2343
2344 1 automatic (default)
2345 2 SSLv2 only
2346 3 SSLv3 only
2347 4 TLSv1.0 only
2348 5 TLSv1.1 only
2349 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2350DOC_END
2351
41bd17a4 2352NAME: sslproxy_options
cb4f4424 2353IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2354DEFAULT: none
2355LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2356TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2357DOC_START
943c5f16 2358 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2359
2360 The most important being:
2361
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2362 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2363 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2364 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2365 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2366 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2367 SINGLE_DH_USE
2368 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2369 DH key exchanges
2370 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2371 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2372 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2373 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2374 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2375 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2376 strength to some attacks.
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2378 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2379 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2380DOC_END
2381
41bd17a4 2382NAME: sslproxy_cipher
cb4f4424 2383IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2384DEFAULT: none
2385LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2386TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2387DOC_START
41bd17a4 2388 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2389
2390 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2391DOC_END
2392
41bd17a4 2393NAME: sslproxy_cafile
cb4f4424 2394IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2395DEFAULT: none
2396LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2397TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2398DOC_START
41bd17a4 2399 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2400 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2401DOC_END
0976f8db 2402
41bd17a4 2403NAME: sslproxy_capath
cb4f4424 2404IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
5473c134 2405DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2406LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2407TYPE: string
5473c134 2408DOC_START
41bd17a4 2409 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2410 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2411DOC_END
2412
10a69fc0 2413NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2414IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2416LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2417TYPE: int
2418DOC_START
2419 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2420DOC_END
2421
2422NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2423IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2424DEFAULT: 2 MB
2425LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2426TYPE: b_size_t
2427DOC_START
2428 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2429DOC_END
2430
4c9da963 2431NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2432IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2433TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2434LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
638402dd 2435DEFAULT_DOC: Does not bump unless rules are present in squid.conf
4c9da963 2436DEFAULT: none
2437DOC_START
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2438 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2439 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2440 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2441 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2442 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2443 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2444
2445 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2446
2447 The following bumping modes are supported:
2448
2449 client-first
2450 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2451 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2452 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2453 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2454
2455 server-first
2456 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2457 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2458 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2459 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2460
2461 none
2462 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2463 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2464 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2465 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2466
2467 By default, no connections are bumped.
2468
2469 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2470 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2471 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2472 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2473 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2474
e0c0d54c 2475 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2476 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2479
e0855596 2480
caf3666d 2481 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2482 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2483
e0855596 2484 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2485 ssl_bump none localhost
2486 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2487 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2488DOC_END
2489
41bd17a4 2490NAME: sslproxy_flags
cb4f4424 2491IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2492DEFAULT: none
2493LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2494TYPE: string
5473c134 2495DOC_START
41bd17a4 2496 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2497 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2498 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2499 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2500 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2501DOC_END
2502
4c9da963 2503NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 2504IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 2505DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2506DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2507LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2508TYPE: acl_access
2509DOC_START
2510 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2511
2512 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2513 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2514 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2515
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2517 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2518 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2519
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2521 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2522 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2523
2524 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2525 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
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2527 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
2528 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2529
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2530 SECURITY WARNING:
2531 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2532 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2533 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2534
638402dd 2535 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2536DOC_END
2537
aebe6888 2538NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 2539IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 2540DEFAULT: none
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2541POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2542POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2543POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2544TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2545LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2546DOC_START
2547
69742b76 2548 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2549
69742b76 2550 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2551
aebe6888 2552 signTrusted
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2553 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2554 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2555 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 2556
aebe6888 2557 signUntrusted
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2558 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2559 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2560 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2561
aebe6888 2562 signSelf
69742b76 2563 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2564 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2566 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2569
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2570 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2571 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2572 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2573 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2574 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2576 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2577 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2578 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2579 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2580 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2581 bump-server-first is used.
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2582DOC_END
2583
638402dd 2584NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 2585IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2586DEFAULT: none
2587TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2588LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2589DOC_START
2590
2591 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2592
69742b76 2593 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2594
fb2178bb 2595 setValidAfter
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2597 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2598
fb2178bb 2599 setValidBefore
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2600 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2601 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2604 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2605 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2606 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2607 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2608 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2610 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2611
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2612 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2613 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2614 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2615 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2616 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2617 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2619 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2620 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2621 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2622 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2623 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2624 bump-server-first is used.
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2626
41bd17a4 2627NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 2628IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2629DEFAULT: none
2630LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2631TYPE: string
5473c134 2632DOC_START
41bd17a4 2633 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2634 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2635 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2636 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2637
2638 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2639 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2640 keys.
5473c134 2641DOC_END
2642
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2643COMMENT_START
2644 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2645 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2646COMMENT_END
2647
2648NAME: sslcrtd_program
2649TYPE: eol
2650IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2651DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2652LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2653DOC_START
2654 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2655 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2656 For more information use:
2657 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2658DOC_END
2659
2660NAME: sslcrtd_children
2661TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2662IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2663DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2664LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2665DOC_START
2666 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2667 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2668
2669 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2670 tuning.
2671
2672 startup=N
2673
2674 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2675 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2676 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2677
2678 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2679 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2680
2681 idle=N
2682
2683 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2684 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2685 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2686 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2687
2688 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2689DOC_END
2690
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2691NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
2692TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 2693IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2694DEFAULT: none
2695LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2696DOC_START
2697 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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2698 process.
2699
2700 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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2701
2702 Options:
638402dd 2703 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results. The default is 60 secs
14798e73 2704 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
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2705DOC_END
2706
2707NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2708TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 2709IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 2710DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2711LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2712DOC_START
638402dd 2713 The maximum number of processes spawn to service SSL server.
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2714 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2715
2716 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2717 tuning.
2718
2719 startup=N
2720
2721 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2722 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2723 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2724
2725 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2726 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2727
2728 idle=N
2729
2730 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2731 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2732 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2733 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2734
2735 concurrency=
2736
2737 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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2738 parallel. A value of 0 indicates the certficate validator does not
2739 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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2740
2741 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2742 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2743 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2744 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2745 to that request.
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2747 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2748DOC_END
2749
cccac0a2 2750COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2751 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2752 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2753COMMENT_END
2754
41bd17a4 2755NAME: cache_peer
2756TYPE: peer
2757DEFAULT: none
2758LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2759DOC_START
41bd17a4 2760 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2b94f655 2761
41bd17a4 2762 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
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41bd17a4 2764 For example,
2b94f655 2765
41bd17a4 2766 # proxy icp
2767 # hostname type port port options
2768 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2769 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2770 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2771 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2772 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2773 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2774
2775 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2776
2777 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2778 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2779 For web servers this is usually 80
2780
2781 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2782 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2783 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2784
2785
2786 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2787
2788 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2789 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2790
2791
2792 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2793
2794 multicast-responder
2795 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2796 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2797 replies will be accepted from it.
2798
2799 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2800 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2801
2802 background-ping
2803 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2804 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2805 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2806
2807
2808 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2809
2810 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2811 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2812
2813
2814 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2815 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2816 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2817 list of options described below.
2b94f655 2818
18191440 2819 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2820
18191440 2821 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2822 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2823 only-clr.
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2825 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2826 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2b94f655 2827
18191440 2828 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2829 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2830 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2831
18191440 2832 htcp=forward-clr
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2833 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2834
2835
2836 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2837
2838 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2839 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2840
2841
2842 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2843 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2844 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2845
2846 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2847 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2848 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2849
2850 weighted-round-robin
2851 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2852 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2853 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2854 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2855 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2856
2857 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2858 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2859 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2860
2861 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2862
2863 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2865 multicast-siblings
2866 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2867 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2868 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2870 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2871 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2872 members of the same multicast group.
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2873
2874
2875 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2876
2877 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2878 peer-selection mechanisms.
2879 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2880 larger weights are favored more.
2881 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2882 protocol is not in use.
2883
2884 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2885 times of parents.
2886 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2887 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2888 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2889
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2890 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2891 to this address.
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2892 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2893 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2894 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2895 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2896
2897 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2898 delay pools.
2899
2900 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2901 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2902 than the Squid default location.
2903
2904
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2905 ==== CARP OPTIONS ====
2906
2907 carp-key=key-specification
2908 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2909 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2910 scheme, host, port, path, params
2911 Order is not important.
2912
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2914
2915 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2916 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2917 is a web server.
2918
2919 forceddomain=name
2920 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2921 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2922 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2923 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2924
2925 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2926
2927 no-netdb-exchange
2928 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2929
2930
2931 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2932
2933 login=user:password
2934 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2935 requires proxy authentication.
2936
2937 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2938 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2939
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2940 login=PASSTHRU
2941 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2942 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2943 without alteration to the peer.
2944 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2945
2946 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2947 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2948 connection-auth options are also used.
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2950 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2951 Authentication is not required by this option.
11e4c5e5 2952
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2953 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2954 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2955 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
2956 they may be sent instead.
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2957
2958 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2959 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2960 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2961 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2962 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2963
2964 login=*:password
2965 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2966 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2967 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2968 needed to identify each user.
2969 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2970 information which is added to the username. This can
2971 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2972 the login=username:password option above.
2973
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2974 login=NEGOTIATE
2975 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2976 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2977 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2978 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2979
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2981 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2982 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2983
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2984 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2985 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2986 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2987 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2988 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2989 used.
2990
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2991 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2992 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2993 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2994
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2995 connection-auth=on|off
2996 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2997 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2998 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2999 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3000 of the peer.
3001
3002
3003 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
3004
3005 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
3006
3007 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
3008 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
3009 this peer.
3010
3011 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
3012 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
3013 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
3014 reference a combined file containing both the
3015 certificate and the key.
3016
3d96b0e8 3017 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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3018 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
3019 1 = automatic (default)
3020 2 = SSL v2 only
3021 3 = SSL v3 only
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3022 4 = TLS v1.0 only
3023 5 = TLS v1.1 only
3024 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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3025
3026 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3027 to this peer.
3028
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3029 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
3030
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3031 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
3032 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
3033 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
3034 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
3035 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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3036 SINGLE_DH_USE
3037 Always create a new key when using
3038 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
3039 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3040 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3041 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3042 strength to some attacks.
3043
3044 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3045 more complete list.
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3046
3047 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
3048 when verifying the peer certificate.
3049
3050 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3051 use when verifying the peer certificate.
3052
3053 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3054 verifying the peer certificate.
3055
3056 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
3057
41bd17a4 3058 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3059 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3060 verify.
3061 NO_DEFAULT_CA
3062 Don't use the default CA list built in
3063 to OpenSSL.
3064 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3065 Don't verify the peer certificate
3066 matches the server name
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3067
3068 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3069 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3070 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3071 used.
3072
3073 front-end-https
3074 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3075 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3076 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3077 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3078 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
3079
3080
3081 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3082
3083 connect-timeout=N
3084 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3085 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3086
3087 connect-fail-limit=N
3088 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
3089 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
3090
3091 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3092 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
3093 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
3094 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
3095 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
3096 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
3097 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
3098
3099 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
3100 peer. see also
3101
3102 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3103 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3104 but different ports.
3105 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3106 directives to dentify the peer.
3107 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3108 peername ACL type.
3109
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3110 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3111 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3112 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
b0758e04 3113
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3114 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3115
41bd17a4 3116DOC_END
cccac0a2 3117
41bd17a4 3118NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
3119TYPE: hostdomain
3120DEFAULT: none
3121LOC: none
3122DOC_START
3123 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
638402dd 3124 queried.
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3126 Usage:
3127 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
3128 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 3129
41bd17a4 3130 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 3131
41bd17a4 3132 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 3133
41bd17a4 3134 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
3135 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
3136 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
3137 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
3138 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 3139
41bd17a4 3140 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
3141 either on the same or separate lines.
3142 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
3143 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
3144 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
3145 for all requests.
3146 * There are no defaults.
3147 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
3148 section.
3149DOC_END
dd9b1776 3150
41bd17a4 3151NAME: cache_peer_access
3152TYPE: peer_access
3153DEFAULT: none
3154LOC: none
3155DOC_START
3156 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
3157 using ACL elements.
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3159 Usage:
3160 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 3161
41bd17a4 3162 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
3163 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 3164 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3165DOC_END
dd9b1776 3166
41bd17a4 3167NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3168TYPE: hostdomaintype
3169DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3170DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3171LOC: none
3172DOC_START
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3173 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3174 about specific domains to the peer.
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3176 Usage:
3177 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
6bf4f823 3178
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3179 For example:
3180 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3181 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
6bf4f823 3182
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3183 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3184 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3185DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3187NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3188COMMENT: (seconds)
3189DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3190TYPE: time_t
3191LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3192DOC_START
3193 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3194 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3195 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3196 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3197 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3198 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3199
41bd17a4 3200 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3201 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3202 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3203 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3204 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3205 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3206 instead of to your parents.
3207DOC_END
cccac0a2 3208
437823b4 3209NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3210DEFAULT: 25
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3211TYPE: int
3212LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3213DOC_START
3214 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3215 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3216
3217 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3218 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3219DOC_END
3220
41bd17a4 3221NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
3222TYPE: wordlist
3223DEFAULT: none
3224LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
3225DOC_START
3226 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
3227 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
3228 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
3229 list this option multiple times.
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3231 Example:
3232 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
3233
3234 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 3235DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3237COMMENT_START
3238 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3239 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3240COMMENT_END
3241
3242NAME: cache_mem
3243COMMENT: (bytes)
3244TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3245DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3246LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3247DOC_START
41bd17a4 3248 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3249 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3250 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3251 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3252
3253 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3254 for:
3255 * In-Transit objects
3256 * Hot Objects
3257 * Negative-Cached objects
3258
3259 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3260 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3261 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3262 priority.
3263
3264 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3265 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3266 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3267 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3268 not needed for in-transit objects.
3269
3270 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3271 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3272 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3273 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3274 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3275 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3276 objects.
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3278 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3279 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3280 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3281 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3282DOC_END
0976f8db 3283
41bd17a4 3284NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3285COMMENT: (bytes)
3286TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3287DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3288LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3289DOC_START
41bd17a4 3290 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3291 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3292 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3293 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3294DOC_END
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3297COMMENT: on|off
3298TYPE: YesNoNone
3299LOC: Config.memShared
3300DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3301DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3302DOC_START
3303 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3304
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3305 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3306 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3307 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3308 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3309 caching is enabled).
3310
65b81b27 3311 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3313 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3314 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3315 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3316
3317 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3318 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3319 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3320
3321 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3323
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3324NAME: memory_cache_mode
3325TYPE: memcachemode
3326LOC: Config
3327DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3328DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3329DOC_START
ea21d497 3330 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3331
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3332 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3333
3334 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3335 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3336 a second time before cached in memory.
3337
3338 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3339DOC_END
3340
41bd17a4 3341NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3342TYPE: removalpolicy
3343LOC: Config.memPolicy
3344DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3345DOC_START
41bd17a4 3346 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3347 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3348
638402dd 3349 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3350DOC_END
6b698a21 3351
41bd17a4 3352COMMENT_START
3353 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3354 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3355COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3356
41bd17a4 3357NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3358TYPE: removalpolicy
3359LOC: Config.replPolicy
3360DEFAULT: lru
3361DOC_START
3362 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3363 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3364
41bd17a4 3365 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3366 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3367 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3368 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3369
638402dd 3370 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3371
41bd17a4 3372 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3373
41bd17a4 3374 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3375 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3376 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3377 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3378
41bd17a4 3379 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3380 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3381 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3382 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3383
41bd17a4 3384 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3385 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3386 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3387
41bd17a4 3388 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3389 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3390 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3391
41bd17a4 3392 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3393 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3394 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3395DOC_END
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3397NAME: minimum_object_size
3398COMMENT: (bytes)
3399TYPE: b_int64_t
3400DEFAULT: 0 KB
3401DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3402LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3403DOC_START
3404 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3405 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3406 means all responses can be stored.
3407DOC_END
3408
3409NAME: maximum_object_size
3410COMMENT: (bytes)
3411TYPE: b_int64_t
3412DEFAULT: 4 MB
3413LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3414DOC_START
3415 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir
3416 which follow.
3417
3418 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3419
3420 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3421 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3422 hits).
3423
3424 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
3425 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3426
3427 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3428 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3429 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
3430DOC_END
3431
41bd17a4 3432NAME: cache_dir
3433TYPE: cachedir
3434DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3435DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3436LOC: Config.cacheSwap
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3439 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3440
41bd17a4 3441 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3442 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3443
41bd17a4 3444 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3445 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3446 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3447
41bd17a4 3448 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3449 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3450 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3451 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3452 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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3454 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3455 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3456 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3457
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3459 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3460
41bd17a4 3461 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3462 been there.
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3464 Usage:
3465 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3466
41bd17a4 3467 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3468 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3469 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3470 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3471 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3472
56fba4d0 3473 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3474 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3475
56fba4d0 3476 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3477 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3478 is 256.
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3481 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3482
41bd17a4 3483 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3484 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3485 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
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3487 Usage:
3488 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3489
41bd17a4 3490 see argument descriptions under ufs above
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3493 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3494
41bd17a4 3495 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3496 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3497 disk-I/O.
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3499 Usage:
3500 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3501
41bd17a4 3502 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3503
41bd17a4 3504 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3505 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3506 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3507
41bd17a4 3508 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3509 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3510 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3511
41bd17a4 3512 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3513 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3514 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3515 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3516 time.
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3519 ==== The rock store type ====
3520
3521 Usage:
e51ce7da 3522 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
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2e55f083 3524 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3525 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots.
3526 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
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3528 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3529 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3530 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3531 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3532 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3533
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3534 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3535 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3536 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3537 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3538 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3539 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3540 expected swap wait time.
3541
df881a0f 3542 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3543 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3544 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3545 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3546 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3547 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3548 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3549 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3550 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3551 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3552 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3553 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3554 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3555 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3556
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3557 slot-size=bytes: The size of a database "record" used for
3558 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
3559 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
3560 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
3561 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
3562 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
3563 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
3564 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
3565 100 bytes.
3566
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638402dd 3568 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
0976f8db 3569
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3570 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3571
3572 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3573 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3574 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3575 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 3576 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 3577 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 3578
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3579 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3580 supports.
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3581 The value in maximum_object_size directive above
3582 this cache_dir line sets a default unless more
3583 specific details are available (ie a small store
3584 capacity).
b6662ffd 3585
41bd17a4 3586 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3587 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3588
bebc043b 3589NOCOMMENT_START
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3590
3591# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3592#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3593NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3594DOC_END
0976f8db 3595
41bd17a4 3596NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3597TYPE: string
3598LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3599DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3600DOC_START
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3601 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3602 object will fit into more than one.
3603
3604 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3605 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3606 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3607 cache_dir.
3608
3609 Algorithms:
3610
3611 least-load
3612
3613 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3614 sizes and disk speeds.
3615
3616 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3617 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3618 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3619
3620 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3621 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3622 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3623 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3624
3625
3626 round-robin
3627
3628 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3629 disk sizes.
3630
3631 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3632 cache_dir is used.
3633
3634 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3635 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3636 max-size parameters.
3637
3638 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3639 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3640 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3641
6b698a21 3642DOC_END
0976f8db 3643
41bd17a4 3644NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3645TYPE: int
3646LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3647DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3648DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3649DOC_START
41bd17a4 3650 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3651 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3652 descriptors are open.
3653
3654 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3655DOC_END
0976f8db 3656
41bd17a4 3657NAME: cache_swap_low
3658COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3659TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3660DEFAULT: 90
3661LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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3662DOC_START
3663 The low-water mark for cache object replacement.
3664 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3665 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3666 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3667 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3668 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3669
3670 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3671 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3672 numbers closer together.
3673
3674 See also cache_swap_high
3675DOC_END
41bd17a4 3676
3677NAME: cache_swap_high
3678COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3679TYPE: int
3680DEFAULT: 95
3681LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3682DOC_START
638402dd 3683 The high-water mark for cache object replacement.
41bd17a4 3684 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3685 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3686 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3687 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3688 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3689
3690 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3691 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3692 numbers closer together.
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3693
3694 See also cache_swap_low
6b698a21 3695DOC_END
0976f8db 3696
5473c134 3697COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3698 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3699 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3700COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3701
41bd17a4 3702NAME: logformat
3703TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3704LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3705DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3706DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 3707DOC_START
41bd17a4 3708 Usage:
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41bd17a4 3710 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3711
41bd17a4 3712 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3713
41bd17a4 3714 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3715
41bd17a4 3716 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3717 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3718 as required according to their context and the output format
3719 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3720 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3721
41bd17a4 3722 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3723
41bd17a4 3724 " output in quoted string format
3725 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3726 # output in URL quoted format
3727 ' output as-is
5473c134 3728
41bd17a4 3729 - left aligned
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3730
3731 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3732 [width_min][.width_max]
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3733 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3734 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3735
41bd17a4 3736 {arg} argument such as header name etc
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41bd17a4 3738 Format codes:
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3ff65596 3740 % a literal % character
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3741 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3742 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3743 a similar internal error identifier.
3744 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3745 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3746 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3747 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3748 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3749
3750 Connection related format codes:
3751
41bd17a4 3752 >a Client source IP address
3753 >A Client FQDN
3754 >p Client source port
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3755 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3756 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3757 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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3758 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3759 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3761 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3762 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3763
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3764 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3765 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3766 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3767 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3768 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3769 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
3770 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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3771
3772 Time related format codes:
3773
41bd17a4 3774 ts Seconds since epoch
3775 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3776 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3777 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3778 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3779 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3780 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 3781 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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3782 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
3783 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
3784 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
3785 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
3786 the transaction is received from the client. This is
3787 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
3788 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
3789 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
3790 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
3791 (%ts.%03tu).
3ff65596 3792
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3793 Access Control related format codes:
3794
3795 et Tag returned by external acl
3796 ea Log string returned by external acl
3797 un User name (any available)
3798 ul User name from authentication
3799 ue User name from external acl helper
3800 ui User name from ident
3801 us User name from SSL
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3802 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
3803 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
3804 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
3805 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
3806 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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3807
3808 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3809
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3810 REQUEST
3811
3812 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
3813 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3814 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3815 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3816 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3817 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
fa450988 3818 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
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3819 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
3820 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3821 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
3822 [http::]rv Request protocol version
3823 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3824 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
3825
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3826 [http::]>h Original received request header.
3827 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3828 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
3829 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
3830 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
3831 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
3832 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
3833 Usually differs from the request header sent by
3834 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 3835 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3836
3837
3838 RESPONSE
3839
3840 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
3841 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3842
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3843 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3844 as for >h
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3845
3846 [http::]mt MIME content type
3847
3848
3849 SIZE COUNTERS
3850
3851 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
3852 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
3853 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
3854 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
3855
3856 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
3857 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
3858
3859 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3860 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3861
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3862 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3863 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3864 transfer encoding and control messages.
3865 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3866 received bodies.
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3867
3868
3869 TIMING
3870
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3871 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3872 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3873 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3874 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3875 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3876 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3877 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3878
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3879 Squid handling related format codes:
3880
3881 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3882 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3883
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3884 SSL-related format codes:
3885
3886 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3887
3888 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3889 a connection and for any request received on
3890 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3891 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3892 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3893 more information about these modes.
3894
3895 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3896 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3897 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3898
3899 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3900 logged.
3901
5038f9d8 3902 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3903 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3904
3905 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3906 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3907 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3908 transaction is in progress.
3909
5038f9d8 3910 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3911
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3912 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3913 meta-information from the last eCAP
3914 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3915 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3916 argument.
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3918 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3919 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3920 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3921 value is recorded as an integer number,
3922 representing response time of one or more
3923 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3924 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3925 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3926 logged individually but added to the
3927 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3928 adapt::all_trs.
3929
3930 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3931 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3932 individual transactions are never added
3933 together. Instead, all transaction response
3934 times are recorded individually.
3935
3936 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3937 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3938 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3940 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3941
3942 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3943 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3944 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3945 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3946 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3947
3948 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3949 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3950 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3951 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3952 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3953
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3954 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3955
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3956logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3957logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3958logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3959logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3960logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3961
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3962 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3963 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3964 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3965
3966 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3967 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3968
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3970
41bd17a4 3971NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3972TYPE: access_log
3973LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3974DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3975DOC_START
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3976 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
3977 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
3978 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
3979
3980 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
3981 access_log none [acl acl ...]
3982
3983 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 3984 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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3985
3986 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
3987 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
3988 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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3989
3990 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3991 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3992 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3993 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3994
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3995 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
3996
3997 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
3998 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
3999 to 'squid'.
4000
4001 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
4002 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
4003 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
4004 should flush records before the buffer becomes
4005 full to avoid overflows under normal
4006 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
4007 module-dependent though). The on-error option
4008 controls overflow handling.
4009
4010 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
4011 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
4012 affected log records. The default 'die' action
4013 kills the affected worker. The drop action
4014 support has not been tested for modules other
4015 than tcp.
4016
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4017 ===== Modules Currently available =====
4018
bb7a1781 4019 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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4020 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
4021
4022 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
4023 each request.
4024 Place: the filename and path to be written.
4025
4026 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
4027 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
4028 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
4029
4030 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
4031
4032 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
4033 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
4034 Place Format: facility.priority
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4036 where facility could be any of:
4037 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 4038
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4039 And priority could be any of:
4040 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4041
4042 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4043 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4044 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4045
2bf4e8fa 4046 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4047 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4048 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4049 Place Format: //host:port
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4050
4051 Default:
82b7abe3 4052 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 4053DOC_END
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4055NAME: icap_log
4056TYPE: access_log
4057IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4058LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4059DEFAULT: none
4060DOC_START
4061 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4062 transaction.
4063
4064 The icap_log option format is:
4065 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4066 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4067
4068 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4069 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4070 features.
4071
4072 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4073 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4074 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4075 log line.
4076
4077 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
4078 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
4079 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
4080 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
4081 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
4082 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
4083 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
4084
4085 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4086
4087 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4088
4089 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4090 option in Squid configuration file.
4091
4092 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4093
4094 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4095 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4096
4097 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4098 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4099
4100 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4101 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4102 the socket).
4103
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4104 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4105 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4106 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4107 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4108 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4109 computed.
4110
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4112 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4113 the ICAP transaction is created and
4114 stops when the transaction is completed.
4115 Similar to tr.
4116
4117 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4118 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4119 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4120 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4121 is received.
4122
4123 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4124 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4125 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4126 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4127 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4128 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4129
4130 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4131
4132 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4133
4134 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4135
4136 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4137 definition, is called icap_squid:
4138
4139logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4140
5038f9d8 4141 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4143
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4144NAME: logfile_daemon
4145TYPE: string
4146DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4147LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4148DOC_START
4149 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4150 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4151
4152 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4153 L<data>\n - logfile data
4154 R\n - rotate file
4155 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4156 O\n - reopen file
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4157 F\n - flush file
4158 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4159 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4160
4161 No responses is expected.
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4162DOC_END
4163
5b0f5383 4164NAME: log_access
8ebad780 4165TYPE: obsolete
5b0f5383 4166DOC_START
8ebad780 4167 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
5b0f5383 4168DOC_END
4169
3ff65596 4170NAME: log_icap
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4171TYPE: obsolete
4172DOC_START
4173 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
4174DOC_END
4175
4176NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4177TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4178LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4179DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4180DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4181COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3ff65596 4182DOC_START
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4183 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4184 in performance counters.
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4185
4186 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4187 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4189
41bd17a4 4190NAME: cache_store_log
4191TYPE: string
df2eec10 4192DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4193LOC: Config.Log.store
4194DOC_START
4195 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4196 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4197 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 4198 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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4199 disable it (the default).
4200
4201 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4202 of modules supported.
4203
e0855596 4204 Example:
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4205 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4206 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 4207DOC_END
4208
41bd17a4 4209NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4210TYPE: string
4211LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4212DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4213DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4214DOC_START
41bd17a4 4215 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4216 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4217 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4218 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4219 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4220 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4221 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 4222
41bd17a4 4223 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4224 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4225 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4226 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4227
41bd17a4 4228 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4229 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4230
41bd17a4 4231 cache_swap_log.00
4232 cache_swap_log.01
4233 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 4234
41bd17a4 4235 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4236 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4237 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4238 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4239 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4240 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4241 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4242DOC_END
4243
41bd17a4 4244NAME: logfile_rotate
4245TYPE: int
4246DEFAULT: 10
4247LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4248DOC_START
41bd17a4 4249 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
4250 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4251 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4252 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4253 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4254 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 4255
41bd17a4 4256 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4257 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4258 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4259 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4260 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4261 <pid>'.
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4263 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4264 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
41bd17a4 4265DOC_END
5473c134 4266
41bd17a4 4267NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 4268TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 4269DOC_START
20efa1c2 4270 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 4271DOC_END
4272
41bd17a4 4273NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 4274TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4275DOC_START
8652f8e7 4276 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 4277DOC_END
5473c134 4278
41bd17a4 4279NAME: mime_table
4280TYPE: string
4281DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4282LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4283DOC_START
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4284 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4285
4286 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4287 examples and formatting information if you do.
5473c134 4288DOC_END
4289
41bd17a4 4290NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4291COMMENT: on|off
4292TYPE: onoff
4293LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4294DEFAULT: off
4295DOC_START
4296 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4297 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4298 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4299 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4300 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4301DOC_END
5473c134 4302
41bd17a4 4303NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 4304TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4305DOC_START
20efa1c2 4306 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 4307DOC_END
4308
41bd17a4 4309NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 4310TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4311DOC_START
20efa1c2 4312 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 4313DOC_END
4314
41bd17a4 4315NAME: pid_filename
4316TYPE: string
4317DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4318LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4319DOC_START
41bd17a4 4320 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4321DOC_END
4322
41bd17a4 4323NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 4324TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4325DOC_START
c581e96b 4326 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 4327DOC_END
4328
41bd17a4 4329NAME: client_netmask
4330TYPE: address
4331LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4332DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4333DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4334DOC_START
41bd17a4 4335 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4336 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4337 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4338 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4339DOC_END
4340
41bd17a4 4341NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 4342TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 4343DOC_START
20efa1c2 4344 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 4345DOC_END
4346
41bd17a4 4347NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4348TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4349LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4350DEFAULT: on
4351DOC_START
41bd17a4 4352 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4353 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4354
4355 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4356 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4357DOC_END
4358
41bd17a4 4359NAME: buffered_logs
4360COMMENT: on|off
4361TYPE: onoff
4362DEFAULT: off
4363LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4364DOC_START
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4365 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4366 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4367 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4368 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4369 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4370 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4371
4372 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4373 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4374 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4375
fb0c2f17 4376 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4377DOC_END
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2b753521 4379NAME: netdb_filename
4380TYPE: string
221faecb 4381DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4382LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4383IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4384DOC_START
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4385 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4386 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4387
2b753521 4388 To disable, enter "none".
4389DOC_END
4390
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4391COMMENT_START
4392 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4393 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4394COMMENT_END
4395
4396NAME: cache_log
4397TYPE: string
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4398DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4399LOC: Debug::cache_log
4400DOC_START
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4401 Squid administrative logging file.
4402
4403 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4404 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4405 rotated with "debug_options"
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4406DOC_END
4407
4408NAME: debug_options
4409TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4410DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4411DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4412LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4413DOC_START
4414 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4415 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4416 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4417 log file, so be careful.
4418
4419 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4420 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
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4422 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4423 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4424 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4425 events affecting Squid.
4426DOC_END
4427
4428NAME: coredump_dir
4429TYPE: string
4430LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4431DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4432DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4433DOC_START
4434 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4435 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4436 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4437 and coredump files will be left there.
4438
4439NOCOMMENT_START
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4441# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4442coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4443NOCOMMENT_END
4444DOC_END
4445
4446
41bd17a4 4447COMMENT_START
4448 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4449 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4450COMMENT_END
4451
4452NAME: ftp_user
4453TYPE: string
4454DEFAULT: Squid@
4455LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4456DOC_START
41bd17a4 4457 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4458 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4459 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4460
41bd17a4 4461 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4462 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4463 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4464 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4465 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4466DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4468NAME: ftp_passive
4469TYPE: onoff
4470DEFAULT: on
4471LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4472DOC_START
41bd17a4 4473 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4474 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4475
4476 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4477DOC_END
4478
4479NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4480TYPE: onoff
4481DEFAULT: off
4482LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4483DOC_START
4484 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4485
4486 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4487 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4488 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4489
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4491 useful.
a689bd4e 4492 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4493 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4494
4495 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4496 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4497
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4498 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4499DOC_END
4500
4501NAME: ftp_epsv
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4503DEFAULT: none
4504LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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4505DOC_START
4506 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4507
4508 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4509 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4510 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4511 will never be needed.
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4513 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
4514 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
4515
4516 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
4517 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
4518 using ACLs:
4519
4520 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
4521
4522 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 4523
ddf5aa2b 4524 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 4525 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4526DOC_END
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4528NAME: ftp_eprt
4529TYPE: onoff
4530DEFAULT: on
4531LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4532DOC_START
4533 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4534
4535 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4536 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4537 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4538
4539 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4540 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4541
4542 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4543 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4544 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4545 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4546
4547 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4548 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4549DOC_END
4550
41bd17a4 4551NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4552TYPE: onoff
4553DEFAULT: on
4554LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4555DOC_START
4556 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4557 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4558 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4559 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4560 connection turn this off.
4561DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4562
41bd17a4 4563NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4564TYPE: onoff
4565DEFAULT: on
4566LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4567DOC_START
4568 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4569 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4570 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4571 the FTP protocol.
4572
4573 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4574 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4575 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4576 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4577 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4578DOC_END
4579
4580COMMENT_START
4581 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4582 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4583COMMENT_END
4584
4585NAME: diskd_program
4586TYPE: string
4587DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4588LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4589DOC_START
4590 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4591 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4592 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4593DOC_END
4594
4595NAME: unlinkd_program
4596IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4597TYPE: string
4598DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4599LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4600DOC_START
4601 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4602DOC_END
4603
4604NAME: pinger_program
4605TYPE: string
4606DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4607LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4608IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4609DOC_START
4610 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4611DOC_END
4612
cc192b50 4613NAME: pinger_enable
4614TYPE: onoff
4615DEFAULT: on
4616LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4617IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4618DOC_START
4619 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4620 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4621 squid -k reconfigure.
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4623
4624
41bd17a4 4625COMMENT_START
4626 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4627 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4628COMMENT_END
4629
4630NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4631TYPE: wordlist
4632LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4633DEFAULT: none
4634DOC_START
2c7aad89 4635 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4636 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4637
2c7aad89 4638 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4639
b11724bb 4640 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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4643 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4644
24eac830 4645 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4646
4647 The result code can be:
4648
4649 OK status=30N url="..."
4650 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4651 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4652 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4653 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4654 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 4655
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4656 OK rewrite-url="..."
4657 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4658 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4659 the client as the response to its request.
4660
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4661 OK
4662 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
4663 not change the URL.
4664
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4665 ERR
4666 Do not change the URL.
4667
4668 BH
4ded749e 4669 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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4670 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
4671 reserved for delivering a log message.
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4672
4673
4674 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4675 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4676 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4677 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4678
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4679 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4680 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4681 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4682 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4683 of the response relating to its request.
4684
4685 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4686 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4687
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4688 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4689 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4690 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4691 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4692 interface.
41bd17a4 4693
4694 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4695DOC_END
4696
4697NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4698TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4699DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4700LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4701DOC_START
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4702 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4703 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4704 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4705 and other system resources noticably.
4706
4707 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4708 tuning.
4709
4710 startup=
4711
4712 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4713 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4714 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4715
4716 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4717 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4718
4719 idle=
4720
4721 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4722 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4723 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4724 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4725
4726 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4727
41bd17a4 4728 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4729 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4730 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4732 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4733 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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4734 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4735 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
41bd17a4 4736DOC_END
4737
4738NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4739TYPE: onoff
4740DEFAULT: on
4741LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4742DOC_START
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4743 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4744 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4745 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4746
4747 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4748 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4749 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4750
41bd17a4 4751 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4752 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4753
4754 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4755 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4756 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4757DOC_END
4758
4759NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4760TYPE: acl_access
4761DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4762DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 4763LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4764DOC_START
4765 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 4766 sent to the redirector processes.
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4767
4768 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4769 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4770DOC_END
4771
4772NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4773TYPE: onoff
4774LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4775DEFAULT: off
4776DOC_START
4777 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 4778 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 4779 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4780 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4781 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4782 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4783 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4784 users may have access to pages they should not
4785 be allowed to request.
4786DOC_END
4787
fe7966ec 4788NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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4789TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
4790LOC: Config.redirector_extras
4791DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
4792DOC_START
4793 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
4794 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
4795 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
4796 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
4797 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
4798DOC_END
4799
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4800COMMENT_START
4801 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
4802 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4803COMMENT_END
4804
4805NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
4806TYPE: wordlist
4807LOC: Config.Program.store_id
4808DEFAULT: none
4809DOC_START
4810 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
4811 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4812
4813 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
4814
b11724bb 4815 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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4816
4817
4818 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4819
4820 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4821
4822 The result code can be:
4823
4824 OK store-id="..."
4825 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
4826
4827 ERR
4828 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
4829
4830 BH
4831 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4832 a result being identified.
4833
4834
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4835 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
4836 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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4837
4838 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4839 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4840 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4841 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4842 of the response relating to its request.
4843
4844 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
4845 returned from the helper and not the URL.
4846
4847 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
4848 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
4849
4850 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
4851DOC_END
4852
fe7966ec 4853NAME: store_id_extras
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4854TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
4855LOC: Config.storeId_extras
4856DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
4857DOC_START
4858 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
4859 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
4860 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
4861 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
4862 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
4863DOC_END
4864
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4865NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
4866TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4867DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4868LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
4869DOC_START
4870 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
4871 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4872 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4873 and other system resources noticably.
4874
4875 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4876 tuning.
4877
4878 startup=
4879
4880 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4881 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4882 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4883
4884 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4885 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4886
4887 idle=
4888
4889 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4890 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4891 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4892 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4893
4894 concurrency=
4895
4896 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
4897 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
4898 is a old-style single threaded program.
4899
4900 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4901 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4902 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4903 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4904DOC_END
4905
4906NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
4907TYPE: acl_access
4908DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4909DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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4910LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
4911DOC_START
4912 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4913 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
4914 are sent.
4915
4916 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4917 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4918DOC_END
4919
4920NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
4921TYPE: onoff
4922LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
4923DEFAULT: on
4924DOC_START
4925 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4926 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
4927 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4928 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4929 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
4930 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4931 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
4932 option, users may not get objects from cache.
4933DOC_END
4934
41bd17a4 4935COMMENT_START
4936 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4937 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4938COMMENT_END
4939
f04b37d8 4940NAME: cache no_cache
4941TYPE: acl_access
4942DEFAULT: none
70706149 4943DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 4944LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4945DOC_START
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4946 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
4947 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
4948 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
f04b37d8 4949
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4950 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4951 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4952
4953 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
4954 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
4955 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
4956 and differ in slow ACLs support:
4957
4958 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
4959 No access to reply information!
4960 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
4961 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
4962 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
4963 Has access to reply (hit) information.
4964 Denies serving a hit only.
4965 Supports fast ACLs only.
4966 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
4967 Has access to reply (miss) information.
4968 Denies storing a miss only.
4969 Supports fast ACLs only.
4970
4971 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
4972 following decision logic:
4973
4974 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
4975 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
4976 Otherwise:
4977 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
4978 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
4979 Otherwise:
4980 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
4981 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
4982DOC_END
4983
4984NAME: send_hit
4985TYPE: acl_access
4986DEFAULT: none
4987DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
4988LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
4989DOC_START
4990 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
4991 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
4992 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
4993
4994 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
4995 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
4996
4997 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
4998 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4999
5000 For example:
5001
5002 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
5003 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
5004 store_id_program ...
5005 store_id_access allow MapMe
5006
5007 # but prevent caching of special responses
5008 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
5009 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
5010 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
5011
5012 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
5013 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
5014 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
5015 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
5016DOC_END
5017
5018NAME: store_miss
5019TYPE: acl_access
5020DEFAULT: none
5021DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5022LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
5023DOC_START
5024 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
5025 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
5026 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
5027
5028 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5029 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
5030 send_hit directive for a usage example.
5031
5032 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
5033 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5034DOC_END
5035
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5036NAME: max_stale
5037COMMENT: time-units
5038TYPE: time_t
5039LOC: Config.maxStale
5040DEFAULT: 1 week
5041DOC_START
5042 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
5043 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
5044 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
5045DOC_END
5046
41bd17a4 5047NAME: refresh_pattern
5048TYPE: refreshpattern
5049LOC: Config.Refresh
5050DEFAULT: none
5051DOC_START
5052 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5053
6b698a21 5054 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5055 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5056
41bd17a4 5057 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5058 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5059 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5060 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5061 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5062
41bd17a4 5063 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5064 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5065 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5066
41bd17a4 5067 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
5068 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 5069
41bd17a4 5070 options: override-expire
5071 override-lastmod
5072 reload-into-ims
5073 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5074 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 5075 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 5076 ignore-private
5077 ignore-auth
570d3f75 5078 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5079 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5080 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5081
41bd17a4 5082 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5083 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5084 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5085 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5086 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5088 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5089 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5090 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5091 the object fresh for that period of time.
5092
41bd17a4 5093 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5094 that were modified recently.
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5096 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5097 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5098 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5099 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5100 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5101 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5102
41bd17a4 5103 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5104 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5105 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5106 it causes.
9bc73deb 5107
41bd17a4 5108 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5109 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5110 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5111 liable for problems which it causes.
5112
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5113 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
5114 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5115 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5116 liable for problems which it causes.
5117
41bd17a4 5118 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5119 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5120 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5121 liable for problems which it causes.
5122
5123 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
5124 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
5125 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
5126 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
5127 it causes.
5128
5129 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5130 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5131 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5132 if one is available.
5133
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5134 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5135 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5136 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5137 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5138 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5139
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5140 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5141 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5142 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5143
41bd17a4 5144 Basically a cached object is:
5145
5146 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
5147 STALE if age > max
5148 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5149 FRESH if age < min
5150 else STALE
5151
5152 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5153 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5154 match the default will be used.
5155
5156 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5157 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5158 used.
5159
41bd17a4 5160NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5161
638402dd 5162#
e0855596 5163# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5164#
41bd17a4 5165refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5166refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5167refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5168refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5169NOCOMMENT_END
5170DOC_END
5171
5172NAME: quick_abort_min
5173COMMENT: (KB)
5174TYPE: kb_int64_t
5175DEFAULT: 16 KB
5176LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5177DOC_NONE
5178
5179NAME: quick_abort_max
5180COMMENT: (KB)
5181TYPE: kb_int64_t
5182DEFAULT: 16 KB
5183LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5184DOC_NONE
5185
5186NAME: quick_abort_pct
5187COMMENT: (percent)
5188TYPE: int
5189DEFAULT: 95
5190LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5191DOC_START
5192 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5193 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5194 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5195 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5196 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5197 downloads.
5198
5199 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
5200 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
5201 then.
5202
5203 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5204 it will finish the retrieval.
5205
5206 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5207 it will abort the retrieval.
5208
5209 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5210 it will finish the retrieval.
5211
5212 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5213 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5214 to '0 KB'.
5215
5216 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5217 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5218DOC_END
60d096f4 5219
41bd17a4 5220NAME: read_ahead_gap
5221COMMENT: buffer-size
5222TYPE: b_int64_t
5223LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5224DEFAULT: 16 KB
5225DOC_START
5226 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5227 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5228DOC_END
53e738c6 5229
41bd17a4 5230NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5231IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5232COMMENT: time-units
5233TYPE: time_t
5234LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5235DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5236DOC_START
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5237 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5238 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5239 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5240 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5241 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5242 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5243
5244 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5245
5246 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5247 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5248 causes.
41bd17a4 5249DOC_END
53e738c6 5250
41bd17a4 5251NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5252COMMENT: time-units
5253TYPE: time_t
5254LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5255DEFAULT: 6 hours
5256DOC_START
5257 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5258 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5259 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5260DOC_END
c4ab8329 5261
41bd17a4 5262NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5263COMMENT: time-units
5264TYPE: time_t
5265LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5266DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5267DOC_START
5268 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5269 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5270 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5271 much below 10 seconds.
5272DOC_END
7df0bfd7 5273
41bd17a4 5274NAME: range_offset_limit
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5275COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5276TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5277LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5278DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5279DOC_START
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5280 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5281
5282 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5283 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5284 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5285 the result is NOT cached.
5286
41bd17a4 5287 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5288 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5289 sending anything to the client.
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5290
5291 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5292 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5293 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5294 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5295
5296 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5297
5298 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5299 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5300
5301 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5302 client requested. (default)
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5303
5304 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5305 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5306
5307 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5308
5309 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5310 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5311 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5312 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5313DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5315NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5316COMMENT: (seconds)
5317TYPE: time_t
5318LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5319DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5320DOC_START
5321 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5322 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5323 The default is 60 seconds.
5324
5325 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5326 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5327 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5328
5329 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5330 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5331DOC_END
c68e9c6b 5332
41bd17a4 5333NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5334COMMENT: (bytes)
5335TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5336DEFAULT: 13 KB
5337LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5338DOC_START
5339 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5340 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5341
5342 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5343 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5344 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5345 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5346
5347 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5348 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5349DOC_END
5350
41bd17a4 5351NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5352TYPE: int
5353DEFAULT: 20
5354LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5355DOC_START
5356 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5357 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5358 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5359DOC_END
5360
5361COMMENT_START
5362 HTTP OPTIONS
5363 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5364COMMENT_END
5365
f04b37d8 5366NAME: request_header_max_size
5367COMMENT: (KB)
5368TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5369DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5370LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5371DOC_START
5372 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5373 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5374 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5375 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5376 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5377DOC_END
5378
5379NAME: reply_header_max_size
5380COMMENT: (KB)
5381TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5382DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5383LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5384DOC_START
5385 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5386 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5387 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5388 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5389 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5390DOC_END
5391
5392NAME: request_body_max_size
5393COMMENT: (bytes)
5394TYPE: b_int64_t
5395DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5396DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5397LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5398DOC_START
5399 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5400 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5401 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5402 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5403 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5404 be no limit imposed.
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5406 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5407 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5408DOC_END
5409
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5410NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5411COMMENT: (bytes)
5412TYPE: b_size_t
5413DEFAULT: 512 KB
5414LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5415DOC_START
5416 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5417 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5418 a large file.
5419DOC_END
5420
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5421NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
5422COMMENT: (bytes)
5423TYPE: b_int64_t
5424DEFAULT: 64 KB
5425LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
5426DOC_START
5427 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
5428 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
5429 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
5430 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
5431 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
5432 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
5433
5434 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
5435 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
5436 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
5437 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
5438 as if dechunking was disabled.
5439
5440 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
5441 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
5442
5443 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
5444 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
5445 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
5446DOC_END
5447
41bd17a4 5448NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5449IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5450TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5451DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5452DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5453LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5454DOC_START
41bd17a4 5455 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5456 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5457
41bd17a4 5458 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5459 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5460
41bd17a4 5461 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5462
41bd17a4 5463 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5464 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5465 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5466 a request with an extra CRLF.
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5468 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5469 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5470
41bd17a4 5471Example:
5472 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5473 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5474DOC_END
cccac0a2 5475
22fff3bf 5476NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5477COMMENT: on|off
5478TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5479IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5480DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5481LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5482DOC_START
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5483 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5484 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5485
5486 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5487DOC_END
5488
41bd17a4 5489NAME: via
626096be 5490IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5491COMMENT: on|off
5492TYPE: onoff
5493DEFAULT: on
5494LOC: Config.onoff.via
5495DOC_START
5496 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5497 replies as required by RFC2616.
5498DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5499
41bd17a4 5500NAME: ie_refresh
5501COMMENT: on|off
5502TYPE: onoff
5503LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5504DEFAULT: off
5505DOC_START
5506 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5507 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5508 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5509 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5510 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5511 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5512 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5513 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5514 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5515 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5516 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5517 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5518 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5519 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5520 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5521 force fresh content.
5522DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 5523
41bd17a4 5524NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5525COMMENT: on|off
5526TYPE: onoff
5527LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5528DEFAULT: off
5529DOC_START
5530 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5531 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5532 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5533 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5534 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5535
5536 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5537 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5538DOC_END
c4ab8329 5539
41bd17a4 5540NAME: request_entities
5541TYPE: onoff
5542LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5543DEFAULT: off
5544DOC_START
5545 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5546 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5547 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 5548
41bd17a4 5549 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5550 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5551 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5552 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5553 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5554DOC_END
6b53c392 5555
41bd17a4 5556NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5557IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5558TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5559LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5560DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5561DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5562DOC_START
41bd17a4 5563 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5564
41bd17a4 5565 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5566 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5567 causes.
0976f8db 5568
41bd17a4 5569 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5570 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5571 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5572 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5573
5574 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5575 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5576 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5577 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5578 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5579
5580 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5581 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5582 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5583
5584 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5585 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5586 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5587 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5588
5589 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5590 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5591 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5592 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5593 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5594 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5595
41bd17a4 5596 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5597 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5598
41bd17a4 5599 request_header_access From deny all
5600 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5601 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5602
41bd17a4 5603 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5604 you should use:
5401aa8d 5605
41bd17a4 5606 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5607 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5608 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5609 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5610 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5611 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5612 request_header_access Host allow all
5613 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5614 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5615 request_header_access Accept allow all
5616 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5617 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5618 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5619 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5620 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5621
638402dd 5622 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5623
638402dd 5624 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5625DOC_END
5626
41bd17a4 5627NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5628IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5629TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5630LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5631DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5632DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5633DOC_START
41bd17a4 5634 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5635
41bd17a4 5636 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5637 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5638 causes.
934b03fc 5639
41bd17a4 5640 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5641 server to the client.
934b03fc 5642
41bd17a4 5643 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5644 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5645 documentation.
cccac0a2 5646
41bd17a4 5647 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5648 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5649
41bd17a4 5650 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 5651 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
5652 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 5653
41bd17a4 5654 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5655 you should use:
cccac0a2 5656
41bd17a4 5657 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 5658 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 5659 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5660 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5661 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5662 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5663 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5664 reply_header_access Date allow all
5665 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 5666 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5667 reply_header_access Location allow all
5668 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 5669 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5670 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5671 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 5672 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 5673 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5674 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5675
638402dd 5676 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 5677
41bd17a4 5678 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5679 performed).
cccac0a2 5680DOC_END
5681
75e4f2ea 5682NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5683IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5684TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5685LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5686DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5687DOC_START
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5688 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5689 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5690
41bd17a4 5691 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 5692 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 5693 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 5694
41bd17a4 5695 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5696
41bd17a4 5697 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5698DOC_END
cccac0a2 5699
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5700NAME: reply_header_replace
5701IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5702TYPE: http_header_replace
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5703LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5704DEFAULT: none
5705DOC_START
5706 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5707 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5708
5709 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5710 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5711 with some fixed string.
5712
5713 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5714
5715 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5716DOC_END
5717
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5718NAME: request_header_add
5719TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5720LOC: Config.request_header_add
5721DEFAULT: none
5722DOC_START
5723 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5724 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5725
5726 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5727 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5728 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5729 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5730 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5731
5732 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5733 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5734 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5735 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5736 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5737 header field values are not merged.
5738
5739 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5740 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5741 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5742
5743 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5744 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5745 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5746 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5747 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5748 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5749 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5750 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5751
5752 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5753 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5754 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5755 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5756 only.
5757DOC_END
5758
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5759NAME: note
5760TYPE: note
5761LOC: Config.notes
5762DEFAULT: none
5763DOC_START
5764 This option used to log custom information about the master
5765 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5766 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5767 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5768 authentication information.
5769 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5770
5771 note key value acl ...
5772 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5773DOC_END
5774
41bd17a4 5775NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5776COMMENT: on|off|warn
5777TYPE: tristate
5778LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5779DEFAULT: on
5780DOC_START
5781 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5782 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5783 what the sending application intended even if the message
5784 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5785 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5786
41bd17a4 5787 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5788 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5789
41bd17a4 5790 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5791 or response to be rejected.
5792DOC_END
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5794NAME: collapsed_forwarding
5795COMMENT: (on|off)
5796TYPE: onoff
5797LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
5798DEFAULT: off
5799DOC_START
5800 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
5801 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
5802 whether the response is going to be cachable.
5803
5804 This feature is disabled by default: Enabling collapsed forwarding
5805 needlessly delays forwarding requests that look cachable (when they are
5806 collapsed) but then need to be forwarded individually anyway because
5807 they end up being for uncachable content. However, in some cases, such
5808 as accelleration of highly cachable content with periodic or groupped
5809 expiration times, the gains from collapsing [large volumes of
5810 simultenous refresh requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
5811DOC_END
5812
41bd17a4 5813COMMENT_START
5814 TIMEOUTS
5815 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5816COMMENT_END
5817
5818NAME: forward_timeout
5819COMMENT: time-units
5820TYPE: time_t
5821LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5822DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5823DOC_START
5824 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5825 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5826DOC_END
5827
41bd17a4 5828NAME: connect_timeout
5829COMMENT: time-units
5830TYPE: time_t
5831LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5832DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5833DOC_START
41bd17a4 5834 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5835 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5836 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5837DOC_END
5838
41bd17a4 5839NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5840COMMENT: time-units
5841TYPE: time_t
5842LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5843DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5844DOC_START
41bd17a4 5845 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5846 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5847 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5848 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5849DOC_END
7f7db318 5850
41bd17a4 5851NAME: read_timeout
5852COMMENT: time-units
5853TYPE: time_t
5854LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5855DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5856DOC_START
5857 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5858 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5859 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5860 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5861 default is 15 minutes.
5862DOC_END
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5864NAME: write_timeout
5865COMMENT: time-units
5866TYPE: time_t
5867LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5868DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5869DOC_START
5870 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5871 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5872 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5873 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5874 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5875 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5876 default is 15 minutes.
5877DOC_END
5878
41bd17a4 5879NAME: request_timeout
5880TYPE: time_t
5881LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5882DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5883DOC_START
6b2a2108 5884 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5885 connection establishment.
5886DOC_END
cccac0a2 5887
97b32442 5888NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5889TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5890LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5891DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5892DOC_START
5893 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5894 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5895DOC_END
cccac0a2 5896
41bd17a4 5897NAME: client_lifetime
5898COMMENT: time-units
5899TYPE: time_t
5900LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5901DEFAULT: 1 day
5902DOC_START
5903 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5904 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5905 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5906 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5907 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5908 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5909 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5910
41bd17a4 5911 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5912 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5913 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5914 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5915 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5916 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5917DOC_END
5918
41bd17a4 5919NAME: half_closed_clients
5920TYPE: onoff
5921LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5922DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5923DOC_START
41bd17a4 5924 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5925 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5926 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5927 fully-closed TCP connection.
5928
5929 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5930 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5931
abdf1651 5932 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5933 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5934 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5935 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5936DOC_END
5937
97b32442 5938NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5939TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5940LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5941DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5942DOC_START
41bd17a4 5943 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5944 proxies.
5945DOC_END
cccac0a2 5946
41bd17a4 5947NAME: ident_timeout
5948TYPE: time_t
5949IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5950LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5951DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5952DOC_START
5953 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5954
41bd17a4 5955 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5956 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5957 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5958DOC_END
5959
41bd17a4 5960NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5961COMMENT: time-units
5962TYPE: time_t
5963LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5964DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5965DOC_START
41bd17a4 5966 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5967 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5968 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5969 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5970 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5971DOC_END
0976f8db 5972
cccac0a2 5973COMMENT_START
5974 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5976COMMENT_END
5977
5978NAME: cache_mgr
5979TYPE: string
5980DEFAULT: webmaster
5981LOC: Config.adminEmail
5982DOC_START
5983 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 5984 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 5985DOC_END
5986
abacf776 5987NAME: mail_from
5988TYPE: string
5989DEFAULT: none
5990LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5991DOC_START
5992 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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5993 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
5994
5995 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 5996DOC_END
5997
d084bf20 5998NAME: mail_program
5999TYPE: eol
6000DEFAULT: mail
6001LOC: Config.EmailProgram
6002DOC_START
6003 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 6004 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 6005 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 6006 mail-program recipient < mailfile
6007
d084bf20 6008 Optional command line options can be specified.
6009DOC_END
6010
cccac0a2 6011NAME: cache_effective_user
6012TYPE: string
5483d916 6013DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 6014LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 6015DOC_START
6016 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
6017 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 6018 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 6019 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 6020DOC_END
6021
cccac0a2 6022NAME: cache_effective_group
6023TYPE: string
6024DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6025DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 6026LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
6027DOC_START
64e288bd 6028 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
6029 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
6030 from the groups membership.
6031
e3d74828 6032 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
6033 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
6034 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 6035 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 6036 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 6037 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 6038 group.
64e288bd 6039
6040 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
6041 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
6042 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 6043DOC_END
6044
d3caee79 6045NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
6046COMMENT: on|off
6047TYPE: onoff
6048DEFAULT: off
6049LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6050DOC_START
6051 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6052DOC_END
6053
cccac0a2 6054NAME: visible_hostname
6055TYPE: string
6056LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6057DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6058DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6059DOC_START
6060 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6061 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6062 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6063 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6064 names with this setting.
6065DOC_END
6066
cccac0a2 6067NAME: unique_hostname
6068TYPE: string
6069LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6070DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6071DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6072DOC_START
6073 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6074 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6075 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6076DOC_END
6077
cccac0a2 6078NAME: hostname_aliases
6079TYPE: wordlist
6080LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6081DEFAULT: none
6082DOC_START
7f7db318 6083 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6084DOC_END
0976f8db 6085
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6086NAME: umask
6087TYPE: int
6088LOC: Config.umask
6089DEFAULT: 027
6090DOC_START
6091 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6092 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6093
6094 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6095 your value with 0.
6096DOC_END
6097
cccac0a2 6098COMMENT_START
6099 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6100 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6101
6102 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6103 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6104 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6105 create cache hierarchies.
6106
6107 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6108 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6109 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6110
6111 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6112 following information from this configuration file:
6113
6114 http_port
6115 icp_port
6116 cache_mgr
6117
6118 All current information is processed regularly and made
6119 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6120COMMENT_END
6121
6122NAME: announce_period
6123TYPE: time_t
6124LOC: Config.Announce.period
6125DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6126DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6127DOC_START
638402dd 6128 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6129
e0855596 6130 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 6131
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6132 Example:
6133 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6134DOC_END
6135
cccac0a2 6136NAME: announce_host
6137TYPE: string
6138DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6139LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6140DOC_START
6141 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6142
6143 See also announce_port and announce_file
6144DOC_END
cccac0a2 6145
6146NAME: announce_file
6147TYPE: string
6148DEFAULT: none
6149LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6150DOC_START
6151 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6152 registration messages.
6153DOC_END
cccac0a2 6154
6155NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6156TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6157DEFAULT: 3131
6158LOC: Config.Announce.port
6159DOC_START
638402dd 6160 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6161
638402dd 6162 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6163DOC_END
6164
8d6275c0 6165COMMENT_START
6166 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6167 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6168COMMENT_END
6169
cccac0a2 6170NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6171TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6172DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6173DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6174LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6175DOC_START
6176 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6177 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6178 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6179 an identification token.
6180DOC_END
6181
6182NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6183COMMENT: on|off
6184TYPE: onoff
6185DEFAULT: off
6186LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6187DOC_START
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6188 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6189 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6190
cccac0a2 6191 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6192DOC_END
6193
6194NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6195IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6196COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6197TYPE: string
6198LOC: ESIParser::Type
6199DEFAULT: custom
6200DOC_START
6201 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6202 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6203 encodings.
6204DOC_END
0976f8db 6205
9edd9041 6206COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6207 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6208 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6209COMMENT_END
6210
6211NAME: delay_pools
6212TYPE: delay_pool_count
6213DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6214IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6215LOC: Config.Delay
6216DOC_START
6217 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
6218 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
6219 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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6220
6221 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
6222 configuration details.
9edd9041 6223DOC_END
6224
6225NAME: delay_class
6226TYPE: delay_pool_class
6227DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6228IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6229LOC: Config.Delay
6230DOC_START
6231 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6232 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6233 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6234 and here would be:
6235
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6236 Example:
6237 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6238 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6239 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6240 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6241 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6242
6243 The delay pool classes are:
6244
6245 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6246 bucket.
6247
6248 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6249 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6250 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6251
6252 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6253 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6254 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6255 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6256 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6257
6258 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6259 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6260 only takes effect if the username is established
6261 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6262 http_access rules.
6263
6264 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6265 external_acl's tag= reply).
6266
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6267
6268 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6269 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6270 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6271
9edd9041 6272 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6273 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6274 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6275 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6276
6277 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6278 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6279
6280 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6281 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6282
6283 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6284DOC_END
6285
6286NAME: delay_access
6287TYPE: delay_pool_access
6288DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6289DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6290IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6291LOC: Config.Delay
6292DOC_START
6293 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6294
6295 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6296 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6297 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6298 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6299
6300 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6301 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6302
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6303 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6304 delay_access 1 deny all
6305 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6306 delay_access 2 deny all
6307 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6308
6309 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6310
9edd9041 6311DOC_END
6312
6313NAME: delay_parameters
6314TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6315DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6316IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6317LOC: Config.Delay
6318DOC_START
6319 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6320 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6321 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6322
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6323 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6324 delay_pools pool 1
6325 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6326
6327 For a class 2 delay pool:
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6328 delay_pools pool 2
6329 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6330
6331 For a class 3 delay pool:
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6332 delay_pools pool 3
6333 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6334
6335 For a class 4 delay pool:
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6336 delay_pools pool 4
6337 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6338
6339 For a class 5 delay pool:
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6340 delay_pools pool 5
6341 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6342
0b68481a 6343 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6344
6345 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6346 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6347 delay_class lines.
6348
fdb47ac6 6349 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6350 (class 1, 2, 3).
6351
fdb47ac6 6352 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6353 buckets (class 2, 3).
6354
fdb47ac6 6355 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6356 (class 3).
6357
fdb47ac6 6358 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6359 (class 4).
6360
fdb47ac6 6361 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6362 (class 5).
6363
6364 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6365 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6366 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6367 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6368
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6369 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6370
6371
9edd9041 6372 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6373 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6374 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6375
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6376 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
6377
6378 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6379
6380 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
6381
0b68481a 6382
9edd9041 6383 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6384 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6385 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6386 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6387 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6388 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6389 large downloads more significantly:
6390
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6391 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6392
6393 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6394 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6395 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6396
9edd9041 6397
6398 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6399 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6400
0b68481a 6401 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6402
6403
6404 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6405
9edd9041 6406DOC_END
6407
6408NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6409COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6410TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6411DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6412IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6413LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6414DOC_START
6415 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6416 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6417 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6418 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6419 "seen" by squid).
6420DOC_END
6421
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6422COMMENT_START
6423 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6424 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6425COMMENT_END
6426
6427NAME: client_delay_pools
6428TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6429DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6430IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6431LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6432DOC_START
6433 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6434 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6435
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6436 Example:
6437 client_delay_pools 2
6438
6439 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6440DOC_END
6441
6442NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6443COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6444TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6445DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6446IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6447LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6448DOC_START
6449 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6450 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6451 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6452 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6453
6454 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6455 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6456 from client_delay_parameters.
6457
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6458 Example:
6459 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6460DOC_END
6461
6462NAME: client_delay_parameters
6463TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6464DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6465IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6466LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6467DOC_START
6468
6469 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6470 following format:
6471
6472 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6473
6474 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6475
6476 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6477
6478 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6479 speed_limit additions.
6480
6481 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6482 examples.
6483
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6484 Example:
6485 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6486 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6487
6488 See also client_delay_access.
6489
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6490DOC_END
6491
6492NAME: client_delay_access
6493TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6494DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6495DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6496IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6497LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6498DOC_START
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6499 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6500 request:
6501
6502 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6503
6504 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6505 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6506 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6507 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6508 limited.
6509
6510 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6511 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6512 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6513 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6514
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6515 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6516 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6517 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6518 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6519
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6520 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6521
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6522 Example:
6523 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6524 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6525
6526
6527 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6528DOC_END
6529
cccac0a2 6530COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6531 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6532 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6533COMMENT_END
6534
8d6275c0 6535NAME: wccp_router
6536TYPE: address
6537LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6538DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6539DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6540IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6541DOC_START
6542 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6543 Squid.
6544
6545 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6546
6547 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6548
6549 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6550 which version of WCCP to use.
6551DOC_END
df2eec10 6552
8d6275c0 6553NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6554TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6555LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6556DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6557DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6558IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6559DOC_START
8d6275c0 6560 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6561 Squid.
cccac0a2 6562
8d6275c0 6563 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6564
8d6275c0 6565 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6566
8d6275c0 6567 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6568 which version of WCCP to use.
6569DOC_END
6570
6571NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6572TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6573LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6574DEFAULT: 4
6575IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6576DOC_START
8d6275c0 6577 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6578 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6579 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6580 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6581 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6582
8d6275c0 6583 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6584 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6585 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6586 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6587DOC_END
6588
8d6275c0 6589NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6590TYPE: onoff
6591LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6592DEFAULT: on
6593IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6594DOC_START
6595 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6596 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6597DOC_END
cccac0a2 6598
8d6275c0 6599NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6600TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6601LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6602DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6603IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6604DOC_START
699acd19 6605 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 6606 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6607
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6608 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6609 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6610
8d6275c0 6611 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6612 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 6613DOC_END
6614
8d6275c0 6615NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 6616TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6617LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 6618DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 6619IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6620DOC_START
699acd19 6621 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 6622 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
6623 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6624
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6625 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
6626 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 6627
8d6275c0 6628 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
6629 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 6630
699acd19 6631 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 6632 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
6633 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
6634 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 6635DOC_END
6636
8d6275c0 6637NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 6638TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 6639LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 6640DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 6641IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6642DOC_START
8d6275c0 6643 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
6644 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 6645
451c4786 6646 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 6647 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 6648
8d6275c0 6649 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
6650 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
6651DOC_END
cccac0a2 6652
8d6275c0 6653NAME: wccp2_service
6654TYPE: wccp2_service
6655LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 6656DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 6657DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 6658IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6659DOC_START
6660 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
6661 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
6662 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
6663 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
6664 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
6665 using the wccp2_service_info option.
6666
6667 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
6668 just specifying the service id will suffice.
6669
6670 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
6671 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
6672
6673 Examples:
6674
6675 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
6676 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
6677 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
6678 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 6679DOC_END
6680
6681NAME: wccp2_service_info
6682TYPE: wccp2_service_info
6683LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
6684DEFAULT: none
6685IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6686DOC_START
6687 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
6688 traffic you wish to have diverted.
6689
6690 The format is:
6691
6692 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
6693 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
6694
6695 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
6696 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 6697 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 6698 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
6699 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
6700 + ports_source
6701
6702 The port list can be one to eight entries.
6703
6704 Example:
6705
6706 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6707 priority=240 ports=80
6708
6709 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6710 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6711DOC_END
6712
6713NAME: wccp2_weight
6714TYPE: int
6715LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6716DEFAULT: 10000
6717IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6718DOC_START
6719 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6720 hash proportional to their weight.
6721DOC_END
6722
6723NAME: wccp_address
6724TYPE: address
6725LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6726DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6727DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6728IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6729DOC_START
6730 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
6731 interface address.
6732
6733 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6734DOC_END
df2eec10 6735
8d6275c0 6736NAME: wccp2_address
6737TYPE: address
6738LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6739DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 6740DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 6741IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6742DOC_START
6743 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6744 interface address.
6745
6746 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6747DOC_END
6748
6749COMMENT_START
6750 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6751 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6752
6753 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6754COMMENT_END
6755
6756NAME: client_persistent_connections
6757TYPE: onoff
6758LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6759DEFAULT: on
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6760DOC_START
6761 Persistent connection support for clients.
6762 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6763 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
6764DOC_END
8d6275c0 6765
6766NAME: server_persistent_connections
6767TYPE: onoff
6768LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6769DEFAULT: on
6770DOC_START
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6771 Persistent connection support for servers.
6772 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
6773 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 6774DOC_END
6775
6776NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6777TYPE: onoff
6778LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6779DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6780DOC_START
6781 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6782 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6783 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6784DOC_END
6785
6786NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6787TYPE: onoff
6788LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6789DEFAULT: off
6790DOC_START
6791 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6792 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6793 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6794 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6795
6796 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6797 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6798 after 10 seconds timeout.
6799DOC_END
6800
6801COMMENT_START
6802 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6803 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6804COMMENT_END
6805
6806NAME: digest_generation
6807IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6808TYPE: onoff
6809LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6810DEFAULT: on
6811DOC_START
6812 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6813 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6814 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6815DOC_END
6816
6817NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6818IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6819TYPE: int
6820LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6821DEFAULT: 5
6822DOC_START
6823 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6824 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6825 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6826DOC_END
6827
6828NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6829IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6830COMMENT: (seconds)
6831TYPE: time_t
6832LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6833DEFAULT: 1 hour
6834DOC_START
749ceff8 6835 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6836DOC_END
6837
6838NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6839COMMENT: (seconds)
6840IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6841TYPE: time_t
6842LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6843DEFAULT: 1 hour
6844DOC_START
749ceff8 6845 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6846 disk.
6847DOC_END
6848
6849NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6850COMMENT: (bytes)
6851TYPE: b_size_t
6852IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6853LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6854DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6855DOC_START
6856 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6857 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6858 default swap page.
6859DOC_END
6860
6861NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6862COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6863IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6864TYPE: int
6865LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6866DEFAULT: 10
6867DOC_START
6868 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6869 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6870DOC_END
6871
1db9eacd 6872COMMENT_START
5473c134 6873 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6874 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6875COMMENT_END
6876
5473c134 6877NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6878TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6879LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6880DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6881DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 6882IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6883DOC_START
87630341 6884 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6885 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6886 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6887 set to "0" (disabled)
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6888
6889 Example:
6890 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6891DOC_END
6892
5473c134 6893NAME: snmp_access
6894TYPE: acl_access
6895LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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6896DEFAULT: none
6897DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 6898IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6899DOC_START
5473c134 6900 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6901
5473c134 6902 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6903 usage:
8d6275c0 6904
5473c134 6905 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6906
b3567eb5
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6907 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6908 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 6909
5473c134 6910Example:
6911 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6912 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6913DOC_END
6914
5473c134 6915NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6916TYPE: address
6917LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6918DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6919DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 6920IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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6921DOC_START
6922 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
6923
6924 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6925 messages from SNMP agents.
6926
6927 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
6928 available network interfaces.
6929DOC_END
df2eec10 6930
5473c134 6931NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6932TYPE: address
6933LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6934DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 6935DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 6936IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6937DOC_START
638402dd 6938 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6939
5473c134 6940 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6941 agents.
cccac0a2 6942
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6943 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6944 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6945 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6946 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6947
5473c134 6948 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 6949 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6950DOC_END
6951
5473c134 6952COMMENT_START
6953 ICP OPTIONS
6954 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6955COMMENT_END
6956
6957NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6958TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6959DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6960DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 6961LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6962DOC_START
5473c134 6963 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6964 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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6965
6966 Example:
6967 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6968DOC_END
6969
5473c134 6970NAME: htcp_port
6971IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6972TYPE: u_short
87630341 6973DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6974DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 6975LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6976DOC_START
5473c134 6977 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6978 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 6979 4827.
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6980
6981 Example:
6982 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6983DOC_END
6984
6985NAME: log_icp_queries
6986COMMENT: on|off
6987TYPE: onoff
6988DEFAULT: on
6989LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6990DOC_START
6991 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6992 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6993 up or to simplify log analysis.
6994DOC_END
6995
5473c134 6996NAME: udp_incoming_address
6997TYPE: address
6998LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6999DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7000DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 7001DOC_START
7002 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
7003 caches.
7004
7005 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7006
7007 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
7008 a specific interface/address.
7009
7010 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7011 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7012
7013 see also; udp_outgoing_address
7014
7015 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
7016 have the same value since they both use the same port.
7017DOC_END
cccac0a2 7018
5473c134 7019NAME: udp_outgoing_address
7020TYPE: address
7021LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 7022DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7023DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 7024DOC_START
8524d4b2 7025 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 7026 caches.
cccac0a2 7027
5473c134 7028 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 7029
8524d4b2 7030 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
7031 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
7032 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 7033 caches.
7034
8524d4b2 7035 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7036 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7037
7038 see also; udp_incoming_address
7039
5473c134 7040 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 7041 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7042DOC_END
7043
3d1e3e43 7044NAME: icp_hit_stale
7045COMMENT: on|off
7046TYPE: onoff
7047DEFAULT: off
7048LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7049DOC_START
7050 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7051 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7052 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7053 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7054 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7055 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7056 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7057DOC_END
7058
5473c134 7059NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7060TYPE: int
5473c134 7061DEFAULT: 4
7062LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7063DOC_START
5473c134 7064 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7065 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7066DOC_END
7067
5473c134 7068NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7069COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7070TYPE: int
7071DEFAULT: 400
7072LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7073DOC_START
5473c134 7074 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7075 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7076DOC_END
7077
cccac0a2 7078NAME: netdb_low
7079TYPE: int
7080DEFAULT: 900
7081LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7082DOC_START
7083 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7084
7085 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7086
7087 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7088 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7089 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7090 mark is reached.
7091DOC_END
cccac0a2 7092
7093NAME: netdb_high
7094TYPE: int
7095DEFAULT: 1000
7096LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7097DOC_START
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7098 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7099
7100 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7101
7102 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7103 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7104 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7105 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7106DOC_END
7107
cccac0a2 7108NAME: netdb_ping_period
7109TYPE: time_t
7110LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7111DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7112DOC_START
7113 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7114 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7115 network. The default is five minutes.
7116DOC_END
7117
cccac0a2 7118NAME: query_icmp
7119COMMENT: on|off
7120TYPE: onoff
7121DEFAULT: off
7122LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7123DOC_START
7124 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7125 replies, enable this option.
7126
7127 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7128 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7129 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7130 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7131 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7132 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7133 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7134 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7135DOC_END
7136
7137NAME: test_reachability
7138COMMENT: on|off
7139TYPE: onoff
7140DEFAULT: off
7141LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7142DOC_START
7143 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7144 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7145 database, or has a zero RTT.
7146DOC_END
7147
5473c134 7148NAME: icp_query_timeout
7149COMMENT: (msec)
7150DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7151DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7152TYPE: int
7153LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7154DOC_START
5473c134 7155 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7156 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
7157 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
7158 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
7159 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
7160 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 7161
5473c134 7162 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 7163DOC_END
7164
5473c134 7165NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
7166COMMENT: (msec)
7167DEFAULT: 2000
7168TYPE: int
7169LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 7170DOC_START
5473c134 7171 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7172 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
7173 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
7174 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7175 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7176 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7177DOC_END
7178
5473c134 7179NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
7180COMMENT: (msec)
7181DEFAULT: 5
7182TYPE: int
7183LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 7184DOC_START
5473c134 7185 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7186 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
7187 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
7188 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
7189 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7190 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7191 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7192DOC_END
7193
5473c134 7194NAME: background_ping_rate
7195COMMENT: time-units
7196TYPE: time_t
7197DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7198LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 7199DOC_START
5473c134 7200 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
7201 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 7202DOC_END
7203
5473c134 7204COMMENT_START
7205 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
7206 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7207COMMENT_END
7208
7209NAME: mcast_groups
7210TYPE: wordlist
7211LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 7212DEFAULT: none
7213DOC_START
5473c134 7214 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
7215 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 7216
5473c134 7217 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
7218 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
7219 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
7220 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
7221 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
7222 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
7223 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 7224
5473c134 7225 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
7226 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 7227
5473c134 7228 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7229 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7230
5473c134 7231 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7232
5473c134 7233 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7234DOC_END
8c01ada0 7235
5473c134 7236NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7237IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7238TYPE: address
7239LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7240DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7241DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7242DOC_START
7243 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7244 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7245
5473c134 7246 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7247 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7248DOC_END
7249
5473c134 7250NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7251IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7252TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7253LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7254DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7255DOC_START
5473c134 7256 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7257 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7258 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7259DOC_END
cccac0a2 7260
5473c134 7261NAME: mcast_miss_port
7262IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7263TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7264LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7265DEFAULT: 3135
7266DOC_START
7267 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7268 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7269DOC_END
cccac0a2 7270
5473c134 7271NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7272IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7273TYPE: string
7274LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7275DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7276DOC_START
7277 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7278 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7279DOC_END
8c01ada0 7280
5473c134 7281NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7282COMMENT: (msec)
7283DEFAULT: 2000
7284TYPE: int
7285LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7286DOC_START
7287 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7288 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7289 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7290 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7291 seconds.
cccac0a2 7292DOC_END
7293
5473c134 7294COMMENT_START
7295 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7296 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7297COMMENT_END
7298
cccac0a2 7299NAME: icon_directory
7300TYPE: string
7301LOC: Config.icons.directory
7302DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7303DOC_START
7304 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7305 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7306DOC_END
7307
f024c970 7308NAME: global_internal_static
7309TYPE: onoff
7310LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7311DEFAULT: on
7312DOC_START
7313 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7314 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7315 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7316 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7317 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7318 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7319 the server generating a directory listing.
7320DOC_END
7321
5473c134 7322NAME: short_icon_urls
7323TYPE: onoff
7324LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7325DEFAULT: on
7326DOC_START
7327 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7328 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7329 it's own name and port in the URL.
7330
7331 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7332 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7333DOC_END
7334
7335COMMENT_START
7336 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7337 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7338COMMENT_END
7339
7340NAME: error_directory
7341TYPE: string
7342LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7343DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7344DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7345DOC_START
7346 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7347 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7348 the error/template files to another directory and point
7349 this tag at them.
7350
7351 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7352 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7353
7354 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7355 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7356 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7357 contributing your translation back to the project.
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AJ
7358 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7359
7360 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7361 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7362DOC_END
7363
7364NAME: error_default_language
7365IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7366TYPE: string
7367LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7368DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7369DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7370DOC_START
7371 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7372 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7373 preferences.
7374
7375 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7376
7377 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7378 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7379 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7380 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7381DOC_END
7382
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7383NAME: error_log_languages
7384IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7385TYPE: onoff
7386LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7387DEFAULT: on
7388DOC_START
7389 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7390 auto-negotiate for translations.
7391
7392 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7393 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7394 of its error page translations.
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7395DOC_END
7396
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7397NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7398TYPE: string
7399LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7400DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7401DOC_START
7402 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7403
7404 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7405DOC_END
7406
5473c134 7407NAME: err_html_text
7408TYPE: eol
7409LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7410DEFAULT: none
7411DOC_START
7412 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7413 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7414 organizations Web page.
7415
7416 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7417 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7418 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7419 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7420DOC_END
7421
7422NAME: email_err_data
7423COMMENT: on|off
7424TYPE: onoff
7425LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7426DEFAULT: on
7427DOC_START
7428 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7429 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7430 so that the email body contains the data.
7431 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7432DOC_END
7433
7434NAME: deny_info
7435TYPE: denyinfo
7436LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7437DEFAULT: none
7438DOC_START
7439 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7440 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7441 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7442
7443 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7444 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7445 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7446 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7447
7448 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7449 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7450 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7451 the first authentication related acl encountered
7452 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7453 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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7454 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7455 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7456
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7457 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7458 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7459 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7460
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7461 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7462 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7463 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7464
5473c134 7465 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7466 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7467
7468 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
aed9a15b
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7469 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7470 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7471 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7472 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
15b02e9a
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7473
7474 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7475 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7476 %B - FTP path URL
7477 %e - Error number
7478 %E - Error description
7479 %h - Squid hostname
7480 %H - Request domain name
7481 %i - Client IP Address
7482 %M - Request Method
7483 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7484 %p - Request Port number
7485 %P - Request Protocol name
7486 %R - Request URL path
7487 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7488 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7489 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7490 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7491 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7492 %x - Error name
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AJ
7493 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7494
5473c134 7495DOC_END
7496
7497COMMENT_START
7498 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7499 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7500COMMENT_END
7501
7502NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7503TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7504LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7505DEFAULT: on
7506DOC_START
5473c134 7507 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
7508 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
7509 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7510
638402dd 7511 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7512 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7513
5473c134 7514 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7515 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7516 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7517
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7518 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7519 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7520 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7521DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7522
5473c134 7523NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7524TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7525LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7526DEFAULT: off
7527DOC_START
5473c134 7528 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7529 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7530 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7531
5473c134 7532 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7533 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7534 fails.
7535
7536 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7537 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7538 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7539DOC_END
7540
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7541NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
7542COMMENT: on|off
7543TYPE: onoff
7544DEFAULT: on
7545LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
7546DOC_START
7547 Whether Squid on cache MISS will pass client revalidation requests
7548 to the server or tries to fetch new content for caching.
7549 This is useful while the cache is mostly empty to more quickly
7550 have the cache populated.
7551
7552 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
7553 to the server.
7554
7555 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
7556 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
7557 the request sent to the server.
7558DOC_END
7559
5473c134 7560NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7561TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7562LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7563DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7564DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7565DOC_START
5473c134 7566 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7567
5473c134 7568 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7569 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7570 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7571 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7572 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7573
5473c134 7574 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7575 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7576
5473c134 7577 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7578
5473c134 7579 acl FTP proto FTP
7580 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7581
5473c134 7582 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7583 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7584 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7585 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7586 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7587
5473c134 7588 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7589 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7590 always_direct deny local-external
7591 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7592
5473c134 7593 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7594 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7595 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
7596 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 7597
5473c134 7598 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
7599 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 7600 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 7601
b3567eb5
FC
7602 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7603 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 7604DOC_END
0976f8db 7605
5473c134 7606NAME: never_direct
7607TYPE: acl_access
7608LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
7609DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7610DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 7611DOC_START
5473c134 7612 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7613
7614 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
7615 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
7616
7617 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
7618 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
7619 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
7620 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
7621
7622 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 7623 never_direct deny local-servers
7624 never_direct allow all
7625
7626 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
7627 servers inside the firewall use something like:
7628
7629 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
7630 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7631 always_direct deny local-external
7632 always_direct allow local-intranet
7633 never_direct allow all
7634
b3567eb5
FC
7635 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
7636 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 7637DOC_END
0976f8db 7638
5473c134 7639COMMENT_START
7640 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
7641 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7642COMMENT_END
7643
65d448bc 7644NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 7645TYPE: int
7646DEFAULT: 6
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AJ
7647LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
7648DOC_START
7649 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7650 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7651 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7652DOC_END
cccac0a2 7653
65d448bc 7654NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 7655TYPE: int
7656DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7657LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
7658DOC_START
7659 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7660 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7661 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7662DOC_END
cccac0a2 7663
7664NAME: incoming_dns_average
7665TYPE: int
7666DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
7667LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
7668DOC_START
7669 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7670 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7671 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7672DOC_END
cccac0a2 7673
65d448bc 7674NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7675TYPE: int
7676DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7677LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
7678DOC_START
7679 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7680 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7681 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7682DOC_END
cccac0a2 7683
7684NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
7685TYPE: int
7686DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
7687LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
7688DOC_START
7689 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7690 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7691 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7692DOC_END
cccac0a2 7693
65d448bc 7694NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 7695TYPE: int
7696DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 7697LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 7698DOC_START
5473c134 7699 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
7700 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
7701 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
7702DOC_END
7703
7704NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 7705TYPE: string
7706DEFAULT: none
7707LOC: Config.accept_filter
7708DOC_START
0b4d4be5 7709 FreeBSD:
7710
5473c134 7711 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
7712 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
7713 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
7714
7715 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 7716 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 7717 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
7718
7719 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
7720 to Squid until there is some data to process.
7721 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
7722
7723 Linux:
7724
7725 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
7726 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
7727 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
7728 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
7729 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 7730EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 7731# FreeBSD
5473c134 7732accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 7733# Linux
7734accept_filter data
5473c134 7735DOC_END
7736
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7737NAME: client_ip_max_connections
7738TYPE: int
7739LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
7740DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7741DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
ab2ecb0e
AJ
7742DOC_START
7743 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
7744 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
7745 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
7746
7747 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
7748 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
7749
7750 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
7751
7752 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
7753 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
7754DOC_END
7755
5473c134 7756NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
7757COMMENT: (bytes)
7758TYPE: b_size_t
7759DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 7760DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 7761LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
7762DOC_START
7763 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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AJ
7764 as easy to change your kernel's default.
7765 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 7766DOC_END
7767
7768COMMENT_START
7769 ICAP OPTIONS
7770 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7771COMMENT_END
7772
7773NAME: icap_enable
7774TYPE: onoff
7775IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7776COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7777LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 7778DEFAULT: off
7779DOC_START
53e738c6 7780 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7781DOC_END
7782
7783NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7784TYPE: time_t
7785DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7786LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7787IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7788DOC_START
7789 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7790 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7791 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7792
7793 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7794 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7795 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7796DOC_END
7797
7798NAME: icap_io_timeout
7799COMMENT: time-units
7800TYPE: time_t
7801DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7802DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 7803LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7804IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7805DOC_START
7806 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7807 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7808 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7809 failure.
5473c134 7810DOC_END
7811
7812NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7813COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7814TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7815IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7816LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7817DEFAULT: 10
7818DOC_START
7819 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7820 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7821 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7822 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7823 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7824
7825 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7826 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7827 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
8277060a
CT
7828
7829 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7830 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7831 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7832 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7833 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7834
7835 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7836 effect on service failure expiration.
7837
7838 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7839 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7840 setting.
7841
7842 For example,
7843 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7844 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7845DOC_END
7846
5473c134 7847NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7848TYPE: int
5473c134 7849IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7850LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7851DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7852DOC_START
5473c134 7853 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7854 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7855 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7856 fetched.
cccac0a2 7857
5473c134 7858 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7859 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7860DOC_END
7861
5473c134 7862NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7863TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7864IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7865COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7866LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7867DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7868DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7869 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7870 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7871 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7872 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7873
7874 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7875 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7876 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7877
7878 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7879 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7880Example:
7881icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7882DOC_END
7883
5473c134 7884NAME: icap_preview_size
7885TYPE: int
7886IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7887LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7888DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 7889DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 7890DOC_START
53e738c6 7891 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 7892 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7893DOC_END
7894
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7895NAME: icap_206_enable
7896TYPE: onoff
7897IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7898COMMENT: on|off
7899LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7900DEFAULT: on
7901DOC_START
7902 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7903 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7904 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7905 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7906
7907 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7908 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7909 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7910 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7911 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7912
7913 Example:
7914 icap_206_enable off
7915DOC_END
7916
5473c134 7917NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7918TYPE: int
7919IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7920LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7921DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7922DOC_START
53e738c6 7923 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7924 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7925DOC_END
7926
5473c134 7927NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7928TYPE: onoff
7929IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7930COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7931LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7932DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7933DOC_START
5473c134 7934 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7935 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7936DOC_END
7937
22fff3bf 7938NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7939TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7940IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7941COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7942LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7943DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7944DOC_START
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7945 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7946 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7947 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7948
7949 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7950DOC_END
7951
22fff3bf 7952NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7953TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7954IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7955COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7956LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7957DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7958DOC_START
5473c134 7959 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7960 the adaptation service.
7961
7962 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7963 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7964 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7965DOC_END
7966
5473c134 7967NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7968TYPE: string
5473c134 7969IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7970LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7971DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7972DOC_START
db49f682 7973 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7974DOC_END
7975
5473c134 7976NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7977TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7978IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7979COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7980LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7981DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7982DOC_START
5473c134 7983 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7984DOC_END
7985
5473c134 7986NAME: icap_service
7987TYPE: icap_service_type
7988IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7989LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7990DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7991DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7992 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7993
c25c2836 7994 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7995
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7996 id: ID
7997 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7998 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7999 services in squid.conf.
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8001 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 8002 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8003 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8004 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 8005
c25c2836 8006 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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8007 ICAP server and service location.
8008
8009 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
8010 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
8011 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
8012 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
8013 service_names differ.
8014
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8015 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8016 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8017
8018 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
8019 the following name=value options:
8020
8021 bypass=on|off|1|0
8022 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
8023 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
8024 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
8025 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
8026 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
8027 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
8028 returned to the HTTP client.
8029
8030 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8031
8032 routing=on|off|1|0
8033 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
8034 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8035 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
8036 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
8037 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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8038 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
8039 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
8040 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
8041
8042 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8043 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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8044
8045 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
8046 response header is ignored.
8047
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8048 ipv6=on|off
8049 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8050 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8051 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8052
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8053 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8054 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8055 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8056 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8057 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8058 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8059 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8060
8061 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8062 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8063 workers may use a given service.
8064
8065 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8066 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8067
8068
8069 max-conn=number
8070 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8071 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8072
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8073 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
8074 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 8075
5473c134 8076Example:
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8077icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
8078icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 8079DOC_END
8080
5473c134 8081NAME: icap_class
8082TYPE: icap_class_type
8083IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8084LOC: none
5473c134 8085DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8086DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8087 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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8088 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
8089 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 8090
62c7f90e 8091 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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8092 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
8093 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 8094DOC_END
8095
5473c134 8096NAME: icap_access
8097TYPE: icap_access_type
8098IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8099LOC: none
cccac0a2 8100DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8101DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8102 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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8103 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
8104 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 8105DOC_END
8106
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8107COMMENT_START
8108 eCAP OPTIONS
8109 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8110COMMENT_END
8111
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8112NAME: ecap_enable
8113TYPE: onoff
8114IFDEF: USE_ECAP
8115COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 8116LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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8117DEFAULT: off
8118DOC_START
8119 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
8120DOC_END
8121
8122NAME: ecap_service
8123TYPE: ecap_service_type
8124IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 8125LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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8126DEFAULT: none
8127DOC_START
8128 Defines a single eCAP service
8129
c25c2836 8130 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 8131
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8132 id: ID
8133 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8134 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8135 services in squid.conf.
8136
8137 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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8138 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8139 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8140 are not yet supported.
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8141
8142 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
8143 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
8144 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
8145 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
8146 the service provider.
8147
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8148 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8149 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8150
8151 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
8152 the following name=value options:
8153
8154 bypass=on|off|1|0
8155 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
8156 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
8157 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 8158 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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8159 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
8160 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 8161 HTTP client.
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8162
8163 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8164
8165 routing=on|off|1|0
8166 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
8167 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8168 returning a chain of services to be used next.
8169
8170 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8171 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
8172
8173 Routing is not allowed by default.
8174
8175 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
8176 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
8177
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8178
8179Example:
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8180ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
8181ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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8182DOC_END
8183
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8184NAME: loadable_modules
8185TYPE: wordlist
8186IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
8187LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
8188DEFAULT: none
8189DOC_START
8190 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
8191 preloaded module(s).
8192Example:
8193loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
8194DOC_END
8195
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8196COMMENT_START
8197 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
8198 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8199COMMENT_END
8200
8201NAME: adaptation_service_set
8202TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
8203IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8204LOC: none
8205DEFAULT: none
8206DOC_START
8207
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8208 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
8209 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
8210
8211 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
8212
8213 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
8214 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
8215 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
8216 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
8217 intact.
62c7f90e 8218
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8219 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8220 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 8221
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8222 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
8223 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8224
8225 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
8226 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
8227 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
8228 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
8229 transaction fails as well.
8230
8231 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
8232 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
8233 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
8234 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
8235 matters.
8236
8237 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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8238
8239Example:
8240adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
8241adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
8242DOC_END
8243
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8244NAME: adaptation_service_chain
8245TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
8246IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8247LOC: none
8248DEFAULT: none
8249DOC_START
8250
8251 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8252 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8253 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8254
8255 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8256
8257 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8258 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8259 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8260 the previous service in the chain.
8261
8262 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8263 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8264
8265 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8266 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8267 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8268
8269 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8270 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8271
8272 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8273 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8274 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8275 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8276
8277 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8278
8279Example:
8280adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8281DOC_END
8282
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8283NAME: adaptation_access
8284TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8285IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8286LOC: none
8287DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8288DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8289DOC_START
8290 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8291
8292 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8293 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8294
8295 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8296 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8297 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8298 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8299
8300 - services serving different vectoring points
8301 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8302 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8303 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8304
8305 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8306 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8307 adaptation_service_set for details.
8308
8309 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8310 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8311 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8312 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8313
8314 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8315 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8316
8317 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8318
8319Example:
8320adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8321DOC_END
8322
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8323NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8324TYPE: int
8325IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8326LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8327DEFAULT: 16
8328DOC_START
8329 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8330 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8331 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8332 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8333 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8334 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8335
8336 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8337
8338 See also: icap_service routing=1
8339DOC_END
8340
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8341NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8342TYPE: string
8343IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8344LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8345DEFAULT: none
8346DOC_START
8347 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8348 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8349 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8350 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8351 with the master transaction.
8352
8353 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8354 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8355
8356 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8357 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8358 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8359
8360 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8361 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8362 to provide an option with a name specified in
8363 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8365 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8366 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8367
8368 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8369
8370Example:
8371# share authentication information among ICAP services
8372adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8373DOC_END
8374
71be37e0 8375NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8376TYPE: note
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8378LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8379DEFAULT: none
8380DOC_START
8381 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8382 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8383 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8384 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8385
8386 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8387 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8388
8389 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8390 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8391 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8392 example:
8393
8394 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8395 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8396
8397 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8398 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8399
8400 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8401 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8402
8403 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8404 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8405 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8406 and double quotes. For example,
8407 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8409 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8410 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8411 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8412 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8413 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8414DOC_END
8415
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8416NAME: icap_retry
8417TYPE: acl_access
8418IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8419LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8420DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8421DOC_START
8422 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8423 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8424 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8425 that response are usually retriable.
8426
8427 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8428
8429 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8430 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8431
8432 See also: icap_retry_limit
8433DOC_END
8434
8435NAME: icap_retry_limit
8436TYPE: int
8437IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8438LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8439DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8440DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8441DOC_START
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8443
8444 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8445 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8446 count against this limit.
8447
8448 See also: icap_retry
8449DOC_END
8450
8451
5473c134 8452COMMENT_START
8453 DNS OPTIONS
8454 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8455COMMENT_END
8456
8457NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8458TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8459DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8460LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8461DOC_START
5473c134 8462 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8463 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8464 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8465DOC_END
8466
5473c134 8467NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8468TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8469DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8470LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8471DOC_START
5473c134 8472 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8473 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8474 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8475 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8476DOC_END
8477
5473c134 8478NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8479TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8480DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8481LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 8482DOC_START
5473c134 8483 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8484 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8485DOC_END
8486
5473c134 8487NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8488TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8489DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8490LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 8491DOC_START
5473c134 8492 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8493 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8494 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8495DOC_END
8496
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8497NAME: dns_packet_max
8498TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 8499DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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8500DEFAULT: none
8501LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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8502DOC_START
8503 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
8504 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
8505
8506 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
8507 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
8508 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
8509 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
8510 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
8511
8512 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
8513 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
8514 necessary.
8515
8516 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
8517 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
8518 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
8519 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
8520 sizes being advertised by Squid.
8521 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
8522 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
8523DOC_END
8524
5473c134 8525NAME: dns_defnames
8526COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 8527TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8528DEFAULT: off
638402dd 8529DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 8530LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 8531DOC_START
5473c134 8532 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
8533 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
8534 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
8535 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 8536DOC_END
8537
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8538NAME: dns_multicast_local
8539COMMENT: on|off
8540TYPE: onoff
8541DEFAULT: off
8542DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
8543LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
8544DOC_START
8545 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
8546 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
8547 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
8548 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
8549DOC_END
8550
5473c134 8551NAME: dns_nameservers
8552TYPE: wordlist
8553DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8554DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 8555LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 8556DOC_START
5473c134 8557 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
8558 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
8559 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 8560
5473c134 8561 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
8562 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
8563 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
8564 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 8565
5473c134 8566 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 8567DOC_END
8568
5473c134 8569NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 8570TYPE: string
5473c134 8571DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
8572LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 8573DOC_START
5473c134 8574 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
8575 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
8576 default locations:
8577 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
8578 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8579 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
8580 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
8581 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
8582 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
8583 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
8584 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 8585
5473c134 8586 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
8587 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
8588 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
8589 character are comments.
cccac0a2 8590
5473c134 8591 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
8592 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
8593 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
8594 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
8595 definitions.
cccac0a2 8596DOC_END
8597
5473c134 8598NAME: append_domain
8599TYPE: string
8600LOC: Config.appendDomain
8601DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8602DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 8603DOC_START
5473c134 8604 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
8605 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
8606
8607 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
8608 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
8609 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
8610
8611Example:
8612 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 8613DOC_END
8614
5473c134 8615NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
8616TYPE: onoff
8617LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 8618DEFAULT: on
8619DOC_START
5473c134 8620 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
8621 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
8622 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
8623 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
8624 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 8625DOC_END
8626
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8627NAME: dns_v4_first
8628TYPE: onoff
8629DEFAULT: off
8630LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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8631DOC_START
8632 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
8633 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
8634
8635 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
8636 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
8637 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
8638
8639 WARNING:
8640 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
8641 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
8642 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
8643DOC_END
8644
6bc15a4f 8645NAME: ipcache_size
8646COMMENT: (number of entries)
8647TYPE: int
8648DEFAULT: 1024
8649LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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8650DOC_START
8651 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
8652DOC_END
6bc15a4f 8653
8654NAME: ipcache_low
8655COMMENT: (percent)
8656TYPE: int
8657DEFAULT: 90
8658LOC: Config.ipcache.low
8659DOC_NONE
8660
8661NAME: ipcache_high
8662COMMENT: (percent)
8663TYPE: int
8664DEFAULT: 95
8665LOC: Config.ipcache.high
8666DOC_START
8667 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
8668DOC_END
8669
8670NAME: fqdncache_size
8671COMMENT: (number of entries)
8672TYPE: int
8673DEFAULT: 1024
8674LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
8675DOC_START
8676 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
8677DOC_END
8678
a58ff010 8679COMMENT_START
5473c134 8680 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 8681 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8682COMMENT_END
8683
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8684NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8685COMMENT: on|off
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8686TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
8687DEFAULT: off
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8688LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
8689DOC_START
8690 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
8691 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
8692 parameter value is interpreted or used.
8693 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
8694 section for more details.
8695DOC_END
8696
5473c134 8697NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 8698COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8699TYPE: onoff
8700DEFAULT: on
8701LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 8702DOC_START
5473c134 8703 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
8704 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
8705 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
8706 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 8707DOC_END
8708
5473c134 8709NAME: memory_pools_limit
8710COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 8711TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 8712DEFAULT: 5 MB
8713LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 8714DOC_START
5473c134 8715 Used only with memory_pools on:
8716 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 8717
5473c134 8718 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
8719 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
8720 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
8721 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
8722 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
8723 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
8724 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 8725
89646bd7 8726 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 8727 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 8728
5473c134 8729 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 8730 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 8731
8732 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
8733 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
8734 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
8735 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 8736DOC_END
8737
5473c134 8738NAME: forwarded_for
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8739COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
8740TYPE: string
5473c134 8741DEFAULT: on
8742LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 8743DOC_START
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8744 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
8745 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 8746
5473c134 8747 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
8748
67c06f0d 8749 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 8750
8751 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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8752
8753 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
8754 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
8755
8756 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
8757 X-Forwarded-For header.
8758
8759 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 8760 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 8761DOC_END
8762
5473c134 8763NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8764TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8765DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8766DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 8767LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 8768DOC_START
5473c134 8769 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 8770
5473c134 8771 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8772
8773 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8774 5min
8775 60min
8776 asndb
8777 authenticator
8778 cbdata
8779 client_list
8780 comm_incoming
8781 config *
8782 counters
8783 delay
8784 digest_stats
8785 dns
8786 events
8787 filedescriptors
8788 fqdncache
8789 histograms
8790 http_headers
8791 info
8792 io
8793 ipcache
8794 mem
8795 menu
8796 netdb
8797 non_peers
8798 objects
8799 offline_toggle *
8800 pconn
8801 peer_select
b360c477 8802 reconfigure *
5473c134 8803 redirector
8804 refresh
8805 server_list
8806 shutdown *
8807 store_digest
8808 storedir
8809 utilization
8810 via_headers
8811 vm_objects
8812
8813 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8814 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8815
8816 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8817 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8818 password to "none".
8819
8820 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8821
8822Example:
8823 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8824 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8825 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8826DOC_END
8827
5473c134 8828NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8829COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8830TYPE: onoff
8831DEFAULT: on
8832LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8833DOC_START
5473c134 8834 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8835 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8836DOC_END
8837
5473c134 8838NAME: refresh_all_ims
8839COMMENT: on|off
8840TYPE: onoff
8841DEFAULT: off
8842LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8843DOC_START
5473c134 8844 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8845 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8846 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8847 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8848 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8849
5473c134 8850 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8851 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8852DOC_END
8853
5473c134 8854NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8855IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8856COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8857TYPE: onoff
8858DEFAULT: off
8859LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8860DOC_START
5473c134 8861 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8862 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8863 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8864 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8865 causes.
8866
8867 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8868DOC_END
8869
31ef19cd 8870NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8871TYPE: int
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8872LOC: Config.connect_retries
8873DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8874DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 8875DOC_START
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8876 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8877 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8878 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
8879
8880 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8881 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8882
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8883 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8884 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8885
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8886 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8887 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8888 a useful server.
a58ff010 8889DOC_END
8890
5473c134 8891NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8892TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8893LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8894DEFAULT: off
8895DOC_START
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8896 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8897 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8898 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8899 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8900
8901 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8902 work around access control errors.
8903
8904 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8905 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8906DOC_END
8907
5473c134 8908NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8909TYPE: string
5473c134 8910LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8911DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8912DOC_START
5473c134 8913 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8914 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8915DOC_END
8916
5473c134 8917NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8918TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8919LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8920DEFAULT: off
8921DOC_START
5473c134 8922 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8923 objects.
a58ff010 8924DOC_END
8925
5473c134 8926NAME: uri_whitespace
8927TYPE: uri_whitespace
8928LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8929DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8930DOC_START
5473c134 8931 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8932 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8933
5473c134 8934 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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8935 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
8936 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
8937 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
8938
5473c134 8939 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8940 Request" message.
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8941 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
8942 handling of HTTP request URL.
8943
5473c134 8944 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8945 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8946 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8947 are in use.
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8948 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
8949 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
8950 URL field.
8951
5473c134 8952 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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8953 encoded according to RFC1738.
8954
5473c134 8955 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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8956 first whitespace.
8957
8958
8959 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
8960 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 8961DOC_END
a58ff010 8962
5473c134 8963NAME: chroot
8964TYPE: string
8965LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8966DEFAULT: none
8967DOC_START
9f37c18a 8968 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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HN
8969 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8970 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8971 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8972 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8973DOC_END
a58ff010 8974
5473c134 8975NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8976TYPE: onoff
8977LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8978DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8979DOC_START
cc192b50 8980 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8981 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8982 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8983
5473c134 8984 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8985 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8986 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8987
cc192b50 8988 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8989DOC_END
8990
5473c134 8991NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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8992TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
8993LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
8994DEFAULT: 0
8995DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 8996DOC_START
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8997 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
8998 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
8999 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
9000 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
9001 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
9002 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 9003
079a8480 9004 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 9005 reasons.
a0e23afd 9006
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9007 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
9008
a0e23afd 9009 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 9010DOC_END
a58ff010 9011
5473c134 9012NAME: high_response_time_warning
9013TYPE: int
9014COMMENT: (msec)
9015LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
9016DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9017DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9018DOC_START
9019 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
9020 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
9021 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 9022DOC_END
9023
5473c134 9024NAME: high_page_fault_warning
9025TYPE: int
9026LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
9027DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9028DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 9029DOC_START
5473c134 9030 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
9031 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
9032 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
9033 per second.
9034DOC_END
cc9f92d4 9035
5473c134 9036NAME: high_memory_warning
9037TYPE: b_size_t
9038LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 9039IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 9040DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 9041DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9042DOC_START
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9043 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
9044 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 9045 the administrators attention.
9046DOC_END
4bf2a476 9047# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 9048
5473c134 9049NAME: sleep_after_fork
9050COMMENT: (microseconds)
9051TYPE: int
9052LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
9053DEFAULT: 0
9054DOC_START
9055 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
9056 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
9057 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
9058 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
9059 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
9060 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
9061 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
9062 until all the child processes have been started.
9063 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
9064 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 9065DOC_END
9066
b6696974 9067NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 9068IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
GS
9069COMMENT: on|off
9070TYPE: onoff
9071DEFAULT: on
9072LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
9073DOC_START
9074 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
9075 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
9076 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
9077 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
9078 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
9079 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
9080DOC_END
9081
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9082NAME: eui_lookup
9083TYPE: onoff
9084IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
9085DEFAULT: on
9086LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
9087DOC_START
9088 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
9089DOC_END
9090
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9091NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
9092TYPE: int
9093DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9094DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
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AJ
9095LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
9096DOC_START
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AJ
9097 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
9098 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 9099
638402dd 9100 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
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9101
9102 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 9103 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
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9105
13aeac35 9106NAME: workers
007d775d 9107TYPE: int
13aeac35 9108LOC: Config.workers
007d775d 9109DEFAULT: 1
638402dd 9110DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
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13aeac35 9112 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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9113 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
9114 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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9115 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
9116
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9117 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
9118 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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9119DOC_END
9120
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9121NAME: cpu_affinity_map
9122TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
9123LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
9124DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9125DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
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9126DOC_START
9127 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
9128
9129 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
9130
9131 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
9132
9133 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
9134 four even cores, starting with core #1.
9135
9136 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
9137 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
9138
9139 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
9140
9141 See also: workers
9142DOC_END
9143
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