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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
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126NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
130DOC_END
131
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132NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
133TYPE: obsolete
134DOC_START
135 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
136DOC_END
137
138# Options Removed in 3.1
139NAME: dns_testnames
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
143DOC_END
144
145NAME: extension_methods
146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
149DOC_END
150
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151# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
152NAME: zero_buffers
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_NONE
155
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156# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
157NAME: incoming_rate
158TYPE: obsolete
159DOC_NONE
160
161NAME: server_http11
162TYPE: obsolete
163DOC_START
164 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
165DOC_END
166
167NAME: upgrade_http0.9
168TYPE: obsolete
169DOC_START
170 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
171DOC_END
172
173NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
174TYPE: obsolete
175DOC_START
176 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
177DOC_END
178
179# Options Removed in 3.0
180NAME: header_access
181TYPE: obsolete
182DOC_START
183 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
184 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
185DOC_END
186
187NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
188TYPE: obsolete
189DOC_START
190 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
191DOC_END
192
5473c134 193COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 194 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 195 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
196COMMENT_END
197
41bd17a4 198NAME: auth_param
199TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 200IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 201LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 202DEFAULT: none
203DOC_START
41bd17a4 204 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
205 schemes supported by Squid.
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41bd17a4 207 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 208
41bd17a4 209 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
210 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
211 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
212 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
213 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
214 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
215 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
216 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
217 program entry).
cccac0a2 218
41bd17a4 219 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
220 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
221 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
222 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 223
41bd17a4 224 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
225 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
226 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
227 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
228 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
229 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
230 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
231 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
232 type acl.
cccac0a2 233
41bd17a4 234 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
235 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
236 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
237 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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238 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
239 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 240
41bd17a4 241 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 242
41bd17a4 243 "program" cmdline
244 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
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245 reads a line containing "username password" and replies with one of
246 three results:
247
248 OK
249 the user exists.
250
251 ERR
252 the user does not exist.
253
254 BH
255 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
256 a result being identified.
257
258 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
259 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
260
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261 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
262 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 263
41bd17a4 264 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
265 program is specified.
cccac0a2 266
41bd17a4 267 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
268 this line to something like
307b83b7 269
41bd17a4 270 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 271
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272 "utf8" on|off
273 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
274 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
275 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
276 username & password to the helper.
277
7353861b 278 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 279 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 280 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
281 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
282 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
283 authenticator processes.
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284
285 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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286 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
287 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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288 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
289 the maximum.
290
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291 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
292 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
293 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
294 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
295 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
296 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 297 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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298
299 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 300
41bd17a4 301 "realm" realmstring
302 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
303 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
304 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
305 password). There is no default.
306 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 307
41bd17a4 308 "credentialsttl" timetolive
309 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
310 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
311 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
312 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
313 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
314 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
315 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
316 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
317 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 318
41bd17a4 319 "casesensitive" on|off
320 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
321 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
322 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
323 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
324 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 325
41bd17a4 326 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 327
41bd17a4 328 "program" cmdline
329 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
330 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
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331 replies with one of three results:
332
333 OK ha1="..."
334 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
335 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
336 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
337
338 ERR
339 the user does not exist.
340
341 BH
342 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
343 a result being identified.
344
345 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
346 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
cccac0a2 347
41bd17a4 348 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
349 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 350
41bd17a4 351 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
352 something like
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7ce93108 354 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 355
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356 "utf8" on|off
357 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
358 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
359 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
360 username & password to the helper.
361
7353861b 362 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 363 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 364 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
365 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
366 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
367 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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368
369 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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370 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
371 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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372 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
373 the maximum.
374
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375 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
376 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
377 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
378 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
379 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
380 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
381 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
382
48d54e4d 383 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 384
41bd17a4 385 "realm" realmstring
386 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
387 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
388 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
389 password). There is no default.
390 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 391
41bd17a4 392 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
393 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
394 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
397 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
398 valid for.
cccac0a2 399
41bd17a4 400 "nonce_max_count" number
401 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
402 used.
cccac0a2 403
41bd17a4 404 "nonce_strictness" on|off
405 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
406 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
407 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
408 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 409
41bd17a4 410 "check_nonce_count" on|off
411 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
412 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
413 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
414 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 415
41bd17a4 416 "post_workaround" on|off
417 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
418 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
419 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 "program" cmdline
424 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
425 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
426 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
427 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
5269ec0e 428 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
41bd17a4 429 is not used.
cccac0a2 430
41bd17a4 431 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 432
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433 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
434 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 435 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
436 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
437 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
438 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
439 processes.
cccac0a2 440
48d54e4d 441 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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442 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
443 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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444 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
445 the maximum.
446
447 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 448
41bd17a4 449 "keep_alive" on|off
450 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
451 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
452 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
453 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
454 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 455
41bd17a4 456 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 457
41bd17a4 458 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 459
41bd17a4 460 "program" cmdline
461 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
462 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
463 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
464 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
465 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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466 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
467 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
5269ec0e 468 authenticator program is not used.
41bd17a4 469 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
470 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 471
41bd17a4 472 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 473
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474 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
475 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 476 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
477 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
478 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
479 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
480 processes.
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481
482 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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483 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
484 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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485 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
486 the maximum.
487
488 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 489
41bd17a4 490 "keep_alive" on|off
491 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
492 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
493 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
494 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
495 supported by the proxy.
527ee50d 496
41bd17a4 497 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 498
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500 Examples:
501
41bd17a4 502#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
503#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 504#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 505#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 506#
41bd17a4 507#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 508#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 509#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 510#
41bd17a4 511#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 512#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 513#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
514#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
515#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
516#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 517#
41bd17a4 518#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 519#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 520#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
521#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 522DOC_END
cccac0a2 523
41bd17a4 524NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
525TYPE: time_t
526DEFAULT: 1 hour
527LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
528DOC_START
529 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
530 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
531 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
532 have good reason to.
533DOC_END
cccac0a2 534
41bd17a4 535NAME: authenticate_ttl
536TYPE: time_t
537DEFAULT: 1 hour
538LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
539DOC_START
540 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
541 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
542 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
543 TTL are removed from memory.
544DOC_END
cccac0a2 545
41bd17a4 546NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
547TYPE: time_t
548LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
549DEFAULT: 0 seconds
550DOC_START
551 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
552 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
553 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
554 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
555 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
556 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
557 environment with relatively static address assignments.
558DOC_END
cccac0a2 559
3d1e3e43 560COMMENT_START
561 ACCESS CONTROLS
562 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
563COMMENT_END
564
41bd17a4 565NAME: external_acl_type
566TYPE: externalAclHelper
567LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 568DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 569DOC_START
41bd17a4 570 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
571 to look up the status
cccac0a2 572
41bd17a4 573 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 574
41bd17a4 575 Options:
cccac0a2 576
41bd17a4 577 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
578 for 1 hour)
579 negative_ttl=n
580 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
581 as ttl)
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582 children-max=n
583 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
584 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
585 children-startup=n
586 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
587 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
588 of this type. (default 0)
589 children-idle=n
590 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
591 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
592 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
593 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 594 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
595 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 596 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 597 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
598 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 599 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 600 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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601 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
602 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 604 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 605
41bd17a4 606 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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607 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
608 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
609 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 610 %IDENT Ident user name
611 %SRC Client IP
612 %SRCPORT Client source port
613 %URI Requested URI
614 %DST Requested host
615 %PROTO Requested protocol
616 %PORT Requested port
617 %PATH Requested URL path
618 %METHOD Request method
619 %MYADDR Squid interface address
620 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
621 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
622 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
623 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
624 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
625 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 626
c68c9682 627 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 628 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 629 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 630 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 631 HTTP request header list member using ; as
632 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
633 character.
cccac0a2 634
c68c9682 635 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 636 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 637 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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638 %<{Hdr:;member}
639 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
640 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
641 character.
642
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644 an unchanging input format.
645
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647 General request syntax:
648
649 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
650
651
652 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
653 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
654 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
655
656 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
657 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
658
659 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
660 each value in requests against whitespaces.
661
662 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
663 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
664
665 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
666
667 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
668 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
669 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
670 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
671 of the response relating to its request.
672
673
674 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
675 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
676 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
677
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41bd17a4 679 General result syntax:
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682
683 Result consists of one of the codes:
684
685 OK
686 the ACL test produced a match.
687
688 ERR
689 the ACL test does not produce a match.
690
691 BH
692 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
693 a result being identified.
694
695 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
696 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 698 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 700 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 701
41bd17a4 702 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
5269ec0e 703
05e52854 704 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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705 Available as %o in error pages.
706 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
707
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708 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
709 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 711 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 712 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 713
05e52854 714 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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717 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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718 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
719 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
720 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 721
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723
5269ec0e 724 user=John%20Smith
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725 user="John Smith"
726 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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728
41bd17a4 729NAME: acl
730TYPE: acl
731LOC: Config.aclList
38450a50 732IF USE_SSL
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734DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
735DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
736DEFAULT: 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
737DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
738ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 739DEFAULT: all src all
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740DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
741DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
742DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
743DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
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41bd17a4 745 Defining an Access List
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747 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
748 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
749 they are read from.
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751 acl aclname acltype argument ...
752 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 754 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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756 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
757 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
758 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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761 to access some external data source.
762 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
763 don't are marked as [fast].
764 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
765 for further information
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767 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
768
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769 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
770 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
771 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
772 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 773
41bd17a4 774 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
775 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
776 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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778 # other *BSD variants.
779 # [fast]
41bd17a4 780 #
781 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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782 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
783 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
784
785 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
786 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
787 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 788 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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789 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
790 # regex matching client name [slow]
791 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 792 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 793 #
41bd17a4 794 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
795 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
796 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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798 acl aclname src_as number ...
799 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 800 # [fast]
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801 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
802 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
803 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
804 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
805 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
806 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
807 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 808
6db78a1a 809 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 810 # [fast]
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811 # match against a named cache_peer entry
812 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
813
375eeb3b 814 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 815 # [fast]
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816 # day-abbrevs:
817 # S - Sunday
818 # M - Monday
819 # T - Tuesday
820 # W - Wednesday
821 # H - Thursday
822 # F - Friday
823 # A - Saturday
824 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
825
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826 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
827 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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828 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
829 # regex matching on URL login field
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830 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
831 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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833 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
834 # ranges are alloed
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835 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
836 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
837
b3567eb5 838 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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840 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
841
842 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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844 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
845 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 847 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 848 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
e988aa40 849
375eeb3b 850 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 851 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 852 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 854 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 855 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 856 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 857 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 858
41bd17a4 859 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
860 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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862 # supplied credentials [slow]
863 #
864 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 865 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
866 #
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868 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
869 #
41bd17a4 870 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
871 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
872 # in access.log.
873 #
874 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
875 # to check username/password combinations (see
876 # auth_param directive).
877 #
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879 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 880 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 881
41bd17a4 882 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 883 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 884 # Example:
885 #
886 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 888 acl aclname maxconn number
889 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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891 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
892 # indirect clients are not counted.
1e5562e3 893
41bd17a4 894 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
895 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
896 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 897 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 898 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
899 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
900 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
901 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
902 # request is denied)
903 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
904 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
905 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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907 acl aclname random probability
908 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
909 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
910 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
911
375eeb3b 912 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 913 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
914 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 915 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 916 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
917 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 918
41bd17a4 919 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
920 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
921 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 922 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 923
375eeb3b 924 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 925 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
926 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 927 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 928 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
929 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
930 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 932 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
933 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
934 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 935 # ACLs [fast]
cccac0a2 936
375eeb3b 937 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 938 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 939 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
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41bd17a4 941 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
942 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 943 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 945 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
946 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 947 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
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41bd17a4 949 acl aclname ext_user username ...
950 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 951 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 952 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 953
0ab50441 954 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 955 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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957 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
958 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
959 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
960 #
961 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
962 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
963 # http_reply_access.
964
38450a50 965IF USE_SSL
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967 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 968 #
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970 # template file.
cf1c09f6 971 #
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973 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
974 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
975 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
976 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
977 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
978 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
979 #
980 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
981 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
982 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
983 #
984 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
985 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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989 #
990 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
991 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
992 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
993 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
994 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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996
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997 Examples:
998 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
999 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1000 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1001 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1002 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
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41bd17a4 1004NOCOMMENT_START
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1006# Recommended minimum configuration:
1007#
e0855596 1008
ee776778 1009# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1010# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1011# should be allowed
1012acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1013acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1014acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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1015acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1016acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
e0855596 1017
41bd17a4 1018acl SSL_ports port 443
1019acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1020acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1021acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1022acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1023acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1024acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1025acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1026acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1027acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1028acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1029acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1030NOCOMMENT_END
1031DOC_END
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1033NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1034TYPE: acl_access
1035IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1036LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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1038DOC_START
1039 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1040 find the original source of a request.
1041
1042 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1043 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1044 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1045 rightmost address being the most recent.
1046
1047 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1048 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1049 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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1051 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1052 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1053 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1054 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1055 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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1057 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1058 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1059 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1060 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1062 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1065 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1066
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1068
1069 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1070 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1071 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1072 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1073 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1074 based on the client's source addresses.
1075
1076 For example:
1077
1078 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1079 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1080 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1081 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1082DOC_END
1083
1084NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1085COMMENT: on|off
1086TYPE: onoff
1087IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1088DEFAULT: on
1089LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1090DOC_START
1091 Controls whether the indirect client address
1092 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1093 direct client address in acl matching.
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1095 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1096 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1098
1099NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1100COMMENT: on|off
1101TYPE: onoff
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1104LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1105DOC_START
1106 Controls whether the indirect client address
1107 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1108 direct client address in delay pools.
1109DOC_END
1110
1111NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1112COMMENT: on|off
1113TYPE: onoff
1114IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1115DEFAULT: on
1116LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1117DOC_START
1118 Controls whether the indirect client address
1119 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1120 direct client address in the access log.
1121DOC_END
1122
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1124COMMENT: on|off
1125TYPE: onoff
1126IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1127DEFAULT: off
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1129DOC_START
1130 Controls whether the indirect client address
1131 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1132 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1134 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1135 mode ports.
1136
1137 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1138 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1139 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1140 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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41bd17a4 1143NAME: http_access
1144TYPE: acl_access
1145LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1146DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1147DOC_START
1148 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1149
41bd17a4 1150 Access to the HTTP port:
1151 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1152
41bd17a4 1153 NOTE on default values:
cccac0a2 1154
41bd17a4 1155 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1156 the request.
cccac0a2 1157
41bd17a4 1158 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1159 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1160 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1161 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1163 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1166 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1167
41bd17a4 1168NOCOMMENT_START
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1170#
1171# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1172#
1173# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1174http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1175http_access deny manager
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1177# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1178http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1180# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1181http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1183# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1184# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1185# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1186#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1188#
1189# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1190#
c8f4eac4 1191
ee776778 1192# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1193# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1194# from where browsing should be allowed
1195http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1196http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1197
41bd17a4 1198# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1199http_access deny all
1200NOCOMMENT_END
1201DOC_END
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1203NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1204TYPE: acl_access
1205LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1206DEFAULT: none
1207DOC_START
1208 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1209
1210 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1211 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1212 output.
1213
1214 If not set then only http_access is used.
1215DOC_END
1216
41bd17a4 1217NAME: http_reply_access
1218TYPE: acl_access
1219LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1220DEFAULT: none
1221DOC_START
1222 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1223
41bd17a4 1224 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1225
41bd17a4 1226 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1227 all replies
1a224843 1228
41bd17a4 1229 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1230 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1231 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1233 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1234 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1235DOC_END
1236
41bd17a4 1237NAME: icp_access
1238TYPE: acl_access
1239LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1240DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1241DOC_START
41bd17a4 1242 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1243 access lists
5473c134 1244
41bd17a4 1245 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1246
41bd17a4 1247 See http_access for details
1248
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1250 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1252# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1254#icp_access deny all
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1256
41bd17a4 1257NAME: htcp_access
1258IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1259TYPE: acl_access
1260LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1261DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1262DOC_START
41bd17a4 1263 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1264 access lists
5473c134 1265
41bd17a4 1266 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1267
41bd17a4 1268 See http_access for details
5473c134 1269
0b48417e 1270 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1271 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1272 using the htcp option.
0b48417e 1273
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1275 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1277# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1279#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1280DOC_END
5473c134 1281
41bd17a4 1282NAME: htcp_clr_access
1283IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1284TYPE: acl_access
1285LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1286DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1287DOC_START
1288 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1289 on defined access lists
5473c134 1290
41bd17a4 1291 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1292
41bd17a4 1293 See http_access for details
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1296 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1298# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1299acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1300htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1301DOC_END
1302
41bd17a4 1303NAME: miss_access
1304TYPE: acl_access
1305LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1306DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1307DOC_START
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1308 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1309
1310 For example;
1311 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1312 a parent.
5473c134 1313
41bd17a4 1314 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1315 miss_access allow localclients
1316 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1317
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1318 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1319 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1320 objects (HITs).
1321
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1324 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1326 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1327 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1328DOC_END
1329
1330NAME: ident_lookup_access
1331TYPE: acl_access
1332IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1333DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1334LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1335DOC_START
41bd17a4 1336 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1337 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1338 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1339 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1340 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1341 any requests.
5473c134 1342
41bd17a4 1343 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1344 can follow this example:
5473c134 1345
4daaf3cb 1346 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1347 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1348 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1349
4daaf3cb 1350 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1351 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1352 the correct result.
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1354 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1355 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1356DOC_END
5473c134 1357
5b0f5383 1358NAME: reply_body_max_size
1359COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1360TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1361DEFAULT: none
1362LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1363DOC_START
1364 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1365 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1366 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1367 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1368 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1369 for this reply.
1370
1371 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1372 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1373 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1374 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1375 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1376 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1377 and they will receive a partial reply.
1378
1379 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1380 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1381 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1382 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1383
1384 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1385 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1386 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1387 the size of your largest error page.
1388
1389 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1390 no limit imposed.
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1392 Configuration Format is:
1393 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1394 ie.
1395 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1396
5b0f5383 1397DOC_END
1398
1399COMMENT_START
1400 NETWORK OPTIONS
1401 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1402COMMENT_END
1403
1404NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1405TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1406DEFAULT: none
1407LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1408DOC_START
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1409 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1410 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1411 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1412
1413 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1414 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1415 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1416 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1417 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1418 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1419 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1420
1421 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1422 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1423
1424 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1425 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1426 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1427
1428 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1429
c7b1dd5d 1430 Modes:
5b0f5383 1431
e77bdb4e 1432 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1433 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1434 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1435
1436 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1437 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1438 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1439
7f45065d 1440 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1441
caf3666d 1442 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1443 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1444 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1446 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1447
7a957a93 1448 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1449 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1451 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1452
1453
1454 Accelerator Mode Options:
1455
5b0f5383 1456 defaultsite=domainname
1457 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1458 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1459 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1460
cf673853 1461 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1462
1463 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1465 https_port
5b0f5383 1466
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1468 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1469
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1471 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1472
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1474 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1475 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1476 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1477
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1479
7f45065d 1480 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1482
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1484 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1485 never_direct was used.
1486
1487 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1488 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1489 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1490 http_access rules when using this.
1491
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1493 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1495
1496 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1497 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1498 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1499 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1500 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1501 certificate will be selfsigned.
1502 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1503 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1504 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1505 years.
1506 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1507 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1508
1509 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1510 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1511 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1512 default value is 4MB.
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1514 TLS / SSL Options:
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1516 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1517
1518 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1519 if not specified, the certificate file is
1520 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1521 key file.
1522
1523 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1524 1 automatic (default)
1525 2 SSLv2 only
1526 3 SSLv3 only
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1527 4 TLSv1.0 only
1528 5 TLSv1.1 only
1529 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1531 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1533 additional settings. If those settings are
1534 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1535 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1536
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c7b1dd5d 1538 being:
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1540 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1541 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1542 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1543 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1544 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1545 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1547 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1548 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1549 strength to some attacks.
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1550 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1551 complete list of options.
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1553 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1554 requesting a client certificate.
1555
1556 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1557 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1558 clientca will be used.
1559
1560 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1561 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1562
1563 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1564 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1565 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1566
1567 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1569 on how to create this file.
1570 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1571 option is not set.
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1572
1573 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1574 DELAYED_AUTH
1575 Don't request client certificates
1576 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1577 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1578 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1579 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1580 to OpenSSL.
1581 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1582 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1583 will result in a new SSL session.
1584 VERIFY_CRL
1585 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1586 certificates.
1587 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1588 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1589 client certificate chain.
1590
1591 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1592
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1594
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1596 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1597 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1599
5b0f5383 1600 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1601 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1602 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1603 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1604 support is enabled.
1605 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1606
1607 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1608 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1609 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1610 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1611 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1612 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1613 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1614 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1615
81b6e9a7 1616 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1617 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1618
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1621 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1622 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1623 timeout the time before giving up.
1624
5b0f5383 1625 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1626 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1627 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1628 visible on the internal address.
1629
1630NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1632# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1633http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1634NOCOMMENT_END
1635DOC_END
1636
1637NAME: https_port
1638IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1639TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1640DEFAULT: none
1641LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1642DOC_START
7f45065d 1643 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1644
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1646 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1647
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1649 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1650
1651 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1652 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1653
7f45065d 1654 Modes:
5b0f5383 1655
7f45065d 1656 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1657
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1659 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1660 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1661
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1663 connections using the client IP address.
1664 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1665
caf3666d 1666 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 1667 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1668 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1670 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1671
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1673 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 1674
38450a50 1675 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 1676
7f45065d 1677 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 1678
5b0f5383 1679
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1681
1682
1683 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 1684
1685 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1686
1687 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1688 if not specified, the certificate file is
1689 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1690 key file.
1691
1692 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1693 1 automatic (default)
1694 2 SSLv2 only
1695 3 SSLv3 only
1696 4 TLSv1 only
1697
1698 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1699
1700 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1701 being:
1702 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1703 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1704 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1705 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1706 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1707 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1708 documentation for a complete list of options.
1709
1710 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1711 requesting a client certificate.
1712
1713 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1714 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1715 clientca will be used.
1716
1717 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1718 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1719
1720 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1721 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1722 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1723
1724 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1725 DH key exchanges.
1726
1727 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1728 DELAYED_AUTH
1729 Don't request client certificates
1730 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1731 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1732 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1733 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1734 to OpenSSL.
1735 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1736 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1737 will result in a new SSL session.
1738 VERIFY_CRL
1739 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1740 certificates.
1741 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1742 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1743 client certificate chain.
1744
1745 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1746
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1748 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1749 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1750 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1751 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1752 certificate will be selfsigned.
1753 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1754 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1755 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1756 years.
1757 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1758 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1759
1760 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1761 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1762 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1763 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 1764
859741ed 1765 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1766DOC_END
1767
41bd17a4 1768NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1769TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1770DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1771LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1772DOC_START
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1774 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1775
41bd17a4 1776 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1777
41bd17a4 1778 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1779 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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1782 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1783 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1784 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 1786 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1788 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1789
41bd17a4 1790 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1791 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1793 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1794
41bd17a4 1795 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1796 matching line.
cccac0a2 1797DOC_END
1798
41bd17a4 1799NAME: clientside_tos
1800TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1801DEFAULT: none
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1803DOC_START
1804 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1805 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1806
1807 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1808
1809 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1810 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1811
1812 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1813 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1814 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1815 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1816
1817 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1818 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1819DOC_END
1820
1821NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1822TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1823IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1825LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1826DOC_START
1827 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1828 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1829
1830 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1831
1832 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1833 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1834
1835 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1836 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1837 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1838 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1839DOC_END
1840
1841NAME: clientside_mark
1842TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1843IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1845LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
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1848 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1849
1850 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1851
1852 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1853 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1854
1855 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1856 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1857 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1858 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1859
1860 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1861 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1862DOC_END
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1865TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1866IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1867DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1868LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1869DOC_START
575cb927 1870 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1872 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1873 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1874
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1876 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1877 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1880 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1881 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1882
1883 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1884
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1886
1887 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1889 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1890
1891 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1892
1893 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1894
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1896 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1897 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1898 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 1899
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1901 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1902 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1903 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1904 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1905
575cb927 1906 disable-preserve-miss
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1908 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1909 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1910 and masked with miss-mark.
1911 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1912 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1913 (MARK target).
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1915 miss-mask=0xFF
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1917 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1918 the TOS sent towards clients.
1919 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1920 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1921
1922 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1923 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1924 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1925 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1928
41bd17a4 1929NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1930TYPE: acl_address
1931DEFAULT: none
1932LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1933DOC_START
1934 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1935 based on the username or source address of the user making
1936 the request.
7f7db318 1937
41bd17a4 1938 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 1939
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1941 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1944 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1945
1946 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1947 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1948
1949 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1950 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1951
1952 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1953 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1954
41bd17a4 1955 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1956 matching line.
cccac0a2 1957
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1959 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1960 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1961
1962
1963 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1964 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1965 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1966 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 1967
2dd51400 1968 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1969 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1971 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 1972
cccac0a2 1973DOC_END
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1975NAME: host_verify_strict
1976TYPE: onoff
1977DEFAULT: off
1978LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1979DOC_START
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1981 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1982 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1984 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1985 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1986 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1988 When set to ON:
1989 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1990 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1991
1992 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1993 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1994 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1995 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1996 and Request-URI components:
1997
1998 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1999 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2000 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2001 or FQDN.
2002
2003 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2004 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2005
2006
2007 When set to OFF (the default):
2008 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2009 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2010
2011 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2012
2013 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2014
2015 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2016 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2017
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2019 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2020 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2021
2022 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2023 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2024
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2028 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2029 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2030 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2031 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2032
2033 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2034 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2035 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2036 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2037 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2039DOC_END
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2041NAME: client_dst_passthru
2042TYPE: onoff
2043DEFAULT: on
2044LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2045DOC_START
2046 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2047 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2048 source using the HTTP Host header.
2049
2050 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2051 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2052 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2053 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2054
2055 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2056 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2057 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2058
2059 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2060 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2061 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2062
2063 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2064DOC_END
2065
41bd17a4 2066COMMENT_START
2067 SSL OPTIONS
2068 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2069COMMENT_END
2070
2071NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
2072IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2073TYPE: onoff
2074DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2075LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2076DOC_START
41bd17a4 2077 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2078 messages.
cccac0a2 2079DOC_END
2080
41bd17a4 2081NAME: ssl_engine
2082IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2083TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2084LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2085DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2086DOC_START
41bd17a4 2087 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2088 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2089DOC_END
2090
41bd17a4 2091NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2092IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2093DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2094LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2095TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2096DOC_START
41bd17a4 2097 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2098DOC_END
2099
41bd17a4 2100NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2101IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 2102DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2103LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2104TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2105DOC_START
41bd17a4 2106 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2107DOC_END
2108
41bd17a4 2109NAME: sslproxy_version
2110IFDEF: USE_SSL
2111DEFAULT: 1
2112LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2113TYPE: int
cccac0a2 2114DOC_START
41bd17a4 2115 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2116
2117 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2118
2119 1 automatic (default)
2120 2 SSLv2 only
2121 3 SSLv3 only
2122 4 TLSv1.0 only
2123 5 TLSv1.1 only
2124 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 2125DOC_END
2126
41bd17a4 2127NAME: sslproxy_options
2128IFDEF: USE_SSL
2129DEFAULT: none
2130LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2131TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2132DOC_START
943c5f16 2133 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2135 The most important being:
2136
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2137 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2138 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2139 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2140 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2141 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2142 SINGLE_DH_USE
2143 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2144 DH key exchanges
2145 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2146 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2147 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2148 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2149 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2150 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2151 strength to some attacks.
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2153 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2154 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 2155DOC_END
2156
41bd17a4 2157NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2158IFDEF: USE_SSL
2159DEFAULT: none
2160LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2161TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2162DOC_START
41bd17a4 2163 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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2164
2165 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 2166DOC_END
2167
41bd17a4 2168NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2169IFDEF: USE_SSL
2170DEFAULT: none
2171LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2172TYPE: string
cccac0a2 2173DOC_START
41bd17a4 2174 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2175 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 2176DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2178NAME: sslproxy_capath
2179IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 2180DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2181LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2182TYPE: string
5473c134 2183DOC_START
41bd17a4 2184 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2185 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 2186DOC_END
2187
4c9da963 2188NAME: ssl_bump
2189IFDEF: USE_SSL
caf3666d 2190TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2191LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2192DEFAULT: none
2193DOC_START
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2195 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2196 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2197 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2198 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2199 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2200
2201 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2202
2203 The following bumping modes are supported:
2204
2205 client-first
2206 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2207 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2208 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2209 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2210
2211 server-first
2212 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2213 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2214 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2215 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2216
2217 none
2218 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2219 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2220 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2221 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2222
2223 By default, no connections are bumped.
2224
2225 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2226 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2227 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2228 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2229 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
4c9da963 2230
e0c0d54c 2231 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2232 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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2235
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2238 # localhost and those going to example.com.
e0855596 2239
e0855596 2240 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2242 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2243 ssl_bump server-first all
4c9da963 2244DOC_END
2245
41bd17a4 2246NAME: sslproxy_flags
2247IFDEF: USE_SSL
2248DEFAULT: none
2249LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2250TYPE: string
5473c134 2251DOC_START
41bd17a4 2252 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 2253 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2254 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 2255 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2256 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 2257DOC_END
2258
4c9da963 2259NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2260IFDEF: USE_SSL
2261DEFAULT: none
2262LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2263TYPE: acl_access
2264DOC_START
2265 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2266
2267 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2268 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2269 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2270
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2272 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2273 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2274
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2276 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2277 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
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2279 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2280 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2281 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2282 the connection may be insecure.
2283
2284 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2285
e0855596 2286 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2287DOC_END
2288
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2289NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2290IFDEF: USE_SSL
2291DEFAULT: none
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2292POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2293POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2294POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2295TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2296LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2297DOC_START
2298
69742b76 2299 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
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69742b76 2301 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
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2304 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2305 default for trusted origin server certificates.
aebe6888 2306 signUntrusted
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2308 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2309 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
aebe6888 2310 signSelf
69742b76 2311 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
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2314 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2317
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2319 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2320 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2321 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2322 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2325 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2326 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2327 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2328 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2329 bump-server-first is used.
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2332NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2333IFDEF: USE_SSL
2334DEFAULT: none
2335TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2336LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2337DOC_START
2338
2339 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2340
69742b76 2341 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
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2344 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2347 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2348 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2349 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2350 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2351 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2352 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2353 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2355 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2356
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2358 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2359 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2360 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2361 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2362 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2364 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2365 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2366 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2367 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2368 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2369 bump-server-first is used.
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2371
41bd17a4 2372NAME: sslpassword_program
2373IFDEF: USE_SSL
2374DEFAULT: none
2375LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2376TYPE: string
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41bd17a4 2378 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2379 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2380 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2381 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2383 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2384 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2385 keys.
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2387
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2389 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2390 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2391COMMENT_END
2392
2393NAME: sslcrtd_program
2394TYPE: eol
2395IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2396DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2397LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2398DOC_START
2399 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2400 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2401 For more information use:
2402 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2403DOC_END
2404
2405NAME: sslcrtd_children
2406TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2407IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2408DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2409LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2410DOC_START
2411 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2412 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2413
2414 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2415 tuning.
2416
2417 startup=N
2418
2419 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2420 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2421 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2422
2423 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2424 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2425
2426 idle=N
2427
2428 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2429 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2430 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2431 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2432
2433 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2434DOC_END
2435
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2437TYPE: eol
2438IFDEF: USE_SSL
2439DEFAULT: none
2440LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2441DOC_START
2442 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
2443 process.
2444DOC_END
2445
2446NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2447TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2448IFDEF: USE_SSL
413bb969 2449DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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2450LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2451DOC_START
2452 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2453 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2454
2455 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2456 tuning.
2457
2458 startup=N
2459
2460 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2461 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2462 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2463
2464 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2465 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2466
2467 idle=N
2468
2469 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2470 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2471 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2472 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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2474 concurrency=
2475
2476 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2477 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the certficate validator
2478 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2479
2480 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2481 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2482 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2483 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2484 to that request.
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2486 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2487DOC_END
2488
cccac0a2 2489COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2490 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2491 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2492COMMENT_END
2493
41bd17a4 2494NAME: cache_peer
2495TYPE: peer
2496DEFAULT: none
2497LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2498DOC_START
41bd17a4 2499 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2501 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
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41bd17a4 2503 For example,
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41bd17a4 2505 # proxy icp
2506 # hostname type port port options
2507 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2508 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2509 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2510 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2511 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2513
2514 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2515
2516 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2517 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2518 For web servers this is usually 80
2519
2520 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2521 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2522 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2523
2524
2525 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2526
2527 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2528 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2529
2530
2531 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2532
2533 multicast-responder
2534 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2535 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2536 replies will be accepted from it.
2537
2538 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2539 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2540
2541 background-ping
2542 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2543 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2544 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2545
2546
2547 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2548
2549 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2550 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2551
2552
2553 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2554 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2556 list of options described below.
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18191440 2558 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2559
18191440 2560 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2561 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2562 only-clr.
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2564 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2565 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2567 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2568 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2569 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2570
18191440 2571 htcp=forward-clr
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2572 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2573
2574
2575 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2576
2577 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2578 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2579
2580
2581 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2582 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2583 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2584
2585 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2586 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2587 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2588
2589 weighted-round-robin
2590 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2591 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2592 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2593 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2594 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2595
2596 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2597 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2598 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2599
2600 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2601
2602 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2604 multicast-siblings
2605 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2606 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2607 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2609 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2610 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2611 members of the same multicast group.
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2613
2614 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2615
2616 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2617 peer-selection mechanisms.
2618 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2619 larger weights are favored more.
2620 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2621 protocol is not in use.
2622
2623 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2624 times of parents.
2625 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2626 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2627 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2628
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2629 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2630 to this address.
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2631 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2632 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2633 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2634 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2635
2636 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2637 delay pools.
2638
2639 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2640 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2641 than the Squid default location.
2642
2643
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2645
2646 carp-key=key-specification
2647 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2648 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2649 scheme, host, port, path, params
2650 Order is not important.
2651
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2653
2654 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2655 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2656 is a web server.
2657
2658 forceddomain=name
2659 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2660 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2661 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2662 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2663
2664 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2665
2666 no-netdb-exchange
2667 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2668
2669
2670 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2671
2672 login=user:password
2673 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2674 requires proxy authentication.
2675
2676 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2677 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2678
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2679 login=PASSTHRU
2680 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2681 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2682 without alteration to the peer.
2683 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2684
2685 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2686 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2687 connection-auth options are also used.
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2689 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2690 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2692 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2693 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2695 they may be sent instead.
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2696
2697 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2698 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2699 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2700 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2701 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2702
2703 login=*:password
2704 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2705 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2706 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2707 needed to identify each user.
2708 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2709 information which is added to the username. This can
2710 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2711 the login=username:password option above.
2712
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2713 login=NEGOTIATE
2714 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2715 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2716 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2717 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2718
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2720 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2721 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2722
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2723 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2724 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2725 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2726 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2727 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2728 used.
2729
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2731 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2732 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2733
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2734 connection-auth=on|off
2735 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2736 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2737 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2738 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2739 of the peer.
2740
2741
2742 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2743
2744 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2745
2746 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2747 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2748 this peer.
2749
2750 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2751 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2752 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2753 reference a combined file containing both the
2754 certificate and the key.
2755
3d96b0e8 2756 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
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2757 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2758 1 = automatic (default)
2759 2 = SSL v2 only
2760 3 = SSL v3 only
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2761 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2762 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2763 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2764
2765 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2766 to this peer.
2767
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2769
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2770 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2771 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2772 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2773 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2774 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2775 SINGLE_DH_USE
2776 Always create a new key when using
2777 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2778 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2779 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2780 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2781 strength to some attacks.
2782
2783 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2784 more complete list.
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2786 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2787 when verifying the peer certificate.
2788
2789 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2790 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2791
2792 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2793 verifying the peer certificate.
2794
2795 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2796
41bd17a4 2797 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2798 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2799 verify.
2800 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2801 Don't use the default CA list built in
2802 to OpenSSL.
2803 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2804 Don't verify the peer certificate
2805 matches the server name
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2807 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2808 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2809 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2810 used.
2811
2812 front-end-https
2813 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2814 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2815 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2816 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2817 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2818
2819
2820 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2821
2822 connect-timeout=N
2823 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2824 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2825
2826 connect-fail-limit=N
2827 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2828 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2829
2830 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2831 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2832 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2833 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2834 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2835 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2836 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2837
2838 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2839 peer. see also
2840
2841 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2842 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2843 but different ports.
2844 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2845 directives to dentify the peer.
2846 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2847 peername ACL type.
2848
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2849 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2850 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2851
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2852 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2853
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41bd17a4 2856NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2857TYPE: hostdomain
2858DEFAULT: none
2859LOC: none
2860DOC_START
2861 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2862 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2863
41bd17a4 2864 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2865 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2866
41bd17a4 2867 For example, specifying
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41bd17a4 2869 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2870
41bd17a4 2871 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2872 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2873 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2874 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2875 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2876
41bd17a4 2877 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2878 either on the same or separate lines.
2879 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2880 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2881 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2882 for all requests.
2883 * There are no defaults.
2884 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2885 section.
2886DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2888NAME: cache_peer_access
2889TYPE: peer_access
2890DEFAULT: none
2891LOC: none
2892DOC_START
2893 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2894 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2895
41bd17a4 2896 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 2898 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2899 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2900 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2901DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2903NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2904TYPE: hostdomaintype
2905DEFAULT: none
2906LOC: none
2907DOC_START
2908 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2909
41bd17a4 2910 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2911 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2912 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2913 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2914 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2915 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
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41bd17a4 2917EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2918 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2919 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2920 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2921DOC_END
6bf4f823 2922
41bd17a4 2923NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2924COMMENT: (seconds)
2925DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2926TYPE: time_t
2927LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2928DOC_START
2929 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2930 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2931 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2932 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2933 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2934 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
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41bd17a4 2936 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2937 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2938 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2939 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2940 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2941 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2942 instead of to your parents.
2943DOC_END
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2945NAME: forward_max_tries
2946DEFAULT: 10
2947TYPE: int
2948LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2949DOC_START
2950 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2951 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2953 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2954 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2956
41bd17a4 2957NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2958TYPE: wordlist
2959DEFAULT: none
2960LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2961DOC_START
2962 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2963 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2964 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2965 list this option multiple times.
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2968 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2969
2970 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2971DOC_END
0976f8db 2972
41bd17a4 2973COMMENT_START
2974 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2975 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2976COMMENT_END
2977
2978NAME: cache_mem
2979COMMENT: (bytes)
2980TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2981DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2982LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2983DOC_START
41bd17a4 2984 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2985 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2986 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2987 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2988
2989 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2990 for:
2991 * In-Transit objects
2992 * Hot Objects
2993 * Negative-Cached objects
2994
2995 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2996 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2997 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2998 priority.
2999
3000 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3001 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3002 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3003 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3004 not needed for in-transit objects.
3005
3006 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3007 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3008 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3009 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3010 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3011 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3012 objects.
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3013
3014 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3015 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3016 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3017 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3018DOC_END
0976f8db 3019
41bd17a4 3020NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3021COMMENT: (bytes)
3022TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3023DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3024LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3025DOC_START
41bd17a4 3026 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3027 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3028 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3029 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3030DOC_END
0976f8db 3031
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3032NAME: memory_cache_shared
3033COMMENT: on|off
3034TYPE: YesNoNone
3035LOC: Config.memShared
3036DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3037DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3038DOC_START
3039 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3040
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3041 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3042 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3043 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3044 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3045 caching is enabled).
3046
65b81b27 3047 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3048 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3049 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3050 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3051 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3052
3053 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3054 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3055 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3056
3057 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3058DOC_END
3059
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3060NAME: memory_cache_mode
3061TYPE: memcachemode
3062LOC: Config
3063DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 3064DOC_START
ea21d497 3065 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3066
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3067 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3068
3069 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3070 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3071 a second time before cached in memory.
3072
3073 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3074DOC_END
3075
41bd17a4 3076NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3077TYPE: removalpolicy
3078LOC: Config.memPolicy
3079DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3080DOC_START
41bd17a4 3081 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3082 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3083
41bd17a4 3084 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
3085DOC_END
6b698a21 3086
41bd17a4 3087COMMENT_START
3088 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3089 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3090COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3091
41bd17a4 3092NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3093TYPE: removalpolicy
3094LOC: Config.replPolicy
3095DEFAULT: lru
3096DOC_START
3097 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3098 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3099
41bd17a4 3100 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3101 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3102 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3103 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3104
41bd17a4 3105 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 3106
41bd17a4 3107 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3108
41bd17a4 3109 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3110 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3111 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3112 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3113
41bd17a4 3114 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3115 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3116 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3117 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3118
41bd17a4 3119 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3120 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3121 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3122
41bd17a4 3123 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3124 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
3125 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3126
41bd17a4 3127 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3128 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3129 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3130DOC_END
0976f8db 3131
41bd17a4 3132NAME: cache_dir
3133TYPE: cachedir
3134DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3135LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3136DOC_START
41bd17a4 3137 Usage:
0976f8db 3138
41bd17a4 3139 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3140
41bd17a4 3141 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3142 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3143
41bd17a4 3144 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3145 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3146 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3147
41bd17a4 3148 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3149 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3150 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3151 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3152 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3153
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3154 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3155 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3156 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3157
41bd17a4 3158 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 3159
41bd17a4 3160 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3161 been there.
0976f8db 3162
41bd17a4 3163 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3164
41bd17a4 3165 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3166 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3167 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3168 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3169 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3170
56fba4d0 3171 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3172 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3173
56fba4d0 3174 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3175 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3176 is 256.
0976f8db 3177
41bd17a4 3178 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 3179
41bd17a4 3180 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3181 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3182 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3183
41bd17a4 3184 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3185
41bd17a4 3186 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3187
41bd17a4 3188 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 3189
41bd17a4 3190 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3191 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3192 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3193
41bd17a4 3194 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3195
41bd17a4 3196 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3197
41bd17a4 3198 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3199 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3200 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3201
41bd17a4 3202 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3203 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3204 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3205
41bd17a4 3206 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3207 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3208 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3209 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3210 time.
0976f8db 3211
2e55f083 3212 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 3213
df881a0f 3214 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 3215
2e55f083 3216 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3217 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3218 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3219 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3220 below for more info on the max-size option.
3221
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3222 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3223 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3224 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3225 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3226 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3227 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3228 expected swap wait time.
3229
df881a0f 3230 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3231 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3232 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3233 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3234 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3235 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3236 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3237 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3238 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3239 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3240 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3241 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3242 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3243 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3244
3245
41bd17a4 3246 The coss store type:
0976f8db 3247
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3248 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3249 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3250 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3251
41bd17a4 3252 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3253 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3254 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3255 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3256 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3257 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3258 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 3259
41bd17a4 3260 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3261 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3262 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 3263
41bd17a4 3264 Common options:
0976f8db 3265
41bd17a4 3266 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 3267
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3268 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3269 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3270 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3271 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3272
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3273 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3274 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 3275 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3276 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3277 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 3278
41bd17a4 3279 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3280 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3281 option.
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3283
3284# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3285#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3286NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3287DOC_END
0976f8db 3288
41bd17a4 3289NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3290TYPE: string
3291LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3292DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3293DOC_START
41bd17a4 3294 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 3295DOC_END
0976f8db 3296
41bd17a4 3297NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3298TYPE: int
3299LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3300DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 3301DOC_START
41bd17a4 3302 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3303 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3304 descriptors are open.
3305
3306 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3307DOC_END
0976f8db 3308
41bd17a4 3309NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 3310COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 3311TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 3312DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 3313LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 3314DOC_START
41bd17a4 3315 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3316 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3317 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 3318DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3320NAME: maximum_object_size
3321COMMENT: (bytes)
3322TYPE: b_int64_t
3323DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3324LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 3325DOC_START
41bd17a4 3326 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3327 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3328 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3329 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3330 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3331 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 3332
41bd17a4 3333 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3334 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3335 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 3336DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3338NAME: cache_swap_low
3339COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 3340TYPE: int
41bd17a4 3341DEFAULT: 90
3342LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3343DOC_NONE
3344
3345NAME: cache_swap_high
3346COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3347TYPE: int
3348DEFAULT: 95
3349LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 3350DOC_START
41bd17a4 3351
3352 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3353 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3354 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3355 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3356 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3357 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3358
3359 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3360 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3361 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 3362DOC_END
0976f8db 3363
5473c134 3364COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3365 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 3366 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3367COMMENT_END
0976f8db 3368
41bd17a4 3369NAME: logformat
3370TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 3371LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 3372DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 3373DOC_START
41bd17a4 3374 Usage:
0976f8db 3375
41bd17a4 3376 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 3377
41bd17a4 3378 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 3379
41bd17a4 3380 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 3381
41bd17a4 3382 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3383 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3384 as required according to their context and the output format
3385 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3386 output format is desired.
6b698a21 3387
41bd17a4 3388 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 3389
41bd17a4 3390 " output in quoted string format
3391 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3392 # output in URL quoted format
3393 ' output as-is
5473c134 3394
41bd17a4 3395 - left aligned
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3397 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3398 [width_min][.width_max]
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3400 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 3401
41bd17a4 3402 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 3403
41bd17a4 3404 Format codes:
5473c134 3405
3ff65596 3406 % a literal % character
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3407 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3408 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3409 a similar internal error identifier.
3410 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
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3411 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3412 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3413 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3414 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
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3415
3416 Connection related format codes:
3417
41bd17a4 3418 >a Client source IP address
3419 >A Client FQDN
3420 >p Client source port
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3421 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3422 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3423 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3424
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3425 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3426 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3427
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3428 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3429 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3430 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3431 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3432 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3433
3434 Time related format codes:
3435
41bd17a4 3436 ts Seconds since epoch
3437 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3438 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3439 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3440 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3441 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3442 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3444
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3445 Access Control related format codes:
3446
3447 et Tag returned by external acl
3448 ea Log string returned by external acl
3449 un User name (any available)
3450 ul User name from authentication
3451 ue User name from external acl helper
3452 ui User name from ident
3453 us User name from SSL
3454
3455 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3456
ca2e92d8 3457 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3458 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3459 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3460 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3461 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3462 as for >h
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3463 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3464 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3465 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3466 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3467 transfer encoding and control messages.
3468 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3469 received bodies.
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3470 [http::]mt MIME content type
3471 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3472 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3473 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3474 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3475 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3476 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3477 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3478 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3479 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3480 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3481 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3482 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3483 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3484 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3485 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3486 are not included
3487 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3488 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3489 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3490 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3491 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3492 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3493 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3494 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3495 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3496 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3497 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3498 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3499
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3501
3502 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3503 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3504
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3505 SSL-related format codes:
3506
3507 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3508
3509 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3510 a connection and for any request received on
3511 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3512 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3513 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3514 more information about these modes.
3515
3516 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3517 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3518 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3519
3520 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3521 logged.
3522
5038f9d8 3523 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3525
3526 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3527 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3528 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3529 transaction is in progress.
3530
5038f9d8 3531 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3532
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3534 meta-information from the last eCAP
3535 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3536 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3537 argument.
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3539 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3540 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3541 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3542 value is recorded as an integer number,
3543 representing response time of one or more
3544 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3545 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3546 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3547 logged individually but added to the
3548 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3549 adapt::all_trs.
3550
3551 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3552 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3553 individual transactions are never added
3554 together. Instead, all transaction response
3555 times are recorded individually.
3556
3557 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3558 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3559 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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3561 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3562
3563 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3564 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3565 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3566 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3567 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3568
3569 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3570 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3571 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3572 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3573 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3574
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3576
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3578logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3579logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3580logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3581logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3582
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3583 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3584 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3585 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3586
3587 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3588 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3589
5473c134 3590DOC_END
3591
41bd17a4 3592NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3593TYPE: access_log
3594LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3595DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3596DOC_START
41bd17a4 3597 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3598 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3599 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3600 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3602 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3603 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3604 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3605 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3606
3607 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3608
bb7a1781 3609 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3610 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3611
3612 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3613 each request.
3614 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3615
3616 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3617 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3618 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3619
3620 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3621
3622 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3623 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3624 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3625
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3627 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3628
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3629 And priority could be any of:
3630 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3631
3632 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3633 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3634 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3635
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3636 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3637 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3638 Place Format: //host:port
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3640 Default:
82b7abe3 3641 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3642DOC_END
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3644NAME: icap_log
3645TYPE: access_log
3646IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3647LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3648DEFAULT: none
3649DOC_START
3650 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3651 transaction.
3652
3653 The icap_log option format is:
3654 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3655 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3656
3657 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3658 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3659 features.
3660
3661 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3662 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3663 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3664 log line.
3665
3666 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3667 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3668 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3669 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3670 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3671 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3672 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3673
3674 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3675
3676 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3677
3678 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3679 option in Squid configuration file.
3680
3681 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3682
3683 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3684 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3685
3686 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3687 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3688
3689 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3690 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3691 the socket).
3692
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3693 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3694 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3695 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3696 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3697 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3698 computed.
3699
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3701 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3702 the ICAP transaction is created and
3703 stops when the transaction is completed.
3704 Similar to tr.
3705
3706 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3707 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3708 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3709 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3710 is received.
3711
3712 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3713 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3714 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3715 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3716 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3717 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3718
3719 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3720
3721 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3722
3723 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3724
3725 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3726 definition, is called icap_squid:
3727
3728logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3729
5038f9d8 3730 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3732
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3733NAME: logfile_daemon
3734TYPE: string
3735DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3736LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3737DOC_START
3738 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3739 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3740
3741 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3742 L<data>\n - logfile data
3743 R\n - rotate file
3744 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3745 O\n - reopen file
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3746 F\n - flush file
3747 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3748 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3749
3750 No responses is expected.
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3751DOC_END
3752
5b0f5383 3753NAME: log_access
3754TYPE: acl_access
3755LOC: Config.accessList.log
3756DEFAULT: none
3757COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3758DOC_START
3759 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3760 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3761 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3762
3763 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3764 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3765DOC_END
3766
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3767NAME: log_icap
3768TYPE: acl_access
3769IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3770LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3771DEFAULT: none
3772DOC_START
3773 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3774 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3775DOC_END
3776
41bd17a4 3777NAME: cache_store_log
3778TYPE: string
df2eec10 3779DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3780LOC: Config.Log.store
3781DOC_START
3782 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3783 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 3784 saved and for how long.
df2eec10 3785 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
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3786 disable it (the default).
3787
3788 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
3789 of modules supported.
3790
e0855596 3791 Example:
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3792 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3793 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3794DOC_END
3795
41bd17a4 3796NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3797TYPE: string
3798LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3799DEFAULT: none
3800DOC_START
41bd17a4 3801 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3802 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3803 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3804 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3805 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3806 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3807 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3808
41bd17a4 3809 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3810 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3811 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3812 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3813
41bd17a4 3814 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3815 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3816
41bd17a4 3817 cache_swap_log.00
3818 cache_swap_log.01
3819 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3820
41bd17a4 3821 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3822 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3823 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3824 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3825 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3826 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3827 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3828DOC_END
3829
41bd17a4 3830NAME: logfile_rotate
3831TYPE: int
3832DEFAULT: 10
3833LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3834DOC_START
41bd17a4 3835 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3836 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3837 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3838 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3839 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3840 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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41bd17a4 3842 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3843 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3844 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3845 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3846 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3847 <pid>'.
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3848
3849 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3850 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3851DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3853NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3854TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3855DOC_START
20efa1c2 3856 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3857DOC_END
3858
41bd17a4 3859NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3860TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3861DOC_START
8652f8e7 3862 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3863DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3865NAME: mime_table
3866TYPE: string
3867DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3868LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3869DOC_START
3870 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3871 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3872 information if you do.
5473c134 3873DOC_END
3874
41bd17a4 3875NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3876COMMENT: on|off
3877TYPE: onoff
3878LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3879DEFAULT: off
3880DOC_START
3881 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3882 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3883 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3884 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3885 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3886DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3888NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3889TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3890DOC_START
20efa1c2 3891 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3892DOC_END
3893
41bd17a4 3894NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3895TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3896DOC_START
20efa1c2 3897 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3898DOC_END
3899
41bd17a4 3900NAME: pid_filename
3901TYPE: string
3902DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3903LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3904DOC_START
41bd17a4 3905 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3906DOC_END
3907
41bd17a4 3908NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3909TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3910DOC_START
c581e96b 3911 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3912DOC_END
3913
41bd17a4 3914NAME: client_netmask
3915TYPE: address
3916LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3917DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3918DOC_START
41bd17a4 3919 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3920 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3921 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3922 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3923DOC_END
3924
41bd17a4 3925NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3926TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3927DOC_START
20efa1c2 3928 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3929DOC_END
3930
41bd17a4 3931NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3932TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3933LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3934DEFAULT: on
3935DOC_START
41bd17a4 3936 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3937 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3938DOC_END
3939
41bd17a4 3940NAME: buffered_logs
3941COMMENT: on|off
3942TYPE: onoff
3943DEFAULT: off
3944LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3945DOC_START
41bd17a4 3946 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3947 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3948 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3949 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3950 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3951DOC_END
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2b753521 3953NAME: netdb_filename
3954TYPE: string
221faecb 3955DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3956LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3957IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3958DOC_START
3959 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3960 To disable, enter "none".
3961DOC_END
3962
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3963COMMENT_START
3964 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3965 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3966COMMENT_END
3967
3968NAME: cache_log
3969TYPE: string
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3970DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3971LOC: Debug::cache_log
3972DOC_START
3973 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3974 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3975 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3976DOC_END
3977
3978NAME: debug_options
3979TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3980DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3981LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3982DOC_START
3983 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3984 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3985 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3986 log file, so be careful.
3987
3988 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3989 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3990
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3991 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3992 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3993 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3994 events affecting Squid.
3995DOC_END
3996
3997NAME: coredump_dir
3998TYPE: string
3999LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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4000DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4001DOC_START
4002 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4003 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4004 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4005 and coredump files will be left there.
4006
4007NOCOMMENT_START
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4010coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4011NOCOMMENT_END
4012DOC_END
4013
4014
41bd17a4 4015COMMENT_START
4016 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4017 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4018COMMENT_END
4019
4020NAME: ftp_user
4021TYPE: string
4022DEFAULT: Squid@
4023LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4024DOC_START
41bd17a4 4025 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
4026 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
4027 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4028
41bd17a4 4029 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4030 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4031 depending on how the cache is used.
4032 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
4033 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4034DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4036NAME: ftp_passive
4037TYPE: onoff
4038DEFAULT: on
4039LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4040DOC_START
41bd17a4 4041 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4042 connections, turn off this option.
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4044 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4045DOC_END
4046
4047NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4048TYPE: onoff
4049DEFAULT: off
4050LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4051DOC_START
4052 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4053
4054 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4055 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4056 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4057
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4059 useful.
a689bd4e 4060 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4061 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4062
4063 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4064 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4065
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4067DOC_END
4068
4069NAME: ftp_epsv
4070TYPE: onoff
4071DEFAULT: on
4072LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
4073DOC_START
4074 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4075
4076 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4078 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4079 will never be needed.
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4081 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
4082 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4083 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
4084
4085 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4086DOC_END
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4088NAME: ftp_eprt
4089TYPE: onoff
4090DEFAULT: on
4091LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4092DOC_START
4093 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4094
4095 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4096 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4097 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4098
4099 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4100 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4101
4102 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4103 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4104 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4105 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4106
4107 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4108 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4109DOC_END
4110
41bd17a4 4111NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4112TYPE: onoff
4113DEFAULT: on
4114LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4115DOC_START
4116 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4117 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4118 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4119 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4120 connection turn this off.
4121DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4122
41bd17a4 4123NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4124TYPE: onoff
4125DEFAULT: on
4126LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4127DOC_START
4128 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4129 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4130 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4131 the FTP protocol.
4132
4133 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4134 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4135 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4136 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4137 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4138DOC_END
4139
4140COMMENT_START
4141 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4142 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4143COMMENT_END
4144
4145NAME: diskd_program
4146TYPE: string
4147DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4148LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4149DOC_START
4150 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4151 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4152 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4153DOC_END
4154
4155NAME: unlinkd_program
4156IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4157TYPE: string
4158DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4159LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4160DOC_START
4161 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4162DOC_END
4163
4164NAME: pinger_program
4165TYPE: string
4166DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 4167LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 4168IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4169DOC_START
4170 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4171DOC_END
4172
cc192b50 4173NAME: pinger_enable
4174TYPE: onoff
4175DEFAULT: on
4176LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4177IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4178DOC_START
4179 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4180 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4181 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4182DOC_END
4183
4184
41bd17a4 4185COMMENT_START
4186 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4187 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4188COMMENT_END
4189
4190NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4191TYPE: wordlist
4192LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4193DEFAULT: none
4194DOC_START
2c7aad89 4195 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4196 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4197
2c7aad89 4198 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4199
24eac830 4200 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
5269ec0e 4201
c71adec1 4202
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4203 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4204
24eac830 4205 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4206
4207 The result code can be:
4208
4209 OK status=30N url="..."
4210 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4211 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4212 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4213 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4214 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 4215
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4216 OK rewrite-url="..."
4217 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4218 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4219 the client as the response to its request.
4220
4221 ERR
4222 Do not change the URL.
4223
4224 BH
4225 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
4226 a result being identified.
4227
4228
4229 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
24eac830 4230 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
c71adec1 4231 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4232 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 4233
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4234 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4235 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4236 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4237 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4238 of the response relating to its request.
4239
4240 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4241 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 4242
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4243 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4244 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4245 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4246 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4247 interface.
41bd17a4 4248
4249 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4250DOC_END
4251
4252NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 4253TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 4254DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 4255LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4256DOC_START
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4257 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4258 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4259 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4260 and other system resources noticably.
4261
4262 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4263 tuning.
4264
4265 startup=
4266
4267 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4268 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4269 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4270
4271 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4272 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4273
4274 idle=
4275
4276 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4277 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4278 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4279 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4280
4281 concurrency=
41bd17a4 4282
41bd17a4 4283 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4284 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4285 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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4286
4287 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4288 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4289 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
4290 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
4291 to that request.
41bd17a4 4292DOC_END
4293
4294NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4295TYPE: onoff
4296DEFAULT: on
4297LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4298DOC_START
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4299 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4300 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4301 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4302
4303 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4304 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4305 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4306
41bd17a4 4307 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4308 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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4309
4310 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4311 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4312 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 4313DOC_END
4314
4315NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4316TYPE: acl_access
4317DEFAULT: none
4318LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4319DOC_START
4320 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4321 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4322 are sent.
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4323
4324 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4325 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4326DOC_END
4327
4328NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4329TYPE: onoff
4330LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4331DEFAULT: off
4332DOC_START
4333 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4334 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4335 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4336 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4337 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4338 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4339 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4340 users may have access to pages they should not
4341 be allowed to request.
4342DOC_END
4343
4344COMMENT_START
4345 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4346 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4347COMMENT_END
4348
f04b37d8 4349NAME: cache no_cache
4350TYPE: acl_access
4351DEFAULT: none
4352LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 4353DOC_START
240887f0 4354 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 4355 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4356 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 4357
240887f0 4358 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4359 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 4360
240887f0 4361 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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4362
4363 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4364 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 4365DOC_END
4366
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4367NAME: max_stale
4368COMMENT: time-units
4369TYPE: time_t
4370LOC: Config.maxStale
4371DEFAULT: 1 week
4372DOC_START
4373 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4374 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4375 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4376DOC_END
4377
41bd17a4 4378NAME: refresh_pattern
4379TYPE: refreshpattern
4380LOC: Config.Refresh
4381DEFAULT: none
4382DOC_START
4383 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 4384
6b698a21 4385 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4386 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 4387
41bd17a4 4388 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4389 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4390 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4391 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4392 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 4393
41bd17a4 4394 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4395 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4396 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 4397
41bd17a4 4398 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4399 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 4400
41bd17a4 4401 options: override-expire
4402 override-lastmod
4403 reload-into-ims
4404 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 4405 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 4406 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 4407 ignore-private
4408 ignore-auth
570d3f75 4409 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 4410 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 4411 store-stale
a0ec9f68 4412
41bd17a4 4413 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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4414 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4415 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4416 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4417 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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4419 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4420 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4421 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4422 the object fresh for that period of time.
4423
41bd17a4 4424 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4425 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 4426
41bd17a4 4427 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4428 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4429 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4430 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 4431
41bd17a4 4432 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4433 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4434 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4435 it causes.
9bc73deb 4436
41bd17a4 4437 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4438 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4439 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4440 liable for problems which it causes.
4441
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4442 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4443 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4444 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4445 liable for problems which it causes.
4446
41bd17a4 4447 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4448 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4449 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4450 liable for problems which it causes.
4451
4452 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4453 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4454 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4455 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4456 it causes.
4457
4458 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4459 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4460 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4461 if one is available.
4462
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4463 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4464 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4465 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4466 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4467 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4468
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4469 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4470 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4471 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4472
41bd17a4 4473 Basically a cached object is:
4474
4475 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4476 STALE if age > max
4477 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4478 FRESH if age < min
4479 else STALE
4480
4481 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4482 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4483 match the default will be used.
4484
4485 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4486 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4487 used.
4488
41bd17a4 4489NOCOMMENT_START
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4490
4491# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4492refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4493refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4494refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4495refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4496NOCOMMENT_END
4497DOC_END
4498
4499NAME: quick_abort_min
4500COMMENT: (KB)
4501TYPE: kb_int64_t
4502DEFAULT: 16 KB
4503LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4504DOC_NONE
4505
4506NAME: quick_abort_max
4507COMMENT: (KB)
4508TYPE: kb_int64_t
4509DEFAULT: 16 KB
4510LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4511DOC_NONE
4512
4513NAME: quick_abort_pct
4514COMMENT: (percent)
4515TYPE: int
4516DEFAULT: 95
4517LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4518DOC_START
4519 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4520 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4521 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4522 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4523 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4524 downloads.
4525
4526 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4527 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4528 then.
4529
4530 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4531 it will finish the retrieval.
4532
4533 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4534 it will abort the retrieval.
4535
4536 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4537 it will finish the retrieval.
4538
4539 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4540 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4541 to '0 KB'.
4542
4543 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4544 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4545DOC_END
60d096f4 4546
41bd17a4 4547NAME: read_ahead_gap
4548COMMENT: buffer-size
4549TYPE: b_int64_t
4550LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4551DEFAULT: 16 KB
4552DOC_START
4553 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4554 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4555DOC_END
53e738c6 4556
41bd17a4 4557NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4558IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4559COMMENT: time-units
4560TYPE: time_t
4561LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4562DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4563DOC_START
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4564 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4565 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4566 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4567 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4568 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4569 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4570
4571 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4572
4573 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4574 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4575 causes.
41bd17a4 4576DOC_END
53e738c6 4577
41bd17a4 4578NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4579COMMENT: time-units
4580TYPE: time_t
4581LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4582DEFAULT: 6 hours
4583DOC_START
4584 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4585 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4586 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4587DOC_END
c4ab8329 4588
41bd17a4 4589NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4590COMMENT: time-units
4591TYPE: time_t
4592LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4593DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4594DOC_START
4595 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4596 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4597 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4598 much below 10 seconds.
4599DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4601NAME: range_offset_limit
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4602COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4603TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4604LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4605DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4606DOC_START
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4607 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4608
4609 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4610 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4611 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4612 the result is NOT cached.
4613
41bd17a4 4614 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4615 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4616 sending anything to the client.
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4617
4618 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4619 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4620 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4621 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4622
4623 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4624
4625 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4626 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4627
4628 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4629 client requested. (default)
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4630
4631 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4632 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4633
4634 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4635
4636 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4637 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4638 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4639 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4640DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4642NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4643COMMENT: (seconds)
4644TYPE: time_t
4645LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4646DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4647DOC_START
4648 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4649 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4650 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4651 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4652 is most likely better to make your server return a
4653 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4654 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4655 often be best set to 0.
4656DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4657
41bd17a4 4658NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4659COMMENT: (bytes)
4660TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4661DEFAULT: 13 KB
4662LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4663DOC_START
4664 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4665 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4666DOC_END
4667
41bd17a4 4668NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4669TYPE: int
4670DEFAULT: 20
4671LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4672DOC_START
4673 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4674 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4675 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4676DOC_END
4677
4678COMMENT_START
4679 HTTP OPTIONS
4680 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4681COMMENT_END
4682
f04b37d8 4683NAME: request_header_max_size
4684COMMENT: (KB)
4685TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4686DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4687LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4688DOC_START
4689 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4690 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4691 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4692 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4693 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4694DOC_END
4695
4696NAME: reply_header_max_size
4697COMMENT: (KB)
4698TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4699DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4700LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4701DOC_START
4702 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4703 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4704 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4705 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4706 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4707DOC_END
4708
4709NAME: request_body_max_size
4710COMMENT: (bytes)
4711TYPE: b_int64_t
4712DEFAULT: 0 KB
4713LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4714DOC_START
4715 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4716 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4717 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4718 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4719 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4720 be no limit imposed.
4721DOC_END
4722
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4723NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4724COMMENT: (bytes)
4725TYPE: b_size_t
4726DEFAULT: 512 KB
4727LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4728DOC_START
4729 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4730 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4731 a large file.
4732DOC_END
4733
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4734NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4735COMMENT: (bytes)
4736TYPE: b_int64_t
4737DEFAULT: 64 KB
4738LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4739DOC_START
4740 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4741 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4742 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4743 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4744 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4745 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4746
4747 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4748 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4749 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4750 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4751 as if dechunking was disabled.
4752
4753 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4754 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4755
4756 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4757 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4758 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4759DOC_END
4760
41bd17a4 4761NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4762IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4763TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4764DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4765LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4766DOC_START
41bd17a4 4767 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4768 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4769
41bd17a4 4770 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4771 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4772
41bd17a4 4773 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4774
41bd17a4 4775 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4776 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4777 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4778 a request with an extra CRLF.
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4780 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4781 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4782
41bd17a4 4783Example:
4784 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4785 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4786DOC_END
cccac0a2 4787
22fff3bf 4788NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4789COMMENT: on|off
4790TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4791IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4792DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4793LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4794DOC_START
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4795 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4796 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4797
4798 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4799DOC_END
4800
41bd17a4 4801NAME: via
626096be 4802IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4803COMMENT: on|off
4804TYPE: onoff
4805DEFAULT: on
4806LOC: Config.onoff.via
4807DOC_START
4808 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4809 replies as required by RFC2616.
4810DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4811
41bd17a4 4812NAME: ie_refresh
4813COMMENT: on|off
4814TYPE: onoff
4815LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4816DEFAULT: off
4817DOC_START
4818 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4819 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4820 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4821 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4822 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4823 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4824 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4825 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4826 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4827 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4828 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4829 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4830 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4831 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4832 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4833 force fresh content.
4834DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4835
41bd17a4 4836NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4837COMMENT: on|off
4838TYPE: onoff
4839LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4840DEFAULT: off
4841DOC_START
4842 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4843 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4844 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4845 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4846 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4847
4848 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4849 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4850DOC_END
c4ab8329 4851
41bd17a4 4852NAME: request_entities
4853TYPE: onoff
4854LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4855DEFAULT: off
4856DOC_START
4857 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4858 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4859 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4860
41bd17a4 4861 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4862 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4863 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4864 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4865 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4866DOC_END
6b53c392 4867
41bd17a4 4868NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4869IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4870TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4871LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4872DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4873DOC_START
41bd17a4 4874 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4875
41bd17a4 4876 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4877 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4878 causes.
0976f8db 4879
41bd17a4 4880 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4881 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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4882 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4883 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4884
4885 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4886 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4887 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4888 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4889 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4890
4891 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4892 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4893 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4894
4895 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4896 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4897 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4898 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4899
4900 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4901 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4902 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4903 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4904 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4905 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 4906
41bd17a4 4907 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4908 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4909
41bd17a4 4910 request_header_access From deny all
4911 request_header_access Referer deny all
4912 request_header_access Server deny all
4913 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4914 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4915 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4916
41bd17a4 4917 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4918 you should use:
5401aa8d 4919
41bd17a4 4920 request_header_access Allow allow all
4921 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4922 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4923 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4924 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4925 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4926 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4927 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4928 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4929 request_header_access Date allow all
4930 request_header_access Expires allow all
4931 request_header_access Host allow all
4932 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4933 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4934 request_header_access Location allow all
4935 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4936 request_header_access Accept allow all
4937 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4938 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4939 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4940 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4941 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4942 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4943 request_header_access Title allow all
4944 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4945 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4946
41bd17a4 4947 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4948 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4949
41bd17a4 4950 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4951 performed).
5401aa8d 4952DOC_END
4953
41bd17a4 4954NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4955IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4956TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4957LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4958DEFAULT: none
4959DOC_START
41bd17a4 4960 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4961
41bd17a4 4962 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4963 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4964 causes.
934b03fc 4965
41bd17a4 4966 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4967 server to the client.
934b03fc 4968
41bd17a4 4969 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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4970 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4971 documentation.
cccac0a2 4972
41bd17a4 4973 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4974 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4975
41bd17a4 4976 reply_header_access From deny all
4977 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4978 reply_header_access Server deny all
4979 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4980 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4981 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4982
41bd17a4 4983 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4984 you should use:
cccac0a2 4985
41bd17a4 4986 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4987 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4988 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4989 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4990 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4991 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4992 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4993 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4994 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4995 reply_header_access Date allow all
4996 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4997 reply_header_access Host allow all
4998 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4999 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5000 reply_header_access Location allow all
5001 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
5002 reply_header_access Accept allow all
5003 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5004 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5005 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
5006 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
5007 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
5008 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5009 reply_header_access Title allow all
5010 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5011 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 5012
41bd17a4 5013 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
5014 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 5015
41bd17a4 5016 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5017 performed).
cccac0a2 5018DOC_END
5019
75e4f2ea 5020NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 5021IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5022TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 5023LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5024DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5025DOC_START
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5026 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5027 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 5028
41bd17a4 5029 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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5030 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
5031 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 5032 option.
cccac0a2 5033
41bd17a4 5034 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 5035
41bd17a4 5036 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5037DOC_END
cccac0a2 5038
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5039NAME: reply_header_replace
5040IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5041TYPE: http_header_replace
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5042LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5043DEFAULT: none
5044DOC_START
5045 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5046 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5047
5048 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5049 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5050 with some fixed string.
5051
5052 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5053
5054 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5055DOC_END
5056
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5057NAME: request_header_add
5058TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5059LOC: Config.request_header_add
5060DEFAULT: none
5061DOC_START
5062 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5063 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5064
5065 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5066 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5067 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5068 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5069 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5070
5071 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5072 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5073 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5074 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5075 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5076 header field values are not merged.
5077
5078 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5079 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5080 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5081
5082 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5083 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5084 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5085 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5086 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5087 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5088 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5089 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5090
5091 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5092 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5093 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5094 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5095 only.
5096DOC_END
5097
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5098NAME: note
5099TYPE: note
5100LOC: Config.notes
5101DEFAULT: none
5102DOC_START
5103 This option used to log custom information about the master
5104 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5105 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5106 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5107 authentication information.
5108 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5109
5110 note key value acl ...
5111 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5112DOC_END
5113
41bd17a4 5114NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5115COMMENT: on|off|warn
5116TYPE: tristate
5117LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5118DEFAULT: on
5119DOC_START
5120 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5121 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5122 what the sending application intended even if the message
5123 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5124 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 5125
41bd17a4 5126 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5127 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 5128
41bd17a4 5129 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5130 or response to be rejected.
5131DOC_END
7d90757b 5132
41bd17a4 5133COMMENT_START
5134 TIMEOUTS
5135 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5136COMMENT_END
5137
5138NAME: forward_timeout
5139COMMENT: time-units
5140TYPE: time_t
5141LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5142DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5143DOC_START
5144 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5145 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 5146DOC_END
5147
41bd17a4 5148NAME: connect_timeout
5149COMMENT: time-units
5150TYPE: time_t
5151LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5152DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 5153DOC_START
41bd17a4 5154 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5155 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5156 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 5157DOC_END
5158
41bd17a4 5159NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5160COMMENT: time-units
5161TYPE: time_t
5162LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5163DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5164DOC_START
41bd17a4 5165 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5166 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5167 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5168 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5169DOC_END
7f7db318 5170
41bd17a4 5171NAME: read_timeout
5172COMMENT: time-units
5173TYPE: time_t
5174LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5175DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5176DOC_START
5177 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5178 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5179 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5180 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5181 default is 15 minutes.
5182DOC_END
cccac0a2 5183
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5184NAME: write_timeout
5185COMMENT: time-units
5186TYPE: time_t
5187LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5188DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5189DOC_START
5190 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5191 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5192 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5193 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5194 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5195 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5196 default is 15 minutes.
5197DOC_END
5198
41bd17a4 5199NAME: request_timeout
5200TYPE: time_t
5201LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5202DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5203DOC_START
6b2a2108 5204 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 5205 connection establishment.
5206DOC_END
cccac0a2 5207
97b32442 5208NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 5209TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5210LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5211DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5212DOC_START
5213 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 5214 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 5215DOC_END
cccac0a2 5216
41bd17a4 5217NAME: client_lifetime
5218COMMENT: time-units
5219TYPE: time_t
5220LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5221DEFAULT: 1 day
5222DOC_START
5223 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5224 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5225 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5226 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5227 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5228 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5229 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 5230
41bd17a4 5231 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5232 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5233 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5234 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5235 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5236 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 5237DOC_END
5238
41bd17a4 5239NAME: half_closed_clients
5240TYPE: onoff
5241LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 5242DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 5243DOC_START
41bd17a4 5244 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5245 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5246 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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5247 fully-closed TCP connection.
5248
5249 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5250 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5251
abdf1651 5252 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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5253 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5254 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5255 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 5256DOC_END
5257
97b32442 5258NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 5259TYPE: time_t
97b32442 5260LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 5261DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 5262DOC_START
41bd17a4 5263 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5264 proxies.
5265DOC_END
cccac0a2 5266
41bd17a4 5267NAME: ident_timeout
5268TYPE: time_t
5269IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 5270LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 5271DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5272DOC_START
5273 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 5274
41bd17a4 5275 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5276 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5277 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 5278DOC_END
5279
41bd17a4 5280NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5281COMMENT: time-units
5282TYPE: time_t
5283LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5284DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 5285DOC_START
41bd17a4 5286 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5287 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5288 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5289 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5290 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 5291DOC_END
0976f8db 5292
cccac0a2 5293COMMENT_START
5294 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5295 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5296COMMENT_END
5297
5298NAME: cache_mgr
5299TYPE: string
5300DEFAULT: webmaster
5301LOC: Config.adminEmail
5302DOC_START
5303 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5304 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5305DOC_END
5306
abacf776 5307NAME: mail_from
5308TYPE: string
5309DEFAULT: none
5310LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5311DOC_START
5312 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5313 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 5314 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 5315 src/globals.h before building squid.
5316DOC_END
5317
d084bf20 5318NAME: mail_program
5319TYPE: eol
5320DEFAULT: mail
5321LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5322DOC_START
5323 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 5324 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 5325 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 5326 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5327
d084bf20 5328 Optional command line options can be specified.
5329DOC_END
5330
cccac0a2 5331NAME: cache_effective_user
5332TYPE: string
5483d916 5333DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 5334LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 5335DOC_START
5336 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5337 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 5338 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 5339 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 5340DOC_END
5341
cccac0a2 5342NAME: cache_effective_group
5343TYPE: string
5344DEFAULT: none
5345LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5346DOC_START
64e288bd 5347 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5348 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5349 from the groups membership.
5350
e3d74828 5351 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5352 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5353 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 5354 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 5355 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 5356 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 5357 group.
64e288bd 5358
5359 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5360 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5361 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 5362DOC_END
5363
d3caee79 5364NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5365COMMENT: on|off
5366TYPE: onoff
5367DEFAULT: off
5368LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5369DOC_START
5370 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5371DOC_END
5372
cccac0a2 5373NAME: visible_hostname
5374TYPE: string
5375LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5376DEFAULT: none
5377DOC_START
5378 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 5379 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 5380 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5381 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5382 names with this setting.
5383DOC_END
5384
cccac0a2 5385NAME: unique_hostname
5386TYPE: string
5387LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5388DEFAULT: none
5389DOC_START
5390 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 5391 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5392 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 5393DOC_END
5394
cccac0a2 5395NAME: hostname_aliases
5396TYPE: wordlist
5397LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5398DEFAULT: none
5399DOC_START
7f7db318 5400 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 5401DOC_END
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5403NAME: umask
5404TYPE: int
5405LOC: Config.umask
5406DEFAULT: 027
5407DOC_START
5408 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5409 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5410
5411 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5412 your value with 0.
5413DOC_END
5414
cccac0a2 5415COMMENT_START
5416 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5417 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5418
5419 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5420 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5421 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5422 create cache hierarchies.
5423
5424 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5425 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5426 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5427
5428 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5429 following information from this configuration file:
5430
5431 http_port
5432 icp_port
5433 cache_mgr
5434
5435 All current information is processed regularly and made
5436 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5437COMMENT_END
5438
5439NAME: announce_period
5440TYPE: time_t
5441LOC: Config.Announce.period
5442DEFAULT: 0
5443DOC_START
5444 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5445 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5446 messages.
5447
e0855596 5448 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 5449
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5450 Example:
5451 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 5452DOC_END
5453
cccac0a2 5454NAME: announce_host
5455TYPE: string
5456DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5457LOC: Config.Announce.host
5458DOC_NONE
5459
5460NAME: announce_file
5461TYPE: string
5462DEFAULT: none
5463LOC: Config.Announce.file
5464DOC_NONE
5465
5466NAME: announce_port
ae870270 5467TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 5468DEFAULT: 3131
5469LOC: Config.Announce.port
5470DOC_START
5471 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5472 number where the registration message will be sent.
5473
5474 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5475 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5476 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5477 message.
5478DOC_END
5479
8d6275c0 5480COMMENT_START
5481 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5482 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5483COMMENT_END
5484
cccac0a2 5485NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5486TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5487DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5488LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5489DOC_START
5490 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5491 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5492 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5493 an identification token.
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5494
5495 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5496DOC_END
5497
5498NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5499COMMENT: on|off
5500TYPE: onoff
5501DEFAULT: off
5502LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5503DOC_START
5504 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5505 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5506DOC_END
5507
5508NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5509IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5510COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5511TYPE: string
5512LOC: ESIParser::Type
5513DEFAULT: custom
5514DOC_START
5515 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5516 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5517 encodings.
5518DOC_END
0976f8db 5519
9edd9041 5520COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5521 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5522 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5523COMMENT_END
5524
5525NAME: delay_pools
5526TYPE: delay_pool_count
5527DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5528IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5529LOC: Config.Delay
5530DOC_START
5531 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5532 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5533 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5534DOC_END
5535
5536NAME: delay_class
5537TYPE: delay_pool_class
5538DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5539IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5540LOC: Config.Delay
5541DOC_START
5542 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5543 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5544 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5545 and here would be:
5546
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5547 Example:
5548 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5549 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5550 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5551 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5552 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5553
5554 The delay pool classes are:
5555
5556 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5557 bucket.
5558
5559 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5560 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5561 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5562
5563 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5564 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5565 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5566 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5567 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5568
5569 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5570 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5571 only takes effect if the username is established
5572 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5573 http_access rules.
5574
5575 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5576 external_acl's tag= reply).
5577
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5578
5579 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5580 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5581 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5582
9edd9041 5583 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5584 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5585 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5586 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5587
5588 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5589 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5590DOC_END
5591
5592NAME: delay_access
5593TYPE: delay_pool_access
5594DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5595IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5596LOC: Config.Delay
5597DOC_START
5598 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5599
5600 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5601 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5602 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5603 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5604
5605 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5606 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5607
5608Example:
5609 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5610 delay_access 1 deny all
5611 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5612 delay_access 2 deny all
5613 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5614DOC_END
5615
5616NAME: delay_parameters
5617TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5618DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5619IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5620LOC: Config.Delay
5621DOC_START
5622 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5623 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5624 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5625
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5626 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5627 delay_pools pool 1
5628 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5629
5630 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5631 delay_pools pool 2
5632 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5633
5634 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5635 delay_pools pool 3
5636 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5637
5638 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5639 delay_pools pool 4
5640 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5641
5642 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5643 delay_pools pool 5
5644 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5645
0b68481a 5646 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5647
5648 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5649 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5650 delay_class lines.
5651
fdb47ac6 5652 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5653 (class 1, 2, 3).
5654
fdb47ac6 5655 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5656 buckets (class 2, 3).
5657
fdb47ac6 5658 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5659 (class 3).
5660
fdb47ac6 5661 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5662 (class 4).
5663
fdb47ac6 5664 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5665 (class 5).
5666
5667 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5668 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5669 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5670 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5671
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5672 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5673
5674
9edd9041 5675 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5676 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5677 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5678
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5679 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5680
5681 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5682
5683 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5684
0b68481a 5685
9edd9041 5686 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5687 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5688 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5689 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5690 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5691 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5692 large downloads more significantly:
5693
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5694 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5695
5696 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5697 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5698 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5699
9edd9041 5700
5701 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5702 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5703
0b68481a 5704 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5705DOC_END
5706
5707NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5708COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5709TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5710DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5711IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5712LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5713DOC_START
5714 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5715 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5716 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5717 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5718 "seen" by squid).
5719DOC_END
5720
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5721COMMENT_START
5722 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5723 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5724COMMENT_END
5725
5726NAME: client_delay_pools
5727TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5728DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5729IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5730LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5731DOC_START
5732 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5733 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5734
5735Example:
5736 client_delay_pools 2
5737DOC_END
5738
5739NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5740COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5741TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5742DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5743IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5744LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5745DOC_START
5746 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5747 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5748 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5749 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5750
5751 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5752 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5753 from client_delay_parameters.
5754
5755Example:
5756 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5757DOC_END
5758
5759NAME: client_delay_parameters
5760TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5761DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5762IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5763LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5764DOC_START
5765
5766 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5767 following format:
5768
5769 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5770
5771 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5772
5773 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5774
5775 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5776 speed_limit additions.
5777
5778 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5779 examples.
5780
5781Example:
5782 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5783 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5784DOC_END
5785
5786NAME: client_delay_access
5787TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5788DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5789IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5790LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5791DOC_START
5792
5793 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5794 request:
5795
5796 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5797
5798 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5799 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5800 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5801 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5802 limited.
5803
5804 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5805 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5806 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5807 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5808
5809 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5810
5811Example:
5812 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5813 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5814DOC_END
5815
cccac0a2 5816COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5817 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5818 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5819COMMENT_END
5820
8d6275c0 5821NAME: wccp_router
5822TYPE: address
5823LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5824DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5825IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5826DOC_START
5827 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5828 Squid.
5829
5830 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5831
5832 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5833
5834 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5835 which version of WCCP to use.
5836DOC_END
df2eec10 5837
8d6275c0 5838NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5839TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5840LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5841DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5842IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5843DOC_START
8d6275c0 5844 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5845 Squid.
cccac0a2 5846
8d6275c0 5847 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5848
8d6275c0 5849 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5850
8d6275c0 5851 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5852 which version of WCCP to use.
5853DOC_END
5854
5855NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5856TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5857LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5858DEFAULT: 4
5859IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5860DOC_START
8d6275c0 5861 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5862 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5863 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5864 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5865 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5866
8d6275c0 5867 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5868 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5869 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5870 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5871DOC_END
5872
8d6275c0 5873NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5874TYPE: onoff
5875LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5876DEFAULT: on
5877IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5878DOC_START
5879 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5880 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5881DOC_END
cccac0a2 5882
8d6275c0 5883NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5884TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5885LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5886DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5887IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5888DOC_START
699acd19 5889 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5890 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5891
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5892 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5893 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5894
8d6275c0 5895 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5896 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5897DOC_END
5898
8d6275c0 5899NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5900TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5901LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5902DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5903IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5904DOC_START
699acd19 5905 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5906 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5907 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5908
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5909 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5910 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5911
8d6275c0 5912 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5913 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5914
699acd19 5915 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5916 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5917 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5918 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5919DOC_END
5920
8d6275c0 5921NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5922TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5923LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5924DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5925IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5926DOC_START
8d6275c0 5927 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5928 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5929
451c4786 5930 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5931 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5932
8d6275c0 5933 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5934 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5935DOC_END
cccac0a2 5936
8d6275c0 5937NAME: wccp2_service
5938TYPE: wccp2_service
5939LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5940DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5941IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5942DOC_START
5943 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5944 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5945 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5946 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5947 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5948 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5949
5950 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5951 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5952
5953 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5954 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5955
5956 Examples:
5957
5958 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5959 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5960 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5961 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5962DOC_END
5963
5964NAME: wccp2_service_info
5965TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5966LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5967DEFAULT: none
5968IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5969DOC_START
5970 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5971 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5972
5973 The format is:
5974
5975 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5976 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5977
5978 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5979 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5980 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5981 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5982 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5983 + ports_source
5984
5985 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5986
5987 Example:
5988
5989 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5990 priority=240 ports=80
5991
5992 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5993 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5994DOC_END
5995
5996NAME: wccp2_weight
5997TYPE: int
5998LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5999DEFAULT: 10000
6000IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6001DOC_START
6002 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6003 hash proportional to their weight.
6004DOC_END
6005
6006NAME: wccp_address
6007TYPE: address
6008LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6009DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6010IFDEF: USE_WCCP
6011DOC_NONE
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8d6275c0 6013NAME: wccp2_address
6014TYPE: address
6015LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6016DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6017IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6018DOC_START
6019 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6020 interface address.
6021
6022 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6023DOC_END
6024
6025COMMENT_START
6026 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6027 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6028
6029 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6030COMMENT_END
6031
6032NAME: client_persistent_connections
6033TYPE: onoff
6034LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6035DEFAULT: on
6036DOC_NONE
6037
6038NAME: server_persistent_connections
6039TYPE: onoff
6040LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6041DEFAULT: on
6042DOC_START
6043 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
6044 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
6045 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
6046 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
6047DOC_END
6048
6049NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6050TYPE: onoff
6051LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 6052DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 6053DOC_START
6054 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6055 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6056 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6057DOC_END
6058
6059NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6060TYPE: onoff
6061LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6062DEFAULT: off
6063DOC_START
6064 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6065 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6066 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6067 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6068
6069 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6070 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6071 after 10 seconds timeout.
6072DOC_END
6073
6074COMMENT_START
6075 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6076 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6077COMMENT_END
6078
6079NAME: digest_generation
6080IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6081TYPE: onoff
6082LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6083DEFAULT: on
6084DOC_START
6085 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6086 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 6087 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 6088DOC_END
6089
6090NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6091IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6092TYPE: int
6093LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6094DEFAULT: 5
6095DOC_START
6096 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6097 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6098 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6099DOC_END
6100
6101NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6102IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6103COMMENT: (seconds)
6104TYPE: time_t
6105LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6106DEFAULT: 1 hour
6107DOC_START
749ceff8 6108 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 6109DOC_END
6110
6111NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6112COMMENT: (seconds)
6113IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6114TYPE: time_t
6115LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6116DEFAULT: 1 hour
6117DOC_START
749ceff8 6118 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 6119 disk.
6120DOC_END
6121
6122NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6123COMMENT: (bytes)
6124TYPE: b_size_t
6125IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6126LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6127DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6128DOC_START
6129 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6130 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6131 default swap page.
6132DOC_END
6133
6134NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6135COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6136IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6137TYPE: int
6138LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6139DEFAULT: 10
6140DOC_START
6141 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6142 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6143DOC_END
6144
1db9eacd 6145COMMENT_START
5473c134 6146 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 6147 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6148COMMENT_END
6149
5473c134 6150NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 6151TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6152LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 6153DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6154IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6155DOC_START
87630341 6156 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6157 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6158 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6159 set to "0" (disabled)
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6160
6161 Example:
6162 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 6163DOC_END
6164
5473c134 6165NAME: snmp_access
6166TYPE: acl_access
6167LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 6168DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6169IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 6170DOC_START
5473c134 6171 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 6172
5473c134 6173 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6174 usage:
8d6275c0 6175
5473c134 6176 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 6177
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6178 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6179 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 6180Example:
6181 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6182 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 6183DOC_END
6184
5473c134 6185NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6186TYPE: address
6187LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 6188DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 6189IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6190DOC_NONE
df2eec10 6191
5473c134 6192NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6193TYPE: address
6194LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 6195DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6196IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 6197DOC_START
df2eec10 6198 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 6199
5473c134 6200 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6201 messages from SNMP agents.
6202 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6203 agents.
cccac0a2 6204
0eb08770 6205 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 6206 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 6207
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6208 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6209 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6210 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6211 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 6212
5473c134 6213 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6214 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 6215DOC_END
6216
5473c134 6217COMMENT_START
6218 ICP OPTIONS
6219 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6220COMMENT_END
6221
6222NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 6223TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6224DEFAULT: 0
6225LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 6226DOC_START
5473c134 6227 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6228 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6229 Default is disabled (0).
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6231 Example:
6232 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 6233DOC_END
6234
5473c134 6235NAME: htcp_port
6236IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 6237TYPE: u_short
87630341 6238DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 6239LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 6240DOC_START
5473c134 6241 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 6242 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6243 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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6244
6245 Example:
6246 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 6247DOC_END
6248
6249NAME: log_icp_queries
6250COMMENT: on|off
6251TYPE: onoff
6252DEFAULT: on
6253LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6254DOC_START
6255 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6256 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6257 up or to simplify log analysis.
6258DOC_END
6259
5473c134 6260NAME: udp_incoming_address
6261TYPE: address
6262LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 6263DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 6264DOC_START
6265 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6266 caches.
6267
6268 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6269
6270 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6271 a specific interface/address.
6272
6273 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6274 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6275
6276 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6277
6278 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6279 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6280DOC_END
cccac0a2 6281
5473c134 6282NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6283TYPE: address
6284LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 6285DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 6286DOC_START
8524d4b2 6287 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 6288 caches.
cccac0a2 6289
5473c134 6290 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 6291
8524d4b2 6292 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6293 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6294 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 6295 caches.
6296
8524d4b2 6297 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6298 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6299
6300 see also; udp_incoming_address
6301
5473c134 6302 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 6303 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 6304DOC_END
6305
3d1e3e43 6306NAME: icp_hit_stale
6307COMMENT: on|off
6308TYPE: onoff
6309DEFAULT: off
6310LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6311DOC_START
6312 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6313 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6314 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6315 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6316 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6317 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6318 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6319DOC_END
6320
5473c134 6321NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 6322TYPE: int
5473c134 6323DEFAULT: 4
6324LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 6325DOC_START
5473c134 6326 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6327 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 6328DOC_END
6329
5473c134 6330NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6331TYPE: int
6332DEFAULT: 400
6333LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 6334DOC_START
5473c134 6335 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6336 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 6337DOC_END
6338
cccac0a2 6339NAME: netdb_low
6340TYPE: int
6341DEFAULT: 900
6342LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6343DOC_NONE
6344
6345NAME: netdb_high
6346TYPE: int
6347DEFAULT: 1000
6348LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6349DOC_START
6350 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6351 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6352 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6353 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6354DOC_END
6355
cccac0a2 6356NAME: netdb_ping_period
6357TYPE: time_t
6358LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6359DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6360DOC_START
6361 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6362 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6363 network. The default is five minutes.
6364DOC_END
6365
cccac0a2 6366NAME: query_icmp
6367COMMENT: on|off
6368TYPE: onoff
6369DEFAULT: off
6370LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6371DOC_START
6372 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6373 replies, enable this option.
6374
6375 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 6376 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6377 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 6378 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6379 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6380 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6381 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6382 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6383DOC_END
6384
6385NAME: test_reachability
6386COMMENT: on|off
6387TYPE: onoff
6388DEFAULT: off
6389LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6390DOC_START
6391 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6392 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6393 database, or has a zero RTT.
6394DOC_END
6395
5473c134 6396NAME: icp_query_timeout
6397COMMENT: (msec)
6398DEFAULT: 0
6399TYPE: int
6400LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 6401DOC_START
5473c134 6402 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6403 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6404 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6405 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6406 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6407 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 6408
5473c134 6409 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 6410DOC_END
6411
5473c134 6412NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6413COMMENT: (msec)
6414DEFAULT: 2000
6415TYPE: int
6416LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 6417DOC_START
5473c134 6418 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6419 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6420 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6421 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6422 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6423 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6424DOC_END
6425
5473c134 6426NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6427COMMENT: (msec)
6428DEFAULT: 5
6429TYPE: int
6430LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 6431DOC_START
5473c134 6432 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6433 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6434 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6435 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6436 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6437 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6438 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 6439DOC_END
6440
5473c134 6441NAME: background_ping_rate
6442COMMENT: time-units
6443TYPE: time_t
6444DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6445LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 6446DOC_START
5473c134 6447 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6448 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 6449DOC_END
6450
5473c134 6451COMMENT_START
6452 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6453 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6454COMMENT_END
6455
6456NAME: mcast_groups
6457TYPE: wordlist
6458LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 6459DEFAULT: none
6460DOC_START
5473c134 6461 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6462 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 6463
5473c134 6464 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6465 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6466 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6467 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6468 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6469 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6470 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 6471
5473c134 6472 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6473 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 6474
5473c134 6475 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6476 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6477
5473c134 6478 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6479
5473c134 6480 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6481DOC_END
8c01ada0 6482
5473c134 6483NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6484IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6485TYPE: address
6486LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6487DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6488DOC_START
6489 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6490 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6491
5473c134 6492 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6493 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6494DOC_END
6495
5473c134 6496NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6497IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6498TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6499LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6500DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6501DOC_START
5473c134 6502 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6503 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6504 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6505DOC_END
cccac0a2 6506
5473c134 6507NAME: mcast_miss_port
6508IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6509TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6510LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6511DEFAULT: 3135
6512DOC_START
6513 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6514 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6515DOC_END
cccac0a2 6516
5473c134 6517NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6518IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6519TYPE: string
6520LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6521DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6522DOC_START
6523 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6524 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6525DOC_END
8c01ada0 6526
5473c134 6527NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6528COMMENT: (msec)
6529DEFAULT: 2000
6530TYPE: int
6531LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6532DOC_START
6533 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6534 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6535 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6536 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6537 seconds.
cccac0a2 6538DOC_END
6539
5473c134 6540COMMENT_START
6541 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6542 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6543COMMENT_END
6544
cccac0a2 6545NAME: icon_directory
6546TYPE: string
6547LOC: Config.icons.directory
6548DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6549DOC_START
6550 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6551 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6552DOC_END
6553
f024c970 6554NAME: global_internal_static
6555TYPE: onoff
6556LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6557DEFAULT: on
6558DOC_START
6559 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6560 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6561 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6562 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6563 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6564 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6565 the server generating a directory listing.
6566DOC_END
6567
5473c134 6568NAME: short_icon_urls
6569TYPE: onoff
6570LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6571DEFAULT: on
6572DOC_START
6573 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6574 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6575 it's own name and port in the URL.
6576
6577 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6578 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6579DOC_END
6580
6581COMMENT_START
6582 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6583 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6584COMMENT_END
6585
6586NAME: error_directory
6587TYPE: string
6588LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6589DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6590DOC_START
6591 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6593 the error/template files to another directory and point
6594 this tag at them.
6595
6596 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6597 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6598
6599 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6600 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6601 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6602 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6603 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6604
6605 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6606 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6607DOC_END
6608
6609NAME: error_default_language
6610IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6611TYPE: string
6612LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6613DEFAULT: none
6614DOC_START
6615 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6616 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6617 preferences.
6618
6619 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6620
6621 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6622 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6623 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6624 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6625DOC_END
6626
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6627NAME: error_log_languages
6628IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6629TYPE: onoff
6630LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6631DEFAULT: on
6632DOC_START
6633 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6634 auto-negotiate for translations.
6635
6636 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6637 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6638 of its error page translations.
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6639DOC_END
6640
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6641NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6642TYPE: string
6643LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6644DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6645DOC_START
6646 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6647
6648 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6649DOC_END
6650
5473c134 6651NAME: err_html_text
6652TYPE: eol
6653LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6654DEFAULT: none
6655DOC_START
6656 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6657 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6658 organizations Web page.
6659
6660 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6661 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6662 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6663 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6664DOC_END
6665
6666NAME: email_err_data
6667COMMENT: on|off
6668TYPE: onoff
6669LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6670DEFAULT: on
6671DOC_START
6672 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6673 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6674 so that the email body contains the data.
6675 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6676DOC_END
6677
6678NAME: deny_info
6679TYPE: denyinfo
6680LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6681DEFAULT: none
6682DOC_START
6683 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6684 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6685 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6686
6687 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6688 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6689 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6690 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6691
6692 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6693 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6694 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6695 the first authentication related acl encountered
6696 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6697 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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6698 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6699 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6700
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6701 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6702 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6703 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6704
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6705 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6706 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6707 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6708
5473c134 6709 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6710 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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6711
6712 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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6713 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6714 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6715 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6716 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6717
6718 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6719 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6720 %B - FTP path URL
6721 %e - Error number
6722 %E - Error description
6723 %h - Squid hostname
6724 %H - Request domain name
6725 %i - Client IP Address
6726 %M - Request Method
6727 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6728 %p - Request Port number
6729 %P - Request Protocol name
6730 %R - Request URL path
6731 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6732 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6733 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6734 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6735 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6736 %x - Error name
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6737 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6738
5473c134 6739DOC_END
6740
6741COMMENT_START
6742 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6743 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6744COMMENT_END
6745
6746NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6747TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6748LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6749DEFAULT: on
6750DOC_START
5473c134 6751 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6752 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6753 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6754
5473c134 6755 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6756 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6757
5473c134 6758 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6759 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6760 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6761
5473c134 6762 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6763 this directive.
8d6275c0 6764DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6765
5473c134 6766NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6767TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6768LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6769DEFAULT: off
6770DOC_START
5473c134 6771 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6772 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6773 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6774
5473c134 6775 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6776 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6777 fails.
6778
6779 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6780 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6781 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6782DOC_END
6783
5473c134 6784NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6785TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6786LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6787DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6788DOC_START
5473c134 6789 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6790
5473c134 6791 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6792 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6793 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6794 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6795 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6796
5473c134 6797 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6798 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6799
5473c134 6800 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6801
5473c134 6802 acl FTP proto FTP
6803 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6804
5473c134 6805 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6806 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6807 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6808 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6809 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6810
5473c134 6811 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6812 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6813 always_direct deny local-external
6814 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6815
5473c134 6816 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6817 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6818 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6819 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6820
5473c134 6821 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6822 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6823 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6824
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6825 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6826 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6827DOC_END
0976f8db 6828
5473c134 6829NAME: never_direct
6830TYPE: acl_access
6831LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6832DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6833DOC_START
5473c134 6834 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6835
6836 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6837 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6838
6839 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6840 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6841 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6842 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6843
6844 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6845 never_direct deny local-servers
6846 never_direct allow all
6847
6848 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6849 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6850
6851 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6852 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6853 always_direct deny local-external
6854 always_direct allow local-intranet
6855 never_direct allow all
6856
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6857 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6858 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6859DOC_END
0976f8db 6860
5473c134 6861COMMENT_START
6862 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6863 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6864COMMENT_END
6865
65d448bc 6866NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6867TYPE: int
6868DEFAULT: 6
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6869LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6870DOC_START
6871 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6872 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6873 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6874DOC_END
cccac0a2 6875
65d448bc 6876NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6877TYPE: int
6878DEFAULT: 4
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6879LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6880DOC_START
6881 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6882 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6883 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6884DOC_END
cccac0a2 6885
6886NAME: incoming_dns_average
6887TYPE: int
6888DEFAULT: 4
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6889LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6890DOC_START
6891 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6892 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6893 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6894DOC_END
cccac0a2 6895
65d448bc 6896NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6897TYPE: int
6898DEFAULT: 8
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6899LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6900DOC_START
6901 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6902 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6903 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6904DOC_END
cccac0a2 6905
6906NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6907TYPE: int
6908DEFAULT: 8
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6909LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6910DOC_START
6911 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6912 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6913 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6914DOC_END
cccac0a2 6915
65d448bc 6916NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6917TYPE: int
6918DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6919LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6920DOC_START
5473c134 6921 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6922 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6923 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6924DOC_END
6925
6926NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6927TYPE: string
6928DEFAULT: none
6929LOC: Config.accept_filter
6930DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6931 FreeBSD:
6932
5473c134 6933 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6934 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6935 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6936
6937 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6938 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6939 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6940
6941 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6942 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6943 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6944
6945 Linux:
6946
6947 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6948 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6949 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6950 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6951 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6952EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6953# FreeBSD
5473c134 6954accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6955# Linux
6956accept_filter data
5473c134 6957DOC_END
6958
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6959NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6960TYPE: int
6961LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6962DEFAULT: -1
6963DOC_START
6964 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6965 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6966 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6967
6968 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6969 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6970
6971 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6972
6973 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6974 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6975DOC_END
6976
5473c134 6977NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6978COMMENT: (bytes)
6979TYPE: b_size_t
6980DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6981LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6982DOC_START
6983 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6984 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6985 the default buffer size.
6986DOC_END
6987
6988COMMENT_START
6989 ICAP OPTIONS
6990 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6991COMMENT_END
6992
6993NAME: icap_enable
6994TYPE: onoff
6995IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6996COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6997LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6998DEFAULT: off
6999DOC_START
53e738c6 7000 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 7001DOC_END
7002
7003NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7004TYPE: time_t
7005DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7006LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 7007IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7008DOC_START
7009 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7010 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7011 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7012
7013 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7014 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7015 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7016DOC_END
7017
7018NAME: icap_io_timeout
7019COMMENT: time-units
7020TYPE: time_t
7021DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 7022LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 7023IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7024DOC_START
7025 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7026 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7027 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7028 failure.
7029
7030 The default is read_timeout.
7031DOC_END
7032
7033NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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7034COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7035TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 7036IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 7037LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7038DEFAULT: 10
7039DOC_START
7040 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7041 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7042 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7043 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 7044 OPTIONS.
5473c134 7045
7046 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7047 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7048 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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7049
7050 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7051 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7052 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7053 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7054 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7055
7056 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7057 effect on service failure expiration.
7058
7059 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7060 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7061 setting.
7062
7063 For example,
7064 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7065 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 7066DOC_END
7067
5473c134 7068NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 7069TYPE: int
5473c134 7070IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7071LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 7072DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 7073DOC_START
5473c134 7074 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7075 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7076 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7077 fetched.
cccac0a2 7078
5473c134 7079 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7080 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 7081DOC_END
7082
5473c134 7083NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 7084TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7085IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7086COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7087LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 7088DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7089DOC_START
ac7a62f9 7090 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7091 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7092 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7093 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7094
7095 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7096 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7097 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7098
7099 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7100 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7101Example:
7102icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 7103DOC_END
7104
5473c134 7105NAME: icap_preview_size
7106TYPE: int
7107IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7108LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 7109DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 7110DOC_START
53e738c6 7111 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
7112 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
7113 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 7114DOC_END
7115
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7116NAME: icap_206_enable
7117TYPE: onoff
7118IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7119COMMENT: on|off
7120LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7121DEFAULT: on
7122DOC_START
7123 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7124 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7125 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7126 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7127
7128 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7129 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7130 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7131 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7132 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7133
7134 Example:
7135 icap_206_enable off
7136DOC_END
7137
5473c134 7138NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7139TYPE: int
7140IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7141LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 7142DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 7143DOC_START
53e738c6 7144 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 7145 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 7146DOC_END
7147
5473c134 7148NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7149TYPE: onoff
7150IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7151COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7152LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 7153DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 7154DOC_START
5473c134 7155 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7156 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 7157DOC_END
7158
22fff3bf 7159NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 7160TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7161IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7162COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7163LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 7164DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7165DOC_START
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7166 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7167 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7168 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7169
7170 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 7171DOC_END
7172
22fff3bf 7173NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 7174TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 7175IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 7176COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 7177LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 7178DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7179DOC_START
5473c134 7180 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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7181 the adaptation service.
7182
7183 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 7184 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7185 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 7186DOC_END
7187
5473c134 7188NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 7189TYPE: string
5473c134 7190IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7191LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 7192DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 7193DOC_START
db49f682 7194 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 7195DOC_END
7196
5473c134 7197NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 7198TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7199IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7200COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 7201LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 7202DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 7203DOC_START
5473c134 7204 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 7205DOC_END
7206
5473c134 7207NAME: icap_service
7208TYPE: icap_service_type
7209IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 7210LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 7211DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7212DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7213 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 7214
c25c2836 7215 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 7216
c25c2836
CT
7217 id: ID
7218 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7219 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7220 services in squid.conf.
a22e6cd3
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7221
7222 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 7223 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7224 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7225 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 7226
c25c2836 7227 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3
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7228 ICAP server and service location.
7229
7230 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7231 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7232 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7233 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7234 service_names differ.
7235
7236
7237 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7238 the following name=value options:
7239
7240 bypass=on|off|1|0
7241 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7242 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7243 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7244 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7245 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7246 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7247 returned to the HTTP client.
7248
7249 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7250
7251 routing=on|off|1|0
7252 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7253 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7254 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7255 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7256 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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7257 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7258 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7259 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7260
7261 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7262 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
a22e6cd3
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7263
7264 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7265 response header is ignored.
7266
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7267 ipv6=on|off
7268 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7269 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7270 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7271
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7272 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7273 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7274 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7275 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7276 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7277 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7278 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7279
7280 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7281 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7282 workers may use a given service.
7283
7284 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7285 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7286
7287
7288 max-conn=number
7289 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7290 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7291
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7292 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7293 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 7294
5473c134 7295Example:
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7296icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7297icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 7298DOC_END
7299
5473c134 7300NAME: icap_class
7301TYPE: icap_class_type
7302IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7303LOC: none
5473c134 7304DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7305DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7306 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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7307 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7308 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 7309
62c7f90e 7310 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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7311 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7312 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 7313DOC_END
7314
5473c134 7315NAME: icap_access
7316TYPE: icap_access_type
7317IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 7318LOC: none
cccac0a2 7319DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 7320DOC_START
a22e6cd3 7321 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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7322 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7323 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 7324DOC_END
7325
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7326COMMENT_START
7327 eCAP OPTIONS
7328 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7329COMMENT_END
7330
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7331NAME: ecap_enable
7332TYPE: onoff
7333IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7334COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 7335LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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7336DEFAULT: off
7337DOC_START
7338 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7339DOC_END
7340
7341NAME: ecap_service
7342TYPE: ecap_service_type
7343IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 7344LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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7345DEFAULT: none
7346DOC_START
7347 Defines a single eCAP service
7348
c25c2836 7349 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 7350
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7351 id: ID
7352 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7353 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7354 services in squid.conf.
7355
7356 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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7357 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7358 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7359 are not yet supported.
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7360
7361 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7362 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7363 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7364 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7365 the service provider.
7366
7367
7368 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7369 the following name=value options:
7370
7371 bypass=on|off|1|0
7372 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7373 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7374 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 7375 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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7376 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7377 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 7378 HTTP client.
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7379
7380 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7381
7382 routing=on|off|1|0
7383 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7384 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7385 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7386
7387 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7388 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7389
7390 Routing is not allowed by default.
7391
7392 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7393 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7394
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7396Example:
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7397ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7398ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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7399DOC_END
7400
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7401NAME: loadable_modules
7402TYPE: wordlist
7403IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7404LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7405DEFAULT: none
7406DOC_START
7407 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7408 preloaded module(s).
7409Example:
7410loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7411DOC_END
7412
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7413COMMENT_START
7414 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7415 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7416COMMENT_END
7417
7418NAME: adaptation_service_set
7419TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7420IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7421LOC: none
7422DEFAULT: none
7423DOC_START
7424
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7425 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7426 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7427
7428 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7429
7430 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7431 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7432 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7433 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7434 intact.
62c7f90e 7435
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7436 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7437 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 7438
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7439 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7440 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7441
7442 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7443 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7444 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7445 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7446 transaction fails as well.
7447
7448 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7449 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7450 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7451 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7452 matters.
7453
7454 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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7455
7456Example:
7457adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7458adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7459DOC_END
7460
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7461NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7462TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7463IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7464LOC: none
7465DEFAULT: none
7466DOC_START
7467
7468 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7469 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7470 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7471
7472 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7473
7474 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7475 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7476 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7477 the previous service in the chain.
7478
7479 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7480 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7481
7482 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7483 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7484 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7485
7486 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7487 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7488
7489 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7490 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7491 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7492 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7493
7494 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7495
7496Example:
7497adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7498DOC_END
7499
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7500NAME: adaptation_access
7501TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7502IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7503LOC: none
7504DEFAULT: none
7505DOC_START
7506 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7507
7508 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7509 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7510
7511 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7512 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7513 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7514 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7515
7516 - services serving different vectoring points
7517 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7518 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7519 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7520
7521 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7522 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7523 adaptation_service_set for details.
7524
7525 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7526 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7527 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7528 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7529
7530 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7531 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7532
7533 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7534
7535Example:
7536adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7537DOC_END
7538
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7539NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7540TYPE: int
7541IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7542LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7543DEFAULT: 16
7544DOC_START
7545 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7546 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7547 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7548 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7549 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7550 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7551
7552 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7553
7554 See also: icap_service routing=1
7555DOC_END
7556
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7557NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7558TYPE: string
7559IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7560LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7561DEFAULT: none
7562DOC_START
7563 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7564 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7565 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7566 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7567 with the master transaction.
7568
7569 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7570 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7571
7572 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7573 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7574 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7575
7576 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7577 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7578 to provide an option with a name specified in
7579 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7581 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7582 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7583
7584 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7585
7586Example:
7587# share authentication information among ICAP services
7588adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7589DOC_END
7590
71be37e0 7591NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 7592TYPE: note
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7593IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7594LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7595DEFAULT: none
7596DOC_START
7597 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7598 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7599 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7600 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7601
7602 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7603 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7604
7605 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7606 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7607 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7608 example:
7609
7610 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7611 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7612
7613 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7614 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7615
7616 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7617 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7618
7619 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7620 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7621 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7622 and double quotes. For example,
7623 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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7624
7625 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
7626 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
7627 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
7628 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
7629 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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7631
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7632NAME: icap_retry
7633TYPE: acl_access
7634IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7635LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7636DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7637DOC_START
7638 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7639 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7640 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7641 that response are usually retriable.
7642
7643 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7644
7645 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7646 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7647
7648 See also: icap_retry_limit
7649DOC_END
7650
7651NAME: icap_retry_limit
7652TYPE: int
7653IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7654LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7655DEFAULT: 0
7656DOC_START
7657 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7658 no retries are allowed.
7659
7660 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7661 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7662 count against this limit.
7663
7664 See also: icap_retry
7665DOC_END
7666
7667
5473c134 7668COMMENT_START
7669 DNS OPTIONS
7670 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7671COMMENT_END
7672
7673NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7674TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7675DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7676LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7677DOC_START
5473c134 7678 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7679 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7680 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7681DOC_END
7682
5473c134 7683NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7684TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7685DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7686LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7687DOC_START
5473c134 7688 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7689 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7690 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7691 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7692DOC_END
7693
5473c134 7694NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7695TYPE: string
f64091a7 7696IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7697DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7698LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7699DOC_START
5473c134 7700 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7701DOC_END
7702
5473c134 7703NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7704TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7705IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7706DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7707LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7708DOC_START
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7709 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7710 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7711 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7712 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7713 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7714
7715 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7716 tuning.
7717
7718 startup=
7719
7720 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7721 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7722 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7723
7724 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7725 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7726
7727 idle=
7728
7729 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7730 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7731 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7732 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7733DOC_END
7734
5473c134 7735NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7736TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7737DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7738LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7739IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7740DOC_START
5473c134 7741 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7742 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7743DOC_END
7744
5473c134 7745NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7746TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7747DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7748LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7749IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7750DOC_START
5473c134 7751 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7752 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7753 are assumed to be unavailable.
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7755
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7756NAME: dns_packet_max
7757TYPE: b_ssize_t
7758DEFAULT: none
7759LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7760IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7761DOC_START
7762 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7763 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7764
7765 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7766 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7767 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7768 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7769 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7770
7771 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7772 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7773 necessary.
7774
7775 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7776 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7777 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7778 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7779 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7780 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7781 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7782DOC_END
7783
5473c134 7784NAME: dns_defnames
7785COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7786TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7787DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7788LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7789DOC_START
5473c134 7790 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7791 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7792 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7793 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7794DOC_END
7795
5473c134 7796NAME: dns_nameservers
7797TYPE: wordlist
7798DEFAULT: none
7799LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7800DOC_START
5473c134 7801 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7802 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7803 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7804 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7805 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7806 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7807 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 7808
5473c134 7809 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7810DOC_END
7811
5473c134 7812NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7813TYPE: string
5473c134 7814DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7815LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7816DOC_START
5473c134 7817 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7818 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7819 default locations:
7820 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7821 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7822 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7823 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7824 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7825 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7826 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7827 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7828
5473c134 7829 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7830 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7831 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7832 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7833
5473c134 7834 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7835 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7836 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7837 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7838 definitions.
cccac0a2 7839DOC_END
7840
5473c134 7841NAME: append_domain
7842TYPE: string
7843LOC: Config.appendDomain
7844DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7845DOC_START
5473c134 7846 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7847 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7848
7849 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7850 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7851 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7852
7853Example:
7854 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7855DOC_END
7856
5473c134 7857NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7858TYPE: onoff
7859LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7860DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7861IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7862DOC_START
5473c134 7863 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7864 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7865 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7866 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7867 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7868DOC_END
7869
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7870NAME: dns_v4_first
7871TYPE: onoff
7872DEFAULT: off
7873LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7874IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7875DOC_START
7876 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7877 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7878
7879 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7880 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7881 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7882
7883 WARNING:
7884 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7885 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7886 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7887DOC_END
7888
6bc15a4f 7889NAME: ipcache_size
7890COMMENT: (number of entries)
7891TYPE: int
7892DEFAULT: 1024
7893LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7894DOC_NONE
7895
7896NAME: ipcache_low
7897COMMENT: (percent)
7898TYPE: int
7899DEFAULT: 90
7900LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7901DOC_NONE
7902
7903NAME: ipcache_high
7904COMMENT: (percent)
7905TYPE: int
7906DEFAULT: 95
7907LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7908DOC_START
7909 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7910DOC_END
7911
7912NAME: fqdncache_size
7913COMMENT: (number of entries)
7914TYPE: int
7915DEFAULT: 1024
7916LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7917DOC_START
7918 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7919DOC_END
7920
a58ff010 7921COMMENT_START
5473c134 7922 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7923 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7924COMMENT_END
7925
5473c134 7926NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7927COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7928TYPE: onoff
7929DEFAULT: on
7930LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7931DOC_START
5473c134 7932 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7933 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7934 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7935 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7936DOC_END
7937
5473c134 7938NAME: memory_pools_limit
7939COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7940TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7941DEFAULT: 5 MB
7942LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7943DOC_START
5473c134 7944 Used only with memory_pools on:
7945 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7946
5473c134 7947 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7948 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7949 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7950 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7951 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7952 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7953 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7954
89646bd7 7955 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7956 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7957
5473c134 7958 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7959 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7960
7961 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7962 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7963 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7964 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7965DOC_END
7966
5473c134 7967NAME: forwarded_for
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7968COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7969TYPE: string
5473c134 7970DEFAULT: on
7971LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7972DOC_START
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7973 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7974 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7975
5473c134 7976 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7977
67c06f0d 7978 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7979
7980 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7981
7982 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7983 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7984
7985 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7986 X-Forwarded-For header.
7987
7988 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7989 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7990DOC_END
7991
5473c134 7992NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7993TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7994DEFAULT: none
7995LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7996DOC_START
5473c134 7997 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7998
5473c134 7999 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8000
8001 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8002 5min
8003 60min
8004 asndb
8005 authenticator
8006 cbdata
8007 client_list
8008 comm_incoming
8009 config *
8010 counters
8011 delay
8012 digest_stats
8013 dns
8014 events
8015 filedescriptors
8016 fqdncache
8017 histograms
8018 http_headers
8019 info
8020 io
8021 ipcache
8022 mem
8023 menu
8024 netdb
8025 non_peers
8026 objects
8027 offline_toggle *
8028 pconn
8029 peer_select
b360c477 8030 reconfigure *
5473c134 8031 redirector
8032 refresh
8033 server_list
8034 shutdown *
8035 store_digest
8036 storedir
8037 utilization
8038 via_headers
8039 vm_objects
8040
8041 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8042 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8043
8044 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8045 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8046 password to "none".
8047
8048 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8049
8050Example:
8051 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8052 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8053 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 8054DOC_END
8055
5473c134 8056NAME: client_db
a58ff010 8057COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8058TYPE: onoff
8059DEFAULT: on
8060LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 8061DOC_START
5473c134 8062 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8063 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 8064DOC_END
8065
5473c134 8066NAME: refresh_all_ims
8067COMMENT: on|off
8068TYPE: onoff
8069DEFAULT: off
8070LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 8071DOC_START
5473c134 8072 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8073 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8074 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8075 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8076 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 8077
5473c134 8078 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8079 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 8080DOC_END
8081
5473c134 8082NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 8083IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 8084COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 8085TYPE: onoff
8086DEFAULT: off
8087LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 8088DOC_START
5473c134 8089 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8090 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8091 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8092 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8093 causes.
8094
8095 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 8096DOC_END
8097
31ef19cd 8098NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 8099TYPE: int
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8100LOC: Config.connect_retries
8101DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 8102DOC_START
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8103 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8104 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8105 complete within the connection timeout period.
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8106
8107 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8108 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 8109
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8110 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8111 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 8112
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8113 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8114 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8115 a useful server.
a58ff010 8116DOC_END
8117
5473c134 8118NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 8119TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8120LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 8121DEFAULT: off
8122DOC_START
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8123 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8124 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8125 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8126 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8127
8128 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8129 work around access control errors.
8130
8131 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8132 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 8133DOC_END
8134
5473c134 8135NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 8136TYPE: string
5473c134 8137LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8138DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 8139DOC_START
5473c134 8140 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8141 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 8142DOC_END
8143
5473c134 8144NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 8145TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8146LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 8147DEFAULT: off
8148DOC_START
5473c134 8149 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8150 objects.
a58ff010 8151DOC_END
8152
5473c134 8153NAME: uri_whitespace
8154TYPE: uri_whitespace
8155LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8156DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 8157DOC_START
5473c134 8158 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8159 URI. Options:
a58ff010 8160
5473c134 8161 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
8162 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
8163 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8164 Request" message.
8165 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8166 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8167 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8168 are in use.
8169 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
8170 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
8171 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
8172 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
8173 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
8174 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
8175 violation.
8176DOC_END
a58ff010 8177
5473c134 8178NAME: chroot
8179TYPE: string
8180LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 8181DEFAULT: none
8182DOC_START
9f37c18a 8183 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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8184 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8185 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8186 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8187 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 8188DOC_END
a58ff010 8189
5473c134 8190NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8191TYPE: onoff
8192LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 8193DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8194DOC_START
cc192b50 8195 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8196 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8197 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8198
5473c134 8199 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8200 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8201 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 8202
cc192b50 8203 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 8204DOC_END
8205
5473c134 8206NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8207TYPE: onoff
8208LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8209DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 8210DOC_START
5473c134 8211 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8212 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8213 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 8214
5473c134 8215 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8216 reasons.
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8217
8218 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 8219DOC_END
a58ff010 8220
5473c134 8221NAME: high_response_time_warning
8222TYPE: int
8223COMMENT: (msec)
8224LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8225DEFAULT: 0
8226DOC_START
8227 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8228 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8229 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 8230DOC_END
8231
5473c134 8232NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8233TYPE: int
8234LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8235DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 8236DOC_START
5473c134 8237 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8238 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8239 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8240 per second.
8241DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8242
5473c134 8243NAME: high_memory_warning
8244TYPE: b_size_t
8245LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 8246DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 8247DOC_START
8248 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 8249 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 8250 the administrators attention.
8251DOC_END
cc9f92d4 8252
5473c134 8253NAME: sleep_after_fork
8254COMMENT: (microseconds)
8255TYPE: int
8256LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8257DEFAULT: 0
8258DOC_START
8259 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8260 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8261 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8262 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8263 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8264 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8265 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8266 until all the child processes have been started.
8267 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8268 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 8269DOC_END
8270
b6696974 8271NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 8272IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
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8273COMMENT: on|off
8274TYPE: onoff
8275DEFAULT: on
8276LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8277DOC_START
8278 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8279 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8280 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8281 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8282 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8283 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8284DOC_END
8285
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8286NAME: eui_lookup
8287TYPE: onoff
8288IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8289DEFAULT: on
8290LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8291DOC_START
8292 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8293DOC_END
8294
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8295NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8296TYPE: int
8297DEFAULT: 0
8298LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8299DOC_START
8300 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8301
8302 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8303
8304 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8305 not all comm loops supports large values.
8306DOC_END
8307
13aeac35 8308NAME: workers
007d775d 8309TYPE: int
13aeac35 8310LOC: Config.workers
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8311DEFAULT: 1
8312DOC_START
13aeac35 8313 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
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8314 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8315 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
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8316 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8317
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8318 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8319 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
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8321
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8322NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8323TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8324LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8325DEFAULT: none
8326DOC_START
8327 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8328
8329 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8330
8331 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8332
8333 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8334 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8335
8336 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8337 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8338
8339 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8340
8341 See also: workers
8342DOC_END
8343
cccac0a2 8344EOF