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bde978a6 1## Copyright (C) 1996-2015 The Squid Software Foundation and contributors
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2##
3## Squid software is distributed under GPLv2+ license and includes
4## contributions from numerous individuals and organizations.
5## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
6##
9cef6668 7
0f74202c 8COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 9 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 10 ----------------------------
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11
12 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
13 This documentation can also be found online at:
14 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
15
16 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
17 FAQ and other documentation:
18 http://www.squid-cache.org/
19 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
20 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
21
22 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
23 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
24 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
25
26 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
27 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
28 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
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cccac0a2 30COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 31
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33 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 34 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 35 supported.
36
37 For example,
38
39 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
40
41 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
42 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
43 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
44 configuration files.
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46 Values with byte units
47
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48 Squid accepts size units on some size related directives. All
49 such directives are documented with a default value displaying
50 a unit.
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51
52 Units accepted by Squid are:
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53 bytes - byte
54 KB - Kilobyte (1024 bytes)
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55 MB - Megabyte
56 GB - Gigabyte
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58 Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters
59
60 Squid supports directive parameters with spaces, quotes, and other
61 special characters. Surround such parameters with "double quotes". Use
62 the configuration_includes_quoted_values directive to enable or
63 disable that support.
64
65 Squid supports reading configuration option parameters from external
66 files using the syntax:
67 parameters("/path/filename")
68 For example:
69 acl whitelist dstdomain parameters("/etc/squid/whitelist.txt")
70
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71 Conditional configuration
72
73 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
74 depend on conditions:
75
76 if <CONDITION>
77 ... regular configuration directives ...
78 [else
79 ... regular configuration directives ...]
80 endif
81
82 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
83 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
84 configuration directives.
85
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86 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
87
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88 These individual conditions types are supported:
89
90 true
91 Always evaluates to true.
92 false
93 Always evaluates to false.
94 <integer> = <integer>
95 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
96
97
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98 SMP-Related Macros
99
100 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
101
102 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
103 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
104
105 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
106 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
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107 across all Squid processes of the current service instance.
108
109 ${service_name} expands into the current Squid service instance
110 name identifier which is provided by -n on the command line.
111
592a09dc 112COMMENT_END
113
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114# options still not yet ported from 2.7 to 3.x
115NAME: broken_vary_encoding
116TYPE: obsolete
117DOC_START
118 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
119DOC_END
120
121NAME: cache_vary
122TYPE: obsolete
123DOC_START
124 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
125DOC_END
126
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127NAME: error_map
128TYPE: obsolete
129DOC_START
130 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
131DOC_END
132
133NAME: external_refresh_check
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
137DOC_END
138
96598f93 139NAME: location_rewrite_program location_rewrite_access location_rewrite_children location_rewrite_concurrency
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140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
143DOC_END
144
96598f93 145NAME: refresh_stale_hit
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146TYPE: obsolete
147DOC_START
148 This option is not yet supported by Squid-3.
149DOC_END
150
7e62a74f 151# Options removed in 3.6
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152NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
153TYPE: obsolete
154DOC_START
155 Replace with dstdomain ACLs and cache_peer_access.
156DOC_END
157
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158NAME: sslproxy_cafile
159TYPE: obsolete
160DOC_START
161 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cafile= instead.
162DOC_END
163
164NAME: sslproxy_capath
165TYPE: obsolete
166DOC_START
167 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options capath= instead.
168DOC_END
169
170NAME: sslproxy_cipher
171TYPE: obsolete
172DOC_START
173 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cipher= instead.
174DOC_END
175
176NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
177TYPE: obsolete
178DOC_START
179 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options cert= instead.
180DOC_END
181
182NAME: sslproxy_client_key
183TYPE: obsolete
184DOC_START
185 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options key= instead.
186DOC_END
187
188NAME: sslproxy_flags
189TYPE: obsolete
190DOC_START
191 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options flags= instead.
192DOC_END
193
194NAME: sslproxy_options
195TYPE: obsolete
196DOC_START
197 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
198DOC_END
199
200NAME: sslproxy_version
201TYPE: obsolete
202DOC_START
1cc44095 203 Remove this line. Use tls_outgoing_options options= instead.
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204DOC_END
205
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206# Options removed in 3.5
207NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
208TYPE: obsolete
209DOC_START
210 Remove this line. Use always_direct or cache_peer_access ACLs instead if you need to prevent cache_peer use.
211DOC_END
212
a8f70484 213# Options removed in 3.4
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214NAME: log_access
215TYPE: obsolete
216DOC_START
217 Remove this line. Use acls with access_log directives to control access logging
218DOC_END
219
220NAME: log_icap
221TYPE: obsolete
222DOC_START
223 Remove this line. Use acls with icap_log directives to control icap logging
224DOC_END
225
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226# Options Removed in 3.3
227NAME: ignore_ims_on_miss
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228TYPE: obsolete
229DOC_START
2d4eefd9 230 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now configured by 'cache_miss_revalidate'.
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231DOC_END
232
76f44481 233# Options Removed in 3.2
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234NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
235TYPE: obsolete
236DOC_START
237 Remove this line. Squid is now HTTP/1.1 compliant.
238DOC_END
239
74d81220 240NAME: dns_v4_fallback
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241TYPE: obsolete
242DOC_START
74d81220 243 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
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244DOC_END
245
74d81220 246NAME: emulate_httpd_log
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247TYPE: obsolete
248DOC_START
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249 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
250DOC_END
251
252NAME: forward_log
253TYPE: obsolete
254DOC_START
255 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
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256DOC_END
257
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258NAME: ftp_list_width
259TYPE: obsolete
260DOC_START
261 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
262DOC_END
263
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264NAME: ignore_expect_100
265TYPE: obsolete
266DOC_START
267 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
268DOC_END
269
270NAME: log_fqdn
271TYPE: obsolete
272DOC_START
273 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
274DOC_END
275
276NAME: log_ip_on_direct
277TYPE: obsolete
278DOC_START
279 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
280DOC_END
281
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282NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
283TYPE: obsolete
284DOC_START
285 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
286DOC_END
287
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288NAME: referer_log referrer_log
289TYPE: obsolete
290DOC_START
291 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
292DOC_END
293
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294NAME: update_headers
295TYPE: obsolete
296DOC_START
297 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
298DOC_END
299
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300NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
301TYPE: obsolete
302DOC_START
303 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
304DOC_END
305
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306NAME: useragent_log
307TYPE: obsolete
308DOC_START
309 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
310DOC_END
311
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312# Options Removed in 3.1
313NAME: dns_testnames
314TYPE: obsolete
315DOC_START
316 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
317DOC_END
318
319NAME: extension_methods
320TYPE: obsolete
321DOC_START
322 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
323DOC_END
324
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325# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
326NAME: zero_buffers
327TYPE: obsolete
328DOC_NONE
329
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330# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
331NAME: incoming_rate
332TYPE: obsolete
333DOC_NONE
334
335NAME: server_http11
336TYPE: obsolete
337DOC_START
338 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
339DOC_END
340
341NAME: upgrade_http0.9
342TYPE: obsolete
343DOC_START
344 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
345DOC_END
346
347NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
348TYPE: obsolete
349DOC_START
350 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
351DOC_END
352
353# Options Removed in 3.0
354NAME: header_access
355TYPE: obsolete
356DOC_START
357 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
358 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
359DOC_END
360
361NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
362TYPE: obsolete
363DOC_START
364 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
365DOC_END
366
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367NAME: wais_relay_host
368TYPE: obsolete
369DOC_START
370 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
371DOC_END
372
373NAME: wais_relay_port
374TYPE: obsolete
375DOC_START
376 Replace this line with 'cache_peer' configuration.
377DOC_END
378
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379COMMENT_START
380 OPTIONS FOR SMP
381 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
382COMMENT_END
383
384NAME: workers
385TYPE: int
386LOC: Config.workers
387DEFAULT: 1
388DEFAULT_DOC: SMP support disabled.
389DOC_START
390 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
391 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
392 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
393 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
394
395 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
396 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
397DOC_END
398
399NAME: cpu_affinity_map
400TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
401LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
402DEFAULT: none
403DEFAULT_DOC: Let operating system decide.
404DOC_START
405 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
406
407 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
408
409 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
410
411 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
412 four even cores, starting with core #1.
413
414 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
415 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
416
417 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
418
419 See also: workers
420DOC_END
421
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41bd17a4 423 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 424 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
425COMMENT_END
426
41bd17a4 427NAME: auth_param
428TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 429IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 430LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 431DEFAULT: none
432DOC_START
41bd17a4 433 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
434 schemes supported by Squid.
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66c583dc 436 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 437
41bd17a4 438 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
439 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
440 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
441 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
442 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
443 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
444 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
445 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
446 program entry).
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41bd17a4 448 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
449 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
450 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
451 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 452
41bd17a4 453 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
454 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
455 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
456 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
457 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
458 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
459 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
460 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
461 type acl.
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41bd17a4 463 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
464 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
465 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
466 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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467 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
468 authentication disabled.
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470 === Parameters common to all schemes. ===
471
472 "program" cmdline
66c583dc 473 Specifies the command for the external authenticator.
d4806c91 474
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475 By default, each authentication scheme is not used unless a
476 program is specified.
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478 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers for
479 more details on helper operations and creating your own.
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481 "key_extras" format
482 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for
483 the authentication helper. "Quoted" format values may contain
484 spaces and logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro
485 can be used. In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if
486 the helper request is sent before the required macro
487 information is available to Squid.
488
489 By default, Squid uses request formats provided in
490 scheme-specific examples below (search for %credentials).
491
492 The expanded key_extras value is added to the Squid credentials
493 cache and, hence, will affect authentication. It can be used to
494 autenticate different users with identical user names (e.g.,
495 when user authentication depends on http_port).
496
497 Avoid adding frequently changing information to key_extras. For
498 example, if you add user source IP, and it changes frequently
499 in your environment, then max_user_ip ACL is going to treat
500 every user+IP combination as a unique "user", breaking the ACL
501 and wasting a lot of memory on those user records. It will also
502 force users to authenticate from scratch whenever their IP
503 changes.
504
505 "realm" string
506 Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be
507 reported to the client for the authentication scheme. It is
508 commonly part of the text the user will see when prompted for
509 their username and password.
510
511 For Basic the default is "Squid proxy-caching web server".
512 For Digest there is no default, this parameter is mandatory.
513 For NTLM and Negotiate this parameter is ignored.
5269ec0e 514
6825b101 515 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N] [queue-size=N]
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517 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If
518 you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
519 a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it down. When
520 password verifications are done via a (slow) network you are
521 likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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523 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact
524 amount run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup
525 and reconfigure. Squid will start more in groups of up to
526 idle=N in an attempt to meet traffic needs and to keep idle=N
527 free above those traffic needs up to the maximum.
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529 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests
530 the helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers
531 who only supports one request at a time. Setting this to a
532 number greater than 0 changes the protocol used to include a
533 channel ID field first on the request/response line, allowing
534 multiple requests to be sent to the same helper in parallel
535 without waiting for the response.
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537 Concurrency must not be set unless it's known the helper
538 supports the input format with channel-ID fields.
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540 The queue-size= option sets the maximum number of queued
541 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size for more
542 than 3 minutes then squid aborts its operation.
543 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren/
544
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545 NOTE: NTLM and Negotiate schemes do not support concurrency
546 in the Squid code module even though some helpers can.
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549IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_BASIC
550 === Basic authentication parameters ===
d2a89ac1 551
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552 "utf8" on|off
553 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
554 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
555 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
556 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
d1b63fc8 557
41bd17a4 558 "credentialsttl" timetolive
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559 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
560 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
561 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
562 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.
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564 NOTE: setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
565 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
566 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
567 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
568 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
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570 "casesensitive" on|off
571 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases
572 are case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled
573 using both lower and upper case letters, but some are case
574 sensitive. This makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL
575 processing and similar.
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577ENDIF
578IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_DIGEST
579 === Digest authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 580
d2a89ac1 581 "utf8" on|off
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582 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some
583 authentication backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is
584 set to on Squid will translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to
585 UTF-8 before sending the username and password to the helper.
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41bd17a4 587 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
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588 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
589 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 590
41bd17a4 591 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
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592 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
593 valid for.
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41bd17a4 595 "nonce_max_count" number
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596 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
597 used.
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41bd17a4 599 "nonce_strictness" on|off
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600 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
601 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
602 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
603 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 604
41bd17a4 605 "check_nonce_count" on|off
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606 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
607 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
608 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
609 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 610
41bd17a4 611 "post_workaround" on|off
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612 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who send an
613 incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing the
614 same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
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616ENDIF
617IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NEGOTIATE
618 === Negotiate authentication parameters ===
cccac0a2 619
41bd17a4 620 "keep_alive" on|off
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621 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
622 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
623 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
624 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
625 are supported by the proxy.
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627ENDIF
628IF HAVE_AUTH_MODULE_NTLM
629 === NTLM authentication parameters ===
d3803853 630
41bd17a4 631 "keep_alive" on|off
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632 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using
633 the this authentication scheme then you can try setting this
634 to off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection
635 on the initial request where the browser asks which schemes
636 are supported by the proxy.
637ENDIF
527ee50d 638
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639 === Example Configuration ===
640
641 This configuration displays the recommended authentication scheme
642 order from most to least secure with recommended minimum configuration
643 settings for each scheme:
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41bd17a4 645#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 646#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 647#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 648#
66c583dc 649#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 650#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 651#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
652#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
653#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
654#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
e0855596 655#
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656#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
657#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
658#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
659#
41bd17a4 660#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 661#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 662#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
663#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 664DOC_END
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41bd17a4 666NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
667TYPE: time_t
668DEFAULT: 1 hour
669LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
670DOC_START
671 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
4ded749e 672 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
41bd17a4 673 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
674 have good reason to.
675DOC_END
cccac0a2 676
41bd17a4 677NAME: authenticate_ttl
678TYPE: time_t
679DEFAULT: 1 hour
680LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
681DOC_START
682 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
683 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
684 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
685 TTL are removed from memory.
686DOC_END
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41bd17a4 688NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
689TYPE: time_t
690LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
c35dd848 691DEFAULT: 1 second
41bd17a4 692DOC_START
693 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
694 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
695 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
696 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
4ded749e 697 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
41bd17a4 698 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
699 environment with relatively static address assignments.
700DOC_END
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3d1e3e43 702COMMENT_START
703 ACCESS CONTROLS
704 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
705COMMENT_END
706
41bd17a4 707NAME: external_acl_type
708TYPE: externalAclHelper
709LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 710DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 711DOC_START
41bd17a4 712 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
713 to look up the status
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41bd17a4 715 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 716
41bd17a4 717 Options:
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41bd17a4 719 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
720 for 1 hour)
4f8d0a65 721
41bd17a4 722 negative_ttl=n
723 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
724 as ttl)
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726 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
727 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
728 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
729
730 cache=n Limit the result cache size, default is 262144.
731 The expanded FORMAT value is used as the cache key, so
732 if the details in FORMAT are highly variable a larger
733 cache may be needed to produce reduction in helper load.
734
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735 children-max=n
736 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
737 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
4f8d0a65 738
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740 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
741 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
742 of this type. (default 0)
4f8d0a65 743
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744 children-idle=n
745 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
746 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
747 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
748 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
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41bd17a4 750 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
751 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
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753 queue-size=N The queue-size= option sets the maximum number of queued
754 requests. If the queued requests exceed queue size
4f8d0a65 755 the acl is ignored.
6825b101 756 The default value is set to 2*children-max.
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758 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers.
759
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760 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
761 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
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41bd17a4 764 FORMAT specifications
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41bd17a4 766 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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767 %un A user name. Expands to the first available name
768 from the following list of information sources:
769 - authenticated user name, like %ul or %LOGIN
770 - user name sent by an external ACL, like %EXT_USER
771 - SSL client name, like %us in logformat
772 - ident user name, like %ui in logformat
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773 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
774 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
775 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 776 %IDENT Ident user name
777 %SRC Client IP
778 %SRCPORT Client source port
779 %URI Requested URI
780 %DST Requested host
4e3f4dc7 781 %PROTO Requested URL scheme
41bd17a4 782 %PORT Requested port
783 %PATH Requested URL path
784 %METHOD Request method
785 %MYADDR Squid interface address
786 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
787 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
788 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
789 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
790 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
f06585e0 791 %USER_CA_CERT_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
cedca6e7 792 %ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid
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793 %ssl::<cert_subject SSL server certificate DN
794 %ssl::<cert_issuer SSL server certificate issuer DN
7b0ca1e8 795
c68c9682 796 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 797 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 798 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 799 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 800 HTTP request header list member using ; as
801 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
802 character.
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c68c9682 804 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 805 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 806 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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807 %<{Hdr:;member}
808 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
809 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
810 character.
811
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812 %ACL The name of the ACL being tested.
813 %DATA The ACL arguments. If not used then any arguments
814 is automatically added at the end of the line
815 sent to the helper.
816 NOTE: this will encode the arguments as one token,
817 whereas the default will pass each separately.
818
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820 an unchanging input format.
821
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824
825 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
826
827
828 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
829 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
830 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
831
832 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
833 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
834
835 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
836 each value in requests against whitespaces.
837
838 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
839 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
840
841 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
842
843 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
844 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
845 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
846 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
847 of the response relating to its request.
848
849
850 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
851 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
852 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
853
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41bd17a4 855 General result syntax:
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858
859 Result consists of one of the codes:
860
861 OK
862 the ACL test produced a match.
863
864 ERR
865 the ACL test does not produce a match.
866
867 BH
4ded749e 868 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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869 a result being identified.
870
871 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
872 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
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41bd17a4 874 Defined keywords:
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41bd17a4 876 user= The users name (login)
5269ec0e 877
41bd17a4 878 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
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05e52854 880 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
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881 Available as %o in error pages.
882 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
883
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884 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
885 does not alter existing tags.
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41bd17a4 887 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
5269ec0e 888 %ea in logformat specifications.
934b03fc 889
457857fe 890 clt_conn_tag= Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
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891 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation
892 for this kv-pair.
457857fe 893
05e52854 894 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
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896 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
897 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
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898 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
899 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
900 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
1e5562e3 901
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902 Some example key values:
903
5269ec0e 904 user=John%20Smith
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905 user="John Smith"
906 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
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908
41bd17a4 909NAME: acl
910TYPE: acl
911LOC: Config.aclList
cb4f4424 912IF USE_OPENSSL
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913DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
914DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
915DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
916DEFAULT: 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
917DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
918ENDIF
1f5bd0a4 919DEFAULT: all src all
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920DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
921DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
922DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
923DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 924DOC_START
41bd17a4 925 Defining an Access List
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927 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
928 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
929 they are read from.
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931 acl aclname acltype argument ...
932 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
cccac0a2 933
375eeb3b 934 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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937 The available options are:
938
939 -i,+i By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make them
940 case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
941 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line
942 without -i.
943
944 -n Disable lookups and address type conversions. If lookup or
945 conversion is required because the parameter type (IP or
946 domain name) does not match the message address type (domain
947 name or IP), then the ACL would immediately declare a mismatch
948 without any warnings or lookups.
949
950 -- Used to stop processing all options, in the case the first acl
951 value has '-' character as first character (for example the '-'
952 is a valid domain name)
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955 to access some external data source.
956 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
957 don't are marked as [fast].
958 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
959 for further information
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961 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
962
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963 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
964 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
0f987978 965 acl aclname dst [-n] ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
1e40905d 966 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 967
41bd17a4 968 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
969 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
970 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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972 # other *BSD variants.
973 # [fast]
41bd17a4 974 #
975 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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976 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
977 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
978
979 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
980 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
0f987978 981 acl aclname dstdomain [-n] .foo.com ...
e38c7724 982 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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983 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
984 # regex matching client name [slow]
0f987978 985 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-n] [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 986 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 987 #
41bd17a4 988 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
989 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
990 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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992 acl aclname src_as number ...
993 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 994 # [fast]
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995 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
996 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
997 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
998 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
999 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
1000 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
1001 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 1002
6db78a1a 1003 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 1004 # [fast]
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1005 # match against a named cache_peer entry
1006 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
1007
375eeb3b 1008 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 1009 # [fast]
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1010 # day-abbrevs:
1011 # S - Sunday
1012 # M - Monday
1013 # T - Tuesday
1014 # W - Wednesday
1015 # H - Thursday
1016 # F - Friday
1017 # A - Saturday
1018 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
1019
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1020 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
1021 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
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1022 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
1023 # regex matching on URL login field
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1024 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
1025 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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1027 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
1028 # ranges are alloed
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1029 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
1030 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
1031
3cc0f4e7 1032 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # *_port name [fast]
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1034 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
1035
1036 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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1038 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
1039 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 1041 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1042 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 1044 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 1045 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 1046 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 1048 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 1049 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1050 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 1051 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
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41bd17a4 1053 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
1054 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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1056 # supplied credentials [slow]
1057 #
1058 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 1059 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
1060 #
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1062 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
1063 #
41bd17a4 1064 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
1065 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
1066 # in access.log.
1067 #
1068 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
1069 # to check username/password combinations (see
1070 # auth_param directive).
1071 #
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1073 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 1074 # to respond to proxy authentication.
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41bd17a4 1076 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 1077 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 1078 # Example:
1079 #
1080 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 1082 acl aclname maxconn number
1083 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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1084 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
1085 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
1086 # indirect clients are not counted.
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41bd17a4 1088 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
1089 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
1090 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 1091 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 1092 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
1093 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
1094 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
1095 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
1096 # request is denied)
1097 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
1098 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
1099 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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1101 acl aclname random probability
1102 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
1103 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
1104 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
1105
375eeb3b 1106 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1107 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
1108 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 1109 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 1110 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
1111 # to match the returned file type.
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41bd17a4 1113 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1114 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
1115 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1116 # ACL [fast]
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375eeb3b 1118 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 1119 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
1120 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 1121 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 1122 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1123 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1124 # http_reply_access.
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41bd17a4 1126 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
1127 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
1128 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 1129 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 1131 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 1132 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 1133 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 1134
41bd17a4 1135 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
1136 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
2927ae41 1137 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
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41bd17a4 1139 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
1140 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
2927ae41 1141 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST or a numerical OID [fast]
cccac0a2 1142
41bd17a4 1143 acl aclname ext_user username ...
1144 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 1145 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 1146 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 1147
0ab50441 1148 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
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1150 # DEPRECATED. Only the first tag will match with this ACL.
1151 # Use the 'note' ACL instead for handling multiple tag values.
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1153 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
1154 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
1155 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
1156 #
1157 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
1158 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
1159 # http_reply_access.
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1162 # match transaction annotation [fast]
1163 # Without values, matches any annotation with a given name.
1164 # With value(s), matches any annotation with a given name that
1165 # also has one of the given values.
1166 # Names and values are compared using a string equality test.
1167 # Annotation sources include note and adaptation_meta directives
1168 # as well as helper and eCAP responses.
1169
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1171 # Matches the name of any icap_service, ecap_service,
1172 # adaptation_service_set, or adaptation_service_chain that Squid
1173 # has used (or attempted to use) for the master transaction.
1174 # This ACL must be defined after the corresponding adaptation
1175 # service is named in squid.conf. This ACL is usable with
1176 # adaptation_meta because it starts matching immediately after
1177 # the service has been selected for adaptation.
1178
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1181 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
cf1c09f6 1182 #
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1184 # template file.
cf1c09f6 1185 #
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1187 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
1188 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
1189 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
1190 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
1191 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
1192 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
1193 #
1194 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
1195 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
1196 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
1197 #
1198 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
1199 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
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72b12f9e 1201 acl aclname server_cert_fingerprint [-sha1] fingerprint
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1203 #
1204 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
1205 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1206 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1207 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1208 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
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652fcffd 1210 acl aclname at_step step
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1212 # Never matches and should not be used outside the ssl_bump context.
1213 #
1214 # At each SslBump step, Squid evaluates ssl_bump directives to find
1215 # the next bumping action (e.g., peek or splice). Valid SslBump step
1216 # values and the corresponding ssl_bump evaluation moments are:
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1218 # SslBump2: After getting SSL Client Hello info.
1219 # SslBump3: After getting SSL Server Hello info.
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1221 acl aclname ssl::server_name .foo.com ...
1222 # matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
1223 #
1224 # The server name is obtained during Ssl-Bump steps from such sources
1225 # as CONNECT request URI, client SNI, and SSL server certificate CN.
1226 # During each Ssl-Bump step, Squid may improve its understanding of a
1227 # "true server name". Unlike dstdomain, this ACL does not perform
1228 # DNS lookups.
1229
1230 acl aclname ssl::server_name_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
1231 # regex matches server name obtained from various sources [fast]
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1233 acl aclname any-of acl1 acl2 ...
1234 # match any one of the acls [fast or slow]
1235 # The first matching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1236 #
1237 # ACLs from multiple any-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1238 # For example, A = (a1 or a2) or (a3 or a4) can be written as
1239 # acl A any-of a1 a2
1240 # acl A any-of a3 a4
1241 #
1242 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1243 # and slow otherwise.
1244
1245 acl aclname all-of acl1 acl2 ...
1246 # match all of the acls [fast or slow]
1247 # The first mismatching ACL stops further ACL evaluation.
1248 #
1249 # ACLs from multiple all-of lines with the same name are ORed.
1250 # For example, B = (b1 and b2) or (b3 and b4) can be written as
1251 # acl B all-of b1 b2
1252 # acl B all-of b3 b4
1253 #
1254 # This group ACL is fast if all evaluated ACLs in the group are fast
1255 # and slow otherwise.
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1257 Examples:
1258 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1259 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1260 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1261 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1262 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 1263
41bd17a4 1264NOCOMMENT_START
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1266# Recommended minimum configuration:
1267#
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ee776778 1269# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1270# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1271# should be allowed
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1272acl localnet src 0.0.0.1-0.255.255.255 # RFC 1122 "this" network (LAN)
1273acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1274acl localnet src 100.64.0.0/10 # RFC 6598 shared address space (CGN)
1275acl localhet src 169.254.0.0/16 # RFC 3927 link-local (directly plugged) machines
1276acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1277acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC 1918 local private network (LAN)
1278acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1279acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 1281acl SSL_ports port 443
1282acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1283acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1284acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1285acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1286acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1287acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1288acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1289acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1290acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1291acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1292acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1293NOCOMMENT_END
1294DOC_END
cccac0a2 1295
d3d92daa 1296NAME: proxy_protocol_access
3d674977 1297TYPE: acl_access
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1298LOC: Config.accessList.proxyProtocol
1299DEFAULT: none
c390580b 1300DEFAULT_DOC: all TCP connections to ports with require-proxy-header will be denied
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1301DOC_START
1302 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1303 information regarding real client IP address using PROXY protocol.
1304
1305 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1306 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1307 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1308 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1309 * PROXY protocol connection header.
1310
1311 This directive is solely for validating new PROXY protocol
1312 connections received from a port flagged with require-proxy-header.
1313 It is checked only once after TCP connection setup.
1314
1315 A deny match results in TCP connection closure.
1316
1317 An allow match is required for Squid to permit the corresponding
1318 TCP connection, before Squid even looks for HTTP request headers.
1319 If there is an allow match, Squid starts using PROXY header information
1320 to determine the source address of the connection for all future ACL
1321 checks, logging, etc.
1322
1323 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1324
c390580b 1325 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
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1326 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
1327 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1328 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1329 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1330 based on the client's source addresses.
1331
1332 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1333 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1334DOC_END
1335
1336NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1337TYPE: acl_access
1338IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
3d674977 1339LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
3d674977 1340DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
9353df52 1341DEFAULT_DOC: X-Forwarded-For header will be ignored.
3d674977 1342DOC_START
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1343 Determine which client proxies can be trusted to provide correct
1344 information regarding real client IP address.
1345
3d674977 1346 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
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1347 before reaching us. The original source details may by sent in:
1348 * HTTP message Forwarded header, or
1349 * HTTP message X-Forwarded-For header, or
1350 * PROXY protocol connection header.
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1352 PROXY protocol connections are controlled by the proxy_protocol_access
1353 directive which is checked before this.
1354
3d674977 1355 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
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1356 directive, then we trust the information it provides regarding
1357 the IP of the client it received from (if any).
1358
1359 For the purpose of ACLs used in this directive the src ACL type always
1360 matches the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1361
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1362 On each HTTP request Squid checks for X-Forwarded-For header fields.
1363 If found the header values are iterated in reverse order and an allow
1364 match is required for Squid to continue on to the next value.
1365 The verification ends when a value receives a deny match, cannot be
1366 tested, or there are no more values to test.
1367 NOTE: Squid does not yet follow the Forwarded HTTP header.
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1369 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1370 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 1371 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 1372 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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1373 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
1374 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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1377 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1378
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1380
c390580b 1381 Any host from which we accept client IP details can place
70a16fea 1382 incorrect information in the relevant header, and Squid
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1383 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1384 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1385 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1386 based on the client's source addresses.
1387
1388 For example:
1389
1390 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1391 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1392 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1393 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1394DOC_END
1395
1396NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1397COMMENT: on|off
1398TYPE: onoff
1399IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1400DEFAULT: on
1401LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1402DOC_START
1403 Controls whether the indirect client address
1404 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1405 direct client address in acl matching.
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1407 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1408 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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1410
1411NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1412COMMENT: on|off
1413TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 1414IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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1416LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1417DOC_START
1418 Controls whether the indirect client address
1419 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1420 direct client address in delay pools.
1421DOC_END
1422
1423NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1424COMMENT: on|off
1425TYPE: onoff
1426IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1427DEFAULT: on
1428LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1429DOC_START
1430 Controls whether the indirect client address
1431 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1432 direct client address in the access log.
1433DOC_END
1434
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1435NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1436COMMENT: on|off
1437TYPE: onoff
1438IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1439DEFAULT: off
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1440LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1441DOC_START
1442 Controls whether the indirect client address
1443 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1444 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1445
1446 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1447 mode ports.
1448
1449 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1450 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
16ae256c 1451 of follow_x_forwarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1452 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1455NAME: spoof_client_ip
1456TYPE: acl_access
1457LOC: Config.accessList.spoof_client_ip
1458DEFAULT: none
1459DEFAULT_DOC: Allow spoofing on all TPROXY traffic.
1460DOC_START
1461 Control client IP address spoofing of TPROXY traffic based on
1462 defined access lists.
1463
1464 spoof_client_ip allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1465
1466 If there are no "spoof_client_ip" lines present, the default
1467 is to "allow" spoofing of any suitable request.
1468
1469 Note that the cache_peer "no-tproxy" option overrides this ACL.
1470
1471 This clause supports fast acl types.
1472 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1473DOC_END
1474
41bd17a4 1475NAME: http_access
1476TYPE: acl_access
1477LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1478DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
638402dd 1479DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1480DOC_START
1481 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
cccac0a2 1482
8a2f40dd 1483 To allow or deny a message received on an HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP port:
41bd17a4 1484 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1485
41bd17a4 1486 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1488 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1489 the request.
cccac0a2 1490
41bd17a4 1491 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1492 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1493 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1494 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1495 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1496 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1499 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1500
41bd17a4 1501NOCOMMENT_START
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1503#
1504# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1505#
e0855596 1506# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1507http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1509# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1510http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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1512# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
1513http_access allow localhost manager
1514http_access deny manager
1515
41bd17a4 1516# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1517# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1518# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1519#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1521#
1522# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1523#
c8f4eac4 1524
ee776778 1525# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1526# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1527# from where browsing should be allowed
1528http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1529http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1530
41bd17a4 1531# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1532http_access deny all
1533NOCOMMENT_END
1534DOC_END
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1536NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1537TYPE: acl_access
1538LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1539DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1540DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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1542 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1543
1544 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1545 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1546 output.
1547
1548 If not set then only http_access is used.
1549DOC_END
1550
41bd17a4 1551NAME: http_reply_access
1552TYPE: acl_access
1553LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1554DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1555DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1556DOC_START
1557 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
cccac0a2 1558
41bd17a4 1559 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1560
41bd17a4 1561 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
638402dd 1562 all replies.
1a224843 1563
41bd17a4 1564 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1565 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1566 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1568 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1569 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1570DOC_END
1571
41bd17a4 1572NAME: icp_access
1573TYPE: acl_access
1574LOC: Config.accessList.icp
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1576DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1577DOC_START
41bd17a4 1578 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1579 access lists
5473c134 1580
41bd17a4 1581 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1584 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1585 using ICP.
41bd17a4 1586
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1588 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1590# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1591#icp_access allow localnet
1592#icp_access deny all
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1594
41bd17a4 1595NAME: htcp_access
1596IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1597TYPE: acl_access
1598LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
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1600DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1601DOC_START
41bd17a4 1602 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1603 access lists
5473c134 1604
41bd17a4 1605 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1608 cache purge (CLR) HTCP messages.
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0b48417e 1610 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1611 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1612 using the htcp option.
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1615 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1617# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1618#htcp_access allow localnet
1619#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1620DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1622NAME: htcp_clr_access
1623IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1624TYPE: acl_access
1625LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
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1627DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 1628DOC_START
1629 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
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1631 See htcp_access for details on general HTCP access control.
5473c134 1632
41bd17a4 1633 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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1636 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1638# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
638402dd 1639acl htcp_clr_peer src 192.0.2.2 2001:DB8::2
41bd17a4 1640htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
638402dd 1641htcp_clr_access deny all
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1643
41bd17a4 1644NAME: miss_access
1645TYPE: acl_access
1646LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1647DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1648DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 1649DOC_START
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1650 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1651
1652 For example;
1653 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1654 a parent.
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638402dd 1656 acl localclients src 192.0.2.0/24 2001:DB8::a:0/64
41bd17a4 1657 miss_access deny !localclients
638402dd 1658 miss_access allow all
5473c134 1659
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1661 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1662 objects (HITs).
1663
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1665 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1667 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1668 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1669DOC_END
1670
1671NAME: ident_lookup_access
1672TYPE: acl_access
1673IFDEF: USE_IDENT
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1675DEFAULT_DOC: Unless rules exist in squid.conf, IDENT is not fetched.
4daaf3cb 1676LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1677DOC_START
41bd17a4 1678 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1679 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1680 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1681 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1682 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1683 any requests.
5473c134 1684
41bd17a4 1685 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1686 can follow this example:
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4daaf3cb 1688 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1689 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1690 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1691
4daaf3cb 1692 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1693 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1694 the correct result.
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1696 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1697 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1698DOC_END
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5b0f5383 1700NAME: reply_body_max_size
1701COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1702TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1703DEFAULT: none
638402dd 1704DEFAULT_DOC: No limit is applied.
5b0f5383 1705LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1706DOC_START
1707 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1708 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1709 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1710 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1711 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1712 for this reply.
1713
1714 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1715 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1716 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1717 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1718 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1719 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1720 and they will receive a partial reply.
1721
1722 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1723 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1724 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1725 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1726
1727 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1728 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1729 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1730 the size of your largest error page.
1731
1732 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1733 no limit imposed.
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1735 Configuration Format is:
1736 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1737 ie.
1738 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1739
5b0f5383 1740DOC_END
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1742NAME: on_unsupported_protocol
1743TYPE: on_unsupported_protocol
1744LOC: Config.accessList.on_unsupported_protocol
1745DEFAULT: none
1746DEFAULT_DOC: Respond with an error message to unidentifiable traffic
1747DOC_START
1748 Determines Squid behavior when encountering strange requests at the
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1750 CONNECT tunnel. Controlling Squid reaction to unexpected traffic is
1751 especially useful in interception environments where Squid is likely
1752 to see connections for unsupported protocols that Squid should either
1753 terminate or tunnel at TCP level.
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1755 on_unsupported_protocol <action> [!]acl ...
1756
56d089f3 1757 The first matching action wins. Only fast ACLs are supported.
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1759 Supported actions are:
1760
1761 tunnel: Establish a TCP connection with the intended server and
1762 blindly shovel TCP packets between the client and server.
1763
1764 respond: Respond with an error message, using the transfer protocol
1765 for the Squid port that received the request (e.g., HTTP
1766 for connections intercepted at the http_port). This is the
1767 default.
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1769 Squid expects the following traffic patterns:
1770
1771 http_port: a plain HTTP request
1772 https_port: SSL/TLS handshake followed by an [encrypted] HTTP request
1773 ftp_port: a plain FTP command (no on_unsupported_protocol support yet!)
1774 CONNECT tunnel on http_port: same as https_port
1775 CONNECT tunnel on https_port: same as https_port
1776
1777 Currently, this directive has effect on intercepted connections and
1778 bumped tunnels only. Other cases are not supported because Squid
1779 cannot know the intended destination of other traffic.
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1781 For example:
1782 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving non-HTTP traffic:
1783 acl foreignProtocol squid_error ERR_PROTOCOL_UNKNOWN ERR_TOO_BIG
1784 # define what Squid errors indicate receiving nothing:
1785 acl serverTalksFirstProtocol squid_error ERR_REQUEST_START_TIMEOUT
1786 # tunnel everything that does not look like HTTP:
1787 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel foreignProtocol
1788 # tunnel if we think the client waits for the server to talk first:
1789 on_unsupported_protocol tunnel serverTalksFirstProtocol
1790 # in all other error cases, just send an HTTP "error page" response:
1791 on_unsupported_protocol respond all
1792
1793 See also: squid_error ACL
1794DOC_END
1795
5b0f5383 1796COMMENT_START
1797 NETWORK OPTIONS
1798 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1799COMMENT_END
1800
1801NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1802TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1803DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 1804LOC: HttpPortList
5b0f5383 1805DOC_START
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1807 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1808 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1809
1810 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1811 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1812 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1813 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1814 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1815 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1816 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1817
1818 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1819 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1820
1821 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1822 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1823 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1824
1825 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1826
c7b1dd5d 1827 Modes:
5b0f5383 1828
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1830 traffic to this Squid port.
1831 NP: disables authentication on the port.
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1834 of outgoing connections using the client IP address.
1835 NP: disables authentication on the port.
5b0f5383 1836
7f45065d 1837 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1838
caf3666d 1839 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
c7b1dd5d 1840 establish secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 1841 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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1843 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1844
7a957a93 1845 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
caf3666d 1846 bumping of CONNECT requests.
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1848 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1849
1850
1851 Accelerator Mode Options:
1852
5b0f5383 1853 defaultsite=domainname
1854 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1855 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1856 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1857
cf673853 1858 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1859
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1861 requests with. Defaults to HTTP/1.1 for http_port and
1862 HTTPS/1.1 for https_port.
1863 When an unsupported value is configured Squid will
1864 produce a FATAL error.
1865 Values: HTTP or HTTP/1.1, HTTPS or HTTPS/1.1
5b0f5383 1866
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1868 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1869
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1871 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1872
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1874 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1875 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1876 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1877
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1879
7f45065d 1880 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1882
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1884 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1885 never_direct was used.
1886
1887 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1888 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1889 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1890 http_access rules when using this.
1891
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1893 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1895
1896 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1897 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1898 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1899 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1900 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1901 certificate will be selfsigned.
1902 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1903 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1904 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1905 years.
1906 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1907 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1908
1909 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1910 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1911 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 1912 default value is 4MB.
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1914 TLS / SSL Options:
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1916 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1917
1918 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1919 if not specified, the certificate file is
1920 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1921 key file.
1922
c7b1dd5d 1923 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1925 additional settings. If those settings are
1926 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1927 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1928
943c5f16 1929 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1930 being:
7905e7be 1931
3d96b0e8 1932 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 1933
3d96b0e8 1934 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 1935
3d96b0e8 1936 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 1937
3d96b0e8 1938 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 1939
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1941 Always create a new key when using
c7b1dd5d 1942 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1f1f29e8 1943
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1945 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
1946 The adopted curve should be specified
1947 using the tls-dh option.
1948
36092741 1949 NO_TICKET
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1951 Some servers may have problems
1952 understanding the TLS extension due
1953 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
1954
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1956 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1957 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1958 strength to some attacks.
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1960 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1961 more complete list.
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1963 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1964 requesting a client certificate.
1965
1966 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1967 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1968 clientca will be used.
1969
1970 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1971 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1972
1973 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1974 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1975 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1976
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1978 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
1979 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
1980 key exchanges.
1981 See OpenSSL documentation for details on how to create the
1982 DH parameter file. Supported curves for ECDH can be listed
1983 using the "openssl ecparam -list_curves" command.
1984 WARNING: EDH and EECDH ciphers will be silently disabled if
1985 this option is not set.
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1987 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1988 DELAYED_AUTH
1989 Don't request client certificates
1990 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1991 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1992 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1993 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1994 to OpenSSL.
1995 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1996 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1997 will result in a new SSL session.
1998 VERIFY_CRL
1999 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2000 certificates.
2001 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2002 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2003 client certificate chain.
2004
2005 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2006
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2008
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2010 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
2011 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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2013
5b0f5383 2014 disable-pmtu-discovery=
2015 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
2016 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
2017 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
2018 support is enabled.
2019 always disable always PMTU discovery.
2020
2021 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
2022 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
2023 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
2024 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
2025 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
2026 have such setup and experience that certain clients
2027 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
2028 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
2029
81b6e9a7 2030 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
2031 the port specification (port or addr:port)
2032
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2035 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
2036 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 2037 timeout the time before giving up.
2038
d3d92daa 2039 require-proxy-header
151ba0d4 2040 Require PROXY protocol version 1 or 2 connections.
d3d92daa 2041 The proxy_protocol_access is required to whitelist
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2043
5b0f5383 2044 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
2045 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
2046 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
2047 visible on the internal address.
2048
2049NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 2051# Squid normally listens to port 3128
2052http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
2053NOCOMMENT_END
2054DOC_END
2055
2056NAME: https_port
cb4f4424 2057IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
65d448bc 2058TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 2059DEFAULT: none
fa720bfb 2060LOC: HttpsPortList
5b0f5383 2061DOC_START
7f45065d 2062 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 2063
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2065 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 2066
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2068 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 2069
2070 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
2071 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
2072
7f45065d 2073 Modes:
5b0f5383 2074
7f45065d 2075 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
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2078 outgoing requests without browser settings.
2079 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
2080
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2082 connections using the client IP address.
2083 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2084
caf3666d 2085 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
7a957a93 2086 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
caf3666d 2087 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
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2089 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
2090
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2092 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
379e8c1c 2093
38450a50 2094 Requires tproxy or intercept.
379e8c1c 2095
7f45065d 2096 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
5b0f5383 2097
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2100
2101
2102 SSL Options:
5b0f5383 2103
2104 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
2105
2106 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
2107 if not specified, the certificate file is
2108 assumed to be a combined certificate and
2109 key file.
2110
5b0f5383 2111 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
2112
2113 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
2114 being:
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2116 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2117
2118 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2119
2120 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2121
2122 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
2123
2124 SINGLE_DH_USE
2125 Always create a new key when using
5b0f5383 2126 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2129 Enable ephemeral ECDH key exchange.
2130 The adopted curve should be specified
2131 using the tls-dh option.
2132
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2134 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2135 Some servers may have problems
2136 understanding the TLS extension due
2137 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2138
2139 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2140 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2141 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2142 strength to some attacks.
2143
2144 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2145 more complete list.
5b0f5383 2146
2147 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
2148 requesting a client certificate.
2149
2150 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
2151 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
2152 clientca will be used.
2153
2154 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
2155 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
2156
2157 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
2158 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
2159 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
2160
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2162 File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral DH key
2163 exchanges, optionally prefixed by a curve for ephemeral ECDH
2164 key exchanges.
5b0f5383 2165
2166 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
2167 DELAYED_AUTH
2168 Don't request client certificates
2169 immediately, but wait until acl processing
2170 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
2171 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2172 Don't use the default CA lists built in
2173 to OpenSSL.
2174 NO_SESSION_REUSE
2175 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
2176 will result in a new SSL session.
2177 VERIFY_CRL
2178 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
2179 certificates.
2180 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
2181 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
2182 client certificate chain.
2183
2184 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
2185
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2187 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
2188 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
2189 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
2190 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
2191 certificate will be selfsigned.
2192 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
2193 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
2194 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
2195 years.
2196 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
2197 See the sslBump option above for more information.
2198
2199 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
2200 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
2201 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
23bb0ebf 2202 default value is 4MB.
379e8c1c 2203
859741ed 2204 See http_port for a list of available options.
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2208TYPE: PortCfg
2209DEFAULT: none
8ea0d847 2210LOC: FtpPortList
434a79b0 2211DOC_START
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2213 listens for FTP client requests. See http_port directive for various
2214 ways to specify the listening address and mode.
2215
2216 Usage: ftp_port address [mode] [options]
2217
2218 WARNING: This is a new, experimental, complex feature that has seen
2219 limited production exposure. Some Squid modules (e.g., caching) do not
2220 currently work with native FTP proxying, and many features have not
2221 even been tested for compatibility. Test well before deploying!
2222
2223 Native FTP proxying differs substantially from proxying HTTP requests
2224 with ftp:// URIs because Squid works as an FTP server and receives
2225 actual FTP commands (rather than HTTP requests with FTP URLs).
2226
2227 Native FTP commands accepted at ftp_port are internally converted or
2228 wrapped into HTTP-like messages. The same happens to Native FTP
2229 responses received from FTP origin servers. Those HTTP-like messages
2230 are shoveled through regular access control and adaptation layers
2231 between the FTP client and the FTP origin server. This allows Squid to
2232 examine, adapt, block, and log FTP exchanges. Squid reuses most HTTP
2233 mechanisms when shoveling wrapped FTP messages. For example,
2234 http_access and adaptation_access directives are used.
2235
2236 Modes:
2237
3cc0f4e7 2238 intercept Same as http_port intercept. The FTP origin address is
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2240 intercepted connection.
2241
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2243 connections using the client IP address.
2244 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
2245
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2247 FTP origin address from the login@origin parameter of the FTP USER
2248 command. Many popular FTP clients support such native FTP proxying.
2249
2250 Options:
2251
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2253 the port address. Usable with myportname ACL.
2254
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2257 PWD commands and adjusting Request-URI (in wrapping
2258 HTTP requests) to reflect the current FTP server
aea65fec 2259 directory. Tracking is disabled by default.
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2262 requests with. Defaults to FTP. No other accepted
2263 values have been tested with. An unsupported value
2264 results in a FATAL error. Accepted values are FTP,
2265 HTTP (or HTTP/1.1), and HTTPS (or HTTPS/1.1).
2266
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2268 HTTPS may also work.
2269DOC_END
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41bd17a4 2271NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
2272TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 2273DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 2274LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
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2277 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 2278
41bd17a4 2279 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 2280
41bd17a4 2281 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 2282 and good_service_net uses 0x20
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2285 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 2286 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 2287 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
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41bd17a4 2289 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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2291 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 2292
41bd17a4 2293 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
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2295 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2296 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2297 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
cccac0a2 2298
41bd17a4 2299 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2300 matching line.
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2302 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2304
41bd17a4 2305NAME: clientside_tos
2306TYPE: acl_tos
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5f53baab 2310 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value for packets being transmitted
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2312
2313 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
2314
2315 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
2316 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2317
2318 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2319 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2320 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
2321 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
2322
2323 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
2324 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
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2326 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
2327 "default" to use whatever default your host has.
2328 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2329 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2330 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
2331
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2334NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
2335TYPE: acl_nfmark
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2338LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
2339DOC_START
2340 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
2341 on the server side, based on an ACL.
2342
2343 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2344
2345 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2346 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2347
2348 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2349 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2350 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2351 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
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2353 Only fast ACLs are supported.
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2354DOC_END
2355
2356NAME: clientside_mark
2357TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 2358IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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2359DEFAULT: none
2360LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 2361DOC_START
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2362 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
2363 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
2364
2365 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
2366
2367 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
2368 and good_service_net uses 0x20
2369
2370 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2371 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2372 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
2373 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
2374
2375 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
2376 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 2377DOC_END
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2379NAME: qos_flows
2380TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 2381IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 2382DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 2383LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 2384DOC_START
575cb927 2385 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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2386 connections to the client, based on where the reply was sourced.
2387 For platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
425de4c8 2388 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
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2390 By default this functionality is disabled. To enable it with the default
2391 settings simply use "qos_flows mark" or "qos_flows tos". Default
2392 settings will result in the netfilter mark or TOS value being copied
2393 from the upstream connection to the client. Note that it is the connection
2394 CONNMARK value not the packet MARK value that is copied.
2395
2396 It is not currently possible to copy the mark or TOS value from the
2397 client to the upstream connection request.
2398
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2399 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
2400 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
2401 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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2403 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255.
2404 Note that only multiples of 4 are usable as the two rightmost bits have
2405 been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
2406 The squid parser will enforce this by masking away the ECN bits.
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2407
2408 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 2409
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2410 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
2411
2412 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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2413
2414 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
2415
2416 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
2417
2418 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
2419
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2420 miss=0xFF[/mask] Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
2421 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
2422 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
2423 specified in the mask are written.
575cb927 2424
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2425 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
2426 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
2427 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
2428 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
2429 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 2430
575cb927 2431 disable-preserve-miss
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2432 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
2433 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
2434 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
2435 and masked with miss-mark.
2436 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
2437 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
2438 (MARK target).
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2439
2440 miss-mask=0xFF
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2441 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
2442 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
2443 the TOS sent towards clients.
2444 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
2445 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
2446
2447 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
2448 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
2449 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
2450 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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2452DOC_END
2453
41bd17a4 2454NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
2455TYPE: acl_address
2456DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2457DEFAULT_DOC: Address selection is performed by the operating system.
41bd17a4 2458LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
2459DOC_START
2460 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
2461 based on the username or source address of the user making
2462 the request.
7f7db318 2463
41bd17a4 2464 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
c33aa074 2465
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2466 For example;
2467 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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2469 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
2470 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
2471
2472 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
2473 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
2474
2475 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
2476 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
2477
2478 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
2479 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 2480
41bd17a4 2481 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
2482 matching line.
cccac0a2 2483
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2484 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
2485 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
2486 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
2487
2488
2489 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 2490 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
2491 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
2492 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
cc192b50 2493
2dd51400 2494 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 2495 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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2496 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
2497 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
cc192b50 2498
cccac0a2 2499DOC_END
6db78a1a 2500
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2501NAME: host_verify_strict
2502TYPE: onoff
2503DEFAULT: off
2504LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
2505DOC_START
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2506 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2507 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 2508 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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2509
2510 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
2511 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
2512 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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2513
2514 When set to ON:
2515 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
2516 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
2517
2518 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2519 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2520 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2521 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2522 and Request-URI components:
2523
2524 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2525 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2526 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2527 or FQDN.
2528
2529 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2530 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2531
2532
2533 When set to OFF (the default):
2534 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2535 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2536
2537 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2538
2539 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2540
2541 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
32c32865 2542 according to client_dst_passthru.
2962f8b8 2543
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2544 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2545 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2546 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
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2547
2548 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2549 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
bfe4e2fe 2550
bfe4e2fe 2551
7177edfb 2552 SECURITY NOTE:
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2553
2554 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2555 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2556 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2557 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2558
2559 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2560 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2561 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2562 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2563 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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2564
2565DOC_END
6b185b50 2566
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2567NAME: client_dst_passthru
2568TYPE: onoff
2569DEFAULT: on
2570LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2571DOC_START
2572 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2573 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2574 source using the HTTP Host header.
2575
2576 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2577 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2578 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2579 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2580
2581 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2582 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2583 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2584
2585 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2586 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2587 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2588
2589 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
cccac0a2 2590DOC_END
2591
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2592COMMENT_START
2593 TLS OPTIONS
2594 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2595COMMENT_END
2596
2597NAME: tls_outgoing_options
2598IFDEF: USE_GNUTLS||USE_OPENSSL
2599TYPE: securePeerOptions
2fbb02b1 2600DEFAULT: min-version=1.0
7e62a74f 2601LOC: Security::ProxyOutgoingConfig
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2602DOC_START
2603 disable Do not support https:// URLs.
2604
2605 cert=/path/to/client/certificate
2606 A client TLS certificate to use when connecting.
2607
2608 key=/path/to/client/private_key
2609 The private TLS key corresponding to the cert= above.
2610 If key= is not specified cert= is assumed to reference
2611 a PEM file containing both the certificate and the key.
2612
195f8adb 2613 cipher=... The list of valid TLS ciphers to use.
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2614
2615 min-version=1.N
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2616 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit.
2617 To control SSLv3 use the options= parameter.
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2618 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
2619
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2620 options=... Specify various TLS/SSL implementation options:
2621
2622 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
7905e7be 2623
195f8adb 2624 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
7905e7be 2625
195f8adb 2626 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
7905e7be 2627
195f8adb 2628 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
7905e7be 2629
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2630 SINGLE_DH_USE
2631 Always create a new key when using
2632 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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2633
2634 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2635 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
2636 Some servers may have problems
2637 understanding the TLS extension due
2638 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2639
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2640 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2641 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
7905e7be 2642 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
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2643 strength to some attacks.
2644
2645 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2646 more complete list.
2647
2648 cafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2649 when verifying the peer certificate.
2650
2651 capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2652 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2653
2654 crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2655 verifying the peer certificate.
2656
2657 flags=... Specify various flags modifying the TLS implementation:
2658
2659 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2660 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2661 verify.
2662 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2663 Don't use the default CA list built in
2664 to OpenSSL.
2665 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2666 Don't verify the peer certificate
2667 matches the server name
2668
2669 domain= The peer name as advertised in its certificate.
2670 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2671 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2672 used.
2673DOC_END
2674
41bd17a4 2675COMMENT_START
2676 SSL OPTIONS
2677 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2678COMMENT_END
2679
2680NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
cb4f4424 2681IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2682TYPE: onoff
2683DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 2684LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 2685DOC_START
41bd17a4 2686 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2687 messages.
cccac0a2 2688DOC_END
2689
41bd17a4 2690NAME: ssl_engine
cb4f4424 2691IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
cccac0a2 2692TYPE: string
41bd17a4 2693LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2694DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 2695DOC_START
41bd17a4 2696 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2697 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 2698DOC_END
2699
10a69fc0 2700NAME: sslproxy_session_ttl
cb4f4424 2701IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2702DEFAULT: 300
2703LOC: Config.SSL.session_ttl
2704TYPE: int
2705DOC_START
2706 Sets the timeout value for SSL sessions
2707DOC_END
2708
2709NAME: sslproxy_session_cache_size
cb4f4424 2710IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2711DEFAULT: 2 MB
2712LOC: Config.SSL.sessionCacheSize
2713TYPE: b_size_t
2714DOC_START
2715 Sets the cache size to use for ssl session
2716DOC_END
2717
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2718NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign_hash
2719IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
2720DEFAULT: none
2721LOC: Config.SSL.certSignHash
2722TYPE: string
2723DOC_START
2724 Sets the hashing algorithm to use when signing generated certificates.
2725 Valid algorithm names depend on the OpenSSL library used. The following
2726 names are usually available: sha1, sha256, sha512, and md5. Please see
2727 your OpenSSL library manual for the available hashes. By default, Squids
2728 that support this option use sha256 hashes.
2729
2730 Squid does not forcefully purge cached certificates that were generated
2731 with an algorithm other than the currently configured one. They remain
2732 in the cache, subject to the regular cache eviction policy, and become
2733 useful if the algorithm changes again.
2734DOC_END
2735
4c9da963 2736NAME: ssl_bump
cb4f4424 2737IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
caf3666d 2738TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
4c9da963 2739LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
8f165829 2740DEFAULT_DOC: Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
4c9da963 2741DEFAULT: none
2742DOC_START
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2743 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2744 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2745 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2746 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2747 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
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2748 depending on the first matching bumping "action".
2749
2750 ssl_bump <action> [!]acl ...
caf3666d 2751
8f165829 2752 The following bumping actions are currently supported:
caf3666d 2753
5d65362c 2754 splice
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2755 Become a TCP tunnel without decrypting proxied traffic.
2756 This is the default action.
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2757
2758 bump
2759 Establish a secure connection with the server and, using a
2760 mimicked server certificate, with the client.
caf3666d 2761
5d65362c 2762 peek
1110989a 2763 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2764 certificate while preserving the possibility of splicing the
2765 connection. Peeking at the server certificate (during step 2)
2766 usually precludes bumping of the connection at step 3.
caf3666d 2767
5d65362c 2768 stare
1110989a 2769 Receive client (step SslBump1) or server (step SslBump2)
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2770 certificate while preserving the possibility of bumping the
2771 connection. Staring at the server certificate (during step 2)
2772 usually precludes splicing of the connection at step 3.
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2774 terminate
2775 Close client and server connections.
2776
1110989a 2777 Backward compatibility actions available at step SslBump1:
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2778
2779 client-first
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2780 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2781 client first, then connect to the server. This old mode does
2782 not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does not
2783 work with intercepted SSL connections.
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2784
2785 server-first
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2786 Bump the connection. Establish a secure connection with the
2787 server first, then establish a secure connection with the
2788 client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2789 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections, but does
2790 not allow to make decisions based on SSL handshake info.
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2792 peek-and-splice
2793 Decide whether to bump or splice the connection based on
d620ae0e 2794 client-to-squid and server-to-squid SSL hello messages.
8f165829 2795 XXX: Remove.
caf3666d 2796
caf3666d 2797 none
8f165829 2798 Same as the "splice" action.
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2800 All ssl_bump rules are evaluated at each of the supported bumping
2801 steps. Rules with actions that are impossible at the current step are
2802 ignored. The first matching ssl_bump action wins and is applied at the
2803 end of the current step. If no rules match, the splice action is used.
652fcffd 2804 See the at_step ACL for a list of the supported SslBump steps.
4c9da963 2805
e0c0d54c 2806 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 2807 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
e0855596 2808
652fcffd 2809 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump, and acl at_step.
caf3666d 2810
e0855596 2811
caf3666d 2812 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
638402dd 2813 # localhost or those going to example.com.
e0855596 2814
e0855596 2815 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
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2816 ssl_bump splice localhost
2817 ssl_bump splice broken_sites
2818 ssl_bump bump all
4c9da963 2819DOC_END
2820
4c9da963 2821NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
cb4f4424 2822IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
4c9da963 2823DEFAULT: none
638402dd 2824DEFAULT_DOC: Server certificate errors terminate the transaction.
4c9da963 2825LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2826TYPE: acl_access
2827DOC_START
2828 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2829
2830 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 2831 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 2832 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2833
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2834 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2835 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2836 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2837
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2838 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2839 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2840 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2841
2842 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
638402dd 2843 terminate the transaction to protect Squid and the client.
4c9da963 2844
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2845 SQUID_X509_V_ERR_INFINITE_VALIDATION error cannot be bypassed
2846 but should not happen unless your OpenSSL library is buggy.
2847
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2848 SECURITY WARNING:
2849 Bypassing validation errors is dangerous because an
2850 error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted
2851 and the connection may be insecure.
4c9da963 2852
638402dd 2853 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
4c9da963 2854DOC_END
2855
aebe6888 2856NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
cb4f4424 2857IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
aebe6888 2858DEFAULT: none
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2859POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2860POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2861POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
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2862TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2863LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2864DOC_START
2865
69742b76 2866 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
aebe6888 2867
69742b76 2868 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2869
aebe6888 2870 signTrusted
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2871 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2872 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2873 default for trusted origin server certificates.
638402dd 2874
aebe6888 2875 signUntrusted
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2876 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2877 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2878 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
638402dd 2879
aebe6888 2880 signSelf
69742b76 2881 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
aebe6888 2882 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
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2883 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2884 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
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2886 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2887
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2888 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2889 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2890 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2891 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2892 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
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2894 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2895 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2896 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2897 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2898 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2899 bump-server-first is used.
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2900DOC_END
2901
638402dd 2902NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
cb4f4424 2903IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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2904DEFAULT: none
2905TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2906LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2907DOC_START
2908
2909 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2910
69742b76 2911 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
638402dd 2912
fb2178bb 2913 setValidAfter
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2914 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
2915 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
638402dd 2916
fb2178bb 2917 setValidBefore
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2918 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2919 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
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2921 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2922 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2923 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2924 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2925 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2926 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
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2929
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2931 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2932 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2933 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2934 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2935 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
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2938 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2939 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2940 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2941 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2942 bump-server-first is used.
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2944
41bd17a4 2945NAME: sslpassword_program
cb4f4424 2946IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
41bd17a4 2947DEFAULT: none
2948LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2949TYPE: string
5473c134 2950DOC_START
41bd17a4 2951 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2952 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2953 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2954 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2956 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2957 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2958 keys.
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2960
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2962 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2963 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2964COMMENT_END
2965
2966NAME: sslcrtd_program
2967TYPE: eol
2968IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2969DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2970LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2971DOC_START
2972 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2973 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2974 For more information use:
2975 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2976DOC_END
2977
2978NAME: sslcrtd_children
2979TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2980IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2981DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2982LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2983DOC_START
2984 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2985 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2986
2987 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2988 tuning.
2989
2990 startup=N
2991
2992 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2993 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2994 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2995
2996 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2997 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2998
2999 idle=N
3000
3001 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3002 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3003 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3004 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3006 queue-size=N
3007
3008 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3009 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3010 squid aborts its operation.
3011 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3013 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
3014DOC_END
3015
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3017TYPE: eol
cb4f4424 3018IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
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3020LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
3021DOC_START
3022 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
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3024
3025 Usage: sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
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3027 Options:
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3031
3032NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
3033TYPE: HelperChildConfig
cb4f4424 3034IFDEF: USE_OPENSSL
413bb969 3035DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
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3036LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
3037DOC_START
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3040
3041 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3042 tuning.
3043
3044 startup=N
3045
3046 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
3047 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3048 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3049
3050 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
3051 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
3052
3053 idle=N
3054
3055 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3056 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3057 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3058 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
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3060 concurrency=
3061
3062 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
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3064 support concurrency. Defaults to 1.
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3065
3066 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3067 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3068 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3069 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3070 to that request.
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3072 queue-size=N
3073
3074 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
3075 If the queued requests exceed queue size for more than 3 minutes
3076 squid aborts its operation.
3077 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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3079 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
3080DOC_END
3081
cccac0a2 3082COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 3083 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 3084 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3085COMMENT_END
3086
41bd17a4 3087NAME: cache_peer
3088TYPE: peer
3089DEFAULT: none
3090LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 3091DOC_START
41bd17a4 3092 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 3094 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 3095
41bd17a4 3096 For example,
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41bd17a4 3098 # proxy icp
3099 # hostname type port port options
3100 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 3101 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 3102 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
3103 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 3104 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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3105 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
3106
3107 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
3108
3109 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
3110 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
3111 For web servers this is usually 80
3112
3113 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
3114 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
3115 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
3116
3117
3118 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
3119
3120 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
3121 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
3122
3123
3124 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
3125
3126 multicast-responder
3127 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
3128 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
3129 replies will be accepted from it.
3130
3131 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
3132 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
3133
3134 background-ping
3135 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
3136 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
3137 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
3138
3139
3140 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
3141
3142 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
3143 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
3144
3145
3146 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
3147 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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3149 list of options described below.
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18191440 3151 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
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18191440 3153 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 3154 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 3155 only-clr.
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3157 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
3158 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 3160 htcp=no-purge-clr
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3161 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
3162 they do not result from PURGE requests.
3163
18191440 3164 htcp=forward-clr
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3165 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
3166
3167
3168 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
3169
3170 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
3171 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
3172
3173
3174 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
3175 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
3176 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
3177
3178 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3179 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
3180 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3181
3182 weighted-round-robin
3183 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
3184 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
3185 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
3186 Usually used for background-ping parents.
3187 weight=N can be used to add bias.
3188
3189 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
3190 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
3191 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
3192
3193 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
3194
3195 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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3197 multicast-siblings
3198 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
3199 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 3200 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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3201 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
3202 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
3203 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
3204 members of the same multicast group.
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3205
3206
3207 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
3208
3209 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
3210 peer-selection mechanisms.
3211 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
3212 larger weights are favored more.
3213 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
3214 protocol is not in use.
3215
3216 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
3217 times of parents.
3218 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
3219 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
3220 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
3221
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3222 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
3223 to this address.
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3224 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
3225 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
3226 hosts, you must configure other group members as
3227 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
3228
3229 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
3230 delay pools.
3231
3232 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
3233 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
3234 than the Squid default location.
3235
3236
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3238
3239 carp-key=key-specification
3240 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
3241 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
3242 scheme, host, port, path, params
3243 Order is not important.
3244
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3246
3247 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
3248 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
3249 is a web server.
3250
3251 forceddomain=name
3252 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
3253 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
3254 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
3255 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
3256
3257 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
3258
3259 no-netdb-exchange
3260 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
3261
3262
3263 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
3264
3265 login=user:password
3266 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3267 requires proxy authentication.
3268
3269 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
3270 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
3271
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3272 login=PASSTHRU
3273 Send login details received from client to this peer.
3274 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
3275 without alteration to the peer.
3276 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
3277
3278 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
3279 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
3280 connection-auth options are also used.
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3282 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
3283 Authentication is not required by this option.
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3285 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
3286 to pass on, but username and password are available
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3288 they may be sent instead.
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3289
3290 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
3291 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
3292 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
3293 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
3294 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
3295
3296 login=*:password
3297 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
3298 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
3299 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
3300 needed to identify each user.
3301 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
3302 information which is added to the username. This can
3303 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
3304 the login=username:password option above.
3305
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3306 login=NEGOTIATE
3307 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3308 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3309 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
3310 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
3311
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3313 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3314 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3315
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3316 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
3317 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
3318 requires a secure proxy authentication.
3319 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
3320 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
3321 used.
3322
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3323 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
3324 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
3325 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
3326
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3327 connection-auth=on|off
3328 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
3329 connection oriented authentication, and any such
3330 challenges received from there should be ignored.
3331 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
3332 of the peer.
3333
3334
3335 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
3336
3337 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
3338
3339 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
3340 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
3341 this peer.
3342
3343 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
3344 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
3345 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
3346 reference a combined file containing both the
3347 certificate and the key.
3348
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3349 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
3350 to this peer.
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3351
3352 tls-min-version=1.N
3353 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
3354 SSLv3 use the ssloptions= parameter.
3355 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
3356
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3358
3d96b0e8 3359 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1f1f29e8 3360
3d96b0e8 3361 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1f1f29e8 3362
3d96b0e8 3363 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1f1f29e8 3364
3d96b0e8 3365 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1f1f29e8 3366
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3367 SINGLE_DH_USE
3368 Always create a new key when using
3369 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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3370
3371 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
3372 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets.
3373 Some servers may have problems
3374 understanding the TLS extension due
3375 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
3376
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3377 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
3378 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
3379 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
3380 strength to some attacks.
3381
3382 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
3383 more complete list.
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3384
3385 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
3386 when verifying the peer certificate.
3387
3388 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
3389 use when verifying the peer certificate.
3390
3391 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
3392 verifying the peer certificate.
3393
3394 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
3395
41bd17a4 3396 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
3397 Accept certificates even if they fail to
3398 verify.
1f1f29e8 3399
41bd17a4 3400 NO_DEFAULT_CA
3401 Don't use the default CA list built in
3402 to OpenSSL.
1f1f29e8 3403
41bd17a4 3404 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
3405 Don't verify the peer certificate
3406 matches the server name
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3408 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
3409 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
3410 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
3411 used.
3412
3413 front-end-https
3414 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
3415 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
3416 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
3417 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
3418 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
3419
3420
3421 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
3422
3423 connect-timeout=N
3424 A peer-specific connect timeout.
3425 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
3426
3427 connect-fail-limit=N
3428 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
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3430 count towards this limit. Default is 10.
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3431
3432 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
3433 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
3434 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
3435 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
3436 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
3437 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
3438 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
3439
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3440 max-conn=N Limit the number of concurrent connections the Squid
3441 may open to this peer, including already opened idle
3442 and standby connections. There is no peer-specific
3443 connection limit by default.
3444
3445 A peer exceeding the limit is not used for new
3446 requests unless a standby connection is available.
3447
3448 max-conn currently works poorly with idle persistent
3449 connections: When a peer reaches its max-conn limit,
3450 and there are idle persistent connections to the peer,
3451 the peer may not be selected because the limiting code
3452 does not know whether Squid can reuse those idle
3453 connections.
3454
3455 standby=N Maintain a pool of N "hot standby" connections to an
3456 UP peer, available for requests when no idle
3457 persistent connection is available (or safe) to use.
3458 By default and with zero N, no such pool is maintained.
3459 N must not exceed the max-conn limit (if any).
3460
3461 At start or after reconfiguration, Squid opens new TCP
3462 standby connections until there are N connections
3463 available and then replenishes the standby pool as
3464 opened connections are used up for requests. A used
3465 connection never goes back to the standby pool, but
3466 may go to the regular idle persistent connection pool
3467 shared by all peers and origin servers.
3468
3469 Squid never opens multiple new standby connections
3470 concurrently. This one-at-a-time approach minimizes
3471 flooding-like effect on peers. Furthermore, just a few
3472 standby connections should be sufficient in most cases
3473 to supply most new requests with a ready-to-use
3474 connection.
3475
3476 Standby connections obey server_idle_pconn_timeout.
3477 For the feature to work as intended, the peer must be
3478 configured to accept and keep them open longer than
3479 the idle timeout at the connecting Squid, to minimize
3480 race conditions typical to idle used persistent
3481 connections. Default request_timeout and
3482 server_idle_pconn_timeout values ensure such a
3483 configuration.
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3485 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
3486 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
3487 but different ports.
3488 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
3489 directives to dentify the peer.
3490 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
3491 peername ACL type.
3492
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3493 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
3494 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
0d901ef4 3495 This overrides the spoof_client_ip ACL.
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3497 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
3498
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41bd17a4 3501NAME: cache_peer_access
3502TYPE: peer_access
3503DEFAULT: none
3504LOC: none
3505DOC_START
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3506 Use to limit the requests for which a neighbor proxy will be
3507 queried. Peers with no restrictions are queried for all requests.
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3509 Usage:
3510 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 3512 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
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3513 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access', or the
3514 Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 3515DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3517NAME: neighbor_type_domain
3518TYPE: hostdomaintype
3519DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3520DEFAULT_DOC: The peer type from cache_peer directive is used for all requests to that peer.
41bd17a4 3521LOC: none
3522DOC_START
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3523 Modify the cache_peer neighbor type when passing requests
3524 about specific domains to the peer.
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3526 Usage:
3527 neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
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3529 For example:
3530 cache_peer foo.example.com parent 3128 3130
3531 neighbor_type_domain foo.example.com sibling .au .de
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3533 The above configuration treats all requests to foo.example.com as a
3534 parent proxy unless the request is for a .au or .de ccTLD domain name.
41bd17a4 3535DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3537NAME: dead_peer_timeout
3538COMMENT: (seconds)
3539DEFAULT: 10 seconds
3540TYPE: time_t
3541LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
3542DOC_START
3543 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
3544 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
3545 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
3546 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
3547 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
3548 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 3549
41bd17a4 3550 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
3551 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
3552 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
3553 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
3554 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
3555 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
3556 instead of to your parents.
3557DOC_END
cccac0a2 3558
437823b4 3559NAME: forward_max_tries
6c367206 3560DEFAULT: 25
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3561TYPE: int
3562LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
3563DOC_START
3564 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
3565 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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3566
3567 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
3568 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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3569DOC_END
3570
41bd17a4 3571COMMENT_START
3572 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
3573 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3574COMMENT_END
3575
3576NAME: cache_mem
3577COMMENT: (bytes)
3578TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3579DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 3580LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 3581DOC_START
41bd17a4 3582 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
3583 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
3584 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3585 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3586
3587 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3588 for:
3589 * In-Transit objects
3590 * Hot Objects
3591 * Negative-Cached objects
3592
3593 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3594 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3595 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3596 priority.
3597
3598 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3599 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3600 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3601 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3602 not needed for in-transit objects.
3603
3604 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3605 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3606 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3607 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3608 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3609 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3610 objects.
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3611
3612 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3613 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3614 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3615 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 3616DOC_END
0976f8db 3617
41bd17a4 3618NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3619COMMENT: (bytes)
3620TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 3621DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 3622LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 3623DOC_START
41bd17a4 3624 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3625 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3626 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3627 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 3628DOC_END
0976f8db 3629
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3630NAME: memory_cache_shared
3631COMMENT: on|off
3632TYPE: YesNoNone
3633LOC: Config.memShared
3634DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 3635DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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3636DOC_START
3637 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3638
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3639 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3640 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3641 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3642 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3643 caching is enabled).
3644
65b81b27 3645 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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3646 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3647 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3648 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3649 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3650
3651 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3652 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3653 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3654
3655 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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3657
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3658NAME: memory_cache_mode
3659TYPE: memcachemode
3660LOC: Config
3661DEFAULT: always
638402dd 3662DEFAULT_DOC: Keep the most recently fetched objects in memory
ff4b33f4 3663DOC_START
ea21d497 3664 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 3665
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3666 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3667
3668 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3669 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3670 a second time before cached in memory.
3671
3672 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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3673DOC_END
3674
41bd17a4 3675NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3676TYPE: removalpolicy
3677LOC: Config.memPolicy
3678DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 3679DOC_START
41bd17a4 3680 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3681 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 3682
638402dd 3683 See cache_replacement_policy for details on algorithms.
41bd17a4 3684DOC_END
6b698a21 3685
41bd17a4 3686COMMENT_START
3687 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3688 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3689COMMENT_END
6b698a21 3690
41bd17a4 3691NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3692TYPE: removalpolicy
3693LOC: Config.replPolicy
3694DEFAULT: lru
3695DOC_START
3696 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3697 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 3698
41bd17a4 3699 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3700 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3701 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3702 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 3703
638402dd 3704 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this directive.
7f7db318 3705
41bd17a4 3706 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 3707
41bd17a4 3708 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3709 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3710 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3711 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 3712
41bd17a4 3713 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3714 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3715 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3716 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 3717
41bd17a4 3718 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3719 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3720 replacement policies.
7d90757b 3721
41bd17a4 3722 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
b51ec8c8 3723 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4 MB to
41bd17a4 3724 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 3725
41bd17a4 3726 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3727 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3728 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 3729DOC_END
0976f8db 3730
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3731NAME: minimum_object_size
3732COMMENT: (bytes)
3733TYPE: b_int64_t
3734DEFAULT: 0 KB
3735DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
3736LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3737DOC_START
3738 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3739 value is specified in bytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3740 means all responses can be stored.
3741DOC_END
3742
3743NAME: maximum_object_size
3744COMMENT: (bytes)
3745TYPE: b_int64_t
3746DEFAULT: 4 MB
3747LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3748DOC_START
499f852c 3749 Set the default value for max-size parameter on any cache_dir.
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3750 The value is specified in bytes, and the default is 4 MB.
3751
3752 If you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3753 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3754 hits).
3755
3756 If you wish to increase hit ratio more than you want to
3757 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3758
3759 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3760 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3761 See cache_replacement_policy for a discussion of this policy.
3762DOC_END
3763
41bd17a4 3764NAME: cache_dir
3765TYPE: cachedir
3766DEFAULT: none
638402dd 3767DEFAULT_DOC: No disk cache. Store cache ojects only in memory.
41bd17a4 3768LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 3769DOC_START
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3770 Format:
3771 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 3772
41bd17a4 3773 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3774 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 3775
41bd17a4 3776 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3777 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3778 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 3779
41bd17a4 3780 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3781 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3782 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3783 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3784 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
0976f8db 3785
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3786 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3787 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3788 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3789
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3790
3791 ==== The ufs store type ====
0976f8db 3792
41bd17a4 3793 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3794 been there.
0976f8db 3795
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3796 Usage:
3797 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 3798
41bd17a4 3799 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3800 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3801 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3802 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3803 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 3804
56fba4d0 3805 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3806 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 3807
56fba4d0 3808 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 3809 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3810 is 256.
0976f8db 3811
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3813 ==== The aufs store type ====
7f7db318 3814
41bd17a4 3815 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3816 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3817 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 3818
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3819 Usage:
3820 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 3821
41bd17a4 3822 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 3823
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3824
3825 ==== The diskd store type ====
38f9c547 3826
41bd17a4 3827 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3828 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3829 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 3830
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3831 Usage:
3832 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 3833
41bd17a4 3834 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 3835
41bd17a4 3836 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3837 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3838 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 3839
41bd17a4 3840 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3841 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3842 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 3843
41bd17a4 3844 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3845 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3846 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3847 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3848 time.
0976f8db 3849
e2851fe7 3850
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3851 ==== The rock store type ====
3852
3853 Usage:
e51ce7da 3854 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes [options]
e2851fe7 3855
2e55f083 3856 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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3857 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots.
3858 A single entry occupies one or more slots.
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3860 If possible, Squid using Rock Store creates a dedicated kid
3861 process called "disker" to avoid blocking Squid worker(s) on disk
3862 I/O. One disker kid is created for each rock cache_dir. Diskers
3863 are created only when Squid, running in daemon mode, has support
3864 for the IpcIo disk I/O module.
3865
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3866 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3867 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3868 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3869 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3870 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3871 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3872 expected swap wait time.
3873
df881a0f 3874 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 3875 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 3876 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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3877 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3878 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3879 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3880 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3881 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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3882 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3883 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3884 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3885 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3886 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3887 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3888
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3890 storing cached responses. A cached response occupies at least
3891 one slot and all database I/O is done using individual slots so
3892 increasing this parameter leads to more disk space waste while
3893 decreasing it leads to more disk I/O overheads. Should be a
3894 multiple of your operating system I/O page size. Defaults to
3895 16KBytes. A housekeeping header is stored with each slot and
3896 smaller slot-sizes will be rejected. The header is smaller than
3897 100 bytes.
3898
df881a0f 3899
638402dd 3900 ==== COMMON OPTIONS ====
0976f8db 3901
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3902 no-store no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir.
3903
3904 min-size=n the minimum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3905 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir
3906 to only store large objects (e.g. AUFS) while
3907 other stores are optimized for smaller objects
73656056 3908 (e.g. Rock).
638402dd 3909 Defaults to 0.
0976f8db 3910
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3911 max-size=n the maximum object size in bytes this cache_dir
3912 supports.
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3913 The value in maximum_object_size directive sets
3914 the default unless more specific details are
3915 available (ie a small store capacity).
b6662ffd 3916
41bd17a4 3917 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
638402dd 3918 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first.
0976f8db 3919
bebc043b 3920NOCOMMENT_START
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3921
3922# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3923#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 3924NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 3925DOC_END
0976f8db 3926
41bd17a4 3927NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3928TYPE: string
3929LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3930DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 3931DOC_START
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3932 How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response
3933 object will fit into more than one.
3934
3935 Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size
3936 and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect
3937 the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered
3938 cache_dir.
3939
3940 Algorithms:
3941
3942 least-load
3943
3944 This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir
3945 sizes and disk speeds.
3946
3947 The disk with the least I/O pending is selected.
3948 When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking
3949 the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected.
3950
3951 When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks
3952 have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more
3953 capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput
3954 may be very unbalanced towards larger disks.
3955
3956
3957 round-robin
3958
3959 This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir
3960 disk sizes.
3961
3962 Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable
3963 cache_dir is used.
3964
3965 Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation
3966 to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and
3967 max-size parameters.
3968
3969 Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow
3970 disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any
3971 I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile.
3972
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3974 limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such
3975 cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias
3976 towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave
3977 cache_dir lines from different groups. For example:
3978
3979 store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin
3980 cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000
3981 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999
3982 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000
3983 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999
3984 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000
3985 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999
6b698a21 3986DOC_END
0976f8db 3987
41bd17a4 3988NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3989TYPE: int
3990LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3991DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 3992DEFAULT_DOC: no limit
6b698a21 3993DOC_START
41bd17a4 3994 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3995 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3996 descriptors are open.
3997
3998 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 3999DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4001NAME: cache_swap_low
4002COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 4003TYPE: int
41bd17a4 4004DEFAULT: 90
4005LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
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4006DOC_START
4007 The low-water mark for cache object replacement.
4008 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
4009 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
4010 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
4011 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
4012 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
4013
4014 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4015 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4016 numbers closer together.
4017
4018 See also cache_swap_high
4019DOC_END
41bd17a4 4020
4021NAME: cache_swap_high
4022COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4023TYPE: int
4024DEFAULT: 95
4025LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 4026DOC_START
638402dd 4027 The high-water mark for cache object replacement.
41bd17a4 4028 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
4029 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
4030 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
4031 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
4032 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
4033
4034 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
4035 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
4036 numbers closer together.
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4037
4038 See also cache_swap_low
6b698a21 4039DOC_END
0976f8db 4040
5473c134 4041COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 4042 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 4043 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4044COMMENT_END
0976f8db 4045
41bd17a4 4046NAME: logformat
4047TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 4048LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 4049DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4050DEFAULT_DOC: The format definitions squid, common, combined, referrer, useragent are built in.
6b698a21 4051DOC_START
41bd17a4 4052 Usage:
0976f8db 4053
41bd17a4 4054 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 4055
41bd17a4 4056 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 4057
41bd17a4 4058 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 4059
41bd17a4 4060 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
4061 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
4062 as required according to their context and the output format
4063 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
4064 output format is desired.
6b698a21 4065
41bd17a4 4066 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 4067
41bd17a4 4068 " output in quoted string format
4069 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
4070 # output in URL quoted format
4071 ' output as-is
5473c134 4072
41bd17a4 4073 - left aligned
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4075 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
4076 [width_min][.width_max]
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4078 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 4079
41bd17a4 4080 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 4081
41bd17a4 4082 Format codes:
5473c134 4083
3ff65596 4084 % a literal % character
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4085 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
4086 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
4087 a similar internal error identifier.
4088 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
c7bcf010 4089 note The annotation specified by the argument. Also
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4090 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
4091 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
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4092 If no argument given all annotations logged.
4093 The argument may include a separator to use with
4094 annotation values:
4095 name[:separator]
4096 By default, multiple note values are separated with ","
4097 and multiple notes are separated with "\r\n".
4098 When logging named notes with %{name}note, the
4099 explicitly configured separator is used between note
4100 values. When logging all notes with %note, the
4101 explicitly configured separator is used between
4102 individual notes. There is currently no way to
4103 specify both value and notes separators when logging
4104 all notes with %note.
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4105
4106 Connection related format codes:
4107
41bd17a4 4108 >a Client source IP address
4109 >A Client FQDN
4110 >p Client source port
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4111 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
4112 >la Local IP address the client connected to
4113 >lp Local port number the client connected to
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4114 >qos Client connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4115 >nfmark Client connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4117 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
4118 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
4119
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4120 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
4121 <A Server FQDN or peer name
4122 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 4123 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 4124 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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4125 <qos Server connection TOS/DSCP value set by Squid
4126 <nfmark Server connection netfilter mark set by Squid
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4127
4128 Time related format codes:
4129
41bd17a4 4130 ts Seconds since epoch
4131 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
4132 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4133 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4134 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 4135 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 4136 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3ff65596 4137 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
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4138 tS Approximate master transaction start time in
4139 <full seconds since epoch>.<fractional seconds> format.
4140 Currently, Squid considers the master transaction
4141 started when a complete HTTP request header initiating
4142 the transaction is received from the client. This is
4143 the same value that Squid uses to calculate transaction
4144 response time when logging %tr to access.log. Currently,
4145 Squid uses millisecond resolution for %tS values,
4146 similar to the default access.log "current time" field
4147 (%ts.%03tu).
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4149 Access Control related format codes:
4150
4151 et Tag returned by external acl
4152 ea Log string returned by external acl
4153 un User name (any available)
4154 ul User name from authentication
4155 ue User name from external acl helper
4156 ui User name from ident
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4157 un A user name. Expands to the first available name
4158 from the following list of information sources:
4159 - authenticated user name, like %ul
4160 - user name supplied by an external ACL, like %ue
4161 - SSL client name, like %us
4162 - ident user name, like %ui
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4163 credentials Client credentials. The exact meaning depends on
4164 the authentication scheme: For Basic authentication,
4165 it is the password; for Digest, the realm sent by the
4166 client; for NTLM and Negotiate, the client challenge
4167 or client credentials prefixed with "YR " or "KK ".
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4168
4169 HTTP related format codes:
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4171 REQUEST
4172
4173 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
4174 [http::]>rm Request method from client
4175 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
4176 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
4177 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
4178 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
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4179 [http::]>rs Request URL scheme from client
4180 [http::]<rs Request URL scheme sent to server or peer
fa450988 4181 [http::]>rd Request URL domain from client
f42ac6e6 4182 [http::]<rd Request URL domain sent to server or peer
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4183 [http::]>rP Request URL port from client
4184 [http::]<rP Request URL port sent to server or peer
4185 [http::]rp Request URL path excluding hostname
4186 [http::]>rp Request URL path excluding hostname from client
4187 [http::]<rp Request URL path excluding hostname sent to server or peer
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4188 [http::]rv Request protocol version
4189 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
4190 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
4191
5aca9cf2 4192 [http::]>h Original received request header.
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4193 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4194 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
4195 Accepts optional header field name/value filter
4196 argument using name[:[separator]element] format.
4197 [http::]>ha Received request header after adaptation and
4198 redirection (pre-cache REQMOD vectoring point).
4199 Usually differs from the request header sent by
4200 Squid, although most fields are often preserved.
6fca33e0 4201 Optional header name argument as for >h
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4202
4203
4204 RESPONSE
4205
4206 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
4207 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
4208
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4209 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
4210 as for >h
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4211
4212 [http::]mt MIME content type
4213
4214
4215 SIZE COUNTERS
4216
4217 [http::]st Total size of request + reply traffic with client
4218 [http::]>st Total size of request received from client.
4219 Excluding chunked encoding bytes.
4220 [http::]<st Total size of reply sent to client (after adaptation)
4221
4222 [http::]>sh Size of request headers received from client
4223 [http::]<sh Size of reply headers sent to client (after adaptation)
4224
4225 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
4226 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
4227
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4228 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
4229 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
4230 transfer encoding and control messages.
4231 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
4232 received bodies.
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4233
4234
4235 TIMING
4236
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4237 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
4238 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
4239 and stops when the last response byte is received.
d5430dc8 4240 [http::]<tt Total time in milliseconds. The timer
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4241 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
4242 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
4243 with the last I/O with the last peer.
4244
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4245 Squid handling related format codes:
4246
4247 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
4248 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
4249
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4250 SSL-related format codes:
4251
4252 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
4253
4254 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
4255 a connection and for any request received on
4256 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
4257 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
4258 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
4259 more information about these modes.
4260
4261 A "none" token is logged for requests that
4262 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
4263 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
4264
4265 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
4266 logged.
4267
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4268 ssl::>sni SSL client SNI sent to Squid. Available only
4269 after the peek, stare, or splice SSL bumping
4270 actions.
4271
5038f9d8 4272 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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4273 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
4274
4275 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
4276 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
4277 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
4278 transaction is in progress.
4279
5038f9d8 4280 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 4281
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4282 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
4283 meta-information from the last eCAP
4284 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
4285 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
4286 argument.
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4287
4288 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
4289 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
4290 the order of transaction start time. Each time
4291 value is recorded as an integer number,
4292 representing response time of one or more
4293 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
4294 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
4295 being retried or repeated, its time is not
4296 logged individually but added to the
4297 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
4298 adapt::all_trs.
4299
4300 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
4301 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
4302 individual transactions are never added
4303 together. Instead, all transaction response
4304 times are recorded individually.
4305
4306 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
4307 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
4308 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
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4310 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
4311
4312 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
4313 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4314 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4315 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4316 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
4317
4318 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
4319 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
4320 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
4321 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
4322 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
4323
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4324 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
4325
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4326logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
4327logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
4328logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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4329logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
4330logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
4331
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4332 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
4333 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
4334 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
4335
4336 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
4337 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
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4340
41bd17a4 4341NAME: access_log cache_access_log
4342TYPE: access_log
4343LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 4344DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 4345DOC_START
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4346 Configures whether and how Squid logs HTTP and ICP transactions.
4347 If access logging is enabled, a single line is logged for every
4348 matching HTTP or ICP request. The recommended directive formats are:
4349
4350 access_log <module>:<place> [option ...] [acl acl ...]
4351 access_log none [acl acl ...]
4352
4353 The following directive format is accepted but may be deprecated:
82b7abe3 4354 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
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4355
4356 In most cases, the first ACL name must not contain the '=' character
4357 and should not be equal to an existing logformat name. You can always
4358 start with an 'all' ACL to work around those restrictions.
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4359
4360 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 4361 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
4362 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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4363 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
4364
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4365 ===== Available options for the recommended directive format =====
4366
4367 logformat=name Names log line format (either built-in or
4368 defined by a logformat directive). Defaults
4369 to 'squid'.
4370
4371 buffer-size=64KB Defines approximate buffering limit for log
4372 records (see buffered_logs). Squid should not
4373 keep more than the specified size and, hence,
4374 should flush records before the buffer becomes
4375 full to avoid overflows under normal
4376 conditions (the exact flushing algorithm is
4377 module-dependent though). The on-error option
4378 controls overflow handling.
4379
4380 on-error=die|drop Defines action on unrecoverable errors. The
4381 'drop' action ignores (i.e., does not log)
4382 affected log records. The default 'die' action
4383 kills the affected worker. The drop action
4384 support has not been tested for modules other
4385 than tcp.
4386
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4387 rotate=N Specifies the number of log file rotations to
4388 make when you run 'squid -k rotate'. The default
4389 is to obey the logfile_rotate directive. Setting
4390 rotate=0 will disable the file name rotation,
4391 but the log files are still closed and re-opened.
4392 This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4393 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
4394 Only supported by the stdio module.
4395
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4396 ===== Modules Currently available =====
4397
bb7a1781 4398 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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4399 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
4400
4401 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
4402 each request.
4403 Place: the filename and path to be written.
4404
4405 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
4406 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
4407 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
4408
4409 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
4410
4411 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
4412 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
4413 Place Format: facility.priority
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4415 where facility could be any of:
4416 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
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4418 And priority could be any of:
4419 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
4420
4421 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
4422 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4423 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 4424
2bf4e8fa 4425 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
fb0c2f17 4426 Lines may be accumulated before sending (see buffered_logs).
2bf4e8fa 4427 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 4428 Place Format: //host:port
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4429
4430 Default:
82b7abe3 4431 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
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4434NAME: icap_log
4435TYPE: access_log
4436IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
4437LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
4438DEFAULT: none
4439DOC_START
4440 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
4441 transaction.
4442
4443 The icap_log option format is:
4444 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
4445 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
4446
4447 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
4448 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
4449 features.
4450
4451 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
4452 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
4453 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
4454 log line.
4455
4456 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
4457 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
4458 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
4459 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
4460 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
4461 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
4462 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
4463
4464 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
4465
4466 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
4467
4468 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
4469 option in Squid configuration file.
4470
4471 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
4472
4473 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
4474 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
4475
4476 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
4477 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
4478
4479 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
4480 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
4481 the socket).
4482
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4483 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
4484 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
4485 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
4486 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
4487 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
4488 computed.
4489
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4490 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
4491 milliseconds). The timer starts when
4492 the ICAP transaction is created and
4493 stops when the transaction is completed.
4494 Similar to tr.
4495
4496 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
4497 timer starts when the first ICAP request
4498 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
4499 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
4500 is received.
4501
4502 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
4503 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
4504 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
4505 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
4506 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
4507 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
4508
4509 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
4510
4511 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
4512
4513 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
4514
4515 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
4516 definition, is called icap_squid:
4517
4518logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
4519
5038f9d8 4520 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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4522
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4523NAME: logfile_daemon
4524TYPE: string
4525DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
4526LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
4527DOC_START
4528 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
4529 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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4530
4531 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
4532 L<data>\n - logfile data
4533 R\n - rotate file
4534 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 4535 O\n - reopen file
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4536 F\n - flush file
4537 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
4538 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
4539
4540 No responses is expected.
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4541DOC_END
4542
8ebad780 4543NAME: stats_collection
3ff65596 4544TYPE: acl_access
8ebad780 4545LOC: Config.accessList.stats_collection
3ff65596 4546DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4547DEFAULT_DOC: Allow logging for all transactions.
5b0f5383 4548COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
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4550 This options allows you to control which requests gets accounted
4551 in performance counters.
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4552
4553 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4554 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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4556
41bd17a4 4557NAME: cache_store_log
4558TYPE: string
df2eec10 4559DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4560LOC: Config.Log.store
4561DOC_START
4562 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
4563 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
6d1dfcfc 4564 saved and for how long.
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4566 disable it (the default).
4567
4568 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
4569 of modules supported.
4570
e0855596 4571 Example:
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4572 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
4573 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
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4575
41bd17a4 4576NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
4577TYPE: string
4578LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 4579DEFAULT: none
638402dd 4580DEFAULT_DOC: Store the journal inside its cache_dir
5473c134 4581DOC_START
41bd17a4 4582 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
4583 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
4584 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
4585 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
4586 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
4587 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
4588 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
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41bd17a4 4590 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
4591 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
4592 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
4593 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 4594
41bd17a4 4595 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
4596 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 4597
41bd17a4 4598 cache_swap_log.00
4599 cache_swap_log.01
4600 cache_swap_log.02
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41bd17a4 4602 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
4603 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
4604 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
4605 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
4606 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
4607 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
4608 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 4609DOC_END
4610
41bd17a4 4611NAME: logfile_rotate
4612TYPE: int
4613DEFAULT: 10
4614LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 4615DOC_START
efc23871 4616 Specifies the default number of logfile rotations to make when you
41bd17a4 4617 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
4618 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
4619 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
4620 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
4621 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
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4623 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option is only a default for cache.log,
4624 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options.
4625
4626 Note, from Squid-3.6 this option is only a default for access.log
4627 recorded by stdio: module. Those logs can be rotated separately by
4628 using the rotate=N option on their access_log directive.
4629
41bd17a4 4630 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
4631 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
4632 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
4633 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
4634 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
4635 <pid>'.
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41bd17a4 4637DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4639NAME: mime_table
4640TYPE: string
4641DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
4642LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
4643DOC_START
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4644 Path to Squid's icon configuration file.
4645
4646 You shouldn't need to change this, but the default file contains
4647 examples and formatting information if you do.
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4649
41bd17a4 4650NAME: log_mime_hdrs
4651COMMENT: on|off
4652TYPE: onoff
4653LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
4654DEFAULT: off
4655DOC_START
4656 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
4657 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
4658 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
4659 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
4660 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
4661DOC_END
5473c134 4662
41bd17a4 4663NAME: pid_filename
4664TYPE: string
4665DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
4666LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 4667DOC_START
41bd17a4 4668 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 4669DOC_END
4670
41bd17a4 4671NAME: client_netmask
4672TYPE: address
4673LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 4674DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 4675DEFAULT_DOC: Log full client IP address
5473c134 4676DOC_START
41bd17a4 4677 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
4678 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
4679 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
4680 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 4681DOC_END
4682
41bd17a4 4683NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 4684TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 4685LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 4686DEFAULT: on
4687DOC_START
41bd17a4 4688 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
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4689 logging. This protects your user's privacy and reduces log size.
4690
4691 When investigating HIT/MISS or other caching behaviour you
4692 will need to disable this to see the full URL used by Squid.
5473c134 4693DOC_END
4694
41bd17a4 4695NAME: buffered_logs
4696COMMENT: on|off
4697TYPE: onoff
4698DEFAULT: off
4699LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 4700DOC_START
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4701 Whether to write/send access_log records ASAP or accumulate them and
4702 then write/send them in larger chunks. Buffering may improve
4703 performance because it decreases the number of I/Os. However,
4704 buffering increases the delay before log records become available to
4705 the final recipient (e.g., a disk file or logging daemon) and,
4706 hence, increases the risk of log records loss.
4707
4708 Note that even when buffered_logs are off, Squid may have to buffer
4709 records if it cannot write/send them immediately due to pending I/Os
4710 (e.g., the I/O writing the previous log record) or connectivity loss.
4711
fb0c2f17 4712 Currently honored by 'daemon' and 'tcp' access_log modules only.
6b698a21 4713DOC_END
0976f8db 4714
2b753521 4715NAME: netdb_filename
4716TYPE: string
221faecb 4717DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 4718LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 4719IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 4720DOC_START
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4721 Where Squid stores it's netdb journal.
4722 When enabled this journal preserves netdb state between restarts.
4723
2b753521 4724 To disable, enter "none".
4725DOC_END
4726
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4727COMMENT_START
4728 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
4729 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4730COMMENT_END
4731
4732NAME: cache_log
4733TYPE: string
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4734DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
4735LOC: Debug::cache_log
4736DOC_START
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4737 Squid administrative logging file.
4738
4739 This is where general information about Squid behavior goes. You can
4740 increase the amount of data logged to this file and how often it is
4741 rotated with "debug_options"
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4742DOC_END
4743
4744NAME: debug_options
4745TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 4746DEFAULT: ALL,1
638402dd 4747DEFAULT_DOC: Log all critical and important messages.
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4748LOC: Debug::debugOptions
4749DOC_START
4750 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
4751 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
4752 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
4753 log file, so be careful.
4754
4755 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
638402dd 4756 The default is to run with "ALL,1" to record important warnings.
62493678 4757
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4758 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4759 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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4760 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4761 events affecting Squid.
4762DOC_END
4763
4764NAME: coredump_dir
4765TYPE: string
4766LOC: Config.coredump_dir
62493678 4767DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
638402dd 4768DEFAULT_DOC: Use the directory from where Squid was started.
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4769DOC_START
4770 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4771 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4772 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4773 and coredump files will be left there.
4774
4775NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 4776
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4777# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4778coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4779NOCOMMENT_END
4780DOC_END
4781
4782
41bd17a4 4783COMMENT_START
4784 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4785 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4786COMMENT_END
4787
4788NAME: ftp_user
4789TYPE: string
4790DEFAULT: Squid@
4791LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 4792DOC_START
41bd17a4 4793 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
638402dd 4794 (and enable the use of picky FTP servers), set this to something
41bd17a4 4795 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 4796
41bd17a4 4797 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4798 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4799 depending on how the cache is used.
638402dd 4800 Some FTP server also validate the email address is valid
41bd17a4 4801 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 4802DOC_END
0976f8db 4803
41bd17a4 4804NAME: ftp_passive
4805TYPE: onoff
4806DEFAULT: on
4807LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 4808DOC_START
41bd17a4 4809 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4810 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 4811
4812 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4813DOC_END
4814
4815NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4816TYPE: onoff
4817DEFAULT: off
4818LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4819DOC_START
4820 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4821
4822 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4823 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4824 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4825
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4826 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
4827 useful.
a689bd4e 4828 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4829 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4830
4831 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4832 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4833
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4834 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4835DOC_END
4836
4837NAME: ftp_epsv
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4838TYPE: ftp_epsv
4839DEFAULT: none
4840LOC: Config.accessList.ftp_epsv
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4841DOC_START
4842 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4843
4844 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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4845 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4846 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4847 will never be needed.
51ee534d 4848
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4849 EPSV is often required to interoperate with FTP servers on IPv6
4850 networks. On the other hand, it may break some IPv4 servers.
4851
4852 By default, EPSV may try EPSV with any FTP server. To fine tune
4853 that decision, you may restrict EPSV to certain clients or servers
4854 using ACLs:
4855
4856 ftp_epsv allow|deny al1 acl2 ...
4857
4858 WARNING: Disabling EPSV may cause problems with external NAT and IPv6.
51ee534d 4859
ddf5aa2b 4860 Only fast ACLs are supported.
51ee534d 4861 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 4862DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4863
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4864NAME: ftp_eprt
4865TYPE: onoff
4866DEFAULT: on
4867LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4868DOC_START
4869 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4870
4871 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4872 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4873 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4874
4875 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4876 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4877
4878 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4879 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4880 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4881 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4882
4883 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4884 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4885DOC_END
4886
41bd17a4 4887NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4888TYPE: onoff
4889DEFAULT: on
4890LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4891DOC_START
4892 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4893 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4894 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4895 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4896 connection turn this off.
4897DOC_END
9e7dbc51 4898
41bd17a4 4899NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4900TYPE: onoff
4901DEFAULT: on
4902LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4903DOC_START
4904 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4905 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4906 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4907 the FTP protocol.
4908
4909 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4910 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4911 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4912 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4913 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4914DOC_END
4915
4916COMMENT_START
4917 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4918 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4919COMMENT_END
4920
4921NAME: diskd_program
4922TYPE: string
4923DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4924LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4925DOC_START
4926 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4927 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4928 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4929DOC_END
4930
4931NAME: unlinkd_program
4932IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4933TYPE: string
4934DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4935LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4936DOC_START
4937 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4938DOC_END
4939
4940NAME: pinger_program
41bd17a4 4941IFDEF: USE_ICMP
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4942TYPE: icmp
4943DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
4944LOC: IcmpCfg
41bd17a4 4945DOC_START
4946 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4947DOC_END
4948
cc192b50 4949NAME: pinger_enable
4950TYPE: onoff
4951DEFAULT: on
7a9d36e3 4952LOC: IcmpCfg.enable
cc192b50 4953IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4954DOC_START
4955 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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4956 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4957 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 4958DOC_END
4959
4960
41bd17a4 4961COMMENT_START
4962 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4963 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4964COMMENT_END
4965
4966NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4967TYPE: wordlist
4968LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4969DEFAULT: none
4970DOC_START
2c7aad89 4971 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 4972 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4973
2c7aad89 4974 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 4975
b11724bb 4976 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
5269ec0e 4977
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4978 See url_rewrite_extras on how to send "extras" with optional values to
4979 the helper.
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4980 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4981
24eac830 4982 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
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4983
4984 The result code can be:
4985
4986 OK status=30N url="..."
4987 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4988 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4989 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4990 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4991 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
c71adec1 4992
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4993 OK rewrite-url="..."
4994 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4995 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4996 the client as the response to its request.
4997
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4998 OK
4999 When neither of url= and rewrite-url= are sent Squid does
5000 not change the URL.
5001
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5002 ERR
5003 Do not change the URL.
5004
5005 BH
4ded749e 5006 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
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5007 a result being identified. The 'message=' key name is
5008 reserved for delivering a log message.
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5009
5010
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5011 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5012 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5013 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5014 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5015 The TAG is treated as a regular annotation but persists across
5016 future requests on the client connection rather than just the
5017 current request. A helper may update the TAG during subsequent
5018 requests be returning a new kv-pair.
41bd17a4 5019
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5020 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5021 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5022 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5023 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5024 of the response relating to its request.
5025
5026 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
5027 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
41bd17a4 5028
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5029 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
5030 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
5031 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
5032 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
5033 interface.
41bd17a4 5034
5035 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
5036DOC_END
5037
5038NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 5039TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 5040DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 5041LOC: Config.redirectChildren
5042DOC_START
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5043 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
5044 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5045 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5046 and other system resources noticably.
5047
5048 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5049 tuning.
5050
5051 startup=
5052
5053 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5054 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5055 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5056
5057 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5058 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5059
5060 idle=
5061
5062 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5063 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5064 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5065 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5066
5067 concurrency=
41bd17a4 5068
41bd17a4 5069 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
5070 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
5071 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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5072
5073 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5074 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
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5075 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5076 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5077
5078 queue-size=N
5079
5080 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
5081 If the queued requests exceed queue size and redirector_bypass
5082 configuration option is set, then redirector is bypassed. Otherwise, if
5083 overloading persists squid may abort its operation.
5084 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
41bd17a4 5085DOC_END
5086
5087NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
5088TYPE: onoff
5089DEFAULT: on
5090LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
5091DOC_START
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5092 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
5093 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
5094 any Host: header in redirected requests.
5095
5096 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
5097 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
5098 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
5099
41bd17a4 5100 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
5101 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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5102
5103 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
5104 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
5105 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 5106DOC_END
5107
5108NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
5109TYPE: acl_access
5110DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5111DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
41bd17a4 5112LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
5113DOC_START
5114 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
638402dd 5115 sent to the redirector processes.
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5116
5117 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5118 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5119DOC_END
5120
5121NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
5122TYPE: onoff
5123LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
5124DEFAULT: off
5125DOC_START
5126 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
638402dd 5127 redirector if all the helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
41bd17a4 5128 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
5129 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
5130 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
5131 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
5132 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
5133 users may have access to pages they should not
5134 be allowed to request.
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5135 This options sets default queue-size option of the url_rewrite_children
5136 to 0.
41bd17a4 5137DOC_END
5138
fe7966ec 5139NAME: url_rewrite_extras
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5140TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5141LOC: Config.redirector_extras
5142DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5143DOC_START
5144 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5145 rewriter helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5146 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5147 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5148 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5149DOC_END
5150
32fd6d8a 5151NAME: url_rewrite_timeout
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5152TYPE: UrlHelperTimeout
5153LOC: Config.onUrlRewriteTimeout
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5154DEFAULT: none
5155DEFAULT_DOC: Squid waits for the helper response forever
5156DOC_START
5157 Squid times active requests to redirector. The timeout value and Squid
5158 reaction to a timed out request are configurable using the following
5159 format:
5160
ced8def3 5161 url_rewrite_timeout timeout time-units on_timeout=<action> [response=<quoted-response>]
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5162
5163 supported timeout actions:
ced8def3 5164 fail Squid return a ERR_GATEWAY_FAILURE error page
32fd6d8a 5165
ced8def3 5166 bypass Do not re-write the URL
32fd6d8a 5167
ced8def3 5168 retry Send the lookup to the helper again
32fd6d8a 5169
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5170 use_configured_response
5171 Use the <quoted-response> as helper response
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5172DOC_END
5173
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5174COMMENT_START
5175 OPTIONS FOR STORE ID
5176 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5177COMMENT_END
5178
5179NAME: store_id_program storeurl_rewrite_program
5180TYPE: wordlist
5181LOC: Config.Program.store_id
5182DEFAULT: none
5183DOC_START
5184 Specify the location of the executable StoreID helper to use.
5185 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
5186
5187 For each requested URL, the helper will receive one line with the format
5188
b11724bb 5189 [channel-ID <SP>] URL [<SP> extras]<NL>
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5190
5191
5192 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
5193
5194 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
5195
5196 The result code can be:
5197
5198 OK store-id="..."
5199 Use the StoreID supplied in 'store-id='.
5200
5201 ERR
5202 The default is to use HTTP request URL as the store ID.
5203
5204 BH
5205 An internal error occured in the helper, preventing
5206 a result being identified.
5207
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5208 In addition to the above kv-pairs Squid also understands the following
5209 optional kv-pairs received from URL rewriters:
5210 clt_conn_tag=TAG
5211 Associates a TAG with the client TCP connection.
5212 Please see url_rewrite_program related documentation for this
5213 kv-pair
a8a0b1c2 5214
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5215 Helper programs should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore
5216 additional whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
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5217
5218 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
5219 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
5220 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
5221 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
5222 of the response relating to its request.
5223
5224 NOTE: when using StoreID refresh_pattern will apply to the StoreID
5225 returned from the helper and not the URL.
5226
5227 WARNING: Wrong StoreID value returned by a careless helper may result
5228 in the wrong cached response returned to the user.
5229
5230 By default, a StoreID helper is not used.
5231DOC_END
5232
fe7966ec 5233NAME: store_id_extras
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5234TYPE: TokenOrQuotedString
5235LOC: Config.storeId_extras
5236DEFAULT: "%>a/%>A %un %>rm myip=%la myport=%lp"
5237DOC_START
5238 Specifies a string to be append to request line format for the
5239 StoreId helper. "Quoted" format values may contain spaces and
5240 logformat %macros. In theory, any logformat %macro can be used.
5241 In practice, a %macro expands as a dash (-) if the helper request is
5242 sent before the required macro information is available to Squid.
5243DOC_END
5244
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5245NAME: store_id_children storeurl_rewrite_children
5246TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5247DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
5248LOC: Config.storeIdChildren
5249DOC_START
5250 The maximum number of StoreID helper processes to spawn. If you limit
5251 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
5252 requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
5253 and other system resources noticably.
5254
5255 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
5256 tuning.
5257
5258 startup=
5259
5260 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
5261 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
5262 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
5263
5264 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
5265 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
5266
5267 idle=
5268
5269 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
5270 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
5271 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
5272 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
5273
5274 concurrency=
5275
5276 The number of requests each storeID helper can handle in
5277 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the helper
5278 is a old-style single threaded program.
5279
5280 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
5281 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
5282 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
5283 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
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5284
5285 queue-size=N
5286
5287 Sets the maximum number of queued requests.
5288 If the queued requests exceed queue size and store_id_bypass
5289 configuration option is set, then storeID helper is bypassed. Otherwise,
5290 if overloading persists squid may abort its operation.
5291 The default value is set to 2*numberofchildren.
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5292DOC_END
5293
5294NAME: store_id_access storeurl_rewrite_access
5295TYPE: acl_access
5296DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5297DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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5298LOC: Config.accessList.store_id
5299DOC_START
5300 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
5301 sent to the StoreID processes. By default all requests
5302 are sent.
5303
5304 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5305 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5306DOC_END
5307
5308NAME: store_id_bypass storeurl_rewrite_bypass
5309TYPE: onoff
5310LOC: Config.onoff.store_id_bypass
5311DEFAULT: on
5312DOC_START
5313 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
5314 helper if all helpers are busy. If this is 'off'
5315 and the helper queue grows too large, Squid will exit
5316 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
5317 helpers. You should only enable this if the helperss
5318 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
5319 helpers for critical caching components, and you enable this
5320 option, users may not get objects from cache.
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5321 This options sets default queue-size option of the store_id_children
5322 to 0.
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5323DOC_END
5324
41bd17a4 5325COMMENT_START
5326 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
5327 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5328COMMENT_END
5329
f04b37d8 5330NAME: cache no_cache
5331TYPE: acl_access
5332DEFAULT: none
70706149 5333DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
f04b37d8 5334LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 5335DOC_START
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5336 Requests denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5337 and their responses will not be stored in the cache. This directive
5338 has no effect on other transactions and on already cached responses.
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5340 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5341 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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5342
5343 This and the two other similar caching directives listed below are
5344 checked at different transaction processing stages, have different
5345 access to response information, affect different cache operations,
5346 and differ in slow ACLs support:
5347
5348 * cache: Checked before Squid makes a hit/miss determination.
5349 No access to reply information!
5350 Denies both serving a hit and storing a miss.
5351 Supports both fast and slow ACLs.
5352 * send_hit: Checked after a hit was detected.
5353 Has access to reply (hit) information.
5354 Denies serving a hit only.
5355 Supports fast ACLs only.
5356 * store_miss: Checked before storing a cachable miss.
5357 Has access to reply (miss) information.
5358 Denies storing a miss only.
5359 Supports fast ACLs only.
5360
5361 If you are not sure which of the three directives to use, apply the
5362 following decision logic:
5363
5364 * If your ACL(s) are of slow type _and_ need response info, redesign.
5365 Squid does not support that particular combination at this time.
5366 Otherwise:
5367 * If your directive ACL(s) are of slow type, use "cache"; and/or
5368 * if your directive ACL(s) need no response info, use "cache".
5369 Otherwise:
5370 * If you do not want the response cached, use store_miss; and/or
5371 * if you do not want a hit on a cached response, use send_hit.
5372DOC_END
5373
5374NAME: send_hit
5375TYPE: acl_access
5376DEFAULT: none
5377DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5378LOC: Config.accessList.sendHit
5379DOC_START
5380 Responses denied by this directive will not be served from the cache
5381 (but may still be cached, see store_miss). This directive has no
5382 effect on the responses it allows and on the cached objects.
5383
5384 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5385 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives.
5386
5387 Unlike the "cache" directive, send_hit only supports fast acl
5388 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5389
5390 For example:
5391
5392 # apply custom Store ID mapping to some URLs
5393 acl MapMe dstdomain .c.example.com
5394 store_id_program ...
5395 store_id_access allow MapMe
5396
5397 # but prevent caching of special responses
5398 # such as 302 redirects that cause StoreID loops
5399 acl Ordinary http_status 200-299
5400 store_miss deny MapMe !Ordinary
5401
5402 # and do not serve any previously stored special responses
5403 # from the cache (in case they were already cached before
5404 # the above store_miss rule was in effect).
5405 send_hit deny MapMe !Ordinary
5406DOC_END
5407
5408NAME: store_miss
5409TYPE: acl_access
5410DEFAULT: none
5411DEFAULT_DOC: By default, this directive is unused and has no effect.
5412LOC: Config.accessList.storeMiss
5413DOC_START
5414 Responses denied by this directive will not be cached (but may still
5415 be served from the cache, see send_hit). This directive has no
5416 effect on the responses it allows and on the already cached responses.
5417
5418 Please see the "cache" directive for a summary of differences among
5419 store_miss, send_hit, and cache directives. See the
5420 send_hit directive for a usage example.
5421
5422 Unlike the "cache" directive, store_miss only supports fast acl
5423 types. See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 5424DOC_END
5425
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5426NAME: max_stale
5427COMMENT: time-units
5428TYPE: time_t
5429LOC: Config.maxStale
5430DEFAULT: 1 week
5431DOC_START
5432 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
5433 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
5434 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
5435DOC_END
5436
41bd17a4 5437NAME: refresh_pattern
5438TYPE: refreshpattern
5439LOC: Config.Refresh
5440DEFAULT: none
5441DOC_START
5442 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 5443
6b698a21 5444 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
5445 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 5446
41bd17a4 5447 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
5448 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
5449 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
5450 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
5451 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 5452
41bd17a4 5453 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
5454 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
5455 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 5456
41bd17a4 5457 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
5458 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 5459
41bd17a4 5460 options: override-expire
5461 override-lastmod
5462 reload-into-ims
5463 ignore-reload
41bd17a4 5464 ignore-no-store
5465 ignore-private
570d3f75 5466 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 5467 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 5468 store-stale
a0ec9f68 5469
41bd17a4 5470 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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5471 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
5472 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
5473 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5474 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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5476 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
5477 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
5478 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
5479 the object fresh for that period of time.
5480
41bd17a4 5481 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
5482 that were modified recently.
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5484 reload-into-ims changes a client no-cache or ``reload''
5485 request for a cached entry into a conditional request using
5486 If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers, provided the
5487 cached entry has a Last-Modified and/or a strong ETag header.
5488 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
5489 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 5490
41bd17a4 5491 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
5492 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5493 this feature could make you liable for problems which
5494 it causes.
9bc73deb 5495
41bd17a4 5496 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
5497 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5498 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5499 liable for problems which it causes.
5500
5501 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
5502 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
5503 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
5504 liable for problems which it causes.
5505
41bd17a4 5506 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
5507 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
5508 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
5509 if one is available.
5510
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5511 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
5512 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
5513 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
5514 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
5515 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
5516
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5517 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
5518 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
5519 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
5520
41bd17a4 5521 Basically a cached object is:
5522
5523 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
5524 STALE if age > max
5525 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
5526 FRESH if age < min
5527 else STALE
5528
5529 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
5530 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
5531 match the default will be used.
5532
5533 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
5534 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
5535 used.
5536
41bd17a4 5537NOCOMMENT_START
e0855596 5538
638402dd 5539#
e0855596 5540# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
638402dd 5541#
41bd17a4 5542refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
5543refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 5544refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 5545refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
5546NOCOMMENT_END
5547DOC_END
5548
5549NAME: quick_abort_min
5550COMMENT: (KB)
5551TYPE: kb_int64_t
5552DEFAULT: 16 KB
5553LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
5554DOC_NONE
5555
5556NAME: quick_abort_max
5557COMMENT: (KB)
5558TYPE: kb_int64_t
5559DEFAULT: 16 KB
5560LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
5561DOC_NONE
5562
5563NAME: quick_abort_pct
5564COMMENT: (percent)
5565TYPE: int
5566DEFAULT: 95
5567LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
5568DOC_START
5569 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
5570 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
5571 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
5572 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
5573 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
5574 downloads.
5575
5576 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
2d4eefd9 5577 quick_abort values to the amount of data transferred until
41bd17a4 5578 then.
5579
5580 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
5581 it will finish the retrieval.
5582
5583 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
5584 it will abort the retrieval.
5585
5586 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
5587 it will finish the retrieval.
5588
5589 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
5590 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
5591 to '0 KB'.
5592
5593 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
5594 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
5595DOC_END
60d096f4 5596
41bd17a4 5597NAME: read_ahead_gap
5598COMMENT: buffer-size
5599TYPE: b_int64_t
5600LOC: Config.readAheadGap
5601DEFAULT: 16 KB
5602DOC_START
5603 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
5604 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
5605DOC_END
53e738c6 5606
41bd17a4 5607NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 5608IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5609COMMENT: time-units
5610TYPE: time_t
5611LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 5612DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 5613DOC_START
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5614 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
5615 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
5616 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
5617 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
5618 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
5619 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
5620
5621 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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5622
5623 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5624 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5625 causes.
41bd17a4 5626DOC_END
53e738c6 5627
41bd17a4 5628NAME: positive_dns_ttl
5629COMMENT: time-units
5630TYPE: time_t
5631LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
5632DEFAULT: 6 hours
5633DOC_START
5634 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
5635 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
5636 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
5637DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5639NAME: negative_dns_ttl
5640COMMENT: time-units
5641TYPE: time_t
5642LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
5643DEFAULT: 1 minutes
5644DOC_START
5645 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
5646 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
5647 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
5648 much below 10 seconds.
5649DOC_END
7df0bfd7 5650
41bd17a4 5651NAME: range_offset_limit
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5652COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
5653TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 5654LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 5655DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 5656DOC_START
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5657 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
5658
5659 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
5660 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
5661 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
5662 the result is NOT cached.
5663
41bd17a4 5664 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
5665 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
5666 sending anything to the client.
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5667
5668 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
5669 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
5670 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
5671 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
5672
5673 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
5674
5675 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
5676 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
5677
5678 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 5679 client requested. (default)
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5680
5681 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 5682 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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5683
5684 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
5685
5686 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
5687 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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5688 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
5689 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 5690DOC_END
d95b862f 5691
41bd17a4 5692NAME: minimum_expiry_time
5693COMMENT: (seconds)
5694TYPE: time_t
5695LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
5696DEFAULT: 60 seconds
5697DOC_START
5698 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
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5699 headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated.
5700 The default is 60 seconds.
5701
5702 In reverse proxy environments it might be desirable to honor
5703 shorter object lifetimes. It is most likely better to make
5704 your server return a meaningful Last-Modified header however.
5705
5706 In ESI environments where page fragments often have short
5707 lifetimes, this will often be best set to 0.
41bd17a4 5708DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5710NAME: store_avg_object_size
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5711COMMENT: (bytes)
5712TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 5713DEFAULT: 13 KB
5714LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
5715DOC_START
5716 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
5717 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
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5718
5719 This is used to pre-seed the cache index memory allocation to
5720 reduce expensive reallocate operations while handling clients
5721 traffic. Too-large values may result in memory allocation during
5722 peak traffic, too-small values will result in wasted memory.
5723
5724 Check the cache manager 'info' report metrics for the real
5725 object sizes seen by your Squid before tuning this.
cccac0a2 5726DOC_END
5727
41bd17a4 5728NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
5729TYPE: int
5730DEFAULT: 20
5731LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
5732DOC_START
5733 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
5734 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
5735 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
5736DOC_END
5737
5738COMMENT_START
5739 HTTP OPTIONS
5740 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5741COMMENT_END
5742
f04b37d8 5743NAME: request_header_max_size
5744COMMENT: (KB)
5745TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5746DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5747LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
5748DOC_START
5749 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
5750 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5751 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
5752 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5753 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5754DOC_END
5755
5756NAME: reply_header_max_size
5757COMMENT: (KB)
5758TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 5759DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 5760LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
5761DOC_START
5762 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
5763 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
5764 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
5765 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
5766 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
5767DOC_END
5768
5769NAME: request_body_max_size
5770COMMENT: (bytes)
5771TYPE: b_int64_t
5772DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 5773DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
f04b37d8 5774LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
5775DOC_START
5776 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
5777 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
5778 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
5779 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
5780 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
5781 be no limit imposed.
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5783 See also client_request_buffer_max_size for an alternative
5784 limitation on client uploads which can be configured.
f04b37d8 5785DOC_END
5786
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5787NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
5788COMMENT: (bytes)
5789TYPE: b_size_t
5790DEFAULT: 512 KB
5791LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
5792DOC_START
5793 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
5794 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
5795 a large file.
5796DOC_END
5797
41bd17a4 5798NAME: broken_posts
626096be 5799IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 5800TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 5801DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5802DEFAULT_DOC: Obey RFC 2616.
41bd17a4 5803LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 5804DOC_START
41bd17a4 5805 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
5806 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 5807
41bd17a4 5808 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
5809 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 5810
41bd17a4 5811 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 5812
41bd17a4 5813 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
5814 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
5815 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
5816 a request with an extra CRLF.
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5818 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5819 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5820
41bd17a4 5821Example:
5822 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
5823 broken_posts allow buggy_server
5824DOC_END
cccac0a2 5825
22fff3bf 5826NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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5827COMMENT: on|off
5828TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 5829IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 5830DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 5831LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 5832DOC_START
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5833 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
5834 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
5835
5836 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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5837DOC_END
5838
41bd17a4 5839NAME: via
626096be 5840IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 5841COMMENT: on|off
5842TYPE: onoff
5843DEFAULT: on
5844LOC: Config.onoff.via
5845DOC_START
5846 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
5847 replies as required by RFC2616.
5848DOC_END
4cc6eb12 5849
41bd17a4 5850NAME: ie_refresh
5851COMMENT: on|off
5852TYPE: onoff
5853LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
5854DEFAULT: off
5855DOC_START
5856 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
5857 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
5858 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
5859 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
5860 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
5861 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
5862 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
5863 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
5864 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
5865 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
5866 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
5867 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
5868 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
5869 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
5870 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
5871 force fresh content.
5872DOC_END
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41bd17a4 5874NAME: vary_ignore_expire
5875COMMENT: on|off
5876TYPE: onoff
5877LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
5878DEFAULT: off
5879DOC_START
5880 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
5881 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
5882 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
5883 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
5884 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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5885
5886 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
5887 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 5888DOC_END
c4ab8329 5889
41bd17a4 5890NAME: request_entities
5891TYPE: onoff
5892LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
5893DEFAULT: off
5894DOC_START
5895 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
5896 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
5897 even if not explicitly forbidden.
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41bd17a4 5899 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
5900 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
5901 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
5902 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
5903 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 5904DOC_END
6b53c392 5905
41bd17a4 5906NAME: request_header_access
626096be 5907IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5908TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5909LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 5910DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5911DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5912DOC_START
41bd17a4 5913 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 5914
41bd17a4 5915 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5916 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5917 causes.
0976f8db 5918
41bd17a4 5919 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
5920 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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5921 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
5922 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
5923
5924 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
5925 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
5926 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
5927 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
5928 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5929
5930 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
5931 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
5932 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
5933
5934 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
5935 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
5936 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
5937 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
5938
5939 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
5940 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
5941 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
5942 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
5943 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
5944 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 5945
41bd17a4 5946 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5947 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 5948
41bd17a4 5949 request_header_access From deny all
5950 request_header_access Referer deny all
41bd17a4 5951 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
5401aa8d 5952
41bd17a4 5953 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
5954 you should use:
5401aa8d 5955
41bd17a4 5956 request_header_access Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5957 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
41bd17a4 5958 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
41bd17a4 5959 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
5960 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
5961 request_header_access Date allow all
41bd17a4 5962 request_header_access Host allow all
5963 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
41bd17a4 5964 request_header_access Pragma allow all
5965 request_header_access Accept allow all
5966 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5967 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5968 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
41bd17a4 5969 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 5970 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 5971
638402dd 5972 HTTP reply headers are controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 5973
638402dd 5974 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is performed).
5401aa8d 5975DOC_END
5976
41bd17a4 5977NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 5978IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 5979TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 5980LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 5981DEFAULT: none
638402dd 5982DEFAULT_DOC: No limits.
cccac0a2 5983DOC_START
41bd17a4 5984 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 5985
41bd17a4 5986 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
5987 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
5988 causes.
934b03fc 5989
41bd17a4 5990 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
5991 server to the client.
934b03fc 5992
41bd17a4 5993 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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5994 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
5995 documentation.
cccac0a2 5996
41bd17a4 5997 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
5998 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 5999
41bd17a4 6000 reply_header_access Server deny all
41bd17a4 6001 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
6002 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 6003
41bd17a4 6004 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
6005 you should use:
cccac0a2 6006
41bd17a4 6007 reply_header_access Allow allow all
41bd17a4 6008 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
41bd17a4 6009 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
6010 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
6011 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
6012 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
6013 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
6014 reply_header_access Date allow all
6015 reply_header_access Expires allow all
41bd17a4 6016 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
6017 reply_header_access Location allow all
6018 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
41bd17a4 6019 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
41bd17a4 6020 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
6021 reply_header_access Title allow all
638402dd 6022 reply_header_access Content-Disposition allow all
41bd17a4 6023 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 6024 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 6025
638402dd 6026 HTTP request headers are controlled with the request_header_access directive.
cccac0a2 6027
41bd17a4 6028 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
6029 performed).
cccac0a2 6030DOC_END
6031
75e4f2ea 6032NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 6033IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6034TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 6035LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 6036DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 6037DOC_START
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6038 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
6039 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 6040
41bd17a4 6041 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
75e4f2ea 6042 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
638402dd 6043 with some fixed string.
cccac0a2 6044
41bd17a4 6045 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 6046
41bd17a4 6047 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6048DOC_END
cccac0a2 6049
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6050NAME: reply_header_replace
6051IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 6052TYPE: http_header_replace
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6053LOC: Config.reply_header_access
6054DEFAULT: none
6055DOC_START
6056 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
6057 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
6058
6059 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
6060 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
6061 with some fixed string.
6062
6063 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
6064
6065 By default, headers are removed if denied.
6066DOC_END
6067
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6068NAME: request_header_add
6069TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
6070LOC: Config.request_header_add
6071DEFAULT: none
6072DOC_START
6073 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
6074 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
6075
6076 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
6077 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
6078 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
6079 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
6080 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
6081
6082 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
6083 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
6084 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
6085 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
6086 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
6087 header field values are not merged.
6088
6089 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
6090 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
6091 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
6092
6093 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
6094 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
6095 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
6096 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
6097 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
6098 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
6099 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
6100 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
6101
6102 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
6103 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
6104 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
6105 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
6106 only.
6107DOC_END
6108
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6109NAME: note
6110TYPE: note
6111LOC: Config.notes
6112DEFAULT: none
6113DOC_START
6114 This option used to log custom information about the master
6115 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
6116 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
6117 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
6118 authentication information.
6119 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
6120
6121 note key value acl ...
6122 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
6123DOC_END
6124
41bd17a4 6125NAME: relaxed_header_parser
6126COMMENT: on|off|warn
6127TYPE: tristate
6128LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
6129DEFAULT: on
6130DOC_START
6131 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
6132 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
6133 what the sending application intended even if the message
6134 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
6135 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 6136
41bd17a4 6137 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
6138 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 6139
41bd17a4 6140 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
6141 or response to be rejected.
6142DOC_END
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6144NAME: collapsed_forwarding
6145COMMENT: (on|off)
6146TYPE: onoff
6147LOC: Config.onoff.collapsed_forwarding
6148DEFAULT: off
6149DOC_START
6150 This option controls whether Squid is allowed to merge multiple
6151 potentially cachable requests for the same URI before Squid knows
6152 whether the response is going to be cachable.
6153
6154 This feature is disabled by default: Enabling collapsed forwarding
6155 needlessly delays forwarding requests that look cachable (when they are
6156 collapsed) but then need to be forwarded individually anyway because
6157 they end up being for uncachable content. However, in some cases, such
6158 as accelleration of highly cachable content with periodic or groupped
6159 expiration times, the gains from collapsing [large volumes of
6160 simultenous refresh requests] outweigh losses from such delays.
6161DOC_END
6162
41bd17a4 6163COMMENT_START
6164 TIMEOUTS
6165 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6166COMMENT_END
6167
6168NAME: forward_timeout
6169COMMENT: time-units
6170TYPE: time_t
6171LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
6172DEFAULT: 4 minutes
6173DOC_START
6174 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
6175 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 6176DOC_END
6177
41bd17a4 6178NAME: connect_timeout
6179COMMENT: time-units
6180TYPE: time_t
6181LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
6182DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 6183DOC_START
41bd17a4 6184 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6185 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
6186 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 6187DOC_END
6188
41bd17a4 6189NAME: peer_connect_timeout
6190COMMENT: time-units
6191TYPE: time_t
6192LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
6193DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6194DOC_START
41bd17a4 6195 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
6196 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
6197 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
6198 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
6199DOC_END
7f7db318 6200
41bd17a4 6201NAME: read_timeout
6202COMMENT: time-units
6203TYPE: time_t
6204LOC: Config.Timeout.read
6205DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6206DOC_START
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6207 Applied on peer server connections.
6208
6209 After each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
41bd17a4 6210 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
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6211 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT.
6212
6213 The default is 15 minutes.
41bd17a4 6214DOC_END
cccac0a2 6215
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6216NAME: write_timeout
6217COMMENT: time-units
6218TYPE: time_t
6219LOC: Config.Timeout.write
6220DEFAULT: 15 minutes
6221DOC_START
6222 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
6223 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
6224 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
6225 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
6226 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
6227 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
6228 default is 15 minutes.
6229DOC_END
6230
41bd17a4 6231NAME: request_timeout
6232TYPE: time_t
6233LOC: Config.Timeout.request
6234DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6235DOC_START
6b2a2108 6236 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 6237 connection establishment.
6238DOC_END
cccac0a2 6239
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6240NAME: request_start_timeout
6241TYPE: time_t
6242LOC: Config.Timeout.request_start_timeout
6243DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6244DOC_START
6245 How long to wait for the first request byte after initial
6246 connection establishment.
6247DOC_END
6248
97b32442 6249NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 6250TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6251LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6252DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6253DOC_START
6254 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 6255 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 6256DOC_END
cccac0a2 6257
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6258NAME: ftp_client_idle_timeout
6259TYPE: time_t
6260LOC: Config.Timeout.ftpClientIdle
6261DEFAULT: 30 minutes
6262DOC_START
6263 How long to wait for an FTP request on a connection to Squid ftp_port.
6264 Many FTP clients do not deal with idle connection closures well,
6265 necessitating a longer default timeout than client_idle_pconn_timeout
6266 used for incoming HTTP requests.
6267DOC_END
6268
41bd17a4 6269NAME: client_lifetime
6270COMMENT: time-units
6271TYPE: time_t
6272LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
6273DEFAULT: 1 day
6274DOC_START
6275 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
6276 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
6277 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
6278 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
6279 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
6280 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
6281 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 6282
41bd17a4 6283 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
6284 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
6285 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
6286 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
6287 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
6288 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 6289DOC_END
6290
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6291NAME: pconn_lifetime
6292COMMENT: time-units
6293TYPE: time_t
6294LOC: Config.Timeout.pconnLifetime
6295DEFAULT: 0 seconds
6296DOC_START
6297 Desired maximum lifetime of a persistent connection.
6298 When set, Squid will close a now-idle persistent connection that
6299 exceeded configured lifetime instead of moving the connection into
6300 the idle connection pool (or equivalent). No effect on ongoing/active
6301 transactions. Connection lifetime is the time period from the
6302 connection acceptance or opening time until "now".
6303
6304 This limit is useful in environments with long-lived connections
6305 where Squid configuration or environmental factors change during a
6306 single connection lifetime. If unrestricted, some connections may
6307 last for hours and even days, ignoring those changes that should
6308 have affected their behavior or their existence.
6309
6310 Currently, a new lifetime value supplied via Squid reconfiguration
6311 has no effect on already idle connections unless they become busy.
6312
6313 When set to '0' this limit is not used.
6314DOC_END
6315
41bd17a4 6316NAME: half_closed_clients
6317TYPE: onoff
6318LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 6319DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 6320DOC_START
41bd17a4 6321 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
6322 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
6323 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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6324 fully-closed TCP connection.
6325
6326 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
6327 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
6328
abdf1651 6329 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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6330 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
6331 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
6332 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 6333DOC_END
6334
97b32442 6335NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 6336TYPE: time_t
97b32442 6337LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 6338DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 6339DOC_START
41bd17a4 6340 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
6341 proxies.
6342DOC_END
cccac0a2 6343
41bd17a4 6344NAME: ident_timeout
6345TYPE: time_t
6346IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 6347LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 6348DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6349DOC_START
6350 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 6351
41bd17a4 6352 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
6353 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
6354 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 6355DOC_END
6356
41bd17a4 6357NAME: shutdown_lifetime
6358COMMENT: time-units
6359TYPE: time_t
6360LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
6361DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 6362DOC_START
41bd17a4 6363 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
6364 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
6365 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
6366 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
6367 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 6368DOC_END
0976f8db 6369
cccac0a2 6370COMMENT_START
6371 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
6372 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6373COMMENT_END
6374
6375NAME: cache_mgr
6376TYPE: string
6377DEFAULT: webmaster
6378LOC: Config.adminEmail
6379DOC_START
6380 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
638402dd 6381 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster".
cccac0a2 6382DOC_END
6383
abacf776 6384NAME: mail_from
6385TYPE: string
6386DEFAULT: none
6387LOC: Config.EmailFrom
6388DOC_START
6389 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
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6390 The default is to use 'squid@unique_hostname'.
6391
6392 See also: unique_hostname directive.
abacf776 6393DOC_END
6394
d084bf20 6395NAME: mail_program
6396TYPE: eol
6397DEFAULT: mail
6398LOC: Config.EmailProgram
6399DOC_START
6400 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 6401 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 6402 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 6403 mail-program recipient < mailfile
6404
d084bf20 6405 Optional command line options can be specified.
6406DOC_END
6407
cccac0a2 6408NAME: cache_effective_user
6409TYPE: string
5483d916 6410DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 6411LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 6412DOC_START
6413 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
6414 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 6415 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 6416 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 6417DOC_END
6418
cccac0a2 6419NAME: cache_effective_group
6420TYPE: string
6421DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6422DEFAULT_DOC: Use system group memberships of the cache_effective_user account
cccac0a2 6423LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
6424DOC_START
64e288bd 6425 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
6426 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
6427 from the groups membership.
6428
e3d74828 6429 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
6430 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
6431 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 6432 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 6433 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 6434 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 6435 group.
64e288bd 6436
6437 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
6438 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
6439 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 6440DOC_END
6441
d3caee79 6442NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
6443COMMENT: on|off
6444TYPE: onoff
6445DEFAULT: off
6446LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
6447DOC_START
6448 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
6449DOC_END
6450
cccac0a2 6451NAME: visible_hostname
6452TYPE: string
6453LOC: Config.visibleHostname
6454DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6455DEFAULT_DOC: Automatically detect the system host name
cccac0a2 6456DOC_START
6457 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 6458 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 6459 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
6460 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
6461 names with this setting.
6462DOC_END
6463
cccac0a2 6464NAME: unique_hostname
6465TYPE: string
6466LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
6467DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6468DEFAULT_DOC: Copy the value from visible_hostname
cccac0a2 6469DOC_START
6470 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 6471 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
6472 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 6473DOC_END
6474
cccac0a2 6475NAME: hostname_aliases
6476TYPE: wordlist
6477LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
6478DEFAULT: none
6479DOC_START
7f7db318 6480 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 6481DOC_END
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6483NAME: umask
6484TYPE: int
6485LOC: Config.umask
6486DEFAULT: 027
6487DOC_START
6488 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
6489 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
6490
6491 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
6492 your value with 0.
6493DOC_END
6494
cccac0a2 6495COMMENT_START
6496 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
6497 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6498
6499 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
6500 announcement service. This service is provided to help
6501 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
6502 create cache hierarchies.
6503
6504 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
6505 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
6506 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
6507
6508 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
6509 following information from this configuration file:
6510
6511 http_port
6512 icp_port
6513 cache_mgr
6514
6515 All current information is processed regularly and made
6516 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
6517COMMENT_END
6518
6519NAME: announce_period
6520TYPE: time_t
6521LOC: Config.Announce.period
6522DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 6523DEFAULT_DOC: Announcement messages disabled.
cccac0a2 6524DOC_START
638402dd 6525 This is how frequently to send cache announcements.
cccac0a2 6526
e0855596 6527 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 6528
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6529 Example:
6530 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 6531DOC_END
6532
cccac0a2 6533NAME: announce_host
6534TYPE: string
6535DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
6536LOC: Config.Announce.host
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6537DOC_START
6538 Set the hostname where announce registration messages will be sent.
6539
6540 See also announce_port and announce_file
6541DOC_END
cccac0a2 6542
6543NAME: announce_file
6544TYPE: string
6545DEFAULT: none
6546LOC: Config.Announce.file
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6547DOC_START
6548 The contents of this file will be included in the announce
6549 registration messages.
6550DOC_END
cccac0a2 6551
6552NAME: announce_port
ae870270 6553TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 6554DEFAULT: 3131
6555LOC: Config.Announce.port
6556DOC_START
638402dd 6557 Set the port where announce registration messages will be sent.
cccac0a2 6558
638402dd 6559 See also announce_host and announce_file
cccac0a2 6560DOC_END
6561
8d6275c0 6562COMMENT_START
6563 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
6564 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6565COMMENT_END
6566
cccac0a2 6567NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6568TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 6569DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6570DEFAULT_DOC: visible_hostname is used if no specific ID is set.
cccac0a2 6571LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 6572DOC_START
6573 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
6574 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
6575 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
6576 an identification token.
6577DOC_END
6578
6579NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 6580COMMENT: on|off
6581TYPE: onoff
6582DEFAULT: off
6583LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
6584DOC_START
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6585 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour the header
6586 "Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote".
6587
cccac0a2 6588 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
6589DOC_END
6590
6591NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 6592IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 6593COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 6594TYPE: string
6595LOC: ESIParser::Type
6596DEFAULT: custom
6597DOC_START
6598 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
6599 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
6600 encodings.
6601DOC_END
0976f8db 6602
9edd9041 6603COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6604 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 6605 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6606COMMENT_END
6607
6608NAME: delay_pools
6609TYPE: delay_pool_count
6610DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6611IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6612LOC: Config.Delay
6613DOC_START
6614 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
6615 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
6616 have a total of 2 delay pools.
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6617
6618 See also delay_parameters, delay_class, delay_access for pool
6619 configuration details.
9edd9041 6620DOC_END
6621
6622NAME: delay_class
6623TYPE: delay_pool_class
6624DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6625IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6626LOC: Config.Delay
6627DOC_START
6628 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
6629 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
6630 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
6631 and here would be:
6632
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6633 Example:
6634 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
6635 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
6636 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
6637 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
6638 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 6639
6640 The delay pool classes are:
6641
6642 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6643 bucket.
6644
6645 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6646 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 6647 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6648
6649 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
6650 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
6651 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
6652 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 6653 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 6654
6655 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
6656 additional limit on a per user basis. This
6657 only takes effect if the username is established
6658 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
6659 http_access rules.
6660
6661 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
6662 external_acl's tag= reply).
6663
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6664
6665 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
6666 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
6667 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
6668
9edd9041 6669 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
6670 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
6671 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
6672 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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6673
6674 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
6675 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
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6676
6677 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6678 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6679
6680 See also delay_parameters and delay_access.
9edd9041 6681DOC_END
6682
6683NAME: delay_access
6684TYPE: delay_pool_access
6685DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6686DEFAULT_DOC: Deny using the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6687IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6688LOC: Config.Delay
6689DOC_START
6690 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
6691
6692 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
6693 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
6694 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
6695 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
6696
6697 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
6698 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
6699
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6700 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
6701 delay_access 1 deny all
6702 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
6703 delay_access 2 deny all
6704 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
6705
6706 See also delay_parameters and delay_class.
6707
9edd9041 6708DOC_END
6709
6710NAME: delay_parameters
6711TYPE: delay_pool_rates
6712DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6713IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6714LOC: Config.Delay
6715DOC_START
6716 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
6717 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 6718 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 6719
0b68481a 6720 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
6e7502cc 6721 delay_class pool 1
0b68481a 6722 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 6723
6724 For a class 2 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6725 delay_class pool 2
0b68481a 6726 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 6727
6728 For a class 3 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6729 delay_class pool 3
0b68481a 6730 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 6731
6732 For a class 4 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6733 delay_class pool 4
0b68481a 6734 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 6735
6736 For a class 5 delay pool:
6e7502cc 6737 delay_class pool 5
0b68481a 6738 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 6739
0b68481a 6740 The option variables are:
9edd9041 6741
6742 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
6743 number specified in delay_pools as used in
6744 delay_class lines.
6745
fdb47ac6 6746 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 6747 (class 1, 2, 3).
6748
fdb47ac6 6749 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 6750 buckets (class 2, 3).
6751
fdb47ac6 6752 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 6753 (class 3).
6754
fdb47ac6 6755 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 6756 (class 4).
6757
fdb47ac6 6758 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 6759 (class 5).
6760
6761 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
6762 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
6763 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
6764 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
6765
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6766 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
6767
6768
9edd9041 6769 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 6770 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 6771 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
6772
6e7502cc 6773 delay_parameters 1 none 8000/8000
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6774
6775 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 6776
6e7502cc 6777 Note that the word 'none' is used to represent no limit.
9edd9041 6778
0b68481a 6779
9edd9041 6780 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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6781 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
6782 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
6783 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 6784 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
6785 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
6786 large downloads more significantly:
6787
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6788 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
6789
6790 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
6791 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
6792 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 6793
9edd9041 6794
6795 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 6796 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 6797
0b68481a 6798 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
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6799
6800
6801 See also delay_class and delay_access.
6802
9edd9041 6803DOC_END
6804
6805NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
6806COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 6807TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 6808DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6809IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 6810LOC: Config.Delay.initial
6811DOC_START
6812 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
6813 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
6814 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
6815 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
6816 "seen" by squid).
6817DOC_END
6818
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6819COMMENT_START
6820 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
6821 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6822COMMENT_END
6823
6824NAME: client_delay_pools
6825TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
6826DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 6827IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6828LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6829DOC_START
6830 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
6831 preceed other client_delay_* options.
6832
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6833 Example:
6834 client_delay_pools 2
6835
6836 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_access.
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6837DOC_END
6838
6839NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
6840COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 6841TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 6842DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 6843IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6844LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
6845DOC_START
6846 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
6847 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
6848 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
6849 buckets are periodically deleted up.
6850
6851 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
6852 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
6853 from client_delay_parameters.
6854
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6855 Example:
6856 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
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6857DOC_END
6858
6859NAME: client_delay_parameters
6860TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
6861DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 6862IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6863LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6864DOC_START
6865
6866 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
6867 following format:
6868
6869 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
6870
6871 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
6872
6873 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
6874
6875 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
6876 speed_limit additions.
6877
6878 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
6879 examples.
6880
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6881 Example:
6882 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
6883 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
6884
6885 See also client_delay_access.
6886
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6887DOC_END
6888
6889NAME: client_delay_access
6890TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
6891DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6892DEFAULT_DOC: Deny use of the pool, unless allow rules exist in squid.conf for the pool.
9a0a18de 6893IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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6894LOC: Config.ClientDelay
6895DOC_START
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6896 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
6897 request:
6898
6899 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
6900
6901 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
6902 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
6903 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
6904 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
6905 limited.
6906
6907 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
6908 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
6909 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
6910 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
6911
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6912 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6913 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6914 Additionally, only the client TCP connection details are available.
6915 ACLs testing HTTP properties will not work.
6916
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6917 Please see delay_access for more examples.
6918
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6919 Example:
6920 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
6921 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
6922
6923
6924 See also client_delay_parameters and client_delay_pools.
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6925DOC_END
6926
cccac0a2 6927COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 6928 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 6929 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6930COMMENT_END
6931
8d6275c0 6932NAME: wccp_router
6933TYPE: address
6934LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 6935DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 6936DEFAULT_DOC: WCCP disabled.
8d6275c0 6937IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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6938DOC_START
6939 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6940 Squid.
6941
6942 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
6943
6944 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
6945
6946 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6947 which version of WCCP to use.
6948DOC_END
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8d6275c0 6950NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 6951TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 6952LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 6953DEFAULT: none
638402dd 6954DEFAULT_DOC: WCCPv2 disabled.
8d6275c0 6955IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 6956DOC_START
8d6275c0 6957 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
6958 Squid.
cccac0a2 6959
8d6275c0 6960 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 6961
8d6275c0 6962 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 6963
8d6275c0 6964 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
6965 which version of WCCP to use.
6966DOC_END
6967
6968NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 6969TYPE: int
8d6275c0 6970LOC: Config.Wccp.version
6971DEFAULT: 4
6972IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 6973DOC_START
8d6275c0 6974 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
6975 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
6976 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
6977 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
6978 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 6979
8d6275c0 6980 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
6981 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
6982 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
6983 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 6984DOC_END
6985
8d6275c0 6986NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
6987TYPE: onoff
6988LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
6989DEFAULT: on
6990IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6991DOC_START
6992 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
6993 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
6994DOC_END
cccac0a2 6995
8d6275c0 6996NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 6997TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 6998LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 6999DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7000IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7001DOC_START
699acd19 7002 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 7003 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7004
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7005 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7006 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7007
8d6275c0 7008 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7009 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 7010DOC_END
7011
8d6275c0 7012NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 7013TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 7014LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 7015DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 7016IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7017DOC_START
699acd19 7018 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 7019 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
7020 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7021
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7022 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
7023 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 7024
8d6275c0 7025 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
7026 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 7027
699acd19 7028 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 7029 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
7030 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
7031 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 7032DOC_END
7033
8d6275c0 7034NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 7035TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 7036LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 7037DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 7038IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 7039DOC_START
8d6275c0 7040 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
7041 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 7042
451c4786 7043 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 7044 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 7045
8d6275c0 7046 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
7047 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
7048DOC_END
cccac0a2 7049
8d6275c0 7050NAME: wccp2_service
7051TYPE: wccp2_service
7052LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 7053DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
638402dd 7054DEFAULT_DOC: Use the 'web-cache' standard service.
8d6275c0 7055IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7056DOC_START
7057 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
7058 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
7059 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
7060 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
7061 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
7062 using the wccp2_service_info option.
7063
7064 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
7065 just specifying the service id will suffice.
7066
7067 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
7068 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
7069
7070 Examples:
7071
7072 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
7073 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
7074 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
7075 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 7076DOC_END
7077
7078NAME: wccp2_service_info
7079TYPE: wccp2_service_info
7080LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
7081DEFAULT: none
7082IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7083DOC_START
7084 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
7085 traffic you wish to have diverted.
7086
7087 The format is:
7088
7089 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
7090 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
7091
7092 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
7093 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 7094 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 7095 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
7096 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
7097 + ports_source
7098
7099 The port list can be one to eight entries.
7100
7101 Example:
7102
7103 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
7104 priority=240 ports=80
7105
7106 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
7107 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
7108DOC_END
7109
7110NAME: wccp2_weight
7111TYPE: int
7112LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
7113DEFAULT: 10000
7114IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7115DOC_START
7116 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
7117 hash proportional to their weight.
7118DOC_END
7119
7120NAME: wccp_address
7121TYPE: address
7122LOC: Config.Wccp.address
7123DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7124DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7125IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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7126DOC_START
7127 Use this option if you require WCCPv2 to use a specific
7128 interface address.
7129
7130 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7131DOC_END
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8d6275c0 7133NAME: wccp2_address
7134TYPE: address
7135LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
7136DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
638402dd 7137DEFAULT_DOC: Address selected by the operating system.
8d6275c0 7138IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
7139DOC_START
7140 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
7141 interface address.
7142
7143 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7144DOC_END
7145
7146COMMENT_START
7147 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
7148 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7149
7150 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
7151COMMENT_END
7152
7153NAME: client_persistent_connections
7154TYPE: onoff
7155LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
7156DEFAULT: on
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7157DOC_START
7158 Persistent connection support for clients.
7159 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7160 this option to disable persistent connections with clients.
7161DOC_END
8d6275c0 7162
7163NAME: server_persistent_connections
7164TYPE: onoff
7165LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
7166DEFAULT: on
7167DOC_START
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7168 Persistent connection support for servers.
7169 Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed). You can use
7170 this option to disable persistent connections with servers.
8d6275c0 7171DOC_END
7172
7173NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
7174TYPE: onoff
7175LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 7176DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 7177DOC_START
7178 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
7179 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
7180 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
7181DOC_END
7182
7183NAME: detect_broken_pconn
7184TYPE: onoff
7185LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
7186DEFAULT: off
7187DOC_START
7188 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
7189 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
7190 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
7191 has mostly been seen on redirects.
7192
7193 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
7194 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
7195 after 10 seconds timeout.
7196DOC_END
7197
7198COMMENT_START
7199 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
7200 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7201COMMENT_END
7202
7203NAME: digest_generation
7204IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7205TYPE: onoff
7206LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
7207DEFAULT: on
7208DOC_START
7209 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
7210 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 7211 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 7212DOC_END
7213
7214NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
7215IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7216TYPE: int
7217LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
7218DEFAULT: 5
7219DOC_START
7220 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
7221 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
7222 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
7223DOC_END
7224
7225NAME: digest_rebuild_period
7226IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7227COMMENT: (seconds)
7228TYPE: time_t
7229LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
7230DEFAULT: 1 hour
7231DOC_START
749ceff8 7232 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 7233DOC_END
7234
7235NAME: digest_rewrite_period
7236COMMENT: (seconds)
7237IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7238TYPE: time_t
7239LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
7240DEFAULT: 1 hour
7241DOC_START
749ceff8 7242 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 7243 disk.
7244DOC_END
7245
7246NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
7247COMMENT: (bytes)
7248TYPE: b_size_t
7249IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7250LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
7251DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
7252DOC_START
7253 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
7254 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
7255 default swap page.
7256DOC_END
7257
7258NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
7259COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
7260IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
7261TYPE: int
7262LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
7263DEFAULT: 10
7264DOC_START
7265 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
7266 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
7267DOC_END
7268
1db9eacd 7269COMMENT_START
5473c134 7270 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 7271 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7272COMMENT_END
7273
5473c134 7274NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 7275TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7276LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 7277DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7278DEFAULT_DOC: SNMP disabled.
5473c134 7279IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7280DOC_START
87630341 7281 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
7282 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
7283 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
7284 set to "0" (disabled)
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7285
7286 Example:
7287 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 7288DOC_END
7289
5473c134 7290NAME: snmp_access
7291TYPE: acl_access
7292LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
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7293DEFAULT: none
7294DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
5473c134 7295IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 7296DOC_START
5473c134 7297 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 7298
5473c134 7299 All access to the agent is denied by default.
7300 usage:
8d6275c0 7301
5473c134 7302 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 7303
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7304 This clause only supports fast acl types.
7305 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
638402dd 7306
5473c134 7307Example:
7308 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
7309 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 7310DOC_END
7311
5473c134 7312NAME: snmp_incoming_address
7313TYPE: address
7314LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 7315DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7316DEFAULT_DOC: Accept SNMP packets from all machine interfaces.
5473c134 7317IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
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7318DOC_START
7319 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
7320
7321 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
7322 messages from SNMP agents.
7323
7324 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
7325 available network interfaces.
7326DOC_END
df2eec10 7327
5473c134 7328NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
7329TYPE: address
7330LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 7331DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7332DEFAULT_DOC: Use snmp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
5473c134 7333IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 7334DOC_START
638402dd 7335 Just like 'udp_outgoing_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 7336
5473c134 7337 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
7338 agents.
cccac0a2 7339
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7340 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
7341 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
7342 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
7343 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 7344
5473c134 7345 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
638402dd 7346 the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7347DOC_END
7348
5473c134 7349COMMENT_START
7350 ICP OPTIONS
7351 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7352COMMENT_END
7353
7354NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 7355TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7356DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7357DEFAULT_DOC: ICP disabled.
5473c134 7358LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 7359DOC_START
5473c134 7360 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
7361 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
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7362
7363 Example:
7364 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 7365DOC_END
7366
5473c134 7367NAME: htcp_port
7368IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 7369TYPE: u_short
87630341 7370DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7371DEFAULT_DOC: HTCP disabled.
5473c134 7372LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 7373DOC_START
5473c134 7374 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 7375 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
638402dd 7376 4827.
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7377
7378 Example:
7379 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 7380DOC_END
7381
7382NAME: log_icp_queries
7383COMMENT: on|off
7384TYPE: onoff
7385DEFAULT: on
7386LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
7387DOC_START
7388 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
7389 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
7390 up or to simplify log analysis.
7391DOC_END
7392
5473c134 7393NAME: udp_incoming_address
7394TYPE: address
7395LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 7396DEFAULT: any_addr
638402dd 7397DEFAULT_DOC: Accept packets from all machine interfaces.
8524d4b2 7398DOC_START
7399 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
7400 caches.
7401
7402 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
7403
7404 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
7405 a specific interface/address.
7406
7407 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7408 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7409
7410 see also; udp_outgoing_address
7411
7412 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
7413 have the same value since they both use the same port.
7414DOC_END
cccac0a2 7415
5473c134 7416NAME: udp_outgoing_address
7417TYPE: address
7418LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 7419DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7420DEFAULT_DOC: Use udp_incoming_address or an address selected by the operating system.
cccac0a2 7421DOC_START
8524d4b2 7422 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 7423 caches.
cccac0a2 7424
5473c134 7425 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 7426
8524d4b2 7427 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
7428 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
7429 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 7430 caches.
7431
8524d4b2 7432 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
7433 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
7434
7435 see also; udp_incoming_address
7436
5473c134 7437 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 7438 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 7439DOC_END
7440
3d1e3e43 7441NAME: icp_hit_stale
7442COMMENT: on|off
7443TYPE: onoff
7444DEFAULT: off
7445LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
7446DOC_START
7447 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
7448 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
7449 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
7450 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
7451 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
7452 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
7453 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
7454DOC_END
7455
5473c134 7456NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 7457TYPE: int
5473c134 7458DEFAULT: 4
7459LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 7460DOC_START
5473c134 7461 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7462 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 7463DOC_END
7464
5473c134 7465NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
638402dd 7466COMMENT: (msec)
5473c134 7467TYPE: int
7468DEFAULT: 400
7469LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 7470DOC_START
5473c134 7471 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
7472 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 7473DOC_END
7474
cccac0a2 7475NAME: netdb_low
7476TYPE: int
7477DEFAULT: 900
7478LOC: Config.Netdb.low
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7479DOC_START
7480 The low water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7481
7482 Note: high watermark controlled by netdb_high directive.
7483
7484 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7485 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7486 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7487 mark is reached.
7488DOC_END
cccac0a2 7489
7490NAME: netdb_high
7491TYPE: int
7492DEFAULT: 1000
7493LOC: Config.Netdb.high
7494DOC_START
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7495 The high water mark for the ICMP measurement database.
7496
7497 Note: low watermark controlled by netdb_low directive.
7498
7499 These watermarks are counts, not percents. The defaults are
7500 (low) 900 and (high) 1000. When the high water mark is
7501 reached, database entries will be deleted until the low
7502 mark is reached.
cccac0a2 7503DOC_END
7504
cccac0a2 7505NAME: netdb_ping_period
7506TYPE: time_t
7507LOC: Config.Netdb.period
7508DEFAULT: 5 minutes
7509DOC_START
7510 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
7511 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
7512 network. The default is five minutes.
7513DOC_END
7514
cccac0a2 7515NAME: query_icmp
7516COMMENT: on|off
7517TYPE: onoff
7518DEFAULT: off
7519LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
7520DOC_START
7521 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
7522 replies, enable this option.
7523
7524 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 7525 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
7526 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 7527 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
7528 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
7529 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
7530 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
7531 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
7532DOC_END
7533
7534NAME: test_reachability
7535COMMENT: on|off
7536TYPE: onoff
7537DEFAULT: off
7538LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
7539DOC_START
7540 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
7541 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
7542 database, or has a zero RTT.
7543DOC_END
7544
5473c134 7545NAME: icp_query_timeout
7546COMMENT: (msec)
7547DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 7548DEFAULT_DOC: Dynamic detection.
5473c134 7549TYPE: int
7550LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 7551DOC_START
5473c134 7552 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
7553 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
7554 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
7555 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
7556 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
7557 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 7558
5473c134 7559 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 7560DOC_END
7561
5473c134 7562NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
7563COMMENT: (msec)
7564DEFAULT: 2000
7565TYPE: int
7566LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 7567DOC_START
5473c134 7568 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7569 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
7570 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
7571 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7572 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7573 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7574DOC_END
7575
5473c134 7576NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
7577COMMENT: (msec)
7578DEFAULT: 5
7579TYPE: int
7580LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 7581DOC_START
5473c134 7582 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
7583 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
7584 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
7585 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
7586 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
7587 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
7588 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 7589DOC_END
7590
5473c134 7591NAME: background_ping_rate
7592COMMENT: time-units
7593TYPE: time_t
7594DEFAULT: 10 seconds
7595LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 7596DOC_START
5473c134 7597 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
7598 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 7599DOC_END
7600
5473c134 7601COMMENT_START
7602 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
7603 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7604COMMENT_END
7605
7606NAME: mcast_groups
7607TYPE: wordlist
7608LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 7609DEFAULT: none
7610DOC_START
5473c134 7611 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
7612 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 7613
5473c134 7614 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
7615 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
7616 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
7617 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
7618 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
7619 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
7620 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 7621
5473c134 7622 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
7623 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 7624
5473c134 7625 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
7626 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 7627
5473c134 7628 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 7629
5473c134 7630 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
7631DOC_END
8c01ada0 7632
5473c134 7633NAME: mcast_miss_addr
7634IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7635TYPE: address
7636LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 7637DEFAULT: no_addr
638402dd 7638DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 7639DOC_START
7640 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
7641 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 7642
5473c134 7643 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
7644 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 7645DOC_END
7646
5473c134 7647NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
7648IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7649TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7650LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
7651DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 7652DOC_START
5473c134 7653 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
7654 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
7655 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
7656DOC_END
cccac0a2 7657
5473c134 7658NAME: mcast_miss_port
7659IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 7660TYPE: u_short
5473c134 7661LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
7662DEFAULT: 3135
7663DOC_START
7664 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
7665 'mcast_miss_addr'.
7666DOC_END
cccac0a2 7667
5473c134 7668NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
7669IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
7670TYPE: string
7671LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
7672DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
7673DOC_START
7674 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
7675 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
7676DOC_END
8c01ada0 7677
5473c134 7678NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
7679COMMENT: (msec)
7680DEFAULT: 2000
7681TYPE: int
7682LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
7683DOC_START
7684 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
7685 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
7686 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
7687 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
7688 seconds.
cccac0a2 7689DOC_END
7690
5473c134 7691COMMENT_START
7692 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
7693 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7694COMMENT_END
7695
cccac0a2 7696NAME: icon_directory
7697TYPE: string
7698LOC: Config.icons.directory
7699DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7700DOC_START
7701 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
7702 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
7703DOC_END
7704
f024c970 7705NAME: global_internal_static
7706TYPE: onoff
7707LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
7708DEFAULT: on
7709DOC_START
7710 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
7711 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
7712 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
7713 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
7714 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
7715 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
7716 the server generating a directory listing.
7717DOC_END
7718
5473c134 7719NAME: short_icon_urls
7720TYPE: onoff
7721LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
7722DEFAULT: on
7723DOC_START
7724 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
7725 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
7726 it's own name and port in the URL.
7727
7728 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
7729 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
7730DOC_END
7731
7732COMMENT_START
7733 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
7734 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7735COMMENT_END
7736
7737NAME: error_directory
7738TYPE: string
7739LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 7740DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7741DEFAULT_DOC: Send error pages in the clients preferred language
5473c134 7742DOC_START
7743 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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7744 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
7745 the error/template files to another directory and point
7746 this tag at them.
7747
7748 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
7749 on error pages if used.
5473c134 7750
7751 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7752 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 7753 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 7754 contributing your translation back to the project.
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7755 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
7756
7757 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
7758 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
7759DOC_END
7760
7761NAME: error_default_language
7762IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7763TYPE: string
7764LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
7765DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7766DEFAULT_DOC: Generate English language pages.
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7767DOC_START
7768 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
7769 if no existing translation matches the clients language
7770 preferences.
7771
7772 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
7773
7774 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
7775 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
7776 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
7777 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 7778DOC_END
7779
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7780NAME: error_log_languages
7781IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
7782TYPE: onoff
7783LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
7784DEFAULT: on
7785DOC_START
7786 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
7787 auto-negotiate for translations.
7788
7789 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
7790 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 7791 of its error page translations.
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7792DOC_END
7793
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7794NAME: err_page_stylesheet
7795TYPE: string
7796LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
7797DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
7798DOC_START
7799 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
7800
7801 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
7802DOC_END
7803
5473c134 7804NAME: err_html_text
7805TYPE: eol
7806LOC: Config.errHtmlText
7807DEFAULT: none
7808DOC_START
7809 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
7810 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
7811 organizations Web page.
7812
7813 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
7814 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
7815 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
7816 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
7817DOC_END
7818
7819NAME: email_err_data
7820COMMENT: on|off
7821TYPE: onoff
7822LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
7823DEFAULT: on
7824DOC_START
7825 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
7826 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
7827 so that the email body contains the data.
7828 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
7829DOC_END
7830
7831NAME: deny_info
7832TYPE: denyinfo
7833LOC: Config.denyInfoList
7834DEFAULT: none
7835DOC_START
7836 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
7837 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 7838 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 7839
7840 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
7841 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
7842 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
7843 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
7844
7845 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
7846 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
7847 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
7848 the first authentication related acl encountered
7849 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
7850 acl processed on the last http_access line.
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7851 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
7852 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 7853
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7854 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
7855 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
7856 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 7857
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7858 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
7859 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
7860 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
7861
5473c134 7862 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
7863 by specifying TCP_RESET.
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7864
7865 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
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7866 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
7867 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
7868 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
7869 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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7870
7871 URL FORMAT TAGS:
7872 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
7873 %B - FTP path URL
7874 %e - Error number
7875 %E - Error description
7876 %h - Squid hostname
7877 %H - Request domain name
7878 %i - Client IP Address
7879 %M - Request Method
7880 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
7881 %p - Request Port number
7882 %P - Request Protocol name
7883 %R - Request URL path
7884 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
7885 %U - Full canonical URL from client
7886 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
7887 %u - Full canonical URL from client
7888 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 7889 %x - Error name
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7890 %% - Literal percent (%) code
7891
5473c134 7892DOC_END
7893
7894COMMENT_START
7895 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
7896 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7897COMMENT_END
7898
7899NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7900TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7901LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 7902DEFAULT: on
7903DOC_START
5473c134 7904 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
9967aef6 7905 (not cacheable request type) direct to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 7906
638402dd 7907 When this is set to "off", Squid will prefer to send these
5473c134 7908 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 7909
5473c134 7910 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
7911 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
7912 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 7913
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7914 This option only sets a preference. If the parent is unavailable a
7915 direct connection to the origin server may still be attempted. To
7916 completely prevent direct connections use never_direct.
8d6275c0 7917DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 7918
5473c134 7919NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7920TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7921LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 7922DEFAULT: off
7923DOC_START
5473c134 7924 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
7925 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
7926 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 7927
5473c134 7928 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
7929 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
7930 fails.
7931
7932 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
7933 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
7934 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 7935DOC_END
7936
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7937NAME: cache_miss_revalidate
7938COMMENT: on|off
7939TYPE: onoff
7940DEFAULT: on
7941LOC: Config.onoff.cache_miss_revalidate
7942DOC_START
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7943 RFC 7232 defines a conditional request mechanism to prevent
7944 response objects being unnecessarily transferred over the network.
7945 If that mechanism is used by the client and a cache MISS occurs
7946 it can prevent new cache entries being created.
7947
7948 This option determines whether Squid on cache MISS will pass the
7949 client revalidation request to the server or tries to fetch new
7950 content for caching. It can be useful while the cache is mostly
7951 empty to more quickly have the cache populated by generating
7952 non-conditional GETs.
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7953
7954 When set to 'on' (default), Squid will pass all client If-* headers
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7955 to the server. This permits server responses without a cacheable
7956 payload to be delivered and on MISS no new cache entry is created.
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7957
7958 When set to 'off' and if the request is cacheable, Squid will
7959 remove the clients If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match headers from
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7960 the request sent to the server. This requests a 200 status response
7961 from the server to create a new cache entry with.
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7962DOC_END
7963
5473c134 7964NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 7965TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 7966LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 7967DEFAULT: none
638402dd 7968DEFAULT_DOC: Prevent any cache_peer being used for this request.
0b0cfcf2 7969DOC_START
5473c134 7970 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 7971
5473c134 7972 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
7973 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
7974 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
7975 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
7976 something like:
0b0cfcf2 7977
5473c134 7978 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
7979 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 7980
5473c134 7981 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 7982
5473c134 7983 acl FTP proto FTP
7984 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 7985
5473c134 7986 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
7987 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
7988 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
7989 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
7990 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 7991
5473c134 7992 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
7993 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
7994 always_direct deny local-external
7995 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 7996
5473c134 7997 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
7998 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
7999 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
8000 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 8001
5473c134 8002 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
8003 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 8004 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 8005
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8006 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8007 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 8008DOC_END
0976f8db 8009
5473c134 8010NAME: never_direct
8011TYPE: acl_access
8012LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
8013DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8014DEFAULT_DOC: Allow DNS results to be used for this request.
8d6275c0 8015DOC_START
5473c134 8016 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8017
8018 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
8019 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
8020
8021 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
8022 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
8023 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
8024 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
8025
8026 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 8027 never_direct deny local-servers
8028 never_direct allow all
8029
8030 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
8031 servers inside the firewall use something like:
8032
8033 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
8034 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
8035 always_direct deny local-external
8036 always_direct allow local-intranet
8037 never_direct allow all
8038
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8039 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
8040 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 8041DOC_END
0976f8db 8042
5473c134 8043COMMENT_START
8044 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
8045 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8046COMMENT_END
8047
65d448bc 8048NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 8049TYPE: int
8050DEFAULT: 6
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8051LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
8052DOC_START
8053 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8054 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8055 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8056DOC_END
cccac0a2 8057
65d448bc 8058NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 8059TYPE: int
8060DEFAULT: 4
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8061LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
8062DOC_START
8063 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8064 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8065 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8066DOC_END
cccac0a2 8067
8068NAME: incoming_dns_average
8069TYPE: int
8070DEFAULT: 4
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8071LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
8072DOC_START
8073 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8074 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8075 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8076DOC_END
cccac0a2 8077
65d448bc 8078NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8079TYPE: int
8080DEFAULT: 8
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8081LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
8082DOC_START
8083 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8084 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8085 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8086DOC_END
cccac0a2 8087
8088NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
8089TYPE: int
8090DEFAULT: 8
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8091LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
8092DOC_START
8093 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8094 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8095 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8096DOC_END
cccac0a2 8097
65d448bc 8098NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 8099TYPE: int
8100DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 8101LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 8102DOC_START
5473c134 8103 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
8104 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
8105 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
8106DOC_END
8107
8108NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 8109TYPE: string
8110DEFAULT: none
8111LOC: Config.accept_filter
8112DOC_START
0b4d4be5 8113 FreeBSD:
8114
5473c134 8115 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
8116 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
8117 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
8118
8119 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 8120 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 8121 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
8122
8123 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
8124 to Squid until there is some data to process.
8125 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
8126
8127 Linux:
8128
8129 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
8130 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
8131 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
8132 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
8133 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 8134EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 8135# FreeBSD
5473c134 8136accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 8137# Linux
8138accept_filter data
5473c134 8139DOC_END
8140
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8141NAME: client_ip_max_connections
8142TYPE: int
8143LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
8144DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8145DEFAULT_DOC: No limit.
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8146DOC_START
8147 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
8148 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
8149 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
8150
8151 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
8152 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
8153
8154 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
8155
8156 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
8157 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
8158DOC_END
8159
5473c134 8160NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
8161COMMENT: (bytes)
8162TYPE: b_size_t
8163DEFAULT: 0 bytes
638402dd 8164DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system TCP defaults.
5473c134 8165LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
8166DOC_START
8167 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
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8168 as easy to change your kernel's default.
8169 Omit from squid.conf to use the default buffer size.
5473c134 8170DOC_END
8171
8172COMMENT_START
8173 ICAP OPTIONS
8174 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8175COMMENT_END
8176
8177NAME: icap_enable
8178TYPE: onoff
8179IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8180COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8181LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 8182DEFAULT: off
8183DOC_START
53e738c6 8184 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 8185DOC_END
8186
8187NAME: icap_connect_timeout
8188TYPE: time_t
8189DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 8190LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 8191IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8192DOC_START
8193 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
8194 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
8195 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
8196
8197 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
8198 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
8199 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
8200DOC_END
8201
8202NAME: icap_io_timeout
8203COMMENT: time-units
8204TYPE: time_t
8205DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8206DEFAULT_DOC: Use read_timeout.
26cc52cb 8207LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 8208IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8209DOC_START
8210 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
8211 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
8212 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
8213 failure.
5473c134 8214DOC_END
8215
8216NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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8217COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
8218TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 8219IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 8220LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8221DEFAULT: 10
8222DOC_START
8223 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
8224 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
8225 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
8226 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 8227 OPTIONS.
5473c134 8228
8229 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
8230 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
8231 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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8232
8233 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
8234 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
8235 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
8236 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
8237 value into ten time slots of equal length.
8238
8239 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
8240 effect on service failure expiration.
8241
8242 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
8243 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
8244 setting.
8245
8246 For example,
8247 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
8248 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 8249DOC_END
8250
5473c134 8251NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 8252TYPE: int
5473c134 8253IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8254LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 8255DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 8256DOC_START
5473c134 8257 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
8258 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
8259 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
8260 fetched.
cccac0a2 8261
5473c134 8262 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
8263 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 8264DOC_END
8265
5473c134 8266NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 8267TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8268IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8269COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8270LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 8271DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8272DOC_START
ac7a62f9 8273 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
8274 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
8275 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
8276 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
8277
8278 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
8279 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
8280 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
8281
8282 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
8283 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
8284Example:
8285icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 8286DOC_END
8287
5473c134 8288NAME: icap_preview_size
8289TYPE: int
8290IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8291LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 8292DEFAULT: -1
638402dd 8293DEFAULT_DOC: No preview sent.
cccac0a2 8294DOC_START
53e738c6 8295 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
638402dd 8296 This value might be overwritten on a per server basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 8297DOC_END
8298
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8299NAME: icap_206_enable
8300TYPE: onoff
8301IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8302COMMENT: on|off
8303LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
8304DEFAULT: on
8305DOC_START
8306 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
8307 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
8308 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
8309 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
8310
8311 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
8312 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
8313 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
8314 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
8315 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
8316
8317 Example:
8318 icap_206_enable off
8319DOC_END
8320
5473c134 8321NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
8322TYPE: int
8323IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8324LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 8325DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 8326DOC_START
53e738c6 8327 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 8328 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 8329DOC_END
8330
5473c134 8331NAME: icap_persistent_connections
8332TYPE: onoff
8333IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8334COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8335LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 8336DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 8337DOC_START
5473c134 8338 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
8339 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 8340DOC_END
8341
22fff3bf 8342NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 8343TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8344IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8345COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8346LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 8347DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8348DOC_START
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8349 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
8350 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
8351 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
8352
8353 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 8354DOC_END
8355
22fff3bf 8356NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 8357TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 8358IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 8359COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 8360LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 8361DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8362DOC_START
5473c134 8363 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
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8364 the adaptation service.
8365
8366 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 8367 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
8368 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 8369DOC_END
8370
5473c134 8371NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 8372TYPE: string
5473c134 8373IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8374LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 8375DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 8376DOC_START
db49f682 8377 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 8378DOC_END
8379
5473c134 8380NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 8381TYPE: onoff
5473c134 8382IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8383COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 8384LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 8385DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 8386DOC_START
5473c134 8387 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 8388DOC_END
8389
5473c134 8390NAME: icap_service
8391TYPE: icap_service_type
8392IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 8393LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 8394DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8395DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8396 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 8397
c25c2836 8398 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7d90757b 8399
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8400 id: ID
8401 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8402 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8403 services in squid.conf.
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8404
8405 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 8406 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8407 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8408 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 8409
c25c2836 8410 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
a22e6cd3 8411 ICAP server and service location.
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8412 icaps://servername:port/servicepath
8413 The "icap:" URI scheme is used for traditional ICAP server and
8414 service location (default port is 1344, connections are not
8415 encrypted). The "icaps:" URI scheme is for Secure ICAP
8416 services that use SSL/TLS-encrypted ICAP connections (by
8417 default, on port 11344).
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8418
8419 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
8420 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
8421 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
8422 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
8423 service_names differ.
8424
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8426 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8427
8428 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
8429 the following name=value options:
8430
8431 bypass=on|off|1|0
8432 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
8433 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
8434 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
8435 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
8436 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
8437 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
8438 returned to the HTTP client.
8439
8440 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8441
8442 routing=on|off|1|0
8443 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
8444 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8445 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
8446 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
8447 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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8448 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
8449 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
8450 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
8451
8452 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8453 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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8454
8455 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
8456 response header is ignored.
8457
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8458 ipv6=on|off
8459 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
8460 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
8461 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
8462
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8463 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
8464 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
8465 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
8466 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
8467 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
8468 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
8469 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
8470
8471 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
8472 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
8473 workers may use a given service.
8474
8475 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
8476 otherwise it is set to "wait".
8477
8478
8479 max-conn=number
8480 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
8481 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
8482
4dd2c9d6 8483 ==== ICAPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
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8484
8485 These options are used for Secure ICAP (icaps://....) services only.
8486
4dd2c9d6 8487 tls-cert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
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8488 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
8489 this icap server.
8490
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8491 tls-key=/path/to/ssl/key
8492 The private TLS/SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
8493 If 'tls-key' is not specified 'tls-cert' is assumed to
8494 reference a combined PEM format file containing both the
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8495 certificate and the key.
8496
4dd2c9d6 8497 tls-cipher=... The list of valid TLS/SSL ciphers to use when connecting
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8498 to this icap server.
8499
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8500 tls-min-version=1.N
8501 The minimum TLS protocol version to permit. To control
8502 SSLv3 use the ssloptions= parameter.
8503 Supported Values: 1.0 (default), 1.1, 1.2
8504
4dd2c9d6 8505 tls-options=... Specify various OpenSSL library options:
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8506
8507 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
4dd2c9d6 8508
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8509 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
8510 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
8511 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
4dd2c9d6 8512
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8513 SINGLE_DH_USE
8514 Always create a new key when using
8515 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
4dd2c9d6 8516
1b091aec 8517 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
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8518 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
8519 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
8520 strength to some attacks.
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8521
8522 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
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8523 more complete list. Options relevant only to SSLv2 are
8524 not supported.
1b091aec 8525
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8526 tls-cafile=... A PEM file containing additional CA certificates to use
8527 when verifying the icap server certificate. Used
8528 to specify intermediate CA certificate(s) if not sent
8529 by the server. Or the full CA chain for the server
8530 when using the NO_DEFAULT_CA flag.
1b091aec 8531
4dd2c9d6 8532 tls-capath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
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8533 use when verifying the icap server certificate.
8534
4dd2c9d6 8535 tls-crlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
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8536 verifying the icap server certificate.
8537
4dd2c9d6 8538 tls-flags=... Specify various flags modifying the Squid TLS implementation:
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8539
8540 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
8541 Accept certificates even if they fail to
8542 verify.
8543 NO_DEFAULT_CA
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8544 Don't use the default CA list built into
8545 OpenSSL.
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8546 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
8547 Don't verify the icap server certificate
8548 matches the server name
8549
4dd2c9d6 8550 tls-domain= The icap server name as advertised in it's certificate.
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8551 Used for verifying the correctness of the received icap
8552 server certificate. If not specified the icap server
8553 hostname extracted from ICAP URI will be used.
8554
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8555 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
8556 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 8557
5473c134 8558Example:
c25c2836 8559icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
1b091aec 8560icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icaps://icap2.mydomain.net:11344/reqmod routing=on
cccac0a2 8561DOC_END
8562
5473c134 8563NAME: icap_class
8564TYPE: icap_class_type
8565IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8566LOC: none
5473c134 8567DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8568DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8569 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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8570 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
8571 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 8572
62c7f90e 8573 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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8574 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
8575 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 8576DOC_END
8577
5473c134 8578NAME: icap_access
8579TYPE: icap_access_type
8580IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 8581LOC: none
cccac0a2 8582DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 8583DOC_START
a22e6cd3 8584 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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8585 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
8586 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 8587DOC_END
8588
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8589COMMENT_START
8590 eCAP OPTIONS
8591 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8592COMMENT_END
8593
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8594NAME: ecap_enable
8595TYPE: onoff
8596IFDEF: USE_ECAP
8597COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 8598LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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8599DEFAULT: off
8600DOC_START
8601 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
8602DOC_END
8603
8604NAME: ecap_service
8605TYPE: ecap_service_type
8606IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 8607LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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8608DEFAULT: none
8609DOC_START
8610 Defines a single eCAP service
8611
c25c2836 8612 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 8613
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8614 id: ID
8615 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
8616 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
8617 services in squid.conf.
8618
8619 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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8620 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
8621 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
8622 are not yet supported.
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8623
8624 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
8625 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
8626 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
8627 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
8628 the service provider.
8629
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8630 To activate a service, use the adaptation_access directive. To group
8631 services, use adaptation_service_chain and adaptation_service_set.
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8632
8633 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
8634 the following name=value options:
8635
8636 bypass=on|off|1|0
8637 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
8638 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
8639 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 8640 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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8641 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
8642 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 8643 HTTP client.
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8644
8645 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
8646
8647 routing=on|off|1|0
8648 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
8649 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
8650 returning a chain of services to be used next.
8651
8652 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
8653 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
8654
8655 Routing is not allowed by default.
8656
8657 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
8658 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
8659
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8660
8661Example:
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8662ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
8663ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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8664DOC_END
8665
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8666NAME: loadable_modules
8667TYPE: wordlist
8668IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
8669LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
8670DEFAULT: none
8671DOC_START
8672 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
8673 preloaded module(s).
8674Example:
8675loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
8676DOC_END
8677
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8678COMMENT_START
8679 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
8680 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8681COMMENT_END
8682
8683NAME: adaptation_service_set
8684TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
8685IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8686LOC: none
8687DEFAULT: none
8688DOC_START
8689
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8690 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
8691 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
8692
8693 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
8694
8695 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
8696 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
8697 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
8698 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
8699 intact.
62c7f90e 8700
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8701 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8702 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 8703
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8704 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
8705 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8706
8707 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
8708 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
8709 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
8710 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
8711 transaction fails as well.
8712
8713 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
8714 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
8715 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
8716 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
8717 matters.
8718
8719 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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8720
8721Example:
8722adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
8723adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
8724DOC_END
8725
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8726NAME: adaptation_service_chain
8727TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
8728IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8729LOC: none
8730DEFAULT: none
8731DOC_START
8732
8733 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
8734 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
8735 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
8736
8737 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
8738
8739 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
8740 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
8741 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
8742 the previous service in the chain.
8743
8744 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
8745 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
8746
8747 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
8748 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
8749 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
8750
8751 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
8752 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
8753
8754 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
8755 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
8756 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
8757 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
8758
8759 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
8760
8761Example:
8762adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
8763DOC_END
8764
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8765NAME: adaptation_access
8766TYPE: adaptation_access_type
8767IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8768LOC: none
8769DEFAULT: none
638402dd 8770DEFAULT_DOC: Allow, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
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8771DOC_START
8772 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
8773
8774 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8775 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
8776
8777 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
8778 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
8779 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
8780 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
8781
8782 - services serving different vectoring points
8783 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
8784 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
8785 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
8786
8787 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
8788 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
8789 adaptation_service_set for details.
8790
8791 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
8792 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
8793 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
8794 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
8795
8796 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
8797 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
8798
8799 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
8800
8801Example:
8802adaptation_access service_1 allow all
8803DOC_END
8804
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8805NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
8806TYPE: int
8807IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8808LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
8809DEFAULT: 16
8810DOC_START
8811 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
8812 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
8813 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
8814 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
8815 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
8816 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
8817
8818 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
8819
8820 See also: icap_service routing=1
8821DOC_END
8822
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8823NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
8824TYPE: string
8825IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8826LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
8827DEFAULT: none
8828DOC_START
8829 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
8830 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
8831 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
8832 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
8833 with the master transaction.
8834
8835 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
8836 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
8837
8838 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8839 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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8840 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
8841
8842 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
8843 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
8844 to provide an option with a name specified in
8845 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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8847 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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8848 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
8849
8850 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
8851
8852Example:
8853# share authentication information among ICAP services
8854adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
8855DOC_END
8856
71be37e0 8857NAME: adaptation_meta
d7f4a0b7 8858TYPE: note
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8859IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
8860LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
8861DEFAULT: none
8862DOC_START
8863 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
8864 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
8865 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
8866 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
8867
8868 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
8869 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
8870
8871 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
8872 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
8873 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
8874 example:
8875
8876 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
8877 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
8878
8879 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
8880 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
8881
8882 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
8883 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
8884
8885 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
8886 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
8887 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
8888 and double quotes. For example,
8889 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
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8890
8891 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
8892 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
8893 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
8894 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
8895 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
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8896DOC_END
8897
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8898NAME: icap_retry
8899TYPE: acl_access
8900IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8901LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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8902DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
8903DOC_START
8904 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
8905 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
8906 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
8907 that response are usually retriable.
8908
8909 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8910
8911 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
8912 due to persistent connection race conditions.
8913
8914 See also: icap_retry_limit
8915DOC_END
8916
8917NAME: icap_retry_limit
8918TYPE: int
8919IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8920LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
8921DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 8922DEFAULT_DOC: No retries are allowed.
3ff65596 8923DOC_START
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8925
8926 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
8927 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
8928 count against this limit.
8929
8930 See also: icap_retry
8931DOC_END
8932
8933
5473c134 8934COMMENT_START
8935 DNS OPTIONS
8936 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
8937COMMENT_END
8938
8939NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8940TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8941DEFAULT: off
5473c134 8942LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 8943DOC_START
5473c134 8944 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
8945 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
8946 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 8947DOC_END
8948
5473c134 8949NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8950TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 8951DEFAULT: on
5473c134 8952LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 8953DOC_START
5473c134 8954 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
8955 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
8956 Squid to be strict about the standard.
8957 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 8958DOC_END
8959
5473c134 8960NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 8961TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 8962DEFAULT: 5 seconds
8963LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
cccac0a2 8964DOC_START
5473c134 8965 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
8966 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 8967DOC_END
8968
5473c134 8969NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 8970TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 8971DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 8972LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
cccac0a2 8973DOC_START
5473c134 8974 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
8975 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
8976 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 8977DOC_END
8978
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8979NAME: dns_packet_max
8980TYPE: b_ssize_t
638402dd 8981DEFAULT_DOC: EDNS disabled
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8982DEFAULT: none
8983LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
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8984DOC_START
8985 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
8986 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
8987
8988 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
8989 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
8990 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
8991 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
8992 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
8993
8994 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
8995 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
8996 necessary.
8997
8998 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
8999 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
9000 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
9001 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
9002 sizes being advertised by Squid.
9003 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
9004 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
9005DOC_END
9006
5473c134 9007NAME: dns_defnames
9008COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 9009TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 9010DEFAULT: off
638402dd 9011DEFAULT_DOC: Search for single-label domain names is disabled.
5473c134 9012LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 9013DOC_START
5473c134 9014 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
9015 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
9016 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
9017 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 9018DOC_END
9019
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9020NAME: dns_multicast_local
9021COMMENT: on|off
9022TYPE: onoff
9023DEFAULT: off
9024DEFAULT_DOC: Search for .local and .arpa names is disabled.
9025LOC: Config.onoff.dns_mdns
9026DOC_START
9027 When set to on, Squid sends multicast DNS lookups on the local
9028 network for domains ending in .local and .arpa.
9029 This enables local servers and devices to be contacted in an
9030 ad-hoc or zero-configuration network environment.
9031DOC_END
9032
5473c134 9033NAME: dns_nameservers
9034TYPE: wordlist
9035DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9036DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
5473c134 9037LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 9038DOC_START
5473c134 9039 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
9040 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
9041 /etc/resolv.conf file.
638402dd 9042
5473c134 9043 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
9044 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
9045 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
9046 configurations are supported.
cccac0a2 9047
5473c134 9048 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 9049DOC_END
9050
5473c134 9051NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 9052TYPE: string
5473c134 9053DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
9054LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 9055DOC_START
5473c134 9056 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
9057 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
9058 default locations:
9059 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
9060 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9061 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
9062 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
9063 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
9064 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
9065 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
9066 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 9067
5473c134 9068 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
9069 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
9070 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
9071 character are comments.
cccac0a2 9072
5473c134 9073 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
9074 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
9075 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
9076 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
9077 definitions.
cccac0a2 9078DOC_END
9079
5473c134 9080NAME: append_domain
9081TYPE: string
9082LOC: Config.appendDomain
9083DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9084DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system definitions
6a2f3fcf 9085DOC_START
5473c134 9086 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
9087 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
9088
9089 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
9090 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
9091 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
9092
9093Example:
9094 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 9095DOC_END
9096
5473c134 9097NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
9098TYPE: onoff
9099LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 9100DEFAULT: on
9101DOC_START
5473c134 9102 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
9103 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
9104 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
9105 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
9106 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 9107DOC_END
9108
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9109NAME: dns_v4_first
9110TYPE: onoff
9111DEFAULT: off
9112LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
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9113DOC_START
9114 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
9115 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
9116
9117 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
9118 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
9119 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
9120
9121 WARNING:
9122 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
9123 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
9124 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
9125DOC_END
9126
6bc15a4f 9127NAME: ipcache_size
9128COMMENT: (number of entries)
9129TYPE: int
9130DEFAULT: 1024
9131LOC: Config.ipcache.size
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9132DOC_START
9133 Maximum number of DNS IP cache entries.
9134DOC_END
6bc15a4f 9135
9136NAME: ipcache_low
9137COMMENT: (percent)
9138TYPE: int
9139DEFAULT: 90
9140LOC: Config.ipcache.low
9141DOC_NONE
9142
9143NAME: ipcache_high
9144COMMENT: (percent)
9145TYPE: int
9146DEFAULT: 95
9147LOC: Config.ipcache.high
9148DOC_START
9149 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
9150DOC_END
9151
9152NAME: fqdncache_size
9153COMMENT: (number of entries)
9154TYPE: int
9155DEFAULT: 1024
9156LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
9157DOC_START
9158 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
9159DOC_END
9160
a58ff010 9161COMMENT_START
5473c134 9162 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 9163 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9164COMMENT_END
9165
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9166NAME: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9167COMMENT: on|off
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9168TYPE: configuration_includes_quoted_values
9169DEFAULT: off
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9170LOC: ConfigParser::RecognizeQuotedValues
9171DOC_START
9172 If set, Squid will recognize each "quoted string" after a configuration
9173 directive as a single parameter. The quotes are stripped before the
9174 parameter value is interpreted or used.
9175 See "Values with spaces, quotes, and other special characters"
9176 section for more details.
9177DOC_END
9178
5473c134 9179NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 9180COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9181TYPE: onoff
9182DEFAULT: on
9183LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 9184DOC_START
5473c134 9185 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
9186 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
9187 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
9188 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 9189DOC_END
9190
5473c134 9191NAME: memory_pools_limit
9192COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 9193TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 9194DEFAULT: 5 MB
9195LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 9196DOC_START
5473c134 9197 Used only with memory_pools on:
9198 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 9199
5473c134 9200 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
9201 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
9202 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
9203 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
9204 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
9205 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
9206 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 9207
89646bd7 9208 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 9209 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 9210
5473c134 9211 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 9212 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 9213
9214 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
9215 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
9216 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
9217 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 9218DOC_END
9219
5473c134 9220NAME: forwarded_for
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9221COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
9222TYPE: string
5473c134 9223DEFAULT: on
9224LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 9225DOC_START
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9226 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
9227 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 9228
5473c134 9229 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
9230
67c06f0d 9231 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 9232
9233 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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9234
9235 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
9236 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
9237
9238 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
9239 X-Forwarded-For header.
9240
9241 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 9242 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 9243DOC_END
9244
5473c134 9245NAME: cachemgr_passwd
9246TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
9247DEFAULT: none
638402dd 9248DEFAULT_DOC: No password. Actions which require password are denied.
5473c134 9249LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 9250DOC_START
5473c134 9251 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 9252
5473c134 9253 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
9254
9255 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
9256 5min
9257 60min
9258 asndb
9259 authenticator
9260 cbdata
9261 client_list
9262 comm_incoming
9263 config *
9264 counters
9265 delay
9266 digest_stats
9267 dns
9268 events
9269 filedescriptors
9270 fqdncache
9271 histograms
9272 http_headers
9273 info
9274 io
9275 ipcache
9276 mem
9277 menu
9278 netdb
9279 non_peers
9280 objects
9281 offline_toggle *
9282 pconn
9283 peer_select
b360c477 9284 reconfigure *
5473c134 9285 redirector
9286 refresh
9287 server_list
9288 shutdown *
9289 store_digest
9290 storedir
9291 utilization
9292 via_headers
9293 vm_objects
9294
9295 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
9296 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
9297
9298 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
9299 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
9300 password to "none".
9301
9302 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
9303
9304Example:
9305 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
9306 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
9307 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 9308DOC_END
9309
5473c134 9310NAME: client_db
a58ff010 9311COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9312TYPE: onoff
9313DEFAULT: on
9314LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 9315DOC_START
5473c134 9316 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
9317 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 9318DOC_END
9319
5473c134 9320NAME: refresh_all_ims
9321COMMENT: on|off
9322TYPE: onoff
9323DEFAULT: off
9324LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 9325DOC_START
5473c134 9326 When you enable this option, squid will always check
9327 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
9328 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
9329 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
9330 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 9331
5473c134 9332 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
9333 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 9334DOC_END
9335
5473c134 9336NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 9337IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 9338COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 9339TYPE: onoff
9340DEFAULT: off
9341LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 9342DOC_START
5473c134 9343 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
9344 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
9345 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
9346 feature could make you liable for problems which it
9347 causes.
9348
9349 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 9350DOC_END
9351
31ef19cd 9352NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 9353TYPE: int
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AJ
9354LOC: Config.connect_retries
9355DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9356DEFAULT_DOC: Do not retry failed connections.
a58ff010 9357DOC_START
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AJ
9358 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
9359 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
9360 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
9361
9362 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
9363 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 9364
31ef19cd
AJ
9365 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
9366 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 9367
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AJ
9368 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
9369 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
9370 a useful server.
a58ff010 9371DOC_END
9372
5473c134 9373NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 9374TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9375LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 9376DEFAULT: off
9377DOC_START
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9378 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
9379 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
9380 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
9381 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
9382
9383 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
9384 work around access control errors.
9385
9386 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
9387 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 9388DOC_END
9389
5473c134 9390NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 9391TYPE: string
5473c134 9392LOC: Config.as_whois_server
9393DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 9394DOC_START
5473c134 9395 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
9396 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 9397DOC_END
9398
5473c134 9399NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 9400TYPE: onoff
5473c134 9401LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 9402DEFAULT: off
9403DOC_START
5473c134 9404 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
9405 objects.
a58ff010 9406DOC_END
9407
5473c134 9408NAME: uri_whitespace
9409TYPE: uri_whitespace
9410LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
9411DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 9412DOC_START
5473c134 9413 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
9414 URI. Options:
a58ff010 9415
5473c134 9416 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
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9417 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396 and RFC3986
9418 for tolerant handling of generic URI.
9419 NOTE: This is one difference between generic URI and HTTP URLs.
9420
5473c134 9421 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
9422 Request" message.
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9423 This is the behaviour recommended by RFC2616 for safe
9424 handling of HTTP request URL.
9425
5473c134 9426 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
9427 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
9428 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
9429 are in use.
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9430 Note this may be considered a violation of RFC2616
9431 request parsing where whitespace is prohibited in the
9432 URL field.
9433
5473c134 9434 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
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AJ
9435 encoded according to RFC1738.
9436
5473c134 9437 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
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AJ
9438 first whitespace.
9439
9440
9441 NOTE the current Squid implementation of encode and chop violates
9442 RFC2616 by not using a 301 redirect after altering the URL.
5473c134 9443DOC_END
a58ff010 9444
5473c134 9445NAME: chroot
9446TYPE: string
9447LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 9448DEFAULT: none
9449DOC_START
9f37c18a 9450 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
2d89f399
HN
9451 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
9452 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
9453 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
9454 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 9455DOC_END
a58ff010 9456
5473c134 9457NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
9458TYPE: onoff
9459LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 9460DEFAULT: off
5473c134 9461DOC_START
cc192b50 9462 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
9463 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
9464 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
9465
5473c134 9466 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
9467 found not to preserve user session state across requests
9468 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 9469
cc192b50 9470 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 9471DOC_END
9472
5473c134 9473NAME: pipeline_prefetch
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9474TYPE: pipelinePrefetch
9475LOC: Config.pipeline_max_prefetch
9476DEFAULT: 0
9477DEFAULT_DOC: Do not pre-parse pipelined requests.
a58ff010 9478DOC_START
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AJ
9479 HTTP clients may send a pipeline of 1+N requests to Squid using a
9480 single connection, without waiting for Squid to respond to the first
9481 of those requests. This option limits the number of concurrent
9482 requests Squid will try to handle in parallel. If set to N, Squid
9483 will try to receive and process up to 1+N requests on the same
9484 connection concurrently.
a58ff010 9485
079a8480 9486 Defaults to 0 (off) for bandwidth management and access logging
5473c134 9487 reasons.
a0e23afd 9488
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AJ
9489 NOTE: pipelining requires persistent connections to clients.
9490
a0e23afd 9491 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 9492DOC_END
a58ff010 9493
5473c134 9494NAME: high_response_time_warning
9495TYPE: int
9496COMMENT: (msec)
9497LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
9498DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9499DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9500DOC_START
9501 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
9502 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
9503 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 9504DOC_END
9505
5473c134 9506NAME: high_page_fault_warning
9507TYPE: int
9508LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
9509DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9510DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
cc9f92d4 9511DOC_START
5473c134 9512 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
9513 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
9514 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
9515 per second.
9516DOC_END
cc9f92d4 9517
5473c134 9518NAME: high_memory_warning
9519TYPE: b_size_t
9520LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
f2228f3b 9521IFDEF: HAVE_MSTATS&&HAVE_GNUMALLOC_H
904971da 9522DEFAULT: 0 KB
638402dd 9523DEFAULT_DOC: disabled.
5473c134 9524DOC_START
4bf2a476
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9525 If the memory usage (as determined by gnumalloc, if available and used)
9526 exceeds this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 9527 the administrators attention.
9528DOC_END
4bf2a476 9529# TODO: link high_memory_warning to mempools?
cc9f92d4 9530
5473c134 9531NAME: sleep_after_fork
9532COMMENT: (microseconds)
9533TYPE: int
9534LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
9535DEFAULT: 0
9536DOC_START
9537 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
9538 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
9539 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
9540 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
9541 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
9542 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
9543 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
9544 until all the child processes have been started.
9545 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
9546 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 9547DOC_END
9548
b6696974 9549NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7aa9bb3e 9550IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
b6696974
GS
9551COMMENT: on|off
9552TYPE: onoff
9553DEFAULT: on
9554LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
9555DOC_START
9556 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
9557 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
9558 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
9559 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
9560 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
9561 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
9562DOC_END
9563
a98c2da5
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9564NAME: eui_lookup
9565TYPE: onoff
9566IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
9567DEFAULT: on
9568LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
9569DOC_START
9570 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
9571DOC_END
9572
f3f0f563
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9573NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
9574TYPE: int
9575DEFAULT: 0
638402dd 9576DEFAULT_DOC: Use operating system limits set by ulimit.
f3f0f563
AJ
9577LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
9578DOC_START
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AJ
9579 Reduce the maximum number of filedescriptors supported below
9580 the usual operating system defaults.
f3f0f563 9581
638402dd 9582 Remove from squid.conf to inherit the current ulimit setting.
f3f0f563
AJ
9583
9584 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
638402dd 9585 not all I/O types supports large values (eg on Windows).
f3f0f563
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9586DOC_END
9587
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9588NAME: force_request_body_continuation
9589TYPE: acl_access
9590LOC: Config.accessList.forceRequestBodyContinuation
9591DEFAULT: none
9592DEFAULT_DOC: Deny, unless rules exist in squid.conf.
9593DOC_START
9594 This option controls how Squid handles data upload requests from HTTP
9595 and FTP agents that require a "Please Continue" control message response
9596 to actually send the request body to Squid. It is mostly useful in
9597 adaptation environments.
9598
9599 When Squid receives an HTTP request with an "Expect: 100-continue"
9600 header or an FTP upload command (e.g., STOR), Squid normally sends the
9601 request headers or FTP command information to an adaptation service (or
9602 peer) and waits for a response. Most adaptation services (and some
9603 broken peers) may not respond to Squid at that stage because they may
9604 decide to wait for the HTTP request body or FTP data transfer. However,
9605 that request body or data transfer may never come because Squid has not
9606 responded with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150 (Please Continue) control message
9607 to the request sender yet!
9608
9609 An allow match tells Squid to respond with the HTTP 100 or FTP 150
9610 (Please Continue) control message on its own, before forwarding the
9611 request to an adaptation service or peer. Such a response usually forces
9612 the request sender to proceed with sending the body. A deny match tells
9613 Squid to delay that control response until the origin server confirms
9614 that the request body is needed. Delaying is the default behavior.
9615DOC_END
9616
cccac0a2 9617EOF