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28
0f74202c 29COMMENT_START
ad12fb4b 30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
cccac0a2 31 ----------------------------
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32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
debd9a31 50
cccac0a2 51COMMENT_END
3a278cb8 52
592a09dc 53COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
5945964d 55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
592a09dc 56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
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66
67
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68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
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83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
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85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
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95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
592a09dc 105COMMENT_END
106
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107# Options Removed in 3.2
108NAME: ignore_expect_100
109TYPE: obsolete
110DOC_START
111 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
112DOC_END
113
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114NAME: dns_v4_fallback
115TYPE: obsolete
116DOC_START
117 Remove this line.
118DOC_END
119
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120NAME: ftp_list_width
121TYPE: obsolete
122DOC_START
123 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
124DOC_END
125
126NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
127TYPE: obsolete
128DOC_START
129 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
130DOC_END
131
132# Options Removed in 3.1
133NAME: dns_testnames
134TYPE: obsolete
135DOC_START
136 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
137DOC_END
138
139NAME: extension_methods
140TYPE: obsolete
141DOC_START
142 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
143DOC_END
144
145# 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
146NAME: incoming_rate
147TYPE: obsolete
148DOC_NONE
149
150NAME: server_http11
151TYPE: obsolete
152DOC_START
153 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
154DOC_END
155
156NAME: upgrade_http0.9
157TYPE: obsolete
158DOC_START
159 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
160DOC_END
161
162NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
163TYPE: obsolete
164DOC_START
165 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
166DOC_END
167
168# Options Removed in 3.0
169NAME: header_access
170TYPE: obsolete
171DOC_START
172 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
173 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
174DOC_END
175
176NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
177TYPE: obsolete
178DOC_START
179 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
180DOC_END
181
5473c134 182COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 183 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
5473c134 184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
185COMMENT_END
186
41bd17a4 187NAME: auth_param
188TYPE: authparam
2f1431ea 189IFDEF: USE_AUTH
5817ee13 190LOC: Auth::TheConfig
cccac0a2 191DEFAULT: none
192DOC_START
41bd17a4 193 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
194 schemes supported by Squid.
cccac0a2 195
41bd17a4 196 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
cccac0a2 197
41bd17a4 198 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
199 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
200 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
201 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
202 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
203 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
204 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
205 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
206 program entry).
cccac0a2 207
41bd17a4 208 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
209 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
210 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
211 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
cccac0a2 212
41bd17a4 213 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
214 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
215 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
216 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
217 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
218 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
219 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
220 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
221 type acl.
cccac0a2 222
41bd17a4 223 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
224 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
225 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
226 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
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227 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
228 authentication disabled.
cccac0a2 229
41bd17a4 230 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
cccac0a2 231
41bd17a4 232 "program" cmdline
233 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
234 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
235 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
236 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
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237 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
238 proxy_auth.
cccac0a2 239
41bd17a4 240 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
241 program is specified.
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41bd17a4 243 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
244 this line to something like
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41bd17a4 246 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
9e7dbc51 247
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248 "utf8" on|off
249 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
250 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
251 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
252 username & password to the helper.
253
7353861b 254 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 255 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
41bd17a4 256 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
257 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
258 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
259 authenticator processes.
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260
261 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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262 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
263 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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264 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
265 the maximum.
266
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267 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
268 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
269 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
270 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
271 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
272 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
41bd17a4 273 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
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274
275 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
0fdafae7 276
41bd17a4 277 "realm" realmstring
278 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
279 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
280 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
281 password). There is no default.
282 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
d1b63fc8 283
41bd17a4 284 "credentialsttl" timetolive
285 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
286 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
287 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
288 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
289 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
290 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
291 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
292 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
293 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
cccac0a2 294
41bd17a4 295 "casesensitive" on|off
296 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
297 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
298 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
299 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
300 auth_param basic casesensitive off
cccac0a2 301
41bd17a4 302 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 303
41bd17a4 304 "program" cmdline
305 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
306 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
307 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
308 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
309 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
310 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
311 available as %m in the returned error page.
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41bd17a4 313 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
314 program is specified.
b8c0c06d 315
41bd17a4 316 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
317 something like
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7ce93108 319 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
cccac0a2 320
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321 "utf8" on|off
322 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
323 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
324 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
325 username & password to the helper.
326
7353861b 327 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
48d54e4d 328 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 329 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
330 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
331 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
332 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
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333
334 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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335 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
336 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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337 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
338 the maximum.
339
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340 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
341 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
342 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
343 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
344 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
345 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
346 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
347
48d54e4d 348 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 349
41bd17a4 350 "realm" realmstring
351 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
352 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
353 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
354 password). There is no default.
355 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
cccac0a2 356
41bd17a4 357 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
358 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
359 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
cccac0a2 360
41bd17a4 361 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
362 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
363 valid for.
cccac0a2 364
41bd17a4 365 "nonce_max_count" number
366 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
367 used.
cccac0a2 368
41bd17a4 369 "nonce_strictness" on|off
370 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
371 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
372 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
373 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
cccac0a2 374
41bd17a4 375 "check_nonce_count" on|off
376 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
377 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
378 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
379 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
cccac0a2 380
41bd17a4 381 "post_workaround" on|off
382 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
383 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
384 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
cccac0a2 385
41bd17a4 386 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
cccac0a2 387
41bd17a4 388 "program" cmdline
389 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
390 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
391 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
392 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
393 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
394 is not used.
cccac0a2 395
41bd17a4 396 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
cccac0a2 397
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398 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
399 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 400 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
401 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
402 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
403 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
404 processes.
cccac0a2 405
48d54e4d 406 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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407 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
408 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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409 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
410 the maximum.
411
412 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
cccac0a2 413
41bd17a4 414 "keep_alive" on|off
415 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
416 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
417 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
418 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
419 supported by the proxy.
cccac0a2 420
41bd17a4 421 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
cccac0a2 422
41bd17a4 423 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
cccac0a2 424
41bd17a4 425 "program" cmdline
426 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
427 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
428 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
429 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
430 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
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431 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
432 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
433 authenticator_program is not used.
41bd17a4 434 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
435 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
cccac0a2 436
41bd17a4 437 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
cccac0a2 438
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439 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
440 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
41bd17a4 441 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
442 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
443 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
444 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
445 processes.
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446
447 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
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448 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
449 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
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450 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
451 the maximum.
452
453 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
d3803853 454
41bd17a4 455 "keep_alive" on|off
456 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
457 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
458 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
459 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
460 supported by the proxy.
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41bd17a4 462 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
cccac0a2 463
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465 Examples:
466
41bd17a4 467#Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
468#auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 469#auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 470#auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
e0855596 471#
41bd17a4 472#auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
48d54e4d 473#auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 474#auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
e0855596 475#
41bd17a4 476#auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
48d54e4d 477#auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
41bd17a4 478#auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
479#auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
480#auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
481#auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
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41bd17a4 483#auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
6f4d3ed6 484#auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
41bd17a4 485#auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
486#auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
41bd17a4 487DOC_END
cccac0a2 488
41bd17a4 489NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
490TYPE: time_t
491DEFAULT: 1 hour
492LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
493DOC_START
494 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
495 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
496 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
497 have good reason to.
498DOC_END
cccac0a2 499
41bd17a4 500NAME: authenticate_ttl
501TYPE: time_t
502DEFAULT: 1 hour
503LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
504DOC_START
505 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
506 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
507 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
508 TTL are removed from memory.
509DOC_END
cccac0a2 510
41bd17a4 511NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
512TYPE: time_t
513LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
514DEFAULT: 0 seconds
515DOC_START
516 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
517 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
518 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
519 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
520 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
521 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
522 environment with relatively static address assignments.
523DOC_END
cccac0a2 524
3d1e3e43 525COMMENT_START
526 ACCESS CONTROLS
527 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
528COMMENT_END
529
41bd17a4 530NAME: external_acl_type
531TYPE: externalAclHelper
532LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
cccac0a2 533DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 534DOC_START
41bd17a4 535 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
536 to look up the status
cccac0a2 537
41bd17a4 538 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
cccac0a2 539
41bd17a4 540 Options:
cccac0a2 541
41bd17a4 542 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
543 for 1 hour)
544 negative_ttl=n
545 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
546 as ttl)
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547 children-max=n
548 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
549 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
550 children-startup=n
551 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
552 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
553 of this type. (default 0)
554 children-idle=n
555 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
556 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
557 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
558 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
41bd17a4 559 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
560 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
48d54e4d 561 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
41bd17a4 562 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
563 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
48d54e4d 564 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
41bd17a4 565 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
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566 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
567 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
cccac0a2 568
41bd17a4 569 FORMAT specifications
cccac0a2 570
41bd17a4 571 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
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572 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
573 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
574 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
41bd17a4 575 %IDENT Ident user name
576 %SRC Client IP
577 %SRCPORT Client source port
578 %URI Requested URI
579 %DST Requested host
580 %PROTO Requested protocol
581 %PORT Requested port
582 %PATH Requested URL path
583 %METHOD Request method
584 %MYADDR Squid interface address
585 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
586 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
587 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
588 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
589 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
590 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
7b0ca1e8 591
c68c9682 592 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 593 %>{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 594 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
7b0ca1e8 595 %>{Hdr:;member}
41bd17a4 596 HTTP request header list member using ; as
597 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
598 character.
cccac0a2 599
c68c9682 600 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
7b0ca1e8 601 %<{Hdr:member}
c68c9682 602 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
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603 %<{Hdr:;member}
604 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
605 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
606 character.
607
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608 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
609 an unchanging input format.
610
41bd17a4 611 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
612 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
613 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
cccac0a2 614
41bd17a4 615 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
616 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
617 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
618 more details.
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41bd17a4 620 General result syntax:
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41bd17a4 622 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
cccac0a2 623
41bd17a4 624 Defined keywords:
cccac0a2 625
41bd17a4 626 user= The users name (login)
627 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
628 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
629 in error pages
630 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
631 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
632 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
633 %ea in logformat specifications
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41bd17a4 635 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
636 each value in both requests and responses.
6a566b9c 637
41bd17a4 638 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
639 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
640 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
1e5562e3 641
41bd17a4 642 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
643 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
644 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
cccac0a2 645DOC_END
646
41bd17a4 647NAME: acl
648TYPE: acl
649LOC: Config.aclList
1f5bd0a4 650DEFAULT: all src all
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651DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
652DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
653DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
654DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
cccac0a2 655DOC_START
41bd17a4 656 Defining an Access List
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658 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
659 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
660 they are read from.
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662 acl aclname acltype argument ...
663 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
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375eeb3b 665 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
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668 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
669 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
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672 to access some external data source.
673 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
674 don't are marked as [fast].
675 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
676 for further information
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678 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
679
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680 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
681 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
682 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
683 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
cccac0a2 684
41bd17a4 685 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
686 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
687 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
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689 # other *BSD variants.
690 # [fast]
41bd17a4 691 #
692 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
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694 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
695
696 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
697 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
698 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
e38c7724 699 # Destination server from URL [fast]
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700 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
701 # regex matching client name [slow]
702 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
e38c7724 703 # regex matching server [fast]
b3567eb5 704 #
41bd17a4 705 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
706 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
707 # if the reverse lookup fails.
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709 acl aclname src_as number ...
710 acl aclname dst_as number ...
b3567eb5 711 # [fast]
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712 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
713 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
714 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
715 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
716 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
717 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
718 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
7f7db318 719
6db78a1a 720 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
b3567eb5 721 # [fast]
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722 # match against a named cache_peer entry
723 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
724
375eeb3b 725 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
b3567eb5 726 # [fast]
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728 # S - Sunday
729 # M - Monday
730 # T - Tuesday
731 # W - Wednesday
732 # H - Thursday
733 # F - Friday
734 # A - Saturday
735 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
736
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738 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
739 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
740 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
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743 # ranges are alloed
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744 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
745 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
746
b3567eb5 747 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
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750
751 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
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754 # status code in reply [fast]
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375eeb3b 756 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 757 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
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375eeb3b 759 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
b3567eb5 760 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
41bd17a4 761 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
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375eeb3b 763 acl aclname ident username ...
41bd17a4 764 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 765 # string match on ident output [slow]
41bd17a4 766 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
cf5cc17e 767
41bd17a4 768 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
769 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
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771 # supplied credentials [slow]
772 #
773 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
41bd17a4 774 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
775 #
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777 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
778 #
41bd17a4 779 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
780 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
781 # in access.log.
782 #
783 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
784 # to check username/password combinations (see
785 # auth_param directive).
786 #
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788 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
41bd17a4 789 # to respond to proxy authentication.
8e8d4f30 790
41bd17a4 791 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
b3567eb5 792 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
41bd17a4 793 # Example:
794 #
795 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
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41bd17a4 797 acl aclname maxconn number
798 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
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800 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
801 # indirect clients are not counted.
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41bd17a4 803 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
804 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
805 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
b3567eb5 806 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
41bd17a4 807 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
808 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
809 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
810 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
811 # request is denied)
812 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
813 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
814 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
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816 acl aclname random probability
817 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
818 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
819 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
820
375eeb3b 821 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 822 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
823 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
b3567eb5 824 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
41bd17a4 825 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
826 # to match the returned file type.
cccac0a2 827
41bd17a4 828 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
829 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
830 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 831 # ACL [fast]
cccac0a2 832
375eeb3b 833 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
41bd17a4 834 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
835 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
b3567eb5 836 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
41bd17a4 837 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
838 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
839 # http_reply_access.
cccac0a2 840
41bd17a4 841 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
842 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
843 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
b3567eb5 844 # ACLs [fast]
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375eeb3b 846 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
41bd17a4 847 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
b3567eb5 848 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
cccac0a2 849
41bd17a4 850 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
851 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
b3567eb5 852 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 853
41bd17a4 854 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
855 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
b3567eb5 856 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
cccac0a2 857
41bd17a4 858 acl aclname ext_user username ...
859 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
b3567eb5 860 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
41bd17a4 861 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
b3567eb5 862
0ab50441 863 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
b3567eb5 864 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
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866 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
867 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
868 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
869 #
870 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
871 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
872 # http_reply_access.
873
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875 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
876 acl myexample dst_as 1241
877 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
878 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
879 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
cccac0a2 880
41bd17a4 881NOCOMMENT_START
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882#
883# Recommended minimum configuration:
884#
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ee776778 886# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
887# Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
888# should be allowed
889acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
890acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
891acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
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892acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
893acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
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41bd17a4 895acl SSL_ports port 443
896acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
897acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
898acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
899acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
900acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
901acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
902acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
903acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
904acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
905acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
906acl CONNECT method CONNECT
907NOCOMMENT_END
908DOC_END
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910NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
911TYPE: acl_access
912IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
913LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
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914DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
915DOC_START
916 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
917 find the original source of a request.
918
919 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
920 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
921 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
922 rightmost address being the most recent.
923
924 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
925 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
926 to see where that host received the request from. If the
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927 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
928 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
929 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
930 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
931 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
932 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
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934 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
935 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
57d76dd4 936 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
3d674977 937 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
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938 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
939 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
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942 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
943
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944 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
945
946 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
947 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
948 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
949 source address of the request. This may enable remote
950 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
951 based on the client's source addresses.
952
953 For example:
954
955 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
956 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
957 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
958 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
959DOC_END
960
961NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
962COMMENT: on|off
963TYPE: onoff
964IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
965DEFAULT: on
966LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
967DOC_START
968 Controls whether the indirect client address
969 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
970 direct client address in acl matching.
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972 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
973 clients will always have zero. So no match.
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975
976NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
977COMMENT: on|off
978TYPE: onoff
9a0a18de 979IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
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981LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
982DOC_START
983 Controls whether the indirect client address
984 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
985 direct client address in delay pools.
986DOC_END
987
988NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
989COMMENT: on|off
990TYPE: onoff
991IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
992DEFAULT: on
993LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
994DOC_START
995 Controls whether the indirect client address
996 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
997 direct client address in the access log.
998DOC_END
999
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1000NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1001COMMENT: on|off
1002TYPE: onoff
1003IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
4d7ab5a2 1004DEFAULT: off
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1005LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1006DOC_START
1007 Controls whether the indirect client address
1008 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1009 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
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1011 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1012 mode ports.
1013
1014 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1015 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
b01a2238 1016 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
4d7ab5a2 1017 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
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1019
41bd17a4 1020NAME: http_access
1021TYPE: acl_access
1022LOC: Config.accessList.http
41bd17a4 1023DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1024DOC_START
1025 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
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41bd17a4 1027 Access to the HTTP port:
1028 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1030 NOTE on default values:
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41bd17a4 1032 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1033 the request.
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41bd17a4 1035 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1036 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1037 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1038 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
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1040 lists to avoid potential confusion.
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1043 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1044
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1047#
1048# Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
41bd17a4 1049#
1050# Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
3c722b3a 1051http_access allow localhost manager
41bd17a4 1052http_access deny manager
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1054# Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
41bd17a4 1055http_access deny !Safe_ports
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1057# Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
41bd17a4 1058http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
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41bd17a4 1060# We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1061# web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1062# one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1063#http_access deny to_localhost
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41bd17a4 1065#
1066# INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
e0855596 1067#
c8f4eac4 1068
ee776778 1069# Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1070# Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1071# from where browsing should be allowed
1072http_access allow localnet
afb33856 1073http_access allow localhost
7d90757b 1074
41bd17a4 1075# And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1076http_access deny all
1077NOCOMMENT_END
1078DOC_END
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1080NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1081TYPE: acl_access
1082LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1083DEFAULT: none
1084DOC_START
1085 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1086
1087 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1088 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1089 output.
1090
1091 If not set then only http_access is used.
1092DOC_END
1093
41bd17a4 1094NAME: http_reply_access
1095TYPE: acl_access
1096LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1097DEFAULT: none
1098DOC_START
1099 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
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41bd17a4 1101 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
cccac0a2 1102
41bd17a4 1103 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1104 all replies
1a224843 1105
41bd17a4 1106 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1107 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1108 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
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1110 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1111 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 1112DOC_END
1113
41bd17a4 1114NAME: icp_access
1115TYPE: acl_access
1116LOC: Config.accessList.icp
41bd17a4 1117DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1118DOC_START
41bd17a4 1119 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1120 access lists
5473c134 1121
41bd17a4 1122 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
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41bd17a4 1124 See http_access for details
1125
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1127 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1129# Allow ICP queries from local networks only
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1131#icp_access deny all
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1133
41bd17a4 1134NAME: htcp_access
1135IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1136TYPE: acl_access
1137LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
41bd17a4 1138DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5473c134 1139DOC_START
41bd17a4 1140 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1141 access lists
5473c134 1142
41bd17a4 1143 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1144
41bd17a4 1145 See http_access for details
5473c134 1146
0b48417e 1147 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1148 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
18191440 1149 using the htcp option.
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1152 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1154# Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
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1156#htcp_access deny all
41bd17a4 1157DOC_END
5473c134 1158
41bd17a4 1159NAME: htcp_clr_access
1160IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1161TYPE: acl_access
1162LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
41bd17a4 1163DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1164DOC_START
1165 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1166 on defined access lists
5473c134 1167
41bd17a4 1168 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473c134 1169
41bd17a4 1170 See http_access for details
5473c134 1171
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1173 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1175# Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
41bd17a4 1176acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1177htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
5473c134 1178DOC_END
1179
41bd17a4 1180NAME: miss_access
1181TYPE: acl_access
1182LOC: Config.accessList.miss
b8a25eaa 1183DEFAULT: none
5473c134 1184DOC_START
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1185 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1186
1187 For example;
1188 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1189 a parent.
5473c134 1190
41bd17a4 1191 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1192 miss_access allow localclients
1193 miss_access deny !localclients
5473c134 1194
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1195 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1196 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1197 objects (HITs).
1198
5473c134 1199
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1200 The default for this setting allows all clients who passed the
1201 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
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1203 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1204 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1205DOC_END
1206
1207NAME: ident_lookup_access
1208TYPE: acl_access
1209IFDEF: USE_IDENT
41bd17a4 1210DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
4daaf3cb 1211LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
5473c134 1212DOC_START
41bd17a4 1213 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1214 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1215 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1216 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1217 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1218 any requests.
5473c134 1219
41bd17a4 1220 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1221 can follow this example:
5473c134 1222
4daaf3cb 1223 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
41bd17a4 1224 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1225 ident_lookup_access deny all
5473c134 1226
4daaf3cb 1227 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
41bd17a4 1228 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1229 the correct result.
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1231 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1232 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 1233DOC_END
5473c134 1234
5b0f5383 1235NAME: reply_body_max_size
1236COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1237TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1238DEFAULT: none
1239LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1240DOC_START
1241 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1242 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1243 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1244 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1245 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1246 for this reply.
1247
1248 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1249 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1250 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1251 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1252 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1253 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1254 and they will receive a partial reply.
1255
1256 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1257 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1258 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1259 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1260
1261 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1262 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1263 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1264 the size of your largest error page.
1265
1266 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1267 no limit imposed.
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1269 Configuration Format is:
1270 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1271 ie.
1272 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1273
5b0f5383 1274DOC_END
1275
1276COMMENT_START
1277 NETWORK OPTIONS
1278 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1279COMMENT_END
1280
1281NAME: http_port ascii_port
65d448bc 1282TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1283DEFAULT: none
1284LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1285DOC_START
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1286 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1287 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1288 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
5b0f5383 1289
1290 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1291 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1292 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1293 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1294 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
c7b1dd5d 1295 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
5b0f5383 1296 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1297
1298 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1299 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1300
1301 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1302 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1303 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1304
1305 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1306
c7b1dd5d 1307 Modes:
5b0f5383 1308
e77bdb4e 1309 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
5b0f5383 1310 outgoing requests without browser settings.
13b5cd0c 1311 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1312
1313 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1314 connections using the client IP address.
6f05d9c8 1315 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
5b0f5383 1316
7f45065d 1317 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
5b0f5383 1318
3a0c8eb5 1319 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
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1320 establish secure connection with the client and with
1321 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1322 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1323 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1324
1325 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1326 the SslBump feature.
1327
1328 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1329
1330
1331 Accelerator Mode Options:
1332
5b0f5383 1333 defaultsite=domainname
1334 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1335 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1336 accelerators should consider the default.
5b0f5383 1337
cf673853 1338 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
5b0f5383 1339
1340 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
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1342 https_port
5b0f5383 1343
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1344 vport Virtual host port support. Using the http_port number
1345 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1346
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1347 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1348 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
5b0f5383 1349
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1350 act-as-origin
1351 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1352 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1353 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
5b0f5383 1354
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1355 ignore-cc Ignore request Cache-Control headers.
1356
7f45065d 1357 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
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1359
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1360 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1361 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1362 never_direct was used.
1363
1364 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1365 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1366 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1367 http_access rules when using this.
1368
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1369
1370 SSL Bump Mode Options:
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1371 In addition to these options ssl-bump requires TLS/SSL options.
1372
1373 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1374 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1375 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1376 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1377 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1378 certificate will be selfsigned.
1379 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1380 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1381 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1382 years.
1383 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1384 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1385
1386 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1387 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1388 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1389 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1390 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
1391
1392 TLS / SSL Options:
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1394 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1395
1396 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1397 if not specified, the certificate file is
1398 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1399 key file.
1400
1401 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1402 1 automatic (default)
1403 2 SSLv2 only
1404 3 SSLv3 only
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1405 4 TLSv1.0 only
1406 5 TLSv1.1 only
1407 6 TLSv1.2 only
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1408
1409 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
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1410 NOTE: some ciphers such as EDH ciphers depend on
1411 additional settings. If those settings are
1412 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1413 by the OpenSSL library.
c7b1dd5d 1414
943c5f16 1415 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
c7b1dd5d 1416 being:
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1417 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1418 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1419 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1420 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1421 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1422 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1423 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
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1424 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
1425 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1426 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1427 strength to some attacks.
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1428 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1429 complete list of options.
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1430
1431 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1432 requesting a client certificate.
1433
1434 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1435 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1436 clientca will be used.
1437
1438 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1439 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1440
1441 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1442 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1443 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1444
1445 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
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1446 DH key exchanges. See OpenSSL documentation for details
1447 on how to create this file.
1448 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1449 option is not set.
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1450
1451 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1452 DELAYED_AUTH
1453 Don't request client certificates
1454 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1455 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1456 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1457 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1458 to OpenSSL.
1459 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1460 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1461 will result in a new SSL session.
1462 VERIFY_CRL
1463 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1464 certificates.
1465 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1466 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1467 client certificate chain.
1468
1469 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1470
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1472
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1473 connection-auth[=on|off]
1474 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1475 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
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1476 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1477
5b0f5383 1478 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1479 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1480 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1481 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1482 support is enabled.
1483 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1484
1485 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1486 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1487 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1488 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1489 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1490 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1491 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1492 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1493
81b6e9a7 1494 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1495 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1496
68924b6d 1497 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
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1498 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections.
1499 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1500 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
b2130d58 1501 timeout the time before giving up.
1502
5b0f5383 1503 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1504 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1505 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1506 visible on the internal address.
1507
1508NOCOMMENT_START
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5b0f5383 1510# Squid normally listens to port 3128
1511http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1512NOCOMMENT_END
1513DOC_END
1514
1515NAME: https_port
1516IFDEF: USE_SSL
65d448bc 1517TYPE: PortCfg
5b0f5383 1518DEFAULT: none
1519LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1520DOC_START
7f45065d 1521 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
5b0f5383 1522
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1523 The socket address where Squid will listen for client requests made
1524 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
5b0f5383 1525
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1526 This is most useful for situations where you are running squid in
1527 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
5b0f5383 1528
1529 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1530 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1531
859741ed 1532 See http_port for a list of available options.
5b0f5383 1533DOC_END
1534
41bd17a4 1535NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1536TYPE: acl_tos
5473c134 1537DEFAULT: none
425de4c8 1538LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
5473c134 1539DOC_START
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1540 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1541 on the server side, based on an ACL.
5473c134 1542
41bd17a4 1543 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
cccac0a2 1544
41bd17a4 1545 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
7def7206 1546 and good_service_net uses 0x20
cccac0a2 1547
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1548 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1549 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
2c73de90 1550 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
41bd17a4 1551 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
fa38076e 1552
41bd17a4 1553 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
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1554 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1555 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
cccac0a2 1556
41bd17a4 1557 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1558 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
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1560 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
cccac0a2 1561
41bd17a4 1562 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1563 matching line.
cccac0a2 1564DOC_END
1565
41bd17a4 1566NAME: clientside_tos
1567TYPE: acl_tos
cccac0a2 1568DEFAULT: none
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1569LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1570DOC_START
1571 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1572 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1573
1574 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1575
1576 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1577 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1578
1579 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1580 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1581 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1582 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1583
1584 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1585 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1586DOC_END
1587
1588NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1589TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1590IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1592LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1593DOC_START
1594 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1595 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1596
1597 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1598
1599 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1600 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1601
1602 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1603 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1604 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1605 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1606DOC_END
1607
1608NAME: clientside_mark
1609TYPE: acl_nfmark
11e8cfe3 1610IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
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1611DEFAULT: none
1612LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
cccac0a2 1613DOC_START
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1614 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1615 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1616
1617 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1618
1619 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1620 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1621
1622 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1623 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1624 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1625 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1626
1627 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1628 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
41bd17a4 1629DOC_END
cccac0a2 1630
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1632TYPE: QosConfig
425de4c8 1633IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
575cb927 1634DEFAULT: none
b7ac5457 1635LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
7172612f 1636DOC_START
575cb927 1637 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
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1639 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1640 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
7172612f 1641
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1643 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1644 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
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1646 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255. Note that
1647 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1648 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1649
1650 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
7172612f 1651
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1653
1654 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
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1656 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1657
1658 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1659
1660 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1661
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1663 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1664 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1665 specified in the mask are written.
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1668 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1669 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1670 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1671 with all variants of netfilter.
575cb927 1672
575cb927 1673 disable-preserve-miss
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1674 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
1675 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1676 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1677 and masked with miss-mark.
1678 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1679 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1680 (MARK target).
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1682 miss-mask=0xFF
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1683 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
1684 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1685 the TOS sent towards clients.
1686 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1687 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1688
1689 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1690 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1691 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1692 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
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1695
41bd17a4 1696NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1697TYPE: acl_address
1698DEFAULT: none
1699LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1700DOC_START
1701 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1702 based on the username or source address of the user making
1703 the request.
7f7db318 1704
41bd17a4 1705 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
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1708 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
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1711 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1712
1713 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1714 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1715
1716 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1717 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1718
1719 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1720 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
9197cd13 1721
41bd17a4 1722 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1723 matching line.
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1726 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1727 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1728
1729
1730 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
41bd17a4 1731 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1732 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1733 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
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2dd51400 1735 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
4ed968be 1736 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
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1738 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
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cccac0a2 1740DOC_END
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1742NAME: host_verify_strict
1743TYPE: onoff
1744DEFAULT: off
1745LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1746DOC_START
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1748 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
2962f8b8 1749 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
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1751 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1752 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1753 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
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1755 When set to ON:
1756 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1757 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1758
1759 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
1760 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
1761 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
1762 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
1763 and Request-URI components:
1764
1765 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
1766 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
1767 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
1768 or FQDN.
1769
1770 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
1771 the scheme-default port is assumed.
1772
1773
1774 When set to OFF (the default):
1775 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
1776 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
1777
1778 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1779
1780 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
1781
1782 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
1783 normally.
1784
1785 For now it also forces suspicious requests to go DIRECT to the
1786 original destination, overriding client_dst_passthru for
1787 intercepted requests which fail Host: verification.
1788
1789 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
1790 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
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1792
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1793NAME: client_dst_passthru
1794TYPE: onoff
1795DEFAULT: on
1796LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
1797DOC_START
1798 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
1799 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
1800 source.
1801
1802 This option (on by default) prevents cache_peer and alternative DNS
1803 entries being used on intercepted traffic. Both of which lead to
1804 the security vulnerability outlined below.
1805
1806 SECURITY WARNING:
1807
1808 This directive should only be disabled if cache_peer are required.
1809
1810 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
1811 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
1812 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
1813 security policy and sandboxing protections.
1814
1815 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
1816 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
1817 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
1818 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
1819 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
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cccac0a2 1821DOC_END
1822
41bd17a4 1823COMMENT_START
1824 SSL OPTIONS
1825 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1826COMMENT_END
1827
1828NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1829IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1830TYPE: onoff
1831DEFAULT: off
41bd17a4 1832LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
cccac0a2 1833DOC_START
41bd17a4 1834 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1835 messages.
cccac0a2 1836DOC_END
1837
41bd17a4 1838NAME: ssl_engine
1839IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1840TYPE: string
41bd17a4 1841LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1842DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 1843DOC_START
41bd17a4 1844 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1845 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
cccac0a2 1846DOC_END
1847
41bd17a4 1848NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1849IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1850DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1851LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1852TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1853DOC_START
41bd17a4 1854 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1855DOC_END
1856
41bd17a4 1857NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1858IFDEF: USE_SSL
cccac0a2 1859DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1860LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1861TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1862DOC_START
41bd17a4 1863 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1864DOC_END
1865
41bd17a4 1866NAME: sslproxy_version
1867IFDEF: USE_SSL
1868DEFAULT: 1
1869LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1870TYPE: int
cccac0a2 1871DOC_START
41bd17a4 1872 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1874 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
1875
1876 1 automatic (default)
1877 2 SSLv2 only
1878 3 SSLv3 only
1879 4 TLSv1.0 only
1880 5 TLSv1.1 only
1881 6 TLSv1.2 only
cccac0a2 1882DOC_END
1883
41bd17a4 1884NAME: sslproxy_options
1885IFDEF: USE_SSL
1886DEFAULT: none
1887LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1888TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1889DOC_START
943c5f16 1890 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1892 The most important being:
1893
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1894 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1895 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1896 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1897 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1898 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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1900 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
1901 DH key exchanges
1902 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
1903 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
1904 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
1905 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
1906 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
1907 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
1908 strength to some attacks.
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1911 complete list of possible options.
cccac0a2 1912DOC_END
1913
41bd17a4 1914NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1915IFDEF: USE_SSL
1916DEFAULT: none
1917LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1918TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1919DOC_START
41bd17a4 1920 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
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1922 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
cccac0a2 1923DOC_END
1924
41bd17a4 1925NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1926IFDEF: USE_SSL
1927DEFAULT: none
1928LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1929TYPE: string
cccac0a2 1930DOC_START
41bd17a4 1931 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1932 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
cccac0a2 1933DOC_END
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41bd17a4 1935NAME: sslproxy_capath
1936IFDEF: USE_SSL
5473c134 1937DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 1938LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1939TYPE: string
5473c134 1940DOC_START
41bd17a4 1941 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1942 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
5473c134 1943DOC_END
1944
4c9da963 1945NAME: ssl_bump
1946IFDEF: USE_SSL
1947TYPE: acl_access
1948LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1949DEFAULT: none
1950DOC_START
1951 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1952 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1953 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1954 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1955
1956 By default, no requests are bumped.
1957
e0c0d54c 1958 See also: http_port ssl-bump
4c9da963 1959
e0c0d54c 1960 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
b3567eb5 1961 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
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1963
1964 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1965 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1966
1967 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1968 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1969 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1970 ssl_bump deny localhost
1971 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1972 ssl_bump allow all
4c9da963 1973DOC_END
1974
41bd17a4 1975NAME: sslproxy_flags
1976IFDEF: USE_SSL
1977DEFAULT: none
1978LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1979TYPE: string
5473c134 1980DOC_START
41bd17a4 1981 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
4c9da963 1982 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1983 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
41bd17a4 1984 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1985 to OpenSSL.
5473c134 1986DOC_END
1987
4c9da963 1988NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1989IFDEF: USE_SSL
1990DEFAULT: none
1991LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1992TYPE: acl_access
1993DOC_START
1994 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1995
1996 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
3b8f558c 1997 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
4c9da963 1998 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1999
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2001 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
4c9da963 2002 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2003
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2005 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2006 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
4c9da963 2007
2008 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2009 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2010 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2011 the connection may be insecure.
2012
2013 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2014
e0855596 2015 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
4c9da963 2016DOC_END
2017
41bd17a4 2018NAME: sslpassword_program
2019IFDEF: USE_SSL
2020DEFAULT: none
2021LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2022TYPE: string
5473c134 2023DOC_START
41bd17a4 2024 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2025 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2026 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2027 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
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2029 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2030 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2031 keys.
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2035 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2036 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2037COMMENT_END
2038
2039NAME: sslcrtd_program
2040TYPE: eol
2041IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2042DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2043LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2044DOC_START
2045 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2046 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2047 For more information use:
2048 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2049DOC_END
2050
2051NAME: sslcrtd_children
2052TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2053IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2054DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2055LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2056DOC_START
2057 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2058 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2059
2060 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2061 tuning.
2062
2063 startup=N
2064
2065 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2066 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2067 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2068
2069 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2070 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2071
2072 idle=N
2073
2074 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2075 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2076 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2077 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2078
2079 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2080DOC_END
2081
cccac0a2 2082COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2083 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
cccac0a2 2084 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2085COMMENT_END
2086
41bd17a4 2087NAME: cache_peer
2088TYPE: peer
2089DEFAULT: none
2090LOC: Config.peers
cccac0a2 2091DOC_START
41bd17a4 2092 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
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41bd17a4 2094 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2b94f655 2095
41bd17a4 2096 For example,
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41bd17a4 2098 # proxy icp
2099 # hostname type port port options
2100 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2b94f655 2101 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
41bd17a4 2102 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2103 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2e9993e1 2104 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
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2105 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2106
2107 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2108
2109 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2110 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2111 For web servers this is usually 80
2112
2113 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2114 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2115 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2116
2117
2118 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2119
2120 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2121 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2122
2123
2124 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2125
2126 multicast-responder
2127 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2128 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2129 replies will be accepted from it.
2130
2131 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2132 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2133
2134 background-ping
2135 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2136 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2137 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2138
2139
2140 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2141
2142 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2143 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2144
2145
2146 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2147 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
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2149 list of options described below.
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18191440 2151 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2b94f655 2152
18191440 2153 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2b94f655 2154 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
18191440 2155 only-clr.
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2158 This cannot be used with no-clr.
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18191440 2160 htcp=no-purge-clr
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2161 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2162 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2163
18191440 2164 htcp=forward-clr
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2165 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2166
2167
2168 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2169
2170 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2171 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2172
2173
2174 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2175 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2176 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2177
2178 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2179 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2180 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2181
2182 weighted-round-robin
2183 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2184 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2185 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2186 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2187 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2188
2189 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2190 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2191 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2192
2193 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2194
2195 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
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2197 multicast-siblings
2198 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2199 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2e9993e1 2200 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
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2202 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2203 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2204 members of the same multicast group.
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2206
2207 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2208
2209 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2210 peer-selection mechanisms.
2211 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2212 larger weights are favored more.
2213 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2214 protocol is not in use.
2215
2216 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2217 times of parents.
2218 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2219 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2220 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2221
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2223 to this address.
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2224 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2225 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2226 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2227 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2228
2229 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2230 delay pools.
2231
2232 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2233 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2234 than the Squid default location.
2235
2236
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2238
2239 carp-key=key-specification
2240 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2241 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2242 scheme, host, port, path, params
2243 Order is not important.
2244
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2246
2247 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2248 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2249 is a web server.
2250
2251 forceddomain=name
2252 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2253 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2254 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2255 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2256
2257 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2258
2259 no-netdb-exchange
2260 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2261
2262
2263 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2264
2265 login=user:password
2266 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2267 requires proxy authentication.
2268
2269 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2270 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2271
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2273 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2274 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2275 without alteration to the peer.
2276 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2277
2278 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2279 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2280 connection-auth options are also used.
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2283 Authentication is not required by this option.
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2286 to pass on, but username and password are available
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2288 they may be sent instead.
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2290 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2291 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2292 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2293 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2294 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2295
2296 login=*:password
2297 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2298 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2299 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2300 needed to identify each user.
2301 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2302 information which is added to the username. This can
2303 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2304 the login=username:password option above.
2305
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2307 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2308 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2309 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2310 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2311
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2313 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2314 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2315
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2317 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2318 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2319 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2320 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2321 used.
2322
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2324 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2325 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2326
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2328 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2329 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2330 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2331 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2332 of the peer.
2333
2334
2335 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2336
2337 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2338
2339 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2340 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2341 this peer.
2342
2343 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2344 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2345 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2346 reference a combined file containing both the
2347 certificate and the key.
2348
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2351 1 = automatic (default)
2352 2 = SSL v2 only
2353 3 = SSL v3 only
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2355 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2356 6 = TLS v1.2 only
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2358 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2359 to this peer.
2360
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2362
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2364 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2365 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2366 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2367 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
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2369 Always create a new key when using
2370 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2371 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2372 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2373 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2374 strength to some attacks.
2375
2376 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2377 more complete list.
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2378
2379 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2380 when verifying the peer certificate.
2381
2382 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2383 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2384
2385 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2386 verifying the peer certificate.
2387
2388 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2389
41bd17a4 2390 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2391 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2392 verify.
2393 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2394 Don't use the default CA list built in
2395 to OpenSSL.
2396 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2397 Don't verify the peer certificate
2398 matches the server name
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2399
2400 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2401 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2402 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2403 used.
2404
2405 front-end-https
2406 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2407 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2408 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2409 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2410 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2411
2412
2413 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2414
2415 connect-timeout=N
2416 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2417 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2418
2419 connect-fail-limit=N
2420 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2421 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2422
2423 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2424 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2425 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2426 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2427 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2428 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2429 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2430
2431 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2432 peer. see also
2433
2434 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2435 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2436 but different ports.
2437 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2438 directives to dentify the peer.
2439 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2440 peername ACL type.
2441
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2442 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2443 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2444
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2445 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2446
41bd17a4 2447DOC_END
cccac0a2 2448
41bd17a4 2449NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2450TYPE: hostdomain
2451DEFAULT: none
2452LOC: none
2453DOC_START
2454 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2455 queried. Usage:
cccac0a2 2456
41bd17a4 2457 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2458 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
cccac0a2 2459
41bd17a4 2460 For example, specifying
cccac0a2 2461
41bd17a4 2462 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
cccac0a2 2463
41bd17a4 2464 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2465 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2466 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2467 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2468 NOT in that domain.
cccac0a2 2469
41bd17a4 2470 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2471 either on the same or separate lines.
2472 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2473 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2474 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2475 for all requests.
2476 * There are no defaults.
2477 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2478 section.
2479DOC_END
dd9b1776 2480
41bd17a4 2481NAME: cache_peer_access
2482TYPE: peer_access
2483DEFAULT: none
2484LOC: none
2485DOC_START
2486 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2487 using ACL elements.
cccac0a2 2488
41bd17a4 2489 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
dd9b1776 2490
41bd17a4 2491 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2492 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
e314b7b9 2493 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
41bd17a4 2494DOC_END
dd9b1776 2495
41bd17a4 2496NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2497TYPE: hostdomaintype
2498DEFAULT: none
2499LOC: none
2500DOC_START
2501 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
cccac0a2 2502
41bd17a4 2503 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
11e3fa1c 2504 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
41bd17a4 2505 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2506 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2507 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2508 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
6bf4f823 2509
41bd17a4 2510EXAMPLE:
dbe3992d 2511 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
41bd17a4 2512 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2513 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2514DOC_END
6bf4f823 2515
41bd17a4 2516NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2517COMMENT: (seconds)
2518DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2519TYPE: time_t
2520LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2521DOC_START
2522 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2523 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2524 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2525 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2526 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2527 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
699acd19 2528
41bd17a4 2529 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2530 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2531 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2532 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2533 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2534 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2535 instead of to your parents.
2536DOC_END
cccac0a2 2537
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2538NAME: forward_max_tries
2539DEFAULT: 10
2540TYPE: int
2541LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2542DOC_START
2543 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2544 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
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2545
2546 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2547 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
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2548DOC_END
2549
41bd17a4 2550NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2551TYPE: wordlist
2552DEFAULT: none
2553LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2554DOC_START
2555 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2556 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2557 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2558 list this option multiple times.
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2560 Example:
2561 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2562
2563 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
6b698a21 2564DOC_END
0976f8db 2565
41bd17a4 2566COMMENT_START
2567 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2568 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2569COMMENT_END
2570
2571NAME: cache_mem
2572COMMENT: (bytes)
2573TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2574DEFAULT: 256 MB
41bd17a4 2575LOC: Config.memMaxSize
6b698a21 2576DOC_START
41bd17a4 2577 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2578 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2579 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2580 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2581
2582 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2583 for:
2584 * In-Transit objects
2585 * Hot Objects
2586 * Negative-Cached objects
2587
2588 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2589 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2590 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2591 priority.
2592
2593 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2594 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2595 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2596 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2597 not needed for in-transit objects.
2598
2599 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2600 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2601 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2602 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2603 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2604 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2605 objects.
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2607 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
2608 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
2609 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
2610 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
6b698a21 2611DOC_END
0976f8db 2612
41bd17a4 2613NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2614COMMENT: (bytes)
2615TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 2616DEFAULT: 512 KB
41bd17a4 2617LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
6b698a21 2618DOC_START
41bd17a4 2619 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2620 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2621 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2622 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
6b698a21 2623DOC_END
0976f8db 2624
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2625NAME: memory_cache_shared
2626COMMENT: on|off
2627TYPE: YesNoNone
2628LOC: Config.memShared
2629DEFAULT: none
70f856bc 2630DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
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2631DOC_START
2632 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
2633
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2634 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
2635 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
2636 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
2637 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
2638 caching is enabled).
2639
65b81b27 2640 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
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2641 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
2642 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
2643 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
2644 and GCC-style atomic operations).
2645
2646 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
2647 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
2648 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
2649
2650 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
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2652
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2653NAME: memory_cache_mode
2654TYPE: memcachemode
2655LOC: Config
2656DEFAULT: always
ff4b33f4 2657DOC_START
ea21d497 2658 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
ff4b33f4 2659
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2660 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2661
2662 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2663 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2664 a second time before cached in memory.
2665
2666 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
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2667DOC_END
2668
41bd17a4 2669NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2670TYPE: removalpolicy
2671LOC: Config.memPolicy
2672DEFAULT: lru
6b698a21 2673DOC_START
41bd17a4 2674 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2675 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
7f7db318 2676
41bd17a4 2677 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2678DOC_END
6b698a21 2679
41bd17a4 2680COMMENT_START
2681 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2682 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2683COMMENT_END
6b698a21 2684
41bd17a4 2685NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2686TYPE: removalpolicy
2687LOC: Config.replPolicy
2688DEFAULT: lru
2689DOC_START
2690 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2691 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
6b698a21 2692
41bd17a4 2693 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2694 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2695 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2696 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
6b698a21 2697
41bd17a4 2698 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
7f7db318 2699
41bd17a4 2700 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
0976f8db 2701
41bd17a4 2702 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2703 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2704 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2705 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
0976f8db 2706
41bd17a4 2707 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2708 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2709 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2710 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
0976f8db 2711
41bd17a4 2712 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2713 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2714 replacement policies.
7d90757b 2715
41bd17a4 2716 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2717 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2718 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
dc1af3cf 2719
41bd17a4 2720 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2721 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2722 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
6b698a21 2723DOC_END
0976f8db 2724
41bd17a4 2725NAME: cache_dir
2726TYPE: cachedir
2727DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 2728LOC: Config.cacheSwap
6b698a21 2729DOC_START
41bd17a4 2730 Usage:
0976f8db 2731
41bd17a4 2732 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
0976f8db 2733
41bd17a4 2734 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2735 cache among different disk partitions.
0976f8db 2736
41bd17a4 2737 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2738 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2739 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
0976f8db 2740
41bd17a4 2741 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2742 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2743 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2744 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2745 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
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2747 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2748 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2749 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2750
41bd17a4 2751 The ufs store type:
0976f8db 2752
41bd17a4 2753 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2754 been there.
0976f8db 2755
41bd17a4 2756 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
0976f8db 2757
41bd17a4 2758 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2759 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2760 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2761 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2762 subtract 20% and use that value.
0976f8db 2763
56fba4d0 2764 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2765 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
0976f8db 2766
56fba4d0 2767 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
41bd17a4 2768 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2769 is 256.
0976f8db 2770
41bd17a4 2771 The aufs store type:
7f7db318 2772
41bd17a4 2773 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2774 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2775 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
38f9c547 2776
41bd17a4 2777 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
38f9c547 2778
41bd17a4 2779 see argument descriptions under ufs above
38f9c547 2780
41bd17a4 2781 The diskd store type:
38f9c547 2782
41bd17a4 2783 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2784 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2785 disk-I/O.
4c3ef9b2 2786
41bd17a4 2787 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
0976f8db 2788
41bd17a4 2789 see argument descriptions under ufs above
0976f8db 2790
41bd17a4 2791 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2792 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2793 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
0976f8db 2794
41bd17a4 2795 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2796 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2797 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
0976f8db 2798
41bd17a4 2799 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2800 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2801 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2802 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2803 time.
0976f8db 2804
2e55f083 2805 The rock store type:
e2851fe7 2806
df881a0f 2807 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
e2851fe7 2808
2e55f083 2809 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
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2810 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
2811 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
2812 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
2813 below for more info on the max-size option.
2814
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2815 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
2816 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
2817 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
2818 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
2819 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
2820 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
2821 expected swap wait time.
2822
df881a0f 2823 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
1e614370 2824 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
df881a0f 2825 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
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2826 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
2827 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
2828 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
2829 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
2830 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
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2831 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
2832 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
2833 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
2834 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
2835 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
2836 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
2837
2838
41bd17a4 2839 The coss store type:
0976f8db 2840
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2841 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2842 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2843 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2844
41bd17a4 2845 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2846 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2847 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2848 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2849 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2850 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2851 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
0976f8db 2852
41bd17a4 2853 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2854 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2855 this will be created by squid -z.
0976f8db 2856
41bd17a4 2857 Common options:
0976f8db 2858
41bd17a4 2859 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
0976f8db 2860
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2861 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2862 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2863 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2864 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2865
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2866 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2867 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
41bd17a4 2868 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2869 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2870 ones with no max-size specification last.
0976f8db 2871
41bd17a4 2872 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2873 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2874 option.
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2877# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2878#cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
bebc043b 2879NOCOMMENT_END
6b698a21 2880DOC_END
0976f8db 2881
41bd17a4 2882NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2883TYPE: string
2884LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2885DEFAULT: least-load
6b698a21 2886DOC_START
41bd17a4 2887 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
6b698a21 2888DOC_END
0976f8db 2889
41bd17a4 2890NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2891TYPE: int
2892LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2893DEFAULT: 0
6b698a21 2894DOC_START
41bd17a4 2895 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2896 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2897 descriptors are open.
2898
2899 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
6b698a21 2900DOC_END
0976f8db 2901
41bd17a4 2902NAME: minimum_object_size
6b698a21 2903COMMENT: (bytes)
47f6e231 2904TYPE: b_int64_t
6b698a21 2905DEFAULT: 0 KB
41bd17a4 2906LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
6b698a21 2907DOC_START
41bd17a4 2908 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2909 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2910 means there is no minimum.
6b698a21 2911DOC_END
0976f8db 2912
41bd17a4 2913NAME: maximum_object_size
2914COMMENT: (bytes)
2915TYPE: b_int64_t
2916DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2917LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
777831e0 2918DOC_START
41bd17a4 2919 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2920 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2921 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2922 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2923 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2924 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
777831e0 2925
41bd17a4 2926 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2927 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2928 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
6b698a21 2929DOC_END
0976f8db 2930
41bd17a4 2931NAME: cache_swap_low
2932COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5473c134 2933TYPE: int
41bd17a4 2934DEFAULT: 90
2935LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2936DOC_NONE
2937
2938NAME: cache_swap_high
2939COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2940TYPE: int
2941DEFAULT: 95
2942LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
6b698a21 2943DOC_START
41bd17a4 2944
2945 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2946 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2947 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2948 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2949 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2950 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2951
2952 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2953 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2954 numbers closer together.
6b698a21 2955DOC_END
0976f8db 2956
5473c134 2957COMMENT_START
41bd17a4 2958 LOGFILE OPTIONS
5473c134 2959 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2960COMMENT_END
0976f8db 2961
41bd17a4 2962NAME: logformat
2963TYPE: logformat
20efa1c2 2964LOC: Log::TheConfig
5473c134 2965DEFAULT: none
6b698a21 2966DOC_START
41bd17a4 2967 Usage:
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41bd17a4 2969 logformat <name> <format specification>
0976f8db 2970
41bd17a4 2971 Defines an access log format.
6b698a21 2972
41bd17a4 2973 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
5473c134 2974
41bd17a4 2975 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2976 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2977 as required according to their context and the output format
2978 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2979 output format is desired.
6b698a21 2980
41bd17a4 2981 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
0976f8db 2982
41bd17a4 2983 " output in quoted string format
2984 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2985 # output in URL quoted format
2986 ' output as-is
5473c134 2987
41bd17a4 2988 - left aligned
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2990 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
2991 [width_min][.width_max]
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2993 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
c32c6db7 2994
41bd17a4 2995 {arg} argument such as header name etc
5473c134 2996
41bd17a4 2997 Format codes:
5473c134 2998
3ff65596 2999 % a literal % character
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3000 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3001 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3002 a similar internal error identifier.
3003 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
3004
3005 Connection related format codes:
3006
41bd17a4 3007 >a Client source IP address
3008 >A Client FQDN
3009 >p Client source port
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3010 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3011 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3012 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3013
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3014 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3015 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3016
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3017 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3018 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3019 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
c3a082ae 3020 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
152e24b3 3021 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
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3022
3023 Time related format codes:
3024
41bd17a4 3025 ts Seconds since epoch
3026 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3027 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3028 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3029 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3ff65596 3030 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
41bd17a4 3031 tr Response time (milliseconds)
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3032 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3033
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3034 Access Control related format codes:
3035
3036 et Tag returned by external acl
3037 ea Log string returned by external acl
3038 un User name (any available)
3039 ul User name from authentication
3040 ue User name from external acl helper
3041 ui User name from ident
3042 us User name from SSL
3043
3044 HTTP related format codes:
3ff65596 3045
ca2e92d8 3046 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3ff65596 3047 on the format header[:[separator]element]
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3048 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3049 Optional header name argument as for >h
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3050 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3051 as for >h
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3052 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3053 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
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3054 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3055 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3056 transfer encoding and control messages.
3057 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3058 received bodies.
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3059 [http::]mt MIME content type
3060 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
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3061 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3062 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3063 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3064 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3065 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3ff65596 3066 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
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3067 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3068 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3ff65596 3069 [http::]rv Request protocol version
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3070 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3071 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
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3072 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3073 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3074 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3075 are not included
3076 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3077 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3078 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3079 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3080 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3081 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3082 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3083 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3084 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3085 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3086 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3087 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3088
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3089 Squid handling related format codes:
3090
3091 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3092 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3093
5038f9d8 3094 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
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3095 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3096
3097 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3098 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3099 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3100 transaction is in progress.
3101
5038f9d8 3102 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3ff65596 3103
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3104 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3105 meta-information from the last eCAP
3106 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3107 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3108 argument.
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3110 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3111 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3112 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3113 value is recorded as an integer number,
3114 representing response time of one or more
3115 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3116 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3117 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3118 logged individually but added to the
3119 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3120 adapt::all_trs.
3121
3122 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3123 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3124 individual transactions are never added
3125 together. Instead, all transaction response
3126 times are recorded individually.
3127
3128 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3129 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3130 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
5473c134 3131
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3132 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3133
3134 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3135 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3136 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3137 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3138 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3139
3140 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3141 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3142 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3143 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3144 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3145
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3146 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3147
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3148logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3149logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3150logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
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3151logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3152logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3153
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3154 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3155 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3156 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3157
3158 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3159 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
20efa1c2 3160
5473c134 3161DOC_END
3162
41bd17a4 3163NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3164TYPE: access_log
3165LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
82b7abe3 3166DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
5473c134 3167DOC_START
41bd17a4 3168 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3169 ICP request. The format is:
82b7abe3 3170 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
41bd17a4 3171 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
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3172
3173 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
41bd17a4 3174 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3175 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
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3176 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3177
3178 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3179
bb7a1781 3180 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
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3181 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3182
3183 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3184 each request.
3185 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3186
3187 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3188 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3189 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3190
3191 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3192
3193 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3194 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3195 Place Format: facility.priority
5473c134 3196
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3197 where facility could be any of:
3198 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
5473c134 3199
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3200 And priority could be any of:
3201 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3202
3203 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3204 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3205 Place Format: //host:port
df2eec10 3206
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3207 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3208 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
f4fc8610 3209 Place Format: //host:port
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3210
3211 Default:
82b7abe3 3212 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
41bd17a4 3213DOC_END
5473c134 3214
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3215NAME: icap_log
3216TYPE: access_log
3217IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3218LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3219DEFAULT: none
3220DOC_START
3221 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3222 transaction.
3223
3224 The icap_log option format is:
3225 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3226 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3227
3228 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3229 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3230 features.
3231
3232 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3233 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3234 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3235 log line.
3236
3237 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3238 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3239 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3240 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3241 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3242 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3243 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3244
3245 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3246
3247 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3248
3249 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3250 option in Squid configuration file.
3251
3252 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3253
3254 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3255 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3256
3257 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3258 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3259
3260 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3261 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3262 the socket).
3263
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3264 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3265 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3266 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3267 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3268 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3269 computed.
3270
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3272 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3273 the ICAP transaction is created and
3274 stops when the transaction is completed.
3275 Similar to tr.
3276
3277 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3278 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3279 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3280 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3281 is received.
3282
3283 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3284 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3285 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3286 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3287 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3288 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3289
3290 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3291
3292 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3293
3294 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3295
3296 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3297 definition, is called icap_squid:
3298
3299logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3300
5038f9d8 3301 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
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3303
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3304NAME: logfile_daemon
3305TYPE: string
3306DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3307LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3308DOC_START
3309 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3310 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
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3311
3312 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3313 L<data>\n - logfile data
3314 R\n - rotate file
3315 T\n - truncate file
dd68402f 3316 O\n - reopen file
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3317 F\n - flush file
3318 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3319 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3320
3321 No responses is expected.
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3322DOC_END
3323
5b0f5383 3324NAME: log_access
3325TYPE: acl_access
3326LOC: Config.accessList.log
3327DEFAULT: none
3328COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3329DOC_START
3330 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3331 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3332 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
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3333
3334 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3335 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5b0f5383 3336DOC_END
3337
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3338NAME: log_icap
3339TYPE: acl_access
3340IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3341LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3342DEFAULT: none
3343DOC_START
3344 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3345 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3346DOC_END
3347
41bd17a4 3348NAME: cache_store_log
3349TYPE: string
df2eec10 3350DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 3351LOC: Config.Log.store
3352DOC_START
3353 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3354 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
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3355 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3356 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
41bd17a4 3357 disable it.
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3359 Example:
3360 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
5473c134 3361DOC_END
3362
41bd17a4 3363NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3364TYPE: string
3365LOC: Config.Log.swap
5473c134 3366DEFAULT: none
3367DOC_START
41bd17a4 3368 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3369 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3370 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3371 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3372 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3373 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3374 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
5473c134 3375
41bd17a4 3376 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3377 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3378 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3379 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
5473c134 3380
41bd17a4 3381 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3382 these swap logs will have names such as:
5473c134 3383
41bd17a4 3384 cache_swap_log.00
3385 cache_swap_log.01
3386 cache_swap_log.02
5473c134 3387
41bd17a4 3388 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3389 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3390 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3391 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3392 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3393 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3394 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
5473c134 3395DOC_END
3396
41bd17a4 3397NAME: logfile_rotate
3398TYPE: int
3399DEFAULT: 10
3400LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
5473c134 3401DOC_START
41bd17a4 3402 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3403 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3404 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3405 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3406 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3407 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
5473c134 3408
41bd17a4 3409 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3410 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3411 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3412 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3413 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3414 <pid>'.
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3416 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3417 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
41bd17a4 3418DOC_END
5473c134 3419
41bd17a4 3420NAME: emulate_httpd_log
20efa1c2 3421TYPE: obsolete
41bd17a4 3422DOC_START
20efa1c2 3423 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
5473c134 3424DOC_END
3425
41bd17a4 3426NAME: log_ip_on_direct
8652f8e7 3427TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3428DOC_START
8652f8e7 3429 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
41bd17a4 3430DOC_END
5473c134 3431
41bd17a4 3432NAME: mime_table
3433TYPE: string
3434DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3435LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3436DOC_START
3437 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3438 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3439 information if you do.
5473c134 3440DOC_END
3441
41bd17a4 3442NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3443COMMENT: on|off
3444TYPE: onoff
3445LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3446DEFAULT: off
3447DOC_START
3448 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3449 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3450 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3451 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3452 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3453DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3455NAME: useragent_log
20efa1c2 3456TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3457DOC_START
20efa1c2 3458 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
5473c134 3459DOC_END
3460
41bd17a4 3461NAME: referer_log referrer_log
20efa1c2 3462TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3463DOC_START
20efa1c2 3464 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
5473c134 3465DOC_END
3466
41bd17a4 3467NAME: pid_filename
3468TYPE: string
3469DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3470LOC: Config.pidFilename
5473c134 3471DOC_START
41bd17a4 3472 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
5473c134 3473DOC_END
3474
41bd17a4 3475NAME: log_fqdn
c581e96b 3476TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3477DOC_START
c581e96b 3478 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
5473c134 3479DOC_END
3480
41bd17a4 3481NAME: client_netmask
3482TYPE: address
3483LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
0eb08770 3484DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 3485DOC_START
41bd17a4 3486 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3487 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3488 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3489 the last digit set to '0'.
5473c134 3490DOC_END
3491
41bd17a4 3492NAME: forward_log
20efa1c2 3493TYPE: obsolete
5473c134 3494DOC_START
20efa1c2 3495 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
5473c134 3496DOC_END
3497
41bd17a4 3498NAME: strip_query_terms
5473c134 3499TYPE: onoff
41bd17a4 3500LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
5473c134 3501DEFAULT: on
3502DOC_START
41bd17a4 3503 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3504 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
5473c134 3505DOC_END
3506
41bd17a4 3507NAME: buffered_logs
3508COMMENT: on|off
3509TYPE: onoff
3510DEFAULT: off
3511LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
5473c134 3512DOC_START
41bd17a4 3513 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3514 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3515 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3516 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3517 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
6b698a21 3518DOC_END
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2b753521 3520NAME: netdb_filename
3521TYPE: string
221faecb 3522DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
2b753521 3523LOC: Config.netdbFilename
fb6a61d1 3524IFDEF: USE_ICMP
2b753521 3525DOC_START
3526 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3527 To disable, enter "none".
3528DOC_END
3529
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3530COMMENT_START
3531 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3532 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3533COMMENT_END
3534
3535NAME: cache_log
3536TYPE: string
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3537DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3538LOC: Debug::cache_log
3539DOC_START
3540 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3541 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3542 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3543DOC_END
3544
3545NAME: debug_options
3546TYPE: eol
47df1aa7 3547DEFAULT: ALL,1
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3548LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3549DOC_START
3550 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3551 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3552 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3553 log file, so be careful.
3554
3555 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3556 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3557
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3558 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3559 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
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3560 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3561 events affecting Squid.
3562DOC_END
3563
3564NAME: coredump_dir
3565TYPE: string
3566LOC: Config.coredump_dir
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3567DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3568DOC_START
3569 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3570 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3571 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3572 and coredump files will be left there.
3573
3574NOCOMMENT_START
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3576# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3577coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3578NOCOMMENT_END
3579DOC_END
3580
3581
41bd17a4 3582COMMENT_START
3583 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3584 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3585COMMENT_END
3586
3587NAME: ftp_user
3588TYPE: string
3589DEFAULT: Squid@
3590LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
6b698a21 3591DOC_START
41bd17a4 3592 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3593 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3594 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
7f7db318 3595
41bd17a4 3596 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3597 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3598 depending on how the cache is used.
3599 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3600 (for example perl.com).
6b698a21 3601DOC_END
0976f8db 3602
41bd17a4 3603NAME: ftp_passive
3604TYPE: onoff
3605DEFAULT: on
3606LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
6b698a21 3607DOC_START
41bd17a4 3608 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3609 connections, turn off this option.
a689bd4e 3610
3611 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3612DOC_END
3613
3614NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3615TYPE: onoff
3616DEFAULT: off
3617LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3618DOC_START
3619 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3620
3621 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3622 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3623 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3624
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3625 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3626 useful.
a689bd4e 3627 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3628 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3629
3630 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3631 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3632
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3633 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3634DOC_END
3635
3636NAME: ftp_epsv
3637TYPE: onoff
3638DEFAULT: on
3639LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3640DOC_START
3641 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3642
3643 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
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3644 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3645 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3646 will never be needed.
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3648 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3649 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3650 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3651
3652 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
41bd17a4 3653DOC_END
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3655NAME: ftp_eprt
3656TYPE: onoff
3657DEFAULT: on
3658LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3659DOC_START
3660 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3661
3662 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3663 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3664 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3665
3666 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3667 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3668
3669 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3670 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3671 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3672 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3673
3674 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3675 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3676DOC_END
3677
41bd17a4 3678NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3679TYPE: onoff
3680DEFAULT: on
3681LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3682DOC_START
3683 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3684 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3685 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3686 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3687 connection turn this off.
3688DOC_END
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41bd17a4 3690NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3691TYPE: onoff
3692DEFAULT: on
3693LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3694DOC_START
3695 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3696 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3697 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3698 the FTP protocol.
3699
3700 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3701 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3702 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3703 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3704 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3705DOC_END
3706
3707COMMENT_START
3708 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3709 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3710COMMENT_END
3711
3712NAME: diskd_program
3713TYPE: string
3714DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3715LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3716DOC_START
3717 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3718 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3719 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3720DOC_END
3721
3722NAME: unlinkd_program
3723IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3724TYPE: string
3725DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3726LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3727DOC_START
3728 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3729DOC_END
3730
3731NAME: pinger_program
3732TYPE: string
3733DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
cc192b50 3734LOC: Config.pinger.program
41bd17a4 3735IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3736DOC_START
3737 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3738DOC_END
3739
cc192b50 3740NAME: pinger_enable
3741TYPE: onoff
3742DEFAULT: on
3743LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3744IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3745DOC_START
3746 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
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3747 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3748 squid -k reconfigure.
cc192b50 3749DOC_END
3750
3751
41bd17a4 3752COMMENT_START
3753 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3754 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3755COMMENT_END
3756
3757NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3758TYPE: wordlist
3759LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3760DEFAULT: none
3761DOC_START
2c7aad89 3762 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
41bd17a4 3763 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3764
2c7aad89 3765 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
41bd17a4 3766
c71adec1 3767 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3768
3769 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3770 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3771 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3772 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
41bd17a4 3773
3774 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3775 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3776
3777 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3778 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
2c7aad89 3779 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
41bd17a4 3780
3781 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3782DOC_END
3783
3784NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
48d54e4d 3785TYPE: HelperChildConfig
5b708d95 3786DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
41bd17a4 3787LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3788DOC_START
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3789 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3790 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3791 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3792 and other system resources noticably.
3793
3794 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3795 tuning.
3796
3797 startup=
3798
3799 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3800 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3801 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3802
3803 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3804 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3805
3806 idle=
3807
3808 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3809 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3810 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3811 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3812
3813 concurrency=
41bd17a4 3814
41bd17a4 3815 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3816 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3817 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
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3818
3819 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3820 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3821 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3822 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3823 to that request.
41bd17a4 3824DOC_END
3825
3826NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3827TYPE: onoff
3828DEFAULT: on
3829LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3830DOC_START
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3831 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
3832 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
3833 any Host: header in redirected requests.
3834
3835 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
3836 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
3837 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
3838
41bd17a4 3839 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3840 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
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3841
3842 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
3843 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
3844 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
41bd17a4 3845DOC_END
3846
3847NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3848TYPE: acl_access
3849DEFAULT: none
3850LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3851DOC_START
3852 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3853 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3854 are sent.
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3855
3856 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3857 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3858DOC_END
3859
3860NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3861TYPE: onoff
3862LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3863DEFAULT: off
3864DOC_START
3865 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3866 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3867 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3868 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3869 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3870 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3871 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3872 users may have access to pages they should not
3873 be allowed to request.
3874DOC_END
3875
3876COMMENT_START
3877 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3878 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3879COMMENT_END
3880
f04b37d8 3881NAME: cache no_cache
3882TYPE: acl_access
3883DEFAULT: none
3884LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
41bd17a4 3885DOC_START
240887f0 3886 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
f04b37d8 3887 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3888 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
41bd17a4 3889
240887f0 3890 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3891 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
f04b37d8 3892
240887f0 3893 Default is to allow all to be cached.
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3894
3895 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3896 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
41bd17a4 3897DOC_END
3898
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3899NAME: max_stale
3900COMMENT: time-units
3901TYPE: time_t
3902LOC: Config.maxStale
3903DEFAULT: 1 week
3904DOC_START
3905 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3906 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3907 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3908DOC_END
3909
41bd17a4 3910NAME: refresh_pattern
3911TYPE: refreshpattern
3912LOC: Config.Refresh
3913DEFAULT: none
3914DOC_START
3915 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
9e7dbc51 3916
6b698a21 3917 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3918 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
9e7dbc51 3919
41bd17a4 3920 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3921 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3922 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3923 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3924 has taken the appropriate actions.
9e7dbc51 3925
41bd17a4 3926 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3927 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3928 will be considered fresh.
5b807763 3929
41bd17a4 3930 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3931 expiry time will be considered fresh.
9e7dbc51 3932
41bd17a4 3933 options: override-expire
3934 override-lastmod
3935 reload-into-ims
3936 ignore-reload
3937 ignore-no-cache
3938 ignore-no-store
4ca08219 3939 ignore-must-revalidate
41bd17a4 3940 ignore-private
3941 ignore-auth
570d3f75 3942 max-stale=NN
41bd17a4 3943 refresh-ims
3d8b6ba4 3944 store-stale
a0ec9f68 3945
41bd17a4 3946 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
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3947 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3948 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3949 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3950 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
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3952 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3953 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3954 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3955 the object fresh for that period of time.
3956
41bd17a4 3957 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3958 that were modified recently.
934b03fc 3959
41bd17a4 3960 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3961 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3962 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3963 liable for problems which it causes.
dba79ac5 3964
41bd17a4 3965 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3966 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3967 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3968 it causes.
9bc73deb 3969
41bd17a4 3970 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3971 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3972 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3973 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3974 send it anyway.
3975
3976 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3977 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3978 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3979 liable for problems which it causes.
3980
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3981 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3982 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3983 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3984 liable for problems which it causes.
3985
41bd17a4 3986 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3987 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3988 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3989 liable for problems which it causes.
3990
3991 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3992 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3993 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3994 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3995 it causes.
3996
3997 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3998 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3999 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4000 if one is available.
4001
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4002 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4003 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4004 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4005 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4006 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4007
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4008 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4009 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4010 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4011
41bd17a4 4012 Basically a cached object is:
4013
4014 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4015 STALE if age > max
4016 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4017 FRESH if age < min
4018 else STALE
4019
4020 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4021 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4022 match the default will be used.
4023
4024 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4025 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4026 used.
4027
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4030# Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
41bd17a4 4031refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4032refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
89db45fa 4033refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
41bd17a4 4034refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4035NOCOMMENT_END
4036DOC_END
4037
4038NAME: quick_abort_min
4039COMMENT: (KB)
4040TYPE: kb_int64_t
4041DEFAULT: 16 KB
4042LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4043DOC_NONE
4044
4045NAME: quick_abort_max
4046COMMENT: (KB)
4047TYPE: kb_int64_t
4048DEFAULT: 16 KB
4049LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4050DOC_NONE
4051
4052NAME: quick_abort_pct
4053COMMENT: (percent)
4054TYPE: int
4055DEFAULT: 95
4056LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4057DOC_START
4058 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4059 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4060 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4061 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4062 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4063 downloads.
4064
4065 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4066 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4067 then.
4068
4069 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4070 it will finish the retrieval.
4071
4072 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4073 it will abort the retrieval.
4074
4075 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4076 it will finish the retrieval.
4077
4078 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4079 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4080 to '0 KB'.
4081
4082 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4083 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4084DOC_END
60d096f4 4085
41bd17a4 4086NAME: read_ahead_gap
4087COMMENT: buffer-size
4088TYPE: b_int64_t
4089LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4090DEFAULT: 16 KB
4091DOC_START
4092 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4093 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4094DOC_END
53e738c6 4095
41bd17a4 4096NAME: negative_ttl
626096be 4097IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4098COMMENT: time-units
4099TYPE: time_t
4100LOC: Config.negativeTtl
ac9cc053 4101DEFAULT: 0 seconds
41bd17a4 4102DOC_START
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4103 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4104 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4105 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4106 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4107 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4108 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4109
4110 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
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4111
4112 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4113 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4114 causes.
41bd17a4 4115DOC_END
53e738c6 4116
41bd17a4 4117NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4118COMMENT: time-units
4119TYPE: time_t
4120LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4121DEFAULT: 6 hours
4122DOC_START
4123 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4124 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4125 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4126DOC_END
c4ab8329 4127
41bd17a4 4128NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4129COMMENT: time-units
4130TYPE: time_t
4131LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4132DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4133DOC_START
4134 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4135 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4136 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4137 much below 10 seconds.
4138DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4140NAME: range_offset_limit
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4141COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4142TYPE: acl_b_size_t
41bd17a4 4143LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
11e3fa1c 4144DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4145DOC_START
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4146 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4147
4148 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4149 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4150 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4151 the result is NOT cached.
4152
41bd17a4 4153 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4154 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4155 sending anything to the client.
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4156
4157 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4158 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4159 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4160 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4161
4162 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4163
4164 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4165 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4166
4167 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
ab275c7b 4168 client requested. (default)
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4169
4170 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
41bd17a4 4171 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
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4172
4173 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4174
4175 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4176 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
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4177 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4178 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
41bd17a4 4179DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4181NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4182COMMENT: (seconds)
4183TYPE: time_t
4184LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4185DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4186DOC_START
4187 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4188 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
649fa918 4189 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
41bd17a4 4190 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4191 is most likely better to make your server return a
4192 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4193 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4194 often be best set to 0.
4195DOC_END
c68e9c6b 4196
41bd17a4 4197NAME: store_avg_object_size
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4198COMMENT: (bytes)
4199TYPE: b_int64_t
41bd17a4 4200DEFAULT: 13 KB
4201LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4202DOC_START
4203 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4204 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
cccac0a2 4205DOC_END
4206
41bd17a4 4207NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4208TYPE: int
4209DEFAULT: 20
4210LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4211DOC_START
4212 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4213 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4214 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4215DOC_END
4216
4217COMMENT_START
4218 HTTP OPTIONS
4219 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4220COMMENT_END
4221
f04b37d8 4222NAME: request_header_max_size
4223COMMENT: (KB)
4224TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4225DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4226LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4227DOC_START
4228 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4229 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4230 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4231 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4232 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4233DOC_END
4234
4235NAME: reply_header_max_size
4236COMMENT: (KB)
4237TYPE: b_size_t
df2eec10 4238DEFAULT: 64 KB
f04b37d8 4239LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4240DOC_START
4241 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4242 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4243 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4244 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4245 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4246DOC_END
4247
4248NAME: request_body_max_size
4249COMMENT: (bytes)
4250TYPE: b_int64_t
4251DEFAULT: 0 KB
4252LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4253DOC_START
4254 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4255 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4256 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4257 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4258 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4259 be no limit imposed.
4260DOC_END
4261
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4262NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4263COMMENT: (bytes)
4264TYPE: b_size_t
4265DEFAULT: 512 KB
4266LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4267DOC_START
4268 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4269 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4270 a large file.
4271DOC_END
4272
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4273NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4274COMMENT: (bytes)
4275TYPE: b_int64_t
4276DEFAULT: 64 KB
4277LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4278DOC_START
4279 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4280 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4281 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4282 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4283 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4284 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4285
4286 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4287 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4288 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4289 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4290 as if dechunking was disabled.
4291
4292 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4293 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4294
4295 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4296 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4297 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4298DOC_END
4299
41bd17a4 4300NAME: broken_posts
626096be 4301IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
cccac0a2 4302TYPE: acl_access
cccac0a2 4303DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4304LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
cccac0a2 4305DOC_START
41bd17a4 4306 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4307 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
cccac0a2 4308
41bd17a4 4309 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4310 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
cccac0a2 4311
41bd17a4 4312 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
cccac0a2 4313
41bd17a4 4314 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4315 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4316 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4317 a request with an extra CRLF.
cccac0a2 4318
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4319 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4320 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4321
41bd17a4 4322Example:
4323 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4324 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4325DOC_END
cccac0a2 4326
22fff3bf 4327NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
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4328COMMENT: on|off
4329TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 4330IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
57d76dd4 4331DEFAULT: on
22fff3bf 4332LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
57d76dd4 4333DOC_START
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4334 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4335 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4336
4337 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
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4338DOC_END
4339
41bd17a4 4340NAME: via
626096be 4341IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
41bd17a4 4342COMMENT: on|off
4343TYPE: onoff
4344DEFAULT: on
4345LOC: Config.onoff.via
4346DOC_START
4347 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4348 replies as required by RFC2616.
4349DOC_END
4cc6eb12 4350
41bd17a4 4351NAME: ie_refresh
4352COMMENT: on|off
4353TYPE: onoff
4354LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4355DEFAULT: off
4356DOC_START
4357 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4358 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4359 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4360 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4361 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4362 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4363 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4364 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4365 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4366 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4367 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4368 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4369 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4370 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4371 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4372 force fresh content.
4373DOC_END
b9d7fe3e 4374
41bd17a4 4375NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4376COMMENT: on|off
4377TYPE: onoff
4378LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4379DEFAULT: off
4380DOC_START
4381 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4382 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4383 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4384 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4385 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
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4386
4387 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4388 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
cccac0a2 4389DOC_END
c4ab8329 4390
41bd17a4 4391NAME: request_entities
4392TYPE: onoff
4393LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4394DEFAULT: off
4395DOC_START
4396 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4397 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4398 even if not explicitly forbidden.
0976f8db 4399
41bd17a4 4400 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4401 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4402 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4403 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4404 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
cccac0a2 4405DOC_END
6b53c392 4406
41bd17a4 4407NAME: request_header_access
626096be 4408IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4409TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4410LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4411DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 4412DOC_START
41bd17a4 4413 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0976f8db 4414
41bd17a4 4415 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4416 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4417 causes.
0976f8db 4418
41bd17a4 4419 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4420 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
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4421 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4422 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4423
4424 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4425 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4426 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4427 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4428 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4429
4430 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4431 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4432 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4433
4434 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4435 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4436 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4437 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4438
4439 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4440 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4441 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4442 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4443 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4444 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
5401aa8d 4445
41bd17a4 4446 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4447 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
5401aa8d 4448
41bd17a4 4449 request_header_access From deny all
4450 request_header_access Referer deny all
4451 request_header_access Server deny all
4452 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4453 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4454 request_header_access Link deny all
5401aa8d 4455
41bd17a4 4456 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4457 you should use:
5401aa8d 4458
41bd17a4 4459 request_header_access Allow allow all
4460 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4461 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4462 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4463 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4464 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4465 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4466 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4467 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4468 request_header_access Date allow all
4469 request_header_access Expires allow all
4470 request_header_access Host allow all
4471 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4472 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4473 request_header_access Location allow all
4474 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4475 request_header_access Accept allow all
4476 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4477 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4478 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4479 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4480 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4481 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4482 request_header_access Title allow all
4483 request_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4484 request_header_access All deny all
5401aa8d 4485
41bd17a4 4486 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4487 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
5401aa8d 4488
41bd17a4 4489 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4490 performed).
5401aa8d 4491DOC_END
4492
41bd17a4 4493NAME: reply_header_access
626096be 4494IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4495TYPE: http_header_access
41bd17a4 4496LOC: Config.reply_header_access
cccac0a2 4497DEFAULT: none
4498DOC_START
41bd17a4 4499 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
934b03fc 4500
41bd17a4 4501 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4502 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4503 causes.
934b03fc 4504
41bd17a4 4505 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4506 server to the client.
934b03fc 4507
41bd17a4 4508 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
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4509 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4510 documentation.
cccac0a2 4511
41bd17a4 4512 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4513 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
cccac0a2 4514
41bd17a4 4515 reply_header_access From deny all
4516 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4517 reply_header_access Server deny all
4518 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4519 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4520 reply_header_access Link deny all
cccac0a2 4521
41bd17a4 4522 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4523 you should use:
cccac0a2 4524
41bd17a4 4525 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4526 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4527 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4528 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4529 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4530 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4531 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4532 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4533 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4534 reply_header_access Date allow all
4535 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4536 reply_header_access Host allow all
4537 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4538 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4539 reply_header_access Location allow all
4540 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4541 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4542 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4543 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4544 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4545 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4546 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4547 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4548 reply_header_access Title allow all
4549 reply_header_access Connection allow all
41bd17a4 4550 reply_header_access All deny all
cccac0a2 4551
41bd17a4 4552 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4553 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
cccac0a2 4554
41bd17a4 4555 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4556 performed).
cccac0a2 4557DOC_END
4558
75e4f2ea 4559NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
626096be 4560IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4561TYPE: http_header_replace
41bd17a4 4562LOC: Config.request_header_access
cccac0a2 4563DEFAULT: none
41bd17a4 4564DOC_START
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4565 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4566 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
cccac0a2 4567
41bd17a4 4568 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
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4569 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4570 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
41bd17a4 4571 option.
cccac0a2 4572
41bd17a4 4573 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
cccac0a2 4574
41bd17a4 4575 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4576DOC_END
cccac0a2 4577
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4578NAME: reply_header_replace
4579IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3b07476b 4580TYPE: http_header_replace
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4581LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4582DEFAULT: none
4583DOC_START
4584 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4585 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4586
4587 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4588 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4589 with some fixed string.
4590
4591 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4592
4593 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4594DOC_END
4595
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4596NAME: request_header_add
4597TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
4598LOC: Config.request_header_add
4599DEFAULT: none
4600DOC_START
4601 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
4602 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
4603
4604 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
4605 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
4606 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
4607 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
4608 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4609
4610 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
4611 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
4612 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
4613 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
4614 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
4615 header field values are not merged.
4616
4617 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
4618 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
4619 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
4620
4621 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
4622 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
4623 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
4624 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
4625 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
4626 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
4627 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
4628 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
4629
4630 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
4631 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
4632 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
4633 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
4634 only.
4635DOC_END
4636
41bd17a4 4637NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4638COMMENT: on|off|warn
4639TYPE: tristate
4640LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4641DEFAULT: on
4642DOC_START
4643 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4644 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4645 what the sending application intended even if the message
4646 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4647 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
cccac0a2 4648
41bd17a4 4649 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4650 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
cccac0a2 4651
41bd17a4 4652 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4653 or response to be rejected.
4654DOC_END
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41bd17a4 4656COMMENT_START
4657 TIMEOUTS
4658 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4659COMMENT_END
4660
4661NAME: forward_timeout
4662COMMENT: time-units
4663TYPE: time_t
4664LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4665DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4666DOC_START
4667 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4668 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
cccac0a2 4669DOC_END
4670
41bd17a4 4671NAME: connect_timeout
4672COMMENT: time-units
4673TYPE: time_t
4674LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4675DEFAULT: 1 minute
057f5854 4676DOC_START
41bd17a4 4677 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4678 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4679 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
057f5854 4680DOC_END
4681
41bd17a4 4682NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4683COMMENT: time-units
4684TYPE: time_t
4685LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4686DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4687DOC_START
41bd17a4 4688 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4689 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4690 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4691 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4692DOC_END
7f7db318 4693
41bd17a4 4694NAME: read_timeout
4695COMMENT: time-units
4696TYPE: time_t
4697LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4698DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4699DOC_START
4700 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4701 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4702 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4703 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4704 default is 15 minutes.
4705DOC_END
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4707NAME: write_timeout
4708COMMENT: time-units
4709TYPE: time_t
4710LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4711DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4712DOC_START
4713 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4714 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4715 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4716 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4717 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4718 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4719 default is 15 minutes.
4720DOC_END
4721
41bd17a4 4722NAME: request_timeout
4723TYPE: time_t
4724LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4725DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4726DOC_START
6b2a2108 4727 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
41bd17a4 4728 connection establishment.
4729DOC_END
cccac0a2 4730
97b32442 4731NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
41bd17a4 4732TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4733LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4734DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4735DOC_START
4736 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
97b32442 4737 client connection after the previous request completes.
41bd17a4 4738DOC_END
cccac0a2 4739
41bd17a4 4740NAME: client_lifetime
4741COMMENT: time-units
4742TYPE: time_t
4743LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4744DEFAULT: 1 day
4745DOC_START
4746 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4747 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4748 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4749 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4750 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4751 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4752 day, 1440 minutes.
7d90757b 4753
41bd17a4 4754 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4755 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4756 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4757 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4758 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4759 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
cccac0a2 4760DOC_END
4761
41bd17a4 4762NAME: half_closed_clients
4763TYPE: onoff
4764LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
0c2f5c4f 4765DEFAULT: off
4eb368f9 4766DOC_START
41bd17a4 4767 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4768 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4769 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
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4770 fully-closed TCP connection.
4771
4772 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4773 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4774
abdf1651 4775 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
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4776 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4777 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4778 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4eb368f9 4779DOC_END
4780
97b32442 4781NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
41bd17a4 4782TYPE: time_t
97b32442 4783LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
41bd17a4 4784DEFAULT: 1 minute
cccac0a2 4785DOC_START
41bd17a4 4786 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4787 proxies.
4788DOC_END
cccac0a2 4789
41bd17a4 4790NAME: ident_timeout
4791TYPE: time_t
4792IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4daaf3cb 4793LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
41bd17a4 4794DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4795DOC_START
4796 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
cccac0a2 4797
41bd17a4 4798 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4799 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4800 many ident requests going at once.
cccac0a2 4801DOC_END
4802
41bd17a4 4803NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4804COMMENT: time-units
4805TYPE: time_t
4806LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4807DEFAULT: 30 seconds
cccac0a2 4808DOC_START
41bd17a4 4809 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4810 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4811 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4812 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4813 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
cccac0a2 4814DOC_END
0976f8db 4815
cccac0a2 4816COMMENT_START
4817 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4818 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4819COMMENT_END
4820
4821NAME: cache_mgr
4822TYPE: string
4823DEFAULT: webmaster
4824LOC: Config.adminEmail
4825DOC_START
4826 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4827 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4828DOC_END
4829
abacf776 4830NAME: mail_from
4831TYPE: string
4832DEFAULT: none
4833LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4834DOC_START
4835 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4836 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
b8c0c06d 4837 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
abacf776 4838 src/globals.h before building squid.
4839DOC_END
4840
d084bf20 4841NAME: mail_program
4842TYPE: eol
4843DEFAULT: mail
4844LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4845DOC_START
4846 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
846a5e31 4847 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
d084bf20 4848 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
846a5e31 4849 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4850
d084bf20 4851 Optional command line options can be specified.
4852DOC_END
4853
cccac0a2 4854NAME: cache_effective_user
4855TYPE: string
5483d916 4856DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
cccac0a2 4857LOC: Config.effectiveUser
e3d74828 4858DOC_START
4859 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4860 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5483d916 4861 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
64e288bd 4862 see also; cache_effective_group
e3d74828 4863DOC_END
4864
cccac0a2 4865NAME: cache_effective_group
4866TYPE: string
4867DEFAULT: none
4868LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4869DOC_START
64e288bd 4870 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4871 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4872 from the groups membership.
4873
e3d74828 4874 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4875 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4876 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
64e288bd 4877 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
e3d74828 4878 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
64e288bd 4879 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
e3d74828 4880 group.
64e288bd 4881
4882 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4883 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4884 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
cccac0a2 4885DOC_END
4886
d3caee79 4887NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4888COMMENT: on|off
4889TYPE: onoff
4890DEFAULT: off
4891LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4892DOC_START
4893 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4894DOC_END
4895
cccac0a2 4896NAME: visible_hostname
4897TYPE: string
4898LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4899DEFAULT: none
4900DOC_START
4901 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
7f7db318 4902 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
cccac0a2 4903 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4904 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4905 names with this setting.
4906DOC_END
4907
cccac0a2 4908NAME: unique_hostname
4909TYPE: string
4910LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4911DEFAULT: none
4912DOC_START
4913 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
7f7db318 4914 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4915 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
cccac0a2 4916DOC_END
4917
cccac0a2 4918NAME: hostname_aliases
4919TYPE: wordlist
4920LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4921DEFAULT: none
4922DOC_START
7f7db318 4923 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
cccac0a2 4924DOC_END
0976f8db 4925
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4926NAME: umask
4927TYPE: int
4928LOC: Config.umask
4929DEFAULT: 027
4930DOC_START
4931 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4932 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4933
4934 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4935 your value with 0.
4936DOC_END
4937
cccac0a2 4938COMMENT_START
4939 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4940 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4941
4942 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4943 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4944 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4945 create cache hierarchies.
4946
4947 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4948 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4949 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4950
4951 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4952 following information from this configuration file:
4953
4954 http_port
4955 icp_port
4956 cache_mgr
4957
4958 All current information is processed regularly and made
4959 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4960COMMENT_END
4961
4962NAME: announce_period
4963TYPE: time_t
4964LOC: Config.Announce.period
4965DEFAULT: 0
4966DOC_START
4967 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4968 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4969 messages.
4970
e0855596 4971 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
cccac0a2 4972
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4973 Example:
4974 announce_period 1 day
cccac0a2 4975DOC_END
4976
cccac0a2 4977NAME: announce_host
4978TYPE: string
4979DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4980LOC: Config.Announce.host
4981DOC_NONE
4982
4983NAME: announce_file
4984TYPE: string
4985DEFAULT: none
4986LOC: Config.Announce.file
4987DOC_NONE
4988
4989NAME: announce_port
ae870270 4990TYPE: u_short
cccac0a2 4991DEFAULT: 3131
4992LOC: Config.Announce.port
4993DOC_START
4994 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4995 number where the registration message will be sent.
4996
4997 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4998 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4999 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5000 message.
5001DOC_END
5002
8d6275c0 5003COMMENT_START
5004 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5005 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5006COMMENT_END
5007
cccac0a2 5008NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5009TYPE: string
b2b40d8c 5010DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 5011LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
cccac0a2 5012DOC_START
5013 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5014 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5015 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5016 an identification token.
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5017
5018 The default ID is the visible_hostname
cccac0a2 5019DOC_END
5020
5021NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
cccac0a2 5022COMMENT: on|off
5023TYPE: onoff
5024DEFAULT: off
5025LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5026DOC_START
5027 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5028 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5029DOC_END
5030
5031NAME: esi_parser
f41735ea 5032IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
964b44c3 5033COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
cccac0a2 5034TYPE: string
5035LOC: ESIParser::Type
5036DEFAULT: custom
5037DOC_START
5038 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5039 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5040 encodings.
5041DOC_END
0976f8db 5042
9edd9041 5043COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5044 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
9edd9041 5045 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5046COMMENT_END
5047
5048NAME: delay_pools
5049TYPE: delay_pool_count
5050DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5051IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5052LOC: Config.Delay
5053DOC_START
5054 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5055 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5056 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5057DOC_END
5058
5059NAME: delay_class
5060TYPE: delay_pool_class
5061DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5062IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5063LOC: Config.Delay
5064DOC_START
5065 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5066 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5067 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5068 and here would be:
5069
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5070 Example:
5071 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5072 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5073 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5074 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5075 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
9edd9041 5076
5077 The delay pool classes are:
5078
5079 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5080 bucket.
5081
5082 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5083 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
b1fb3348 5084 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5085
5086 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5087 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5088 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5089 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
b1fb3348 5090 32 of the IPv4 address.
9edd9041 5091
5092 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5093 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5094 only takes effect if the username is established
5095 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5096 http_access rules.
5097
5098 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5099 external_acl's tag= reply).
5100
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5101
5102 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5103 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5104 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5105
9edd9041 5106 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5107 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5108 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5109 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
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5110
5111 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5112 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
9edd9041 5113DOC_END
5114
5115NAME: delay_access
5116TYPE: delay_pool_access
5117DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5118IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5119LOC: Config.Delay
5120DOC_START
5121 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5122
5123 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5124 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5125 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5126 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5127
5128 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5129 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5130
5131Example:
5132 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5133 delay_access 1 deny all
5134 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5135 delay_access 2 deny all
5136 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5137DOC_END
5138
5139NAME: delay_parameters
5140TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5141DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5142IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5143LOC: Config.Delay
5144DOC_START
5145 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5146 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
0b68481a 5147 description of delay_class.
9edd9041 5148
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5149 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5150 delay_pools pool 1
5151 delay_parameters pool aggregate
9edd9041 5152
5153 For a class 2 delay pool:
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5154 delay_pools pool 2
5155 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
9edd9041 5156
5157 For a class 3 delay pool:
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5158 delay_pools pool 3
5159 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
9edd9041 5160
5161 For a class 4 delay pool:
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5162 delay_pools pool 4
5163 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
9edd9041 5164
5165 For a class 5 delay pool:
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5166 delay_pools pool 5
5167 delay_parameters pool tagrate
9edd9041 5168
0b68481a 5169 The option variables are:
9edd9041 5170
5171 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5172 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5173 delay_class lines.
5174
fdb47ac6 5175 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
9edd9041 5176 (class 1, 2, 3).
5177
fdb47ac6 5178 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
9edd9041 5179 buckets (class 2, 3).
5180
fdb47ac6 5181 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
9edd9041 5182 (class 3).
5183
fdb47ac6 5184 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
9edd9041 5185 (class 4).
5186
fdb47ac6 5187 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
9edd9041 5188 (class 5).
5189
5190 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5191 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5192 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5193 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5194
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5195 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5196
5197
9edd9041 5198 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
0b68481a 5199 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
9edd9041 5200 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5201
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5202 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5203
5204 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
9edd9041 5205
5206 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5207
0b68481a 5208
9edd9041 5209 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
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5210 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5211 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5212 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
9edd9041 5213 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5214 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5215 large downloads more significantly:
5216
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5217 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5218
5219 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5220 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5221 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
9edd9041 5222
9edd9041 5223
5224 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
0b68481a 5225 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
9edd9041 5226
0b68481a 5227 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
9edd9041 5228DOC_END
5229
5230NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5231COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
ae870270 5232TYPE: u_short
9edd9041 5233DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5234IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
9edd9041 5235LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5236DOC_START
5237 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5238 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5239 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5240 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5241 "seen" by squid).
5242DOC_END
5243
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5244COMMENT_START
5245 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5246 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5247COMMENT_END
5248
5249NAME: client_delay_pools
5250TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5251DEFAULT: 0
9a0a18de 5252IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5253LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5254DOC_START
5255 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5256 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5257
5258Example:
5259 client_delay_pools 2
5260DOC_END
5261
5262NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5263COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
ae870270 5264TYPE: u_short
b4cd430a 5265DEFAULT: 50
9a0a18de 5266IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5267LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5268DOC_START
5269 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5270 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5271 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5272 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5273
5274 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5275 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5276 from client_delay_parameters.
5277
5278Example:
5279 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5280DOC_END
5281
5282NAME: client_delay_parameters
5283TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5284DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5285IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5286LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5287DOC_START
5288
5289 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5290 following format:
5291
5292 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5293
5294 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5295
5296 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5297
5298 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5299 speed_limit additions.
5300
5301 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5302 examples.
5303
5304Example:
5305 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5306 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5307DOC_END
5308
5309NAME: client_delay_access
5310TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5311DEFAULT: none
9a0a18de 5312IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
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5313LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5314DOC_START
5315
5316 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5317 request:
5318
5319 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5320
5321 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5322 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5323 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5324 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5325 limited.
5326
5327 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5328 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5329 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5330 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5331
5332 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5333
5334Example:
5335 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5336 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5337DOC_END
5338
cccac0a2 5339COMMENT_START
8d6275c0 5340 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
cccac0a2 5341 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5342COMMENT_END
5343
8d6275c0 5344NAME: wccp_router
5345TYPE: address
5346LOC: Config.Wccp.router
0eb08770 5347DEFAULT: any_addr
8d6275c0 5348IFDEF: USE_WCCP
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5349DOC_START
5350 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5351 Squid.
5352
5353 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5354
5355 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5356
5357 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5358 which version of WCCP to use.
5359DOC_END
df2eec10 5360
8d6275c0 5361NAME: wccp2_router
9fb4efad 5362TYPE: IpAddress_list
8d6275c0 5363LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
cccac0a2 5364DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 5365IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5366DOC_START
8d6275c0 5367 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5368 Squid.
cccac0a2 5369
8d6275c0 5370 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
cccac0a2 5371
8d6275c0 5372 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
cccac0a2 5373
8d6275c0 5374 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5375 which version of WCCP to use.
5376DOC_END
5377
5378NAME: wccp_version
cccac0a2 5379TYPE: int
8d6275c0 5380LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5381DEFAULT: 4
5382IFDEF: USE_WCCP
cccac0a2 5383DOC_START
8d6275c0 5384 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5385 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5386 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5387 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5388 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
cccac0a2 5389
8d6275c0 5390 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5391 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5392 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5393 do not specify this parameter.
cccac0a2 5394DOC_END
5395
8d6275c0 5396NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5397TYPE: onoff
5398LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5399DEFAULT: on
5400IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5401DOC_START
5402 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5403 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5404DOC_END
cccac0a2 5405
8d6275c0 5406NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
e313ab0a 5407TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5408LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
451c4786 5409DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5410IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5411DOC_START
699acd19 5412 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
8d6275c0 5413 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5414
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5415 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5416 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5417
8d6275c0 5418 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5419 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
cccac0a2 5420DOC_END
5421
8d6275c0 5422NAME: wccp2_return_method
e313ab0a 5423TYPE: wccp2_method
8d6275c0 5424LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
451c4786 5425DEFAULT: gre
8d6275c0 5426IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5427DOC_START
699acd19 5428 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
8d6275c0 5429 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5430 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5431
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5432 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5433 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
cccac0a2 5434
8d6275c0 5435 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5436 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
cccac0a2 5437
699acd19 5438 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
8d6275c0 5439 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5440 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5441 option is set to GRE.
cccac0a2 5442DOC_END
5443
8d6275c0 5444NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
451c4786 5445TYPE: wccp2_amethod
8d6275c0 5446LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
451c4786 5447DEFAULT: hash
8d6275c0 5448IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
cccac0a2 5449DOC_START
8d6275c0 5450 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5451 Valid values are as follows:
cccac0a2 5452
451c4786 5453 hash - Hash assignment
bb7a1781 5454 mask - Mask assignment
cccac0a2 5455
8d6275c0 5456 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5457 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5458DOC_END
cccac0a2 5459
8d6275c0 5460NAME: wccp2_service
5461TYPE: wccp2_service
5462LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
8d6275c0 5463DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5464IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5465DOC_START
5466 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5467 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5468 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5469 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5470 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5471 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5472
5473 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5474 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5475
5476 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5477 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5478
5479 Examples:
5480
5481 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5482 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5483 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5484 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
8d6275c0 5485DOC_END
5486
5487NAME: wccp2_service_info
5488TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5489LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5490DEFAULT: none
5491IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5492DOC_START
5493 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5494 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5495
5496 The format is:
5497
5498 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5499 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5500
5501 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5502 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
005fe566 5503 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
8d6275c0 5504 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5505 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5506 + ports_source
5507
5508 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5509
5510 Example:
5511
5512 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5513 priority=240 ports=80
5514
5515 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5516 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5517DOC_END
5518
5519NAME: wccp2_weight
5520TYPE: int
5521LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5522DEFAULT: 10000
5523IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5524DOC_START
5525 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5526 hash proportional to their weight.
5527DOC_END
5528
5529NAME: wccp_address
5530TYPE: address
5531LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5532DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5533IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5534DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5535
8d6275c0 5536NAME: wccp2_address
5537TYPE: address
5538LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5539DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5540IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5541DOC_START
5542 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5543 interface address.
5544
5545 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5546DOC_END
5547
5548COMMENT_START
5549 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5550 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5551
5552 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5553COMMENT_END
5554
5555NAME: client_persistent_connections
5556TYPE: onoff
5557LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5558DEFAULT: on
5559DOC_NONE
5560
5561NAME: server_persistent_connections
5562TYPE: onoff
5563LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5564DEFAULT: on
5565DOC_START
5566 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5567 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5568 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5569 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5570DOC_END
5571
5572NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5573TYPE: onoff
5574LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
0fccfb7f 5575DEFAULT: on
8d6275c0 5576DOC_START
5577 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5578 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5579 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5580DOC_END
5581
5582NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5583TYPE: onoff
5584LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5585DEFAULT: off
5586DOC_START
5587 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5588 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5589 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5590 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5591
5592 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5593 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5594 after 10 seconds timeout.
5595DOC_END
5596
5597COMMENT_START
5598 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5599 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5600COMMENT_END
5601
5602NAME: digest_generation
5603IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5604TYPE: onoff
5605LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5606DEFAULT: on
5607DOC_START
5608 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5609 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
13e917b5 5610 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
8d6275c0 5611DOC_END
5612
5613NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5614IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5615TYPE: int
5616LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5617DEFAULT: 5
5618DOC_START
5619 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5620 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5621 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5622DOC_END
5623
5624NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5625IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5626COMMENT: (seconds)
5627TYPE: time_t
5628LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5629DEFAULT: 1 hour
5630DOC_START
749ceff8 5631 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
8d6275c0 5632DOC_END
5633
5634NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5635COMMENT: (seconds)
5636IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5637TYPE: time_t
5638LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5639DEFAULT: 1 hour
5640DOC_START
749ceff8 5641 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
8d6275c0 5642 disk.
5643DOC_END
5644
5645NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5646COMMENT: (bytes)
5647TYPE: b_size_t
5648IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5649LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5650DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5651DOC_START
5652 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5653 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5654 default swap page.
5655DOC_END
5656
5657NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5658COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5659IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5660TYPE: int
5661LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5662DEFAULT: 10
5663DOC_START
5664 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5665 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5666DOC_END
5667
1db9eacd 5668COMMENT_START
5473c134 5669 SNMP OPTIONS
1db9eacd 5670 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5671COMMENT_END
5672
5473c134 5673NAME: snmp_port
ae870270 5674TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5675LOC: Config.Port.snmp
87630341 5676DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5677IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5678DOC_START
87630341 5679 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5680 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5681 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5682 set to "0" (disabled)
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5683
5684 Example:
5685 snmp_port 3401
8d6275c0 5686DOC_END
5687
5473c134 5688NAME: snmp_access
5689TYPE: acl_access
5690LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5473c134 5691DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5692IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
8d6275c0 5693DOC_START
5473c134 5694 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
8d6275c0 5695
5473c134 5696 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5697 usage:
8d6275c0 5698
5473c134 5699 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
8d6275c0 5700
b3567eb5
FC
5701 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5702 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5473c134 5703Example:
5704 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5705 snmp_access deny all
cccac0a2 5706DOC_END
5707
5473c134 5708NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5709TYPE: address
5710LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
0eb08770 5711DEFAULT: any_addr
5473c134 5712IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5713DOC_NONE
df2eec10 5714
5473c134 5715NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5716TYPE: address
5717LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
0eb08770 5718DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 5719IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
cccac0a2 5720DOC_START
df2eec10 5721 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
cccac0a2 5722
5473c134 5723 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5724 messages from SNMP agents.
5725 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5726 agents.
cccac0a2 5727
0eb08770 5728 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5473c134 5729 available network interfaces.
cccac0a2 5730
0eb08770
HN
5731 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5732 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5733 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5734 listens for SNMP queries.
cccac0a2 5735
5473c134 5736 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5737 the same value since they both use port 3401.
cccac0a2 5738DOC_END
5739
5473c134 5740COMMENT_START
5741 ICP OPTIONS
5742 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5743COMMENT_END
5744
5745NAME: icp_port udp_port
ae870270 5746TYPE: u_short
5473c134 5747DEFAULT: 0
5748LOC: Config.Port.icp
cccac0a2 5749DOC_START
5473c134 5750 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5751 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5752 Default is disabled (0).
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5753
5754 Example:
5755 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
cccac0a2 5756DOC_END
5757
5473c134 5758NAME: htcp_port
5759IFDEF: USE_HTCP
ae870270 5760TYPE: u_short
87630341 5761DEFAULT: 0
5473c134 5762LOC: Config.Port.htcp
cccac0a2 5763DOC_START
5473c134 5764 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
87630341 5765 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5766 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
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5767
5768 Example:
5769 htcp_port 4827
cccac0a2 5770DOC_END
5771
5772NAME: log_icp_queries
5773COMMENT: on|off
5774TYPE: onoff
5775DEFAULT: on
5776LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5777DOC_START
5778 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5779 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5780 up or to simplify log analysis.
5781DOC_END
5782
5473c134 5783NAME: udp_incoming_address
5784TYPE: address
5785LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
0eb08770 5786DEFAULT: any_addr
8524d4b2 5787DOC_START
5788 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5789 caches.
5790
5791 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5792
5793 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5794 a specific interface/address.
5795
5796 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5797 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5798
5799 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5800
5801 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5802 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5803DOC_END
cccac0a2 5804
5473c134 5805NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5806TYPE: address
5807LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
0eb08770 5808DEFAULT: no_addr
cccac0a2 5809DOC_START
8524d4b2 5810 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5473c134 5811 caches.
cccac0a2 5812
5473c134 5813 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
cccac0a2 5814
8524d4b2 5815 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5816 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5817 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5473c134 5818 caches.
5819
8524d4b2 5820 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5821 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5822
5823 see also; udp_incoming_address
5824
5473c134 5825 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
8524d4b2 5826 have the same value since they both use the same port.
cccac0a2 5827DOC_END
5828
3d1e3e43 5829NAME: icp_hit_stale
5830COMMENT: on|off
5831TYPE: onoff
5832DEFAULT: off
5833LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5834DOC_START
5835 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5836 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5837 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5838 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5839 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5840 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5841 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5842DOC_END
5843
5473c134 5844NAME: minimum_direct_hops
cccac0a2 5845TYPE: int
5473c134 5846DEFAULT: 4
5847LOC: Config.minDirectHops
cccac0a2 5848DOC_START
5473c134 5849 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5850 which are no more than this many hops away.
cccac0a2 5851DOC_END
5852
5473c134 5853NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5854TYPE: int
5855DEFAULT: 400
5856LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
cccac0a2 5857DOC_START
5473c134 5858 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5859 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
cccac0a2 5860DOC_END
5861
cccac0a2 5862NAME: netdb_low
5863TYPE: int
5864DEFAULT: 900
5865LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5866DOC_NONE
5867
5868NAME: netdb_high
5869TYPE: int
5870DEFAULT: 1000
5871LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5872DOC_START
5873 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5874 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5875 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5876 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5877DOC_END
5878
cccac0a2 5879NAME: netdb_ping_period
5880TYPE: time_t
5881LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5882DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5883DOC_START
5884 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5885 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5886 network. The default is five minutes.
5887DOC_END
5888
cccac0a2 5889NAME: query_icmp
5890COMMENT: on|off
5891TYPE: onoff
5892DEFAULT: off
5893LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5894DOC_START
5895 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5896 replies, enable this option.
5897
5898 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
7f7db318 5899 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5900 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
cccac0a2 5901 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5902 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5903 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5904 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5905 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5906DOC_END
5907
5908NAME: test_reachability
5909COMMENT: on|off
5910TYPE: onoff
5911DEFAULT: off
5912LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5913DOC_START
5914 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5915 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5916 database, or has a zero RTT.
5917DOC_END
5918
5473c134 5919NAME: icp_query_timeout
5920COMMENT: (msec)
5921DEFAULT: 0
5922TYPE: int
5923LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
4c3ef9b2 5924DOC_START
5473c134 5925 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5926 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5927 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5928 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5929 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5930 timeout (the old default), you would write:
4c3ef9b2 5931
5473c134 5932 icp_query_timeout 2000
4c3ef9b2 5933DOC_END
5934
5473c134 5935NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5936COMMENT: (msec)
5937DEFAULT: 2000
5938TYPE: int
5939LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
cccac0a2 5940DOC_START
5473c134 5941 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5942 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5943 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5944 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5945 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5946 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5947DOC_END
5948
5473c134 5949NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5950COMMENT: (msec)
5951DEFAULT: 5
5952TYPE: int
5953LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
cccac0a2 5954DOC_START
5473c134 5955 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5956 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5957 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5958 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5959 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5960 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5961 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
cccac0a2 5962DOC_END
5963
5473c134 5964NAME: background_ping_rate
5965COMMENT: time-units
5966TYPE: time_t
5967DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5968LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
cccac0a2 5969DOC_START
5473c134 5970 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5971 have background-ping set.
cccac0a2 5972DOC_END
5973
5473c134 5974COMMENT_START
5975 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5976 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5977COMMENT_END
5978
5979NAME: mcast_groups
5980TYPE: wordlist
5981LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
8c01ada0 5982DEFAULT: none
5983DOC_START
5473c134 5984 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5985 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
8c01ada0 5986
5473c134 5987 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5988 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5989 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5990 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5991 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5992 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5993 receive replies from multicast group members.
8c01ada0 5994
5473c134 5995 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5996 is already in use by another group of caches.
8c01ada0 5997
5473c134 5998 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5999 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
8c01ada0 6000
5473c134 6001 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
8c01ada0 6002
5473c134 6003 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6004DOC_END
8c01ada0 6005
5473c134 6006NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6007IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6008TYPE: address
6009LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
0eb08770 6010DEFAULT: no_addr
5473c134 6011DOC_START
6012 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6013 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
cccac0a2 6014
5473c134 6015 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6016 certain you understand what you are doing.
cccac0a2 6017DOC_END
6018
5473c134 6019NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6020IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6021TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6022LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6023DEFAULT: 16
cccac0a2 6024DOC_START
5473c134 6025 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6026 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6027 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6028DOC_END
cccac0a2 6029
5473c134 6030NAME: mcast_miss_port
6031IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
ae870270 6032TYPE: u_short
5473c134 6033LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6034DEFAULT: 3135
6035DOC_START
6036 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6037 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6038DOC_END
cccac0a2 6039
5473c134 6040NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6041IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6042TYPE: string
6043LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6044DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6045DOC_START
6046 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6047 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6048DOC_END
8c01ada0 6049
5473c134 6050NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6051COMMENT: (msec)
6052DEFAULT: 2000
6053TYPE: int
6054LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6055DOC_START
6056 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6057 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6058 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6059 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6060 seconds.
cccac0a2 6061DOC_END
6062
5473c134 6063COMMENT_START
6064 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6065 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6066COMMENT_END
6067
cccac0a2 6068NAME: icon_directory
6069TYPE: string
6070LOC: Config.icons.directory
6071DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6072DOC_START
6073 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6074 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6075DOC_END
6076
f024c970 6077NAME: global_internal_static
6078TYPE: onoff
6079LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6080DEFAULT: on
6081DOC_START
6082 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6083 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6084 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6085 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6086 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6087 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6088 the server generating a directory listing.
6089DOC_END
6090
5473c134 6091NAME: short_icon_urls
6092TYPE: onoff
6093LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6094DEFAULT: on
6095DOC_START
6096 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6097 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6098 it's own name and port in the URL.
6099
6100 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6101 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6102DOC_END
6103
6104COMMENT_START
6105 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6106 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6107COMMENT_END
6108
6109NAME: error_directory
6110TYPE: string
6111LOC: Config.errorDirectory
43000484 6112DEFAULT: none
5473c134 6113DOC_START
6114 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
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6115 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6116 the error/template files to another directory and point
6117 this tag at them.
6118
6119 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6120 on error pages if used.
5473c134 6121
6122 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6123 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
43000484 6124 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5473c134 6125 contributing your translation back to the project.
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6126 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6127
6128 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6129 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6130DOC_END
6131
6132NAME: error_default_language
6133IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6134TYPE: string
6135LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6136DEFAULT: none
6137DOC_START
6138 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6139 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6140 preferences.
6141
6142 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6143
6144 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6145 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6146 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6147 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5473c134 6148DOC_END
6149
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6150NAME: error_log_languages
6151IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6152TYPE: onoff
6153LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6154DEFAULT: on
6155DOC_START
6156 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6157 auto-negotiate for translations.
6158
6159 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6160 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
0c49f10e 6161 of its error page translations.
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6162DOC_END
6163
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6164NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6165TYPE: string
6166LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6167DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6168DOC_START
6169 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6170
6171 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6172DOC_END
6173
5473c134 6174NAME: err_html_text
6175TYPE: eol
6176LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6177DEFAULT: none
6178DOC_START
6179 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6180 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6181 organizations Web page.
6182
6183 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6184 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6185 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6186 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6187DOC_END
6188
6189NAME: email_err_data
6190COMMENT: on|off
6191TYPE: onoff
6192LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6193DEFAULT: on
6194DOC_START
6195 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6196 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6197 so that the email body contains the data.
6198 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6199DOC_END
6200
6201NAME: deny_info
6202TYPE: denyinfo
6203LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6204DEFAULT: none
6205DOC_START
6206 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6207 or deny_info http://... acl
43000484 6208 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5473c134 6209
6210 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6211 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6212 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6213 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6214
6215 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6216 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6217 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6218 the first authentication related acl encountered
6219 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6220 acl processed on the last http_access line.
3af10ac0
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6221 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6222 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5473c134 6223
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6224 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6225 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6226 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5473c134 6227
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6228 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6229 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6230 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6231
5473c134 6232 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6233 by specifying TCP_RESET.
15b02e9a
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6234
6235 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
aed9a15b
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6236 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6237 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6238 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6239 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
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6240
6241 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6242 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6243 %B - FTP path URL
6244 %e - Error number
6245 %E - Error description
6246 %h - Squid hostname
6247 %H - Request domain name
6248 %i - Client IP Address
6249 %M - Request Method
6250 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6251 %p - Request Port number
6252 %P - Request Protocol name
6253 %R - Request URL path
6254 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6255 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6256 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6257 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6258 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
e4a8468d 6259 %x - Error name
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6260 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6261
5473c134 6262DOC_END
6263
6264COMMENT_START
6265 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6266 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6267COMMENT_END
6268
6269NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6270TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6271LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
e72a0ec0 6272DEFAULT: on
6273DOC_START
5473c134 6274 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6275 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6276 to origin servers.
e72a0ec0 6277
5473c134 6278 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6279 requests to parents.
0b0cfcf2 6280
5473c134 6281 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6282 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6283 ratio.
0b0cfcf2 6284
5473c134 6285 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6286 this directive.
8d6275c0 6287DOC_END
0b0cfcf2 6288
5473c134 6289NAME: prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6290TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6291LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
8d6275c0 6292DEFAULT: off
6293DOC_START
5473c134 6294 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6295 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6296 going direct fails set this to on.
0b0cfcf2 6297
5473c134 6298 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6299 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6300 fails.
6301
6302 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6303 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6304 acts on cacheable requests.
cccac0a2 6305DOC_END
6306
5473c134 6307NAME: always_direct
8d6275c0 6308TYPE: acl_access
5473c134 6309LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
0b0cfcf2 6310DEFAULT: none
0b0cfcf2 6311DOC_START
5473c134 6312 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
0b0cfcf2 6313
5473c134 6314 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6315 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6316 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6317 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6318 something like:
0b0cfcf2 6319
5473c134 6320 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6321 always_direct allow local-servers
0b0cfcf2 6322
5473c134 6323 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
f16fbc82 6324
5473c134 6325 acl FTP proto FTP
6326 always_direct allow FTP
cccac0a2 6327
5473c134 6328 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6329 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6330 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6331 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6332 some other rule. Example:
8d6275c0 6333
5473c134 6334 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6335 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6336 always_direct deny local-external
6337 always_direct allow local-servers
8d6275c0 6338
5473c134 6339 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6340 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6341 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6342 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
8d6275c0 6343
5473c134 6344 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6345 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
b3567eb5 6346 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5473c134 6347
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6348 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6349 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
cccac0a2 6350DOC_END
0976f8db 6351
5473c134 6352NAME: never_direct
6353TYPE: acl_access
6354LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6355DEFAULT: none
8d6275c0 6356DOC_START
5473c134 6357 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6358
6359 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6360 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6361
6362 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6363 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6364 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6365 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6366
6367 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5473c134 6368 never_direct deny local-servers
6369 never_direct allow all
6370
6371 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6372 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6373
6374 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6375 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6376 always_direct deny local-external
6377 always_direct allow local-intranet
6378 never_direct allow all
6379
b3567eb5
FC
6380 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6381 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
8d6275c0 6382DOC_END
0976f8db 6383
5473c134 6384COMMENT_START
6385 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6386 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6387COMMENT_END
6388
65d448bc 6389NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
cccac0a2 6390TYPE: int
6391DEFAULT: 6
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AJ
6392LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6393DOC_START
6394 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6395 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6396 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6397DOC_END
cccac0a2 6398
65d448bc 6399NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
cccac0a2 6400TYPE: int
6401DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
6402LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6403DOC_START
6404 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6405 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6406 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6407DOC_END
cccac0a2 6408
6409NAME: incoming_dns_average
6410TYPE: int
6411DEFAULT: 4
65d448bc
AJ
6412LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6413DOC_START
6414 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6415 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6416 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6417DOC_END
cccac0a2 6418
65d448bc 6419NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6420TYPE: int
6421DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
6422LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6423DOC_START
6424 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6425 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6426 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6427DOC_END
cccac0a2 6428
6429NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6430TYPE: int
6431DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc
AJ
6432LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6433DOC_START
6434 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6435 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6436 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6437DOC_END
cccac0a2 6438
65d448bc 6439NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
cccac0a2 6440TYPE: int
6441DEFAULT: 8
65d448bc 6442LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
cccac0a2 6443DOC_START
5473c134 6444 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6445 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6446 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6447DOC_END
6448
6449NAME: accept_filter
5473c134 6450TYPE: string
6451DEFAULT: none
6452LOC: Config.accept_filter
6453DOC_START
0b4d4be5 6454 FreeBSD:
6455
5473c134 6456 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6457 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6458 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6459
6460 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
2324cda2 6461 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
0b4d4be5 6462 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6463
6464 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6465 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6466 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6467
6468 Linux:
6469
6470 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6471 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6472 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6473 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6474 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5473c134 6475EXAMPLE:
0b4d4be5 6476# FreeBSD
5473c134 6477accept_filter httpready
0b4d4be5 6478# Linux
6479accept_filter data
5473c134 6480DOC_END
6481
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6482NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6483TYPE: int
6484LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6485DEFAULT: -1
6486DOC_START
6487 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6488 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6489 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6490
6491 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6492 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6493
6494 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6495
6496 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6497 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6498DOC_END
6499
5473c134 6500NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6501COMMENT: (bytes)
6502TYPE: b_size_t
6503DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6504LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6505DOC_START
6506 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6507 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6508 the default buffer size.
6509DOC_END
6510
6511COMMENT_START
6512 ICAP OPTIONS
6513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6514COMMENT_END
6515
6516NAME: icap_enable
6517TYPE: onoff
6518IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6519COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6520LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5473c134 6521DEFAULT: off
6522DOC_START
53e738c6 6523 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5473c134 6524DOC_END
6525
6526NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6527TYPE: time_t
6528DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6529LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5473c134 6530IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6531DOC_START
6532 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6533 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6534 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6535
6536 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6537 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6538 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6539DOC_END
6540
6541NAME: icap_io_timeout
6542COMMENT: time-units
6543TYPE: time_t
6544DEFAULT: none
26cc52cb 6545LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5473c134 6546IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6547DOC_START
6548 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6549 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6550 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6551 failure.
6552
6553 The default is read_timeout.
6554DOC_END
6555
6556NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
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6557COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6558TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5473c134 6559IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
8277060a 6560LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6561DEFAULT: 10
6562DOC_START
6563 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6564 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6565 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6566 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
8277060a 6567 OPTIONS.
5473c134 6568
6569 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6570 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6571 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
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6572
6573 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6574 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6575 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6576 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6577 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6578
6579 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6580 effect on service failure expiration.
6581
6582 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6583 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6584 setting.
6585
6586 For example,
6587 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6588 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
cccac0a2 6589DOC_END
6590
5473c134 6591NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
cccac0a2 6592TYPE: int
5473c134 6593IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6594LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5473c134 6595DEFAULT: 180
cccac0a2 6596DOC_START
5473c134 6597 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6598 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6599 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6600 fetched.
cccac0a2 6601
5473c134 6602 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6603 delay of 30 seconds.
cccac0a2 6604DOC_END
6605
5473c134 6606NAME: icap_preview_enable
cccac0a2 6607TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6608IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6609COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6610LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
ac7a62f9 6611DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6612DOC_START
ac7a62f9 6613 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6614 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6615 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6616 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6617
6618 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6619 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6620 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6621
6622 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6623 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6624Example:
6625icap_preview_enable off
cccac0a2 6626DOC_END
6627
5473c134 6628NAME: icap_preview_size
6629TYPE: int
6630IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6631LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
5473c134 6632DEFAULT: -1
cccac0a2 6633DOC_START
53e738c6 6634 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6635 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6636 basis by OPTIONS requests.
cccac0a2 6637DOC_END
6638
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6639NAME: icap_206_enable
6640TYPE: onoff
6641IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6642COMMENT: on|off
6643LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6644DEFAULT: on
6645DOC_START
6646 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6647 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6648 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6649 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6650
6651 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6652 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6653 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6654 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6655 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6656
6657 Example:
6658 icap_206_enable off
6659DOC_END
6660
5473c134 6661NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6662TYPE: int
6663IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6664LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
5473c134 6665DEFAULT: 60
cccac0a2 6666DOC_START
53e738c6 6667 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
5473c134 6668 an Options-TTL header.
cccac0a2 6669DOC_END
6670
5473c134 6671NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6672TYPE: onoff
6673IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6674COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6675LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
5473c134 6676DEFAULT: on
cccac0a2 6677DOC_START
5473c134 6678 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6679 an ICAP server.
cccac0a2 6680DOC_END
6681
22fff3bf 6682NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
5473c134 6683TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6684IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6685COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6686LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
5473c134 6687DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6688DOC_START
ea3ae478
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6689 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6690 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6691 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6692
6693 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
cccac0a2 6694DOC_END
6695
22fff3bf 6696NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
5473c134 6697TYPE: onoff
22fff3bf 6698IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
5473c134 6699COMMENT: on|off
22fff3bf 6700LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
5473c134 6701DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6702DOC_START
5473c134 6703 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
22fff3bf
AR
6704 the adaptation service.
6705
6706 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
5473c134 6707 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6708 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
cccac0a2 6709DOC_END
6710
5473c134 6711NAME: icap_client_username_header
cccac0a2 6712TYPE: string
5473c134 6713IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6714LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
5473c134 6715DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
cccac0a2 6716DOC_START
db49f682 6717 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
cccac0a2 6718DOC_END
6719
5473c134 6720NAME: icap_client_username_encode
cccac0a2 6721TYPE: onoff
5473c134 6722IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6723COMMENT: on|off
26cc52cb 6724LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
5473c134 6725DEFAULT: off
cccac0a2 6726DOC_START
5473c134 6727 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
cccac0a2 6728DOC_END
6729
5473c134 6730NAME: icap_service
6731TYPE: icap_service_type
6732IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
26cc52cb 6733LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5473c134 6734DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6735DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6736 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
cccac0a2 6737
c25c2836 6738 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
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6740 id: ID
6741 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6742 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6743 services in squid.conf.
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6745 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
f3db09e2 6746 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6747 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6748 are not yet supported.
a22e6cd3 6749
c25c2836 6750 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
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6751 ICAP server and service location.
6752
6753 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6754 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6755 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6756 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6757 service_names differ.
6758
6759
6760 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6761 the following name=value options:
6762
6763 bypass=on|off|1|0
6764 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6765 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6766 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6767 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6768 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6769 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6770 returned to the HTTP client.
6771
6772 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6773
6774 routing=on|off|1|0
6775 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6776 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6777 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6778 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6779 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
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6780 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6781 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6782 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6783
6784 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6785 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
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6786
6787 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6788 response header is ignored.
6789
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6790 ipv6=on|off
6791 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6792 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6793 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6794
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6795 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6796 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6797 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6798 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6799 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6800 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6801 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6802
6803 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6804 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6805 workers may use a given service.
6806
6807 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6808 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6809
6810
6811 max-conn=number
6812 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6813 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6814
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6815 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6816 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
5473c134 6817
5473c134 6818Example:
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6819icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
6820icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
cccac0a2 6821DOC_END
6822
5473c134 6823NAME: icap_class
6824TYPE: icap_class_type
6825IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6826LOC: none
5473c134 6827DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6828DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6829 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
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6830 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6831 services, and the chains were not supported.
5473c134 6832
62c7f90e 6833 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
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6834 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6835 adaptation_service_chain.
cccac0a2 6836DOC_END
6837
5473c134 6838NAME: icap_access
6839TYPE: icap_access_type
6840IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
21a26d31 6841LOC: none
cccac0a2 6842DEFAULT: none
cccac0a2 6843DOC_START
a22e6cd3 6844 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
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6845 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6846 documentation, and eCAP support.
cccac0a2 6847DOC_END
6848
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6849COMMENT_START
6850 eCAP OPTIONS
6851 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6852COMMENT_END
6853
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6854NAME: ecap_enable
6855TYPE: onoff
6856IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6857COMMENT: on|off
574b508c 6858LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
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6859DEFAULT: off
6860DOC_START
6861 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6862DOC_END
6863
6864NAME: ecap_service
6865TYPE: ecap_service_type
6866IFDEF: USE_ECAP
574b508c 6867LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
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6868DEFAULT: none
6869DOC_START
6870 Defines a single eCAP service
6871
c25c2836 6872 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
21a26d31 6873
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6874 id: ID
6875 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
6876 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
6877 services in squid.conf.
6878
6879 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
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6880 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6881 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6882 are not yet supported.
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6883
6884 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6885 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
6886 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
6887 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
6888 the service provider.
6889
6890
6891 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
6892 the following name=value options:
6893
6894 bypass=on|off|1|0
6895 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
6896 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
6897 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
21a26d31 6898 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
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6899 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
6900 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
21a26d31 6901 HTTP client.
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6902
6903 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6904
6905 routing=on|off|1|0
6906 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
6907 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6908 returning a chain of services to be used next.
6909
6910 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6911 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
6912
6913 Routing is not allowed by default.
6914
6915 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
6916 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6917
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6918
6919Example:
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6920ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
6921ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
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6922DOC_END
6923
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6924NAME: loadable_modules
6925TYPE: wordlist
6926IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6927LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6928DEFAULT: none
6929DOC_START
6930 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6931 preloaded module(s).
6932Example:
6933loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6934DOC_END
6935
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6936COMMENT_START
6937 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6938 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6939COMMENT_END
6940
6941NAME: adaptation_service_set
6942TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6943IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6944LOC: none
6945DEFAULT: none
6946DOC_START
6947
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6948 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6949 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6950
6951 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6952
6953 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6954 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6955 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6956 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6957 intact.
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6959 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6960 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
62c7f90e 6961
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6962 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6963 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6964
6965 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6966 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6967 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6968 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6969 transaction fails as well.
6970
6971 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6972 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6973 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6974 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6975 matters.
6976
6977 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
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6978
6979Example:
6980adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6981adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6982DOC_END
6983
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6984NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6985TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6986IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6987LOC: none
6988DEFAULT: none
6989DOC_START
6990
6991 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6992 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6993 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6994
6995 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6996
6997 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6998 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6999 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7000 the previous service in the chain.
7001
7002 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7003 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7004
7005 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7006 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7007 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7008
7009 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7010 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7011
7012 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7013 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7014 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7015 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7016
7017 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7018
7019Example:
7020adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7021DOC_END
7022
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7023NAME: adaptation_access
7024TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7025IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7026LOC: none
7027DEFAULT: none
7028DOC_START
7029 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7030
7031 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7032 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7033
7034 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7035 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7036 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7037 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7038
7039 - services serving different vectoring points
7040 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7041 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7042 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7043
7044 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7045 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7046 adaptation_service_set for details.
7047
7048 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7049 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7050 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7051 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7052
7053 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7054 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7055
7056 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7057
7058Example:
7059adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7060DOC_END
7061
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7062NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7063TYPE: int
7064IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7065LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7066DEFAULT: 16
7067DOC_START
7068 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7069 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7070 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7071 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7072 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7073 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7074
7075 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7076
7077 See also: icap_service routing=1
7078DOC_END
7079
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7080NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7081TYPE: string
7082IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7083LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7084DEFAULT: none
7085DOC_START
7086 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7087 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7088 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7089 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7090 with the master transaction.
7091
7092 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7093 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7094
7095 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7096 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
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7097 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7098
7099 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7100 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7101 to provide an option with a name specified in
7102 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
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7103
7104 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
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7105 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7106
7107 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7108
7109Example:
7110# share authentication information among ICAP services
7111adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7112DOC_END
7113
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7114NAME: adaptation_meta
7115TYPE: adaptation_meta_type
7116IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7117LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7118DEFAULT: none
7119DOC_START
7120 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7121 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7122 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7123 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7124
7125 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7126 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7127
7128 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7129 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7130 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7131 example:
7132
7133 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7134 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7135
7136 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7137 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7138
7139 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7140 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7141
7142 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7143 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7144 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7145 and double quotes. For example,
7146 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7147DOC_END
7148
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7149NAME: icap_retry
7150TYPE: acl_access
7151IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7152LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
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7153DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7154DOC_START
7155 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7156 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7157 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7158 that response are usually retriable.
7159
7160 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7161
7162 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7163 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7164
7165 See also: icap_retry_limit
7166DOC_END
7167
7168NAME: icap_retry_limit
7169TYPE: int
7170IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7171LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7172DEFAULT: 0
7173DOC_START
7174 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7175 no retries are allowed.
7176
7177 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7178 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7179 count against this limit.
7180
7181 See also: icap_retry
7182DOC_END
7183
7184
5473c134 7185COMMENT_START
7186 DNS OPTIONS
7187 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7188COMMENT_END
7189
7190NAME: check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7191TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7192DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7193LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
cccac0a2 7194DOC_START
5473c134 7195 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7196 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7197 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
cccac0a2 7198DOC_END
7199
5473c134 7200NAME: allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7201TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7202DEFAULT: on
5473c134 7203LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
cccac0a2 7204DOC_START
5473c134 7205 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7206 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7207 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7208 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
cccac0a2 7209DOC_END
7210
5473c134 7211NAME: cache_dns_program
cccac0a2 7212TYPE: string
f64091a7 7213IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
5473c134 7214DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7215LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
cccac0a2 7216DOC_START
5473c134 7217 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
cccac0a2 7218DOC_END
7219
5473c134 7220NAME: dns_children
48d54e4d 7221TYPE: HelperChildConfig
f64091a7 7222IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
48d54e4d 7223DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
5473c134 7224LOC: Config.dnsChildren
58850d15 7225DOC_START
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7226 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7227 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7228 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7229 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7230 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7231
7232 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7233 tuning.
7234
7235 startup=
7236
7237 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7238 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7239 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7240
7241 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7242 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7243
7244 idle=
7245
7246 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7247 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7248 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7249 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
58850d15 7250DOC_END
7251
5473c134 7252NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
fd0f51c4 7253TYPE: time_msec
5473c134 7254DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7255LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
f64091a7 7256IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7257DOC_START
5473c134 7258 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7259 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
cccac0a2 7260DOC_END
7261
5473c134 7262NAME: dns_timeout
fd0f51c4 7263TYPE: time_msec
a541c34e 7264DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5473c134 7265LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
f64091a7 7266IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
cccac0a2 7267DOC_START
5473c134 7268 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7269 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7270 are assumed to be unavailable.
cccac0a2 7271DOC_END
7272
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7273NAME: dns_packet_max
7274TYPE: b_ssize_t
7275DEFAULT: none
7276LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
f64091a7 7277IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7278DOC_START
7279 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7280 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7281
7282 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7283 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7284 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7285 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7286 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7287
7288 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7289 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7290 necessary.
7291
7292 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7293 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7294 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7295 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7296 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7297 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7298 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7299DOC_END
7300
5473c134 7301NAME: dns_defnames
7302COMMENT: on|off
cccac0a2 7303TYPE: onoff
cccac0a2 7304DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7305LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
cccac0a2 7306DOC_START
5473c134 7307 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7308 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7309 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7310 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
cccac0a2 7311DOC_END
7312
5473c134 7313NAME: dns_nameservers
7314TYPE: wordlist
7315DEFAULT: none
7316LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
cccac0a2 7317DOC_START
5473c134 7318 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7319 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7320 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7321 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7322 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7323 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7324 configurations are supported.
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5473c134 7326 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
cccac0a2 7327DOC_END
7328
5473c134 7329NAME: hosts_file
cccac0a2 7330TYPE: string
5473c134 7331DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7332LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
cccac0a2 7333DOC_START
5473c134 7334 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7335 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7336 default locations:
7337 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7338 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7339 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7340 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7341 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7342 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7343 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7344 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
cccac0a2 7345
5473c134 7346 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7347 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7348 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7349 character are comments.
cccac0a2 7350
5473c134 7351 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7352 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7353 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7354 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7355 definitions.
cccac0a2 7356DOC_END
7357
5473c134 7358NAME: append_domain
7359TYPE: string
7360LOC: Config.appendDomain
7361DEFAULT: none
6a2f3fcf 7362DOC_START
5473c134 7363 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7364 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7365
7366 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7367 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7368 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7369
7370Example:
7371 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6a2f3fcf 7372DOC_END
7373
5473c134 7374NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7375TYPE: onoff
7376LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
df6fd596 7377DEFAULT: on
f64091a7 7378IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
df6fd596 7379DOC_START
5473c134 7380 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7381 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7382 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7383 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7384 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
df6fd596 7385DOC_END
7386
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7387NAME: dns_v4_first
7388TYPE: onoff
7389DEFAULT: off
7390LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
f64091a7 7391IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
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7392DOC_START
7393 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7394 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7395
7396 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7397 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7398 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7399
7400 WARNING:
7401 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7402 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7403 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7404DOC_END
7405
6bc15a4f 7406NAME: ipcache_size
7407COMMENT: (number of entries)
7408TYPE: int
7409DEFAULT: 1024
7410LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7411DOC_NONE
7412
7413NAME: ipcache_low
7414COMMENT: (percent)
7415TYPE: int
7416DEFAULT: 90
7417LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7418DOC_NONE
7419
7420NAME: ipcache_high
7421COMMENT: (percent)
7422TYPE: int
7423DEFAULT: 95
7424LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7425DOC_START
7426 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7427DOC_END
7428
7429NAME: fqdncache_size
7430COMMENT: (number of entries)
7431TYPE: int
7432DEFAULT: 1024
7433LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7434DOC_START
7435 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7436DOC_END
7437
a58ff010 7438COMMENT_START
5473c134 7439 MISCELLANEOUS
a58ff010 7440 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7441COMMENT_END
7442
5473c134 7443NAME: memory_pools
a58ff010 7444COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7445TYPE: onoff
7446DEFAULT: on
7447LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
a58ff010 7448DOC_START
5473c134 7449 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7450 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7451 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7452 routines, disable this.
a58ff010 7453DOC_END
7454
5473c134 7455NAME: memory_pools_limit
7456COMMENT: (bytes)
70be1349 7457TYPE: b_int64_t
5473c134 7458DEFAULT: 5 MB
7459LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
ec1245f8 7460DOC_START
5473c134 7461 Used only with memory_pools on:
7462 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
ec1245f8 7463
5473c134 7464 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7465 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7466 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7467 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7468 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7469 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7470 configuration will use less memory.
ec1245f8 7471
89646bd7 7472 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
5473c134 7473 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
ec1245f8 7474
5473c134 7475 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
70be1349 7476 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
5473c134 7477
7478 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7479 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7480 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7481 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
ec1245f8 7482DOC_END
7483
5473c134 7484NAME: forwarded_for
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7485COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7486TYPE: string
5473c134 7487DEFAULT: on
7488LOC: opt_forwarded_for
5f8252d2 7489DOC_START
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7490 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7491 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
5f8252d2 7492
5473c134 7493 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7494
67c06f0d 7495 If set to "off", it will appear as
5473c134 7496
7497 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
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7498
7499 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7500 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7501
7502 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7503 X-Forwarded-For header.
7504
7505 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
dd68402f 7506 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
5f8252d2 7507DOC_END
7508
5473c134 7509NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7510TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7511DEFAULT: none
7512LOC: Config.passwd_list
5f8252d2 7513DOC_START
5473c134 7514 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
5f8252d2 7515
5473c134 7516 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7517
7518 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7519 5min
7520 60min
7521 asndb
7522 authenticator
7523 cbdata
7524 client_list
7525 comm_incoming
7526 config *
7527 counters
7528 delay
7529 digest_stats
7530 dns
7531 events
7532 filedescriptors
7533 fqdncache
7534 histograms
7535 http_headers
7536 info
7537 io
7538 ipcache
7539 mem
7540 menu
7541 netdb
7542 non_peers
7543 objects
7544 offline_toggle *
7545 pconn
7546 peer_select
b360c477 7547 reconfigure *
5473c134 7548 redirector
7549 refresh
7550 server_list
7551 shutdown *
7552 store_digest
7553 storedir
7554 utilization
7555 via_headers
7556 vm_objects
7557
7558 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7559 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7560
7561 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7562 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7563 password to "none".
7564
7565 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7566
7567Example:
7568 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7569 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7570 cachemgr_passwd disable all
5f8252d2 7571DOC_END
7572
5473c134 7573NAME: client_db
a58ff010 7574COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7575TYPE: onoff
7576DEFAULT: on
7577LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
a58ff010 7578DOC_START
5473c134 7579 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7580 turn off client_db here.
a58ff010 7581DOC_END
7582
5473c134 7583NAME: refresh_all_ims
7584COMMENT: on|off
7585TYPE: onoff
7586DEFAULT: off
7587LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
a58ff010 7588DOC_START
5473c134 7589 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7590 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7591 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7592 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7593 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
a58ff010 7594
5473c134 7595 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7596 based on the age of the cached version.
78e8cfc4 7597DOC_END
7598
5473c134 7599NAME: reload_into_ims
626096be 7600IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
12b91c99 7601COMMENT: on|off
5473c134 7602TYPE: onoff
7603DEFAULT: off
7604LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
12b91c99 7605DOC_START
5473c134 7606 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7607 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7608 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7609 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7610 causes.
7611
7612 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
12b91c99 7613DOC_END
7614
31ef19cd 7615NAME: connect_retries
5473c134 7616TYPE: int
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7617LOC: Config.connect_retries
7618DEFAULT: 0
a58ff010 7619DOC_START
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7620 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7621 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7622 complete within the connection timeout period.
31ef19cd
AJ
7623
7624 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7625 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
5473c134 7626
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7627 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7628 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
5473c134 7629
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7630 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7631 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7632 a useful server.
a58ff010 7633DOC_END
7634
5473c134 7635NAME: retry_on_error
a58ff010 7636TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7637LOC: Config.retry.onerror
a58ff010 7638DEFAULT: off
7639DOC_START
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7640 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
7641 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
7642 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
7643 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
7644
7645 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
7646 work around access control errors.
7647
7648 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
7649 Which is different from the server which just failed.
5f8252d2 7650DOC_END
7651
5473c134 7652NAME: as_whois_server
5f8252d2 7653TYPE: string
5473c134 7654LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7655DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
5f8252d2 7656DOC_START
5473c134 7657 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7658 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
5f8252d2 7659DOC_END
7660
5473c134 7661NAME: offline_mode
5f8252d2 7662TYPE: onoff
5473c134 7663LOC: Config.onoff.offline
5f8252d2 7664DEFAULT: off
7665DOC_START
5473c134 7666 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7667 objects.
a58ff010 7668DOC_END
7669
5473c134 7670NAME: uri_whitespace
7671TYPE: uri_whitespace
7672LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7673DEFAULT: strip
a58ff010 7674DOC_START
5473c134 7675 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7676 URI. Options:
a58ff010 7677
5473c134 7678 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7679 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7680 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7681 Request" message.
7682 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7683 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7684 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7685 are in use.
7686 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7687 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7688 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7689 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7690 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7691 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7692 violation.
7693DOC_END
a58ff010 7694
5473c134 7695NAME: chroot
7696TYPE: string
7697LOC: Config.chroot_dir
a58ff010 7698DEFAULT: none
7699DOC_START
9f37c18a 7700 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
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HN
7701 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7702 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7703 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7704 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
5473c134 7705DOC_END
a58ff010 7706
5473c134 7707NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7708TYPE: onoff
7709LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
cc192b50 7710DEFAULT: off
5473c134 7711DOC_START
cc192b50 7712 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7713 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7714 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7715
5473c134 7716 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7717 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7718 to different IP addresses.
a58ff010 7719
cc192b50 7720 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
a58ff010 7721DOC_END
7722
5473c134 7723NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7724TYPE: onoff
7725LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7726DEFAULT: off
a58ff010 7727DOC_START
5473c134 7728 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7729 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7730 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
a58ff010 7731
5473c134 7732 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7733 reasons.
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7734
7735 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
5473c134 7736DOC_END
a58ff010 7737
5473c134 7738NAME: high_response_time_warning
7739TYPE: int
7740COMMENT: (msec)
7741LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7742DEFAULT: 0
7743DOC_START
7744 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7745 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7746 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
a58ff010 7747DOC_END
7748
5473c134 7749NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7750TYPE: int
7751LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7752DEFAULT: 0
cc9f92d4 7753DOC_START
5473c134 7754 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7755 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7756 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7757 per second.
7758DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7759
5473c134 7760NAME: high_memory_warning
7761TYPE: b_size_t
7762LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
904971da 7763DEFAULT: 0 KB
5473c134 7764DOC_START
7765 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
904971da 7766 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
5473c134 7767 the administrators attention.
7768DOC_END
cc9f92d4 7769
5473c134 7770NAME: sleep_after_fork
7771COMMENT: (microseconds)
7772TYPE: int
7773LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7774DEFAULT: 0
7775DOC_START
7776 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7777 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7778 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7779 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7780 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7781 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7782 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7783 until all the child processes have been started.
7784 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7785 rounded to 1000.
cc9f92d4 7786DOC_END
7787
b6696974 7788NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
6b0516c6 7789IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
b6696974
GS
7790COMMENT: on|off
7791TYPE: onoff
7792DEFAULT: on
7793LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7794DOC_START
7795 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7796 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7797 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7798 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7799 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7800 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7801DOC_END
7802
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7803NAME: eui_lookup
7804TYPE: onoff
7805IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7806DEFAULT: on
7807LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7808DOC_START
7809 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7810DOC_END
7811
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7812NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7813TYPE: int
7814DEFAULT: 0
7815LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7816DOC_START
7817 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7818
7819 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7820
7821 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7822 not all comm loops supports large values.
7823DOC_END
7824
13aeac35 7825NAME: workers
007d775d 7826TYPE: int
13aeac35 7827LOC: Config.workers
007d775d
AR
7828DEFAULT: 1
7829DOC_START
13aeac35 7830 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
007d775d
AR
7831 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7832 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
13aeac35
AR
7833 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7834
b87f6632
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7835 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7836 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
007d775d
AR
7837DOC_END
7838
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7839NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7840TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7841LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7842DEFAULT: none
7843DOC_START
7844 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7845
7846 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7847
7848 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7849
7850 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7851 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7852
7853 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7854 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7855
7856 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7857
7858 See also: workers
7859DOC_END
7860
cccac0a2 7861EOF