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28
29 COMMENT_START
30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
31 ----------------------------
32
33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
36
37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
44
45 COMMENT_END
46
47 COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
60
61
62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
97 COMMENT_END
98
99 COMMENT_START
100 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
101 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
102 COMMENT_END
103
104 NAME: auth_param
105 TYPE: authparam
106 LOC: Auth::TheConfig
107 DEFAULT: none
108 DOC_START
109 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
110 schemes supported by Squid.
111
112 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
113
114 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
115 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
116 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
117 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
118 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
119 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
120 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
121 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
122 program entry).
123
124 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
125 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
126 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
127 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
128
129 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
130 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
131 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
132 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
133 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
134 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
135 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
136 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
137 type acl.
138
139 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
140 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
141 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
142 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
143 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
144 authentication disabled.
145
146 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
147
148 "program" cmdline
149 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
150 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
151 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
152 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
153 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
154 proxy_auth.
155
156 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
157 program is specified.
158
159 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
160 this line to something like
161
162 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
163
164 "utf8" on|off
165 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
166 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
167 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
168 username & password to the helper.
169
170 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
171 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
172 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
173 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
174 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
175 authenticator processes.
176
177 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
178 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
179 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
180 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
181 the maximum.
182
183 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
184 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
185 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
186 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
187 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
188 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
189 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
190
191 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
192
193 "realm" realmstring
194 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
195 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
196 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
197 password). There is no default.
198 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
199
200 "credentialsttl" timetolive
201 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
202 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
203 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
204 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
205 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
206 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
207 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
208 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
209 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
210
211 "casesensitive" on|off
212 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
213 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
214 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
215 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
216 auth_param basic casesensitive off
217
218 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
219
220 "program" cmdline
221 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
222 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
223 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
224 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
225 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
226 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
227 available as %m in the returned error page.
228
229 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
230 program is specified.
231
232 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
233 something like
234
235 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
236
237 "utf8" on|off
238 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
239 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
240 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
241 username & password to the helper.
242
243 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
244 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
245 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
246 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
247 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
248 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
249
250 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
251 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
252 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
253 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
254 the maximum.
255
256 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
257 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
258 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
259 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
260 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
261 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
262 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
263
264 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
265
266 "realm" realmstring
267 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
268 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
269 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
270 password). There is no default.
271 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
272
273 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
274 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
275 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
276
277 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
278 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
279 valid for.
280
281 "nonce_max_count" number
282 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
283 used.
284
285 "nonce_strictness" on|off
286 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
287 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
288 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
289 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
290
291 "check_nonce_count" on|off
292 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
293 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
294 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
295 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
296
297 "post_workaround" on|off
298 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
299 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
300 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
301
302 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
303
304 "program" cmdline
305 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
306 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
307 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
308 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
309 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
310 is not used.
311
312 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
313
314 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
315 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
316 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
317 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
318 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
319 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
320 processes.
321
322 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
323 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
324 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
325 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
326 the maximum.
327
328 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
329
330 "keep_alive" on|off
331 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
332 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
333 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
334 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
335 supported by the proxy.
336
337 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
338
339 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
340
341 "program" cmdline
342 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
343 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
344 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
345 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
346 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
347 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
348 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
349 authenticator_program is not used.
350 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
351 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
352
353 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
354
355 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
356 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
357 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
358 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
359 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
360 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
361 processes.
362
363 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
364 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure
365 and Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
366 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
367 the maximum.
368
369 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
370
371 "keep_alive" on|off
372 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
373 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
374 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
375 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
376 supported by the proxy.
377
378 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
379
380
381 Examples:
382
383 #Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
384 #auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
385 #auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
386 #auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
387 #
388 #auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
389 #auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
390 #auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
391 #
392 #auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
393 #auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
394 #auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
395 #auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
396 #auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
397 #auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
398 #
399 #auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
400 #auth_param basic children 5 stratup=5 idle=1
401 #auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
402 #auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
403 DOC_END
404
405 NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
406 TYPE: time_t
407 DEFAULT: 1 hour
408 LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
409 DOC_START
410 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
411 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
412 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
413 have good reason to.
414 DOC_END
415
416 NAME: authenticate_ttl
417 TYPE: time_t
418 DEFAULT: 1 hour
419 LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
420 DOC_START
421 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
422 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
423 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
424 TTL are removed from memory.
425 DOC_END
426
427 NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
428 TYPE: time_t
429 LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
430 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
431 DOC_START
432 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
433 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
434 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
435 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
436 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
437 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
438 environment with relatively static address assignments.
439 DOC_END
440
441 COMMENT_START
442 ACCESS CONTROLS
443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
444 COMMENT_END
445
446 NAME: external_acl_type
447 TYPE: externalAclHelper
448 LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
449 DEFAULT: none
450 DOC_START
451 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
452 to look up the status
453
454 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
455
456 Options:
457
458 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
459 for 1 hour)
460 negative_ttl=n
461 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
462 as ttl)
463 children-max=n
464 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
465 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
466 children-startup=n
467 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
468 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
469 of this type. (default 0)
470 children-idle=n
471 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
472 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
473 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
474 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
475 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
476 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
477 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
478 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
479 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
480 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
481 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
482 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
483 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
484 the default is 'ipv4'.
485
486 FORMAT specifications
487
488 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
489 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
490 %IDENT Ident user name
491 %SRC Client IP
492 %SRCPORT Client source port
493 %URI Requested URI
494 %DST Requested host
495 %PROTO Requested protocol
496 %PORT Requested port
497 %PATH Requested URL path
498 %METHOD Request method
499 %MYADDR Squid interface address
500 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
501 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
502 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
503 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
504 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
505 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
506
507 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
508 %>{Hdr:member}
509 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
510 %>{Hdr:;member}
511 HTTP request header list member using ; as
512 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
513 character.
514
515 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
516 %<{Hdr:member}
517 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
518 %<{Hdr:;member}
519 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
520 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
521 character.
522
523 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
524 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
525 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
526
527 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
528 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
529 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
530 more details.
531
532 General result syntax:
533
534 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
535
536 Defined keywords:
537
538 user= The users name (login)
539 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
540 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
541 in error pages
542 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
543 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
544 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
545 %ea in logformat specifications
546
547 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
548 each value in both requests and responses.
549
550 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
551 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
552 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
553
554 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
555 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
556 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
557 DOC_END
558
559 NAME: acl
560 TYPE: acl
561 LOC: Config.aclList
562 DEFAULT: all src all
563 DOC_START
564 Defining an Access List
565
566 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
567 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
568 they are read from.
569
570 acl aclname acltype argument ...
571 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
572
573 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
574
575 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
576 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
577
578 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
579 to access some external data source.
580 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
581 don't are marked as [fast].
582 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
583 for further information
584
585 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
586
587 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
588 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
589 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
590 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
591
592 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
593 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
594 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
595 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
596 # other *BSD variants.
597 # [fast]
598 #
599 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
600 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
601 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
602
603 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
604 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
605 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
606 # Destination server from URL [fast]
607 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
608 # regex matching client name [slow]
609 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
610 # regex matching server [fast]
611 #
612 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
613 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
614 # if the reverse lookup fails.
615
616 acl aclname src_as number ...
617 acl aclname dst_as number ...
618 # [fast]
619 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
620 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
621 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
622 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
623 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
624 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
625 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
626
627 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
628 # [fast]
629 # match against a named cache_peer entry
630 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
631
632 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
633 # [fast]
634 # day-abbrevs:
635 # S - Sunday
636 # M - Monday
637 # T - Tuesday
638 # W - Wednesday
639 # H - Thursday
640 # F - Friday
641 # A - Saturday
642 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
643
644 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
645 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
646 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
647 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
648
649 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
650 # ranges are alloed
651 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
652 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
653
654 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
655
656 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
657
658 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
659 # status code in reply [fast]
660
661 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
662 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
663
664 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
665 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
666 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
667
668 acl aclname ident username ...
669 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
670 # string match on ident output [slow]
671 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
672
673 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
674 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
675 # perform http authentication challenge to the client and match against
676 # supplied credentials [slow]
677 #
678 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
679 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
680 #
681 # Will use proxy authentication in forward-proxy scenarios, and plain
682 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
683 #
684 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
685 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
686 # in access.log.
687 #
688 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
689 # to check username/password combinations (see
690 # auth_param directive).
691 #
692 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
693 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
694 # to respond to proxy authentication.
695
696 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
697 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
698 # Example:
699 #
700 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
701
702 acl aclname maxconn number
703 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
704 # more than <number> HTTP connections established. [fast]
705
706 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
707 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
708 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
709 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
710 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
711 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
712 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
713 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
714 # request is denied)
715 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
716 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
717 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
718
719 acl aclname random probability
720 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
721 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
722 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
723
724 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
725 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
726 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
727 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
728 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
729 # to match the returned file type.
730
731 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
732 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
733 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
734 # ACL [fast]
735
736 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
737 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
738 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
739 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
740 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
741 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
742 # http_reply_access.
743
744 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
745 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
746 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
747 # ACLs [fast]
748
749 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
750 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
751 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
752
753 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
754 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
755 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
756
757 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
758 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
759 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
760
761 acl aclname ext_user username ...
762 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
763 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
764 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
765
766 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
767 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
768
769 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
770 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
771 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
772 #
773 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
774 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
775 # http_reply_access.
776
777 Examples:
778 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
779 acl myexample dst_as 1241
780 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
781 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
782 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
783
784 NOCOMMENT_START
785 #
786 # Recommended minimum configuration:
787 #
788 acl manager proto cache_object
789 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
790 @IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl localhost src ::1/128
791 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32
792 @IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl to_localhost dst ::1/128
793
794 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
795 # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
796 # should be allowed
797 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
798 acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
799 acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
800 @IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
801 @IPV6_ONLY_SETTING@acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
802
803 acl SSL_ports port 443
804 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
805 acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
806 acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
807 acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
808 acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
809 acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
810 acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
811 acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
812 acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
813 acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
814 acl CONNECT method CONNECT
815 NOCOMMENT_END
816 DOC_END
817
818 NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
819 TYPE: acl_access
820 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
821 LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
822 DEFAULT: none
823 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
824 DOC_START
825 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
826 find the original source of a request.
827
828 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
829 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
830 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
831 rightmost address being the most recent.
832
833 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
834 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
835 to see where that host received the request from. If the
836 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
837 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
838 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
839 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
840 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
841 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
842
843 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
844 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
845 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
846 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
847 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
848 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
849
850 This clause only supports fast acl types.
851 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
852
853 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
854
855 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
856 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
857 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
858 source address of the request. This may enable remote
859 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
860 based on the client's source addresses.
861
862 For example:
863
864 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
865 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
866 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
867 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
868 DOC_END
869
870 NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
871 COMMENT: on|off
872 TYPE: onoff
873 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
874 DEFAULT: on
875 LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
876 DOC_START
877 Controls whether the indirect client address
878 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
879 direct client address in acl matching.
880 DOC_END
881
882 NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
883 COMMENT: on|off
884 TYPE: onoff
885 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&DELAY_POOLS
886 DEFAULT: on
887 LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
888 DOC_START
889 Controls whether the indirect client address
890 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
891 direct client address in delay pools.
892 DOC_END
893
894 NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
895 COMMENT: on|off
896 TYPE: onoff
897 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
898 DEFAULT: on
899 LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
900 DOC_START
901 Controls whether the indirect client address
902 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
903 direct client address in the access log.
904 DOC_END
905
906 NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
907 COMMENT: on|off
908 TYPE: onoff
909 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
910 DEFAULT: off
911 LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
912 DOC_START
913 Controls whether the indirect client address
914 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
915 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
916
917 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
918 mode ports.
919
920 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
921 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
922 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
923 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
924 DOC_END
925
926 NAME: http_access
927 TYPE: acl_access
928 LOC: Config.accessList.http
929 DEFAULT: none
930 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
931 DOC_START
932 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
933
934 Access to the HTTP port:
935 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
936
937 NOTE on default values:
938
939 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
940 the request.
941
942 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
943 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
944 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
945 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
946 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
947 lists to avoid potential confusion.
948
949 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
950 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
951
952 NOCOMMENT_START
953
954 #
955 # Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
956 #
957 # Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
958 http_access allow manager localhost
959 http_access deny manager
960
961 # Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
962 http_access deny !Safe_ports
963
964 # Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
965 http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
966
967 # We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
968 # web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
969 # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
970 #http_access deny to_localhost
971
972 #
973 # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
974 #
975
976 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
977 # Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
978 # from where browsing should be allowed
979 http_access allow localnet
980 http_access allow localhost
981
982 # And finally deny all other access to this proxy
983 http_access deny all
984 NOCOMMENT_END
985 DOC_END
986
987 NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
988 TYPE: acl_access
989 LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
990 DEFAULT: none
991 DOC_START
992 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
993
994 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
995 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
996 output.
997
998 If not set then only http_access is used.
999 DOC_END
1000
1001 NAME: http_reply_access
1002 TYPE: acl_access
1003 LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1004 DEFAULT: none
1005 DOC_START
1006 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
1007
1008 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
1009
1010 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1011 all replies
1012
1013 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1014 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1015 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
1016
1017 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1018 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1019 DOC_END
1020
1021 NAME: icp_access
1022 TYPE: acl_access
1023 LOC: Config.accessList.icp
1024 DEFAULT: none
1025 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1026 DOC_START
1027 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1028 access lists
1029
1030 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1031
1032 See http_access for details
1033
1034 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1035 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1036
1037 # Allow ICP queries from local networks only
1038 #icp_access allow localnet
1039 #icp_access deny all
1040 DOC_END
1041
1042 NAME: htcp_access
1043 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1044 TYPE: acl_access
1045 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
1046 DEFAULT: none
1047 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1048 DOC_START
1049 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1050 access lists
1051
1052 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1053
1054 See http_access for details
1055
1056 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1057 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1058 using the htcp or htcp-oldsquid options.
1059
1060 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1061 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1062
1063 # Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
1064 #htcp_access allow localnet
1065 #htcp_access deny all
1066 DOC_END
1067
1068 NAME: htcp_clr_access
1069 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1070 TYPE: acl_access
1071 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
1072 DEFAULT: none
1073 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1074 DOC_START
1075 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1076 on defined access lists
1077
1078 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1079
1080 See http_access for details
1081
1082 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1083 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1084
1085 # Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
1086 acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1087 htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
1088 DOC_END
1089
1090 NAME: miss_access
1091 TYPE: acl_access
1092 LOC: Config.accessList.miss
1093 DEFAULT: allow all
1094 DOC_START
1095 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1096 a parent. For example:
1097
1098 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1099 miss_access allow localclients
1100 miss_access deny !localclients
1101
1102 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1103 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
1104
1105 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1106 to fetch MISSES from us.
1107
1108 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1109 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1110 DOC_END
1111
1112 NAME: ident_lookup_access
1113 TYPE: acl_access
1114 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
1115 DEFAULT: none
1116 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1117 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
1118 DOC_START
1119 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1120 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1121 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1122 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1123 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1124 any requests.
1125
1126 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1127 can follow this example:
1128
1129 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
1130 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1131 ident_lookup_access deny all
1132
1133 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
1134 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1135 the correct result.
1136
1137 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1138 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1139 DOC_END
1140
1141 NAME: reply_body_max_size
1142 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1143 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1144 DEFAULT: none
1145 LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1146 DOC_START
1147 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1148 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1149 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1150 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1151 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1152 for this reply.
1153
1154 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1155 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1156 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1157 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1158 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1159 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1160 and they will receive a partial reply.
1161
1162 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1163 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1164 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1165 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1166
1167 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1168 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1169 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1170 the size of your largest error page.
1171
1172 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1173 no limit imposed.
1174
1175 Configuration Format is:
1176 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1177 ie.
1178 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1179
1180 DOC_END
1181
1182 COMMENT_START
1183 NETWORK OPTIONS
1184 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1185 COMMENT_END
1186
1187 NAME: http_port ascii_port
1188 TYPE: http_port_list
1189 DEFAULT: none
1190 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1191 DOC_START
1192 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1193 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1194 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
1195
1196 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1197 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1198 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1199 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1200 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
1201 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
1202 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1203
1204 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1205 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1206
1207 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1208 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1209 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1210
1211 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1212
1213 Modes:
1214
1215 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1216 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1217 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1218
1219 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1220 connections using the client IP address.
1221 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1222
1223 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1224 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1225
1226 sslbump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1227 establish secure connection with the client and with
1228 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1229 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1230 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1231
1232 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1233 the SslBump feature.
1234
1235 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1236
1237
1238 Accelerator Mode Options:
1239
1240 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1241 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1242 never_direct was used.
1243
1244 defaultsite=domainname
1245 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1246 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1247 accelerators should consider the default.
1248 Implies accel.
1249
1250 vhost Using the Host header for virtual domain support.
1251 Also uses the port as specified in Host: header.
1252
1253 vport IP based virtual host support. Using the http_port number
1254 in passed on Host: headers.
1255
1256 vport=NN Uses the specified port number rather than the
1257 http_port number.
1258
1259 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1260 Defaults to http://.
1261
1262 ignore-cc Ignore request Cache-Control headers.
1263
1264 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1265 used in non-accelerator setups.
1266
1267
1268 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1269
1270 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1271
1272 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1273 if not specified, the certificate file is
1274 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1275 key file.
1276
1277 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1278 1 automatic (default)
1279 2 SSLv2 only
1280 3 SSLv3 only
1281 4 TLSv1 only
1282
1283 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1284
1285 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1286 being:
1287 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1288 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1289 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1290 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1291 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1292 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1293 documentation for a complete list of options.
1294
1295 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1296 requesting a client certificate.
1297
1298 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1299 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1300 clientca will be used.
1301
1302 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1303 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1304
1305 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1306 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1307 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1308
1309 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1310 DH key exchanges.
1311
1312 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1313 DELAYED_AUTH
1314 Don't request client certificates
1315 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1316 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1317 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1318 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1319 to OpenSSL.
1320 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1321 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1322 will result in a new SSL session.
1323 VERIFY_CRL
1324 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1325 certificates.
1326 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1327 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1328 client certificate chain.
1329
1330 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1331
1332
1333 Other Options:
1334
1335 connection-auth[=on|off]
1336 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1337 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
1338 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1339
1340 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1341 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1342 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1343 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1344 support is enabled.
1345 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1346
1347 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1348 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1349 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1350 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1351 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1352 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1353 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1354 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1355
1356 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1357 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1358
1359 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1360 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections
1361 idle is the initial time before TCP starts probing
1362 the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1363 timeout the time before giving up.
1364
1365 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1366 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1367 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1368 visible on the internal address.
1369
1370 NOCOMMENT_START
1371
1372 # Squid normally listens to port 3128
1373 http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1374 NOCOMMENT_END
1375 DOC_END
1376
1377 NAME: https_port
1378 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1379 TYPE: https_port_list
1380 DEFAULT: none
1381 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1382 DOC_START
1383 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1384
1385 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1386 requests.
1387
1388 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1389 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1390 accelerator level.
1391
1392 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1393 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1394
1395 Options:
1396
1397 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1398 defaultsite or vhost.
1399
1400 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1401 this port. Implies accel.
1402
1403 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1404 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1405 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1406 Implies accel.
1407
1408 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1409 Defaults to https.
1410
1411 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1412
1413 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1414 if not specified, the certificate file is
1415 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1416 key file.
1417
1418 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1419 1 automatic (default)
1420 2 SSLv2 only
1421 3 SSLv3 only
1422 4 TLSv1 only
1423
1424 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1425
1426 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1427 being:
1428 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1429 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1430 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1431 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1432 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1433 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1434 documentation for a complete list of options.
1435
1436 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1437 requesting a client certificate.
1438
1439 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1440 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1441 clientca will be used.
1442
1443 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1444 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1445
1446 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1447 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1448 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1449
1450 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1451 DH key exchanges.
1452
1453 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1454 DELAYED_AUTH
1455 Don't request client certificates
1456 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1457 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1458 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1459 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1460 to OpenSSL.
1461 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1462 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1463 will result in a new SSL session.
1464 VERIFY_CRL
1465 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1466 certificates.
1467 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1468 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1469 client certificate chain.
1470
1471 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1472
1473 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1474
1475 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1476 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1477
1478 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1479 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1480
1481 DOC_END
1482
1483 NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1484 TYPE: acl_tos
1485 DEFAULT: none
1486 LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_tos
1487 DOC_START
1488 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark outgoing
1489 connections with, based on the username or source address
1490 making the request.
1491
1492 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1493
1494 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1495 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1496
1497 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0
1498 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0
1499 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1500 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1501
1502 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1503 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1504 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1505
1506 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1507 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1508 practice often only values 0 - 63 is usable as the two highest bits
1509 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC3168).
1510
1511 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1512 matching line.
1513
1514 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1515 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1516 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persisten_connections
1517 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
1518 DOC_END
1519
1520 NAME: clientside_tos
1521 TYPE: acl_tos
1522 DEFAULT: none
1523 LOC: Config.accessList.clientside_tos
1524 DOC_START
1525 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value to mark client-side
1526 connections with, based on the username or source address
1527 making the request.
1528 DOC_END
1529
1530 NAME: qos_flows
1531 TYPE: QosConfig
1532 IFDEF: USE_ZPH_QOS
1533 DEFAULT: none
1534 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
1535 DOC_START
1536 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1537 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced.
1538
1539 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
1540 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1541 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1542
1543 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - octet value 0x00-0xFF.
1544 Note that in practice often only values up to 0x3F are usable
1545 as the two highest bits have been redefined for use by ECN
1546 (RFC3168).
1547
1548 This setting is configured by setting the source TOS values:
1549
1550 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1551
1552 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1553
1554 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1555
1556
1557 NOTE: 'miss' preserve feature is only possible on Linux at this time.
1558
1559 For the following to work correctly, you will need to patch your
1560 linux kernel with the TOS preserving ZPH patch.
1561 The kernel patch can be downloaded from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1562
1563 disable-preserve-miss
1564 If set, any HTTP response towards clients will
1565 have the TOS value of the response comming from the
1566 remote server masked with the value of miss-mask.
1567
1568 miss-mask=0xFF
1569 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS received from the
1570 remote server, before copying the value to the TOS sent
1571 towards clients.
1572 Default: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1573
1574 DOC_END
1575
1576 NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1577 TYPE: acl_address
1578 DEFAULT: none
1579 LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1580 DOC_START
1581 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1582 based on the username or source address of the user making
1583 the request.
1584
1585 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
1586
1587 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1588 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1589 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1590 source address 10.1.0.3.
1591
1592 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1593 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1594 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1595 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1596 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
1597
1598 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1599 matching line.
1600
1601 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1602 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1603 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1604 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
1605
1606 Note: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
1607 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1608 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option to
1609 re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
1610
1611 IPv6 Magic:
1612
1613 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6
1614 internets.
1615 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1616 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1617 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1618
1619 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1620 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1621 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1622
1623 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1624 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
1625 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
1626
1627 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
1628 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
1629
1630 tcp_outgoing_address 2002::1 to_ipv6
1631 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
1632
1633 WARNING:
1634 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1635 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1636 address which can link to the peer.
1637
1638 'dst ipv6' is a slow ACL. It will only work here if 'dst' is used
1639 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1640 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1641 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1642 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1643
1644 DOC_END
1645
1646 COMMENT_START
1647 SSL OPTIONS
1648 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1649 COMMENT_END
1650
1651 NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1652 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1653 TYPE: onoff
1654 DEFAULT: off
1655 LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
1656 DOC_START
1657 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1658 messages.
1659 DOC_END
1660
1661 NAME: ssl_engine
1662 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1663 TYPE: string
1664 LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1665 DEFAULT: none
1666 DOC_START
1667 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1668 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
1669 DOC_END
1670
1671 NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1672 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1673 DEFAULT: none
1674 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1675 TYPE: string
1676 DOC_START
1677 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
1678 DOC_END
1679
1680 NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1681 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1682 DEFAULT: none
1683 LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1684 TYPE: string
1685 DOC_START
1686 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
1687 DOC_END
1688
1689 NAME: sslproxy_version
1690 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1691 DEFAULT: 1
1692 LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1693 TYPE: int
1694 DOC_START
1695 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
1696 DOC_END
1697
1698 NAME: sslproxy_options
1699 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1700 DEFAULT: none
1701 LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1702 TYPE: string
1703 DOC_START
1704 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
1705
1706 The most important being:
1707
1708 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1709 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1710 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1711 SINGLE_DH_USE
1712 Always create a new key when using
1713 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1714
1715 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1716 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1717 complete list of possible options.
1718 DOC_END
1719
1720 NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1721 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1722 DEFAULT: none
1723 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1724 TYPE: string
1725 DOC_START
1726 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
1727
1728 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1729 DOC_END
1730
1731 NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1732 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1733 DEFAULT: none
1734 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1735 TYPE: string
1736 DOC_START
1737 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1738 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
1739 DOC_END
1740
1741 NAME: sslproxy_capath
1742 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1743 DEFAULT: none
1744 LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1745 TYPE: string
1746 DOC_START
1747 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1748 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
1749 DOC_END
1750
1751 NAME: ssl_bump
1752 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1753 TYPE: acl_access
1754 LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1755 DEFAULT: none
1756 DOC_START
1757 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1758 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1759 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1760 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1761
1762 By default, no requests are bumped.
1763
1764 See also: http_port sslBump
1765
1766 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1767 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1768
1769
1770 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1771 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1772
1773 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1774 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1775 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1776 ssl_bump deny localhost
1777 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1778 ssl_bump allow all
1779 DOC_END
1780
1781 NAME: sslproxy_flags
1782 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1783 DEFAULT: none
1784 LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1785 TYPE: string
1786 DOC_START
1787 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
1788 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1789 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
1790 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1791 to OpenSSL.
1792 DOC_END
1793
1794
1795 NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1796 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1797 DEFAULT: none
1798 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1799 TYPE: acl_access
1800 DOC_START
1801 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1802
1803 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1804 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1805 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1806
1807 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1808 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1809 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1810
1811 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1812 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1813 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
1814
1815 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1816 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1817 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1818 the connection may be insecure.
1819
1820 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1821
1822 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1823 DOC_END
1824
1825
1826
1827 NAME: sslpassword_program
1828 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1829 DEFAULT: none
1830 LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1831 TYPE: string
1832 DOC_START
1833 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1834 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1835 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1836 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
1837 DOC_END
1838
1839 COMMENT_START
1840 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
1841 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1842 COMMENT_END
1843
1844 NAME: cache_peer
1845 TYPE: peer
1846 DEFAULT: none
1847 LOC: Config.peers
1848 DOC_START
1849 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
1850
1851 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
1852
1853 For example,
1854
1855 # proxy icp
1856 # hostname type port port options
1857 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
1858 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
1859 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1860 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
1861 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 no-query default
1862 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
1863
1864 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
1865
1866 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
1867 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
1868 For web servers this is usually 80
1869
1870 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
1871 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
1872 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
1873
1874
1875 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
1876
1877 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
1878 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
1879
1880
1881 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
1882
1883 multicast-responder
1884 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
1885 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
1886 replies will be accepted from it.
1887
1888 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
1889 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
1890
1891 background-ping
1892 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
1893 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
1894 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
1895
1896
1897 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
1898
1899 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
1900 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
1901
1902
1903 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
1904 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
1905 instead of 3130.
1906
1907 htcp-oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions.
1908
1909 htcp-no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
1910 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
1911 htcp-only-clr.
1912
1913 htcp-only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
1914 This cannot be used with htcp-no-clr.
1915
1916 htcp-no-purge-clr
1917 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
1918 they do not result from PURGE requests.
1919
1920 htcp-forward-clr
1921 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
1922
1923
1924 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
1925
1926 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
1927 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
1928
1929
1930 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
1931 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
1932 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
1933
1934 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1935 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
1936 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1937
1938 weighted-round-robin
1939 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
1940 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
1941 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
1942 Usually used for background-ping parents.
1943 weight=N can be used to add bias.
1944
1945 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
1946 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
1947 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
1948
1949 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
1950
1951 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
1952
1953 multicast-siblings
1954 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
1955 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
1956 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
1957 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
1958 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
1959 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
1960 members of the same multicast group.
1961
1962
1963 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
1964
1965 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
1966 peer-selection mechanisms.
1967 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
1968 larger weights are favored more.
1969 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
1970 protocol is not in use.
1971
1972 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
1973 times of parents.
1974 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
1975 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
1976 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
1977
1978 ttl=N Specify a IP multicast TTL to use when sending an ICP
1979 queries to this address.
1980 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
1981 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
1982 hosts, you must configure other group members as
1983 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
1984
1985 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
1986 delay pools.
1987
1988 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
1989 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
1990 than the Squid default location.
1991
1992
1993 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
1994
1995 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
1996 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
1997 is a web server.
1998
1999 forceddomain=name
2000 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2001 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2002 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2003 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2004
2005 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2006
2007 no-netdb-exchange
2008 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2009
2010
2011 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2012
2013 login=user:password
2014 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2015 requires proxy authentication.
2016
2017 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2018 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2019
2020 login=PASSTHRU
2021 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2022 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2023 without alteration to the peer.
2024 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2025
2026 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2027 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2028 connection-auth options are also used.
2029
2030 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2031 Authentication is not required by this option.
2032
2033 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2034 to pass on, but username and password are available
2035 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
2036 they may be sent instead.
2037
2038 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2039 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2040 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2041 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2042 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2043
2044 login=*:password
2045 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2046 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2047 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2048 needed to identify each user.
2049 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2050 information which is added to the username. This can
2051 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2052 the login=username:password option above.
2053
2054 login=NEGOTIATE
2055 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2056 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2057 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2058 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2059
2060 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2061 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2062 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2063 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2064 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2065 used.
2066
2067 connection-auth=on|off
2068 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2069 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2070 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2071 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2072 of the peer.
2073
2074
2075 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2076
2077 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2078
2079 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2080 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2081 this peer.
2082
2083 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2084 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2085 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2086 reference a combined file containing both the
2087 certificate and the key.
2088
2089 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2090 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2091 1 = automatic (default)
2092 2 = SSL v2 only
2093 3 = SSL v3 only
2094 4 = TLS v1 only
2095
2096 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2097 to this peer.
2098
2099 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2100 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2101 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2102 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2103 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2104 a more complete list.
2105
2106 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2107 when verifying the peer certificate.
2108
2109 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2110 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2111
2112 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2113 verifying the peer certificate.
2114
2115 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2116
2117 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2118 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2119 verify.
2120 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2121 Don't use the default CA list built in
2122 to OpenSSL.
2123 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2124 Don't verify the peer certificate
2125 matches the server name
2126
2127 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2128 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2129 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2130 used.
2131
2132 front-end-https
2133 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2134 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2135 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2136 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2137 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2138
2139
2140 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2141
2142 connect-timeout=N
2143 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2144 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2145
2146 connect-fail-limit=N
2147 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2148 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2149
2150 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2151 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2152 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2153 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2154 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2155 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2156 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2157
2158 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2159 peer. see also
2160
2161 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2162 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2163 but different ports.
2164 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2165 directives to dentify the peer.
2166 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2167 peername ACL type.
2168
2169 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2170 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2171
2172 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2173
2174 DOC_END
2175
2176 NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2177 TYPE: hostdomain
2178 DEFAULT: none
2179 LOC: none
2180 DOC_START
2181 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2182 queried. Usage:
2183
2184 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2185 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
2186
2187 For example, specifying
2188
2189 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
2190
2191 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2192 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2193 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2194 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2195 NOT in that domain.
2196
2197 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2198 either on the same or separate lines.
2199 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2200 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2201 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2202 for all requests.
2203 * There are no defaults.
2204 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2205 section.
2206 DOC_END
2207
2208 NAME: cache_peer_access
2209 TYPE: peer_access
2210 DEFAULT: none
2211 LOC: none
2212 DOC_START
2213 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2214 using ACL elements.
2215
2216 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2217
2218 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2219 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2220 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
2221 DOC_END
2222
2223 NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2224 TYPE: hostdomaintype
2225 DEFAULT: none
2226 LOC: none
2227 DOC_START
2228 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
2229
2230 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
2231 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
2232 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2233 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2234 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2235 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
2236
2237 EXAMPLE:
2238 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
2239 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2240 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2241 DOC_END
2242
2243 NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2244 COMMENT: (seconds)
2245 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2246 TYPE: time_t
2247 LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2248 DOC_START
2249 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2250 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2251 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2252 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2253 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2254 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
2255
2256 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2257 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2258 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2259 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2260 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2261 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2262 instead of to your parents.
2263 DOC_END
2264
2265 NAME: forward_max_tries
2266 DEFAULT: 10
2267 TYPE: int
2268 LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2269 DOC_START
2270 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2271 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2272 DOC_END
2273
2274 NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2275 TYPE: wordlist
2276 DEFAULT: none
2277 LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2278 DOC_START
2279 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2280 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2281 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2282 list this option multiple times.
2283 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
2284 NOCOMMENT_START
2285
2286 # We recommend you to use at least the following line.
2287 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2288 NOCOMMENT_END
2289 DOC_END
2290
2291 COMMENT_START
2292 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2293 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2294 COMMENT_END
2295
2296 NAME: cache_mem
2297 COMMENT: (bytes)
2298 TYPE: b_size_t
2299 DEFAULT: 256 MB
2300 LOC: Config.memMaxSize
2301 DOC_START
2302 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2303 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2304 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2305 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2306
2307 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2308 for:
2309 * In-Transit objects
2310 * Hot Objects
2311 * Negative-Cached objects
2312
2313 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2314 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2315 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2316 priority.
2317
2318 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2319 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2320 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2321 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2322 not needed for in-transit objects.
2323
2324 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2325 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2326 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2327 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2328 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2329 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2330 objects.
2331 DOC_END
2332
2333 NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2334 COMMENT: (bytes)
2335 TYPE: b_size_t
2336 DEFAULT: 512 KB
2337 LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
2338 DOC_START
2339 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2340 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2341 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2342 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
2343 DOC_END
2344
2345 NAME: memory_cache_mode
2346 TYPE: memcachemode
2347 LOC: Config
2348 DEFAULT: always
2349 DOC_START
2350 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
2351
2352 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2353
2354 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2355 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2356 a second time before cached in memory.
2357
2358 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
2359 DOC_END
2360
2361 NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2362 TYPE: removalpolicy
2363 LOC: Config.memPolicy
2364 DEFAULT: lru
2365 DOC_START
2366 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2367 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
2368
2369 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2370 DOC_END
2371
2372 COMMENT_START
2373 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2374 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2375 COMMENT_END
2376
2377 NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2378 TYPE: removalpolicy
2379 LOC: Config.replPolicy
2380 DEFAULT: lru
2381 DOC_START
2382 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2383 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
2384
2385 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2386 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2387 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2388 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
2389
2390 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
2391
2392 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
2393
2394 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2395 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2396 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2397 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
2398
2399 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2400 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2401 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2402 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
2403
2404 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2405 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2406 replacement policies.
2407
2408 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2409 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2410 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
2411
2412 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2413 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2414 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
2415 DOC_END
2416
2417 NAME: cache_dir
2418 TYPE: cachedir
2419 DEFAULT: none
2420 LOC: Config.cacheSwap
2421 DOC_START
2422 Usage:
2423
2424 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
2425
2426 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2427 cache among different disk partitions.
2428
2429 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2430 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2431 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
2432
2433 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2434 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2435 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2436 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2437 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
2438
2439 The ufs store type:
2440
2441 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2442 been there.
2443
2444 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
2445
2446 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2447 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2448 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2449 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2450 subtract 20% and use that value.
2451
2452 'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2453 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
2454
2455 'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2456 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2457 is 256.
2458
2459 The aufs store type:
2460
2461 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2462 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2463 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
2464
2465 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
2466
2467 see argument descriptions under ufs above
2468
2469 The diskd store type:
2470
2471 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2472 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2473 disk-I/O.
2474
2475 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
2476
2477 see argument descriptions under ufs above
2478
2479 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2480 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2481 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
2482
2483 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2484 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2485 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
2486
2487 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2488 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2489 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2490 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2491 time.
2492
2493 The coss store type:
2494
2495 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2496 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2497 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2498
2499 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2500 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2501 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2502 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2503 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2504 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2505 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
2506
2507 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2508 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2509 this will be created by squid -z.
2510
2511 Common options:
2512
2513 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
2514
2515 max-size=n, refers to the max object size this storedir supports.
2516 It is used to initially choose the storedir to dump the object.
2517 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2518 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2519 ones with no max-size specification last.
2520
2521 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2522 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2523 option.
2524 NOCOMMENT_START
2525
2526 # Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2527 #cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
2528 NOCOMMENT_END
2529 DOC_END
2530
2531 NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2532 TYPE: string
2533 LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2534 DEFAULT: least-load
2535 DOC_START
2536 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
2537 DOC_END
2538
2539 NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2540 TYPE: int
2541 LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2542 DEFAULT: 0
2543 DOC_START
2544 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2545 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2546 descriptors are open.
2547
2548 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
2549 DOC_END
2550
2551 NAME: minimum_object_size
2552 COMMENT: (bytes)
2553 TYPE: b_int64_t
2554 DEFAULT: 0 KB
2555 LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
2556 DOC_START
2557 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2558 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2559 means there is no minimum.
2560 DOC_END
2561
2562 NAME: maximum_object_size
2563 COMMENT: (bytes)
2564 TYPE: b_int64_t
2565 DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2566 LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
2567 DOC_START
2568 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2569 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2570 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2571 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2572 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2573 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
2574
2575 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2576 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2577 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
2578 DOC_END
2579
2580 NAME: cache_swap_low
2581 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2582 TYPE: int
2583 DEFAULT: 90
2584 LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2585 DOC_NONE
2586
2587 NAME: cache_swap_high
2588 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2589 TYPE: int
2590 DEFAULT: 95
2591 LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
2592 DOC_START
2593
2594 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2595 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2596 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2597 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2598 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2599 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2600
2601 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2602 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2603 numbers closer together.
2604 DOC_END
2605
2606 COMMENT_START
2607 LOGFILE OPTIONS
2608 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2609 COMMENT_END
2610
2611 NAME: logformat
2612 TYPE: logformat
2613 LOC: Config.Log.logformats
2614 DEFAULT: none
2615 DOC_START
2616 Usage:
2617
2618 logformat <name> <format specification>
2619
2620 Defines an access log format.
2621
2622 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
2623
2624 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2625 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2626 as required according to their context and the output format
2627 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2628 output format is desired.
2629
2630 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
2631
2632 " output in quoted string format
2633 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2634 # output in URL quoted format
2635 ' output as-is
2636
2637 - left aligned
2638 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2639 output is zero padded
2640 {arg} argument such as header name etc
2641
2642 Format codes:
2643
2644 % a literal % character
2645 >a Client source IP address
2646 >A Client FQDN
2647 >p Client source port
2648 <A Server IP address or peer name
2649 la Local IP address (http_port)
2650 lp Local port number (http_port)
2651 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
2652 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2653 ts Seconds since epoch
2654 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2655 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2656 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2657 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2658 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2659 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2660 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
2661
2662 HTTP cache related format codes:
2663
2664 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
2665 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2666 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2667 Optional header name argument as for >h
2668 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2669 as for >h
2670 [http::]un User name
2671 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2672 [http::]ui User name from ident
2673 [http::]us User name from SSL
2674 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2675 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2676 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
2677 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2678 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2679 [http::]mt MIME content type
2680 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2681 [http::]ru Request URL
2682 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2683 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2684 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2685 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2686 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2687 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2688 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2689 are not included
2690 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2691 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2692 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2693 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2694 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2695 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2696 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2697 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2698 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2699 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2700 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2701 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2702
2703 If ICAP is enabled, the following two codes become available (as
2704 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2705
2706 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2707 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2708 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2709 transaction is in progress.
2710
2711 icap::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response
2712 related to the HTTP transaction. Like
2713 <h, accepts an optional header name
2714 argument. Will not change semantics
2715 when multiple ICAP transactions per HTTP
2716 transaction are supported.
2717
2718 If adaptation is enabled the following two codes become available:
2719
2720 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2721 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2722 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2723 value is recorded as an integer number,
2724 representing response time of one or more
2725 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2726 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2727 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2728 logged individually but added to the
2729 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2730 adapt::all_trs.
2731
2732 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2733 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2734 individual transactions are never added
2735 together. Instead, all transaction response
2736 times are recorded individually.
2737
2738 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2739 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2740 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
2741
2742 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2743
2744 logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2745 logformat squidmime %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt [%>h] [%<h]
2746 logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2747 logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
2748 DOC_END
2749
2750 NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2751 TYPE: access_log
2752 LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
2753 DEFAULT: none
2754 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
2755 DOC_START
2756 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2757 ICP request. The format is:
2758 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2759 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
2760
2761 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
2762 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2763 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2764 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
2765
2766 ===== Modules Currently available =====
2767
2768 none Do not log any requests matchign these ACL.
2769 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
2770
2771 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
2772 each request.
2773 Place: the filename and path to be written.
2774
2775 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
2776 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
2777 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
2778
2779 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
2780
2781 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
2782 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
2783 Place Format: facility.priority
2784
2785 where facility could be any of:
2786 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
2787
2788 And priority could be any of:
2789 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
2790
2791 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
2792 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2793 Place Format: \\host:port
2794
2795 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
2796 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
2797 Place Format: \\host:port
2798
2799 Default:
2800 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
2801 DOC_END
2802
2803 NAME: icap_log
2804 TYPE: access_log
2805 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2806 LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
2807 DEFAULT: none
2808 DOC_START
2809 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
2810 transaction.
2811
2812 The icap_log option format is:
2813 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2814 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
2815
2816 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
2817 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
2818 features.
2819
2820 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
2821 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
2822 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
2823 log line.
2824
2825 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
2826 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
2827 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
2828 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
2829 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
2830 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
2831 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
2832
2833 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
2834
2835 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
2836
2837 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
2838 option in Squid configuration file.
2839
2840 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
2841
2842 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
2843 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
2844
2845 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
2846 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
2847
2848 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
2849 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
2850 the socket).
2851
2852 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
2853 milliseconds). The timer starts when
2854 the ICAP transaction is created and
2855 stops when the transaction is completed.
2856 Similar to tr.
2857
2858 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
2859 timer starts when the first ICAP request
2860 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
2861 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
2862 is received.
2863
2864 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
2865 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
2866 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
2867 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
2868 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
2869 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
2870
2871 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
2872
2873 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
2874
2875 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
2876
2877 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
2878 definition, is called icap_squid:
2879
2880 logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
2881
2882 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %icap::<last_h
2883 DOC_END
2884
2885 NAME: logfile_daemon
2886 TYPE: string
2887 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
2888 LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
2889 DOC_START
2890 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
2891 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
2892
2893 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
2894 L<data>\n - logfile data
2895 R\n - rotate file
2896 T\n - truncate file
2897 O\n - repoen file
2898 F\n - flush file
2899 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
2900 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
2901
2902 No responses is expected.
2903 DOC_END
2904
2905 NAME: log_access
2906 TYPE: acl_access
2907 LOC: Config.accessList.log
2908 DEFAULT: none
2909 COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
2910 DOC_START
2911 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
2912 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
2913 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
2914
2915 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2916 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2917 DOC_END
2918
2919 NAME: log_icap
2920 TYPE: acl_access
2921 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
2922 LOC: Config.accessList.icap
2923 DEFAULT: none
2924 DOC_START
2925 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
2926 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
2927 DOC_END
2928
2929 NAME: cache_store_log
2930 TYPE: string
2931 DEFAULT: none
2932 LOC: Config.Log.store
2933 DOC_START
2934 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
2935 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
2936 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
2937 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
2938 disable it.
2939
2940 Example:
2941 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
2942 DOC_END
2943
2944 NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
2945 TYPE: string
2946 LOC: Config.Log.swap
2947 DEFAULT: none
2948 DOC_START
2949 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
2950 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
2951 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
2952 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
2953 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
2954 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
2955 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
2956
2957 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
2958 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
2959 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
2960 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
2961
2962 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
2963 these swap logs will have names such as:
2964
2965 cache_swap_log.00
2966 cache_swap_log.01
2967 cache_swap_log.02
2968
2969 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
2970 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
2971 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
2972 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
2973 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
2974 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
2975 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
2976 DOC_END
2977
2978 NAME: logfile_rotate
2979 TYPE: int
2980 DEFAULT: 10
2981 LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
2982 DOC_START
2983 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
2984 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
2985 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
2986 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
2987 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
2988 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
2989
2990 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
2991 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
2992 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
2993 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
2994 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
2995 <pid>'.
2996
2997 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
2998 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
2999 DOC_END
3000
3001 NAME: emulate_httpd_log
3002 COMMENT: on|off
3003 TYPE: onoff
3004 DEFAULT: off
3005 LOC: Config.onoff.common_log
3006 DOC_START
3007 The Cache can emulate the log file format which many 'httpd'
3008 programs use. To disable/enable this emulation, set
3009 emulate_httpd_log to 'off' or 'on'. The default
3010 is to use the native log format since it includes useful
3011 information Squid-specific log analyzers use.
3012 DOC_END
3013
3014 NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3015 COMMENT: on|off
3016 TYPE: onoff
3017 DEFAULT: on
3018 LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
3019 DOC_START
3020 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
3021 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
3022 prefer the old way set this to off.
3023 DOC_END
3024
3025 NAME: mime_table
3026 TYPE: string
3027 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3028 LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3029 DOC_START
3030 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3031 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3032 information if you do.
3033 DOC_END
3034
3035 NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3036 COMMENT: on|off
3037 TYPE: onoff
3038 LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3039 DEFAULT: off
3040 DOC_START
3041 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3042 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3043 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3044 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3045 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3046 DOC_END
3047
3048 NAME: useragent_log
3049 TYPE: string
3050 LOC: Config.Log.useragent
3051 DEFAULT: none
3052 IFDEF: USE_USERAGENT_LOG
3053 DOC_START
3054 Squid will write the User-Agent field from HTTP requests
3055 to the filename specified here. By default useragent_log
3056 is disabled.
3057 DOC_END
3058
3059 NAME: referer_log referrer_log
3060 TYPE: string
3061 LOC: Config.Log.referer
3062 DEFAULT: none
3063 IFDEF: USE_REFERER_LOG
3064 DOC_START
3065 Squid will write the Referer field from HTTP requests to the
3066 filename specified here. By default referer_log is disabled.
3067 Note that "referer" is actually a misspelling of "referrer"
3068 however the misspelt version has been accepted into the HTTP RFCs
3069 and we accept both.
3070 DOC_END
3071
3072 NAME: pid_filename
3073 TYPE: string
3074 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3075 LOC: Config.pidFilename
3076 DOC_START
3077 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
3078 DOC_END
3079
3080 NAME: log_fqdn
3081 COMMENT: on|off
3082 TYPE: onoff
3083 DEFAULT: off
3084 LOC: Config.onoff.log_fqdn
3085 DOC_START
3086 Turn this on if you wish to log fully qualified domain names
3087 in the access.log. To do this Squid does a DNS lookup of all
3088 IP's connecting to it. This can (in some situations) increase
3089 latency, which makes your cache seem slower for interactive
3090 browsing.
3091 DOC_END
3092
3093 NAME: client_netmask
3094 TYPE: address
3095 LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
3096 DEFAULT: no_addr
3097 DOC_START
3098 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3099 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3100 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3101 the last digit set to '0'.
3102 DOC_END
3103
3104 NAME: forward_log
3105 IFDEF: WIP_FWD_LOG
3106 TYPE: string
3107 DEFAULT: none
3108 LOC: Config.Log.forward
3109 DOC_START
3110 Logs the server-side requests.
3111
3112 This is currently work in progress.
3113 DOC_END
3114
3115 NAME: strip_query_terms
3116 TYPE: onoff
3117 LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
3118 DEFAULT: on
3119 DOC_START
3120 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3121 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
3122 DOC_END
3123
3124 NAME: buffered_logs
3125 COMMENT: on|off
3126 TYPE: onoff
3127 DEFAULT: off
3128 LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3129 DOC_START
3130 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3131 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3132 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3133 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3134 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3135 DOC_END
3136
3137 NAME: netdb_filename
3138 TYPE: string
3139 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3140 LOC: Config.netdbFilename
3141 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3142 DOC_START
3143 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3144 To disable, enter "none".
3145 DOC_END
3146
3147 COMMENT_START
3148 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3149 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3150 COMMENT_END
3151
3152 NAME: cache_log
3153 TYPE: string
3154 DEFAULT: none
3155 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3156 LOC: Debug::cache_log
3157 DOC_START
3158 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3159 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3160 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3161 DOC_END
3162
3163 NAME: debug_options
3164 TYPE: eol
3165 DEFAULT: ALL,1
3166 LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3167 DOC_START
3168 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3169 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3170 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3171 log file, so be careful.
3172
3173 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3174 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3175
3176 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3177 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
3178 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3179 events affecting Squid.
3180 DOC_END
3181
3182 NAME: coredump_dir
3183 TYPE: string
3184 LOC: Config.coredump_dir
3185 DEFAULT: none
3186 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3187 DOC_START
3188 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3189 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3190 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3191 and coredump files will be left there.
3192
3193 NOCOMMENT_START
3194
3195 # Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3196 coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3197 NOCOMMENT_END
3198 DOC_END
3199
3200
3201 COMMENT_START
3202 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3203 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3204 COMMENT_END
3205
3206 NAME: ftp_user
3207 TYPE: string
3208 DEFAULT: Squid@
3209 LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
3210 DOC_START
3211 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3212 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3213 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
3214
3215 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3216 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3217 depending on how the cache is used.
3218 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3219 (for example perl.com).
3220 DOC_END
3221
3222 NAME: ftp_passive
3223 TYPE: onoff
3224 DEFAULT: on
3225 LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
3226 DOC_START
3227 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3228 connections, turn off this option.
3229
3230 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3231 DOC_END
3232
3233 NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3234 TYPE: onoff
3235 DEFAULT: off
3236 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3237 DOC_START
3238 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3239
3240 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3241 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3242 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3243
3244 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3245 useful.
3246 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3247 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3248
3249 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3250 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3251
3252 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3253 DOC_END
3254
3255 NAME: ftp_epsv
3256 TYPE: onoff
3257 DEFAULT: on
3258 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3259 DOC_START
3260 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3261
3262 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3263 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3264 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3265 will never be needed.
3266
3267 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3268 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3269 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3270
3271 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3272 DOC_END
3273
3274 NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3275 TYPE: onoff
3276 DEFAULT: on
3277 LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3278 DOC_START
3279 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3280 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3281 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3282 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3283 connection turn this off.
3284 DOC_END
3285
3286 NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3287 TYPE: onoff
3288 DEFAULT: on
3289 LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3290 DOC_START
3291 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3292 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3293 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3294 the FTP protocol.
3295
3296 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3297 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3298 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3299 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3300 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3301 DOC_END
3302
3303 COMMENT_START
3304 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3305 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3306 COMMENT_END
3307
3308 NAME: diskd_program
3309 TYPE: string
3310 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3311 LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3312 DOC_START
3313 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3314 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3315 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3316 DOC_END
3317
3318 NAME: unlinkd_program
3319 IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3320 TYPE: string
3321 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3322 LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3323 DOC_START
3324 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3325 DOC_END
3326
3327 NAME: pinger_program
3328 TYPE: string
3329 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
3330 LOC: Config.pinger.program
3331 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3332 DOC_START
3333 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3334 DOC_END
3335
3336 NAME: pinger_enable
3337 TYPE: onoff
3338 DEFAULT: on
3339 LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3340 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3341 DOC_START
3342 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
3343 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3344 squid -k reconfigure.
3345 DOC_END
3346
3347
3348 COMMENT_START
3349 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3350 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3351 COMMENT_END
3352
3353 NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3354 TYPE: wordlist
3355 LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3356 DEFAULT: none
3357 DOC_START
3358 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
3359 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3360
3361 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
3362
3363 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3364
3365 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3366 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3367 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3368 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
3369
3370 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3371 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3372
3373 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3374 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3375 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
3376
3377 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3378 DOC_END
3379
3380 NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
3381 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
3382 DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
3383 LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3384 DOC_START
3385 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3386 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3387 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3388 and other system resources noticably.
3389
3390 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3391 tuning.
3392
3393 startup=
3394
3395 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3396 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3397 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3398
3399 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3400 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3401
3402 idle=
3403
3404 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3405 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3406 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3407 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3408
3409 concurrency=
3410
3411 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3412 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3413 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
3414
3415 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3416 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3417 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3418 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3419 to that request.
3420 DOC_END
3421
3422 NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3423 TYPE: onoff
3424 DEFAULT: on
3425 LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3426 DOC_START
3427 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3428 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3429 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3430
3431 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3432 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3433 DOC_END
3434
3435 NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3436 TYPE: acl_access
3437 DEFAULT: none
3438 LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3439 DOC_START
3440 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3441 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3442 are sent.
3443
3444 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3445 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3446 DOC_END
3447
3448 NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3449 TYPE: onoff
3450 LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3451 DEFAULT: off
3452 DOC_START
3453 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3454 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3455 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3456 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3457 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3458 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3459 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3460 users may have access to pages they should not
3461 be allowed to request.
3462 DOC_END
3463
3464 COMMENT_START
3465 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3466 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3467 COMMENT_END
3468
3469 NAME: cache no_cache
3470 TYPE: acl_access
3471 DEFAULT: none
3472 LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
3473 DOC_START
3474 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
3475 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3476 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
3477
3478 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3479 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
3480
3481 Default is to allow all to be cached.
3482
3483 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3484 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3485 DOC_END
3486
3487 NAME: refresh_pattern
3488 TYPE: refreshpattern
3489 LOC: Config.Refresh
3490 DEFAULT: none
3491 DOC_START
3492 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
3493
3494 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3495 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
3496
3497 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3498 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3499 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3500 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3501 has taken the appropriate actions.
3502
3503 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3504 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3505 will be considered fresh.
3506
3507 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3508 expiry time will be considered fresh.
3509
3510 options: override-expire
3511 override-lastmod
3512 reload-into-ims
3513 ignore-reload
3514 ignore-no-cache
3515 ignore-no-store
3516 ignore-must-revalidate
3517 ignore-private
3518 ignore-auth
3519 refresh-ims
3520 store-stale
3521
3522 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
3523 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3524 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3525 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3526 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
3527
3528 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3529 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3530 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3531 the object fresh for that period of time.
3532
3533 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3534 that were modified recently.
3535
3536 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3537 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3538 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3539 liable for problems which it causes.
3540
3541 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3542 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3543 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3544 it causes.
3545
3546 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3547 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3548 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3549 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3550 send it anyway.
3551
3552 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3553 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3554 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3555 liable for problems which it causes.
3556
3557 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3558 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3559 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3560 liable for problems which it causes.
3561
3562 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3563 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3564 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3565 liable for problems which it causes.
3566
3567 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3568 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3569 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3570 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3571 it causes.
3572
3573 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3574 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3575 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3576 if one is available.
3577
3578 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3579 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3580 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3581 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3582 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3583
3584 Basically a cached object is:
3585
3586 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3587 STALE if age > max
3588 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3589 FRESH if age < min
3590 else STALE
3591
3592 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3593 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3594 match the default will be used.
3595
3596 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3597 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3598 used.
3599
3600 NOCOMMENT_START
3601
3602 # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
3603 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3604 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
3605 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
3606 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3607 NOCOMMENT_END
3608 DOC_END
3609
3610 NAME: quick_abort_min
3611 COMMENT: (KB)
3612 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3613 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3614 LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3615 DOC_NONE
3616
3617 NAME: quick_abort_max
3618 COMMENT: (KB)
3619 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3620 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3621 LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3622 DOC_NONE
3623
3624 NAME: quick_abort_pct
3625 COMMENT: (percent)
3626 TYPE: int
3627 DEFAULT: 95
3628 LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3629 DOC_START
3630 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3631 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3632 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3633 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3634 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3635 downloads.
3636
3637 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3638 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3639 then.
3640
3641 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3642 it will finish the retrieval.
3643
3644 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3645 it will abort the retrieval.
3646
3647 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3648 it will finish the retrieval.
3649
3650 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3651 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3652 to '0 KB'.
3653
3654 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3655 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3656 DOC_END
3657
3658 NAME: read_ahead_gap
3659 COMMENT: buffer-size
3660 TYPE: b_int64_t
3661 LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3662 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3663 DOC_START
3664 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3665 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3666 DOC_END
3667
3668 NAME: negative_ttl
3669 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3670 COMMENT: time-units
3671 TYPE: time_t
3672 LOC: Config.negativeTtl
3673 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
3674 DOC_START
3675 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3676 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3677 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3678 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3679 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3680 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3681
3682 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
3683
3684 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3685 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3686 causes.
3687 DOC_END
3688
3689 NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3690 COMMENT: time-units
3691 TYPE: time_t
3692 LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3693 DEFAULT: 6 hours
3694 DOC_START
3695 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3696 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3697 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3698 DOC_END
3699
3700 NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3701 COMMENT: time-units
3702 TYPE: time_t
3703 LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3704 DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3705 DOC_START
3706 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3707 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3708 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3709 much below 10 seconds.
3710 DOC_END
3711
3712 NAME: range_offset_limit
3713 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3714 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
3715 LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3716 DEFAULT: none
3717 DOC_START
3718 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3719
3720 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3721 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3722 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3723 the result is NOT cached.
3724
3725 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3726 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3727 sending anything to the client.
3728
3729 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3730 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3731 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3732 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3733
3734 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3735
3736 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
3737 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
3738
3739 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3740 client requested. (default)
3741
3742 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3743 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
3744
3745 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
3746
3747 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
3748 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
3749 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
3750 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
3751 DOC_END
3752
3753 NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3754 COMMENT: (seconds)
3755 TYPE: time_t
3756 LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3757 DEFAULT: 60 seconds
3758 DOC_START
3759 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
3760 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
3761 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
3762 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
3763 is most likely better to make your server return a
3764 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
3765 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
3766 often be best set to 0.
3767 DOC_END
3768
3769 NAME: store_avg_object_size
3770 COMMENT: (kbytes)
3771 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3772 DEFAULT: 13 KB
3773 LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
3774 DOC_START
3775 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
3776 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
3777 DOC_END
3778
3779 NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
3780 TYPE: int
3781 DEFAULT: 20
3782 LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
3783 DOC_START
3784 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
3785 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
3786 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
3787 DOC_END
3788
3789 COMMENT_START
3790 HTTP OPTIONS
3791 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3792 COMMENT_END
3793
3794 NAME: request_header_max_size
3795 COMMENT: (KB)
3796 TYPE: b_size_t
3797 DEFAULT: 64 KB
3798 LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
3799 DOC_START
3800 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
3801 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3802 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
3803 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3804 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3805 DOC_END
3806
3807 NAME: reply_header_max_size
3808 COMMENT: (KB)
3809 TYPE: b_size_t
3810 DEFAULT: 64 KB
3811 LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
3812 DOC_START
3813 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
3814 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
3815 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
3816 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
3817 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
3818 DOC_END
3819
3820 NAME: request_body_max_size
3821 COMMENT: (bytes)
3822 TYPE: b_int64_t
3823 DEFAULT: 0 KB
3824 LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
3825 DOC_START
3826 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
3827 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
3828 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
3829 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
3830 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
3831 be no limit imposed.
3832 DOC_END
3833
3834 NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
3835 COMMENT: (bytes)
3836 TYPE: b_int64_t
3837 DEFAULT: 64 KB
3838 LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
3839 DOC_START
3840 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
3841 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
3842 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
3843 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
3844 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
3845 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
3846
3847 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
3848 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
3849 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
3850 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
3851 as if dechunking was disabled.
3852
3853 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
3854 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
3855
3856 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
3857 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
3858 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
3859 DOC_END
3860
3861 NAME: broken_posts
3862 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3863 TYPE: acl_access
3864 DEFAULT: none
3865 LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
3866 DOC_START
3867 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
3868 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
3869
3870 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
3871 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
3872
3873 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
3874
3875 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
3876 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
3877 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
3878 a request with an extra CRLF.
3879
3880 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3881 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3882
3883 Example:
3884 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
3885 broken_posts allow buggy_server
3886 DOC_END
3887
3888 NAME: icap_uses_indirect_client
3889 COMMENT: on|off
3890 TYPE: onoff
3891 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&ICAP_CLIENT
3892 DEFAULT: on
3893 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.icap_uses_indirect_client
3894 DOC_START
3895 Controls whether the indirect client address
3896 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) instead of the
3897 direct client address is passed to an ICAP
3898 server as "X-Client-IP".
3899 DOC_END
3900
3901 NAME: via
3902 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3903 COMMENT: on|off
3904 TYPE: onoff
3905 DEFAULT: on
3906 LOC: Config.onoff.via
3907 DOC_START
3908 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
3909 replies as required by RFC2616.
3910 DOC_END
3911
3912 NAME: ie_refresh
3913 COMMENT: on|off
3914 TYPE: onoff
3915 LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
3916 DEFAULT: off
3917 DOC_START
3918 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
3919 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
3920 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
3921 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
3922 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
3923 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
3924 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
3925 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
3926 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
3927 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
3928 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
3929 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
3930 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
3931 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
3932 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
3933 force fresh content.
3934 DOC_END
3935
3936 NAME: vary_ignore_expire
3937 COMMENT: on|off
3938 TYPE: onoff
3939 LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
3940 DEFAULT: off
3941 DOC_START
3942 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
3943 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
3944 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
3945 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
3946 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
3947
3948 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
3949 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
3950 DOC_END
3951
3952 NAME: request_entities
3953 TYPE: onoff
3954 LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
3955 DEFAULT: off
3956 DOC_START
3957 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
3958 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
3959 even if not explicitly forbidden.
3960
3961 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
3962 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
3963 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
3964 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
3965 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
3966 DOC_END
3967
3968 NAME: request_header_access
3969 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3970 TYPE: http_header_access[]
3971 LOC: Config.request_header_access
3972 DEFAULT: none
3973 DOC_START
3974 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
3975
3976 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3977 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3978 causes.
3979
3980 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
3981 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
3982 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
3983 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
3984 mangling.
3985
3986 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
3987 client to the server.
3988
3989 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
3990 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
3991 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
3992
3993 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
3994 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
3995
3996 request_header_access From deny all
3997 request_header_access Referer deny all
3998 request_header_access Server deny all
3999 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4000 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4001 request_header_access Link deny all
4002
4003 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4004 you should use:
4005
4006 request_header_access Allow allow all
4007 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4008 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4009 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4010 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4011 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4012 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4013 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4014 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4015 request_header_access Date allow all
4016 request_header_access Expires allow all
4017 request_header_access Host allow all
4018 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4019 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4020 request_header_access Location allow all
4021 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4022 request_header_access Accept allow all
4023 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4024 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4025 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4026 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4027 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4028 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4029 request_header_access Title allow all
4030 request_header_access Connection allow all
4031 request_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
4032 request_header_access All deny all
4033
4034 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4035 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
4036
4037 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4038 performed).
4039 DOC_END
4040
4041 NAME: reply_header_access
4042 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4043 TYPE: http_header_access[]
4044 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4045 DEFAULT: none
4046 DOC_START
4047 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4048
4049 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4050 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4051 causes.
4052
4053 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4054 server to the client.
4055
4056 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4057 direction.
4058
4059 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4060 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4061 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4062 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4063 mangling.
4064
4065 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4066 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4067 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
4068
4069 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4070 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4071
4072 reply_header_access From deny all
4073 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4074 reply_header_access Server deny all
4075 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4076 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4077 reply_header_access Link deny all
4078
4079 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4080 you should use:
4081
4082 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4083 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4084 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4085 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4086 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4087 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4088 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4089 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4090 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4091 reply_header_access Date allow all
4092 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4093 reply_header_access Host allow all
4094 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4095 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4096 reply_header_access Location allow all
4097 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4098 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4099 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4100 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4101 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4102 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4103 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4104 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4105 reply_header_access Title allow all
4106 reply_header_access Connection allow all
4107 reply_header_access Proxy-Connection allow all
4108 reply_header_access All deny all
4109
4110 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4111 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
4112
4113 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4114 performed).
4115 DOC_END
4116
4117 NAME: header_replace
4118 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4119 TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4120 LOC: Config.request_header_access
4121 DEFAULT: none
4122 DOC_START
4123 Usage: header_replace header_name message
4124 Example: header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
4125
4126 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4127 denied with header_access above, by replacing them with
4128 some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
4129 option.
4130
4131 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
4132
4133 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4134 DOC_END
4135
4136 NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4137 COMMENT: on|off|warn
4138 TYPE: tristate
4139 LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4140 DEFAULT: on
4141 DOC_START
4142 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4143 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4144 what the sending application intended even if the message
4145 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4146 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
4147
4148 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4149 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
4150
4151 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4152 or response to be rejected.
4153 DOC_END
4154
4155 NAME: ignore_expect_100
4156 COMMENT: on|off
4157 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4158 TYPE: onoff
4159 LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_expect_100
4160 DEFAULT: off
4161 DOC_START
4162 This option makes Squid ignore any Expect: 100-continue header present
4163 in the request. RFC 2616 requires that Squid being unable to satisfy
4164 the response expectation MUST return a 417 error.
4165
4166 Note: Enabling this is a HTTP protocol violation, but some clients may
4167 not handle it well..
4168 DOC_END
4169
4170 COMMENT_START
4171 TIMEOUTS
4172 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4173 COMMENT_END
4174
4175 NAME: forward_timeout
4176 COMMENT: time-units
4177 TYPE: time_t
4178 LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4179 DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4180 DOC_START
4181 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4182 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
4183 DOC_END
4184
4185 NAME: connect_timeout
4186 COMMENT: time-units
4187 TYPE: time_t
4188 LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4189 DEFAULT: 1 minute
4190 DOC_START
4191 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4192 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4193 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
4194 DOC_END
4195
4196 NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4197 COMMENT: time-units
4198 TYPE: time_t
4199 LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4200 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
4201 DOC_START
4202 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4203 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4204 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4205 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4206 DOC_END
4207
4208 NAME: read_timeout
4209 COMMENT: time-units
4210 TYPE: time_t
4211 LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4212 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4213 DOC_START
4214 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4215 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4216 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4217 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4218 default is 15 minutes.
4219 DOC_END
4220
4221 NAME: write_timeout
4222 COMMENT: time-units
4223 TYPE: time_t
4224 LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4225 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4226 DOC_START
4227 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4228 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4229 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4230 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4231 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4232 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4233 default is 15 minutes.
4234 DOC_END
4235
4236 NAME: request_timeout
4237 TYPE: time_t
4238 LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4239 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4240 DOC_START
4241 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4242 connection establishment.
4243 DOC_END
4244
4245 NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4246 TYPE: time_t
4247 LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4248 DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4249 DOC_START
4250 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4251 connection after the previous request completes.
4252 DOC_END
4253
4254 NAME: client_lifetime
4255 COMMENT: time-units
4256 TYPE: time_t
4257 LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4258 DEFAULT: 1 day
4259 DOC_START
4260 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4261 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4262 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4263 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4264 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4265 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4266 day, 1440 minutes.
4267
4268 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4269 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4270 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4271 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4272 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4273 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
4274 DOC_END
4275
4276 NAME: half_closed_clients
4277 TYPE: onoff
4278 LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
4279 DEFAULT: off
4280 DOC_START
4281 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4282 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4283 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
4284 fully-closed TCP connection.
4285
4286 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4287 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4288
4289 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
4290 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4291 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4292 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4293 DOC_END
4294
4295 NAME: pconn_timeout
4296 TYPE: time_t
4297 LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4298 DEFAULT: 1 minute
4299 DOC_START
4300 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4301 proxies.
4302 DOC_END
4303
4304 NAME: ident_timeout
4305 TYPE: time_t
4306 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4307 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
4308 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4309 DOC_START
4310 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
4311
4312 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4313 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4314 many ident requests going at once.
4315 DOC_END
4316
4317 NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4318 COMMENT: time-units
4319 TYPE: time_t
4320 LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4321 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
4322 DOC_START
4323 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4324 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4325 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4326 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4327 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
4328 DOC_END
4329
4330 COMMENT_START
4331 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4332 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4333 COMMENT_END
4334
4335 NAME: cache_mgr
4336 TYPE: string
4337 DEFAULT: webmaster
4338 LOC: Config.adminEmail
4339 DOC_START
4340 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4341 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4342 DOC_END
4343
4344 NAME: mail_from
4345 TYPE: string
4346 DEFAULT: none
4347 LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4348 DOC_START
4349 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4350 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
4351 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
4352 src/globals.h before building squid.
4353 DOC_END
4354
4355 NAME: mail_program
4356 TYPE: eol
4357 DEFAULT: mail
4358 LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4359 DOC_START
4360 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
4361 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
4362 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
4363 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4364
4365 Optional command line options can be specified.
4366 DOC_END
4367
4368 NAME: cache_effective_user
4369 TYPE: string
4370 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
4371 LOC: Config.effectiveUser
4372 DOC_START
4373 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4374 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
4375 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
4376 see also; cache_effective_group
4377 DOC_END
4378
4379 NAME: cache_effective_group
4380 TYPE: string
4381 DEFAULT: none
4382 LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4383 DOC_START
4384 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4385 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4386 from the groups membership.
4387
4388 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4389 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4390 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
4391 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
4392 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
4393 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
4394 group.
4395
4396 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4397 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4398 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
4399 DOC_END
4400
4401 NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4402 COMMENT: on|off
4403 TYPE: onoff
4404 DEFAULT: off
4405 LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4406 DOC_START
4407 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4408 DOC_END
4409
4410 NAME: visible_hostname
4411 TYPE: string
4412 LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4413 DEFAULT: none
4414 DOC_START
4415 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
4416 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
4417 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4418 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4419 names with this setting.
4420 DOC_END
4421
4422 NAME: unique_hostname
4423 TYPE: string
4424 LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4425 DEFAULT: none
4426 DOC_START
4427 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
4428 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4429 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
4430 DOC_END
4431
4432 NAME: hostname_aliases
4433 TYPE: wordlist
4434 LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4435 DEFAULT: none
4436 DOC_START
4437 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
4438 DOC_END
4439
4440 NAME: umask
4441 TYPE: int
4442 LOC: Config.umask
4443 DEFAULT: 027
4444 DOC_START
4445 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4446 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4447
4448 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4449 your value with 0.
4450 DOC_END
4451
4452 COMMENT_START
4453 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4454 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4455
4456 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4457 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4458 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4459 create cache hierarchies.
4460
4461 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4462 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4463 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4464
4465 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4466 following information from this configuration file:
4467
4468 http_port
4469 icp_port
4470 cache_mgr
4471
4472 All current information is processed regularly and made
4473 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4474 COMMENT_END
4475
4476 NAME: announce_period
4477 TYPE: time_t
4478 LOC: Config.Announce.period
4479 DEFAULT: 0
4480 DOC_START
4481 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4482 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4483 messages.
4484
4485 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
4486
4487 Example:
4488 announce_period 1 day
4489 DOC_END
4490
4491 NAME: announce_host
4492 TYPE: string
4493 DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4494 LOC: Config.Announce.host
4495 DOC_NONE
4496
4497 NAME: announce_file
4498 TYPE: string
4499 DEFAULT: none
4500 LOC: Config.Announce.file
4501 DOC_NONE
4502
4503 NAME: announce_port
4504 TYPE: ushort
4505 DEFAULT: 3131
4506 LOC: Config.Announce.port
4507 DOC_START
4508 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4509 number where the registration message will be sent.
4510
4511 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4512 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4513 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4514 message.
4515 DOC_END
4516
4517 COMMENT_START
4518 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4519 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4520 COMMENT_END
4521
4522 NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
4523 TYPE: string
4524 DEFAULT: none
4525 LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
4526 DOC_START
4527 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4528 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4529 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4530 an identification token.
4531
4532 The default ID is the visible_hostname
4533 DOC_END
4534
4535 NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
4536 COMMENT: on|off
4537 TYPE: onoff
4538 DEFAULT: off
4539 LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4540 DOC_START
4541 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4542 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4543 DOC_END
4544
4545 NAME: esi_parser
4546 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
4547 COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
4548 TYPE: string
4549 LOC: ESIParser::Type
4550 DEFAULT: custom
4551 DOC_START
4552 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4553 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4554 encodings.
4555 DOC_END
4556
4557 COMMENT_START
4558 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
4559 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4560 COMMENT_END
4561
4562 NAME: delay_pools
4563 TYPE: delay_pool_count
4564 DEFAULT: 0
4565 IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4566 LOC: Config.Delay
4567 DOC_START
4568 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4569 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4570 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4571 DOC_END
4572
4573 NAME: delay_class
4574 TYPE: delay_pool_class
4575 DEFAULT: none
4576 IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4577 LOC: Config.Delay
4578 DOC_START
4579 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4580 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4581 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4582 and here would be:
4583
4584 Example:
4585 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4586 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4587 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4588 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4589 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
4590
4591 The delay pool classes are:
4592
4593 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4594 bucket.
4595
4596 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4597 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
4598 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
4599
4600 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4601 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4602 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4603 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
4604 32 of the IPv4 address.
4605
4606 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4607 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4608 only takes effect if the username is established
4609 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4610 http_access rules.
4611
4612 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4613 external_acl's tag= reply).
4614
4615 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4616 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4617 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4618 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
4619
4620 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4621 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
4622 DOC_END
4623
4624 NAME: delay_access
4625 TYPE: delay_pool_access
4626 DEFAULT: none
4627 IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4628 LOC: Config.Delay
4629 DOC_START
4630 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4631
4632 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4633 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4634 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4635 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4636
4637 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4638 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4639
4640 Example:
4641 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4642 delay_access 1 deny all
4643 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4644 delay_access 2 deny all
4645 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4646 DOC_END
4647
4648 NAME: delay_parameters
4649 TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4650 DEFAULT: none
4651 IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4652 LOC: Config.Delay
4653 DOC_START
4654 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4655 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4656 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4657
4658 delay_parameters pool aggregate
4659
4660 For a class 2 delay pool:
4661
4662 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4663
4664 For a class 3 delay pool:
4665
4666 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4667
4668 For a class 4 delay pool:
4669
4670 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4671
4672 For a class 5 delay pool:
4673
4674 delay_parameters pool tag
4675
4676 The variables here are:
4677
4678 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4679 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4680 delay_class lines.
4681
4682 aggregate the "delay parameters" for the aggregate bucket
4683 (class 1, 2, 3).
4684
4685 individual the "delay parameters" for the individual
4686 buckets (class 2, 3).
4687
4688 network the "delay parameters" for the network buckets
4689 (class 3).
4690
4691 user the delay parameters for the user buckets
4692 (class 4).
4693
4694 tag the delay parameters for the tag buckets
4695 (class 5).
4696
4697 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4698 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4699 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4700 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4701
4702 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4703 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4704 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4705
4706 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4707
4708 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4709
4710 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4711 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4712 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4713 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4714 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4715 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4716 large downloads more significantly:
4717
4718 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4719
4720 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4721
4722 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4723 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4724
4725 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4726 DOC_END
4727
4728 NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4729 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
4730 TYPE: ushort
4731 DEFAULT: 50
4732 IFDEF: DELAY_POOLS
4733 LOC: Config.Delay.initial
4734 DOC_START
4735 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
4736 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
4737 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
4738 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
4739 "seen" by squid).
4740 DOC_END
4741
4742 COMMENT_START
4743 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
4744 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4745 COMMENT_END
4746
4747 NAME: wccp_router
4748 TYPE: address
4749 LOC: Config.Wccp.router
4750 DEFAULT: any_addr
4751 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4752 DOC_START
4753 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4754 Squid.
4755
4756 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4757
4758 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4759
4760 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4761 which version of WCCP to use.
4762 DOC_END
4763
4764 NAME: wccp2_router
4765 TYPE: IpAddress_list
4766 LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
4767 DEFAULT: none
4768 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4769 DOC_START
4770 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
4771 Squid.
4772
4773 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
4774
4775 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
4776
4777 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
4778 which version of WCCP to use.
4779 DOC_END
4780
4781 NAME: wccp_version
4782 TYPE: int
4783 LOC: Config.Wccp.version
4784 DEFAULT: 4
4785 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4786 DOC_START
4787 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
4788 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
4789 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
4790 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
4791 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
4792
4793 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
4794 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
4795 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
4796 do not specify this parameter.
4797 DOC_END
4798
4799 NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
4800 TYPE: onoff
4801 LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
4802 DEFAULT: on
4803 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4804 DOC_START
4805 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
4806 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
4807 DOC_END
4808
4809 NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
4810 TYPE: wccp2_method
4811 LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
4812 DEFAULT: gre
4813 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4814 DOC_START
4815 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
4816 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
4817
4818 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4819 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4820
4821 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4822 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
4823 DOC_END
4824
4825 NAME: wccp2_return_method
4826 TYPE: wccp2_method
4827 LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
4828 DEFAULT: gre
4829 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4830 DOC_START
4831 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
4832 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
4833 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
4834
4835 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
4836 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
4837
4838 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
4839 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
4840
4841 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
4842 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
4843 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
4844 option is set to GRE.
4845 DOC_END
4846
4847 NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
4848 TYPE: wccp2_amethod
4849 LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
4850 DEFAULT: hash
4851 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4852 DOC_START
4853 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
4854 Valid values are as follows:
4855
4856 hash - Hash assignment
4857 mask - Mask assignment
4858
4859 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
4860 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
4861 DOC_END
4862
4863 NAME: wccp2_service
4864 TYPE: wccp2_service
4865 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4866 DEFAULT: none
4867 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
4868 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4869 DOC_START
4870 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
4871 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
4872 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
4873 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
4874 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
4875 using the wccp2_service_info option.
4876
4877 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
4878 just specifying the service id will suffice.
4879
4880 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
4881 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
4882
4883 Examples:
4884
4885 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
4886 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
4887 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
4888 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
4889 DOC_END
4890
4891 NAME: wccp2_service_info
4892 TYPE: wccp2_service_info
4893 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
4894 DEFAULT: none
4895 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4896 DOC_START
4897 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
4898 traffic you wish to have diverted.
4899
4900 The format is:
4901
4902 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
4903 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
4904
4905 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
4906 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
4907 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
4908 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
4909 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
4910 + ports_source
4911
4912 The port list can be one to eight entries.
4913
4914 Example:
4915
4916 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
4917 priority=240 ports=80
4918
4919 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
4920 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
4921 DOC_END
4922
4923 NAME: wccp2_weight
4924 TYPE: int
4925 LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
4926 DEFAULT: 10000
4927 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4928 DOC_START
4929 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
4930 hash proportional to their weight.
4931 DOC_END
4932
4933 NAME: wccp_address
4934 TYPE: address
4935 LOC: Config.Wccp.address
4936 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4937 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
4938 DOC_NONE
4939
4940 NAME: wccp2_address
4941 TYPE: address
4942 LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
4943 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
4944 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
4945 DOC_START
4946 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
4947 interface address.
4948
4949 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
4950 DOC_END
4951
4952 COMMENT_START
4953 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
4954 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4955
4956 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
4957 COMMENT_END
4958
4959 NAME: client_persistent_connections
4960 TYPE: onoff
4961 LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
4962 DEFAULT: on
4963 DOC_NONE
4964
4965 NAME: server_persistent_connections
4966 TYPE: onoff
4967 LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
4968 DEFAULT: on
4969 DOC_START
4970 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
4971 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
4972 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
4973 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
4974 DOC_END
4975
4976 NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
4977 TYPE: onoff
4978 LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
4979 DEFAULT: on
4980 DOC_START
4981 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
4982 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
4983 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
4984 DOC_END
4985
4986 NAME: detect_broken_pconn
4987 TYPE: onoff
4988 LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
4989 DEFAULT: off
4990 DOC_START
4991 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
4992 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
4993 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
4994 has mostly been seen on redirects.
4995
4996 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
4997 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
4998 after 10 seconds timeout.
4999 DOC_END
5000
5001 COMMENT_START
5002 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5003 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5004 COMMENT_END
5005
5006 NAME: digest_generation
5007 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5008 TYPE: onoff
5009 LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5010 DEFAULT: on
5011 DOC_START
5012 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5013 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
5014 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
5015 DOC_END
5016
5017 NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5018 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5019 TYPE: int
5020 LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5021 DEFAULT: 5
5022 DOC_START
5023 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5024 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5025 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5026 DOC_END
5027
5028 NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5029 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5030 COMMENT: (seconds)
5031 TYPE: time_t
5032 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5033 DEFAULT: 1 hour
5034 DOC_START
5035 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
5036 DOC_END
5037
5038 NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5039 COMMENT: (seconds)
5040 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5041 TYPE: time_t
5042 LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5043 DEFAULT: 1 hour
5044 DOC_START
5045 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
5046 disk.
5047 DOC_END
5048
5049 NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5050 COMMENT: (bytes)
5051 TYPE: b_size_t
5052 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5053 LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5054 DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5055 DOC_START
5056 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5057 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5058 default swap page.
5059 DOC_END
5060
5061 NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5062 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5063 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5064 TYPE: int
5065 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5066 DEFAULT: 10
5067 DOC_START
5068 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5069 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5070 DOC_END
5071
5072 COMMENT_START
5073 SNMP OPTIONS
5074 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5075 COMMENT_END
5076
5077 NAME: snmp_port
5078 TYPE: ushort
5079 LOC: Config.Port.snmp
5080 DEFAULT: 0
5081 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5082 DOC_START
5083 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5084 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5085 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5086 set to "0" (disabled)
5087
5088 Example:
5089 snmp_port 3401
5090 DOC_END
5091
5092 NAME: snmp_access
5093 TYPE: acl_access
5094 LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5095 DEFAULT: none
5096 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5097 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5098 DOC_START
5099 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
5100
5101 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5102 usage:
5103
5104 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5105
5106 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5107 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5108 Example:
5109 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5110 snmp_access deny all
5111 DOC_END
5112
5113 NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5114 TYPE: address
5115 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
5116 DEFAULT: any_addr
5117 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5118 DOC_NONE
5119
5120 NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5121 TYPE: address
5122 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
5123 DEFAULT: no_addr
5124 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5125 DOC_START
5126 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
5127
5128 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5129 messages from SNMP agents.
5130 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5131 agents.
5132
5133 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5134 available network interfaces.
5135
5136 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5137 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5138 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5139 listens for SNMP queries.
5140
5141 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5142 the same value since they both use port 3401.
5143 DOC_END
5144
5145 COMMENT_START
5146 ICP OPTIONS
5147 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5148 COMMENT_END
5149
5150 NAME: icp_port udp_port
5151 TYPE: ushort
5152 DEFAULT: 0
5153 LOC: Config.Port.icp
5154 DOC_START
5155 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5156 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5157 Default is disabled (0).
5158
5159 Example:
5160 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5161 DOC_END
5162
5163 NAME: htcp_port
5164 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5165 TYPE: ushort
5166 DEFAULT: 0
5167 LOC: Config.Port.htcp
5168 DOC_START
5169 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
5170 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5171 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
5172
5173 Example:
5174 htcp_port 4827
5175 DOC_END
5176
5177 NAME: log_icp_queries
5178 COMMENT: on|off
5179 TYPE: onoff
5180 DEFAULT: on
5181 LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5182 DOC_START
5183 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5184 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5185 up or to simplify log analysis.
5186 DOC_END
5187
5188 NAME: udp_incoming_address
5189 TYPE: address
5190 LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
5191 DEFAULT: any_addr
5192 DOC_START
5193 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5194 caches.
5195
5196 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5197
5198 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5199 a specific interface/address.
5200
5201 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5202 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5203
5204 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5205
5206 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5207 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5208 DOC_END
5209
5210 NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5211 TYPE: address
5212 LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
5213 DEFAULT: no_addr
5214 DOC_START
5215 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5216 caches.
5217
5218 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5219
5220 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5221 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5222 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5223 caches.
5224
5225 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5226 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5227
5228 see also; udp_incoming_address
5229
5230 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5231 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5232 DOC_END
5233
5234 NAME: icp_hit_stale
5235 COMMENT: on|off
5236 TYPE: onoff
5237 DEFAULT: off
5238 LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5239 DOC_START
5240 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5241 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5242 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5243 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5244 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5245 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5246 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5247 DOC_END
5248
5249 NAME: minimum_direct_hops
5250 TYPE: int
5251 DEFAULT: 4
5252 LOC: Config.minDirectHops
5253 DOC_START
5254 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5255 which are no more than this many hops away.
5256 DOC_END
5257
5258 NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5259 TYPE: int
5260 DEFAULT: 400
5261 LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
5262 DOC_START
5263 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5264 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
5265 DOC_END
5266
5267 NAME: netdb_low
5268 TYPE: int
5269 DEFAULT: 900
5270 LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5271 DOC_NONE
5272
5273 NAME: netdb_high
5274 TYPE: int
5275 DEFAULT: 1000
5276 LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5277 DOC_START
5278 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5279 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5280 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5281 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5282 DOC_END
5283
5284 NAME: netdb_ping_period
5285 TYPE: time_t
5286 LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5287 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5288 DOC_START
5289 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5290 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5291 network. The default is five minutes.
5292 DOC_END
5293
5294 NAME: query_icmp
5295 COMMENT: on|off
5296 TYPE: onoff
5297 DEFAULT: off
5298 LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5299 DOC_START
5300 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5301 replies, enable this option.
5302
5303 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
5304 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5305 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
5306 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5307 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5308 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5309 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5310 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5311 DOC_END
5312
5313 NAME: test_reachability
5314 COMMENT: on|off
5315 TYPE: onoff
5316 DEFAULT: off
5317 LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5318 DOC_START
5319 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5320 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5321 database, or has a zero RTT.
5322 DOC_END
5323
5324 NAME: icp_query_timeout
5325 COMMENT: (msec)
5326 DEFAULT: 0
5327 TYPE: int
5328 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
5329 DOC_START
5330 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5331 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5332 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5333 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5334 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5335 timeout (the old default), you would write:
5336
5337 icp_query_timeout 2000
5338 DOC_END
5339
5340 NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5341 COMMENT: (msec)
5342 DEFAULT: 2000
5343 TYPE: int
5344 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
5345 DOC_START
5346 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5347 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5348 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5349 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5350 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5351 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
5352 DOC_END
5353
5354 NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5355 COMMENT: (msec)
5356 DEFAULT: 5
5357 TYPE: int
5358 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
5359 DOC_START
5360 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5361 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5362 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5363 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5364 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5365 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5366 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
5367 DOC_END
5368
5369 NAME: background_ping_rate
5370 COMMENT: time-units
5371 TYPE: time_t
5372 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5373 LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
5374 DOC_START
5375 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5376 have background-ping set.
5377 DOC_END
5378
5379 COMMENT_START
5380 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5381 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5382 COMMENT_END
5383
5384 NAME: mcast_groups
5385 TYPE: wordlist
5386 LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
5387 DEFAULT: none
5388 DOC_START
5389 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5390 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
5391
5392 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5393 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5394 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5395 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5396 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5397 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5398 receive replies from multicast group members.
5399
5400 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5401 is already in use by another group of caches.
5402
5403 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5404 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
5405
5406 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
5407
5408 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5409 DOC_END
5410
5411 NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5412 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5413 TYPE: address
5414 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
5415 DEFAULT: no_addr
5416 DOC_START
5417 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5418 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
5419
5420 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5421 certain you understand what you are doing.
5422 DOC_END
5423
5424 NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5425 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5426 TYPE: ushort
5427 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5428 DEFAULT: 16
5429 DOC_START
5430 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5431 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5432 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5433 DOC_END
5434
5435 NAME: mcast_miss_port
5436 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5437 TYPE: ushort
5438 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5439 DEFAULT: 3135
5440 DOC_START
5441 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5442 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5443 DOC_END
5444
5445 NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5446 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5447 TYPE: string
5448 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5449 DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5450 DOC_START
5451 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5452 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5453 DOC_END
5454
5455 NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5456 COMMENT: (msec)
5457 DEFAULT: 2000
5458 TYPE: int
5459 LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5460 DOC_START
5461 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5462 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5463 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5464 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5465 seconds.
5466 DOC_END
5467
5468 COMMENT_START
5469 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5470 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5471 COMMENT_END
5472
5473 NAME: icon_directory
5474 TYPE: string
5475 LOC: Config.icons.directory
5476 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5477 DOC_START
5478 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5479 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5480 DOC_END
5481
5482 NAME: global_internal_static
5483 TYPE: onoff
5484 LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5485 DEFAULT: on
5486 DOC_START
5487 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5488 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5489 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5490 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5491 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5492 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5493 the server generating a directory listing.
5494 DOC_END
5495
5496 NAME: short_icon_urls
5497 TYPE: onoff
5498 LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5499 DEFAULT: on
5500 DOC_START
5501 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5502 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5503 it's own name and port in the URL.
5504
5505 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5506 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5507 DOC_END
5508
5509 COMMENT_START
5510 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5511 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5512 COMMENT_END
5513
5514 NAME: error_directory
5515 TYPE: string
5516 LOC: Config.errorDirectory
5517 DEFAULT: none
5518 DOC_START
5519 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
5520 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5521 the error/template files to another directory and point
5522 this tag at them.
5523
5524 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5525 on error pages if used.
5526
5527 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5528 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
5529 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5530 contributing your translation back to the project.
5531 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5532
5533 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5534 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5535 DOC_END
5536
5537 NAME: error_default_language
5538 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5539 TYPE: string
5540 LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5541 DEFAULT: none
5542 DOC_START
5543 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5544 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5545 preferences.
5546
5547 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5548
5549 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5550 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5551 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5552 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5553 DOC_END
5554
5555 NAME: error_log_languages
5556 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5557 TYPE: onoff
5558 LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5559 DEFAULT: on
5560 DOC_START
5561 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5562 auto-negotiate for translations.
5563
5564 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5565 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
5566 of its error page translations.
5567 DOC_END
5568
5569 NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5570 TYPE: string
5571 LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5572 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5573 DOC_START
5574 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5575
5576 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5577 DOC_END
5578
5579 NAME: err_html_text
5580 TYPE: eol
5581 LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5582 DEFAULT: none
5583 DOC_START
5584 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5585 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5586 organizations Web page.
5587
5588 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5589 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5590 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5591 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5592 DOC_END
5593
5594 NAME: email_err_data
5595 COMMENT: on|off
5596 TYPE: onoff
5597 LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5598 DEFAULT: on
5599 DOC_START
5600 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5601 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5602 so that the email body contains the data.
5603 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5604 DOC_END
5605
5606 NAME: deny_info
5607 TYPE: denyinfo
5608 LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5609 DEFAULT: none
5610 DOC_START
5611 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5612 or deny_info http://... acl
5613 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5614
5615 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5616 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5617 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5618 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5619
5620 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5621 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5622 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5623 the first authentication related acl encountered
5624 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5625 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5626
5627 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5628 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5629 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5630
5631 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
5632 by specifying TCP_RESET.
5633
5634 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
5635 get redirected (302) to the specified URL after formattgin tags have
5636 been replaced.
5637
5638 URL FORMAT TAGS:
5639 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
5640 %B - FTP path URL
5641 %e - Error number
5642 %E - Error description
5643 %h - Squid hostname
5644 %H - Request domain name
5645 %i - Client IP Address
5646 %M - Request Method
5647 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
5648 %p - Request Port number
5649 %P - Request Protocol name
5650 %R - Request URL path
5651 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
5652 %U - Full canonical URL from client
5653 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
5654 %u - Full canonical URL from client
5655 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
5656 %% - Literal percent (%) code
5657
5658 DOC_END
5659
5660 COMMENT_START
5661 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
5662 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5663 COMMENT_END
5664
5665 NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
5666 TYPE: onoff
5667 LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
5668 DEFAULT: on
5669 DOC_START
5670 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
5671 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
5672 to origin servers.
5673
5674 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
5675 requests to parents.
5676
5677 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
5678 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
5679 ratio.
5680
5681 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
5682 this directive.
5683 DOC_END
5684
5685 NAME: prefer_direct
5686 TYPE: onoff
5687 LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
5688 DEFAULT: off
5689 DOC_START
5690 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
5691 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
5692 going direct fails set this to on.
5693
5694 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
5695 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
5696 fails.
5697
5698 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
5699 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
5700 acts on cacheable requests.
5701 DOC_END
5702
5703 NAME: always_direct
5704 TYPE: acl_access
5705 LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
5706 DEFAULT: none
5707 DOC_START
5708 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5709
5710 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
5711 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
5712 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
5713 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
5714 something like:
5715
5716 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
5717 always_direct allow local-servers
5718
5719 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
5720
5721 acl FTP proto FTP
5722 always_direct allow FTP
5723
5724 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
5725 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
5726 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
5727 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
5728 some other rule. Example:
5729
5730 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5731 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5732 always_direct deny local-external
5733 always_direct allow local-servers
5734
5735 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
5736 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
5737 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
5738 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
5739
5740 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
5741 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
5742 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
5743
5744 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5745 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5746 DOC_END
5747
5748 NAME: never_direct
5749 TYPE: acl_access
5750 LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
5751 DEFAULT: none
5752 DOC_START
5753 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5754
5755 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
5756 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
5757
5758 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
5759 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
5760 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
5761 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
5762
5763 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
5764 never_direct deny local-servers
5765 never_direct allow all
5766
5767 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
5768 servers inside the firewall use something like:
5769
5770 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
5771 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
5772 always_direct deny local-external
5773 always_direct allow local-intranet
5774 never_direct allow all
5775
5776 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
5777 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5778 DOC_END
5779
5780 COMMENT_START
5781 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
5782 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5783 COMMENT_END
5784
5785 NAME: incoming_icp_average
5786 TYPE: int
5787 DEFAULT: 6
5788 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
5789 DOC_NONE
5790
5791 NAME: incoming_http_average
5792 TYPE: int
5793 DEFAULT: 4
5794 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
5795 DOC_NONE
5796
5797 NAME: incoming_dns_average
5798 TYPE: int
5799 DEFAULT: 4
5800 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
5801 DOC_NONE
5802
5803 NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
5804 TYPE: int
5805 DEFAULT: 8
5806 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
5807 DOC_NONE
5808
5809 NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
5810 TYPE: int
5811 DEFAULT: 8
5812 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
5813 DOC_NONE
5814
5815 NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
5816 TYPE: int
5817 DEFAULT: 8
5818 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
5819 DOC_START
5820 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
5821 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
5822 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
5823 DOC_END
5824
5825 NAME: accept_filter
5826 TYPE: string
5827 DEFAULT: none
5828 LOC: Config.accept_filter
5829 DOC_START
5830 FreeBSD:
5831
5832 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
5833 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
5834 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
5835
5836 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
5837 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
5838 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
5839
5840 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
5841 to Squid until there is some data to process.
5842 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
5843
5844 Linux:
5845
5846 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
5847 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
5848 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
5849 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
5850 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
5851 EXAMPLE:
5852 # FreeBSD
5853 accept_filter httpready
5854 # Linux
5855 accept_filter data
5856 DOC_END
5857
5858 NAME: client_ip_max_connections
5859 TYPE: int
5860 LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
5861 DEFAULT: -1
5862 DOC_START
5863 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
5864 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
5865 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
5866
5867 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
5868 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
5869
5870 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
5871
5872 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
5873 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
5874 DOC_END
5875
5876 NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
5877 COMMENT: (bytes)
5878 TYPE: b_size_t
5879 DEFAULT: 0 bytes
5880 LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
5881 DOC_START
5882 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
5883 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
5884 the default buffer size.
5885 DOC_END
5886
5887 COMMENT_START
5888 ICAP OPTIONS
5889 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5890 COMMENT_END
5891
5892 NAME: icap_enable
5893 TYPE: onoff
5894 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5895 COMMENT: on|off
5896 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
5897 DEFAULT: off
5898 DOC_START
5899 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
5900 DOC_END
5901
5902 NAME: icap_connect_timeout
5903 TYPE: time_t
5904 DEFAULT: none
5905 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
5906 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5907 DOC_START
5908 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5909 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
5910 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
5911
5912 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
5913 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
5914 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
5915 DOC_END
5916
5917 NAME: icap_io_timeout
5918 COMMENT: time-units
5919 TYPE: time_t
5920 DEFAULT: none
5921 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
5922 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5923 DOC_START
5924 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
5925 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
5926 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
5927 failure.
5928
5929 The default is read_timeout.
5930 DOC_END
5931
5932 NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
5933 COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
5934 TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
5935 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5936 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
5937 DEFAULT: 10
5938 DOC_START
5939 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
5940 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
5941 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
5942 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
5943 OPTIONS.
5944
5945 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
5946 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
5947 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
5948
5949 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
5950 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
5951 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
5952 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
5953 value into ten time slots of equal length.
5954
5955 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
5956 effect on service failure expiration.
5957
5958 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
5959 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
5960 setting.
5961
5962 For example,
5963 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
5964 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
5965 DOC_END
5966
5967 NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
5968 TYPE: int
5969 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5970 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
5971 DEFAULT: 180
5972 DOC_START
5973 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
5974 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
5975 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
5976 fetched.
5977
5978 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
5979 delay of 30 seconds.
5980 DOC_END
5981
5982 NAME: icap_preview_enable
5983 TYPE: onoff
5984 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
5985 COMMENT: on|off
5986 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
5987 DEFAULT: on
5988 DOC_START
5989 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
5990 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
5991 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
5992 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
5993
5994 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
5995 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
5996 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
5997
5998 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
5999 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6000 Example:
6001 icap_preview_enable off
6002 DOC_END
6003
6004 NAME: icap_preview_size
6005 TYPE: int
6006 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6007 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
6008 DEFAULT: -1
6009 DOC_START
6010 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6011 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6012 basis by OPTIONS requests.
6013 DOC_END
6014
6015 NAME: icap_206_enable
6016 TYPE: onoff
6017 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6018 COMMENT: on|off
6019 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6020 DEFAULT: on
6021 DOC_START
6022 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6023 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6024 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6025 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6026
6027 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6028 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6029 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6030 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6031 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6032
6033 Example:
6034 icap_206_enable off
6035 DOC_END
6036
6037 NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6038 TYPE: int
6039 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6040 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
6041 DEFAULT: 60
6042 DOC_START
6043 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
6044 an Options-TTL header.
6045 DOC_END
6046
6047 NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6048 TYPE: onoff
6049 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6050 COMMENT: on|off
6051 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
6052 DEFAULT: on
6053 DOC_START
6054 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6055 an ICAP server.
6056 DOC_END
6057
6058 NAME: icap_send_client_ip
6059 TYPE: onoff
6060 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6061 COMMENT: on|off
6062 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_ip
6063 DEFAULT: off
6064 DOC_START
6065 This adds the header "X-Client-IP" to ICAP requests.
6066 DOC_END
6067
6068 NAME: icap_send_client_username
6069 TYPE: onoff
6070 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6071 COMMENT: on|off
6072 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.send_client_username
6073 DEFAULT: off
6074 DOC_START
6075 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
6076 the ICAP service. The username value is encoded based on the
6077 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6078 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
6079 DOC_END
6080
6081 NAME: icap_client_username_header
6082 TYPE: string
6083 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6084 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
6085 DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
6086 DOC_START
6087 ICAP request header name to use for send_client_username.
6088 DOC_END
6089
6090 NAME: icap_client_username_encode
6091 TYPE: onoff
6092 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6093 COMMENT: on|off
6094 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
6095 DEFAULT: off
6096 DOC_START
6097 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
6098 DOC_END
6099
6100 NAME: icap_service
6101 TYPE: icap_service_type
6102 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6103 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
6104 DEFAULT: none
6105 DOC_START
6106 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
6107
6108 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
6109
6110 service_name: ID
6111 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6112
6113 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6114 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6115 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6116 are not yet supported.
6117
6118 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6119 ICAP server and service location.
6120
6121 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6122 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6123 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6124 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6125 service_names differ.
6126
6127
6128 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6129 the following name=value options:
6130
6131 bypass=on|off|1|0
6132 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6133 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6134 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6135 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6136 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6137 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6138 returned to the HTTP client.
6139
6140 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6141
6142 routing=on|off|1|0
6143 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6144 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6145 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6146 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6147 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
6148 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
6149 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
6150 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
6151 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
6152 ends the current adaptation.
6153
6154 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6155 response header is ignored.
6156
6157 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6158 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6159
6160 Example:
6161 icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6162 icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
6163 DOC_END
6164
6165 NAME: icap_class
6166 TYPE: icap_class_type
6167 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6168 LOC: none
6169 DEFAULT: none
6170 DOC_START
6171 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
6172 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6173 services, and the chains were not supported.
6174
6175 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
6176 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6177 adaptation_service_chain.
6178 DOC_END
6179
6180 NAME: icap_access
6181 TYPE: icap_access_type
6182 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6183 LOC: none
6184 DEFAULT: none
6185 DOC_START
6186 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
6187 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6188 documentation, and eCAP support.
6189 DOC_END
6190
6191 COMMENT_START
6192 eCAP OPTIONS
6193 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6194 COMMENT_END
6195
6196 NAME: ecap_enable
6197 TYPE: onoff
6198 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6199 COMMENT: on|off
6200 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
6201 DEFAULT: off
6202 DOC_START
6203 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6204 DOC_END
6205
6206 NAME: ecap_service
6207 TYPE: ecap_service_type
6208 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6209 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
6210 DEFAULT: none
6211 DOC_START
6212 Defines a single eCAP service
6213
6214 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6215
6216 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6217 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6218 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6219 are not yet supported.
6220 bypass = 1|0
6221 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6222 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6223 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6224 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6225 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6226 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6227 HTTP client.
6228 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6229
6230 Example:
6231 ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6232 ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6233 DOC_END
6234
6235 NAME: loadable_modules
6236 TYPE: wordlist
6237 IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6238 LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6239 DEFAULT: none
6240 DOC_START
6241 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6242 preloaded module(s).
6243 Example:
6244 loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6245 DOC_END
6246
6247 COMMENT_START
6248 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6249 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6250 COMMENT_END
6251
6252 NAME: adaptation_service_set
6253 TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6254 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6255 LOC: none
6256 DEFAULT: none
6257 DOC_START
6258
6259 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6260 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6261
6262 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6263
6264 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6265 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6266 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6267 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6268 intact.
6269
6270 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6271 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
6272
6273 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6274 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6275
6276 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6277 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6278 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6279 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6280 transaction fails as well.
6281
6282 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6283 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6284 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6285 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6286 matters.
6287
6288 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
6289
6290 Example:
6291 adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6292 adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6293 DOC_END
6294
6295 NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6296 TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6297 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6298 LOC: none
6299 DEFAULT: none
6300 DOC_START
6301
6302 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6303 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6304 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6305
6306 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6307
6308 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6309 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6310 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6311 the previous service in the chain.
6312
6313 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6314 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6315
6316 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6317 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6318 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6319
6320 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6321 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6322
6323 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6324 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6325 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6326 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6327
6328 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6329
6330 Example:
6331 adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6332 DOC_END
6333
6334 NAME: adaptation_access
6335 TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6336 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6337 LOC: none
6338 DEFAULT: none
6339 DOC_START
6340 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6341
6342 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6343 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6344
6345 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6346 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6347 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6348 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6349
6350 - services serving different vectoring points
6351 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6352 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6353 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6354
6355 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6356 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6357 adaptation_service_set for details.
6358
6359 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6360 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6361 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6362 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6363
6364 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6365 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6366
6367 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6368
6369 Example:
6370 adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6371 DOC_END
6372
6373 NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6374 TYPE: int
6375 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6376 LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6377 DEFAULT: 16
6378 DOC_START
6379 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6380 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6381 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6382 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6383 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6384 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6385
6386 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6387
6388 See also: icap_service routing=1
6389 DOC_END
6390
6391 NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6392 TYPE: string
6393 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6394 LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6395 DEFAULT: none
6396 DOC_START
6397 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6398 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6399 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6400 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6401 with the master transaction.
6402
6403 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6404 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6405
6406 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6407 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
6408 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names. Squid will store
6409 and forward that ICAP header field to subsequent ICAP
6410 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6411
6412 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6413
6414 Example:
6415 # share authentication information among ICAP services
6416 adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6417 DOC_END
6418
6419 NAME: icap_retry
6420 TYPE: acl_access
6421 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6422 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
6423 DEFAULT: none
6424 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6425 DOC_START
6426 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6427 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6428 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6429 that response are usually retriable.
6430
6431 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6432
6433 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6434 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6435
6436 See also: icap_retry_limit
6437 DOC_END
6438
6439 NAME: icap_retry_limit
6440 TYPE: int
6441 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6442 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6443 DEFAULT: 0
6444 DOC_START
6445 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6446 no retries are allowed.
6447
6448 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6449 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6450 count against this limit.
6451
6452 See also: icap_retry
6453 DOC_END
6454
6455
6456 COMMENT_START
6457 DNS OPTIONS
6458 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6459 COMMENT_END
6460
6461 NAME: check_hostnames
6462 TYPE: onoff
6463 DEFAULT: off
6464 LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
6465 DOC_START
6466 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6467 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6468 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
6469 DOC_END
6470
6471 NAME: allow_underscore
6472 TYPE: onoff
6473 DEFAULT: on
6474 LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
6475 DOC_START
6476 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6477 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6478 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6479 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
6480 DOC_END
6481
6482 NAME: cache_dns_program
6483 TYPE: string
6484 IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6485 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6486 LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
6487 DOC_START
6488 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
6489 DOC_END
6490
6491 NAME: dns_children
6492 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
6493 IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6494 DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
6495 LOC: Config.dnsChildren
6496 DOC_START
6497 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6498 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6499 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6500 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6501 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6502
6503 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6504 tuning.
6505
6506 startup=
6507
6508 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6509 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6510 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6511
6512 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6513 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6514
6515 idle=
6516
6517 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6518 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6519 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6520 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
6521 DOC_END
6522
6523 NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6524 TYPE: time_t
6525 DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6526 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6527 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6528 DOC_START
6529 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6530 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
6531 DOC_END
6532
6533 NAME: dns_timeout
6534 TYPE: time_t
6535 DEFAULT: 2 minutes
6536 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6537 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6538 DOC_START
6539 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6540 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6541 are assumed to be unavailable.
6542 DOC_END
6543
6544 NAME: dns_defnames
6545 COMMENT: on|off
6546 TYPE: onoff
6547 DEFAULT: off
6548 LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
6549 DOC_START
6550 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6551 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6552 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6553 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
6554 DOC_END
6555
6556 NAME: dns_nameservers
6557 TYPE: wordlist
6558 DEFAULT: none
6559 LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
6560 DOC_START
6561 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6562 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6563 /etc/resolv.conf file.
6564 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
6565 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
6566 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
6567 configurations are supported.
6568
6569 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
6570 DOC_END
6571
6572 NAME: hosts_file
6573 TYPE: string
6574 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
6575 LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
6576 DOC_START
6577 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
6578 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
6579 default locations:
6580 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
6581 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6582 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
6583 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
6584 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
6585 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
6586 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
6587 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
6588
6589 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
6590 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
6591 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
6592 character are comments.
6593
6594 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
6595 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
6596 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
6597 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
6598 definitions.
6599 DOC_END
6600
6601 NAME: append_domain
6602 TYPE: string
6603 LOC: Config.appendDomain
6604 DEFAULT: none
6605 DOC_START
6606 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
6607 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
6608
6609 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
6610 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
6611 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
6612
6613 Example:
6614 append_domain .yourdomain.com
6615 DOC_END
6616
6617 NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
6618 TYPE: onoff
6619 LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
6620 DEFAULT: on
6621 DOC_START
6622 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
6623 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
6624 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
6625 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
6626 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
6627 DOC_END
6628
6629 NAME: dns_v4_fallback
6630 TYPE: onoff
6631 DEFAULT: on
6632 LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
6633 DOC_START
6634 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
6635 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
6636 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
6637
6638 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
6639 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
6640
6641 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
6642 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
6643
6644 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
6645 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
6646 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
6647 DOC_END
6648
6649 NAME: ipcache_size
6650 COMMENT: (number of entries)
6651 TYPE: int
6652 DEFAULT: 1024
6653 LOC: Config.ipcache.size
6654 DOC_NONE
6655
6656 NAME: ipcache_low
6657 COMMENT: (percent)
6658 TYPE: int
6659 DEFAULT: 90
6660 LOC: Config.ipcache.low
6661 DOC_NONE
6662
6663 NAME: ipcache_high
6664 COMMENT: (percent)
6665 TYPE: int
6666 DEFAULT: 95
6667 LOC: Config.ipcache.high
6668 DOC_START
6669 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
6670 DOC_END
6671
6672 NAME: fqdncache_size
6673 COMMENT: (number of entries)
6674 TYPE: int
6675 DEFAULT: 1024
6676 LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
6677 DOC_START
6678 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
6679 DOC_END
6680
6681 COMMENT_START
6682 MISCELLANEOUS
6683 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6684 COMMENT_END
6685
6686 NAME: memory_pools
6687 COMMENT: on|off
6688 TYPE: onoff
6689 DEFAULT: on
6690 LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
6691 DOC_START
6692 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
6693 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
6694 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
6695 routines, disable this.
6696 DOC_END
6697
6698 NAME: memory_pools_limit
6699 COMMENT: (bytes)
6700 TYPE: b_size_t
6701 DEFAULT: 5 MB
6702 LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
6703 DOC_START
6704 Used only with memory_pools on:
6705 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
6706
6707 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
6708 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
6709 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
6710 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
6711 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
6712 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
6713 configuration will use less memory.
6714
6715 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
6716 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
6717
6718 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
6719 memory_pools_limit to 0. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
6720
6721 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
6722 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
6723 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
6724 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
6725 DOC_END
6726
6727 NAME: forwarded_for
6728 COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
6729 TYPE: string
6730 DEFAULT: on
6731 LOC: opt_forwarded_for
6732 DOC_START
6733 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
6734 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
6735
6736 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
6737
6738 If set to "off", it will appear as
6739
6740 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
6741
6742 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
6743 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
6744
6745 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
6746 X-Forwarded-For header.
6747
6748 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
6749 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place itself as the sole entry.
6750 DOC_END
6751
6752 NAME: cachemgr_passwd
6753 TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
6754 DEFAULT: none
6755 LOC: Config.passwd_list
6756 DOC_START
6757 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
6758
6759 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
6760
6761 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
6762 5min
6763 60min
6764 asndb
6765 authenticator
6766 cbdata
6767 client_list
6768 comm_incoming
6769 config *
6770 counters
6771 delay
6772 digest_stats
6773 dns
6774 events
6775 filedescriptors
6776 fqdncache
6777 histograms
6778 http_headers
6779 info
6780 io
6781 ipcache
6782 mem
6783 menu
6784 netdb
6785 non_peers
6786 objects
6787 offline_toggle *
6788 pconn
6789 peer_select
6790 reconfigure *
6791 redirector
6792 refresh
6793 server_list
6794 shutdown *
6795 store_digest
6796 storedir
6797 utilization
6798 via_headers
6799 vm_objects
6800
6801 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
6802 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
6803
6804 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
6805 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
6806 password to "none".
6807
6808 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
6809
6810 Example:
6811 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
6812 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
6813 cachemgr_passwd disable all
6814 DOC_END
6815
6816 NAME: client_db
6817 COMMENT: on|off
6818 TYPE: onoff
6819 DEFAULT: on
6820 LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
6821 DOC_START
6822 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
6823 turn off client_db here.
6824 DOC_END
6825
6826 NAME: refresh_all_ims
6827 COMMENT: on|off
6828 TYPE: onoff
6829 DEFAULT: off
6830 LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
6831 DOC_START
6832 When you enable this option, squid will always check
6833 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
6834 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
6835 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
6836 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
6837
6838 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
6839 based on the age of the cached version.
6840 DOC_END
6841
6842 NAME: reload_into_ims
6843 IFDEF: HTTP_VIOLATIONS
6844 COMMENT: on|off
6845 TYPE: onoff
6846 DEFAULT: off
6847 LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
6848 DOC_START
6849 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
6850 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
6851 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
6852 feature could make you liable for problems which it
6853 causes.
6854
6855 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
6856 DOC_END
6857
6858 NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
6859 TYPE: int
6860 LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
6861 DEFAULT: 1
6862 DOC_START
6863 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
6864 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
6865 each address is tried once).
6866
6867 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
6868 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
6869 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
6870
6871 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
6872 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
6873 DOC_END
6874
6875 NAME: retry_on_error
6876 TYPE: onoff
6877 LOC: Config.retry.onerror
6878 DEFAULT: off
6879 DOC_START
6880 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
6881 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
6882 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
6883 control errors.
6884 DOC_END
6885
6886 NAME: as_whois_server
6887 TYPE: string
6888 LOC: Config.as_whois_server
6889 DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
6890 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: whois.ra.net
6891 DOC_START
6892 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
6893 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
6894 DOC_END
6895
6896 NAME: offline_mode
6897 TYPE: onoff
6898 LOC: Config.onoff.offline
6899 DEFAULT: off
6900 DOC_START
6901 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
6902 objects.
6903 DOC_END
6904
6905 NAME: uri_whitespace
6906 TYPE: uri_whitespace
6907 LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
6908 DEFAULT: strip
6909 DOC_START
6910 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
6911 URI. Options:
6912
6913 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
6914 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
6915 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
6916 Request" message.
6917 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
6918 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
6919 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
6920 are in use.
6921 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
6922 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
6923 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
6924 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
6925 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
6926 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
6927 violation.
6928 DOC_END
6929
6930 NAME: chroot
6931 TYPE: string
6932 LOC: Config.chroot_dir
6933 DEFAULT: none
6934 DOC_START
6935 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
6936 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
6937 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
6938 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
6939 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
6940 DOC_END
6941
6942 NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
6943 TYPE: onoff
6944 LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
6945 DEFAULT: off
6946 DOC_START
6947 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
6948 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
6949 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
6950
6951 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
6952 found not to preserve user session state across requests
6953 to different IP addresses.
6954
6955 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
6956 DOC_END
6957
6958 NAME: pipeline_prefetch
6959 TYPE: onoff
6960 LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
6961 DEFAULT: off
6962 DOC_START
6963 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
6964 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
6965 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
6966
6967 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
6968 reasons.
6969 DOC_END
6970
6971 NAME: high_response_time_warning
6972 TYPE: int
6973 COMMENT: (msec)
6974 LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
6975 DEFAULT: 0
6976 DOC_START
6977 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
6978 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
6979 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
6980 DOC_END
6981
6982 NAME: high_page_fault_warning
6983 TYPE: int
6984 LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
6985 DEFAULT: 0
6986 DOC_START
6987 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
6988 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
6989 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
6990 per second.
6991 DOC_END
6992
6993 NAME: high_memory_warning
6994 TYPE: b_size_t
6995 LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
6996 DEFAULT: 0 KB
6997 DOC_START
6998 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
6999 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7000 the administrators attention.
7001 DOC_END
7002
7003 NAME: sleep_after_fork
7004 COMMENT: (microseconds)
7005 TYPE: int
7006 LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7007 DEFAULT: 0
7008 DOC_START
7009 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7010 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7011 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7012 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7013 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7014 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7015 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7016 until all the child processes have been started.
7017 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7018 rounded to 1000.
7019 DOC_END
7020
7021 NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7022 IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
7023 COMMENT: on|off
7024 TYPE: onoff
7025 DEFAULT: on
7026 LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7027 DOC_START
7028 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7029 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7030 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7031 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7032 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7033 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7034 DOC_END
7035
7036 NAME: eui_lookup
7037 TYPE: onoff
7038 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7039 DEFAULT: on
7040 LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7041 DOC_START
7042 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7043 DOC_END
7044
7045 NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7046 TYPE: int
7047 DEFAULT: 0
7048 LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7049 DOC_START
7050 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7051
7052 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7053
7054 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7055 not all comm loops supports large values.
7056 DOC_END
7057
7058 NAME: workers
7059 TYPE: int
7060 LOC: Config.workers
7061 DEFAULT: 1
7062 DOC_START
7063 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
7064 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7065 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
7066 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7067
7068 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7069 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
7070 DOC_END
7071
7072 EOF