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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 # Options Removed in 3.2
100 NAME: ignore_expect_100
101 TYPE: obsolete
102 DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104 DOC_END
105
106 NAME: ftp_list_width
107 TYPE: obsolete
108 DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110 DOC_END
111
112 NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113 TYPE: obsolete
114 DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116 DOC_END
117
118 # Options Removed in 3.1
119 NAME: dns_testnames
120 TYPE: obsolete
121 DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123 DOC_END
124
125 NAME: extension_methods
126 TYPE: obsolete
127 DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129 DOC_END
130
131 # 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132 NAME: incoming_rate
133 TYPE: obsolete
134 DOC_NONE
135
136 NAME: server_http11
137 TYPE: obsolete
138 DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140 DOC_END
141
142 NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143 TYPE: obsolete
144 DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146 DOC_END
147
148 NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149 TYPE: obsolete
150 DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152 DOC_END
153
154 # Options Removed in 3.0
155 NAME: header_access
156 TYPE: obsolete
157 DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160 DOC_END
161
162 NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163 TYPE: obsolete
164 DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166 DOC_END
167
168 COMMENT_START
169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171 COMMENT_END
172
173 NAME: auth_param
174 TYPE: authparam
175 IFDEF: USE_AUTH
176 LOC: Auth::TheConfig
177 DEFAULT: none
178 DOC_START
179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
181
182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
183
184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
193
194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
198
199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
208
209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
215
216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
217
218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
225
226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
228
229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
231
232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
233
234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
262
263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
269
270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
280
281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
287
288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
289
290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
298
299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
301
302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
304
305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
306
307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
335
336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
342
343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
346
347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
350
351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
354
355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
360
361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
366
367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
371
372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
373
374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
381
382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
383
384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
391
392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
399
400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
406
407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
408
409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
410
411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
422
423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
424
425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
440
441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
447
448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
449
450
451 Examples:
452
453 #Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454 #auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
455 #auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
456 #auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
457 #
458 #auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
459 #auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
460 #auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
461 #
462 #auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
463 #auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
464 #auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465 #auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466 #auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467 #auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
468 #
469 #auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
470 #auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
471 #auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472 #auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
473 DOC_END
474
475 NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476 TYPE: time_t
477 DEFAULT: 1 hour
478 LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479 DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484 DOC_END
485
486 NAME: authenticate_ttl
487 TYPE: time_t
488 DEFAULT: 1 hour
489 LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490 DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495 DOC_END
496
497 NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498 TYPE: time_t
499 LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501 DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509 DOC_END
510
511 COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514 COMMENT_END
515
516 NAME: external_acl_type
517 TYPE: externalAclHelper
518 LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
519 DEFAULT: none
520 DOC_START
521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
523
524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
525
526 Options:
527
528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
555
556 FORMAT specifications
557
558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
559 %EXT_USER Username from external acl
560 %IDENT Ident user name
561 %SRC Client IP
562 %SRCPORT Client source port
563 %URI Requested URI
564 %DST Requested host
565 %PROTO Requested protocol
566 %PORT Requested port
567 %PATH Requested URL path
568 %METHOD Request method
569 %MYADDR Squid interface address
570 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
571 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
572 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
573 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
574 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
575 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
576
577 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
578 %>{Hdr:member}
579 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
580 %>{Hdr:;member}
581 HTTP request header list member using ; as
582 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
583 character.
584
585 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
586 %<{Hdr:member}
587 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
588 %<{Hdr:;member}
589 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
590 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
591 character.
592
593 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
594 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
595 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
596
597 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
598 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
599 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
600 more details.
601
602 General result syntax:
603
604 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
605
606 Defined keywords:
607
608 user= The users name (login)
609 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
610 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
611 in error pages
612 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
613 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
614 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
615 %ea in logformat specifications
616
617 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
618 each value in both requests and responses.
619
620 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
621 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
622 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
623
624 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
625 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
626 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
627 DOC_END
628
629 NAME: acl
630 TYPE: acl
631 LOC: Config.aclList
632 DEFAULT: all src all
633 DOC_START
634 Defining an Access List
635
636 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
637 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
638 they are read from.
639
640 acl aclname acltype argument ...
641 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
642
643 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
644
645 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
646 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
647
648 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
649 to access some external data source.
650 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
651 don't are marked as [fast].
652 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
653 for further information
654
655 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
656
657 acl aclname src ip-address/netmask ... # clients IP address [fast]
658 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/netmask ... # range of addresses [fast]
659 acl aclname dst ip-address/netmask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
660 acl aclname myip ip-address/netmask ... # local socket IP address [fast]
661
662 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
663 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
664 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
665 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
666 # other *BSD variants.
667 # [fast]
668 #
669 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
670 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
671 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
672
673 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
674 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
675 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
676 # Destination server from URL [fast]
677 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
678 # regex matching client name [slow]
679 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
680 # regex matching server [fast]
681 #
682 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
683 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
684 # if the reverse lookup fails.
685
686 acl aclname src_as number ...
687 acl aclname dst_as number ...
688 # [fast]
689 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
690 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
691 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
692 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
693 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
694 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
695 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
696
697 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
698 # [fast]
699 # match against a named cache_peer entry
700 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
701
702 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
703 # [fast]
704 # day-abbrevs:
705 # S - Sunday
706 # M - Monday
707 # T - Tuesday
708 # W - Wednesday
709 # H - Thursday
710 # F - Friday
711 # A - Saturday
712 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
713
714 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
715 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
716 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
717 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
718
719 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
720 # ranges are alloed
721 acl aclname myport 3128 ... # local socket TCP port [fast]
722 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
723
724 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
725
726 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
727
728 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
729 # status code in reply [fast]
730
731 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
732 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
733
734 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
735 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
736 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
737
738 acl aclname ident username ...
739 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
740 # string match on ident output [slow]
741 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
742
743 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
744 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
745 # perform http authentication challenge to the client and match against
746 # supplied credentials [slow]
747 #
748 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
749 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
750 #
751 # Will use proxy authentication in forward-proxy scenarios, and plain
752 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
753 #
754 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
755 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
756 # in access.log.
757 #
758 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
759 # to check username/password combinations (see
760 # auth_param directive).
761 #
762 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
763 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
764 # to respond to proxy authentication.
765
766 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
767 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
768 # Example:
769 #
770 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
771
772 acl aclname maxconn number
773 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
774 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
775 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
776 # indirect clients are not counted.
777
778 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
779 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
780 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
781 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
782 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
783 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
784 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
785 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
786 # request is denied)
787 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
788 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
789 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
790
791 acl aclname random probability
792 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
793 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
794 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
795
796 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
797 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
798 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
799 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
800 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
801 # to match the returned file type.
802
803 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
804 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
805 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
806 # ACL [fast]
807
808 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
809 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
810 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
811 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
812 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
813 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
814 # http_reply_access.
815
816 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
817 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
818 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
819 # ACLs [fast]
820
821 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
822 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
823 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
824
825 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
826 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
827 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
828
829 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
830 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
831 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
832
833 acl aclname ext_user username ...
834 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
835 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
836 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
837
838 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
839 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
840
841 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
842 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
843 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
844 #
845 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
846 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
847 # http_reply_access.
848
849 Examples:
850 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
851 acl myexample dst_as 1241
852 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
853 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
854 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
855
856 NOCOMMENT_START
857 #
858 # Recommended minimum configuration:
859 #
860 acl manager proto cache_object
861 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
862 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
863
864 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
865 # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
866 # should be allowed
867 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
868 acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
869 acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
870 acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
871 acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
872
873 acl SSL_ports port 443
874 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
875 acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
876 acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
877 acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
878 acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
879 acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
880 acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
881 acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
882 acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
883 acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
884 acl CONNECT method CONNECT
885 NOCOMMENT_END
886 DOC_END
887
888 NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
889 TYPE: acl_access
890 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
891 LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
892 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
893 DOC_START
894 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
895 find the original source of a request.
896
897 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
898 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
899 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
900 rightmost address being the most recent.
901
902 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
903 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
904 to see where that host received the request from. If the
905 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
906 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
907 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
908 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
909 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
910 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
911
912 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
913 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
914 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
915 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
916 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
917 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
918
919 This clause only supports fast acl types.
920 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
921
922 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
923
924 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
925 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
926 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
927 source address of the request. This may enable remote
928 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
929 based on the client's source addresses.
930
931 For example:
932
933 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
934 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
935 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
936 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
937 DOC_END
938
939 NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
940 COMMENT: on|off
941 TYPE: onoff
942 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
943 DEFAULT: on
944 LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
945 DOC_START
946 Controls whether the indirect client address
947 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
948 direct client address in acl matching.
949
950 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
951 clients will always have zero. So no match.
952 DOC_END
953
954 NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
955 COMMENT: on|off
956 TYPE: onoff
957 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
958 DEFAULT: on
959 LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
960 DOC_START
961 Controls whether the indirect client address
962 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
963 direct client address in delay pools.
964 DOC_END
965
966 NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
967 COMMENT: on|off
968 TYPE: onoff
969 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
970 DEFAULT: on
971 LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
972 DOC_START
973 Controls whether the indirect client address
974 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
975 direct client address in the access log.
976 DOC_END
977
978 NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
979 COMMENT: on|off
980 TYPE: onoff
981 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
982 DEFAULT: off
983 LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
984 DOC_START
985 Controls whether the indirect client address
986 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
987 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
988
989 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
990 mode ports.
991
992 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
993 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
994 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
995 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
996 DOC_END
997
998 NAME: http_access
999 TYPE: acl_access
1000 LOC: Config.accessList.http
1001 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1002 DOC_START
1003 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1004
1005 Access to the HTTP port:
1006 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1007
1008 NOTE on default values:
1009
1010 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1011 the request.
1012
1013 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1014 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1015 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1016 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
1017 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1018 lists to avoid potential confusion.
1019
1020 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1021 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1022
1023 NOCOMMENT_START
1024
1025 #
1026 # Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
1027 #
1028 # Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
1029 http_access allow manager localhost
1030 http_access deny manager
1031
1032 # Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
1033 http_access deny !Safe_ports
1034
1035 # Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
1036 http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
1037
1038 # We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1039 # web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1040 # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1041 #http_access deny to_localhost
1042
1043 #
1044 # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
1045 #
1046
1047 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1048 # Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1049 # from where browsing should be allowed
1050 http_access allow localnet
1051 http_access allow localhost
1052
1053 # And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1054 http_access deny all
1055 NOCOMMENT_END
1056 DOC_END
1057
1058 NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1059 TYPE: acl_access
1060 LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1061 DEFAULT: none
1062 DOC_START
1063 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1064
1065 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1066 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1067 output.
1068
1069 If not set then only http_access is used.
1070 DOC_END
1071
1072 NAME: http_reply_access
1073 TYPE: acl_access
1074 LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1075 DEFAULT: none
1076 DOC_START
1077 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
1078
1079 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
1080
1081 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1082 all replies
1083
1084 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1085 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1086 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
1087
1088 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1089 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1090 DOC_END
1091
1092 NAME: icp_access
1093 TYPE: acl_access
1094 LOC: Config.accessList.icp
1095 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1096 DOC_START
1097 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1098 access lists
1099
1100 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1101
1102 See http_access for details
1103
1104 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1105 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1106
1107 # Allow ICP queries from local networks only
1108 #icp_access allow localnet
1109 #icp_access deny all
1110 DOC_END
1111
1112 NAME: htcp_access
1113 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1114 TYPE: acl_access
1115 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
1116 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1117 DOC_START
1118 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1119 access lists
1120
1121 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1122
1123 See http_access for details
1124
1125 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1126 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1127 using the htcp option.
1128
1129 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1130 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1131
1132 # Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
1133 #htcp_access allow localnet
1134 #htcp_access deny all
1135 DOC_END
1136
1137 NAME: htcp_clr_access
1138 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1139 TYPE: acl_access
1140 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
1141 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1142 DOC_START
1143 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1144 on defined access lists
1145
1146 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1147
1148 See http_access for details
1149
1150 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1151 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1152
1153 # Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
1154 acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1155 htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
1156 DOC_END
1157
1158 NAME: miss_access
1159 TYPE: acl_access
1160 LOC: Config.accessList.miss
1161 DEFAULT: allow all
1162 DOC_START
1163 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1164 a parent. For example:
1165
1166 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1167 miss_access allow localclients
1168 miss_access deny !localclients
1169
1170 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1171 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
1172
1173 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1174 to fetch MISSES from us.
1175
1176 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1177 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1178 DOC_END
1179
1180 NAME: ident_lookup_access
1181 TYPE: acl_access
1182 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
1183 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1184 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
1185 DOC_START
1186 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1187 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1188 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1189 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1190 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1191 any requests.
1192
1193 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1194 can follow this example:
1195
1196 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
1197 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1198 ident_lookup_access deny all
1199
1200 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
1201 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1202 the correct result.
1203
1204 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1205 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1206 DOC_END
1207
1208 NAME: reply_body_max_size
1209 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1210 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1211 DEFAULT: none
1212 LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1213 DOC_START
1214 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1215 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1216 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1217 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1218 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1219 for this reply.
1220
1221 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1222 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1223 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1224 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1225 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1226 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1227 and they will receive a partial reply.
1228
1229 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1230 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1231 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1232 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1233
1234 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1235 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1236 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1237 the size of your largest error page.
1238
1239 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1240 no limit imposed.
1241
1242 Configuration Format is:
1243 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1244 ie.
1245 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1246
1247 DOC_END
1248
1249 COMMENT_START
1250 NETWORK OPTIONS
1251 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1252 COMMENT_END
1253
1254 NAME: http_port ascii_port
1255 TYPE: http_port_list
1256 DEFAULT: none
1257 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1258 DOC_START
1259 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1260 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1261 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
1262
1263 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1264 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1265 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1266 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1267 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
1268 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
1269 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1270
1271 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1272 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1273
1274 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1275 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1276 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1277
1278 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1279
1280 Modes:
1281
1282 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1283 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1284 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1285
1286 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1287 connections using the client IP address.
1288 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1289
1290 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1291 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1292
1293 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1294 establish secure connection with the client and with
1295 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1296 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1297 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1298
1299 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1300 the SslBump feature.
1301
1302 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1303
1304
1305 Accelerator Mode Options:
1306
1307 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1308 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1309 never_direct was used.
1310
1311 defaultsite=domainname
1312 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1313 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1314 accelerators should consider the default.
1315 Implies accel.
1316
1317 vhost Using the Host header for virtual domain support.
1318 Also uses the port as specified in Host: header.
1319
1320 vport IP based virtual host support. Using the http_port number
1321 in passed on Host: headers.
1322
1323 vport=NN Uses the specified port number rather than the
1324 http_port number.
1325
1326 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1327 Defaults to http://.
1328
1329 ignore-cc Ignore request Cache-Control headers.
1330
1331 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1332 used in non-accelerator setups.
1333
1334
1335 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1336
1337 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1338
1339 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1340 if not specified, the certificate file is
1341 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1342 key file.
1343
1344 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1345 1 automatic (default)
1346 2 SSLv2 only
1347 3 SSLv3 only
1348 4 TLSv1 only
1349
1350 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1351
1352 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1353 being:
1354 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1355 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1356 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1357 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1358 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1359 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1360 documentation for a complete list of options.
1361
1362 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1363 requesting a client certificate.
1364
1365 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1366 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1367 clientca will be used.
1368
1369 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1370 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1371
1372 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1373 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1374 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1375
1376 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1377 DH key exchanges.
1378
1379 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1380 DELAYED_AUTH
1381 Don't request client certificates
1382 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1383 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1384 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1385 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1386 to OpenSSL.
1387 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1388 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1389 will result in a new SSL session.
1390 VERIFY_CRL
1391 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1392 certificates.
1393 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1394 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1395 client certificate chain.
1396
1397 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1398
1399 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1400 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1401 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1402 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1403 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1404 certificate will be selfsigned.
1405 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1406 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1407 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1408 years.
1409 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1410 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1411
1412 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1413 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1414 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1415 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1416 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
1417
1418 Other Options:
1419
1420 connection-auth[=on|off]
1421 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1422 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
1423 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1424
1425 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1426 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1427 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1428 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1429 support is enabled.
1430 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1431
1432 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1433 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1434 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1435 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1436 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1437 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1438 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1439 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1440
1441 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1442 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1443
1444 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1445 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections.
1446 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1447 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1448 timeout the time before giving up.
1449
1450 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1451 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1452 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1453 visible on the internal address.
1454
1455 NOCOMMENT_START
1456
1457 # Squid normally listens to port 3128
1458 http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1459 NOCOMMENT_END
1460 DOC_END
1461
1462 NAME: https_port
1463 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1464 TYPE: https_port_list
1465 DEFAULT: none
1466 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1467 DOC_START
1468 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1469
1470 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1471 requests.
1472
1473 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1474 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1475 accelerator level.
1476
1477 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1478 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1479
1480 Options:
1481
1482 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1483 defaultsite or vhost.
1484
1485 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1486 this port. Implies accel.
1487
1488 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1489 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1490 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1491 Implies accel.
1492
1493 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1494 Defaults to https.
1495
1496 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1497
1498 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1499 if not specified, the certificate file is
1500 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1501 key file.
1502
1503 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1504 1 automatic (default)
1505 2 SSLv2 only
1506 3 SSLv3 only
1507 4 TLSv1 only
1508
1509 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1510
1511 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1512 being:
1513 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1514 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1515 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1516 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1517 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1518 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1519 documentation for a complete list of options.
1520
1521 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1522 requesting a client certificate.
1523
1524 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1525 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1526 clientca will be used.
1527
1528 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1529 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1530
1531 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1532 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1533 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1534
1535 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1536 DH key exchanges.
1537
1538 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1539 DELAYED_AUTH
1540 Don't request client certificates
1541 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1542 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1543 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1544 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1545 to OpenSSL.
1546 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1547 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1548 will result in a new SSL session.
1549 VERIFY_CRL
1550 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1551 certificates.
1552 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1553 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1554 client certificate chain.
1555
1556 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1557
1558 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1559
1560 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1561 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1562
1563 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1564 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1565
1566 DOC_END
1567
1568 NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1569 TYPE: acl_tos
1570 DEFAULT: none
1571 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
1572 DOC_START
1573 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1574 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1575
1576 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1577
1578 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1579 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1580
1581 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1582 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1583 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1584 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1585
1586 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1587 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1588 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1589
1590 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1591 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1592 practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1593 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1594
1595 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1596 matching line.
1597 DOC_END
1598
1599 NAME: clientside_tos
1600 TYPE: acl_tos
1601 DEFAULT: none
1602 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1603 DOC_START
1604 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1605 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1606
1607 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1608
1609 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1610 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1611
1612 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1613 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1614 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1615 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1616
1617 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1618 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1619 DOC_END
1620
1621 NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1622 TYPE: acl_nfmark
1623 IFDEF: SO_MARK
1624 DEFAULT: none
1625 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1626 DOC_START
1627 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1628 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1629
1630 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1631
1632 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1633 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1634
1635 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1636 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1637 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1638 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1639 DOC_END
1640
1641 NAME: clientside_mark
1642 TYPE: acl_nfmark
1643 IFDEF: SO_MARK
1644 DEFAULT: none
1645 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
1646 DOC_START
1647 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1648 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1649
1650 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1651
1652 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1653 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1654
1655 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1656 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1657 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1658 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1659
1660 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1661 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
1662 DOC_END
1663
1664 NAME: qos_flows
1665 TYPE: QosConfig
1666 IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
1667 DEFAULT: none
1668 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
1669 DOC_START
1670 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1671 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced. For
1672 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1673 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
1674
1675 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
1676 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1677 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1678
1679 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255. Note that
1680 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1681 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1682
1683 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
1684
1685 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
1686
1687 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
1688
1689 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1690
1691 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1692
1693 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1694
1695 miss=0xFF Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
1696 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
1697
1698 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
1699 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1700 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1701 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1702 with all variants of netfilter.
1703
1704 disable-preserve-miss
1705 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
1706 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1707 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1708 and masked with miss-mark.
1709 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1710 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1711 (MARK target).
1712
1713 miss-mask=0xFF
1714 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
1715 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1716 the TOS sent towards clients.
1717 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1718 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1719
1720 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1721 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1722 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1723 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
1724
1725 DOC_END
1726
1727 NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1728 TYPE: acl_address
1729 DEFAULT: none
1730 LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1731 DOC_START
1732 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1733 based on the username or source address of the user making
1734 the request.
1735
1736 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
1737
1738 Example where requests from 10.0.0.0/24 will be forwarded
1739 with source address 10.1.0.1, 10.0.2.0/24 forwarded with
1740 source address 10.1.0.2 and the rest will be forwarded with
1741 source address 10.1.0.3.
1742
1743 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1744 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1745 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1746 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1747 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
1748
1749 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1750 matching line.
1751
1752 Note: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1753 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1754 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1755 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
1756
1757 Note: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
1758 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1759 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option to
1760 re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
1761
1762 IPv6 Magic:
1763
1764 Squid is built with a capability of bridging the IPv4 and IPv6
1765 internets.
1766 tcp_outgoing_address as exampled above breaks this bridging by forcing
1767 all outbound traffic through a certain IPv4 which may be on the wrong
1768 side of the IPv4/IPv6 boundary.
1769
1770 To operate with tcp_outgoing_address and keep the bridging benefits
1771 an additional ACL needs to be used which ensures the IPv6-bound traffic
1772 is never forced or permitted out the IPv4 interface.
1773
1774 # IPv6 destination test along with a dummy access control to perofrm the required DNS
1775 # This MUST be place before any ALLOW rules.
1776 acl to_ipv6 dst ipv6
1777 http_access deny ipv6 !all
1778
1779 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net to_ipv6
1780 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net !to_ipv6
1781
1782 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net to_ipv6
1783 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net !to_ipv6
1784
1785 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1 to_ipv6
1786 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3 !to_ipv6
1787
1788 WARNING:
1789 'dst ipv6' bases its selection assuming DIRECT access.
1790 If peers are used the peername ACL are needed to select outgoing
1791 address which can link to the peer.
1792
1793 'dst ipv6' is a slow ACL. It will only work here if 'dst' is used
1794 previously in the http_access rules to locate the destination IP.
1795 Some more magic may be needed for that:
1796 http_access allow to_ipv6 !all
1797 (meaning, allow if to IPv6 but not from anywhere ;)
1798
1799 DOC_END
1800
1801 COMMENT_START
1802 SSL OPTIONS
1803 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1804 COMMENT_END
1805
1806 NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1807 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1808 TYPE: onoff
1809 DEFAULT: off
1810 LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
1811 DOC_START
1812 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1813 messages.
1814 DOC_END
1815
1816 NAME: ssl_engine
1817 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1818 TYPE: string
1819 LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1820 DEFAULT: none
1821 DOC_START
1822 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1823 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
1824 DOC_END
1825
1826 NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1827 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1828 DEFAULT: none
1829 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1830 TYPE: string
1831 DOC_START
1832 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
1833 DOC_END
1834
1835 NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1836 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1837 DEFAULT: none
1838 LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1839 TYPE: string
1840 DOC_START
1841 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
1842 DOC_END
1843
1844 NAME: sslproxy_version
1845 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1846 DEFAULT: 1
1847 LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1848 TYPE: int
1849 DOC_START
1850 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
1851 DOC_END
1852
1853 NAME: sslproxy_options
1854 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1855 DEFAULT: none
1856 LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1857 TYPE: string
1858 DOC_START
1859 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
1860
1861 The most important being:
1862
1863 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1864 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1865 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1866 SINGLE_DH_USE
1867 Always create a new key when using
1868 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1869
1870 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1871 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1872 complete list of possible options.
1873 DOC_END
1874
1875 NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1876 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1877 DEFAULT: none
1878 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1879 TYPE: string
1880 DOC_START
1881 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
1882
1883 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1884 DOC_END
1885
1886 NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1887 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1888 DEFAULT: none
1889 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1890 TYPE: string
1891 DOC_START
1892 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1893 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
1894 DOC_END
1895
1896 NAME: sslproxy_capath
1897 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1898 DEFAULT: none
1899 LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1900 TYPE: string
1901 DOC_START
1902 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1903 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
1904 DOC_END
1905
1906 NAME: ssl_bump
1907 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1908 TYPE: acl_access
1909 LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1910 DEFAULT: none
1911 DOC_START
1912 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1913 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1914 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1915 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1916
1917 By default, no requests are bumped.
1918
1919 See also: http_port sslBump
1920
1921 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1922 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1923
1924
1925 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1926 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1927
1928 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1929 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1930 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1931 ssl_bump deny localhost
1932 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1933 ssl_bump allow all
1934 DOC_END
1935
1936 NAME: sslproxy_flags
1937 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1938 DEFAULT: none
1939 LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1940 TYPE: string
1941 DOC_START
1942 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
1943 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1944 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
1945 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1946 to OpenSSL.
1947 DOC_END
1948
1949
1950 NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1951 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1952 DEFAULT: none
1953 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1954 TYPE: acl_access
1955 DOC_START
1956 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1957
1958 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1959 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1960 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1961
1962 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1963 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1964 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1965
1966 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1967 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1968 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
1969
1970 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1971 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1972 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1973 the connection may be insecure.
1974
1975 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1976
1977 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1978 DOC_END
1979
1980
1981
1982 NAME: sslpassword_program
1983 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1984 DEFAULT: none
1985 LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1986 TYPE: string
1987 DOC_START
1988 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1989 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1990 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1991 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
1992
1993 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
1994 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
1995 keys.
1996 DOC_END
1997
1998 COMMENT_START
1999 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2000 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2001 COMMENT_END
2002
2003 NAME: sslcrtd_program
2004 TYPE: eol
2005 IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2006 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2007 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2008 DOC_START
2009 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2010 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2011 For more information use:
2012 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2013 DOC_END
2014
2015 NAME: sslcrtd_children
2016 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2017 IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2018 DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2019 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2020 DOC_START
2021 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2022 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2023
2024 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2025 tuning.
2026
2027 startup=N
2028
2029 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2030 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2031 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2032
2033 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2034 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2035
2036 idle=N
2037
2038 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2039 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2040 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2041 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2042
2043 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2044 DOC_END
2045
2046 COMMENT_START
2047 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
2048 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2049 COMMENT_END
2050
2051 NAME: cache_peer
2052 TYPE: peer
2053 DEFAULT: none
2054 LOC: Config.peers
2055 DOC_START
2056 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2057
2058 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2059
2060 For example,
2061
2062 # proxy icp
2063 # hostname type port port options
2064 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2065 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
2066 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2067 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2068 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 no-query default
2069 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2070
2071 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2072
2073 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2074 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2075 For web servers this is usually 80
2076
2077 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2078 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2079 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2080
2081
2082 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2083
2084 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2085 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2086
2087
2088 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2089
2090 multicast-responder
2091 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2092 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2093 replies will be accepted from it.
2094
2095 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2096 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2097
2098 background-ping
2099 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2100 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2101 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2102
2103
2104 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2105
2106 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2107 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2108
2109
2110 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2111 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
2112 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2113 list of options described below.
2114
2115 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2116
2117 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2118 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
2119 only-clr.
2120
2121 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2122 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2123
2124 htcp=no-purge-clr
2125 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2126 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2127
2128 htcp=forward-clr
2129 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2130
2131
2132 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2133
2134 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2135 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2136
2137
2138 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2139 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2140 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2141
2142 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2143 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2144 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2145
2146 weighted-round-robin
2147 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2148 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2149 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2150 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2151 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2152
2153 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2154 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2155 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2156
2157 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2158
2159 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
2160
2161 multicast-siblings
2162 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2163 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2164 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2165 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2166 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2167 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2168 members of the same multicast group.
2169
2170
2171 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2172
2173 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2174 peer-selection mechanisms.
2175 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2176 larger weights are favored more.
2177 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2178 protocol is not in use.
2179
2180 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2181 times of parents.
2182 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2183 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2184 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2185
2186 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2187 to this address.
2188 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2189 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2190 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2191 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2192
2193 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2194 delay pools.
2195
2196 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2197 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2198 than the Squid default location.
2199
2200
2201 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2202
2203 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2204 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2205 is a web server.
2206
2207 forceddomain=name
2208 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2209 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2210 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2211 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2212
2213 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2214
2215 no-netdb-exchange
2216 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2217
2218
2219 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2220
2221 login=user:password
2222 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2223 requires proxy authentication.
2224
2225 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2226 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2227
2228 login=PASSTHRU
2229 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2230 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2231 without alteration to the peer.
2232 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2233
2234 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2235 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2236 connection-auth options are also used.
2237
2238 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2239 Authentication is not required by this option.
2240
2241 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2242 to pass on, but username and password are available
2243 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
2244 they may be sent instead.
2245
2246 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2247 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2248 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2249 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2250 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2251
2252 login=*:password
2253 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2254 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2255 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2256 needed to identify each user.
2257 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2258 information which is added to the username. This can
2259 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2260 the login=username:password option above.
2261
2262 login=NEGOTIATE
2263 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2264 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2265 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2266 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2267
2268 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2269 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2270 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2271 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2272 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2273 used.
2274
2275 connection-auth=on|off
2276 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2277 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2278 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2279 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2280 of the peer.
2281
2282
2283 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2284
2285 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2286
2287 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2288 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2289 this peer.
2290
2291 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2292 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2293 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2294 reference a combined file containing both the
2295 certificate and the key.
2296
2297 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2298 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2299 1 = automatic (default)
2300 2 = SSL v2 only
2301 3 = SSL v3 only
2302 4 = TLS v1 only
2303
2304 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2305 to this peer.
2306
2307 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2308 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2309 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2310 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2311 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2312 a more complete list.
2313
2314 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2315 when verifying the peer certificate.
2316
2317 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2318 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2319
2320 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2321 verifying the peer certificate.
2322
2323 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2324
2325 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2326 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2327 verify.
2328 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2329 Don't use the default CA list built in
2330 to OpenSSL.
2331 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2332 Don't verify the peer certificate
2333 matches the server name
2334
2335 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2336 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2337 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2338 used.
2339
2340 front-end-https
2341 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2342 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2343 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2344 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2345 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2346
2347
2348 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2349
2350 connect-timeout=N
2351 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2352 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2353
2354 connect-fail-limit=N
2355 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2356 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2357
2358 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2359 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2360 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2361 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2362 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2363 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2364 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2365
2366 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2367 peer. see also
2368
2369 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2370 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2371 but different ports.
2372 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2373 directives to dentify the peer.
2374 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2375 peername ACL type.
2376
2377 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2378 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2379
2380 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2381
2382 DOC_END
2383
2384 NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2385 TYPE: hostdomain
2386 DEFAULT: none
2387 LOC: none
2388 DOC_START
2389 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2390 queried. Usage:
2391
2392 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2393 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
2394
2395 For example, specifying
2396
2397 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
2398
2399 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2400 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2401 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2402 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2403 NOT in that domain.
2404
2405 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2406 either on the same or separate lines.
2407 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2408 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2409 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2410 for all requests.
2411 * There are no defaults.
2412 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2413 section.
2414 DOC_END
2415
2416 NAME: cache_peer_access
2417 TYPE: peer_access
2418 DEFAULT: none
2419 LOC: none
2420 DOC_START
2421 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2422 using ACL elements.
2423
2424 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2425
2426 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2427 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2428 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
2429 DOC_END
2430
2431 NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2432 TYPE: hostdomaintype
2433 DEFAULT: none
2434 LOC: none
2435 DOC_START
2436 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
2437
2438 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
2439 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
2440 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2441 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2442 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2443 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
2444
2445 EXAMPLE:
2446 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
2447 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2448 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2449 DOC_END
2450
2451 NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2452 COMMENT: (seconds)
2453 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2454 TYPE: time_t
2455 LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2456 DOC_START
2457 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2458 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2459 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2460 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2461 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2462 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
2463
2464 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2465 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2466 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2467 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2468 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2469 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2470 instead of to your parents.
2471 DOC_END
2472
2473 NAME: forward_max_tries
2474 DEFAULT: 10
2475 TYPE: int
2476 LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2477 DOC_START
2478 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2479 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2480 DOC_END
2481
2482 NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2483 TYPE: wordlist
2484 DEFAULT: none
2485 LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2486 DOC_START
2487 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2488 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2489 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2490 list this option multiple times.
2491 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
2492 NOCOMMENT_START
2493
2494 # We recommend you to use at least the following line.
2495 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2496 NOCOMMENT_END
2497 DOC_END
2498
2499 COMMENT_START
2500 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2501 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2502 COMMENT_END
2503
2504 NAME: cache_mem
2505 COMMENT: (bytes)
2506 TYPE: b_size_t
2507 DEFAULT: 256 MB
2508 LOC: Config.memMaxSize
2509 DOC_START
2510 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2511 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2512 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2513 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2514
2515 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2516 for:
2517 * In-Transit objects
2518 * Hot Objects
2519 * Negative-Cached objects
2520
2521 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2522 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2523 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2524 priority.
2525
2526 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2527 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2528 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2529 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2530 not needed for in-transit objects.
2531
2532 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2533 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2534 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2535 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2536 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2537 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2538 objects.
2539 DOC_END
2540
2541 NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2542 COMMENT: (bytes)
2543 TYPE: b_size_t
2544 DEFAULT: 512 KB
2545 LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
2546 DOC_START
2547 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2548 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2549 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2550 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
2551 DOC_END
2552
2553 NAME: memory_cache_mode
2554 TYPE: memcachemode
2555 LOC: Config
2556 DEFAULT: always
2557 DOC_START
2558 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
2559
2560 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2561
2562 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2563 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2564 a second time before cached in memory.
2565
2566 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
2567 DOC_END
2568
2569 NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2570 TYPE: removalpolicy
2571 LOC: Config.memPolicy
2572 DEFAULT: lru
2573 DOC_START
2574 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2575 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
2576
2577 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2578 DOC_END
2579
2580 COMMENT_START
2581 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2582 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2583 COMMENT_END
2584
2585 NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2586 TYPE: removalpolicy
2587 LOC: Config.replPolicy
2588 DEFAULT: lru
2589 DOC_START
2590 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2591 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
2592
2593 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2594 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2595 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2596 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
2597
2598 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
2599
2600 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
2601
2602 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2603 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2604 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2605 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
2606
2607 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2608 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2609 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2610 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
2611
2612 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2613 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2614 replacement policies.
2615
2616 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2617 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2618 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
2619
2620 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2621 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2622 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
2623 DOC_END
2624
2625 NAME: cache_dir
2626 TYPE: cachedir
2627 DEFAULT: none
2628 LOC: Config.cacheSwap
2629 DOC_START
2630 Usage:
2631
2632 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
2633
2634 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2635 cache among different disk partitions.
2636
2637 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2638 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2639 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
2640
2641 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2642 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2643 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2644 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2645 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
2646
2647 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2648 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2649 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2650
2651 The ufs store type:
2652
2653 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2654 been there.
2655
2656 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
2657
2658 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2659 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2660 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2661 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2662 subtract 20% and use that value.
2663
2664 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2665 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
2666
2667 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2668 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2669 is 256.
2670
2671 The aufs store type:
2672
2673 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2674 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2675 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
2676
2677 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
2678
2679 see argument descriptions under ufs above
2680
2681 The diskd store type:
2682
2683 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2684 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2685 disk-I/O.
2686
2687 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
2688
2689 see argument descriptions under ufs above
2690
2691 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2692 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2693 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
2694
2695 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2696 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2697 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
2698
2699 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2700 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2701 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2702 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2703 time.
2704
2705 The rock store type:
2706
2707 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes>
2708
2709 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
2710 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
2711 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
2712 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
2713 below for more info on the max-size option.
2714
2715 The coss store type:
2716
2717 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2718 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2719 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2720
2721 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2722 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2723 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2724 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2725 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2726 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2727 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
2728
2729 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2730 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2731 this will be created by squid -z.
2732
2733 Common options:
2734
2735 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
2736
2737 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2738 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2739 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2740 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2741
2742 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2743 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
2744 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2745 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2746 ones with no max-size specification last.
2747
2748 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2749 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2750 option.
2751 NOCOMMENT_START
2752
2753 # Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2754 #cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
2755 NOCOMMENT_END
2756 DOC_END
2757
2758 NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2759 TYPE: string
2760 LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2761 DEFAULT: least-load
2762 DOC_START
2763 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
2764 DOC_END
2765
2766 NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2767 TYPE: int
2768 LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2769 DEFAULT: 0
2770 DOC_START
2771 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2772 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2773 descriptors are open.
2774
2775 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
2776 DOC_END
2777
2778 NAME: minimum_object_size
2779 COMMENT: (bytes)
2780 TYPE: b_int64_t
2781 DEFAULT: 0 KB
2782 LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
2783 DOC_START
2784 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2785 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2786 means there is no minimum.
2787 DOC_END
2788
2789 NAME: maximum_object_size
2790 COMMENT: (bytes)
2791 TYPE: b_int64_t
2792 DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2793 LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
2794 DOC_START
2795 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2796 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2797 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2798 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2799 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2800 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
2801
2802 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2803 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2804 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
2805 DOC_END
2806
2807 NAME: cache_swap_low
2808 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2809 TYPE: int
2810 DEFAULT: 90
2811 LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2812 DOC_NONE
2813
2814 NAME: cache_swap_high
2815 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2816 TYPE: int
2817 DEFAULT: 95
2818 LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
2819 DOC_START
2820
2821 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2822 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2823 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2824 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2825 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2826 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2827
2828 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2829 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2830 numbers closer together.
2831 DOC_END
2832
2833 COMMENT_START
2834 LOGFILE OPTIONS
2835 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2836 COMMENT_END
2837
2838 NAME: logformat
2839 TYPE: logformat
2840 LOC: Log::TheConfig
2841 DEFAULT: none
2842 DOC_START
2843 Usage:
2844
2845 logformat <name> <format specification>
2846
2847 Defines an access log format.
2848
2849 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
2850
2851 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2852 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2853 as required according to their context and the output format
2854 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2855 output format is desired.
2856
2857 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
2858
2859 " output in quoted string format
2860 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2861 # output in URL quoted format
2862 ' output as-is
2863
2864 - left aligned
2865 width minimum and/or maximum field width: [min][.max]
2866 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
2867 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
2868 {arg} argument such as header name etc
2869
2870 Format codes:
2871
2872 % a literal % character
2873 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2874 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2875 a similar internal error identifier.
2876 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2877
2878 Connection related format codes:
2879
2880 >a Client source IP address
2881 >A Client FQDN
2882 >p Client source port
2883 >eui Client EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
2884 <A Server IP address or peer name
2885 la Local IP address (http_port)
2886 lp Local port number (http_port)
2887 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
2888 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
2889
2890 Time related format codes:
2891
2892 ts Seconds since epoch
2893 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2894 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2895 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2896 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2897 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2898 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2899 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
2900
2901 HTTP cache related format codes:
2902
2903 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
2904 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2905 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2906 Optional header name argument as for >h
2907 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2908 as for >h
2909 [http::]un User name
2910 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2911 [http::]ui User name from ident
2912 [http::]us User name from SSL
2913 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2914 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2915 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
2916 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
2917 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
2918 transfer encoding and control messages.
2919 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
2920 received bodies.
2921 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2922 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2923 [http::]mt MIME content type
2924 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2925 [http::]ru Request URL
2926 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2927 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2928 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2929 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2930 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2931 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2932 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2933 are not included
2934 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2935 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2936 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2937 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2938 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2939 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2940 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2941 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2942 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2943 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2944 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2945 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2946
2947 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
2948 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2949
2950 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2951 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2952 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2953 transaction is in progress.
2954
2955 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
2956
2957 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
2958 meta-information from the last eCAP
2959 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
2960 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
2961 argument.
2962
2963 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2964 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2965 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2966 value is recorded as an integer number,
2967 representing response time of one or more
2968 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2969 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2970 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2971 logged individually but added to the
2972 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2973 adapt::all_trs.
2974
2975 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2976 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2977 individual transactions are never added
2978 together. Instead, all transaction response
2979 times are recorded individually.
2980
2981 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2982 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2983 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
2984
2985 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2986
2987 logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2988 logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2989 logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
2990 logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
2991 logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
2992
2993 When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON. The squid, common and combined
2994 formats have a safely encoded copy of the mime headers appended to each line
2995 within a pair of brackets.
2996
2997 The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
2998 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
2999 DOC_END
3000
3001 NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3002 TYPE: access_log
3003 LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
3004 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
3005 DOC_START
3006 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3007 ICP request. The format is:
3008 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3009 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
3010
3011 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
3012 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3013 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
3014 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3015
3016 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3017
3018 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
3019 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3020
3021 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3022 each request.
3023 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3024
3025 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3026 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3027 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3028
3029 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3030
3031 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3032 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3033 Place Format: facility.priority
3034
3035 where facility could be any of:
3036 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
3037
3038 And priority could be any of:
3039 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3040
3041 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3042 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3043 Place Format: \\host:port
3044
3045 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3046 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3047 Place Format: \\host:port
3048
3049 Default:
3050 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
3051 DOC_END
3052
3053 NAME: icap_log
3054 TYPE: access_log
3055 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3056 LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3057 DEFAULT: none
3058 DOC_START
3059 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3060 transaction.
3061
3062 The icap_log option format is:
3063 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3064 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3065
3066 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3067 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3068 features.
3069
3070 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3071 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3072 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3073 log line.
3074
3075 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3076 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3077 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3078 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3079 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3080 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3081 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3082
3083 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3084
3085 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3086
3087 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3088 option in Squid configuration file.
3089
3090 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3091
3092 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3093 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3094
3095 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3096 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3097
3098 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3099 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3100 the socket).
3101
3102 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3103 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3104 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3105 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3106 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3107 computed.
3108
3109 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
3110 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3111 the ICAP transaction is created and
3112 stops when the transaction is completed.
3113 Similar to tr.
3114
3115 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3116 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3117 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3118 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3119 is received.
3120
3121 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3122 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3123 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3124 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3125 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3126 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3127
3128 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3129
3130 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3131
3132 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3133
3134 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3135 definition, is called icap_squid:
3136
3137 logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3138
3139 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
3140 DOC_END
3141
3142 NAME: logfile_daemon
3143 TYPE: string
3144 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3145 LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3146 DOC_START
3147 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3148 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
3149
3150 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3151 L<data>\n - logfile data
3152 R\n - rotate file
3153 T\n - truncate file
3154 O\n - reopen file
3155 F\n - flush file
3156 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3157 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3158
3159 No responses is expected.
3160 DOC_END
3161
3162 NAME: log_access
3163 TYPE: acl_access
3164 LOC: Config.accessList.log
3165 DEFAULT: none
3166 COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3167 DOC_START
3168 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3169 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3170 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
3171
3172 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3173 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3174 DOC_END
3175
3176 NAME: log_icap
3177 TYPE: acl_access
3178 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3179 LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3180 DEFAULT: none
3181 DOC_START
3182 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3183 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3184 DOC_END
3185
3186 NAME: cache_store_log
3187 TYPE: string
3188 DEFAULT: none
3189 LOC: Config.Log.store
3190 DOC_START
3191 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3192 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
3193 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3194 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
3195 disable it.
3196
3197 Example:
3198 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3199 DOC_END
3200
3201 NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3202 TYPE: string
3203 LOC: Config.Log.swap
3204 DEFAULT: none
3205 DOC_START
3206 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3207 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3208 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3209 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3210 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3211 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3212 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
3213
3214 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3215 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3216 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3217 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
3218
3219 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3220 these swap logs will have names such as:
3221
3222 cache_swap_log.00
3223 cache_swap_log.01
3224 cache_swap_log.02
3225
3226 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3227 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3228 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3229 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3230 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3231 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3232 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
3233 DOC_END
3234
3235 NAME: logfile_rotate
3236 TYPE: int
3237 DEFAULT: 10
3238 LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3239 DOC_START
3240 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3241 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3242 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3243 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3244 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3245 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3246
3247 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3248 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3249 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3250 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3251 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3252 <pid>'.
3253
3254 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3255 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
3256 DOC_END
3257
3258 NAME: emulate_httpd_log
3259 TYPE: obsolete
3260 DOC_START
3261 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
3262 DOC_END
3263
3264 NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3265 COMMENT: on|off
3266 TYPE: onoff
3267 DEFAULT: on
3268 LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
3269 DOC_START
3270 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
3271 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
3272 prefer the old way set this to off.
3273 DOC_END
3274
3275 NAME: mime_table
3276 TYPE: string
3277 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3278 LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3279 DOC_START
3280 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3281 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3282 information if you do.
3283 DOC_END
3284
3285 NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3286 COMMENT: on|off
3287 TYPE: onoff
3288 LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3289 DEFAULT: off
3290 DOC_START
3291 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3292 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3293 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3294 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3295 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3296 DOC_END
3297
3298 NAME: useragent_log
3299 TYPE: obsolete
3300 DOC_START
3301 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
3302 DOC_END
3303
3304 NAME: referer_log referrer_log
3305 TYPE: obsolete
3306 DOC_START
3307 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
3308 DOC_END
3309
3310 NAME: pid_filename
3311 TYPE: string
3312 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3313 LOC: Config.pidFilename
3314 DOC_START
3315 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
3316 DOC_END
3317
3318 NAME: log_fqdn
3319 TYPE: obsolete
3320 DOC_START
3321 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
3322 DOC_END
3323
3324 NAME: client_netmask
3325 TYPE: address
3326 LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
3327 DEFAULT: no_addr
3328 DOC_START
3329 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3330 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3331 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3332 the last digit set to '0'.
3333 DOC_END
3334
3335 NAME: forward_log
3336 TYPE: obsolete
3337 DOC_START
3338 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
3339 DOC_END
3340
3341 NAME: strip_query_terms
3342 TYPE: onoff
3343 LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
3344 DEFAULT: on
3345 DOC_START
3346 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3347 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
3348 DOC_END
3349
3350 NAME: buffered_logs
3351 COMMENT: on|off
3352 TYPE: onoff
3353 DEFAULT: off
3354 LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3355 DOC_START
3356 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3357 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3358 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3359 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3360 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3361 DOC_END
3362
3363 NAME: netdb_filename
3364 TYPE: string
3365 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3366 LOC: Config.netdbFilename
3367 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3368 DOC_START
3369 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3370 To disable, enter "none".
3371 DOC_END
3372
3373 COMMENT_START
3374 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3375 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3376 COMMENT_END
3377
3378 NAME: cache_log
3379 TYPE: string
3380 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3381 LOC: Debug::cache_log
3382 DOC_START
3383 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3384 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3385 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3386 DOC_END
3387
3388 NAME: debug_options
3389 TYPE: eol
3390 DEFAULT: ALL,1
3391 LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3392 DOC_START
3393 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3394 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3395 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3396 log file, so be careful.
3397
3398 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3399 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3400
3401 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3402 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
3403 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3404 events affecting Squid.
3405 DOC_END
3406
3407 NAME: coredump_dir
3408 TYPE: string
3409 LOC: Config.coredump_dir
3410 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3411 DOC_START
3412 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3413 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3414 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3415 and coredump files will be left there.
3416
3417 NOCOMMENT_START
3418
3419 # Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3420 coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3421 NOCOMMENT_END
3422 DOC_END
3423
3424
3425 COMMENT_START
3426 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3427 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3428 COMMENT_END
3429
3430 NAME: ftp_user
3431 TYPE: string
3432 DEFAULT: Squid@
3433 LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
3434 DOC_START
3435 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3436 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3437 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
3438
3439 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3440 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3441 depending on how the cache is used.
3442 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3443 (for example perl.com).
3444 DOC_END
3445
3446 NAME: ftp_passive
3447 TYPE: onoff
3448 DEFAULT: on
3449 LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
3450 DOC_START
3451 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3452 connections, turn off this option.
3453
3454 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3455 DOC_END
3456
3457 NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3458 TYPE: onoff
3459 DEFAULT: off
3460 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3461 DOC_START
3462 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3463
3464 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3465 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3466 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3467
3468 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3469 useful.
3470 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3471 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3472
3473 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3474 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3475
3476 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3477 DOC_END
3478
3479 NAME: ftp_epsv
3480 TYPE: onoff
3481 DEFAULT: on
3482 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3483 DOC_START
3484 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3485
3486 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3487 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3488 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3489 will never be needed.
3490
3491 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3492 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3493 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3494
3495 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3496 DOC_END
3497
3498 NAME: ftp_eprt
3499 TYPE: onoff
3500 DEFAULT: on
3501 LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3502 DOC_START
3503 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3504
3505 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3506 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3507 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3508
3509 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3510 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3511
3512 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3513 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3514 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3515 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3516
3517 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3518 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3519 DOC_END
3520
3521 NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3522 TYPE: onoff
3523 DEFAULT: on
3524 LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3525 DOC_START
3526 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3527 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3528 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3529 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3530 connection turn this off.
3531 DOC_END
3532
3533 NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3534 TYPE: onoff
3535 DEFAULT: on
3536 LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3537 DOC_START
3538 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3539 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3540 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3541 the FTP protocol.
3542
3543 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3544 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3545 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3546 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3547 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3548 DOC_END
3549
3550 COMMENT_START
3551 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3552 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3553 COMMENT_END
3554
3555 NAME: diskd_program
3556 TYPE: string
3557 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3558 LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3559 DOC_START
3560 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3561 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3562 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3563 DOC_END
3564
3565 NAME: unlinkd_program
3566 IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3567 TYPE: string
3568 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3569 LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3570 DOC_START
3571 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3572 DOC_END
3573
3574 NAME: pinger_program
3575 TYPE: string
3576 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
3577 LOC: Config.pinger.program
3578 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3579 DOC_START
3580 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3581 DOC_END
3582
3583 NAME: pinger_enable
3584 TYPE: onoff
3585 DEFAULT: on
3586 LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3587 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3588 DOC_START
3589 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
3590 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3591 squid -k reconfigure.
3592 DOC_END
3593
3594
3595 COMMENT_START
3596 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3597 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3598 COMMENT_END
3599
3600 NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3601 TYPE: wordlist
3602 LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3603 DEFAULT: none
3604 DOC_START
3605 Specify the location of the executable for the URL rewriter.
3606 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3607
3608 For each requested URL rewriter will receive on line with the format
3609
3610 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3611
3612 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3613 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3614 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3615 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
3616
3617 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3618 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3619
3620 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3621 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3622 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily).
3623
3624 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3625 DOC_END
3626
3627 NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
3628 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
3629 DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
3630 LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3631 DOC_START
3632 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3633 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3634 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3635 and other system resources noticably.
3636
3637 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3638 tuning.
3639
3640 startup=
3641
3642 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3643 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3644 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3645
3646 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3647 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3648
3649 idle=
3650
3651 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3652 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3653 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3654 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3655
3656 concurrency=
3657
3658 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3659 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3660 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
3661
3662 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3663 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3664 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3665 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3666 to that request.
3667 DOC_END
3668
3669 NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3670 TYPE: onoff
3671 DEFAULT: on
3672 LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3673 DOC_START
3674 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3675 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3676 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3677
3678 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3679 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3680 DOC_END
3681
3682 NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3683 TYPE: acl_access
3684 DEFAULT: none
3685 LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3686 DOC_START
3687 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3688 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3689 are sent.
3690
3691 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3692 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3693 DOC_END
3694
3695 NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3696 TYPE: onoff
3697 LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3698 DEFAULT: off
3699 DOC_START
3700 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3701 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3702 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3703 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3704 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3705 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3706 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3707 users may have access to pages they should not
3708 be allowed to request.
3709 DOC_END
3710
3711 COMMENT_START
3712 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3713 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3714 COMMENT_END
3715
3716 NAME: cache no_cache
3717 TYPE: acl_access
3718 DEFAULT: none
3719 LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
3720 DOC_START
3721 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
3722 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3723 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
3724
3725 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3726 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
3727
3728 Default is to allow all to be cached.
3729
3730 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3731 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3732 DOC_END
3733
3734 NAME: max_stale
3735 COMMENT: time-units
3736 TYPE: time_t
3737 LOC: Config.maxStale
3738 DEFAULT: 1 week
3739 DOC_START
3740 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3741 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3742 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3743 DOC_END
3744
3745 NAME: refresh_pattern
3746 TYPE: refreshpattern
3747 LOC: Config.Refresh
3748 DEFAULT: none
3749 DOC_START
3750 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
3751
3752 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3753 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
3754
3755 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3756 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3757 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3758 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3759 has taken the appropriate actions.
3760
3761 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3762 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3763 will be considered fresh.
3764
3765 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3766 expiry time will be considered fresh.
3767
3768 options: override-expire
3769 override-lastmod
3770 reload-into-ims
3771 ignore-reload
3772 ignore-no-cache
3773 ignore-no-store
3774 ignore-must-revalidate
3775 ignore-private
3776 ignore-auth
3777 max-stale=NN
3778 refresh-ims
3779 store-stale
3780
3781 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
3782 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3783 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3784 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3785 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
3786
3787 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3788 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3789 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3790 the object fresh for that period of time.
3791
3792 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3793 that were modified recently.
3794
3795 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3796 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3797 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3798 liable for problems which it causes.
3799
3800 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3801 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3802 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3803 it causes.
3804
3805 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3806 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3807 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3808 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3809 send it anyway.
3810
3811 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3812 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3813 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3814 liable for problems which it causes.
3815
3816 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3817 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3818 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3819 liable for problems which it causes.
3820
3821 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3822 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3823 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3824 liable for problems which it causes.
3825
3826 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3827 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3828 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3829 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3830 it causes.
3831
3832 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3833 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3834 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3835 if one is available.
3836
3837 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3838 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3839 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3840 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3841 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3842
3843 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3844 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3845 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3846
3847 Basically a cached object is:
3848
3849 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3850 STALE if age > max
3851 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3852 FRESH if age < min
3853 else STALE
3854
3855 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3856 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3857 match the default will be used.
3858
3859 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3860 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3861 used.
3862
3863 NOCOMMENT_START
3864
3865 # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
3866 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3867 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
3868 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
3869 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3870 NOCOMMENT_END
3871 DOC_END
3872
3873 NAME: quick_abort_min
3874 COMMENT: (KB)
3875 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3876 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3877 LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3878 DOC_NONE
3879
3880 NAME: quick_abort_max
3881 COMMENT: (KB)
3882 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3883 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3884 LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3885 DOC_NONE
3886
3887 NAME: quick_abort_pct
3888 COMMENT: (percent)
3889 TYPE: int
3890 DEFAULT: 95
3891 LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3892 DOC_START
3893 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3894 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3895 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3896 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3897 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3898 downloads.
3899
3900 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3901 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3902 then.
3903
3904 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3905 it will finish the retrieval.
3906
3907 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3908 it will abort the retrieval.
3909
3910 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3911 it will finish the retrieval.
3912
3913 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3914 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3915 to '0 KB'.
3916
3917 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3918 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3919 DOC_END
3920
3921 NAME: read_ahead_gap
3922 COMMENT: buffer-size
3923 TYPE: b_int64_t
3924 LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3925 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3926 DOC_START
3927 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3928 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3929 DOC_END
3930
3931 NAME: negative_ttl
3932 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3933 COMMENT: time-units
3934 TYPE: time_t
3935 LOC: Config.negativeTtl
3936 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
3937 DOC_START
3938 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3939 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3940 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3941 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3942 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3943 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3944
3945 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
3946
3947 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3948 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3949 causes.
3950 DOC_END
3951
3952 NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3953 COMMENT: time-units
3954 TYPE: time_t
3955 LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3956 DEFAULT: 6 hours
3957 DOC_START
3958 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3959 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3960 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3961 DOC_END
3962
3963 NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3964 COMMENT: time-units
3965 TYPE: time_t
3966 LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3967 DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3968 DOC_START
3969 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3970 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3971 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3972 much below 10 seconds.
3973 DOC_END
3974
3975 NAME: range_offset_limit
3976 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3977 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
3978 LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3979 DEFAULT: none
3980 DOC_START
3981 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3982
3983 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3984 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3985 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3986 the result is NOT cached.
3987
3988 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3989 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3990 sending anything to the client.
3991
3992 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3993 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3994 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3995 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3996
3997 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3998
3999 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4000 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4001
4002 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
4003 client requested. (default)
4004
4005 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
4006 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
4007
4008 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4009
4010 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4011 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
4012 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4013 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
4014 DOC_END
4015
4016 NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4017 COMMENT: (seconds)
4018 TYPE: time_t
4019 LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4020 DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4021 DOC_START
4022 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4023 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4024 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
4025 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4026 is most likely better to make your server return a
4027 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4028 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4029 often be best set to 0.
4030 DOC_END
4031
4032 NAME: store_avg_object_size
4033 COMMENT: (bytes)
4034 TYPE: b_int64_t
4035 DEFAULT: 13 KB
4036 LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4037 DOC_START
4038 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4039 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
4040 DOC_END
4041
4042 NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4043 TYPE: int
4044 DEFAULT: 20
4045 LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4046 DOC_START
4047 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4048 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4049 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4050 DOC_END
4051
4052 COMMENT_START
4053 HTTP OPTIONS
4054 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4055 COMMENT_END
4056
4057 NAME: request_header_max_size
4058 COMMENT: (KB)
4059 TYPE: b_size_t
4060 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4061 LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4062 DOC_START
4063 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4064 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4065 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4066 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4067 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4068 DOC_END
4069
4070 NAME: reply_header_max_size
4071 COMMENT: (KB)
4072 TYPE: b_size_t
4073 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4074 LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4075 DOC_START
4076 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4077 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4078 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4079 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4080 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4081 DOC_END
4082
4083 NAME: request_body_max_size
4084 COMMENT: (bytes)
4085 TYPE: b_int64_t
4086 DEFAULT: 0 KB
4087 LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4088 DOC_START
4089 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4090 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4091 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4092 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4093 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4094 be no limit imposed.
4095 DOC_END
4096
4097 NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4098 COMMENT: (bytes)
4099 TYPE: b_size_t
4100 DEFAULT: 512 KB
4101 LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4102 DOC_START
4103 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4104 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4105 a large file.
4106 DOC_END
4107
4108 NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4109 COMMENT: (bytes)
4110 TYPE: b_int64_t
4111 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4112 LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4113 DOC_START
4114 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4115 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4116 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4117 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4118 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4119 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4120
4121 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4122 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4123 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4124 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4125 as if dechunking was disabled.
4126
4127 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4128 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4129
4130 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4131 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4132 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4133 DOC_END
4134
4135 NAME: broken_posts
4136 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4137 TYPE: acl_access
4138 DEFAULT: none
4139 LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4140 DOC_START
4141 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4142 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4143
4144 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4145 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4146
4147 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
4148
4149 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4150 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4151 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4152 a request with an extra CRLF.
4153
4154 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4155 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4156
4157 Example:
4158 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4159 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4160 DOC_END
4161
4162 NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
4163 COMMENT: on|off
4164 TYPE: onoff
4165 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
4166 DEFAULT: on
4167 LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
4168 DOC_START
4169 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4170 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4171
4172 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
4173 DOC_END
4174
4175 NAME: via
4176 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4177 COMMENT: on|off
4178 TYPE: onoff
4179 DEFAULT: on
4180 LOC: Config.onoff.via
4181 DOC_START
4182 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4183 replies as required by RFC2616.
4184 DOC_END
4185
4186 NAME: ie_refresh
4187 COMMENT: on|off
4188 TYPE: onoff
4189 LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4190 DEFAULT: off
4191 DOC_START
4192 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4193 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4194 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4195 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4196 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4197 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4198 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4199 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4200 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4201 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4202 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4203 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4204 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4205 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4206 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4207 force fresh content.
4208 DOC_END
4209
4210 NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4211 COMMENT: on|off
4212 TYPE: onoff
4213 LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4214 DEFAULT: off
4215 DOC_START
4216 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4217 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4218 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4219 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4220 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4221
4222 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4223 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4224 DOC_END
4225
4226 NAME: request_entities
4227 TYPE: onoff
4228 LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4229 DEFAULT: off
4230 DOC_START
4231 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4232 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4233 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4234
4235 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4236 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4237 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4238 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4239 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
4240 DOC_END
4241
4242 NAME: request_header_access
4243 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4244 TYPE: http_header_access[]
4245 LOC: Config.request_header_access
4246 DEFAULT: none
4247 DOC_START
4248 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4249
4250 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4251 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4252 causes.
4253
4254 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4255 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4256 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4257 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4258 mangling.
4259
4260 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4261 client to the server.
4262
4263 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4264 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4265 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
4266
4267 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4268 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4269
4270 request_header_access From deny all
4271 request_header_access Referer deny all
4272 request_header_access Server deny all
4273 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4274 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4275 request_header_access Link deny all
4276
4277 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4278 you should use:
4279
4280 request_header_access Allow allow all
4281 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4282 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4283 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4284 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4285 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4286 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4287 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4288 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4289 request_header_access Date allow all
4290 request_header_access Expires allow all
4291 request_header_access Host allow all
4292 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4293 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4294 request_header_access Location allow all
4295 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4296 request_header_access Accept allow all
4297 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4298 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4299 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4300 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4301 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4302 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4303 request_header_access Title allow all
4304 request_header_access Connection allow all
4305 request_header_access All deny all
4306
4307 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4308 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
4309
4310 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4311 performed).
4312 DOC_END
4313
4314 NAME: reply_header_access
4315 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4316 TYPE: http_header_access[]
4317 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4318 DEFAULT: none
4319 DOC_START
4320 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4321
4322 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4323 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4324 causes.
4325
4326 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4327 server to the client.
4328
4329 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4330 direction.
4331
4332 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4333 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4334 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4335 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4336 mangling.
4337
4338 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4339 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4340 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
4341
4342 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4343 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4344
4345 reply_header_access From deny all
4346 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4347 reply_header_access Server deny all
4348 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4349 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4350 reply_header_access Link deny all
4351
4352 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4353 you should use:
4354
4355 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4356 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4357 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4358 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4359 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4360 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4361 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4362 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4363 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4364 reply_header_access Date allow all
4365 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4366 reply_header_access Host allow all
4367 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4368 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4369 reply_header_access Location allow all
4370 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4371 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4372 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4373 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4374 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4375 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4376 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4377 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4378 reply_header_access Title allow all
4379 reply_header_access Connection allow all
4380 reply_header_access All deny all
4381
4382 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4383 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
4384
4385 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4386 performed).
4387 DOC_END
4388
4389 NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
4390 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4391 TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4392 LOC: Config.request_header_access
4393 DEFAULT: none
4394 DOC_START
4395 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4396 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
4397
4398 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4399 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4400 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
4401 option.
4402
4403 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
4404
4405 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4406 DOC_END
4407
4408 NAME: reply_header_replace
4409 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4410 TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4411 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4412 DEFAULT: none
4413 DOC_START
4414 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4415 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4416
4417 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4418 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4419 with some fixed string.
4420
4421 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4422
4423 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4424 DOC_END
4425
4426 NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4427 COMMENT: on|off|warn
4428 TYPE: tristate
4429 LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4430 DEFAULT: on
4431 DOC_START
4432 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4433 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4434 what the sending application intended even if the message
4435 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4436 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
4437
4438 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4439 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
4440
4441 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4442 or response to be rejected.
4443 DOC_END
4444
4445 COMMENT_START
4446 TIMEOUTS
4447 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4448 COMMENT_END
4449
4450 NAME: forward_timeout
4451 COMMENT: time-units
4452 TYPE: time_t
4453 LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4454 DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4455 DOC_START
4456 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4457 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
4458 DOC_END
4459
4460 NAME: connect_timeout
4461 COMMENT: time-units
4462 TYPE: time_t
4463 LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4464 DEFAULT: 1 minute
4465 DOC_START
4466 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4467 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4468 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
4469 DOC_END
4470
4471 NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4472 COMMENT: time-units
4473 TYPE: time_t
4474 LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4475 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
4476 DOC_START
4477 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4478 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4479 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4480 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4481 DOC_END
4482
4483 NAME: read_timeout
4484 COMMENT: time-units
4485 TYPE: time_t
4486 LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4487 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4488 DOC_START
4489 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4490 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4491 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4492 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4493 default is 15 minutes.
4494 DOC_END
4495
4496 NAME: write_timeout
4497 COMMENT: time-units
4498 TYPE: time_t
4499 LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4500 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4501 DOC_START
4502 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4503 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4504 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4505 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4506 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4507 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4508 default is 15 minutes.
4509 DOC_END
4510
4511 NAME: request_timeout
4512 TYPE: time_t
4513 LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4514 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4515 DOC_START
4516 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4517 connection establishment.
4518 DOC_END
4519
4520 NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4521 TYPE: time_t
4522 LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4523 DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4524 DOC_START
4525 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4526 connection after the previous request completes.
4527 DOC_END
4528
4529 NAME: client_lifetime
4530 COMMENT: time-units
4531 TYPE: time_t
4532 LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4533 DEFAULT: 1 day
4534 DOC_START
4535 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4536 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4537 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4538 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4539 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4540 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4541 day, 1440 minutes.
4542
4543 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4544 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4545 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4546 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4547 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4548 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
4549 DOC_END
4550
4551 NAME: half_closed_clients
4552 TYPE: onoff
4553 LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
4554 DEFAULT: off
4555 DOC_START
4556 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4557 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4558 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
4559 fully-closed TCP connection.
4560
4561 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4562 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4563
4564 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
4565 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4566 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4567 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4568 DOC_END
4569
4570 NAME: pconn_timeout
4571 TYPE: time_t
4572 LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4573 DEFAULT: 1 minute
4574 DOC_START
4575 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4576 proxies.
4577 DOC_END
4578
4579 NAME: ident_timeout
4580 TYPE: time_t
4581 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4582 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
4583 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4584 DOC_START
4585 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
4586
4587 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4588 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4589 many ident requests going at once.
4590 DOC_END
4591
4592 NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4593 COMMENT: time-units
4594 TYPE: time_t
4595 LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4596 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
4597 DOC_START
4598 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4599 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4600 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4601 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4602 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
4603 DOC_END
4604
4605 COMMENT_START
4606 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4607 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4608 COMMENT_END
4609
4610 NAME: cache_mgr
4611 TYPE: string
4612 DEFAULT: webmaster
4613 LOC: Config.adminEmail
4614 DOC_START
4615 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4616 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4617 DOC_END
4618
4619 NAME: mail_from
4620 TYPE: string
4621 DEFAULT: none
4622 LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4623 DOC_START
4624 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4625 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
4626 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
4627 src/globals.h before building squid.
4628 DOC_END
4629
4630 NAME: mail_program
4631 TYPE: eol
4632 DEFAULT: mail
4633 LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4634 DOC_START
4635 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
4636 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
4637 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
4638 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4639
4640 Optional command line options can be specified.
4641 DOC_END
4642
4643 NAME: cache_effective_user
4644 TYPE: string
4645 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
4646 LOC: Config.effectiveUser
4647 DOC_START
4648 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4649 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
4650 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
4651 see also; cache_effective_group
4652 DOC_END
4653
4654 NAME: cache_effective_group
4655 TYPE: string
4656 DEFAULT: none
4657 LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4658 DOC_START
4659 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4660 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4661 from the groups membership.
4662
4663 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4664 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4665 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
4666 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
4667 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
4668 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
4669 group.
4670
4671 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4672 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4673 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
4674 DOC_END
4675
4676 NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4677 COMMENT: on|off
4678 TYPE: onoff
4679 DEFAULT: off
4680 LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4681 DOC_START
4682 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4683 DOC_END
4684
4685 NAME: visible_hostname
4686 TYPE: string
4687 LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4688 DEFAULT: none
4689 DOC_START
4690 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
4691 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
4692 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4693 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4694 names with this setting.
4695 DOC_END
4696
4697 NAME: unique_hostname
4698 TYPE: string
4699 LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4700 DEFAULT: none
4701 DOC_START
4702 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
4703 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4704 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
4705 DOC_END
4706
4707 NAME: hostname_aliases
4708 TYPE: wordlist
4709 LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4710 DEFAULT: none
4711 DOC_START
4712 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
4713 DOC_END
4714
4715 NAME: umask
4716 TYPE: int
4717 LOC: Config.umask
4718 DEFAULT: 027
4719 DOC_START
4720 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4721 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4722
4723 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4724 your value with 0.
4725 DOC_END
4726
4727 COMMENT_START
4728 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4729 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4730
4731 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4732 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4733 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4734 create cache hierarchies.
4735
4736 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4737 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4738 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4739
4740 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4741 following information from this configuration file:
4742
4743 http_port
4744 icp_port
4745 cache_mgr
4746
4747 All current information is processed regularly and made
4748 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4749 COMMENT_END
4750
4751 NAME: announce_period
4752 TYPE: time_t
4753 LOC: Config.Announce.period
4754 DEFAULT: 0
4755 DOC_START
4756 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4757 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4758 messages.
4759
4760 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
4761
4762 Example:
4763 announce_period 1 day
4764 DOC_END
4765
4766 NAME: announce_host
4767 TYPE: string
4768 DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4769 LOC: Config.Announce.host
4770 DOC_NONE
4771
4772 NAME: announce_file
4773 TYPE: string
4774 DEFAULT: none
4775 LOC: Config.Announce.file
4776 DOC_NONE
4777
4778 NAME: announce_port
4779 TYPE: ushort
4780 DEFAULT: 3131
4781 LOC: Config.Announce.port
4782 DOC_START
4783 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4784 number where the registration message will be sent.
4785
4786 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4787 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4788 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4789 message.
4790 DOC_END
4791
4792 COMMENT_START
4793 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4794 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4795 COMMENT_END
4796
4797 NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
4798 TYPE: string
4799 DEFAULT: none
4800 LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
4801 DOC_START
4802 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4803 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4804 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4805 an identification token.
4806
4807 The default ID is the visible_hostname
4808 DOC_END
4809
4810 NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
4811 COMMENT: on|off
4812 TYPE: onoff
4813 DEFAULT: off
4814 LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4815 DOC_START
4816 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4817 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4818 DOC_END
4819
4820 NAME: esi_parser
4821 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
4822 COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
4823 TYPE: string
4824 LOC: ESIParser::Type
4825 DEFAULT: custom
4826 DOC_START
4827 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4828 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4829 encodings.
4830 DOC_END
4831
4832 COMMENT_START
4833 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
4834 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4835 COMMENT_END
4836
4837 NAME: delay_pools
4838 TYPE: delay_pool_count
4839 DEFAULT: 0
4840 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4841 LOC: Config.Delay
4842 DOC_START
4843 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4844 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4845 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4846 DOC_END
4847
4848 NAME: delay_class
4849 TYPE: delay_pool_class
4850 DEFAULT: none
4851 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4852 LOC: Config.Delay
4853 DOC_START
4854 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4855 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4856 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4857 and here would be:
4858
4859 Example:
4860 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4861 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4862 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4863 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4864 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
4865
4866 The delay pool classes are:
4867
4868 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4869 bucket.
4870
4871 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4872 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
4873 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
4874
4875 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4876 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4877 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4878 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
4879 32 of the IPv4 address.
4880
4881 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4882 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4883 only takes effect if the username is established
4884 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4885 http_access rules.
4886
4887 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4888 external_acl's tag= reply).
4889
4890 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4891 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4892 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4893 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
4894
4895 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4896 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
4897 DOC_END
4898
4899 NAME: delay_access
4900 TYPE: delay_pool_access
4901 DEFAULT: none
4902 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4903 LOC: Config.Delay
4904 DOC_START
4905 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4906
4907 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4908 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4909 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4910 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4911
4912 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4913 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4914
4915 Example:
4916 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4917 delay_access 1 deny all
4918 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4919 delay_access 2 deny all
4920 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4921 DOC_END
4922
4923 NAME: delay_parameters
4924 TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4925 DEFAULT: none
4926 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4927 LOC: Config.Delay
4928 DOC_START
4929 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4930 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4931 description of delay_class. For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4932
4933 delay_parameters pool aggregate
4934
4935 For a class 2 delay pool:
4936
4937 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4938
4939 For a class 3 delay pool:
4940
4941 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4942
4943 For a class 4 delay pool:
4944
4945 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4946
4947 For a class 5 delay pool:
4948
4949 delay_parameters pool tagrate
4950
4951 The variables here are:
4952
4953 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4954 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4955 delay_class lines.
4956
4957 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
4958 (class 1, 2, 3).
4959
4960 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
4961 buckets (class 2, 3).
4962
4963 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
4964 (class 3).
4965
4966 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
4967 (class 4).
4968
4969 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
4970 (class 5).
4971
4972 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4973 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4974 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4975 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4976
4977 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4978 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64kbps
4979 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4980
4981 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4982
4983 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4984
4985 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4986 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256kbps (strict limit)
4987 with each 8-bit network permitted 64kbps (strict limit) and each
4988 individual host permitted 4800bps with a bucket maximum size of 64kb
4989 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4990 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4991 large downloads more significantly:
4992
4993 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4994
4995 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4996
4997 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4998 be limited to 128Kb no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4999
5000 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
5001 DOC_END
5002
5003 NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5004 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5005 TYPE: ushort
5006 DEFAULT: 50
5007 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5008 LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5009 DOC_START
5010 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5011 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5012 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5013 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5014 "seen" by squid).
5015 DOC_END
5016
5017 COMMENT_START
5018 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5019 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5020 COMMENT_END
5021
5022 NAME: client_delay_pools
5023 TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5024 DEFAULT: 0
5025 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5026 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5027 DOC_START
5028 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5029 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5030
5031 Example:
5032 client_delay_pools 2
5033 DOC_END
5034
5035 NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5036 COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
5037 TYPE: ushort
5038 DEFAULT: 50
5039 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5040 LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5041 DOC_START
5042 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5043 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5044 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5045 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5046
5047 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5048 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5049 from client_delay_parameters.
5050
5051 Example:
5052 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5053 DOC_END
5054
5055 NAME: client_delay_parameters
5056 TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5057 DEFAULT: none
5058 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5059 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5060 DOC_START
5061
5062 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5063 following format:
5064
5065 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5066
5067 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5068
5069 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5070
5071 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5072 speed_limit additions.
5073
5074 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5075 examples.
5076
5077 Example:
5078 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5079 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5080 DOC_END
5081
5082 NAME: client_delay_access
5083 TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5084 DEFAULT: none
5085 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5086 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5087 DOC_START
5088
5089 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5090 request:
5091
5092 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5093
5094 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5095 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5096 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5097 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5098 limited.
5099
5100 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5101 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5102 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5103 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5104
5105 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5106
5107 Example:
5108 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5109 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5110 DOC_END
5111
5112 COMMENT_START
5113 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
5114 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5115 COMMENT_END
5116
5117 NAME: wccp_router
5118 TYPE: address
5119 LOC: Config.Wccp.router
5120 DEFAULT: any_addr
5121 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5122 DOC_START
5123 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5124 Squid.
5125
5126 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5127
5128 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5129
5130 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5131 which version of WCCP to use.
5132 DOC_END
5133
5134 NAME: wccp2_router
5135 TYPE: IpAddress_list
5136 LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
5137 DEFAULT: none
5138 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5139 DOC_START
5140 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5141 Squid.
5142
5143 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5144
5145 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5146
5147 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5148 which version of WCCP to use.
5149 DOC_END
5150
5151 NAME: wccp_version
5152 TYPE: int
5153 LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5154 DEFAULT: 4
5155 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5156 DOC_START
5157 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5158 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5159 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5160 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5161 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
5162
5163 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5164 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5165 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5166 do not specify this parameter.
5167 DOC_END
5168
5169 NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5170 TYPE: onoff
5171 LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5172 DEFAULT: on
5173 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5174 DOC_START
5175 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5176 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5177 DOC_END
5178
5179 NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
5180 TYPE: wccp2_method
5181 LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
5182 DEFAULT: gre
5183 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5184 DOC_START
5185 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
5186 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
5187
5188 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5189 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
5190
5191 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5192 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
5193 DOC_END
5194
5195 NAME: wccp2_return_method
5196 TYPE: wccp2_method
5197 LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
5198 DEFAULT: gre
5199 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5200 DOC_START
5201 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
5202 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5203 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
5204
5205 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5206 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
5207
5208 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5209 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
5210
5211 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
5212 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5213 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5214 option is set to GRE.
5215 DOC_END
5216
5217 NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
5218 TYPE: wccp2_amethod
5219 LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
5220 DEFAULT: hash
5221 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5222 DOC_START
5223 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5224 Valid values are as follows:
5225
5226 hash - Hash assignment
5227 mask - Mask assignment
5228
5229 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5230 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5231 DOC_END
5232
5233 NAME: wccp2_service
5234 TYPE: wccp2_service
5235 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5236 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5237 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5238 DOC_START
5239 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5240 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5241 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5242 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5243 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5244 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5245
5246 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5247 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5248
5249 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5250 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5251
5252 Examples:
5253
5254 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5255 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5256 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5257 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
5258 DOC_END
5259
5260 NAME: wccp2_service_info
5261 TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5262 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5263 DEFAULT: none
5264 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5265 DOC_START
5266 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5267 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5268
5269 The format is:
5270
5271 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5272 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5273
5274 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5275 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
5276 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
5277 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5278 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5279 + ports_source
5280
5281 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5282
5283 Example:
5284
5285 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5286 priority=240 ports=80
5287
5288 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5289 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5290 DOC_END
5291
5292 NAME: wccp2_weight
5293 TYPE: int
5294 LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5295 DEFAULT: 10000
5296 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5297 DOC_START
5298 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5299 hash proportional to their weight.
5300 DOC_END
5301
5302 NAME: wccp_address
5303 TYPE: address
5304 LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5305 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5306 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5307 DOC_NONE
5308
5309 NAME: wccp2_address
5310 TYPE: address
5311 LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5312 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5313 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5314 DOC_START
5315 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5316 interface address.
5317
5318 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5319 DOC_END
5320
5321 COMMENT_START
5322 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5323 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5324
5325 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5326 COMMENT_END
5327
5328 NAME: client_persistent_connections
5329 TYPE: onoff
5330 LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5331 DEFAULT: on
5332 DOC_NONE
5333
5334 NAME: server_persistent_connections
5335 TYPE: onoff
5336 LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5337 DEFAULT: on
5338 DOC_START
5339 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5340 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5341 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5342 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5343 DOC_END
5344
5345 NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5346 TYPE: onoff
5347 LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
5348 DEFAULT: on
5349 DOC_START
5350 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5351 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5352 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5353 DOC_END
5354
5355 NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5356 TYPE: onoff
5357 LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5358 DEFAULT: off
5359 DOC_START
5360 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5361 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5362 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5363 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5364
5365 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5366 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5367 after 10 seconds timeout.
5368 DOC_END
5369
5370 COMMENT_START
5371 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5372 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5373 COMMENT_END
5374
5375 NAME: digest_generation
5376 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5377 TYPE: onoff
5378 LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5379 DEFAULT: on
5380 DOC_START
5381 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5382 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
5383 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
5384 DOC_END
5385
5386 NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5387 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5388 TYPE: int
5389 LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5390 DEFAULT: 5
5391 DOC_START
5392 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5393 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5394 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5395 DOC_END
5396
5397 NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5398 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5399 COMMENT: (seconds)
5400 TYPE: time_t
5401 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5402 DEFAULT: 1 hour
5403 DOC_START
5404 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
5405 DOC_END
5406
5407 NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5408 COMMENT: (seconds)
5409 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5410 TYPE: time_t
5411 LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5412 DEFAULT: 1 hour
5413 DOC_START
5414 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
5415 disk.
5416 DOC_END
5417
5418 NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5419 COMMENT: (bytes)
5420 TYPE: b_size_t
5421 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5422 LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5423 DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5424 DOC_START
5425 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5426 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5427 default swap page.
5428 DOC_END
5429
5430 NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5431 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5432 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5433 TYPE: int
5434 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5435 DEFAULT: 10
5436 DOC_START
5437 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5438 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5439 DOC_END
5440
5441 COMMENT_START
5442 SNMP OPTIONS
5443 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5444 COMMENT_END
5445
5446 NAME: snmp_port
5447 TYPE: ushort
5448 LOC: Config.Port.snmp
5449 DEFAULT: 0
5450 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5451 DOC_START
5452 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5453 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5454 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5455 set to "0" (disabled)
5456
5457 Example:
5458 snmp_port 3401
5459 DOC_END
5460
5461 NAME: snmp_access
5462 TYPE: acl_access
5463 LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5464 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5465 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5466 DOC_START
5467 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
5468
5469 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5470 usage:
5471
5472 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5473
5474 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5475 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5476 Example:
5477 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5478 snmp_access deny all
5479 DOC_END
5480
5481 NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5482 TYPE: address
5483 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
5484 DEFAULT: any_addr
5485 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5486 DOC_NONE
5487
5488 NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5489 TYPE: address
5490 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
5491 DEFAULT: no_addr
5492 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5493 DOC_START
5494 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
5495
5496 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5497 messages from SNMP agents.
5498 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5499 agents.
5500
5501 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5502 available network interfaces.
5503
5504 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5505 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5506 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5507 listens for SNMP queries.
5508
5509 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5510 the same value since they both use port 3401.
5511 DOC_END
5512
5513 COMMENT_START
5514 ICP OPTIONS
5515 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5516 COMMENT_END
5517
5518 NAME: icp_port udp_port
5519 TYPE: ushort
5520 DEFAULT: 0
5521 LOC: Config.Port.icp
5522 DOC_START
5523 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5524 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5525 Default is disabled (0).
5526
5527 Example:
5528 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5529 DOC_END
5530
5531 NAME: htcp_port
5532 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5533 TYPE: ushort
5534 DEFAULT: 0
5535 LOC: Config.Port.htcp
5536 DOC_START
5537 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
5538 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5539 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
5540
5541 Example:
5542 htcp_port 4827
5543 DOC_END
5544
5545 NAME: log_icp_queries
5546 COMMENT: on|off
5547 TYPE: onoff
5548 DEFAULT: on
5549 LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5550 DOC_START
5551 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5552 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5553 up or to simplify log analysis.
5554 DOC_END
5555
5556 NAME: udp_incoming_address
5557 TYPE: address
5558 LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
5559 DEFAULT: any_addr
5560 DOC_START
5561 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5562 caches.
5563
5564 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5565
5566 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5567 a specific interface/address.
5568
5569 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5570 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5571
5572 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5573
5574 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5575 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5576 DOC_END
5577
5578 NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5579 TYPE: address
5580 LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
5581 DEFAULT: no_addr
5582 DOC_START
5583 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5584 caches.
5585
5586 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5587
5588 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5589 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5590 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5591 caches.
5592
5593 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5594 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5595
5596 see also; udp_incoming_address
5597
5598 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5599 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5600 DOC_END
5601
5602 NAME: icp_hit_stale
5603 COMMENT: on|off
5604 TYPE: onoff
5605 DEFAULT: off
5606 LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5607 DOC_START
5608 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5609 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5610 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5611 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5612 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5613 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5614 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5615 DOC_END
5616
5617 NAME: minimum_direct_hops
5618 TYPE: int
5619 DEFAULT: 4
5620 LOC: Config.minDirectHops
5621 DOC_START
5622 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5623 which are no more than this many hops away.
5624 DOC_END
5625
5626 NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5627 TYPE: int
5628 DEFAULT: 400
5629 LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
5630 DOC_START
5631 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5632 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
5633 DOC_END
5634
5635 NAME: netdb_low
5636 TYPE: int
5637 DEFAULT: 900
5638 LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5639 DOC_NONE
5640
5641 NAME: netdb_high
5642 TYPE: int
5643 DEFAULT: 1000
5644 LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5645 DOC_START
5646 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5647 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5648 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5649 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5650 DOC_END
5651
5652 NAME: netdb_ping_period
5653 TYPE: time_t
5654 LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5655 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5656 DOC_START
5657 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5658 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5659 network. The default is five minutes.
5660 DOC_END
5661
5662 NAME: query_icmp
5663 COMMENT: on|off
5664 TYPE: onoff
5665 DEFAULT: off
5666 LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5667 DOC_START
5668 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5669 replies, enable this option.
5670
5671 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
5672 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5673 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
5674 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5675 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5676 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5677 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5678 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5679 DOC_END
5680
5681 NAME: test_reachability
5682 COMMENT: on|off
5683 TYPE: onoff
5684 DEFAULT: off
5685 LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5686 DOC_START
5687 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5688 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5689 database, or has a zero RTT.
5690 DOC_END
5691
5692 NAME: icp_query_timeout
5693 COMMENT: (msec)
5694 DEFAULT: 0
5695 TYPE: int
5696 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
5697 DOC_START
5698 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5699 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5700 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5701 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5702 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5703 timeout (the old default), you would write:
5704
5705 icp_query_timeout 2000
5706 DOC_END
5707
5708 NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5709 COMMENT: (msec)
5710 DEFAULT: 2000
5711 TYPE: int
5712 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
5713 DOC_START
5714 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5715 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5716 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5717 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5718 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5719 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
5720 DOC_END
5721
5722 NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5723 COMMENT: (msec)
5724 DEFAULT: 5
5725 TYPE: int
5726 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
5727 DOC_START
5728 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5729 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5730 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5731 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5732 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5733 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5734 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
5735 DOC_END
5736
5737 NAME: background_ping_rate
5738 COMMENT: time-units
5739 TYPE: time_t
5740 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5741 LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
5742 DOC_START
5743 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5744 have background-ping set.
5745 DOC_END
5746
5747 COMMENT_START
5748 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5749 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5750 COMMENT_END
5751
5752 NAME: mcast_groups
5753 TYPE: wordlist
5754 LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
5755 DEFAULT: none
5756 DOC_START
5757 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5758 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
5759
5760 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5761 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5762 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5763 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5764 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5765 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5766 receive replies from multicast group members.
5767
5768 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5769 is already in use by another group of caches.
5770
5771 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5772 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
5773
5774 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
5775
5776 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5777 DOC_END
5778
5779 NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5780 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5781 TYPE: address
5782 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
5783 DEFAULT: no_addr
5784 DOC_START
5785 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5786 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
5787
5788 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5789 certain you understand what you are doing.
5790 DOC_END
5791
5792 NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5793 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5794 TYPE: ushort
5795 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5796 DEFAULT: 16
5797 DOC_START
5798 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5799 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5800 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5801 DOC_END
5802
5803 NAME: mcast_miss_port
5804 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5805 TYPE: ushort
5806 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5807 DEFAULT: 3135
5808 DOC_START
5809 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5810 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5811 DOC_END
5812
5813 NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5814 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5815 TYPE: string
5816 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5817 DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5818 DOC_START
5819 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5820 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5821 DOC_END
5822
5823 NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5824 COMMENT: (msec)
5825 DEFAULT: 2000
5826 TYPE: int
5827 LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5828 DOC_START
5829 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5830 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5831 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5832 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5833 seconds.
5834 DOC_END
5835
5836 COMMENT_START
5837 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5838 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5839 COMMENT_END
5840
5841 NAME: icon_directory
5842 TYPE: string
5843 LOC: Config.icons.directory
5844 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5845 DOC_START
5846 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5847 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5848 DOC_END
5849
5850 NAME: global_internal_static
5851 TYPE: onoff
5852 LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5853 DEFAULT: on
5854 DOC_START
5855 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5856 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5857 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5858 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5859 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5860 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5861 the server generating a directory listing.
5862 DOC_END
5863
5864 NAME: short_icon_urls
5865 TYPE: onoff
5866 LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5867 DEFAULT: on
5868 DOC_START
5869 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5870 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5871 it's own name and port in the URL.
5872
5873 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5874 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5875 DOC_END
5876
5877 COMMENT_START
5878 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5879 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5880 COMMENT_END
5881
5882 NAME: error_directory
5883 TYPE: string
5884 LOC: Config.errorDirectory
5885 DEFAULT: none
5886 DOC_START
5887 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
5888 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5889 the error/template files to another directory and point
5890 this tag at them.
5891
5892 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5893 on error pages if used.
5894
5895 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5896 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
5897 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5898 contributing your translation back to the project.
5899 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5900
5901 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5902 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5903 DOC_END
5904
5905 NAME: error_default_language
5906 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5907 TYPE: string
5908 LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5909 DEFAULT: none
5910 DOC_START
5911 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5912 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5913 preferences.
5914
5915 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5916
5917 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5918 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5919 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5920 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5921 DOC_END
5922
5923 NAME: error_log_languages
5924 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5925 TYPE: onoff
5926 LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5927 DEFAULT: on
5928 DOC_START
5929 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5930 auto-negotiate for translations.
5931
5932 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5933 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
5934 of its error page translations.
5935 DOC_END
5936
5937 NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5938 TYPE: string
5939 LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5940 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5941 DOC_START
5942 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5943
5944 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5945 DOC_END
5946
5947 NAME: err_html_text
5948 TYPE: eol
5949 LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5950 DEFAULT: none
5951 DOC_START
5952 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5953 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5954 organizations Web page.
5955
5956 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5957 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5958 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5959 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5960 DOC_END
5961
5962 NAME: email_err_data
5963 COMMENT: on|off
5964 TYPE: onoff
5965 LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5966 DEFAULT: on
5967 DOC_START
5968 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5969 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5970 so that the email body contains the data.
5971 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5972 DOC_END
5973
5974 NAME: deny_info
5975 TYPE: denyinfo
5976 LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5977 DEFAULT: none
5978 DOC_START
5979 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5980 or deny_info http://... acl
5981 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5982
5983 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5984 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5985 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5986 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5987
5988 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5989 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5990 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5991 the first authentication related acl encountered
5992 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5993 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5994 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
5995 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5996
5997 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5998 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5999 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
6000
6001 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6002 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6003 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6004
6005 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6006 by specifying TCP_RESET.
6007
6008 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
6009 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6010 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6011 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6012 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
6013
6014 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6015 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6016 %B - FTP path URL
6017 %e - Error number
6018 %E - Error description
6019 %h - Squid hostname
6020 %H - Request domain name
6021 %i - Client IP Address
6022 %M - Request Method
6023 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6024 %p - Request Port number
6025 %P - Request Protocol name
6026 %R - Request URL path
6027 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6028 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6029 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6030 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6031 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
6032 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6033
6034 DOC_END
6035
6036 COMMENT_START
6037 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6038 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6039 COMMENT_END
6040
6041 NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
6042 TYPE: onoff
6043 LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
6044 DEFAULT: on
6045 DOC_START
6046 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6047 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6048 to origin servers.
6049
6050 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6051 requests to parents.
6052
6053 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6054 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6055 ratio.
6056
6057 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6058 this directive.
6059 DOC_END
6060
6061 NAME: prefer_direct
6062 TYPE: onoff
6063 LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
6064 DEFAULT: off
6065 DOC_START
6066 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6067 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6068 going direct fails set this to on.
6069
6070 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6071 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6072 fails.
6073
6074 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6075 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6076 acts on cacheable requests.
6077 DOC_END
6078
6079 NAME: always_direct
6080 TYPE: acl_access
6081 LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
6082 DEFAULT: none
6083 DOC_START
6084 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6085
6086 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6087 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6088 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6089 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6090 something like:
6091
6092 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6093 always_direct allow local-servers
6094
6095 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
6096
6097 acl FTP proto FTP
6098 always_direct allow FTP
6099
6100 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6101 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6102 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6103 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6104 some other rule. Example:
6105
6106 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6107 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6108 always_direct deny local-external
6109 always_direct allow local-servers
6110
6111 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6112 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6113 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6114 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
6115
6116 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6117 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
6118 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
6119
6120 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6121 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6122 DOC_END
6123
6124 NAME: never_direct
6125 TYPE: acl_access
6126 LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6127 DEFAULT: none
6128 DOC_START
6129 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6130
6131 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6132 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6133
6134 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6135 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6136 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6137 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6138
6139 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6140 never_direct deny local-servers
6141 never_direct allow all
6142
6143 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6144 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6145
6146 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6147 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6148 always_direct deny local-external
6149 always_direct allow local-intranet
6150 never_direct allow all
6151
6152 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6153 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6154 DOC_END
6155
6156 COMMENT_START
6157 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6158 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6159 COMMENT_END
6160
6161 NAME: incoming_icp_average
6162 TYPE: int
6163 DEFAULT: 6
6164 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6165 DOC_NONE
6166
6167 NAME: incoming_http_average
6168 TYPE: int
6169 DEFAULT: 4
6170 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6171 DOC_NONE
6172
6173 NAME: incoming_dns_average
6174 TYPE: int
6175 DEFAULT: 4
6176 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6177 DOC_NONE
6178
6179 NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6180 TYPE: int
6181 DEFAULT: 8
6182 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6183 DOC_NONE
6184
6185 NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6186 TYPE: int
6187 DEFAULT: 8
6188 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6189 DOC_NONE
6190
6191 NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6192 TYPE: int
6193 DEFAULT: 8
6194 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6195 DOC_START
6196 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6197 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6198 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6199 DOC_END
6200
6201 NAME: accept_filter
6202 TYPE: string
6203 DEFAULT: none
6204 LOC: Config.accept_filter
6205 DOC_START
6206 FreeBSD:
6207
6208 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6209 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6210 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6211
6212 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
6213 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
6214 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6215
6216 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6217 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6218 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6219
6220 Linux:
6221
6222 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6223 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6224 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6225 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6226 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
6227 EXAMPLE:
6228 # FreeBSD
6229 accept_filter httpready
6230 # Linux
6231 accept_filter data
6232 DOC_END
6233
6234 NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6235 TYPE: int
6236 LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6237 DEFAULT: -1
6238 DOC_START
6239 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6240 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6241 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6242
6243 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6244 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6245
6246 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6247
6248 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6249 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6250 DOC_END
6251
6252 NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6253 COMMENT: (bytes)
6254 TYPE: b_size_t
6255 DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6256 LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6257 DOC_START
6258 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6259 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6260 the default buffer size.
6261 DOC_END
6262
6263 COMMENT_START
6264 ICAP OPTIONS
6265 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6266 COMMENT_END
6267
6268 NAME: icap_enable
6269 TYPE: onoff
6270 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6271 COMMENT: on|off
6272 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
6273 DEFAULT: off
6274 DOC_START
6275 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
6276 DOC_END
6277
6278 NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6279 TYPE: time_t
6280 DEFAULT: none
6281 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
6282 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6283 DOC_START
6284 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6285 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6286 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6287
6288 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6289 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6290 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6291 DOC_END
6292
6293 NAME: icap_io_timeout
6294 COMMENT: time-units
6295 TYPE: time_t
6296 DEFAULT: none
6297 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
6298 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6299 DOC_START
6300 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6301 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6302 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6303 failure.
6304
6305 The default is read_timeout.
6306 DOC_END
6307
6308 NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
6309 COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6310 TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
6311 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6312 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
6313 DEFAULT: 10
6314 DOC_START
6315 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6316 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6317 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6318 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
6319 OPTIONS.
6320
6321 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6322 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6323 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
6324
6325 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6326 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6327 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6328 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6329 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6330
6331 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6332 effect on service failure expiration.
6333
6334 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6335 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6336 setting.
6337
6338 For example,
6339 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6340 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
6341 DOC_END
6342
6343 NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
6344 TYPE: int
6345 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6346 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
6347 DEFAULT: 180
6348 DOC_START
6349 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6350 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6351 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6352 fetched.
6353
6354 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6355 delay of 30 seconds.
6356 DOC_END
6357
6358 NAME: icap_preview_enable
6359 TYPE: onoff
6360 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6361 COMMENT: on|off
6362 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
6363 DEFAULT: on
6364 DOC_START
6365 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6366 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6367 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6368 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6369
6370 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6371 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6372 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6373
6374 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6375 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6376 Example:
6377 icap_preview_enable off
6378 DOC_END
6379
6380 NAME: icap_preview_size
6381 TYPE: int
6382 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6383 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
6384 DEFAULT: -1
6385 DOC_START
6386 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6387 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6388 basis by OPTIONS requests.
6389 DOC_END
6390
6391 NAME: icap_206_enable
6392 TYPE: onoff
6393 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6394 COMMENT: on|off
6395 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6396 DEFAULT: on
6397 DOC_START
6398 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6399 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6400 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6401 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6402
6403 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6404 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6405 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6406 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6407 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6408
6409 Example:
6410 icap_206_enable off
6411 DOC_END
6412
6413 NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6414 TYPE: int
6415 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6416 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
6417 DEFAULT: 60
6418 DOC_START
6419 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
6420 an Options-TTL header.
6421 DOC_END
6422
6423 NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6424 TYPE: onoff
6425 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6426 COMMENT: on|off
6427 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
6428 DEFAULT: on
6429 DOC_START
6430 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6431 an ICAP server.
6432 DOC_END
6433
6434 NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
6435 TYPE: onoff
6436 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6437 COMMENT: on|off
6438 LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
6439 DEFAULT: off
6440 DOC_START
6441 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6442 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6443 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6444
6445 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
6446 DOC_END
6447
6448 NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
6449 TYPE: onoff
6450 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6451 COMMENT: on|off
6452 LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
6453 DEFAULT: off
6454 DOC_START
6455 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
6456 the adaptation service.
6457
6458 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
6459 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6460 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
6461 DOC_END
6462
6463 NAME: icap_client_username_header
6464 TYPE: string
6465 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6466 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
6467 DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
6468 DOC_START
6469 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
6470 DOC_END
6471
6472 NAME: icap_client_username_encode
6473 TYPE: onoff
6474 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6475 COMMENT: on|off
6476 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
6477 DEFAULT: off
6478 DOC_START
6479 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
6480 DOC_END
6481
6482 NAME: icap_service
6483 TYPE: icap_service_type
6484 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6485 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
6486 DEFAULT: none
6487 DOC_START
6488 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
6489
6490 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
6491
6492 service_name: ID
6493 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6494
6495 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6496 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6497 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6498 are not yet supported.
6499
6500 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6501 ICAP server and service location.
6502
6503 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6504 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6505 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6506 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6507 service_names differ.
6508
6509
6510 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6511 the following name=value options:
6512
6513 bypass=on|off|1|0
6514 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6515 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6516 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6517 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6518 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6519 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6520 returned to the HTTP client.
6521
6522 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6523
6524 routing=on|off|1|0
6525 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6526 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6527 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6528 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6529 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
6530 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
6531 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
6532 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
6533
6534 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
6535 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
6536
6537 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6538 response header is ignored.
6539
6540 ipv6=on|off
6541 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6542 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6543 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6544
6545 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6546 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6547
6548 Example:
6549 icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6550 icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
6551 DOC_END
6552
6553 NAME: icap_class
6554 TYPE: icap_class_type
6555 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6556 LOC: none
6557 DEFAULT: none
6558 DOC_START
6559 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
6560 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6561 services, and the chains were not supported.
6562
6563 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
6564 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6565 adaptation_service_chain.
6566 DOC_END
6567
6568 NAME: icap_access
6569 TYPE: icap_access_type
6570 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6571 LOC: none
6572 DEFAULT: none
6573 DOC_START
6574 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
6575 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6576 documentation, and eCAP support.
6577 DOC_END
6578
6579 COMMENT_START
6580 eCAP OPTIONS
6581 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6582 COMMENT_END
6583
6584 NAME: ecap_enable
6585 TYPE: onoff
6586 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6587 COMMENT: on|off
6588 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
6589 DEFAULT: off
6590 DOC_START
6591 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6592 DOC_END
6593
6594 NAME: ecap_service
6595 TYPE: ecap_service_type
6596 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6597 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
6598 DEFAULT: none
6599 DOC_START
6600 Defines a single eCAP service
6601
6602 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6603
6604 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6605 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6606 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6607 are not yet supported.
6608 bypass = 1|0
6609 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6610 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6611 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6612 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6613 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6614 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6615 HTTP client.
6616 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6617
6618 Example:
6619 ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6620 ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6621 DOC_END
6622
6623 NAME: loadable_modules
6624 TYPE: wordlist
6625 IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6626 LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6627 DEFAULT: none
6628 DOC_START
6629 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6630 preloaded module(s).
6631 Example:
6632 loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6633 DOC_END
6634
6635 COMMENT_START
6636 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6637 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6638 COMMENT_END
6639
6640 NAME: adaptation_service_set
6641 TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6642 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6643 LOC: none
6644 DEFAULT: none
6645 DOC_START
6646
6647 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6648 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6649
6650 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6651
6652 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6653 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6654 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6655 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6656 intact.
6657
6658 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6659 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
6660
6661 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6662 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6663
6664 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6665 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6666 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6667 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6668 transaction fails as well.
6669
6670 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6671 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6672 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6673 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6674 matters.
6675
6676 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
6677
6678 Example:
6679 adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6680 adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6681 DOC_END
6682
6683 NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6684 TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6685 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6686 LOC: none
6687 DEFAULT: none
6688 DOC_START
6689
6690 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6691 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6692 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6693
6694 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6695
6696 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6697 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6698 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6699 the previous service in the chain.
6700
6701 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6702 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6703
6704 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6705 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6706 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6707
6708 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6709 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6710
6711 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6712 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6713 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6714 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6715
6716 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6717
6718 Example:
6719 adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6720 DOC_END
6721
6722 NAME: adaptation_access
6723 TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6724 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6725 LOC: none
6726 DEFAULT: none
6727 DOC_START
6728 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6729
6730 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6731 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6732
6733 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6734 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6735 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6736 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6737
6738 - services serving different vectoring points
6739 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6740 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6741 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6742
6743 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6744 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6745 adaptation_service_set for details.
6746
6747 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6748 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6749 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6750 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6751
6752 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6753 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6754
6755 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6756
6757 Example:
6758 adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6759 DOC_END
6760
6761 NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6762 TYPE: int
6763 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6764 LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6765 DEFAULT: 16
6766 DOC_START
6767 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6768 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6769 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6770 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6771 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6772 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6773
6774 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6775
6776 See also: icap_service routing=1
6777 DOC_END
6778
6779 NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6780 TYPE: string
6781 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6782 LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6783 DEFAULT: none
6784 DOC_START
6785 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6786 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6787 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6788 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6789 with the master transaction.
6790
6791 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6792 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6793
6794 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6795 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
6796 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6797
6798 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6799 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6800 to provide an option with a name specified in
6801 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6802
6803 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
6804 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6805
6806 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6807
6808 Example:
6809 # share authentication information among ICAP services
6810 adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6811 DOC_END
6812
6813 NAME: icap_retry
6814 TYPE: acl_access
6815 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6816 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
6817 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6818 DOC_START
6819 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6820 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6821 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6822 that response are usually retriable.
6823
6824 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6825
6826 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6827 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6828
6829 See also: icap_retry_limit
6830 DOC_END
6831
6832 NAME: icap_retry_limit
6833 TYPE: int
6834 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6835 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6836 DEFAULT: 0
6837 DOC_START
6838 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6839 no retries are allowed.
6840
6841 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6842 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6843 count against this limit.
6844
6845 See also: icap_retry
6846 DOC_END
6847
6848
6849 COMMENT_START
6850 DNS OPTIONS
6851 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6852 COMMENT_END
6853
6854 NAME: check_hostnames
6855 TYPE: onoff
6856 DEFAULT: off
6857 LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
6858 DOC_START
6859 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6860 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6861 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
6862 DOC_END
6863
6864 NAME: allow_underscore
6865 TYPE: onoff
6866 DEFAULT: on
6867 LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
6868 DOC_START
6869 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6870 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6871 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6872 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
6873 DOC_END
6874
6875 NAME: cache_dns_program
6876 TYPE: string
6877 IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6878 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6879 LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
6880 DOC_START
6881 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
6882 DOC_END
6883
6884 NAME: dns_children
6885 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
6886 IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6887 DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
6888 LOC: Config.dnsChildren
6889 DOC_START
6890 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6891 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6892 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6893 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6894 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6895
6896 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6897 tuning.
6898
6899 startup=
6900
6901 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6902 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6903 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6904
6905 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6906 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6907
6908 idle=
6909
6910 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6911 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6912 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6913 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
6914 DOC_END
6915
6916 NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6917 TYPE: time_msec
6918 DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6919 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6920 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6921 DOC_START
6922 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6923 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
6924 DOC_END
6925
6926 NAME: dns_timeout
6927 TYPE: time_msec
6928 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
6929 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6930 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6931 DOC_START
6932 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6933 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6934 are assumed to be unavailable.
6935 DOC_END
6936
6937 NAME: dns_packet_max
6938 TYPE: b_ssize_t
6939 DEFAULT: none
6940 LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
6941 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6942 DOC_START
6943 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
6944 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
6945
6946 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
6947 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
6948 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
6949 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
6950 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
6951
6952 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
6953 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
6954 necessary.
6955
6956 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
6957 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
6958 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
6959 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
6960 sizes being advertised by Squid.
6961 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
6962 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
6963 DOC_END
6964
6965 NAME: dns_defnames
6966 COMMENT: on|off
6967 TYPE: onoff
6968 DEFAULT: off
6969 LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
6970 DOC_START
6971 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6972 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6973 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6974 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
6975 DOC_END
6976
6977 NAME: dns_nameservers
6978 TYPE: wordlist
6979 DEFAULT: none
6980 LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
6981 DOC_START
6982 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6983 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6984 /etc/resolv.conf file.
6985 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
6986 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
6987 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
6988 configurations are supported.
6989
6990 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
6991 DOC_END
6992
6993 NAME: hosts_file
6994 TYPE: string
6995 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
6996 LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
6997 DOC_START
6998 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
6999 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7000 default locations:
7001 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7002 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7003 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7004 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7005 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7006 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7007 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7008 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
7009
7010 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7011 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7012 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7013 character are comments.
7014
7015 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7016 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7017 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7018 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7019 definitions.
7020 DOC_END
7021
7022 NAME: append_domain
7023 TYPE: string
7024 LOC: Config.appendDomain
7025 DEFAULT: none
7026 DOC_START
7027 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7028 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7029
7030 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7031 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7032 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7033
7034 Example:
7035 append_domain .yourdomain.com
7036 DOC_END
7037
7038 NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7039 TYPE: onoff
7040 LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
7041 DEFAULT: on
7042 DOC_START
7043 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7044 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7045 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7046 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7047 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
7048 DOC_END
7049
7050 NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7051 TYPE: onoff
7052 DEFAULT: on
7053 LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
7054 DOC_START
7055 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7056 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7057 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7058
7059 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7060 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7061
7062 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7063 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7064
7065 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7066 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7067 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7068 DOC_END
7069
7070 NAME: ipcache_size
7071 COMMENT: (number of entries)
7072 TYPE: int
7073 DEFAULT: 1024
7074 LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7075 DOC_NONE
7076
7077 NAME: ipcache_low
7078 COMMENT: (percent)
7079 TYPE: int
7080 DEFAULT: 90
7081 LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7082 DOC_NONE
7083
7084 NAME: ipcache_high
7085 COMMENT: (percent)
7086 TYPE: int
7087 DEFAULT: 95
7088 LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7089 DOC_START
7090 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7091 DOC_END
7092
7093 NAME: fqdncache_size
7094 COMMENT: (number of entries)
7095 TYPE: int
7096 DEFAULT: 1024
7097 LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7098 DOC_START
7099 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7100 DOC_END
7101
7102 COMMENT_START
7103 MISCELLANEOUS
7104 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7105 COMMENT_END
7106
7107 NAME: memory_pools
7108 COMMENT: on|off
7109 TYPE: onoff
7110 DEFAULT: on
7111 LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
7112 DOC_START
7113 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7114 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7115 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7116 routines, disable this.
7117 DOC_END
7118
7119 NAME: memory_pools_limit
7120 COMMENT: (bytes)
7121 TYPE: b_int64_t
7122 DEFAULT: 5 MB
7123 LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
7124 DOC_START
7125 Used only with memory_pools on:
7126 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
7127
7128 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7129 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7130 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7131 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7132 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7133 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7134 configuration will use less memory.
7135
7136 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
7137 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
7138
7139 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
7140 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
7141
7142 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7143 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7144 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7145 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
7146 DOC_END
7147
7148 NAME: forwarded_for
7149 COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7150 TYPE: string
7151 DEFAULT: on
7152 LOC: opt_forwarded_for
7153 DOC_START
7154 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7155 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
7156
7157 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7158
7159 If set to "off", it will appear as
7160
7161 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
7162
7163 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7164 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7165
7166 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7167 X-Forwarded-For header.
7168
7169 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
7170 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
7171 DOC_END
7172
7173 NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7174 TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7175 DEFAULT: none
7176 LOC: Config.passwd_list
7177 DOC_START
7178 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
7179
7180 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7181
7182 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7183 5min
7184 60min
7185 asndb
7186 authenticator
7187 cbdata
7188 client_list
7189 comm_incoming
7190 config *
7191 counters
7192 delay
7193 digest_stats
7194 dns
7195 events
7196 filedescriptors
7197 fqdncache
7198 histograms
7199 http_headers
7200 info
7201 io
7202 ipcache
7203 mem
7204 menu
7205 netdb
7206 non_peers
7207 objects
7208 offline_toggle *
7209 pconn
7210 peer_select
7211 reconfigure *
7212 redirector
7213 refresh
7214 server_list
7215 shutdown *
7216 store_digest
7217 storedir
7218 utilization
7219 via_headers
7220 vm_objects
7221
7222 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7223 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7224
7225 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7226 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7227 password to "none".
7228
7229 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7230
7231 Example:
7232 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7233 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7234 cachemgr_passwd disable all
7235 DOC_END
7236
7237 NAME: client_db
7238 COMMENT: on|off
7239 TYPE: onoff
7240 DEFAULT: on
7241 LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
7242 DOC_START
7243 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7244 turn off client_db here.
7245 DOC_END
7246
7247 NAME: refresh_all_ims
7248 COMMENT: on|off
7249 TYPE: onoff
7250 DEFAULT: off
7251 LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
7252 DOC_START
7253 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7254 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7255 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7256 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7257 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
7258
7259 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7260 based on the age of the cached version.
7261 DOC_END
7262
7263 NAME: reload_into_ims
7264 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
7265 COMMENT: on|off
7266 TYPE: onoff
7267 DEFAULT: off
7268 LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
7269 DOC_START
7270 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7271 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7272 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7273 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7274 causes.
7275
7276 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
7277 DOC_END
7278
7279 NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
7280 TYPE: int
7281 LOC: Config.retry.maxtries
7282 DEFAULT: 1
7283 DOC_START
7284 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts for a
7285 host that only has one address (for multiple-address hosts,
7286 each address is tried once).
7287
7288 The default value is one attempt, the (not recommended)
7289 maximum is 255 tries. A warning message will be generated
7290 if it is set to a value greater than ten.
7291
7292 Note: This is in addition to the request re-forwarding which
7293 takes place if Squid fails to get a satisfying response.
7294 DOC_END
7295
7296 NAME: retry_on_error
7297 TYPE: onoff
7298 LOC: Config.retry.onerror
7299 DEFAULT: off
7300 DOC_START
7301 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
7302 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
7303 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
7304 control errors.
7305 DOC_END
7306
7307 NAME: as_whois_server
7308 TYPE: string
7309 LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7310 DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
7311 DOC_START
7312 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7313 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
7314 DOC_END
7315
7316 NAME: offline_mode
7317 TYPE: onoff
7318 LOC: Config.onoff.offline
7319 DEFAULT: off
7320 DOC_START
7321 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7322 objects.
7323 DOC_END
7324
7325 NAME: uri_whitespace
7326 TYPE: uri_whitespace
7327 LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7328 DEFAULT: strip
7329 DOC_START
7330 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7331 URI. Options:
7332
7333 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7334 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7335 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7336 Request" message.
7337 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7338 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7339 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7340 are in use.
7341 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7342 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7343 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7344 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7345 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7346 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7347 violation.
7348 DOC_END
7349
7350 NAME: chroot
7351 TYPE: string
7352 LOC: Config.chroot_dir
7353 DEFAULT: none
7354 DOC_START
7355 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
7356 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7357 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7358 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7359 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
7360 DOC_END
7361
7362 NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7363 TYPE: onoff
7364 LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
7365 DEFAULT: off
7366 DOC_START
7367 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7368 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7369 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7370
7371 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7372 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7373 to different IP addresses.
7374
7375 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
7376 DOC_END
7377
7378 NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7379 TYPE: onoff
7380 LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7381 DEFAULT: off
7382 DOC_START
7383 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7384 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7385 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
7386
7387 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7388 reasons.
7389
7390 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
7391 DOC_END
7392
7393 NAME: high_response_time_warning
7394 TYPE: int
7395 COMMENT: (msec)
7396 LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7397 DEFAULT: 0
7398 DOC_START
7399 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7400 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7401 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
7402 DOC_END
7403
7404 NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7405 TYPE: int
7406 LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7407 DEFAULT: 0
7408 DOC_START
7409 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7410 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7411 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7412 per second.
7413 DOC_END
7414
7415 NAME: high_memory_warning
7416 TYPE: b_size_t
7417 LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
7418 DEFAULT: 0 KB
7419 DOC_START
7420 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
7421 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7422 the administrators attention.
7423 DOC_END
7424
7425 NAME: sleep_after_fork
7426 COMMENT: (microseconds)
7427 TYPE: int
7428 LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7429 DEFAULT: 0
7430 DOC_START
7431 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7432 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7433 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7434 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7435 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7436 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7437 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7438 until all the child processes have been started.
7439 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7440 rounded to 1000.
7441 DOC_END
7442
7443 NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7444 IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
7445 COMMENT: on|off
7446 TYPE: onoff
7447 DEFAULT: on
7448 LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7449 DOC_START
7450 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7451 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7452 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7453 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7454 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7455 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7456 DOC_END
7457
7458 NAME: eui_lookup
7459 TYPE: onoff
7460 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7461 DEFAULT: on
7462 LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7463 DOC_START
7464 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7465 DOC_END
7466
7467 NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7468 TYPE: int
7469 DEFAULT: 0
7470 LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7471 DOC_START
7472 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7473
7474 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7475
7476 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7477 not all comm loops supports large values.
7478 DOC_END
7479
7480 NAME: workers
7481 TYPE: int
7482 LOC: Config.workers
7483 DEFAULT: 1
7484 DOC_START
7485 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
7486 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7487 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
7488 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7489
7490 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7491 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
7492 DOC_END
7493
7494 NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7495 TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7496 LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7497 DEFAULT: none
7498 DOC_START
7499 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7500
7501 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7502
7503 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7504
7505 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7506 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7507
7508 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7509 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7510
7511 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7512
7513 See also: workers
7514 DOC_END
7515
7516 EOF