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28
29 COMMENT_START
30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
31 ----------------------------
32
33 This is the documentation for the Squid configuration file.
34 This documentation can also be found online at:
35 http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/
36
37 You may wish to look at the Squid home page and wiki for the
38 FAQ and other documentation:
39 http://www.squid-cache.org/
40 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
41 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples
42
43 This documentation shows what the defaults for various directives
44 happen to be. If you don't need to change the default, you should
45 leave the line out of your squid.conf in most cases.
46
47 In some cases "none" refers to no default setting at all,
48 while in other cases it refers to the value of the option
49 - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the case.
50
51 COMMENT_END
52
53 COMMENT_START
54 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
55 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards are
56 supported.
57
58 For example,
59
60 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
61
62 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
63 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
64 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
65 configuration files.
66
67
68 Conditional configuration
69
70 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
71 depend on conditions:
72
73 if <CONDITION>
74 ... regular configuration directives ...
75 [else
76 ... regular configuration directives ...]
77 endif
78
79 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
80 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
81 configuration directives.
82
83 NOTE: An else-if condition is not supported.
84
85 These individual conditions types are supported:
86
87 true
88 Always evaluates to true.
89 false
90 Always evaluates to false.
91 <integer> = <integer>
92 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
93
94
95 SMP-Related Macros
96
97 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
98
99 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
100 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
101
102 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
103 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
104 across all Squid processes.
105 COMMENT_END
106
107 # no Options Removed in 3.3
108
109 # Options Removed in 3.2
110 NAME: ignore_expect_100
111 TYPE: obsolete
112 DOC_START
113 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
114 DOC_END
115
116 NAME: dns_v4_fallback
117 TYPE: obsolete
118 DOC_START
119 Remove this line. Squid performs a 'Happy Eyeballs' algorithm, the 'fallback' algorithm is no longer relevant.
120 DOC_END
121
122 NAME: ftp_list_width
123 TYPE: obsolete
124 DOC_START
125 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
126 DOC_END
127
128 NAME: maximum_single_addr_tries
129 TYPE: obsolete
130 DOC_START
131 Replaced by connect_retries. The behaviour has changed, please read the documentation before altering.
132 DOC_END
133
134 NAME: update_headers
135 TYPE: obsolete
136 DOC_START
137 Remove this line. The feature is supported by default in storage types where update is implemented.
138 DOC_END
139
140 NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
141 TYPE: obsolete
142 DOC_START
143 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
144 DOC_END
145
146 # Options Removed in 3.1
147 NAME: dns_testnames
148 TYPE: obsolete
149 DOC_START
150 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
151 DOC_END
152
153 NAME: extension_methods
154 TYPE: obsolete
155 DOC_START
156 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
157 DOC_END
158
159 # 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.2
160 NAME: zero_buffers
161 TYPE: obsolete
162 DOC_NONE
163
164 # 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
165 NAME: incoming_rate
166 TYPE: obsolete
167 DOC_NONE
168
169 NAME: server_http11
170 TYPE: obsolete
171 DOC_START
172 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
173 DOC_END
174
175 NAME: upgrade_http0.9
176 TYPE: obsolete
177 DOC_START
178 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
179 DOC_END
180
181 NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
182 TYPE: obsolete
183 DOC_START
184 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
185 DOC_END
186
187 # Options Removed in 3.0
188 NAME: header_access
189 TYPE: obsolete
190 DOC_START
191 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
192 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
193 DOC_END
194
195 NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
196 TYPE: obsolete
197 DOC_START
198 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
199 DOC_END
200
201 COMMENT_START
202 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
203 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
204 COMMENT_END
205
206 NAME: auth_param
207 TYPE: authparam
208 IFDEF: USE_AUTH
209 LOC: Auth::TheConfig
210 DEFAULT: none
211 DOC_START
212 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
213 schemes supported by Squid.
214
215 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
216
217 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
218 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
219 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
220 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
221 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
222 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
223 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
224 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
225 program entry).
226
227 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
228 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
229 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
230 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
231
232 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
233 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
234 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
235 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
236 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
237 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
238 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
239 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
240 type acl.
241
242 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
243 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
244 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
245 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
246 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
247 authentication disabled.
248
249 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
250
251 "program" cmdline
252 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
253 reads a line containing "username password" and replies with one of
254 three results:
255
256 OK
257 the user exists.
258
259 ERR
260 the user does not exist.
261
262 BH
263 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
264 a result being identified.
265
266 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
267 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
268
269 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
270 proxy_auth.
271
272 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
273 program is specified.
274
275 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
276 this line to something like
277
278 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
279
280 "utf8" on|off
281 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
282 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
283 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
284 username & password to the helper.
285
286 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
287 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
288 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
289 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
290 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
291 authenticator processes.
292
293 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
294 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
295 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
296 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
297 the maximum.
298
299 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
300 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
301 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
302 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
303 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
304 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
305 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
306
307 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
308
309 "realm" realmstring
310 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
311 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
312 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
313 password). There is no default.
314 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
315
316 "credentialsttl" timetolive
317 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
318 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
319 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
320 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
321 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
322 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
323 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
324 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
325 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
326
327 "casesensitive" on|off
328 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
329 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
330 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
331 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
332 auth_param basic casesensitive off
333
334 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
335
336 "program" cmdline
337 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
338 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
339 replies with one of three results:
340
341 OK ha1="..."
342 the user exists. The ha1= key is mandatory and
343 contains the appropriate H(A1) value, hex encoded.
344 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
345
346 ERR
347 the user does not exist.
348
349 BH
350 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
351 a result being identified.
352
353 "ERR" and "BH" results may optionally be followed by message="..."
354 containing a description available as %m in the returned error page.
355
356 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
357 program is specified.
358
359 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
360 something like
361
362 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
363
364 "utf8" on|off
365 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as character set, while some authentication
366 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
367 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
368 username & password to the helper.
369
370 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
371 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
372 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
373 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
374 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
375 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
376
377 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
378 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
379 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
380 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
381 the maximum.
382
383 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
384 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
385 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
386 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
387 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
388 same helper in parallel without waiting for the response.
389 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
390
391 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
392
393 "realm" realmstring
394 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
395 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
396 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
397 password). There is no default.
398 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
399
400 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
401 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
402 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
403
404 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
405 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
406 valid for.
407
408 "nonce_max_count" number
409 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
410 used.
411
412 "nonce_strictness" on|off
413 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
414 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
415 user agents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
416 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
417
418 "check_nonce_count" on|off
419 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
420 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
421 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
422 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
423
424 "post_workaround" on|off
425 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
426 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
427 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
428
429 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
430
431 "program" cmdline
432 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
433 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
434 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
435 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
436 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator program
437 is not used.
438
439 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
440
441 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
442 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
443 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
444 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
445 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
446 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
447 processes.
448
449 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
450 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
451 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
452 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
453 the maximum.
454
455 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
456
457 "keep_alive" on|off
458 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
459 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
460 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
461 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
462 supported by the proxy.
463
464 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
465
466 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
467
468 "program" cmdline
469 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
470 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
471 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
472 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
473 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
474 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
475 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
476 authenticator program is not used.
477 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
478 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
479
480 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
481
482 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
483 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
484 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
485 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
486 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
487 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
488 processes.
489
490 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
491 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
492 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
493 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
494 the maximum.
495
496 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
497
498 "keep_alive" on|off
499 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
500 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
501 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
502 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
503 supported by the proxy.
504
505 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
506
507
508 Examples:
509
510 #Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
511 #auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
512 #auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
513 #auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
514 #
515 #auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
516 #auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
517 #auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
518 #
519 #auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
520 #auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
521 #auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
522 #auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
523 #auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
524 #auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
525 #
526 #auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
527 #auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
528 #auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
529 #auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
530 DOC_END
531
532 NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
533 TYPE: time_t
534 DEFAULT: 1 hour
535 LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
536 DOC_START
537 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
538 This is a trade-off between memory utilization (long intervals - say
539 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
540 have good reason to.
541 DOC_END
542
543 NAME: authenticate_ttl
544 TYPE: time_t
545 DEFAULT: 1 hour
546 LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
547 DOC_START
548 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
549 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
550 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
551 TTL are removed from memory.
552 DOC_END
553
554 NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
555 TYPE: time_t
556 LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
557 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
558 DOC_START
559 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
560 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
561 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
562 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
563 quickly, as is the case with dialup. You might be safe
564 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
565 environment with relatively static address assignments.
566 DOC_END
567
568 COMMENT_START
569 ACCESS CONTROLS
570 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
571 COMMENT_END
572
573 NAME: external_acl_type
574 TYPE: externalAclHelper
575 LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
576 DEFAULT: none
577 DOC_START
578 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
579 to look up the status
580
581 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
582
583 Options:
584
585 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
586 for 1 hour)
587 negative_ttl=n
588 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
589 as ttl)
590 children-max=n
591 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
592 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
593 children-startup=n
594 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
595 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
596 of this type. (default 0)
597 children-idle=n
598 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
599 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
600 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
601 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
602 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
603 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
604 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
605 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
606 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
607 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
608 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
609 ipv4 / ipv6 IP protocol used to communicate with this helper.
610 The default is to auto-detect IPv6 and use it when available.
611
612 FORMAT specifications
613
614 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
615 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
616 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
617 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
618 %IDENT Ident user name
619 %SRC Client IP
620 %SRCPORT Client source port
621 %URI Requested URI
622 %DST Requested host
623 %PROTO Requested protocol
624 %PORT Requested port
625 %PATH Requested URL path
626 %METHOD Request method
627 %MYADDR Squid interface address
628 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
629 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
630 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
631 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
632 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
633 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
634
635 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
636 %>{Hdr:member}
637 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
638 %>{Hdr:;member}
639 HTTP request header list member using ; as
640 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
641 character.
642
643 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
644 %<{Hdr:member}
645 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
646 %<{Hdr:;member}
647 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
648 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
649 character.
650
651 %% The percent sign. Useful for helpers which need
652 an unchanging input format.
653
654
655 General request syntax:
656
657 [channel-ID] FORMAT-values [acl-values ...]
658
659
660 FORMAT-values consists of transaction details expanded with
661 whitespace separation per the config file FORMAT specification
662 using the FORMAT macros listed above.
663
664 acl-values consists of any string specified in the referencing
665 config 'acl ... external' line. see the "acl external" directive.
666
667 Request values sent to the helper are URL escaped to protect
668 each value in requests against whitespaces.
669
670 If using protocol=2.5 then the request sent to the helper is not
671 URL escaped to protect against whitespace.
672
673 NOTE: protocol=3.0 is deprecated as no longer necessary.
674
675 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
676 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
677 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
678 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
679 of the response relating to its request.
680
681
682 The helper receives lines expanded per the above format specification
683 and for each input line returns 1 line starting with OK/ERR/BH result
684 code and optionally followed by additional keywords with more details.
685
686
687 General result syntax:
688
689 [channel-ID] result keyword=value ...
690
691 Result consists of one of the codes:
692
693 OK
694 the ACL test produced a match.
695
696 ERR
697 the ACL test does not produce a match.
698
699 BH
700 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
701 a result being identified.
702
703 The meaning of 'a match' is determined by your squid.conf
704 access control configuration. See the Squid wiki for details.
705
706 Defined keywords:
707
708 user= The users name (login)
709
710 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
711
712 message= Message describing the reason for this response.
713 Available as %o in error pages.
714 Useful on (ERR and BH results).
715
716 tag= Apply a tag to a request. Only sets a tag once,
717 does not alter existing tags.
718
719 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
720 %ea in logformat specifications.
721
722 Any keywords may be sent on any response whether OK, ERR or BH.
723
724 All response keyword values need to be a single token with URL
725 escaping, or enclosed in double quotes (") and escaped using \ on
726 any double quotes or \ characters within the value. The wrapping
727 double quotes are removed before the value is interpreted by Squid.
728 \r and \n are also replace by CR and LF.
729
730 Some example key values:
731
732 user=John%20Smith
733 user="John Smith"
734 user="J. \"Bob\" Smith"
735 DOC_END
736
737 NAME: acl
738 TYPE: acl
739 LOC: Config.aclList
740 IF USE_SSL
741 DEFAULT: ssl::certHasExpired ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED
742 DEFAULT: ssl::certNotYetValid ssl_error X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID
743 DEFAULT: ssl::certDomainMismatch ssl_error SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH
744 DEFAULT: ssl::certUntrusted ssl_error X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED
745 DEFAULT: ssl::certSelfSigned ssl_error X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT
746 ENDIF
747 DEFAULT: all src all
748 DEFAULT: manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
749 DEFAULT: localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
750 DEFAULT: to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
751 DEFAULT_DOC: ACLs all, manager, localhost, and to_localhost are predefined.
752 DOC_START
753 Defining an Access List
754
755 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
756 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
757 they are read from.
758
759 acl aclname acltype argument ...
760 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
761
762 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
763
764 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
765 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
766 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
767
768 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
769 to access some external data source.
770 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
771 don't are marked as [fast].
772 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
773 for further information
774
775 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
776
777 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
778 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
779 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
780 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
781
782 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
783 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
784 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
785 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
786 # other *BSD variants.
787 # [fast]
788 #
789 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
790 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
791 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
792
793 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
794 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
795 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
796 # Destination server from URL [fast]
797 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
798 # regex matching client name [slow]
799 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
800 # regex matching server [fast]
801 #
802 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
803 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
804 # if the reverse lookup fails.
805
806 acl aclname src_as number ...
807 acl aclname dst_as number ...
808 # [fast]
809 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
810 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
811 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
812 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
813 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
814 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
815 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
816
817 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
818 # [fast]
819 # match against a named cache_peer entry
820 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
821
822 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
823 # [fast]
824 # day-abbrevs:
825 # S - Sunday
826 # M - Monday
827 # T - Tuesday
828 # W - Wednesday
829 # H - Thursday
830 # F - Friday
831 # A - Saturday
832 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
833
834 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
835 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
836 acl aclname urllogin [-i] [^a-zA-Z0-9] ...
837 # regex matching on URL login field
838 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
839 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
840
841 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
842 # ranges are alloed
843 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
844 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
845
846 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
847
848 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
849
850 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
851
852 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
853 # status code in reply [fast]
854
855 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
856 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
857
858 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
859 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
860 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
861
862 acl aclname ident username ...
863 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
864 # string match on ident output [slow]
865 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
866
867 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
868 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
869 # perform http authentication challenge to the client and match against
870 # supplied credentials [slow]
871 #
872 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
873 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
874 #
875 # Will use proxy authentication in forward-proxy scenarios, and plain
876 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
877 #
878 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
879 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
880 # in access.log.
881 #
882 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
883 # to check username/password combinations (see
884 # auth_param directive).
885 #
886 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
887 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
888 # to respond to proxy authentication.
889
890 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
891 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
892 # Example:
893 #
894 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
895
896 acl aclname maxconn number
897 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
898 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
899 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
900 # indirect clients are not counted.
901
902 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
903 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
904 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
905 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
906 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
907 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
908 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
909 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
910 # request is denied)
911 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
912 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
913 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
914
915 acl aclname random probability
916 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
917 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
918 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
919
920 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
921 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
922 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
923 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
924 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
925 # to match the returned file type.
926
927 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
928 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
929 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
930 # ACL [fast]
931
932 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
933 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
934 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
935 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
936 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
937 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
938 # http_reply_access.
939
940 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
941 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
942 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
943 # ACLs [fast]
944
945 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
946 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
947 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
948
949 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
950 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
951 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
952
953 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
954 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
955 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
956
957 acl aclname ext_user username ...
958 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
959 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
960 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
961
962 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
963 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
964
965 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
966 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
967 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
968 #
969 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
970 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
971 # http_reply_access.
972
973 IF USE_SSL
974 acl aclname ssl_error errorname
975 # match against SSL certificate validation error [fast]
976 #
977 # For valid error names see in @DEFAULT_ERROR_DIR@/templates/error-details.txt
978 # template file.
979 #
980 # The following can be used as shortcuts for certificate properties:
981 # [ssl::]certHasExpired: the "not after" field is in the past
982 # [ssl::]certNotYetValid: the "not before" field is in the future
983 # [ssl::]certUntrusted: The certificate issuer is not to be trusted.
984 # [ssl::]certSelfSigned: The certificate is self signed.
985 # [ssl::]certDomainMismatch: The certificate CN domain does not
986 # match the name the name of the host we are connecting to.
987 #
988 # The ssl::certHasExpired, ssl::certNotYetValid, ssl::certDomainMismatch,
989 # ssl::certUntrusted, and ssl::certSelfSigned can also be used as
990 # predefined ACLs, just like the 'all' ACL.
991 #
992 # NOTE: The ssl_error ACL is only supported with sslproxy_cert_error,
993 # sslproxy_cert_sign, and sslproxy_cert_adapt options.
994
995 acl aclname server_cert_fingerprint [-sha1] fingerprint
996 # match against server SSL certificate fingerprint [fast]
997 #
998 # The fingerprint is the digest of the DER encoded version
999 # of the whole certificate. The user should use the form: XX:XX:...
1000 # Optional argument specifies the digest algorithm to use.
1001 # The SHA1 digest algorithm is the default and is currently
1002 # the only algorithm supported (-sha1).
1003 ENDIF
1004
1005 Examples:
1006 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
1007 acl myexample dst_as 1241
1008 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
1009 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
1010 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
1011
1012 NOCOMMENT_START
1013 #
1014 # Recommended minimum configuration:
1015 #
1016
1017 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1018 # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
1019 # should be allowed
1020 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1021 acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1022 acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
1023 acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
1024 acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
1025
1026 acl SSL_ports port 443
1027 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
1028 acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
1029 acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
1030 acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
1031 acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
1032 acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
1033 acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
1034 acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
1035 acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
1036 acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
1037 acl CONNECT method CONNECT
1038 NOCOMMENT_END
1039 DOC_END
1040
1041 NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
1042 TYPE: acl_access
1043 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1044 LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
1045 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1046 DOC_START
1047 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
1048 find the original source of a request.
1049
1050 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
1051 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
1052 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
1053 rightmost address being the most recent.
1054
1055 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
1056 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
1057 to see where that host received the request from. If the
1058 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
1059 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
1060 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
1061 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
1062 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
1063 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
1064
1065 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
1066 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
1067 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
1068 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
1069 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
1070 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
1071
1072 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1073 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1074
1075 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
1076
1077 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
1078 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
1079 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
1080 source address of the request. This may enable remote
1081 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
1082 based on the client's source addresses.
1083
1084 For example:
1085
1086 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
1087 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
1088 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
1089 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
1090 DOC_END
1091
1092 NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
1093 COMMENT: on|off
1094 TYPE: onoff
1095 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1096 DEFAULT: on
1097 LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
1098 DOC_START
1099 Controls whether the indirect client address
1100 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1101 direct client address in acl matching.
1102
1103 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
1104 clients will always have zero. So no match.
1105 DOC_END
1106
1107 NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1108 COMMENT: on|off
1109 TYPE: onoff
1110 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
1111 DEFAULT: on
1112 LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
1113 DOC_START
1114 Controls whether the indirect client address
1115 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1116 direct client address in delay pools.
1117 DOC_END
1118
1119 NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
1120 COMMENT: on|off
1121 TYPE: onoff
1122 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
1123 DEFAULT: on
1124 LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
1125 DOC_START
1126 Controls whether the indirect client address
1127 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1128 direct client address in the access log.
1129 DOC_END
1130
1131 NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1132 COMMENT: on|off
1133 TYPE: onoff
1134 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
1135 DEFAULT: off
1136 LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
1137 DOC_START
1138 Controls whether the indirect client address
1139 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
1140 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
1141
1142 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
1143 mode ports.
1144
1145 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
1146 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
1147 of follow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
1148 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
1149 DOC_END
1150
1151 NAME: http_access
1152 TYPE: acl_access
1153 LOC: Config.accessList.http
1154 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1155 DOC_START
1156 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1157
1158 Access to the HTTP port:
1159 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1160
1161 NOTE on default values:
1162
1163 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1164 the request.
1165
1166 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1167 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1168 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1169 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
1170 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1171 lists to avoid potential confusion.
1172
1173 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1174 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1175
1176 NOCOMMENT_START
1177
1178 #
1179 # Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
1180 #
1181 # Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
1182 http_access allow localhost manager
1183 http_access deny manager
1184
1185 # Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
1186 http_access deny !Safe_ports
1187
1188 # Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
1189 http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
1190
1191 # We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1192 # web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1193 # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1194 #http_access deny to_localhost
1195
1196 #
1197 # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
1198 #
1199
1200 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1201 # Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1202 # from where browsing should be allowed
1203 http_access allow localnet
1204 http_access allow localhost
1205
1206 # And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1207 http_access deny all
1208 NOCOMMENT_END
1209 DOC_END
1210
1211 NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1212 TYPE: acl_access
1213 LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1214 DEFAULT: none
1215 DOC_START
1216 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1217
1218 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1219 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1220 output.
1221
1222 If not set then only http_access is used.
1223 DOC_END
1224
1225 NAME: http_reply_access
1226 TYPE: acl_access
1227 LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1228 DEFAULT: none
1229 DOC_START
1230 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
1231
1232 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
1233
1234 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1235 all replies
1236
1237 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1238 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1239 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
1240
1241 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1242 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1243 DOC_END
1244
1245 NAME: icp_access
1246 TYPE: acl_access
1247 LOC: Config.accessList.icp
1248 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1249 DOC_START
1250 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1251 access lists
1252
1253 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1254
1255 See http_access for details
1256
1257 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1258 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1259
1260 # Allow ICP queries from local networks only
1261 #icp_access allow localnet
1262 #icp_access deny all
1263 DOC_END
1264
1265 NAME: htcp_access
1266 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1267 TYPE: acl_access
1268 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
1269 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1270 DOC_START
1271 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1272 access lists
1273
1274 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1275
1276 See http_access for details
1277
1278 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1279 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1280 using the htcp option.
1281
1282 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1283 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1284
1285 # Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
1286 #htcp_access allow localnet
1287 #htcp_access deny all
1288 DOC_END
1289
1290 NAME: htcp_clr_access
1291 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1292 TYPE: acl_access
1293 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
1294 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1295 DOC_START
1296 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1297 on defined access lists
1298
1299 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1300
1301 See http_access for details
1302
1303 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1304 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1305
1306 # Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
1307 acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1308 htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
1309 DOC_END
1310
1311 NAME: miss_access
1312 TYPE: acl_access
1313 LOC: Config.accessList.miss
1314 DEFAULT: none
1315 DOC_START
1316 Determins whether network access is permitted when satisfying a request.
1317
1318 For example;
1319 to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1320 a parent.
1321
1322 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1323 miss_access allow localclients
1324 miss_access deny !localclients
1325
1326 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch relayed/MISS
1327 replies from the network and all other clients can only fetch cached
1328 objects (HITs).
1329
1330
1331 The default for this setting allows all clients who passed the
1332 http_access rules to relay via this proxy.
1333
1334 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1335 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1336 DOC_END
1337
1338 NAME: ident_lookup_access
1339 TYPE: acl_access
1340 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
1341 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1342 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
1343 DOC_START
1344 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1345 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1346 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1347 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1348 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1349 any requests.
1350
1351 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1352 can follow this example:
1353
1354 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
1355 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1356 ident_lookup_access deny all
1357
1358 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
1359 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1360 the correct result.
1361
1362 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1363 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1364 DOC_END
1365
1366 NAME: reply_body_max_size
1367 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1368 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1369 DEFAULT: none
1370 LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1371 DOC_START
1372 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1373 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1374 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1375 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1376 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1377 for this reply.
1378
1379 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1380 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1381 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1382 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1383 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1384 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1385 and they will receive a partial reply.
1386
1387 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1388 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1389 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1390 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1391
1392 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1393 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1394 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1395 the size of your largest error page.
1396
1397 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1398 no limit imposed.
1399
1400 Configuration Format is:
1401 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1402 ie.
1403 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1404
1405 DOC_END
1406
1407 COMMENT_START
1408 NETWORK OPTIONS
1409 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1410 COMMENT_END
1411
1412 NAME: http_port ascii_port
1413 TYPE: PortCfg
1414 DEFAULT: none
1415 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1416 DOC_START
1417 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1418 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1419 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
1420
1421 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1422 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1423 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1424 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1425 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
1426 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
1427 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1428
1429 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1430 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1431
1432 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1433 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1434 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1435
1436 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1437
1438 Modes:
1439
1440 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1441 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1442 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1443
1444 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1445 connections using the client IP address.
1446 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1447
1448 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
1449
1450 ssl-bump For each CONNECT request allowed by ssl_bump ACLs,
1451 establish secure connection with the client and with
1452 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
1453 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1454 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1455
1456 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1457 bumping of CONNECT requests.
1458
1459 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1460
1461
1462 Accelerator Mode Options:
1463
1464 defaultsite=domainname
1465 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1466 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1467 accelerators should consider the default.
1468
1469 no-vhost Disable using HTTP/1.1 Host header for virtual domain support.
1470
1471 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1472 Defaults to http for http_port and https for
1473 https_port
1474
1475 vport Virtual host port support. Using the http_port number
1476 instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
1477
1478 vport=NN Virtual host port support. Using the specified port
1479 number instead of the port passed on Host: headers.
1480
1481 act-as-origin
1482 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1483 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1484 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
1485
1486 ignore-cc Ignore request Cache-Control headers.
1487
1488 WARNING: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1489 used in non-accelerator setups.
1490
1491 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1492 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1493 never_direct was used.
1494
1495 WARNING: this option opens accelerator mode to security
1496 vulnerabilities usually only affecting in interception
1497 mode. Make sure to protect forwarding with suitable
1498 http_access rules when using this.
1499
1500
1501 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1502 In addition to these options ssl-bump requires TLS/SSL options.
1503
1504 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1505 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1506 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1507 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1508 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1509 certificate will be selfsigned.
1510 If there is a CA certificate lifetime of the generated
1511 certificate equals lifetime of the CA certificate. If
1512 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1513 years.
1514 This option is enabled by default when ssl-bump is used.
1515 See the ssl-bump option above for more information.
1516
1517 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1518 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1519 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1520 default value is 4MB.
1521
1522 TLS / SSL Options:
1523
1524 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1525
1526 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1527 if not specified, the certificate file is
1528 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1529 key file.
1530
1531 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1532 1 automatic (default)
1533 2 SSLv2 only
1534 3 SSLv3 only
1535 4 TLSv1.0 only
1536 5 TLSv1.1 only
1537 6 TLSv1.2 only
1538
1539 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1540 NOTE: some ciphers such as EDH ciphers depend on
1541 additional settings. If those settings are
1542 omitted the ciphers may be silently ignored
1543 by the OpenSSL library.
1544
1545 options= Various SSL implementation options. The most important
1546 being:
1547 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1548 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1549 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
1550 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
1551 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
1552 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1553 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1554 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
1555 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
1556 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
1557 strength to some attacks.
1558 See OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1559 complete list of options.
1560
1561 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1562 requesting a client certificate.
1563
1564 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1565 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1566 clientca will be used.
1567
1568 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1569 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1570
1571 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1572 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1573 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1574
1575 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1576 DH key exchanges. See OpenSSL documentation for details
1577 on how to create this file.
1578 WARNING: EDH ciphers will be silently disabled if this
1579 option is not set.
1580
1581 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1582 DELAYED_AUTH
1583 Don't request client certificates
1584 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1585 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1586 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1587 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1588 to OpenSSL.
1589 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1590 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1591 will result in a new SSL session.
1592 VERIFY_CRL
1593 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1594 certificates.
1595 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1596 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1597 client certificate chain.
1598
1599 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1600
1601 Other Options:
1602
1603 connection-auth[=on|off]
1604 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1605 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
1606 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1607
1608 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1609 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1610 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1611 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1612 support is enabled.
1613 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1614
1615 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1616 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1617 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1618 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1619 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1620 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1621 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1622 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1623
1624 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1625 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1626
1627 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1628 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections.
1629 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1630 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1631 timeout the time before giving up.
1632
1633 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1634 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1635 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1636 visible on the internal address.
1637
1638 NOCOMMENT_START
1639
1640 # Squid normally listens to port 3128
1641 http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1642 NOCOMMENT_END
1643 DOC_END
1644
1645 NAME: https_port
1646 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1647 TYPE: PortCfg
1648 DEFAULT: none
1649 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1650 DOC_START
1651 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [mode] [options...]
1652
1653 The socket address where Squid will listen for client requests made
1654 over TLS or SSL connections. Commonly referred to as HTTPS.
1655
1656 This is most useful for situations where you are running squid in
1657 accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the accelerator level.
1658
1659 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1660 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1661
1662 Modes:
1663
1664 accel Accelerator / reverse proxy mode
1665
1666 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1667 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1668 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1669
1670 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1671 connections using the client IP address.
1672 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1673
1674 ssl-bump For each intercepted connection allowed by ssl_bump
1675 ACLs, establish a secure connection with the client and with
1676 the server, decrypt HTTPS messages as they pass through
1677 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1678 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1679
1680 An "ssl_bump server-first" match is required to
1681 fully enable bumping of intercepted SSL connections.
1682
1683 Requires tproxy or intercept.
1684
1685 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1686
1687
1688 See http_port for a list of generic options
1689
1690
1691 SSL Options:
1692
1693 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1694
1695 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1696 if not specified, the certificate file is
1697 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1698 key file.
1699
1700 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1701 1 automatic (default)
1702 2 SSLv2 only
1703 3 SSLv3 only
1704 4 TLSv1 only
1705
1706 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1707
1708 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1709 being:
1710 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1711 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1712 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1713 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1714 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1715 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1716 documentation for a complete list of options.
1717
1718 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1719 requesting a client certificate.
1720
1721 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1722 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1723 clientca will be used.
1724
1725 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1726 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1727
1728 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1729 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1730 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1731
1732 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1733 DH key exchanges.
1734
1735 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1736 DELAYED_AUTH
1737 Don't request client certificates
1738 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1739 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1740 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1741 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1742 to OpenSSL.
1743 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1744 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1745 will result in a new SSL session.
1746 VERIFY_CRL
1747 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1748 certificates.
1749 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1750 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1751 client certificate chain.
1752
1753 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1754
1755 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1756 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1757 destination hosts of bumped SSL requests.When
1758 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1759 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1760 certificate will be selfsigned.
1761 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1762 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1763 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1764 years.
1765 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1766 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1767
1768 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1769 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1770 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1771 default value is 4MB.
1772
1773 See http_port for a list of available options.
1774 DOC_END
1775
1776 NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1777 TYPE: acl_tos
1778 DEFAULT: none
1779 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
1780 DOC_START
1781 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1782 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1783
1784 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1785
1786 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1787 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1788
1789 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1790 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1791 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1792 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1793
1794 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1795 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1796 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1797
1798 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1799 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1800 practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1801 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1802
1803 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1804 matching line.
1805 DOC_END
1806
1807 NAME: clientside_tos
1808 TYPE: acl_tos
1809 DEFAULT: none
1810 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1811 DOC_START
1812 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1813 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1814
1815 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1816
1817 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1818 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1819
1820 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1821 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1822 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1823 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1824
1825 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1826 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1827 DOC_END
1828
1829 NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1830 TYPE: acl_nfmark
1831 IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
1832 DEFAULT: none
1833 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1834 DOC_START
1835 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1836 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1837
1838 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1839
1840 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1841 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1842
1843 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1844 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1845 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1846 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1847 DOC_END
1848
1849 NAME: clientside_mark
1850 TYPE: acl_nfmark
1851 IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
1852 DEFAULT: none
1853 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
1854 DOC_START
1855 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1856 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1857
1858 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1859
1860 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1861 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1862
1863 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1864 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1865 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1866 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1867
1868 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1869 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
1870 DOC_END
1871
1872 NAME: qos_flows
1873 TYPE: QosConfig
1874 IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
1875 DEFAULT: none
1876 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
1877 DOC_START
1878 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1879 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced. For
1880 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1881 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
1882
1883 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
1884 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1885 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1886
1887 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255. Note that
1888 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1889 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1890
1891 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
1892
1893 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
1894
1895 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
1896
1897 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1898
1899 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1900
1901 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1902
1903 miss=0xFF[/mask] Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
1904 over the preserve-miss feature (see below), unless
1905 mask is specified, in which case only the bits
1906 specified in the mask are written.
1907
1908 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
1909 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1910 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1911 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1912 with all variants of netfilter.
1913
1914 disable-preserve-miss
1915 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
1916 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1917 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1918 and masked with miss-mark.
1919 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1920 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1921 (MARK target).
1922
1923 miss-mask=0xFF
1924 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
1925 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1926 the TOS sent towards clients.
1927 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1928 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1929
1930 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1931 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1932 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1933 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
1934
1935 DOC_END
1936
1937 NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1938 TYPE: acl_address
1939 DEFAULT: none
1940 LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1941 DOC_START
1942 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1943 based on the username or source address of the user making
1944 the request.
1945
1946 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
1947
1948 For example;
1949 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
1950
1951 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1952 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1953
1954 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1955 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1956
1957 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1958 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1959
1960 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1961 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
1962
1963 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1964 matching line.
1965
1966 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
1967 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1968 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1969
1970
1971 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1972 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1973 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1974 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
1975
1976 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
1977 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1978 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
1979 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
1980
1981 DOC_END
1982
1983 NAME: host_verify_strict
1984 TYPE: onoff
1985 DEFAULT: off
1986 LOC: Config.onoff.hostStrictVerify
1987 DOC_START
1988 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
1989 traffic, Squid always verifies that the destination IP address matches
1990 the Host header domain or IP (called 'authority form URL').
1991
1992 This enforcement is performed to satisfy a MUST-level requirement in
1993 RFC 2616 section 14.23: "The Host field value MUST represent the naming
1994 authority of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL".
1995
1996 When set to ON:
1997 Squid always responds with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error
1998 page and logs a security warning if there is no match.
1999
2000 Squid verifies that the destination IP address matches
2001 the Host header for forward-proxy and reverse-proxy traffic
2002 as well. For those traffic types, Squid also enables the
2003 following checks, comparing the corresponding Host header
2004 and Request-URI components:
2005
2006 * The host names (domain or IP) must be identical,
2007 but valueless or missing Host header disables all checks.
2008 For the two host names to match, both must be either IP
2009 or FQDN.
2010
2011 * Port numbers must be identical, but if a port is missing
2012 the scheme-default port is assumed.
2013
2014
2015 When set to OFF (the default):
2016 Squid allows suspicious requests to continue but logs a
2017 security warning and blocks caching of the response.
2018
2019 * Forward-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2020
2021 * Reverse-proxy traffic is not checked at all.
2022
2023 * Intercepted traffic which passes verification is handled
2024 according to client_dst_passthru.
2025
2026 * Intercepted requests which fail verification are sent
2027 to the client original destination instead of DIRECT.
2028 This overrides 'client_dst_passthru off'.
2029
2030 For now suspicious intercepted CONNECT requests are always
2031 responded to with an HTTP 409 (Conflict) error page.
2032
2033
2034 SECURITY NOTE:
2035
2036 As described in CVE-2009-0801 when the Host: header alone is used
2037 to determine the destination of a request it becomes trivial for
2038 malicious scripts on remote websites to bypass browser same-origin
2039 security policy and sandboxing protections.
2040
2041 The cause of this is that such applets are allowed to perform their
2042 own HTTP stack, in which case the same-origin policy of the browser
2043 sandbox only verifies that the applet tries to contact the same IP
2044 as from where it was loaded at the IP level. The Host: header may
2045 be different from the connected IP and approved origin.
2046
2047 DOC_END
2048
2049 NAME: client_dst_passthru
2050 TYPE: onoff
2051 DEFAULT: on
2052 LOC: Config.onoff.client_dst_passthru
2053 DOC_START
2054 With NAT or TPROXY intercepted traffic Squid may pass the request
2055 directly to the original client destination IP or seek a faster
2056 source using the HTTP Host header.
2057
2058 Using Host to locate alternative servers can provide faster
2059 connectivity with a range of failure recovery options.
2060 But can also lead to connectivity trouble when the client and
2061 server are attempting stateful interactions unaware of the proxy.
2062
2063 This option (on by default) prevents alternative DNS entries being
2064 located to send intercepted traffic DIRECT to an origin server.
2065 The clients original destination IP and port will be used instead.
2066
2067 Regardless of this option setting, when dealing with intercepted
2068 traffic Squid will verify the Host: header and any traffic which
2069 fails Host verification will be treated as if this option were ON.
2070
2071 see host_verify_strict for details on the verification process.
2072 DOC_END
2073
2074 COMMENT_START
2075 SSL OPTIONS
2076 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2077 COMMENT_END
2078
2079 NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
2080 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2081 TYPE: onoff
2082 DEFAULT: off
2083 LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
2084 DOC_START
2085 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
2086 messages.
2087 DOC_END
2088
2089 NAME: ssl_engine
2090 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2091 TYPE: string
2092 LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
2093 DEFAULT: none
2094 DOC_START
2095 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
2096 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
2097 DOC_END
2098
2099 NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
2100 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2101 DEFAULT: none
2102 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
2103 TYPE: string
2104 DOC_START
2105 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
2106 DOC_END
2107
2108 NAME: sslproxy_client_key
2109 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2110 DEFAULT: none
2111 LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
2112 TYPE: string
2113 DOC_START
2114 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
2115 DOC_END
2116
2117 NAME: sslproxy_version
2118 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2119 DEFAULT: 1
2120 LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
2121 TYPE: int
2122 DOC_START
2123 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
2124
2125 The versions of SSL/TLS supported:
2126
2127 1 automatic (default)
2128 2 SSLv2 only
2129 3 SSLv3 only
2130 4 TLSv1.0 only
2131 5 TLSv1.1 only
2132 6 TLSv1.2 only
2133 DOC_END
2134
2135 NAME: sslproxy_options
2136 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2137 DEFAULT: none
2138 LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
2139 TYPE: string
2140 DOC_START
2141 SSL implementation options to use when proxying https:// URLs
2142
2143 The most important being:
2144
2145 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2146 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2147 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2148 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2149 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
2150 SINGLE_DH_USE
2151 Always create a new key when using temporary/ephemeral
2152 DH key exchanges
2153 SSL_OP_NO_TICKET
2154 Disable use of RFC5077 session tickets. Some servers
2155 may have problems understanding the TLS extension due
2156 to ambiguous specification in RFC4507.
2157 ALL Enable various bug workarounds suggested as "harmless"
2158 by OpenSSL. Be warned that this may reduce SSL/TLS
2159 strength to some attacks.
2160
2161 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2162 complete list of possible options.
2163 DOC_END
2164
2165 NAME: sslproxy_cipher
2166 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2167 DEFAULT: none
2168 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
2169 TYPE: string
2170 DOC_START
2171 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
2172
2173 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
2174 DOC_END
2175
2176 NAME: sslproxy_cafile
2177 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2178 DEFAULT: none
2179 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
2180 TYPE: string
2181 DOC_START
2182 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
2183 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
2184 DOC_END
2185
2186 NAME: sslproxy_capath
2187 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2188 DEFAULT: none
2189 LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
2190 TYPE: string
2191 DOC_START
2192 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
2193 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
2194 DOC_END
2195
2196 NAME: ssl_bump
2197 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2198 TYPE: sslproxy_ssl_bump
2199 LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
2200 DEFAULT: none
2201 DOC_START
2202 This option is consulted when a CONNECT request is received on
2203 an http_port (or a new connection is intercepted at an
2204 https_port), provided that port was configured with an ssl-bump
2205 flag. The subsequent data on the connection is either treated as
2206 HTTPS and decrypted OR tunneled at TCP level without decryption,
2207 depending on the first bumping "mode" which ACLs match.
2208
2209 ssl_bump <mode> [!]acl ...
2210
2211 The following bumping modes are supported:
2212
2213 client-first
2214 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2215 with the client first, then connect to the server. This old mode
2216 does not allow Squid to mimic server SSL certificate and does
2217 not work with intercepted SSL connections.
2218
2219 server-first
2220 Allow bumping of the connection. Establish a secure connection
2221 with the server first, then establish a secure connection with
2222 the client, using a mimicked server certificate. Works with both
2223 CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL connections.
2224
2225 none
2226 Become a TCP tunnel without decoding the connection.
2227 Works with both CONNECT requests and intercepted SSL
2228 connections. This is the default behavior when no
2229 ssl_bump option is given or no ssl_bump ACLs match.
2230
2231 By default, no connections are bumped.
2232
2233 The first matching ssl_bump option wins. If no ACLs match, the
2234 connection is not bumped. Unlike most allow/deny ACL lists, ssl_bump
2235 does not have an implicit "negate the last given option" rule. You
2236 must make that rule explicit if you convert old ssl_bump allow/deny
2237 rules that rely on such an implicit rule.
2238
2239 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
2240 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2241
2242 See also: http_port ssl-bump, https_port ssl-bump
2243
2244
2245 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from
2246 # localhost and those going to example.com.
2247
2248 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
2249 ssl_bump none localhost
2250 ssl_bump none broken_sites
2251 ssl_bump server-first all
2252 DOC_END
2253
2254 NAME: sslproxy_flags
2255 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2256 DEFAULT: none
2257 LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
2258 TYPE: string
2259 DOC_START
2260 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
2261 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
2262 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
2263 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
2264 to OpenSSL.
2265 DOC_END
2266
2267 NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
2268 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2269 DEFAULT: none
2270 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
2271 TYPE: acl_access
2272 DOC_START
2273 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
2274
2275 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
2276 when talking to servers for example.com. All other
2277 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
2278
2279 acl BrokenButTrustedServers dstdomain example.com
2280 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenButTrustedServers
2281 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2282
2283 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2284 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
2285 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
2286
2287 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
2288 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
2289 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
2290 the connection may be insecure.
2291
2292 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
2293
2294 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
2295 DOC_END
2296
2297 NAME: sslproxy_cert_sign
2298 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2299 DEFAULT: none
2300 POSTSCRIPTUM: signUntrusted ssl::certUntrusted
2301 POSTSCRIPTUM: signSelf ssl::certSelfSigned
2302 POSTSCRIPTUM: signTrusted all
2303 TYPE: sslproxy_cert_sign
2304 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_sign
2305 DOC_START
2306
2307 sslproxy_cert_sign <signing algorithm> acl ...
2308
2309 The following certificate signing algorithms are supported:
2310 signTrusted
2311 Sign using the configured CA certificate which is usually
2312 placed in and trusted by end-user browsers. This is the
2313 default for trusted origin server certificates.
2314 signUntrusted
2315 Sign to guarantee an X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED browser error.
2316 This is the default for untrusted origin server certificates
2317 that are not self-signed (see ssl::certUntrusted).
2318 signSelf
2319 Sign using a self-signed certificate with the right CN to
2320 generate a X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT error in the
2321 browser. This is the default for self-signed origin server
2322 certificates (see ssl::certSelfSigned).
2323
2324 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2325
2326 When sslproxy_cert_sign acl(s) match, Squid uses the corresponding
2327 signing algorithm to generate the certificate and ignores all
2328 subsequent sslproxy_cert_sign options (the first match wins). If no
2329 acl(s) match, the default signing algorithm is determined by errors
2330 detected when obtaining and validating the origin server certificate.
2331
2332 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2333 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2334 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2335 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2336 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2337 bump-server-first is used.
2338 DOC_END
2339
2340 NAME: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2341 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2342 DEFAULT: none
2343 TYPE: sslproxy_cert_adapt
2344 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_adapt
2345 DOC_START
2346
2347 sslproxy_cert_adapt <adaptation algorithm> acl ...
2348
2349 The following certificate adaptation algorithms are supported:
2350 setValidAfter
2351 Sets the "Not After" property to the "Not After" property of
2352 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2353 setValidBefore
2354 Sets the "Not Before" property to the "Not Before" property of
2355 the CA certificate used to sign generated certificates.
2356 setCommonName or setCommonName{CN}
2357 Sets Subject.CN property to the host name specified as a
2358 CN parameter or, if no explicit CN parameter was specified,
2359 extracted from the CONNECT request. It is a misconfiguration
2360 to use setCommonName without an explicit parameter for
2361 intercepted or tproxied SSL connections.
2362
2363 This clause only supports fast acl types.
2364
2365 Squid first groups sslproxy_cert_adapt options by adaptation algorithm.
2366 Within a group, when sslproxy_cert_adapt acl(s) match, Squid uses the
2367 corresponding adaptation algorithm to generate the certificate and
2368 ignores all subsequent sslproxy_cert_adapt options in that algorithm's
2369 group (i.e., the first match wins within each algorithm group). If no
2370 acl(s) match, the default mimicking action takes place.
2371
2372 WARNING: SQUID_X509_V_ERR_DOMAIN_MISMATCH and ssl:certDomainMismatch can
2373 be used with sslproxy_cert_adapt, but if and only if Squid is bumping a
2374 CONNECT request that carries a domain name. In all other cases (CONNECT
2375 to an IP address or an intercepted SSL connection), Squid cannot detect
2376 the domain mismatch at certificate generation time when
2377 bump-server-first is used.
2378 DOC_END
2379
2380 NAME: sslpassword_program
2381 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2382 DEFAULT: none
2383 LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
2384 TYPE: string
2385 DOC_START
2386 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
2387 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
2388 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
2389 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
2390
2391 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
2392 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
2393 keys.
2394 DOC_END
2395
2396 COMMENT_START
2397 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
2398 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2399 COMMENT_END
2400
2401 NAME: sslcrtd_program
2402 TYPE: eol
2403 IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2404 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
2405 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
2406 DOC_START
2407 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
2408 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
2409 For more information use:
2410 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
2411 DOC_END
2412
2413 NAME: sslcrtd_children
2414 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2415 IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
2416 DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
2417 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
2418 DOC_START
2419 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2420 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2421
2422 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2423 tuning.
2424
2425 startup=N
2426
2427 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2428 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2429 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2430
2431 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2432 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2433
2434 idle=N
2435
2436 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2437 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2438 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2439 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2440
2441 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2442 DOC_END
2443
2444 NAME: sslcrtvalidator_program
2445 TYPE: eol
2446 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2447 DEFAULT: none
2448 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator
2449 DOC_START
2450 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crt_validator
2451 process. Usage:
2452 sslcrtvalidator_program [ttl=n] [cache=n] path ...
2453
2454 Options:
2455 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results.The default is 60 secs
2456 cache=n limit the result cache size. The default value is 2048
2457 DOC_END
2458
2459 NAME: sslcrtvalidator_children
2460 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
2461 IFDEF: USE_SSL
2462 DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1 concurrency=1
2463 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crt_validator_Children
2464 DOC_START
2465 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2466 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2467
2468 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2469 tuning.
2470
2471 startup=N
2472
2473 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2474 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2475 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2476
2477 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2478 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2479
2480 idle=N
2481
2482 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2483 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2484 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2485 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2486
2487 concurrency=
2488
2489 The number of requests each certificate validator helper can handle in
2490 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the certficate validator
2491 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
2492
2493 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
2494 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
2495 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
2496 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
2497 to that request.
2498
2499 You must have at least one ssl_crt_validator process.
2500 DOC_END
2501
2502 COMMENT_START
2503 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
2504 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2505 COMMENT_END
2506
2507 NAME: cache_peer
2508 TYPE: peer
2509 DEFAULT: none
2510 LOC: Config.peers
2511 DOC_START
2512 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2513
2514 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2515
2516 For example,
2517
2518 # proxy icp
2519 # hostname type port port options
2520 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2521 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
2522 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2523 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2524 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 default
2525 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2526
2527 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2528
2529 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2530 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2531 For web servers this is usually 80
2532
2533 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2534 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2535 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2536
2537
2538 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2539
2540 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2541 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2542
2543
2544 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2545
2546 multicast-responder
2547 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2548 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2549 replies will be accepted from it.
2550
2551 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2552 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2553
2554 background-ping
2555 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2556 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2557 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2558
2559
2560 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2561
2562 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2563 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2564
2565
2566 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2567 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
2568 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2569 list of options described below.
2570
2571 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2572
2573 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2574 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
2575 only-clr.
2576
2577 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2578 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2579
2580 htcp=no-purge-clr
2581 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2582 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2583
2584 htcp=forward-clr
2585 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2586
2587
2588 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2589
2590 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2591 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2592
2593
2594 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2595 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2596 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2597
2598 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2599 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2600 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2601
2602 weighted-round-robin
2603 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2604 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2605 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2606 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2607 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2608
2609 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2610 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2611 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2612
2613 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2614
2615 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
2616
2617 multicast-siblings
2618 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2619 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2620 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a multicast
2621 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2622 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2623 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2624 members of the same multicast group.
2625
2626
2627 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2628
2629 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2630 peer-selection mechanisms.
2631 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2632 larger weights are favored more.
2633 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2634 protocol is not in use.
2635
2636 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2637 times of parents.
2638 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2639 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2640 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2641
2642 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2643 to this address.
2644 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2645 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2646 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2647 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2648
2649 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2650 delay pools.
2651
2652 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2653 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2654 than the Squid default location.
2655
2656
2657 ==== CARP OPTIONS ====
2658
2659 carp-key=key-specification
2660 use a different key than the full URL to hash against the peer.
2661 the key-specification is a comma-separated list of the keywords
2662 scheme, host, port, path, params
2663 Order is not important.
2664
2665 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2666
2667 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2668 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2669 is a web server.
2670
2671 forceddomain=name
2672 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2673 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2674 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2675 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2676
2677 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2678
2679 no-netdb-exchange
2680 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2681
2682
2683 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2684
2685 login=user:password
2686 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2687 requires proxy authentication.
2688
2689 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2690 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2691
2692 login=PASSTHRU
2693 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2694 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2695 without alteration to the peer.
2696 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2697
2698 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2699 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2700 connection-auth options are also used.
2701
2702 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2703 Authentication is not required by this option.
2704
2705 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2706 to pass on, but username and password are available
2707 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
2708 they may be sent instead.
2709
2710 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2711 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2712 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2713 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2714 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2715
2716 login=*:password
2717 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2718 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2719 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2720 needed to identify each user.
2721 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2722 information which is added to the username. This can
2723 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2724 the login=username:password option above.
2725
2726 login=NEGOTIATE
2727 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2728 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2729 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2730 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2731
2732 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2733 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2734 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2735
2736 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2737 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2738 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2739 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2740 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2741 used.
2742
2743 WARNING: The connection may transmit requests from multiple
2744 clients. Negotiate often assumes end-to-end authentication
2745 and a single-client. Which is not strictly true here.
2746
2747 connection-auth=on|off
2748 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2749 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2750 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2751 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2752 of the peer.
2753
2754
2755 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2756
2757 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2758
2759 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2760 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2761 this peer.
2762
2763 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2764 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2765 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2766 reference a combined file containing both the
2767 certificate and the key.
2768
2769 sslversion=1|2|3|4|5|6
2770 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2771 1 = automatic (default)
2772 2 = SSL v2 only
2773 3 = SSL v3 only
2774 4 = TLS v1.0 only
2775 5 = TLS v1.1 only
2776 6 = TLS v1.2 only
2777
2778 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2779 to this peer.
2780
2781 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL implementation options:
2782
2783 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2784 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2785 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.0
2786 NO_TLSv1_1 Disallow the use of TLSv1.1
2787 NO_TLSv1_2 Disallow the use of TLSv1.2
2788 SINGLE_DH_USE
2789 Always create a new key when using
2790 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
2791 ALL Enable various bug workarounds
2792 suggested as "harmless" by OpenSSL
2793 Be warned that this reduces SSL/TLS
2794 strength to some attacks.
2795
2796 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
2797 more complete list.
2798
2799 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2800 when verifying the peer certificate.
2801
2802 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2803 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2804
2805 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2806 verifying the peer certificate.
2807
2808 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2809
2810 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2811 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2812 verify.
2813 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2814 Don't use the default CA list built in
2815 to OpenSSL.
2816 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2817 Don't verify the peer certificate
2818 matches the server name
2819
2820 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2821 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2822 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2823 used.
2824
2825 front-end-https
2826 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2827 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2828 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2829 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2830 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2831
2832
2833 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2834
2835 connect-timeout=N
2836 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2837 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2838
2839 connect-fail-limit=N
2840 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2841 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2842
2843 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2844 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2845 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2846 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2847 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2848 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2849 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2850
2851 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2852 peer. see also
2853
2854 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2855 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2856 but different ports.
2857 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2858 directives to dentify the peer.
2859 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2860 peername ACL type.
2861
2862 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2863 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2864
2865 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2866
2867 DOC_END
2868
2869 NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2870 TYPE: hostdomain
2871 DEFAULT: none
2872 LOC: none
2873 DOC_START
2874 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2875 queried. Usage:
2876
2877 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2878 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
2879
2880 For example, specifying
2881
2882 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
2883
2884 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2885 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2886 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2887 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2888 NOT in that domain.
2889
2890 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2891 either on the same or separate lines.
2892 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2893 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2894 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2895 for all requests.
2896 * There are no defaults.
2897 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2898 section.
2899 DOC_END
2900
2901 NAME: cache_peer_access
2902 TYPE: peer_access
2903 DEFAULT: none
2904 LOC: none
2905 DOC_START
2906 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2907 using ACL elements.
2908
2909 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2910
2911 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2912 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2913 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
2914 DOC_END
2915
2916 NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2917 TYPE: hostdomaintype
2918 DEFAULT: none
2919 LOC: none
2920 DOC_START
2921 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
2922
2923 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
2924 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
2925 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2926 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2927 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2928 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
2929
2930 EXAMPLE:
2931 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
2932 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2933 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2934 DOC_END
2935
2936 NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2937 COMMENT: (seconds)
2938 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2939 TYPE: time_t
2940 LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2941 DOC_START
2942 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2943 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2944 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2945 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2946 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2947 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
2948
2949 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2950 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2951 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2952 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2953 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2954 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2955 instead of to your parents.
2956 DOC_END
2957
2958 NAME: forward_max_tries
2959 DEFAULT: 10
2960 TYPE: int
2961 LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2962 DOC_START
2963 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2964 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2965
2966 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2967 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
2968 DOC_END
2969
2970 NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2971 TYPE: wordlist
2972 DEFAULT: none
2973 LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2974 DOC_START
2975 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2976 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2977 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2978 list this option multiple times.
2979
2980 Example:
2981 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2982
2983 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
2984 DOC_END
2985
2986 COMMENT_START
2987 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2988 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2989 COMMENT_END
2990
2991 NAME: cache_mem
2992 COMMENT: (bytes)
2993 TYPE: b_size_t
2994 DEFAULT: 256 MB
2995 LOC: Config.memMaxSize
2996 DOC_START
2997 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2998 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2999 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
3000 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
3001
3002 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
3003 for:
3004 * In-Transit objects
3005 * Hot Objects
3006 * Negative-Cached objects
3007
3008 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
3009 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
3010 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
3011 priority.
3012
3013 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
3014 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
3015 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
3016 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
3017 not needed for in-transit objects.
3018
3019 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
3020 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
3021 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
3022 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
3023 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
3024 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
3025 objects.
3026
3027 If shared memory caching is enabled, Squid does not use the shared
3028 cache space for in-transit objects, but they still consume as much
3029 local memory as they need. For more details about the shared memory
3030 cache, see memory_cache_shared.
3031 DOC_END
3032
3033 NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
3034 COMMENT: (bytes)
3035 TYPE: b_size_t
3036 DEFAULT: 512 KB
3037 LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
3038 DOC_START
3039 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
3040 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
3041 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
3042 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
3043 DOC_END
3044
3045 NAME: memory_cache_shared
3046 COMMENT: on|off
3047 TYPE: YesNoNone
3048 LOC: Config.memShared
3049 DEFAULT: none
3050 DEFAULT_DOC: "on" where supported if doing memory caching with multiple SMP workers.
3051 DOC_START
3052 Controls whether the memory cache is shared among SMP workers.
3053
3054 The shared memory cache is meant to occupy cache_mem bytes and replace
3055 the non-shared memory cache, although some entities may still be
3056 cached locally by workers for now (e.g., internal and in-transit
3057 objects may be served from a local memory cache even if shared memory
3058 caching is enabled).
3059
3060 By default, the memory cache is shared if and only if all of the
3061 following conditions are satisfied: Squid runs in SMP mode with
3062 multiple workers, cache_mem is positive, and Squid environment
3063 supports required IPC primitives (e.g., POSIX shared memory segments
3064 and GCC-style atomic operations).
3065
3066 To avoid blocking locks, shared memory uses opportunistic algorithms
3067 that do not guarantee that every cachable entity that could have been
3068 shared among SMP workers will actually be shared.
3069
3070 Currently, entities exceeding 32KB in size cannot be shared.
3071 DOC_END
3072
3073 NAME: memory_cache_mode
3074 TYPE: memcachemode
3075 LOC: Config
3076 DEFAULT: always
3077 DOC_START
3078 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
3079
3080 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
3081
3082 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
3083 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
3084 a second time before cached in memory.
3085
3086 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
3087 DOC_END
3088
3089 NAME: memory_replacement_policy
3090 TYPE: removalpolicy
3091 LOC: Config.memPolicy
3092 DEFAULT: lru
3093 DOC_START
3094 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
3095 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
3096
3097 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
3098 DOC_END
3099
3100 COMMENT_START
3101 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
3102 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3103 COMMENT_END
3104
3105 NAME: cache_replacement_policy
3106 TYPE: removalpolicy
3107 LOC: Config.replPolicy
3108 DEFAULT: lru
3109 DOC_START
3110 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
3111 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
3112
3113 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
3114 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
3115 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
3116 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
3117
3118 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
3119
3120 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
3121
3122 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
3123 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
3124 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
3125 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
3126
3127 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
3128 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
3129 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
3130 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
3131
3132 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
3133 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
3134 replacement policies.
3135
3136 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3137 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
3138 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
3139
3140 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
3141 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
3142 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
3143 DOC_END
3144
3145 NAME: cache_dir
3146 TYPE: cachedir
3147 DEFAULT: none
3148 LOC: Config.cacheSwap
3149 DOC_START
3150 Usage:
3151
3152 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
3153
3154 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
3155 cache among different disk partitions.
3156
3157 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
3158 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
3159 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
3160
3161 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
3162 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
3163 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
3164 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
3165 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
3166
3167 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
3168 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
3169 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
3170
3171 The ufs store type:
3172
3173 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
3174 been there.
3175
3176 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
3177
3178 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
3179 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
3180 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
3181 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
3182 subtract 20% and use that value.
3183
3184 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
3185 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
3186
3187 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
3188 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
3189 is 256.
3190
3191 The aufs store type:
3192
3193 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
3194 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3195 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
3196
3197 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
3198
3199 see argument descriptions under ufs above
3200
3201 The diskd store type:
3202
3203 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
3204 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
3205 disk-I/O.
3206
3207 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
3208
3209 see argument descriptions under ufs above
3210
3211 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
3212 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
3213 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
3214
3215 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
3216 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
3217 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
3218
3219 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
3220 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
3221 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
3222 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
3223 time.
3224
3225 The rock store type:
3226
3227 cache_dir rock Directory-Name Mbytes <max-size=bytes> [options]
3228
3229 The Rock Store type is a database-style storage. All cached
3230 entries are stored in a "database" file, using fixed-size slots,
3231 one entry per slot. The database size is specified in MB. The
3232 slot size is specified in bytes using the max-size option. See
3233 below for more info on the max-size option.
3234
3235 swap-timeout=msec: Squid will not start writing a miss to or
3236 reading a hit from disk if it estimates that the swap operation
3237 will take more than the specified number of milliseconds. By
3238 default and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O time limit
3239 enforcement. Ignored when using blocking I/O module because
3240 blocking synchronous I/O does not allow Squid to estimate the
3241 expected swap wait time.
3242
3243 max-swap-rate=swaps/sec: Artificially limits disk access using
3244 the specified I/O rate limit. Swap out requests that
3245 would cause the average I/O rate to exceed the limit are
3246 delayed. Individual swap in requests (i.e., hits or reads) are
3247 not delayed, but they do contribute to measured swap rate and
3248 since they are placed in the same FIFO queue as swap out
3249 requests, they may wait longer if max-swap-rate is smaller.
3250 This is necessary on file systems that buffer "too
3251 many" writes and then start blocking Squid and other processes
3252 while committing those writes to disk. Usually used together
3253 with swap-timeout to avoid excessive delays and queue overflows
3254 when disk demand exceeds available disk "bandwidth". By default
3255 and when set to zero, disables the disk I/O rate limit
3256 enforcement. Currently supported by IpcIo module only.
3257
3258
3259 The coss store type:
3260
3261 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
3262 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
3263 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
3264
3265 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
3266 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
3267 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
3268 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
3269 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
3270 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
3271 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
3272
3273 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
3274 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
3275 this will be created by squid -z.
3276
3277 Common options:
3278
3279 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
3280
3281 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
3282 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
3283 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
3284 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
3285
3286 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
3287 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
3288 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
3289 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
3290 ones with no max-size specification last.
3291
3292 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
3293 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
3294 option.
3295 NOCOMMENT_START
3296
3297 # Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
3298 #cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
3299 NOCOMMENT_END
3300 DOC_END
3301
3302 NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
3303 TYPE: string
3304 LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
3305 DEFAULT: least-load
3306 DOC_START
3307 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
3308 DOC_END
3309
3310 NAME: max_open_disk_fds
3311 TYPE: int
3312 LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
3313 DEFAULT: 0
3314 DOC_START
3315 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
3316 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
3317 descriptors are open.
3318
3319 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
3320 DOC_END
3321
3322 NAME: minimum_object_size
3323 COMMENT: (bytes)
3324 TYPE: b_int64_t
3325 DEFAULT: 0 KB
3326 LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
3327 DOC_START
3328 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3329 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
3330 means there is no minimum.
3331 DOC_END
3332
3333 NAME: maximum_object_size
3334 COMMENT: (bytes)
3335 TYPE: b_int64_t
3336 DEFAULT: 4096 KB
3337 LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
3338 DOC_START
3339 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
3340 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
3341 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
3342 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
3343 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
3344 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
3345
3346 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
3347 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
3348 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
3349 DOC_END
3350
3351 NAME: cache_swap_low
3352 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3353 TYPE: int
3354 DEFAULT: 90
3355 LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
3356 DOC_NONE
3357
3358 NAME: cache_swap_high
3359 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
3360 TYPE: int
3361 DEFAULT: 95
3362 LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
3363 DOC_START
3364
3365 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
3366 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
3367 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
3368 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
3369 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
3370 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
3371
3372 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
3373 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
3374 numbers closer together.
3375 DOC_END
3376
3377 COMMENT_START
3378 LOGFILE OPTIONS
3379 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3380 COMMENT_END
3381
3382 NAME: logformat
3383 TYPE: logformat
3384 LOC: Log::TheConfig
3385 DEFAULT: none
3386 DOC_START
3387 Usage:
3388
3389 logformat <name> <format specification>
3390
3391 Defines an access log format.
3392
3393 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
3394
3395 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
3396 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
3397 as required according to their context and the output format
3398 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
3399 output format is desired.
3400
3401 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
3402
3403 " output in quoted string format
3404 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
3405 # output in URL quoted format
3406 ' output as-is
3407
3408 - left aligned
3409
3410 width minimum and/or maximum field width:
3411 [width_min][.width_max]
3412 When minimum starts with 0, the field is zero-padded.
3413 String values exceeding maximum width are truncated.
3414
3415 {arg} argument such as header name etc
3416
3417 Format codes:
3418
3419 % a literal % character
3420 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
3421 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
3422 a similar internal error identifier.
3423 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
3424 note The meta header specified by the argument. Also
3425 logs the adaptation meta headers set by the
3426 adaptation_meta configuration parameter.
3427 If no argument given all meta headers logged.
3428
3429 Connection related format codes:
3430
3431 >a Client source IP address
3432 >A Client FQDN
3433 >p Client source port
3434 >eui Client source EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
3435 >la Local IP address the client connected to
3436 >lp Local port number the client connected to
3437
3438 la Local listening IP address the client connection was connected to.
3439 lp Local listening port number the client connection was connected to.
3440
3441 <a Server IP address of the last server or peer connection
3442 <A Server FQDN or peer name
3443 <p Server port number of the last server or peer connection
3444 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
3445 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
3446
3447 Time related format codes:
3448
3449 ts Seconds since epoch
3450 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
3451 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
3452 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
3453 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
3454 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
3455 tr Response time (milliseconds)
3456 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
3457
3458 Access Control related format codes:
3459
3460 et Tag returned by external acl
3461 ea Log string returned by external acl
3462 un User name (any available)
3463 ul User name from authentication
3464 ue User name from external acl helper
3465 ui User name from ident
3466 us User name from SSL
3467
3468 HTTP related format codes:
3469
3470 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
3471 on the format header[:[separator]element]
3472 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
3473 Optional header name argument as for >h
3474 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
3475 as for >h
3476 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
3477 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
3478 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
3479 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
3480 transfer encoding and control messages.
3481 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
3482 received bodies.
3483 [http::]mt MIME content type
3484 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
3485 [http::]>rm Request method from client
3486 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
3487 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
3488 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
3489 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
3490 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
3491 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
3492 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
3493 [http::]rv Request protocol version
3494 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
3495 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
3496 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
3497 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
3498 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
3499 are not included
3500 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
3501 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
3502 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
3503 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
3504 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
3505 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
3506 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
3507 and stops when the last response byte is received.
3508 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
3509 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
3510 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
3511 with the last I/O with the last peer.
3512
3513 Squid handling related format codes:
3514
3515 Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
3516 Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
3517
3518 SSL-related format codes:
3519
3520 ssl::bump_mode SslBump decision for the transaction:
3521
3522 For CONNECT requests that initiated bumping of
3523 a connection and for any request received on
3524 an already bumped connection, Squid logs the
3525 corresponding SslBump mode ("server-first" or
3526 "client-first"). See the ssl_bump option for
3527 more information about these modes.
3528
3529 A "none" token is logged for requests that
3530 triggered "ssl_bump" ACL evaluation matching
3531 either a "none" rule or no rules at all.
3532
3533 In all other cases, a single dash ("-") is
3534 logged.
3535
3536 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
3537 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
3538
3539 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
3540 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
3541 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
3542 transaction is in progress.
3543
3544 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
3545
3546 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
3547 meta-information from the last eCAP
3548 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
3549 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
3550 argument.
3551
3552 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
3553 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
3554 the order of transaction start time. Each time
3555 value is recorded as an integer number,
3556 representing response time of one or more
3557 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
3558 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
3559 being retried or repeated, its time is not
3560 logged individually but added to the
3561 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
3562 adapt::all_trs.
3563
3564 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
3565 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
3566 individual transactions are never added
3567 together. Instead, all transaction response
3568 times are recorded individually.
3569
3570 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
3571 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
3572 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
3573
3574 If SSL is enabled, the following formating codes become available:
3575
3576 %ssl::>cert_subject The Subject field of the received client
3577 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3578 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3579 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3580 logged value because Subject often has spaces.
3581
3582 %ssl::>cert_issuer The Issuer field of the received client
3583 SSL certificate or a dash ('-') if Squid has
3584 received an invalid/malformed certificate or
3585 no certificate at all. Consider encoding the
3586 logged value because Issuer often has spaces.
3587
3588 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
3589
3590 logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %[un %Sh/%<a %mt
3591 logformat common %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
3592 logformat combined %>a %[ui %[un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
3593 logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
3594 logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
3595
3596 NOTE: When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON.
3597 The squid, common and combined formats have a safely encoded copy
3598 of the mime headers appended to each line within a pair of brackets.
3599
3600 NOTE: The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
3601 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
3602
3603 DOC_END
3604
3605 NAME: access_log cache_access_log
3606 TYPE: access_log
3607 LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
3608 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
3609 DOC_START
3610 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
3611 ICP request. The format is:
3612 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3613 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
3614
3615 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
3616 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
3617 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
3618 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
3619
3620 ===== Modules Currently available =====
3621
3622 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
3623 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
3624
3625 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3626 each request.
3627 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3628
3629 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3630 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3631 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3632
3633 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3634
3635 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3636 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3637 Place Format: facility.priority
3638
3639 where facility could be any of:
3640 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
3641
3642 And priority could be any of:
3643 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3644
3645 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3646 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3647 Place Format: //host:port
3648
3649 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3650 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3651 Place Format: //host:port
3652
3653 Default:
3654 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
3655 DOC_END
3656
3657 NAME: icap_log
3658 TYPE: access_log
3659 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3660 LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3661 DEFAULT: none
3662 DOC_START
3663 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3664 transaction.
3665
3666 The icap_log option format is:
3667 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3668 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3669
3670 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3671 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3672 features.
3673
3674 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3675 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3676 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3677 log line.
3678
3679 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3680 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3681 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3682 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3683 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3684 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3685 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3686
3687 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3688
3689 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3690
3691 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3692 option in Squid configuration file.
3693
3694 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3695
3696 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3697 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3698
3699 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3700 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3701
3702 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3703 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3704 the socket).
3705
3706 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3707 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3708 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3709 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3710 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3711 computed.
3712
3713 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
3714 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3715 the ICAP transaction is created and
3716 stops when the transaction is completed.
3717 Similar to tr.
3718
3719 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3720 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3721 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3722 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3723 is received.
3724
3725 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3726 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3727 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3728 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3729 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3730 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3731
3732 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3733
3734 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3735
3736 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3737
3738 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3739 definition, is called icap_squid:
3740
3741 logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3742
3743 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
3744 DOC_END
3745
3746 NAME: logfile_daemon
3747 TYPE: string
3748 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3749 LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3750 DOC_START
3751 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3752 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
3753
3754 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3755 L<data>\n - logfile data
3756 R\n - rotate file
3757 T\n - truncate file
3758 O\n - reopen file
3759 F\n - flush file
3760 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3761 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3762
3763 No responses is expected.
3764 DOC_END
3765
3766 NAME: log_access
3767 TYPE: acl_access
3768 LOC: Config.accessList.log
3769 DEFAULT: none
3770 COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3771 DOC_START
3772 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3773 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3774 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
3775
3776 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3777 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3778 DOC_END
3779
3780 NAME: log_icap
3781 TYPE: acl_access
3782 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3783 LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3784 DEFAULT: none
3785 DOC_START
3786 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3787 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3788 DOC_END
3789
3790 NAME: cache_store_log
3791 TYPE: string
3792 DEFAULT: none
3793 LOC: Config.Log.store
3794 DOC_START
3795 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3796 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
3797 saved and for how long.
3798 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
3799 disable it (the default).
3800
3801 Store log uses modular logging outputs. See access_log for the list
3802 of modules supported.
3803
3804 Example:
3805 cache_store_log stdio:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3806 cache_store_log daemon:@DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3807 DOC_END
3808
3809 NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3810 TYPE: string
3811 LOC: Config.Log.swap
3812 DEFAULT: none
3813 DOC_START
3814 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3815 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3816 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3817 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3818 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3819 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3820 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
3821
3822 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3823 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3824 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3825 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
3826
3827 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3828 these swap logs will have names such as:
3829
3830 cache_swap_log.00
3831 cache_swap_log.01
3832 cache_swap_log.02
3833
3834 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3835 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3836 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3837 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3838 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3839 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3840 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
3841 DOC_END
3842
3843 NAME: logfile_rotate
3844 TYPE: int
3845 DEFAULT: 10
3846 LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3847 DOC_START
3848 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3849 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3850 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3851 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3852 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3853 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3854
3855 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3856 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3857 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3858 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3859 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3860 <pid>'.
3861
3862 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3863 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
3864 DOC_END
3865
3866 NAME: emulate_httpd_log
3867 TYPE: obsolete
3868 DOC_START
3869 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
3870 DOC_END
3871
3872 NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3873 TYPE: obsolete
3874 DOC_START
3875 Remove this option from your config. To log server or peer names use %<A in the log format.
3876 DOC_END
3877
3878 NAME: mime_table
3879 TYPE: string
3880 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3881 LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3882 DOC_START
3883 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3884 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3885 information if you do.
3886 DOC_END
3887
3888 NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3889 COMMENT: on|off
3890 TYPE: onoff
3891 LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3892 DEFAULT: off
3893 DOC_START
3894 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3895 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3896 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3897 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3898 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3899 DOC_END
3900
3901 NAME: useragent_log
3902 TYPE: obsolete
3903 DOC_START
3904 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
3905 DOC_END
3906
3907 NAME: referer_log referrer_log
3908 TYPE: obsolete
3909 DOC_START
3910 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
3911 DOC_END
3912
3913 NAME: pid_filename
3914 TYPE: string
3915 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3916 LOC: Config.pidFilename
3917 DOC_START
3918 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
3919 DOC_END
3920
3921 NAME: log_fqdn
3922 TYPE: obsolete
3923 DOC_START
3924 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
3925 DOC_END
3926
3927 NAME: client_netmask
3928 TYPE: address
3929 LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
3930 DEFAULT: no_addr
3931 DOC_START
3932 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3933 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3934 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3935 the last digit set to '0'.
3936 DOC_END
3937
3938 NAME: forward_log
3939 TYPE: obsolete
3940 DOC_START
3941 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
3942 DOC_END
3943
3944 NAME: strip_query_terms
3945 TYPE: onoff
3946 LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
3947 DEFAULT: on
3948 DOC_START
3949 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3950 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
3951 DOC_END
3952
3953 NAME: buffered_logs
3954 COMMENT: on|off
3955 TYPE: onoff
3956 DEFAULT: off
3957 LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3958 DOC_START
3959 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3960 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3961 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3962 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3963 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3964 DOC_END
3965
3966 NAME: netdb_filename
3967 TYPE: string
3968 DEFAULT: stdio:@DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3969 LOC: Config.netdbFilename
3970 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3971 DOC_START
3972 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3973 To disable, enter "none".
3974 DOC_END
3975
3976 COMMENT_START
3977 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3978 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3979 COMMENT_END
3980
3981 NAME: cache_log
3982 TYPE: string
3983 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3984 LOC: Debug::cache_log
3985 DOC_START
3986 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3987 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3988 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3989 DOC_END
3990
3991 NAME: debug_options
3992 TYPE: eol
3993 DEFAULT: ALL,1
3994 LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3995 DOC_START
3996 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3997 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3998 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3999 log file, so be careful.
4000
4001 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
4002 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
4003
4004 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
4005 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
4006 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
4007 events affecting Squid.
4008 DOC_END
4009
4010 NAME: coredump_dir
4011 TYPE: string
4012 LOC: Config.coredump_dir
4013 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
4014 DOC_START
4015 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
4016 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
4017 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
4018 and coredump files will be left there.
4019
4020 NOCOMMENT_START
4021
4022 # Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
4023 coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
4024 NOCOMMENT_END
4025 DOC_END
4026
4027
4028 COMMENT_START
4029 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
4030 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4031 COMMENT_END
4032
4033 NAME: ftp_user
4034 TYPE: string
4035 DEFAULT: Squid@
4036 LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
4037 DOC_START
4038 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
4039 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
4040 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
4041
4042 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
4043 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
4044 depending on how the cache is used.
4045 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
4046 (for example perl.com).
4047 DOC_END
4048
4049 NAME: ftp_passive
4050 TYPE: onoff
4051 DEFAULT: on
4052 LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
4053 DOC_START
4054 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
4055 connections, turn off this option.
4056
4057 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
4058 DOC_END
4059
4060 NAME: ftp_epsv_all
4061 TYPE: onoff
4062 DEFAULT: off
4063 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
4064 DOC_START
4065 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
4066
4067 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4068 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
4069 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
4070
4071 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
4072 useful.
4073 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
4074 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
4075
4076 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
4077 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
4078
4079 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4080 DOC_END
4081
4082 NAME: ftp_epsv
4083 TYPE: onoff
4084 DEFAULT: on
4085 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
4086 DOC_START
4087 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
4088
4089 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
4090 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
4091 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
4092 will never be needed.
4093
4094 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
4095 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4096 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
4097
4098 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
4099 DOC_END
4100
4101 NAME: ftp_eprt
4102 TYPE: onoff
4103 DEFAULT: on
4104 LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
4105 DOC_START
4106 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
4107
4108 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
4109 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
4110 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
4111
4112 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
4113 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
4114
4115 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
4116 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
4117 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
4118 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
4119
4120 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
4121 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
4122 DOC_END
4123
4124 NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
4125 TYPE: onoff
4126 DEFAULT: on
4127 LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
4128 DOC_START
4129 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
4130 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
4131 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
4132 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
4133 connection turn this off.
4134 DOC_END
4135
4136 NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
4137 TYPE: onoff
4138 DEFAULT: on
4139 LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
4140 DOC_START
4141 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
4142 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
4143 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
4144 the FTP protocol.
4145
4146 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
4147 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
4148 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
4149 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
4150 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
4151 DOC_END
4152
4153 COMMENT_START
4154 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
4155 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4156 COMMENT_END
4157
4158 NAME: diskd_program
4159 TYPE: string
4160 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
4161 LOC: Config.Program.diskd
4162 DOC_START
4163 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
4164 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
4165 diskd as one of the store io modules.
4166 DOC_END
4167
4168 NAME: unlinkd_program
4169 IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
4170 TYPE: string
4171 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
4172 LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
4173 DOC_START
4174 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
4175 DOC_END
4176
4177 NAME: pinger_program
4178 TYPE: string
4179 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
4180 LOC: Config.pinger.program
4181 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4182 DOC_START
4183 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
4184 DOC_END
4185
4186 NAME: pinger_enable
4187 TYPE: onoff
4188 DEFAULT: on
4189 LOC: Config.pinger.enable
4190 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
4191 DOC_START
4192 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
4193 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
4194 squid -k reconfigure.
4195 DOC_END
4196
4197
4198 COMMENT_START
4199 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
4200 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4201 COMMENT_END
4202
4203 NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
4204 TYPE: wordlist
4205 LOC: Config.Program.redirect
4206 DEFAULT: none
4207 DOC_START
4208 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
4209 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
4210
4211 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
4212
4213 [channel-ID <SP>] URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kv-pairs]<NL>
4214
4215
4216 After processing the request the helper must reply using the following format:
4217
4218 [channel-ID <SP>] result [<SP> kv-pairs]
4219
4220 The result code can be:
4221
4222 OK status=30N url="..."
4223 Redirect the URL to the one supplied in 'url='.
4224 'status=' is optional and contains the status code to send
4225 the client in Squids HTTP response. It must be one of the
4226 HTTP redirect status codes: 301, 302, 303, 307, 308.
4227 When no status is given Squid will use 302.
4228
4229 OK rewrite-url="..."
4230 Rewrite the URL to the one supplied in 'rewrite-url='.
4231 The new URL is fetched directly by Squid and returned to
4232 the client as the response to its request.
4233
4234 ERR
4235 Do not change the URL.
4236
4237 BH
4238 An internal error occurred in the helper, preventing
4239 a result being identified.
4240
4241
4242 In the future, the interface protocol will be extended with
4243 key=value pairs ("kv-pairs" shown above). Helper programs
4244 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
4245 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
4246
4247 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
4248 introducing a query channel tag in front of the request/response.
4249 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
4250 This value must be echoed back unchanged to Squid as the first part
4251 of the response relating to its request.
4252
4253 WARNING: URL re-writing ability should be avoided whenever possible.
4254 Use the URL redirect form of response instead.
4255
4256 Re-write creates a difference in the state held by the client
4257 and server. Possibly causing confusion when the server response
4258 contains snippets of its view state. Embeded URLs, response
4259 and content Location headers, etc. are not re-written by this
4260 interface.
4261
4262 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
4263 DOC_END
4264
4265 NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
4266 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
4267 DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
4268 LOC: Config.redirectChildren
4269 DOC_START
4270 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
4271 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
4272 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
4273 and other system resources noticably.
4274
4275 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
4276 tuning.
4277
4278 startup=
4279
4280 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
4281 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
4282 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
4283
4284 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
4285 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
4286
4287 idle=
4288
4289 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
4290 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
4291 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
4292 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
4293
4294 concurrency=
4295
4296 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
4297 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
4298 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
4299
4300 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
4301 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
4302 an ID in front of the request/response. The ID from the request
4303 must be echoed back with the response to that request.
4304 DOC_END
4305
4306 NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
4307 TYPE: onoff
4308 DEFAULT: on
4309 LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
4310 DOC_START
4311 To preserve same-origin security policies in browsers and
4312 prevent Host: header forgery by redirectors Squid rewrites
4313 any Host: header in redirected requests.
4314
4315 If you are running an accelerator this may not be a wanted
4316 effect of a redirector. This directive enables you disable
4317 Host: alteration in reverse-proxy traffic.
4318
4319 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
4320 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
4321
4322 WARNING: Squid and other software verifies the URL and Host
4323 are matching, so be careful not to relay through other proxies
4324 or inspecting firewalls with this disabled.
4325 DOC_END
4326
4327 NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
4328 TYPE: acl_access
4329 DEFAULT: none
4330 LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
4331 DOC_START
4332 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
4333 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
4334 are sent.
4335
4336 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4337 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4338 DOC_END
4339
4340 NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
4341 TYPE: onoff
4342 LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
4343 DEFAULT: off
4344 DOC_START
4345 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
4346 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
4347 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
4348 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
4349 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
4350 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
4351 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
4352 users may have access to pages they should not
4353 be allowed to request.
4354 DOC_END
4355
4356 COMMENT_START
4357 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
4358 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4359 COMMENT_END
4360
4361 NAME: cache no_cache
4362 TYPE: acl_access
4363 DEFAULT: none
4364 LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
4365 DOC_START
4366 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
4367 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
4368 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
4369
4370 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
4371 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
4372
4373 Default is to allow all to be cached.
4374
4375 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
4376 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4377 DOC_END
4378
4379 NAME: max_stale
4380 COMMENT: time-units
4381 TYPE: time_t
4382 LOC: Config.maxStale
4383 DEFAULT: 1 week
4384 DOC_START
4385 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
4386 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
4387 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
4388 DOC_END
4389
4390 NAME: refresh_pattern
4391 TYPE: refreshpattern
4392 LOC: Config.Refresh
4393 DEFAULT: none
4394 DOC_START
4395 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
4396
4397 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
4398 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
4399
4400 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
4401 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
4402 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
4403 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
4404 has taken the appropriate actions.
4405
4406 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
4407 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
4408 will be considered fresh.
4409
4410 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
4411 expiry time will be considered fresh.
4412
4413 options: override-expire
4414 override-lastmod
4415 reload-into-ims
4416 ignore-reload
4417 ignore-no-store
4418 ignore-must-revalidate
4419 ignore-private
4420 ignore-auth
4421 max-stale=NN
4422 refresh-ims
4423 store-stale
4424
4425 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
4426 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
4427 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
4428 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
4429 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
4430
4431 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
4432 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
4433 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
4434 the object fresh for that period of time.
4435
4436 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
4437 that were modified recently.
4438
4439 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
4440 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
4441 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4442 liable for problems which it causes.
4443
4444 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
4445 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4446 this feature could make you liable for problems which
4447 it causes.
4448
4449 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
4450 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4451 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4452 liable for problems which it causes.
4453
4454 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
4455 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4456 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4457 liable for problems which it causes.
4458
4459 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
4460 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
4461 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
4462 liable for problems which it causes.
4463
4464 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
4465 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
4466 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
4467 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
4468 it causes.
4469
4470 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
4471 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
4472 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
4473 if one is available.
4474
4475 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
4476 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
4477 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
4478 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
4479 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
4480
4481 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
4482 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
4483 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
4484
4485 Basically a cached object is:
4486
4487 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
4488 STALE if age > max
4489 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
4490 FRESH if age < min
4491 else STALE
4492
4493 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
4494 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
4495 match the default will be used.
4496
4497 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
4498 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
4499 used.
4500
4501 NOCOMMENT_START
4502
4503 # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
4504 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
4505 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
4506 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
4507 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
4508 NOCOMMENT_END
4509 DOC_END
4510
4511 NAME: quick_abort_min
4512 COMMENT: (KB)
4513 TYPE: kb_int64_t
4514 DEFAULT: 16 KB
4515 LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
4516 DOC_NONE
4517
4518 NAME: quick_abort_max
4519 COMMENT: (KB)
4520 TYPE: kb_int64_t
4521 DEFAULT: 16 KB
4522 LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
4523 DOC_NONE
4524
4525 NAME: quick_abort_pct
4526 COMMENT: (percent)
4527 TYPE: int
4528 DEFAULT: 95
4529 LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
4530 DOC_START
4531 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
4532 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
4533 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
4534 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
4535 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
4536 downloads.
4537
4538 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
4539 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
4540 then.
4541
4542 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
4543 it will finish the retrieval.
4544
4545 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
4546 it will abort the retrieval.
4547
4548 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
4549 it will finish the retrieval.
4550
4551 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
4552 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
4553 to '0 KB'.
4554
4555 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
4556 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
4557 DOC_END
4558
4559 NAME: read_ahead_gap
4560 COMMENT: buffer-size
4561 TYPE: b_int64_t
4562 LOC: Config.readAheadGap
4563 DEFAULT: 16 KB
4564 DOC_START
4565 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
4566 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
4567 DOC_END
4568
4569 NAME: negative_ttl
4570 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4571 COMMENT: time-units
4572 TYPE: time_t
4573 LOC: Config.negativeTtl
4574 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
4575 DOC_START
4576 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
4577 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
4578 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
4579 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
4580 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
4581 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
4582
4583 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
4584
4585 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4586 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4587 causes.
4588 DOC_END
4589
4590 NAME: positive_dns_ttl
4591 COMMENT: time-units
4592 TYPE: time_t
4593 LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
4594 DEFAULT: 6 hours
4595 DOC_START
4596 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
4597 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
4598 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
4599 DOC_END
4600
4601 NAME: negative_dns_ttl
4602 COMMENT: time-units
4603 TYPE: time_t
4604 LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
4605 DEFAULT: 1 minutes
4606 DOC_START
4607 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
4608 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
4609 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
4610 much below 10 seconds.
4611 DOC_END
4612
4613 NAME: range_offset_limit
4614 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
4615 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
4616 LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
4617 DEFAULT: none
4618 DOC_START
4619 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
4620
4621 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
4622 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
4623 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
4624 the result is NOT cached.
4625
4626 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
4627 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
4628 sending anything to the client.
4629
4630 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
4631 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
4632 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
4633 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
4634
4635 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
4636
4637 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
4638 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
4639
4640 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
4641 client requested. (default)
4642
4643 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
4644 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
4645
4646 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
4647
4648 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
4649 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
4650 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
4651 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
4652 DOC_END
4653
4654 NAME: minimum_expiry_time
4655 COMMENT: (seconds)
4656 TYPE: time_t
4657 LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
4658 DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4659 DOC_START
4660 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4661 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4662 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
4663 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4664 is most likely better to make your server return a
4665 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4666 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4667 often be best set to 0.
4668 DOC_END
4669
4670 NAME: store_avg_object_size
4671 COMMENT: (bytes)
4672 TYPE: b_int64_t
4673 DEFAULT: 13 KB
4674 LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4675 DOC_START
4676 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4677 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
4678 DOC_END
4679
4680 NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4681 TYPE: int
4682 DEFAULT: 20
4683 LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4684 DOC_START
4685 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4686 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4687 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4688 DOC_END
4689
4690 COMMENT_START
4691 HTTP OPTIONS
4692 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4693 COMMENT_END
4694
4695 NAME: request_header_max_size
4696 COMMENT: (KB)
4697 TYPE: b_size_t
4698 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4699 LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4700 DOC_START
4701 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4702 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4703 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4704 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4705 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4706 DOC_END
4707
4708 NAME: reply_header_max_size
4709 COMMENT: (KB)
4710 TYPE: b_size_t
4711 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4712 LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4713 DOC_START
4714 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4715 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4716 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4717 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4718 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4719 DOC_END
4720
4721 NAME: request_body_max_size
4722 COMMENT: (bytes)
4723 TYPE: b_int64_t
4724 DEFAULT: 0 KB
4725 LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4726 DOC_START
4727 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4728 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4729 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4730 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4731 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4732 be no limit imposed.
4733 DOC_END
4734
4735 NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4736 COMMENT: (bytes)
4737 TYPE: b_size_t
4738 DEFAULT: 512 KB
4739 LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4740 DOC_START
4741 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4742 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4743 a large file.
4744 DOC_END
4745
4746 NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4747 COMMENT: (bytes)
4748 TYPE: b_int64_t
4749 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4750 LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4751 DOC_START
4752 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4753 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4754 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4755 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4756 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4757 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4758
4759 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4760 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4761 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4762 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4763 as if dechunking was disabled.
4764
4765 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4766 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4767
4768 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4769 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4770 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4771 DOC_END
4772
4773 NAME: broken_posts
4774 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4775 TYPE: acl_access
4776 DEFAULT: none
4777 LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4778 DOC_START
4779 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4780 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4781
4782 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4783 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4784
4785 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
4786
4787 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4788 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4789 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4790 a request with an extra CRLF.
4791
4792 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4793 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4794
4795 Example:
4796 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4797 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4798 DOC_END
4799
4800 NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
4801 COMMENT: on|off
4802 TYPE: onoff
4803 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
4804 DEFAULT: on
4805 LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
4806 DOC_START
4807 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4808 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4809
4810 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
4811 DOC_END
4812
4813 NAME: via
4814 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4815 COMMENT: on|off
4816 TYPE: onoff
4817 DEFAULT: on
4818 LOC: Config.onoff.via
4819 DOC_START
4820 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4821 replies as required by RFC2616.
4822 DOC_END
4823
4824 NAME: ie_refresh
4825 COMMENT: on|off
4826 TYPE: onoff
4827 LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4828 DEFAULT: off
4829 DOC_START
4830 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4831 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4832 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4833 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4834 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4835 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4836 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4837 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4838 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4839 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4840 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4841 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4842 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4843 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4844 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4845 force fresh content.
4846 DOC_END
4847
4848 NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4849 COMMENT: on|off
4850 TYPE: onoff
4851 LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4852 DEFAULT: off
4853 DOC_START
4854 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4855 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4856 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4857 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4858 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4859
4860 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4861 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4862 DOC_END
4863
4864 NAME: request_entities
4865 TYPE: onoff
4866 LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4867 DEFAULT: off
4868 DOC_START
4869 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4870 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4871 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4872
4873 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4874 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4875 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4876 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4877 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
4878 DOC_END
4879
4880 NAME: request_header_access
4881 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4882 TYPE: http_header_access
4883 LOC: Config.request_header_access
4884 DEFAULT: none
4885 DOC_START
4886 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4887
4888 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4889 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4890 causes.
4891
4892 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4893 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4894 more configurable. A list of ACLs for each header name allows
4895 removal of specific header fields under specific conditions.
4896
4897 This option only applies to outgoing HTTP request headers (i.e.,
4898 headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a cache peer
4899 or an origin server). The option has no effect during cache hit
4900 detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point in ICAP
4901 terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
4902
4903 The option is applied to individual outgoing request header
4904 fields. For each request header field F, Squid uses the first
4905 qualifying sets of request_header_access rules:
4906
4907 1. Rules with header_name equal to F's name.
4908 2. Rules with header_name 'Other', provided F's name is not
4909 on the hard-coded list of commonly used HTTP header names.
4910 3. Rules with header_name 'All'.
4911
4912 Within that qualifying rule set, rule ACLs are checked as usual.
4913 If ACLs of an "allow" rule match, the header field is allowed to
4914 go through as is. If ACLs of a "deny" rule match, the header is
4915 removed and request_header_replace is then checked to identify
4916 if the removed header has a replacement. If no rules within the
4917 set have matching ACLs, the header field is left as is.
4918
4919 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4920 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4921
4922 request_header_access From deny all
4923 request_header_access Referer deny all
4924 request_header_access Server deny all
4925 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4926 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4927 request_header_access Link deny all
4928
4929 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4930 you should use:
4931
4932 request_header_access Allow allow all
4933 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4934 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4935 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4936 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4937 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4938 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4939 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4940 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4941 request_header_access Date allow all
4942 request_header_access Expires allow all
4943 request_header_access Host allow all
4944 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4945 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4946 request_header_access Location allow all
4947 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4948 request_header_access Accept allow all
4949 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4950 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4951 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4952 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4953 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4954 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4955 request_header_access Title allow all
4956 request_header_access Connection allow all
4957 request_header_access All deny all
4958
4959 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4960 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
4961
4962 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4963 performed).
4964 DOC_END
4965
4966 NAME: reply_header_access
4967 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4968 TYPE: http_header_access
4969 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4970 DEFAULT: none
4971 DOC_START
4972 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4973
4974 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4975 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4976 causes.
4977
4978 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4979 server to the client.
4980
4981 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4982 direction. Please see request_header_access for detailed
4983 documentation.
4984
4985 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4986 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4987
4988 reply_header_access From deny all
4989 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4990 reply_header_access Server deny all
4991 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4992 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4993 reply_header_access Link deny all
4994
4995 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4996 you should use:
4997
4998 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4999 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
5000 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
5001 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
5002 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
5003 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
5004 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
5005 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
5006 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
5007 reply_header_access Date allow all
5008 reply_header_access Expires allow all
5009 reply_header_access Host allow all
5010 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
5011 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
5012 reply_header_access Location allow all
5013 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
5014 reply_header_access Accept allow all
5015 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
5016 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
5017 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
5018 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
5019 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
5020 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
5021 reply_header_access Title allow all
5022 reply_header_access Connection allow all
5023 reply_header_access All deny all
5024
5025 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
5026 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
5027
5028 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
5029 performed).
5030 DOC_END
5031
5032 NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
5033 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
5034 TYPE: http_header_replace
5035 LOC: Config.request_header_access
5036 DEFAULT: none
5037 DOC_START
5038 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
5039 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
5040
5041 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5042 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
5043 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
5044 option.
5045
5046 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
5047
5048 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5049 DOC_END
5050
5051 NAME: reply_header_replace
5052 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
5053 TYPE: http_header_replace
5054 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
5055 DEFAULT: none
5056 DOC_START
5057 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
5058 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
5059
5060 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
5061 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
5062 with some fixed string.
5063
5064 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
5065
5066 By default, headers are removed if denied.
5067 DOC_END
5068
5069 NAME: request_header_add
5070 TYPE: HeaderWithAclList
5071 LOC: Config.request_header_add
5072 DEFAULT: none
5073 DOC_START
5074 Usage: request_header_add field-name field-value acl1 [acl2] ...
5075 Example: request_header_add X-Client-CA "CA=%ssl::>cert_issuer" all
5076
5077 This option adds header fields to outgoing HTTP requests (i.e.,
5078 request headers sent by Squid to the next HTTP hop such as a
5079 cache peer or an origin server). The option has no effect during
5080 cache hit detection. The equivalent adaptation vectoring point
5081 in ICAP terminology is post-cache REQMOD.
5082
5083 Field-name is a token specifying an HTTP header name. If a
5084 standard HTTP header name is used, Squid does not check whether
5085 the new header conflicts with any existing headers or violates
5086 HTTP rules. If the request to be modified already contains a
5087 field with the same name, the old field is preserved but the
5088 header field values are not merged.
5089
5090 Field-value is either a token or a quoted string. If quoted
5091 string format is used, then the surrounding quotes are removed
5092 while escape sequences and %macros are processed.
5093
5094 In theory, all of the logformat codes can be used as %macros.
5095 However, unlike logging (which happens at the very end of
5096 transaction lifetime), the transaction may not yet have enough
5097 information to expand a macro when the new header value is needed.
5098 And some information may already be available to Squid but not yet
5099 committed where the macro expansion code can access it (report
5100 such instances!). The macro will be expanded into a single dash
5101 ('-') in such cases. Not all macros have been tested.
5102
5103 One or more Squid ACLs may be specified to restrict header
5104 injection to matching requests. As always in squid.conf, all
5105 ACLs in an option ACL list must be satisfied for the insertion
5106 to happen. The request_header_add option supports fast ACLs
5107 only.
5108 DOC_END
5109
5110 NAME: note
5111 TYPE: note
5112 LOC: Config.notes
5113 DEFAULT: none
5114 DOC_START
5115 This option used to log custom information about the master
5116 transaction. For example, an admin may configure Squid to log
5117 which "user group" the transaction belongs to, where "user group"
5118 will be determined based on a set of ACLs and not [just]
5119 authentication information.
5120 Values of key/value pairs can be logged using %{key}note macros:
5121
5122 note key value acl ...
5123 logformat myFormat ... %{key}note ...
5124 DOC_END
5125
5126 NAME: relaxed_header_parser
5127 COMMENT: on|off|warn
5128 TYPE: tristate
5129 LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
5130 DEFAULT: on
5131 DOC_START
5132 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
5133 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
5134 what the sending application intended even if the message
5135 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
5136 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
5137
5138 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
5139 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
5140
5141 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
5142 or response to be rejected.
5143 DOC_END
5144
5145 COMMENT_START
5146 TIMEOUTS
5147 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5148 COMMENT_END
5149
5150 NAME: forward_timeout
5151 COMMENT: time-units
5152 TYPE: time_t
5153 LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
5154 DEFAULT: 4 minutes
5155 DOC_START
5156 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
5157 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
5158 DOC_END
5159
5160 NAME: connect_timeout
5161 COMMENT: time-units
5162 TYPE: time_t
5163 LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
5164 DEFAULT: 1 minute
5165 DOC_START
5166 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
5167 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
5168 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
5169 DOC_END
5170
5171 NAME: peer_connect_timeout
5172 COMMENT: time-units
5173 TYPE: time_t
5174 LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
5175 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5176 DOC_START
5177 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
5178 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
5179 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
5180 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
5181 DOC_END
5182
5183 NAME: read_timeout
5184 COMMENT: time-units
5185 TYPE: time_t
5186 LOC: Config.Timeout.read
5187 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5188 DOC_START
5189 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
5190 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
5191 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
5192 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
5193 default is 15 minutes.
5194 DOC_END
5195
5196 NAME: write_timeout
5197 COMMENT: time-units
5198 TYPE: time_t
5199 LOC: Config.Timeout.write
5200 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
5201 DOC_START
5202 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
5203 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
5204 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
5205 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
5206 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
5207 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
5208 default is 15 minutes.
5209 DOC_END
5210
5211 NAME: request_timeout
5212 TYPE: time_t
5213 LOC: Config.Timeout.request
5214 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5215 DOC_START
5216 How long to wait for complete HTTP request headers after initial
5217 connection establishment.
5218 DOC_END
5219
5220 NAME: client_idle_pconn_timeout persistent_request_timeout
5221 TYPE: time_t
5222 LOC: Config.Timeout.clientIdlePconn
5223 DEFAULT: 2 minutes
5224 DOC_START
5225 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
5226 client connection after the previous request completes.
5227 DOC_END
5228
5229 NAME: client_lifetime
5230 COMMENT: time-units
5231 TYPE: time_t
5232 LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
5233 DEFAULT: 1 day
5234 DOC_START
5235 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
5236 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
5237 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
5238 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
5239 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
5240 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
5241 day, 1440 minutes.
5242
5243 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
5244 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
5245 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
5246 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
5247 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
5248 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
5249 DOC_END
5250
5251 NAME: half_closed_clients
5252 TYPE: onoff
5253 LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
5254 DEFAULT: off
5255 DOC_START
5256 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
5257 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
5258 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
5259 fully-closed TCP connection.
5260
5261 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
5262 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
5263
5264 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
5265 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
5266 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
5267 it is recommended to leave OFF.
5268 DOC_END
5269
5270 NAME: server_idle_pconn_timeout pconn_timeout
5271 TYPE: time_t
5272 LOC: Config.Timeout.serverIdlePconn
5273 DEFAULT: 1 minute
5274 DOC_START
5275 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
5276 proxies.
5277 DOC_END
5278
5279 NAME: ident_timeout
5280 TYPE: time_t
5281 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
5282 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
5283 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5284 DOC_START
5285 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
5286
5287 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
5288 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
5289 many ident requests going at once.
5290 DOC_END
5291
5292 NAME: shutdown_lifetime
5293 COMMENT: time-units
5294 TYPE: time_t
5295 LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
5296 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
5297 DOC_START
5298 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
5299 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
5300 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
5301 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
5302 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
5303 DOC_END
5304
5305 COMMENT_START
5306 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
5307 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5308 COMMENT_END
5309
5310 NAME: cache_mgr
5311 TYPE: string
5312 DEFAULT: webmaster
5313 LOC: Config.adminEmail
5314 DOC_START
5315 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
5316 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
5317 DOC_END
5318
5319 NAME: mail_from
5320 TYPE: string
5321 DEFAULT: none
5322 LOC: Config.EmailFrom
5323 DOC_START
5324 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
5325 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
5326 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
5327 src/globals.h before building squid.
5328 DOC_END
5329
5330 NAME: mail_program
5331 TYPE: eol
5332 DEFAULT: mail
5333 LOC: Config.EmailProgram
5334 DOC_START
5335 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
5336 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
5337 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
5338 mail-program recipient < mailfile
5339
5340 Optional command line options can be specified.
5341 DOC_END
5342
5343 NAME: cache_effective_user
5344 TYPE: string
5345 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
5346 LOC: Config.effectiveUser
5347 DOC_START
5348 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
5349 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
5350 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
5351 see also; cache_effective_group
5352 DOC_END
5353
5354 NAME: cache_effective_group
5355 TYPE: string
5356 DEFAULT: none
5357 LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
5358 DOC_START
5359 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
5360 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
5361 from the groups membership.
5362
5363 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
5364 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
5365 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
5366 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
5367 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
5368 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
5369 group.
5370
5371 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
5372 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
5373 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
5374 DOC_END
5375
5376 NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
5377 COMMENT: on|off
5378 TYPE: onoff
5379 DEFAULT: off
5380 LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
5381 DOC_START
5382 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
5383 DOC_END
5384
5385 NAME: visible_hostname
5386 TYPE: string
5387 LOC: Config.visibleHostname
5388 DEFAULT: none
5389 DOC_START
5390 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
5391 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
5392 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
5393 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
5394 names with this setting.
5395 DOC_END
5396
5397 NAME: unique_hostname
5398 TYPE: string
5399 LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
5400 DEFAULT: none
5401 DOC_START
5402 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
5403 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
5404 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
5405 DOC_END
5406
5407 NAME: hostname_aliases
5408 TYPE: wordlist
5409 LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
5410 DEFAULT: none
5411 DOC_START
5412 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
5413 DOC_END
5414
5415 NAME: umask
5416 TYPE: int
5417 LOC: Config.umask
5418 DEFAULT: 027
5419 DOC_START
5420 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
5421 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
5422
5423 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
5424 your value with 0.
5425 DOC_END
5426
5427 COMMENT_START
5428 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
5429 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5430
5431 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
5432 announcement service. This service is provided to help
5433 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
5434 create cache hierarchies.
5435
5436 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
5437 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
5438 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
5439
5440 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
5441 following information from this configuration file:
5442
5443 http_port
5444 icp_port
5445 cache_mgr
5446
5447 All current information is processed regularly and made
5448 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
5449 COMMENT_END
5450
5451 NAME: announce_period
5452 TYPE: time_t
5453 LOC: Config.Announce.period
5454 DEFAULT: 0
5455 DOC_START
5456 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
5457 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
5458 messages.
5459
5460 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
5461
5462 Example:
5463 announce_period 1 day
5464 DOC_END
5465
5466 NAME: announce_host
5467 TYPE: string
5468 DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
5469 LOC: Config.Announce.host
5470 DOC_NONE
5471
5472 NAME: announce_file
5473 TYPE: string
5474 DEFAULT: none
5475 LOC: Config.Announce.file
5476 DOC_NONE
5477
5478 NAME: announce_port
5479 TYPE: u_short
5480 DEFAULT: 3131
5481 LOC: Config.Announce.port
5482 DOC_START
5483 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
5484 number where the registration message will be sent.
5485
5486 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
5487 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
5488 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
5489 message.
5490 DOC_END
5491
5492 COMMENT_START
5493 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
5494 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5495 COMMENT_END
5496
5497 NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
5498 TYPE: string
5499 DEFAULT: none
5500 LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
5501 DOC_START
5502 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
5503 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
5504 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
5505 an identification token.
5506
5507 The default ID is the visible_hostname
5508 DOC_END
5509
5510 NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
5511 COMMENT: on|off
5512 TYPE: onoff
5513 DEFAULT: off
5514 LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
5515 DOC_START
5516 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
5517 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
5518 DOC_END
5519
5520 NAME: esi_parser
5521 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
5522 COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
5523 TYPE: string
5524 LOC: ESIParser::Type
5525 DEFAULT: custom
5526 DOC_START
5527 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
5528 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
5529 encodings.
5530 DOC_END
5531
5532 COMMENT_START
5533 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5534 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5535 COMMENT_END
5536
5537 NAME: delay_pools
5538 TYPE: delay_pool_count
5539 DEFAULT: 0
5540 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5541 LOC: Config.Delay
5542 DOC_START
5543 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
5544 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
5545 have a total of 2 delay pools.
5546 DOC_END
5547
5548 NAME: delay_class
5549 TYPE: delay_pool_class
5550 DEFAULT: none
5551 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5552 LOC: Config.Delay
5553 DOC_START
5554 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
5555 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
5556 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
5557 and here would be:
5558
5559 Example:
5560 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
5561 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
5562 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
5563 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
5564 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
5565
5566 The delay pool classes are:
5567
5568 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5569 bucket.
5570
5571 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5572 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
5573 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
5574
5575 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
5576 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
5577 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
5578 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
5579 32 of the IPv4 address.
5580
5581 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
5582 additional limit on a per user basis. This
5583 only takes effect if the username is established
5584 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
5585 http_access rules.
5586
5587 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
5588 external_acl's tag= reply).
5589
5590
5591 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
5592 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
5593 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
5594
5595 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
5596 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
5597 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
5598 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
5599
5600 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
5601 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
5602 DOC_END
5603
5604 NAME: delay_access
5605 TYPE: delay_pool_access
5606 DEFAULT: none
5607 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5608 LOC: Config.Delay
5609 DOC_START
5610 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
5611
5612 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
5613 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
5614 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
5615 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
5616
5617 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
5618 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
5619
5620 Example:
5621 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
5622 delay_access 1 deny all
5623 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
5624 delay_access 2 deny all
5625 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
5626 DOC_END
5627
5628 NAME: delay_parameters
5629 TYPE: delay_pool_rates
5630 DEFAULT: none
5631 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5632 LOC: Config.Delay
5633 DOC_START
5634 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
5635 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
5636 description of delay_class.
5637
5638 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
5639 delay_pools pool 1
5640 delay_parameters pool aggregate
5641
5642 For a class 2 delay pool:
5643 delay_pools pool 2
5644 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
5645
5646 For a class 3 delay pool:
5647 delay_pools pool 3
5648 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
5649
5650 For a class 4 delay pool:
5651 delay_pools pool 4
5652 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
5653
5654 For a class 5 delay pool:
5655 delay_pools pool 5
5656 delay_parameters pool tagrate
5657
5658 The option variables are:
5659
5660 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
5661 number specified in delay_pools as used in
5662 delay_class lines.
5663
5664 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
5665 (class 1, 2, 3).
5666
5667 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
5668 buckets (class 2, 3).
5669
5670 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
5671 (class 3).
5672
5673 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
5674 (class 4).
5675
5676 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
5677 (class 5).
5678
5679 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
5680 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
5681 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
5682 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
5683
5684 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
5685
5686
5687 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
5688 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
5689 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
5690
5691 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
5692
5693 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5694
5695 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
5696
5697
5698 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
5699 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
5700 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
5701 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
5702 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
5703 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
5704 large downloads more significantly:
5705
5706 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
5707
5708 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
5709 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
5710 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
5711
5712
5713 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
5714 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
5715
5716 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
5717 DOC_END
5718
5719 NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
5720 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5721 TYPE: u_short
5722 DEFAULT: 50
5723 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5724 LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5725 DOC_START
5726 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5727 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5728 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5729 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5730 "seen" by squid).
5731 DOC_END
5732
5733 COMMENT_START
5734 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5735 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5736 COMMENT_END
5737
5738 NAME: client_delay_pools
5739 TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5740 DEFAULT: 0
5741 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5742 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5743 DOC_START
5744 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5745 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5746
5747 Example:
5748 client_delay_pools 2
5749 DOC_END
5750
5751 NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5752 COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
5753 TYPE: u_short
5754 DEFAULT: 50
5755 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5756 LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5757 DOC_START
5758 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5759 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5760 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5761 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5762
5763 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5764 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5765 from client_delay_parameters.
5766
5767 Example:
5768 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5769 DOC_END
5770
5771 NAME: client_delay_parameters
5772 TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5773 DEFAULT: none
5774 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5775 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5776 DOC_START
5777
5778 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5779 following format:
5780
5781 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5782
5783 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5784
5785 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5786
5787 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5788 speed_limit additions.
5789
5790 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5791 examples.
5792
5793 Example:
5794 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5795 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5796 DOC_END
5797
5798 NAME: client_delay_access
5799 TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5800 DEFAULT: none
5801 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5802 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5803 DOC_START
5804
5805 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5806 request:
5807
5808 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5809
5810 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5811 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5812 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5813 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5814 limited.
5815
5816 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5817 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5818 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5819 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5820
5821 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5822
5823 Example:
5824 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5825 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5826 DOC_END
5827
5828 COMMENT_START
5829 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
5830 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5831 COMMENT_END
5832
5833 NAME: wccp_router
5834 TYPE: address
5835 LOC: Config.Wccp.router
5836 DEFAULT: any_addr
5837 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5838 DOC_START
5839 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5840 Squid.
5841
5842 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5843
5844 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5845
5846 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5847 which version of WCCP to use.
5848 DOC_END
5849
5850 NAME: wccp2_router
5851 TYPE: IpAddress_list
5852 LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
5853 DEFAULT: none
5854 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5855 DOC_START
5856 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5857 Squid.
5858
5859 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5860
5861 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5862
5863 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5864 which version of WCCP to use.
5865 DOC_END
5866
5867 NAME: wccp_version
5868 TYPE: int
5869 LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5870 DEFAULT: 4
5871 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5872 DOC_START
5873 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5874 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5875 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5876 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5877 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
5878
5879 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5880 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5881 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5882 do not specify this parameter.
5883 DOC_END
5884
5885 NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5886 TYPE: onoff
5887 LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5888 DEFAULT: on
5889 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5890 DOC_START
5891 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5892 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5893 DOC_END
5894
5895 NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
5896 TYPE: wccp2_method
5897 LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
5898 DEFAULT: gre
5899 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5900 DOC_START
5901 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
5902 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
5903
5904 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5905 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
5906
5907 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5908 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
5909 DOC_END
5910
5911 NAME: wccp2_return_method
5912 TYPE: wccp2_method
5913 LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
5914 DEFAULT: gre
5915 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5916 DOC_START
5917 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
5918 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5919 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
5920
5921 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5922 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
5923
5924 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5925 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
5926
5927 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
5928 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5929 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5930 option is set to GRE.
5931 DOC_END
5932
5933 NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
5934 TYPE: wccp2_amethod
5935 LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
5936 DEFAULT: hash
5937 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5938 DOC_START
5939 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5940 Valid values are as follows:
5941
5942 hash - Hash assignment
5943 mask - Mask assignment
5944
5945 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5946 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5947 DOC_END
5948
5949 NAME: wccp2_service
5950 TYPE: wccp2_service
5951 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5952 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5953 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5954 DOC_START
5955 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5956 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5957 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5958 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5959 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5960 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5961
5962 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5963 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5964
5965 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5966 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5967
5968 Examples:
5969
5970 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5971 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5972 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5973 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
5974 DOC_END
5975
5976 NAME: wccp2_service_info
5977 TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5978 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5979 DEFAULT: none
5980 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5981 DOC_START
5982 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5983 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5984
5985 The format is:
5986
5987 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5988 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5989
5990 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5991 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
5992 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
5993 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5994 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5995 + ports_source
5996
5997 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5998
5999 Example:
6000
6001 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
6002 priority=240 ports=80
6003
6004 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
6005 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
6006 DOC_END
6007
6008 NAME: wccp2_weight
6009 TYPE: int
6010 LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
6011 DEFAULT: 10000
6012 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6013 DOC_START
6014 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
6015 hash proportional to their weight.
6016 DOC_END
6017
6018 NAME: wccp_address
6019 TYPE: address
6020 LOC: Config.Wccp.address
6021 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6022 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
6023 DOC_NONE
6024
6025 NAME: wccp2_address
6026 TYPE: address
6027 LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
6028 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
6029 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
6030 DOC_START
6031 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
6032 interface address.
6033
6034 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6035 DOC_END
6036
6037 COMMENT_START
6038 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
6039 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6040
6041 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
6042 COMMENT_END
6043
6044 NAME: client_persistent_connections
6045 TYPE: onoff
6046 LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
6047 DEFAULT: on
6048 DOC_NONE
6049
6050 NAME: server_persistent_connections
6051 TYPE: onoff
6052 LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
6053 DEFAULT: on
6054 DOC_START
6055 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
6056 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
6057 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
6058 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
6059 DOC_END
6060
6061 NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
6062 TYPE: onoff
6063 LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
6064 DEFAULT: on
6065 DOC_START
6066 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
6067 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
6068 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
6069 DOC_END
6070
6071 NAME: detect_broken_pconn
6072 TYPE: onoff
6073 LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
6074 DEFAULT: off
6075 DOC_START
6076 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
6077 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
6078 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
6079 has mostly been seen on redirects.
6080
6081 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
6082 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
6083 after 10 seconds timeout.
6084 DOC_END
6085
6086 COMMENT_START
6087 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
6088 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6089 COMMENT_END
6090
6091 NAME: digest_generation
6092 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6093 TYPE: onoff
6094 LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
6095 DEFAULT: on
6096 DOC_START
6097 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
6098 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
6099 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
6100 DOC_END
6101
6102 NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
6103 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6104 TYPE: int
6105 LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
6106 DEFAULT: 5
6107 DOC_START
6108 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
6109 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
6110 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
6111 DOC_END
6112
6113 NAME: digest_rebuild_period
6114 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6115 COMMENT: (seconds)
6116 TYPE: time_t
6117 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
6118 DEFAULT: 1 hour
6119 DOC_START
6120 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
6121 DOC_END
6122
6123 NAME: digest_rewrite_period
6124 COMMENT: (seconds)
6125 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6126 TYPE: time_t
6127 LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
6128 DEFAULT: 1 hour
6129 DOC_START
6130 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
6131 disk.
6132 DOC_END
6133
6134 NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
6135 COMMENT: (bytes)
6136 TYPE: b_size_t
6137 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6138 LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
6139 DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
6140 DOC_START
6141 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
6142 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
6143 default swap page.
6144 DOC_END
6145
6146 NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
6147 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
6148 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
6149 TYPE: int
6150 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
6151 DEFAULT: 10
6152 DOC_START
6153 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
6154 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
6155 DOC_END
6156
6157 COMMENT_START
6158 SNMP OPTIONS
6159 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6160 COMMENT_END
6161
6162 NAME: snmp_port
6163 TYPE: u_short
6164 LOC: Config.Port.snmp
6165 DEFAULT: 0
6166 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6167 DOC_START
6168 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
6169 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
6170 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
6171 set to "0" (disabled)
6172
6173 Example:
6174 snmp_port 3401
6175 DOC_END
6176
6177 NAME: snmp_access
6178 TYPE: acl_access
6179 LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
6180 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6181 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6182 DOC_START
6183 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
6184
6185 All access to the agent is denied by default.
6186 usage:
6187
6188 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6189
6190 This clause only supports fast acl types.
6191 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6192 Example:
6193 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
6194 snmp_access deny all
6195 DOC_END
6196
6197 NAME: snmp_incoming_address
6198 TYPE: address
6199 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
6200 DEFAULT: any_addr
6201 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6202 DOC_NONE
6203
6204 NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
6205 TYPE: address
6206 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
6207 DEFAULT: no_addr
6208 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
6209 DOC_START
6210 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
6211
6212 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
6213 messages from SNMP agents.
6214 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
6215 agents.
6216
6217 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
6218 available network interfaces.
6219
6220 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
6221 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
6222 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
6223 listens for SNMP queries.
6224
6225 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
6226 the same value since they both use port 3401.
6227 DOC_END
6228
6229 COMMENT_START
6230 ICP OPTIONS
6231 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6232 COMMENT_END
6233
6234 NAME: icp_port udp_port
6235 TYPE: u_short
6236 DEFAULT: 0
6237 LOC: Config.Port.icp
6238 DOC_START
6239 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
6240 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
6241 Default is disabled (0).
6242
6243 Example:
6244 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
6245 DOC_END
6246
6247 NAME: htcp_port
6248 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
6249 TYPE: u_short
6250 DEFAULT: 0
6251 LOC: Config.Port.htcp
6252 DOC_START
6253 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
6254 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
6255 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
6256
6257 Example:
6258 htcp_port 4827
6259 DOC_END
6260
6261 NAME: log_icp_queries
6262 COMMENT: on|off
6263 TYPE: onoff
6264 DEFAULT: on
6265 LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
6266 DOC_START
6267 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
6268 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
6269 up or to simplify log analysis.
6270 DOC_END
6271
6272 NAME: udp_incoming_address
6273 TYPE: address
6274 LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
6275 DEFAULT: any_addr
6276 DOC_START
6277 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
6278 caches.
6279
6280 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6281
6282 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
6283 a specific interface/address.
6284
6285 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6286 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6287
6288 see also; udp_outgoing_address
6289
6290 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6291 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6292 DOC_END
6293
6294 NAME: udp_outgoing_address
6295 TYPE: address
6296 LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
6297 DEFAULT: no_addr
6298 DOC_START
6299 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
6300 caches.
6301
6302 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
6303
6304 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
6305 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
6306 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
6307 caches.
6308
6309 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
6310 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
6311
6312 see also; udp_incoming_address
6313
6314 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
6315 have the same value since they both use the same port.
6316 DOC_END
6317
6318 NAME: icp_hit_stale
6319 COMMENT: on|off
6320 TYPE: onoff
6321 DEFAULT: off
6322 LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
6323 DOC_START
6324 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
6325 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
6326 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
6327 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
6328 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
6329 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
6330 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
6331 DOC_END
6332
6333 NAME: minimum_direct_hops
6334 TYPE: int
6335 DEFAULT: 4
6336 LOC: Config.minDirectHops
6337 DOC_START
6338 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6339 which are no more than this many hops away.
6340 DOC_END
6341
6342 NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
6343 TYPE: int
6344 DEFAULT: 400
6345 LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
6346 DOC_START
6347 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
6348 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
6349 DOC_END
6350
6351 NAME: netdb_low
6352 TYPE: int
6353 DEFAULT: 900
6354 LOC: Config.Netdb.low
6355 DOC_NONE
6356
6357 NAME: netdb_high
6358 TYPE: int
6359 DEFAULT: 1000
6360 LOC: Config.Netdb.high
6361 DOC_START
6362 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
6363 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
6364 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
6365 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
6366 DOC_END
6367
6368 NAME: netdb_ping_period
6369 TYPE: time_t
6370 LOC: Config.Netdb.period
6371 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
6372 DOC_START
6373 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
6374 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
6375 network. The default is five minutes.
6376 DOC_END
6377
6378 NAME: query_icmp
6379 COMMENT: on|off
6380 TYPE: onoff
6381 DEFAULT: off
6382 LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
6383 DOC_START
6384 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
6385 replies, enable this option.
6386
6387 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
6388 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
6389 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
6390 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
6391 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
6392 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
6393 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
6394 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
6395 DOC_END
6396
6397 NAME: test_reachability
6398 COMMENT: on|off
6399 TYPE: onoff
6400 DEFAULT: off
6401 LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
6402 DOC_START
6403 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
6404 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
6405 database, or has a zero RTT.
6406 DOC_END
6407
6408 NAME: icp_query_timeout
6409 COMMENT: (msec)
6410 DEFAULT: 0
6411 TYPE: int
6412 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
6413 DOC_START
6414 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
6415 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
6416 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
6417 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
6418 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
6419 timeout (the old default), you would write:
6420
6421 icp_query_timeout 2000
6422 DOC_END
6423
6424 NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
6425 COMMENT: (msec)
6426 DEFAULT: 2000
6427 TYPE: int
6428 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
6429 DOC_START
6430 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6431 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
6432 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
6433 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6434 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6435 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
6436 DOC_END
6437
6438 NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
6439 COMMENT: (msec)
6440 DEFAULT: 5
6441 TYPE: int
6442 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
6443 DOC_START
6444 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
6445 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
6446 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
6447 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
6448 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
6449 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
6450 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
6451 DOC_END
6452
6453 NAME: background_ping_rate
6454 COMMENT: time-units
6455 TYPE: time_t
6456 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
6457 LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
6458 DOC_START
6459 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
6460 have background-ping set.
6461 DOC_END
6462
6463 COMMENT_START
6464 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
6465 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6466 COMMENT_END
6467
6468 NAME: mcast_groups
6469 TYPE: wordlist
6470 LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
6471 DEFAULT: none
6472 DOC_START
6473 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
6474 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
6475
6476 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
6477 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
6478 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
6479 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
6480 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
6481 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
6482 receive replies from multicast group members.
6483
6484 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
6485 is already in use by another group of caches.
6486
6487 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
6488 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
6489
6490 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
6491
6492 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
6493 DOC_END
6494
6495 NAME: mcast_miss_addr
6496 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6497 TYPE: address
6498 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
6499 DEFAULT: no_addr
6500 DOC_START
6501 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
6502 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
6503
6504 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
6505 certain you understand what you are doing.
6506 DOC_END
6507
6508 NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
6509 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6510 TYPE: u_short
6511 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
6512 DEFAULT: 16
6513 DOC_START
6514 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
6515 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
6516 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
6517 DOC_END
6518
6519 NAME: mcast_miss_port
6520 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6521 TYPE: u_short
6522 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
6523 DEFAULT: 3135
6524 DOC_START
6525 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
6526 'mcast_miss_addr'.
6527 DOC_END
6528
6529 NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
6530 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
6531 TYPE: string
6532 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
6533 DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
6534 DOC_START
6535 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
6536 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
6537 DOC_END
6538
6539 NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
6540 COMMENT: (msec)
6541 DEFAULT: 2000
6542 TYPE: int
6543 LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
6544 DOC_START
6545 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
6546 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
6547 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
6548 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
6549 seconds.
6550 DOC_END
6551
6552 COMMENT_START
6553 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
6554 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6555 COMMENT_END
6556
6557 NAME: icon_directory
6558 TYPE: string
6559 LOC: Config.icons.directory
6560 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6561 DOC_START
6562 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
6563 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
6564 DOC_END
6565
6566 NAME: global_internal_static
6567 TYPE: onoff
6568 LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
6569 DEFAULT: on
6570 DOC_START
6571 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
6572 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
6573 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
6574 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
6575 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
6576 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
6577 the server generating a directory listing.
6578 DOC_END
6579
6580 NAME: short_icon_urls
6581 TYPE: onoff
6582 LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
6583 DEFAULT: on
6584 DOC_START
6585 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
6586 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
6587 it's own name and port in the URL.
6588
6589 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
6590 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
6591 DOC_END
6592
6593 COMMENT_START
6594 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
6595 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6596 COMMENT_END
6597
6598 NAME: error_directory
6599 TYPE: string
6600 LOC: Config.errorDirectory
6601 DEFAULT: none
6602 DOC_START
6603 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
6604 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
6605 the error/template files to another directory and point
6606 this tag at them.
6607
6608 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
6609 on error pages if used.
6610
6611 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6612 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
6613 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
6614 contributing your translation back to the project.
6615 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6616
6617 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
6618 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
6619 DOC_END
6620
6621 NAME: error_default_language
6622 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6623 TYPE: string
6624 LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
6625 DEFAULT: none
6626 DOC_START
6627 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
6628 if no existing translation matches the clients language
6629 preferences.
6630
6631 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
6632
6633 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
6634 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
6635 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
6636 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
6637 DOC_END
6638
6639 NAME: error_log_languages
6640 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
6641 TYPE: onoff
6642 LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
6643 DEFAULT: on
6644 DOC_START
6645 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
6646 auto-negotiate for translations.
6647
6648 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
6649 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
6650 of its error page translations.
6651 DOC_END
6652
6653 NAME: err_page_stylesheet
6654 TYPE: string
6655 LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
6656 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
6657 DOC_START
6658 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
6659
6660 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
6661 DOC_END
6662
6663 NAME: err_html_text
6664 TYPE: eol
6665 LOC: Config.errHtmlText
6666 DEFAULT: none
6667 DOC_START
6668 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
6669 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
6670 organizations Web page.
6671
6672 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
6673 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
6674 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
6675 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
6676 DOC_END
6677
6678 NAME: email_err_data
6679 COMMENT: on|off
6680 TYPE: onoff
6681 LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
6682 DEFAULT: on
6683 DOC_START
6684 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
6685 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
6686 so that the email body contains the data.
6687 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
6688 DOC_END
6689
6690 NAME: deny_info
6691 TYPE: denyinfo
6692 LOC: Config.denyInfoList
6693 DEFAULT: none
6694 DOC_START
6695 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
6696 or deny_info http://... acl
6697 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
6698
6699 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
6700 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
6701 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
6702 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
6703
6704 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
6705 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
6706 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
6707 the first authentication related acl encountered
6708 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
6709 acl processed on the last http_access line.
6710 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
6711 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
6712
6713 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
6714 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
6715 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
6716
6717 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
6718 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
6719 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
6720
6721 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6722 by specifying TCP_RESET.
6723
6724 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
6725 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6726 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6727 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6728 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
6729
6730 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6731 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6732 %B - FTP path URL
6733 %e - Error number
6734 %E - Error description
6735 %h - Squid hostname
6736 %H - Request domain name
6737 %i - Client IP Address
6738 %M - Request Method
6739 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6740 %p - Request Port number
6741 %P - Request Protocol name
6742 %R - Request URL path
6743 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6744 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6745 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6746 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6747 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
6748 %x - Error name
6749 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6750
6751 DOC_END
6752
6753 COMMENT_START
6754 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6755 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6756 COMMENT_END
6757
6758 NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
6759 TYPE: onoff
6760 LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
6761 DEFAULT: on
6762 DOC_START
6763 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6764 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6765 to origin servers.
6766
6767 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6768 requests to parents.
6769
6770 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6771 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6772 ratio.
6773
6774 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6775 this directive.
6776 DOC_END
6777
6778 NAME: prefer_direct
6779 TYPE: onoff
6780 LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
6781 DEFAULT: off
6782 DOC_START
6783 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6784 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6785 going direct fails set this to on.
6786
6787 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6788 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6789 fails.
6790
6791 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6792 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6793 acts on cacheable requests.
6794 DOC_END
6795
6796 NAME: always_direct
6797 TYPE: acl_access
6798 LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
6799 DEFAULT: none
6800 DOC_START
6801 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6802
6803 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6804 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6805 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6806 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6807 something like:
6808
6809 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6810 always_direct allow local-servers
6811
6812 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
6813
6814 acl FTP proto FTP
6815 always_direct allow FTP
6816
6817 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6818 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6819 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6820 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6821 some other rule. Example:
6822
6823 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6824 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6825 always_direct deny local-external
6826 always_direct allow local-servers
6827
6828 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6829 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6830 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6831 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
6832
6833 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6834 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
6835 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
6836
6837 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6838 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6839 DOC_END
6840
6841 NAME: never_direct
6842 TYPE: acl_access
6843 LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6844 DEFAULT: none
6845 DOC_START
6846 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6847
6848 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6849 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6850
6851 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6852 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6853 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6854 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6855
6856 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6857 never_direct deny local-servers
6858 never_direct allow all
6859
6860 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6861 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6862
6863 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6864 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6865 always_direct deny local-external
6866 always_direct allow local-intranet
6867 never_direct allow all
6868
6869 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6870 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6871 DOC_END
6872
6873 COMMENT_START
6874 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6875 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6876 COMMENT_END
6877
6878 NAME: incoming_udp_average incoming_icp_average
6879 TYPE: int
6880 DEFAULT: 6
6881 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.average
6882 DOC_START
6883 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6884 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6885 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6886 DOC_END
6887
6888 NAME: incoming_tcp_average incoming_http_average
6889 TYPE: int
6890 DEFAULT: 4
6891 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.average
6892 DOC_START
6893 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6894 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6895 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6896 DOC_END
6897
6898 NAME: incoming_dns_average
6899 TYPE: int
6900 DEFAULT: 4
6901 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.average
6902 DOC_START
6903 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6904 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6905 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6906 DOC_END
6907
6908 NAME: min_udp_poll_cnt min_icp_poll_cnt
6909 TYPE: int
6910 DEFAULT: 8
6911 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.udp.min_poll
6912 DOC_START
6913 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6914 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6915 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6916 DOC_END
6917
6918 NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6919 TYPE: int
6920 DEFAULT: 8
6921 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns.min_poll
6922 DOC_START
6923 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6924 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6925 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6926 DOC_END
6927
6928 NAME: min_tcp_poll_cnt min_http_poll_cnt
6929 TYPE: int
6930 DEFAULT: 8
6931 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.tcp.min_poll
6932 DOC_START
6933 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6934 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6935 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6936 DOC_END
6937
6938 NAME: accept_filter
6939 TYPE: string
6940 DEFAULT: none
6941 LOC: Config.accept_filter
6942 DOC_START
6943 FreeBSD:
6944
6945 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6946 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6947 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6948
6949 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
6950 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
6951 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6952
6953 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6954 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6955 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6956
6957 Linux:
6958
6959 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6960 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6961 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6962 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6963 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
6964 EXAMPLE:
6965 # FreeBSD
6966 accept_filter httpready
6967 # Linux
6968 accept_filter data
6969 DOC_END
6970
6971 NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6972 TYPE: int
6973 LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6974 DEFAULT: -1
6975 DOC_START
6976 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6977 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6978 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6979
6980 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6981 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6982
6983 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6984
6985 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6986 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6987 DOC_END
6988
6989 NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6990 COMMENT: (bytes)
6991 TYPE: b_size_t
6992 DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6993 LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6994 DOC_START
6995 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6996 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6997 the default buffer size.
6998 DOC_END
6999
7000 COMMENT_START
7001 ICAP OPTIONS
7002 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7003 COMMENT_END
7004
7005 NAME: icap_enable
7006 TYPE: onoff
7007 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7008 COMMENT: on|off
7009 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
7010 DEFAULT: off
7011 DOC_START
7012 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
7013 DOC_END
7014
7015 NAME: icap_connect_timeout
7016 TYPE: time_t
7017 DEFAULT: none
7018 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
7019 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7020 DOC_START
7021 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
7022 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
7023 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
7024
7025 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
7026 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
7027 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
7028 DOC_END
7029
7030 NAME: icap_io_timeout
7031 COMMENT: time-units
7032 TYPE: time_t
7033 DEFAULT: none
7034 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
7035 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7036 DOC_START
7037 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
7038 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
7039 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
7040 failure.
7041
7042 The default is read_timeout.
7043 DOC_END
7044
7045 NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
7046 COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
7047 TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
7048 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7049 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
7050 DEFAULT: 10
7051 DOC_START
7052 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
7053 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
7054 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
7055 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
7056 OPTIONS.
7057
7058 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
7059 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
7060 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
7061
7062 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
7063 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
7064 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
7065 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
7066 value into ten time slots of equal length.
7067
7068 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
7069 effect on service failure expiration.
7070
7071 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
7072 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
7073 setting.
7074
7075 For example,
7076 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
7077 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
7078 DOC_END
7079
7080 NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
7081 TYPE: int
7082 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7083 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
7084 DEFAULT: 180
7085 DOC_START
7086 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
7087 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
7088 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
7089 fetched.
7090
7091 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
7092 delay of 30 seconds.
7093 DOC_END
7094
7095 NAME: icap_preview_enable
7096 TYPE: onoff
7097 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7098 COMMENT: on|off
7099 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
7100 DEFAULT: on
7101 DOC_START
7102 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
7103 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
7104 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
7105 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
7106
7107 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
7108 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
7109 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
7110
7111 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
7112 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
7113 Example:
7114 icap_preview_enable off
7115 DOC_END
7116
7117 NAME: icap_preview_size
7118 TYPE: int
7119 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7120 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
7121 DEFAULT: -1
7122 DOC_START
7123 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
7124 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
7125 basis by OPTIONS requests.
7126 DOC_END
7127
7128 NAME: icap_206_enable
7129 TYPE: onoff
7130 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7131 COMMENT: on|off
7132 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
7133 DEFAULT: on
7134 DOC_START
7135 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
7136 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
7137 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
7138 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
7139
7140 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
7141 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
7142 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
7143 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
7144 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
7145
7146 Example:
7147 icap_206_enable off
7148 DOC_END
7149
7150 NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
7151 TYPE: int
7152 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7153 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
7154 DEFAULT: 60
7155 DOC_START
7156 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
7157 an Options-TTL header.
7158 DOC_END
7159
7160 NAME: icap_persistent_connections
7161 TYPE: onoff
7162 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7163 COMMENT: on|off
7164 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
7165 DEFAULT: on
7166 DOC_START
7167 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
7168 an ICAP server.
7169 DOC_END
7170
7171 NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
7172 TYPE: onoff
7173 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7174 COMMENT: on|off
7175 LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
7176 DEFAULT: off
7177 DOC_START
7178 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
7179 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
7180 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
7181
7182 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
7183 DOC_END
7184
7185 NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
7186 TYPE: onoff
7187 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7188 COMMENT: on|off
7189 LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
7190 DEFAULT: off
7191 DOC_START
7192 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
7193 the adaptation service.
7194
7195 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
7196 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
7197 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
7198 DOC_END
7199
7200 NAME: icap_client_username_header
7201 TYPE: string
7202 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7203 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
7204 DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
7205 DOC_START
7206 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
7207 DOC_END
7208
7209 NAME: icap_client_username_encode
7210 TYPE: onoff
7211 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7212 COMMENT: on|off
7213 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
7214 DEFAULT: off
7215 DOC_START
7216 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
7217 DOC_END
7218
7219 NAME: icap_service
7220 TYPE: icap_service_type
7221 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7222 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
7223 DEFAULT: none
7224 DOC_START
7225 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
7226
7227 icap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7228
7229 id: ID
7230 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7231 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7232 services in squid.conf.
7233
7234 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
7235 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7236 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7237 are not yet supported.
7238
7239 uri: icap://servername:port/servicepath
7240 ICAP server and service location.
7241
7242 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
7243 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
7244 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
7245 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
7246 service_names differ.
7247
7248
7249 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
7250 the following name=value options:
7251
7252 bypass=on|off|1|0
7253 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
7254 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
7255 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
7256 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
7257 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
7258 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
7259 returned to the HTTP client.
7260
7261 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7262
7263 routing=on|off|1|0
7264 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
7265 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7266 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
7267 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
7268 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
7269 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf. Other
7270 services are ignored. An empty X-Next-Services value results
7271 in an empty plan which ends the current adaptation.
7272
7273 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7274 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7275
7276 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
7277 response header is ignored.
7278
7279 ipv6=on|off
7280 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
7281 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
7282 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
7283
7284 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
7285 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
7286 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
7287 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
7288 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
7289 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
7290 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
7291
7292 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
7293 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
7294 workers may use a given service.
7295
7296 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
7297 otherwise it is set to "wait".
7298
7299
7300 max-conn=number
7301 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
7302 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
7303
7304 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
7305 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7306
7307 Example:
7308 icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod bypass=0
7309 icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod routing=on
7310 DOC_END
7311
7312 NAME: icap_class
7313 TYPE: icap_class_type
7314 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7315 LOC: none
7316 DEFAULT: none
7317 DOC_START
7318 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
7319 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
7320 services, and the chains were not supported.
7321
7322 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
7323 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
7324 adaptation_service_chain.
7325 DOC_END
7326
7327 NAME: icap_access
7328 TYPE: icap_access_type
7329 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7330 LOC: none
7331 DEFAULT: none
7332 DOC_START
7333 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
7334 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
7335 documentation, and eCAP support.
7336 DOC_END
7337
7338 COMMENT_START
7339 eCAP OPTIONS
7340 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7341 COMMENT_END
7342
7343 NAME: ecap_enable
7344 TYPE: onoff
7345 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7346 COMMENT: on|off
7347 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
7348 DEFAULT: off
7349 DOC_START
7350 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
7351 DOC_END
7352
7353 NAME: ecap_service
7354 TYPE: ecap_service_type
7355 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
7356 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
7357 DEFAULT: none
7358 DOC_START
7359 Defines a single eCAP service
7360
7361 ecap_service id vectoring_point uri [option ...]
7362
7363 id: ID
7364 an opaque identifier or name which is used to direct traffic to
7365 this specific service. Must be unique among all adaptation
7366 services in squid.conf.
7367
7368 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
7369 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
7370 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
7371 are not yet supported.
7372
7373 uri: ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
7374 Squid uses the eCAP service URI to match this configuration
7375 line with one of the dynamically loaded services. Each loaded
7376 eCAP service must have a unique URI. Obtain the right URI from
7377 the service provider.
7378
7379
7380 Service options are separated by white space. eCAP services support
7381 the following name=value options:
7382
7383 bypass=on|off|1|0
7384 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is treated as optional.
7385 If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try
7386 to ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
7387 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
7388 If set to 'off' or '0', the eCAP service is treated as essential
7389 and all eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
7390 HTTP client.
7391
7392 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
7393
7394 routing=on|off|1|0
7395 If set to 'on' or '1', the eCAP service is allowed to
7396 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
7397 returning a chain of services to be used next.
7398
7399 Dynamic adaptation plan may cross or cover multiple supported
7400 vectoring points in their natural processing order.
7401
7402 Routing is not allowed by default.
7403
7404 Older ecap_service format without optional named parameters is
7405 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
7406
7407
7408 Example:
7409 ecap_service s1 reqmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/leakDetector?on_error=block bypass=off
7410 ecap_service s2 respmod_precache ecap://filters.R.us/virusFilter config=/etc/vf.cfg bypass=on
7411 DOC_END
7412
7413 NAME: loadable_modules
7414 TYPE: wordlist
7415 IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
7416 LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
7417 DEFAULT: none
7418 DOC_START
7419 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
7420 preloaded module(s).
7421 Example:
7422 loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
7423 DOC_END
7424
7425 COMMENT_START
7426 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
7427 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7428 COMMENT_END
7429
7430 NAME: adaptation_service_set
7431 TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
7432 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7433 LOC: none
7434 DEFAULT: none
7435 DOC_START
7436
7437 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
7438 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
7439
7440 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
7441
7442 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
7443 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
7444 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
7445 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
7446 intact.
7447
7448 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7449 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
7450
7451 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
7452 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7453
7454 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
7455 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
7456 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
7457 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
7458 transaction fails as well.
7459
7460 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
7461 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
7462 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
7463 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
7464 matters.
7465
7466 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
7467
7468 Example:
7469 adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
7470 adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
7471 DOC_END
7472
7473 NAME: adaptation_service_chain
7474 TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
7475 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7476 LOC: none
7477 DEFAULT: none
7478 DOC_START
7479
7480 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
7481 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
7482 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
7483
7484 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
7485
7486 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
7487 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
7488 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
7489 the previous service in the chain.
7490
7491 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
7492 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
7493
7494 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
7495 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
7496 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
7497
7498 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
7499 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
7500
7501 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
7502 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
7503 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
7504 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
7505
7506 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
7507
7508 Example:
7509 adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
7510 DOC_END
7511
7512 NAME: adaptation_access
7513 TYPE: adaptation_access_type
7514 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7515 LOC: none
7516 DEFAULT: none
7517 DOC_START
7518 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
7519
7520 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7521 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
7522
7523 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
7524 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
7525 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
7526 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
7527
7528 - services serving different vectoring points
7529 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
7530 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
7531 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
7532
7533 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
7534 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
7535 adaptation_service_set for details.
7536
7537 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
7538 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
7539 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
7540 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
7541
7542 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
7543 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
7544
7545 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
7546
7547 Example:
7548 adaptation_access service_1 allow all
7549 DOC_END
7550
7551 NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
7552 TYPE: int
7553 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7554 LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
7555 DEFAULT: 16
7556 DOC_START
7557 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
7558 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
7559 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
7560 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
7561 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
7562 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
7563
7564 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
7565
7566 See also: icap_service routing=1
7567 DOC_END
7568
7569 NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
7570 TYPE: string
7571 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7572 LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
7573 DEFAULT: none
7574 DOC_START
7575 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
7576 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
7577 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
7578 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
7579 with the master transaction.
7580
7581 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
7582 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
7583
7584 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7585 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
7586 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7587
7588 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
7589 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
7590 to provide an option with a name specified in
7591 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
7592
7593 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
7594 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
7595
7596 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
7597
7598 Example:
7599 # share authentication information among ICAP services
7600 adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
7601 DOC_END
7602
7603 NAME: adaptation_meta
7604 TYPE: note
7605 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
7606 LOC: Adaptation::Config::metaHeaders
7607 DEFAULT: none
7608 DOC_START
7609 This option allows Squid administrator to add custom ICAP request
7610 headers or eCAP options to Squid ICAP requests or eCAP transactions.
7611 Use it to pass custom authentication tokens and other
7612 transaction-state related meta information to an ICAP/eCAP service.
7613
7614 The addition of a meta header is ACL-driven:
7615 adaptation_meta name value [!]aclname ...
7616
7617 Processing for a given header name stops after the first ACL list match.
7618 Thus, it is impossible to add two headers with the same name. If no ACL
7619 lists match for a given header name, no such header is added. For
7620 example:
7621
7622 # do not debug transactions except for those that need debugging
7623 adaptation_meta X-Debug 1 needs_debugging
7624
7625 # log all transactions except for those that must remain secret
7626 adaptation_meta X-Log 1 !keep_secret
7627
7628 # mark transactions from users in the "G 1" group
7629 adaptation_meta X-Authenticated-Groups "G 1" authed_as_G1
7630
7631 The "value" parameter may be a regular squid.conf token or a "double
7632 quoted string". Within the quoted string, use backslash (\) to escape
7633 any character, which is currently only useful for escaping backslashes
7634 and double quotes. For example,
7635 "this string has one backslash (\\) and two \"quotes\""
7636
7637 Used adaptation_meta header values may be logged via %note
7638 logformat code. If multiple adaptation_meta headers with the same name
7639 are used during master transaction lifetime, the header values are
7640 logged in the order they were used and duplicate values are ignored
7641 (only the first repeated value will be logged).
7642 DOC_END
7643
7644 NAME: icap_retry
7645 TYPE: acl_access
7646 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7647 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
7648 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
7649 DOC_START
7650 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
7651 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
7652 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
7653 that response are usually retriable.
7654
7655 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
7656
7657 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
7658 due to persistent connection race conditions.
7659
7660 See also: icap_retry_limit
7661 DOC_END
7662
7663 NAME: icap_retry_limit
7664 TYPE: int
7665 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
7666 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
7667 DEFAULT: 0
7668 DOC_START
7669 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
7670 no retries are allowed.
7671
7672 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
7673 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
7674 count against this limit.
7675
7676 See also: icap_retry
7677 DOC_END
7678
7679
7680 COMMENT_START
7681 DNS OPTIONS
7682 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7683 COMMENT_END
7684
7685 NAME: check_hostnames
7686 TYPE: onoff
7687 DEFAULT: off
7688 LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
7689 DOC_START
7690 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
7691 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
7692 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
7693 DOC_END
7694
7695 NAME: allow_underscore
7696 TYPE: onoff
7697 DEFAULT: on
7698 LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
7699 DOC_START
7700 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
7701 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
7702 Squid to be strict about the standard.
7703 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
7704 DOC_END
7705
7706 NAME: cache_dns_program
7707 TYPE: string
7708 IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
7709 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
7710 LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
7711 DOC_START
7712 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
7713 DOC_END
7714
7715 NAME: dns_children
7716 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
7717 IFDEF: USE_DNSHELPER
7718 DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
7719 LOC: Config.dnsChildren
7720 DOC_START
7721 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
7722 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
7723 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
7724 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
7725 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
7726
7727 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
7728 tuning.
7729
7730 startup=
7731
7732 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
7733 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
7734 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
7735
7736 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
7737 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
7738
7739 idle=
7740
7741 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
7742 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
7743 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
7744 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
7745 DOC_END
7746
7747 NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
7748 TYPE: time_msec
7749 DEFAULT: 5 seconds
7750 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
7751 IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
7752 DOC_START
7753 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
7754 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
7755 DOC_END
7756
7757 NAME: dns_timeout
7758 TYPE: time_msec
7759 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
7760 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
7761 IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
7762 DOC_START
7763 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
7764 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
7765 are assumed to be unavailable.
7766 DOC_END
7767
7768 NAME: dns_packet_max
7769 TYPE: b_ssize_t
7770 DEFAULT: none
7771 LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
7772 IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
7773 DOC_START
7774 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
7775 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
7776
7777 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
7778 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
7779 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
7780 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
7781 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
7782
7783 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
7784 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
7785 necessary.
7786
7787 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
7788 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
7789 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
7790 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
7791 sizes being advertised by Squid.
7792 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
7793 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
7794 DOC_END
7795
7796 NAME: dns_defnames
7797 COMMENT: on|off
7798 TYPE: onoff
7799 DEFAULT: off
7800 LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
7801 DOC_START
7802 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
7803 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
7804 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
7805 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
7806 DOC_END
7807
7808 NAME: dns_nameservers
7809 TYPE: wordlist
7810 DEFAULT: none
7811 LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
7812 DOC_START
7813 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
7814 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
7815 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7816 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7817 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7818 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7819 configurations are supported.
7820
7821 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
7822 DOC_END
7823
7824 NAME: hosts_file
7825 TYPE: string
7826 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7827 LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
7828 DOC_START
7829 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7830 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7831 default locations:
7832 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7833 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7834 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7835 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7836 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7837 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7838 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7839 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
7840
7841 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7842 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7843 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7844 character are comments.
7845
7846 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7847 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7848 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7849 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7850 definitions.
7851 DOC_END
7852
7853 NAME: append_domain
7854 TYPE: string
7855 LOC: Config.appendDomain
7856 DEFAULT: none
7857 DOC_START
7858 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7859 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7860
7861 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7862 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7863 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7864
7865 Example:
7866 append_domain .yourdomain.com
7867 DOC_END
7868
7869 NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7870 TYPE: onoff
7871 LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
7872 DEFAULT: on
7873 IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
7874 DOC_START
7875 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7876 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7877 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7878 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7879 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
7880 DOC_END
7881
7882 NAME: dns_v4_first
7883 TYPE: onoff
7884 DEFAULT: off
7885 LOC: Config.dns.v4_first
7886 IFDEF: !USE_DNSHELPER
7887 DOC_START
7888 With the IPv6 Internet being as fast or faster than IPv4 Internet
7889 for most networks Squid prefers to contact websites over IPv6.
7890
7891 This option reverses the order of preference to make Squid contact
7892 dual-stack websites over IPv4 first. Squid will still perform both
7893 IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.
7894
7895 WARNING:
7896 This option will restrict the situations under which IPv6
7897 connectivity is used (and tested). Hiding network problems
7898 which would otherwise be detected and warned about.
7899 DOC_END
7900
7901 NAME: ipcache_size
7902 COMMENT: (number of entries)
7903 TYPE: int
7904 DEFAULT: 1024
7905 LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7906 DOC_NONE
7907
7908 NAME: ipcache_low
7909 COMMENT: (percent)
7910 TYPE: int
7911 DEFAULT: 90
7912 LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7913 DOC_NONE
7914
7915 NAME: ipcache_high
7916 COMMENT: (percent)
7917 TYPE: int
7918 DEFAULT: 95
7919 LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7920 DOC_START
7921 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7922 DOC_END
7923
7924 NAME: fqdncache_size
7925 COMMENT: (number of entries)
7926 TYPE: int
7927 DEFAULT: 1024
7928 LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7929 DOC_START
7930 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7931 DOC_END
7932
7933 COMMENT_START
7934 MISCELLANEOUS
7935 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7936 COMMENT_END
7937
7938 NAME: memory_pools
7939 COMMENT: on|off
7940 TYPE: onoff
7941 DEFAULT: on
7942 LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
7943 DOC_START
7944 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7945 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7946 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7947 routines, disable this.
7948 DOC_END
7949
7950 NAME: memory_pools_limit
7951 COMMENT: (bytes)
7952 TYPE: b_int64_t
7953 DEFAULT: 5 MB
7954 LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
7955 DOC_START
7956 Used only with memory_pools on:
7957 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
7958
7959 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7960 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7961 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7962 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7963 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7964 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7965 configuration will use less memory.
7966
7967 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
7968 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
7969
7970 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
7971 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
7972
7973 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7974 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7975 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7976 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
7977 DOC_END
7978
7979 NAME: forwarded_for
7980 COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7981 TYPE: string
7982 DEFAULT: on
7983 LOC: opt_forwarded_for
7984 DOC_START
7985 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7986 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
7987
7988 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7989
7990 If set to "off", it will appear as
7991
7992 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
7993
7994 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7995 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7996
7997 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7998 X-Forwarded-For header.
7999
8000 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
8001 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
8002 DOC_END
8003
8004 NAME: cachemgr_passwd
8005 TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
8006 DEFAULT: none
8007 LOC: Config.passwd_list
8008 DOC_START
8009 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
8010
8011 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
8012
8013 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
8014 5min
8015 60min
8016 asndb
8017 authenticator
8018 cbdata
8019 client_list
8020 comm_incoming
8021 config *
8022 counters
8023 delay
8024 digest_stats
8025 dns
8026 events
8027 filedescriptors
8028 fqdncache
8029 histograms
8030 http_headers
8031 info
8032 io
8033 ipcache
8034 mem
8035 menu
8036 netdb
8037 non_peers
8038 objects
8039 offline_toggle *
8040 pconn
8041 peer_select
8042 reconfigure *
8043 redirector
8044 refresh
8045 server_list
8046 shutdown *
8047 store_digest
8048 storedir
8049 utilization
8050 via_headers
8051 vm_objects
8052
8053 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
8054 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
8055
8056 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
8057 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
8058 password to "none".
8059
8060 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
8061
8062 Example:
8063 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
8064 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
8065 cachemgr_passwd disable all
8066 DOC_END
8067
8068 NAME: client_db
8069 COMMENT: on|off
8070 TYPE: onoff
8071 DEFAULT: on
8072 LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
8073 DOC_START
8074 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
8075 turn off client_db here.
8076 DOC_END
8077
8078 NAME: refresh_all_ims
8079 COMMENT: on|off
8080 TYPE: onoff
8081 DEFAULT: off
8082 LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
8083 DOC_START
8084 When you enable this option, squid will always check
8085 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
8086 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
8087 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
8088 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
8089
8090 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
8091 based on the age of the cached version.
8092 DOC_END
8093
8094 NAME: reload_into_ims
8095 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
8096 COMMENT: on|off
8097 TYPE: onoff
8098 DEFAULT: off
8099 LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
8100 DOC_START
8101 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
8102 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
8103 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
8104 feature could make you liable for problems which it
8105 causes.
8106
8107 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
8108 DOC_END
8109
8110 NAME: connect_retries
8111 TYPE: int
8112 LOC: Config.connect_retries
8113 DEFAULT: 0
8114 DOC_START
8115 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
8116 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
8117 complete within the connection timeout period.
8118
8119 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
8120 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
8121
8122 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
8123 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
8124
8125 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
8126 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
8127 a useful server.
8128 DOC_END
8129
8130 NAME: retry_on_error
8131 TYPE: onoff
8132 LOC: Config.retry.onerror
8133 DEFAULT: off
8134 DOC_START
8135 If set to ON Squid will automatically retry requests when
8136 receiving an error response with status 403 (Forbidden),
8137 500 (Internal Error), 501 or 503 (Service not available).
8138 Status 502 and 504 (Gateway errors) are always retried.
8139
8140 This is mainly useful if you are in a complex cache hierarchy to
8141 work around access control errors.
8142
8143 NOTE: This retry will attempt to find another working destination.
8144 Which is different from the server which just failed.
8145 DOC_END
8146
8147 NAME: as_whois_server
8148 TYPE: string
8149 LOC: Config.as_whois_server
8150 DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
8151 DOC_START
8152 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
8153 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
8154 DOC_END
8155
8156 NAME: offline_mode
8157 TYPE: onoff
8158 LOC: Config.onoff.offline
8159 DEFAULT: off
8160 DOC_START
8161 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
8162 objects.
8163 DOC_END
8164
8165 NAME: uri_whitespace
8166 TYPE: uri_whitespace
8167 LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
8168 DEFAULT: strip
8169 DOC_START
8170 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
8171 URI. Options:
8172
8173 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
8174 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
8175 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
8176 Request" message.
8177 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
8178 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
8179 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
8180 are in use.
8181 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
8182 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
8183 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
8184 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
8185 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
8186 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
8187 violation.
8188 DOC_END
8189
8190 NAME: chroot
8191 TYPE: string
8192 LOC: Config.chroot_dir
8193 DEFAULT: none
8194 DOC_START
8195 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
8196 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
8197 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
8198 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
8199 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
8200 DOC_END
8201
8202 NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
8203 TYPE: onoff
8204 LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
8205 DEFAULT: off
8206 DOC_START
8207 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
8208 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
8209 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
8210
8211 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
8212 found not to preserve user session state across requests
8213 to different IP addresses.
8214
8215 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
8216 DOC_END
8217
8218 NAME: pipeline_prefetch
8219 TYPE: onoff
8220 LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
8221 DEFAULT: off
8222 DOC_START
8223 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
8224 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
8225 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
8226
8227 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
8228 reasons.
8229
8230 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
8231 DOC_END
8232
8233 NAME: high_response_time_warning
8234 TYPE: int
8235 COMMENT: (msec)
8236 LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
8237 DEFAULT: 0
8238 DOC_START
8239 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
8240 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
8241 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
8242 DOC_END
8243
8244 NAME: high_page_fault_warning
8245 TYPE: int
8246 LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
8247 DEFAULT: 0
8248 DOC_START
8249 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
8250 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8251 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
8252 per second.
8253 DOC_END
8254
8255 NAME: high_memory_warning
8256 TYPE: b_size_t
8257 LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
8258 DEFAULT: 0 KB
8259 DOC_START
8260 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
8261 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
8262 the administrators attention.
8263 DOC_END
8264
8265 NAME: sleep_after_fork
8266 COMMENT: (microseconds)
8267 TYPE: int
8268 LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
8269 DEFAULT: 0
8270 DOC_START
8271 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
8272 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
8273 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
8274 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
8275 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
8276 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
8277 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
8278 until all the child processes have been started.
8279 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
8280 rounded to 1000.
8281 DOC_END
8282
8283 NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
8284 IFDEF: _SQUID_WINDOWS_
8285 COMMENT: on|off
8286 TYPE: onoff
8287 DEFAULT: on
8288 LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
8289 DOC_START
8290 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
8291 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
8292 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
8293 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
8294 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
8295 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
8296 DOC_END
8297
8298 NAME: eui_lookup
8299 TYPE: onoff
8300 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
8301 DEFAULT: on
8302 LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
8303 DOC_START
8304 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
8305 DOC_END
8306
8307 NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
8308 TYPE: int
8309 DEFAULT: 0
8310 LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
8311 DOC_START
8312 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
8313
8314 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
8315
8316 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
8317 not all comm loops supports large values.
8318 DOC_END
8319
8320 NAME: workers
8321 TYPE: int
8322 LOC: Config.workers
8323 DEFAULT: 1
8324 DOC_START
8325 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
8326 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
8327 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
8328 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
8329
8330 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
8331 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
8332 DOC_END
8333
8334 NAME: cpu_affinity_map
8335 TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
8336 LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
8337 DEFAULT: none
8338 DOC_START
8339 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
8340
8341 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
8342
8343 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
8344
8345 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
8346 four even cores, starting with core #1.
8347
8348 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
8349 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
8350
8351 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
8352
8353 See also: workers
8354 DOC_END
8355
8356 EOF