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28
29 COMMENT_START
30 WELCOME TO @SQUID@
31 ----------------------------
32
33 This is the default Squid configuration file. You may wish
34 to look at the Squid home page (http://www.squid-cache.org/)
35 for the FAQ and other documentation.
36
37 The default Squid config file shows what the defaults for
38 various options happen to be. If you don't need to change the
39 default, you shouldn't uncomment the line. Doing so may cause
40 run-time problems. In some cases "none" refers to no default
41 setting at all, while in other cases it refers to a valid
42 option - the comments for that keyword indicate if this is the
43 case.
44
45 COMMENT_END
46
47 COMMENT_START
48 Configuration options can be included using the "include" directive.
49 Include takes a list of files to include. Quoting and wildcards is
50 supported.
51
52 For example,
53
54 include /path/to/included/file/squid.acl.config
55
56 Includes can be nested up to a hard-coded depth of 16 levels.
57 This arbitrary restriction is to prevent recursive include references
58 from causing Squid entering an infinite loop whilst trying to load
59 configuration files.
60
61
62 Conditional configuration
63
64 If-statements can be used to make configuration directives
65 depend on conditions:
66
67 if <CONDITION>
68 ... regular configuration directives ...
69 [else
70 ... regular configuration directives ...]
71 endif
72
73 The else part is optional. The keywords "if", "else", and "endif"
74 must be typed on their own lines, as if they were regular
75 configuration directives.
76
77 These individual conditions types are supported:
78
79 true
80 Always evaluates to true.
81 false
82 Always evaluates to false.
83 <integer> = <integer>
84 Equality comparison of two integer numbers.
85
86
87 SMP-Related Macros
88
89 The following SMP-related preprocessor macros can be used.
90
91 ${process_name} expands to the current Squid process "name"
92 (e.g., squid1, squid2, or cache1).
93
94 ${process_number} expands to the current Squid process
95 identifier, which is an integer number (e.g., 1, 2, 3) unique
96 across all Squid processes.
97 COMMENT_END
98
99 # Options Removed in 3.2
100 NAME: ignore_expect_100
101 TYPE: obsolete
102 DOC_START
103 Remove this line. The HTTP/1.1 feature is now fully supported by default.
104 DOC_END
105
106 NAME: ftp_list_width
107 TYPE: obsolete
108 DOC_START
109 Remove this line. Configure FTP page display using the CSS controls in errorpages.css instead.
110 DOC_END
111
112 NAME: url_rewrite_concurrency
113 TYPE: obsolete
114 DOC_START
115 Remove this line. Set the 'concurrency=' option of url_rewrite_children instead.
116 DOC_END
117
118 # Options Removed in 3.1
119 NAME: dns_testnames
120 TYPE: obsolete
121 DOC_START
122 Remove this line. DNS is no longer tested on startup.
123 DOC_END
124
125 NAME: extension_methods
126 TYPE: obsolete
127 DOC_START
128 Remove this line. All valid methods for HTTP are accepted by default.
129 DOC_END
130
131 # 2.7 Options Removed/Replaced in 3.1
132 NAME: incoming_rate
133 TYPE: obsolete
134 DOC_NONE
135
136 NAME: server_http11
137 TYPE: obsolete
138 DOC_START
139 Remove this line. HTTP/1.1 is supported by default.
140 DOC_END
141
142 NAME: upgrade_http0.9
143 TYPE: obsolete
144 DOC_START
145 Remove this line. ICY/1.0 streaming protocol is supported by default.
146 DOC_END
147
148 NAME: zph_local zph_mode zph_option zph_parent zph_sibling
149 TYPE: obsolete
150 DOC_START
151 Alter these entries. Use the qos_flows directive instead.
152 DOC_END
153
154 # Options Removed in 3.0
155 NAME: header_access
156 TYPE: obsolete
157 DOC_START
158 Since squid-3.0 replace with request_header_access or reply_header_access
159 depending on whether you wish to match client requests or server replies.
160 DOC_END
161
162 NAME: httpd_accel_no_pmtu_disc
163 TYPE: obsolete
164 DOC_START
165 Since squid-3.0 use the 'disable-pmtu-discovery' flag on http_port instead.
166 DOC_END
167
168 COMMENT_START
169 OPTIONS FOR AUTHENTICATION
170 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
171 COMMENT_END
172
173 NAME: auth_param
174 TYPE: authparam
175 IFDEF: USE_AUTH
176 LOC: Auth::TheConfig
177 DEFAULT: none
178 DOC_START
179 This is used to define parameters for the various authentication
180 schemes supported by Squid.
181
182 format: auth_param scheme parameter [setting]
183
184 The order in which authentication schemes are presented to the client is
185 dependent on the order the scheme first appears in config file. IE
186 has a bug (it's not RFC 2617 compliant) in that it will use the basic
187 scheme if basic is the first entry presented, even if more secure
188 schemes are presented. For now use the order in the recommended
189 settings section below. If other browsers have difficulties (don't
190 recognize the schemes offered even if you are using basic) either
191 put basic first, or disable the other schemes (by commenting out their
192 program entry).
193
194 Once an authentication scheme is fully configured, it can only be
195 shutdown by shutting squid down and restarting. Changes can be made on
196 the fly and activated with a reconfigure. I.E. You can change to a
197 different helper, but not unconfigure the helper completely.
198
199 Please note that while this directive defines how Squid processes
200 authentication it does not automatically activate authentication.
201 To use authentication you must in addition make use of ACLs based
202 on login name in http_access (proxy_auth, proxy_auth_regex or
203 external with %LOGIN used in the format tag). The browser will be
204 challenged for authentication on the first such acl encountered
205 in http_access processing and will also be re-challenged for new
206 login credentials if the request is being denied by a proxy_auth
207 type acl.
208
209 WARNING: authentication can't be used in a transparently intercepting
210 proxy as the client then thinks it is talking to an origin server and
211 not the proxy. This is a limitation of bending the TCP/IP protocol to
212 transparently intercepting port 80, not a limitation in Squid.
213 Ports flagged 'transparent', 'intercept', or 'tproxy' have
214 authentication disabled.
215
216 === Parameters for the basic scheme follow. ===
217
218 "program" cmdline
219 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such a program
220 reads a line containing "username password" and replies "OK" or
221 "ERR" in an endless loop. "ERR" responses may optionally be followed
222 by a error description available as %m in the returned error page.
223 If you use an authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl of type
224 proxy_auth.
225
226 By default, the basic authentication scheme is not used unless a
227 program is specified.
228
229 If you want to use the traditional NCSA proxy authentication, set
230 this line to something like
231
232 auth_param basic program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/libexec/ncsa_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/passwd
233
234 "utf8" on|off
235 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
236 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
237 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
238 username & password to the helper.
239
240 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
241 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
242 Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
243 verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are
244 done via a (slow) network you are likely to need lots of
245 authenticator processes.
246
247 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
248 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
249 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
250 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
251 the maximum.
252
253 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
254 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
255 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
256 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
257 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
258 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
259 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
260
261 auth_param basic children 20 startup=0 idle=1
262
263 "realm" realmstring
264 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
265 client for the basic proxy authentication scheme (part of
266 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
267 password). There is no default.
268 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
269
270 "credentialsttl" timetolive
271 Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated
272 username:password pair is valid for - in other words how
273 often the helper program is called for that user. Set this
274 low to force revalidation with short lived passwords. Note
275 setting this high does not impact your susceptibility
276 to replay attacks unless you are using an one-time password
277 system (such as SecureID). If you are using such a system,
278 you will be vulnerable to replay attacks unless you also
279 use the max_user_ip ACL in an http_access rule.
280
281 "casesensitive" on|off
282 Specifies if usernames are case sensitive. Most user databases are
283 case insensitive allowing the same username to be spelled using both
284 lower and upper case letters, but some are case sensitive. This
285 makes a big difference for user_max_ip ACL processing and similar.
286 auth_param basic casesensitive off
287
288 === Parameters for the digest scheme follow ===
289
290 "program" cmdline
291 Specify the command for the external authenticator. Such
292 a program reads a line containing "username":"realm" and
293 replies with the appropriate H(A1) value hex encoded or
294 ERR if the user (or his H(A1) hash) does not exists.
295 See rfc 2616 for the definition of H(A1).
296 "ERR" responses may optionally be followed by a error description
297 available as %m in the returned error page.
298
299 By default, the digest authentication scheme is not used unless a
300 program is specified.
301
302 If you want to use a digest authenticator, set this line to
303 something like
304
305 auth_param digest program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/digest_pw_auth @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/etc/digpass
306
307 "utf8" on|off
308 HTTP uses iso-latin-1 as characterset, while some authentication
309 backends such as LDAP expects UTF-8. If this is set to on Squid will
310 translate the HTTP iso-latin-1 charset to UTF-8 before sending the
311 username & password to the helper.
312
313 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N] [concurrency=N]
314 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
315 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
316 process a backlog of H(A1) calculations, slowing it down.
317 When the H(A1) calculations are done via a (slow) network
318 you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.
319
320 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
321 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
322 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
323 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
324 the maximum.
325
326 The concurrency= option sets the number of concurrent requests the
327 helper can process. The default of 0 is used for helpers who only
328 supports one request at a time. Setting this to a number greater than
329 0 changes the protocol used to include a channel number first on the
330 request/response line, allowing multiple requests to be sent to the
331 same helper in parallell without wating for the response.
332 Must not be set unless it's known the helper supports this.
333
334 auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
335
336 "realm" realmstring
337 Specifies the realm name which is to be reported to the
338 client for the digest proxy authentication scheme (part of
339 the text the user will see when prompted their username and
340 password). There is no default.
341 auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
342
343 "nonce_garbage_interval" timeinterval
344 Specifies the interval that nonces that have been issued
345 to client_agent's are checked for validity.
346
347 "nonce_max_duration" timeinterval
348 Specifies the maximum length of time a given nonce will be
349 valid for.
350
351 "nonce_max_count" number
352 Specifies the maximum number of times a given nonce can be
353 used.
354
355 "nonce_strictness" on|off
356 Determines if squid requires strict increment-by-1 behavior
357 for nonce counts, or just incrementing (off - for use when
358 useragents generate nonce counts that occasionally miss 1
359 (ie, 1,2,4,6)). Default off.
360
361 "check_nonce_count" on|off
362 This directive if set to off can disable the nonce count check
363 completely to work around buggy digest qop implementations in
364 certain mainstream browser versions. Default on to check the
365 nonce count to protect from authentication replay attacks.
366
367 "post_workaround" on|off
368 This is a workaround to certain buggy browsers who sends
369 an incorrect request digest in POST requests when reusing
370 the same nonce as acquired earlier on a GET request.
371
372 === NTLM scheme options follow ===
373
374 "program" cmdline
375 Specify the command for the external NTLM authenticator.
376 Such a program reads exchanged NTLMSSP packets with
377 the browser via Squid until authentication is completed.
378 If you use an NTLM authenticator, make sure you have 1 acl
379 of type proxy_auth. By default, the NTLM authenticator_program
380 is not used.
381
382 auth_param ntlm program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth
383
384 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
385 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
386 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
387 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
388 down. When credential verifications are done via a (slow)
389 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
390 processes.
391
392 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
393 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
394 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
395 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
396 the maximum.
397
398 auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
399
400 "keep_alive" on|off
401 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
402 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
403 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
404 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
405 supported by the proxy.
406
407 auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
408
409 === Options for configuring the NEGOTIATE auth-scheme follow ===
410
411 "program" cmdline
412 Specify the command for the external Negotiate authenticator.
413 This protocol is used in Microsoft Active-Directory enabled setups with
414 the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browsers.
415 Its main purpose is to exchange credentials with the Squid proxy
416 using the Kerberos mechanisms.
417 If you use a Negotiate authenticator, make sure you have at least
418 one acl of type proxy_auth active. By default, the negotiate
419 authenticator_program is not used.
420 The only supported program for this role is the ntlm_auth
421 program distributed as part of Samba, version 4 or later.
422
423 auth_param negotiate program @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=gss-spnego
424
425 "children" numberofchildren [startup=N] [idle=N]
426 The maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn (default 5).
427 If you start too few Squid will have to wait for them to
428 process a backlog of credential verifications, slowing it
429 down. When crendential verifications are done via a (slow)
430 network you are likely to need lots of authenticator
431 processes.
432
433 The startup= and idle= options permit some skew in the exact amount
434 run. A minimum of startup=N will begin during startup and reconfigure.
435 Squid will start more in groups of up to idle=N in an attempt to meet
436 traffic needs and to keep idle=N free above those traffic needs up to
437 the maximum.
438
439 auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
440
441 "keep_alive" on|off
442 If you experience problems with PUT/POST requests when using the
443 Negotiate authentication scheme then you can try setting this to
444 off. This will cause Squid to forcibly close the connection on
445 the initial requests where the browser asks which schemes are
446 supported by the proxy.
447
448 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
449
450
451 Examples:
452
453 #Recommended minimum configuration per scheme:
454 #auth_param negotiate program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
455 #auth_param negotiate children 20 startup=0 idle=1
456 #auth_param negotiate keep_alive on
457 #
458 #auth_param ntlm program <uncomment and complete this line to activate>
459 #auth_param ntlm children 20 startup=0 idle=1
460 #auth_param ntlm keep_alive on
461 #
462 #auth_param digest program <uncomment and complete this line>
463 #auth_param digest children 20 startup=0 idle=1
464 #auth_param digest realm Squid proxy-caching web server
465 #auth_param digest nonce_garbage_interval 5 minutes
466 #auth_param digest nonce_max_duration 30 minutes
467 #auth_param digest nonce_max_count 50
468 #
469 #auth_param basic program <uncomment and complete this line>
470 #auth_param basic children 5 startup=5 idle=1
471 #auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
472 #auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
473 DOC_END
474
475 NAME: authenticate_cache_garbage_interval
476 TYPE: time_t
477 DEFAULT: 1 hour
478 LOC: Config.authenticateGCInterval
479 DOC_START
480 The time period between garbage collection across the username cache.
481 This is a tradeoff between memory utilization (long intervals - say
482 2 days) and CPU (short intervals - say 1 minute). Only change if you
483 have good reason to.
484 DOC_END
485
486 NAME: authenticate_ttl
487 TYPE: time_t
488 DEFAULT: 1 hour
489 LOC: Config.authenticateTTL
490 DOC_START
491 The time a user & their credentials stay in the logged in
492 user cache since their last request. When the garbage
493 interval passes, all user credentials that have passed their
494 TTL are removed from memory.
495 DOC_END
496
497 NAME: authenticate_ip_ttl
498 TYPE: time_t
499 LOC: Config.authenticateIpTTL
500 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
501 DOC_START
502 If you use proxy authentication and the 'max_user_ip' ACL,
503 this directive controls how long Squid remembers the IP
504 addresses associated with each user. Use a small value
505 (e.g., 60 seconds) if your users might change addresses
506 quickly, as is the case with dialups. You might be safe
507 using a larger value (e.g., 2 hours) in a corporate LAN
508 environment with relatively static address assignments.
509 DOC_END
510
511 COMMENT_START
512 ACCESS CONTROLS
513 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
514 COMMENT_END
515
516 NAME: external_acl_type
517 TYPE: externalAclHelper
518 LOC: Config.externalAclHelperList
519 DEFAULT: none
520 DOC_START
521 This option defines external acl classes using a helper program
522 to look up the status
523
524 external_acl_type name [options] FORMAT.. /path/to/helper [helper arguments..]
525
526 Options:
527
528 ttl=n TTL in seconds for cached results (defaults to 3600
529 for 1 hour)
530 negative_ttl=n
531 TTL for cached negative lookups (default same
532 as ttl)
533 children-max=n
534 Maximum number of acl helper processes spawned to service
535 external acl lookups of this type. (default 20)
536 children-startup=n
537 Minimum number of acl helper processes to spawn during
538 startup and reconfigure to service external acl lookups
539 of this type. (default 0)
540 children-idle=n
541 Number of acl helper processes to keep ahead of traffic
542 loads. Squid will spawn this many at once whenever load
543 rises above the capabilities of existing processes.
544 Up to the value of children-max. (default 1)
545 concurrency=n concurrency level per process. Only used with helpers
546 capable of processing more than one query at a time.
547 cache=n limit the result cache size, default is unbounded.
548 grace=n Percentage remaining of TTL where a refresh of a
549 cached entry should be initiated without needing to
550 wait for a new reply. (default is for no grace period)
551 protocol=2.5 Compatibility mode for Squid-2.5 external acl helpers
552 ipv4 / ipv6 IP-mode used to communicate to this helper.
553 For compatability with older configurations and helpers
554 the default is currently 'ipv4'.
555
556 FORMAT specifications
557
558 %LOGIN Authenticated user login name
559 %EXT_USER Username from previous external acl
560 %EXT_LOG Log details from previous external acl
561 %EXT_TAG Tag from previous external acl
562 %IDENT Ident user name
563 %SRC Client IP
564 %SRCPORT Client source port
565 %URI Requested URI
566 %DST Requested host
567 %PROTO Requested protocol
568 %PORT Requested port
569 %PATH Requested URL path
570 %METHOD Request method
571 %MYADDR Squid interface address
572 %MYPORT Squid http_port number
573 %PATH Requested URL-path (including query-string if any)
574 %USER_CERT SSL User certificate in PEM format
575 %USER_CERTCHAIN SSL User certificate chain in PEM format
576 %USER_CERT_xx SSL User certificate subject attribute xx
577 %USER_CA_xx SSL User certificate issuer attribute xx
578
579 %>{Header} HTTP request header "Header"
580 %>{Hdr:member}
581 HTTP request header "Hdr" list member "member"
582 %>{Hdr:;member}
583 HTTP request header list member using ; as
584 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
585 character.
586
587 %<{Header} HTTP reply header "Header"
588 %<{Hdr:member}
589 HTTP reply header "Hdr" list member "member"
590 %<{Hdr:;member}
591 HTTP reply header list member using ; as
592 list separator. ; can be any non-alphanumeric
593 character.
594
595 In addition to the above, any string specified in the referencing
596 acl will also be included in the helper request line, after the
597 specified formats (see the "acl external" directive)
598
599 The helper receives lines per the above format specification,
600 and returns lines starting with OK or ERR indicating the validity
601 of the request and optionally followed by additional keywords with
602 more details.
603
604 General result syntax:
605
606 OK/ERR keyword=value ...
607
608 Defined keywords:
609
610 user= The users name (login)
611 password= The users password (for login= cache_peer option)
612 message= Message describing the reason. Available as %o
613 in error pages
614 tag= Apply a tag to a request (for both ERR and OK results)
615 Only sets a tag, does not alter existing tags.
616 log= String to be logged in access.log. Available as
617 %ea in logformat specifications
618
619 If protocol=3.0 (the default) then URL escaping is used to protect
620 each value in both requests and responses.
621
622 If using protocol=2.5 then all values need to be enclosed in quotes
623 if they may contain whitespace, or the whitespace escaped using \.
624 And quotes or \ characters within the keyword value must be \ escaped.
625
626 When using the concurrency= option the protocol is changed by
627 introducing a query channel tag infront of the request/response.
628 The query channel tag is a number between 0 and concurrency-1.
629 DOC_END
630
631 NAME: acl
632 TYPE: acl
633 LOC: Config.aclList
634 DEFAULT: all src all
635 DOC_START
636 Defining an Access List
637
638 Every access list definition must begin with an aclname and acltype,
639 followed by either type-specific arguments or a quoted filename that
640 they are read from.
641
642 acl aclname acltype argument ...
643 acl aclname acltype "file" ...
644
645 When using "file", the file should contain one item per line.
646
647 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE.
648 To make them case-insensitive, use the -i option. To return case-sensitive
649 use the +i option between patterns, or make a new ACL line without -i.
650
651 Some acl types require suspending the current request in order
652 to access some external data source.
653 Those which do are marked with the tag [slow], those which
654 don't are marked as [fast].
655 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl
656 for further information
657
658 ***** ACL TYPES AVAILABLE *****
659
660 acl aclname src ip-address/mask ... # clients IP address [fast]
661 acl aclname src addr1-addr2/mask ... # range of addresses [fast]
662 acl aclname dst ip-address/mask ... # URL host's IP address [slow]
663 acl aclname localip ip-address/mask ... # IP address the client connected to [fast]
664
665 acl aclname arp mac-address ... (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx notation)
666 # The arp ACL requires the special configure option --enable-arp-acl.
667 # Furthermore, the ARP ACL code is not portable to all operating systems.
668 # It works on Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, and some
669 # other *BSD variants.
670 # [fast]
671 #
672 # NOTE: Squid can only determine the MAC address for clients that are on
673 # the same subnet. If the client is on a different subnet,
674 # then Squid cannot find out its MAC address.
675
676 acl aclname srcdomain .foo.com ...
677 # reverse lookup, from client IP [slow]
678 acl aclname dstdomain .foo.com ...
679 # Destination server from URL [fast]
680 acl aclname srcdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
681 # regex matching client name [slow]
682 acl aclname dstdom_regex [-i] \.foo\.com ...
683 # regex matching server [fast]
684 #
685 # For dstdomain and dstdom_regex a reverse lookup is tried if a IP
686 # based URL is used and no match is found. The name "none" is used
687 # if the reverse lookup fails.
688
689 acl aclname src_as number ...
690 acl aclname dst_as number ...
691 # [fast]
692 # Except for access control, AS numbers can be used for
693 # routing of requests to specific caches. Here's an
694 # example for routing all requests for AS#1241 and only
695 # those to mycache.mydomain.net:
696 # acl asexample dst_as 1241
697 # cache_peer_access mycache.mydomain.net allow asexample
698 # cache_peer_access mycache_mydomain.net deny all
699
700 acl aclname peername myPeer ...
701 # [fast]
702 # match against a named cache_peer entry
703 # set unique name= on cache_peer lines for reliable use.
704
705 acl aclname time [day-abbrevs] [h1:m1-h2:m2]
706 # [fast]
707 # day-abbrevs:
708 # S - Sunday
709 # M - Monday
710 # T - Tuesday
711 # W - Wednesday
712 # H - Thursday
713 # F - Friday
714 # A - Saturday
715 # h1:m1 must be less than h2:m2
716
717 acl aclname url_regex [-i] ^http:// ...
718 # regex matching on whole URL [fast]
719 acl aclname urlpath_regex [-i] \.gif$ ...
720 # regex matching on URL path [fast]
721
722 acl aclname port 80 70 21 0-1024... # destination TCP port [fast]
723 # ranges are alloed
724 acl aclname localport 3128 ... # TCP port the client connected to [fast]
725 # NP: for interception mode this is usually '80'
726
727 acl aclname myportname 3128 ... # http(s)_port name [fast]
728
729 acl aclname proto HTTP FTP ... # request protocol [fast]
730
731 acl aclname method GET POST ... # HTTP request method [fast]
732
733 acl aclname http_status 200 301 500- 400-403 ...
734 # status code in reply [fast]
735
736 acl aclname browser [-i] regexp ...
737 # pattern match on User-Agent header (see also req_header below) [fast]
738
739 acl aclname referer_regex [-i] regexp ...
740 # pattern match on Referer header [fast]
741 # Referer is highly unreliable, so use with care
742
743 acl aclname ident username ...
744 acl aclname ident_regex [-i] pattern ...
745 # string match on ident output [slow]
746 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null ident.
747
748 acl aclname proxy_auth [-i] username ...
749 acl aclname proxy_auth_regex [-i] pattern ...
750 # perform http authentication challenge to the client and match against
751 # supplied credentials [slow]
752 #
753 # takes a list of allowed usernames.
754 # use REQUIRED to accept any valid username.
755 #
756 # Will use proxy authentication in forward-proxy scenarios, and plain
757 # http authenticaiton in reverse-proxy scenarios
758 #
759 # NOTE: when a Proxy-Authentication header is sent but it is not
760 # needed during ACL checking the username is NOT logged
761 # in access.log.
762 #
763 # NOTE: proxy_auth requires a EXTERNAL authentication program
764 # to check username/password combinations (see
765 # auth_param directive).
766 #
767 # NOTE: proxy_auth can't be used in a transparent/intercepting proxy
768 # as the browser needs to be configured for using a proxy in order
769 # to respond to proxy authentication.
770
771 acl aclname snmp_community string ...
772 # A community string to limit access to your SNMP Agent [fast]
773 # Example:
774 #
775 # acl snmppublic snmp_community public
776
777 acl aclname maxconn number
778 # This will be matched when the client's IP address has
779 # more than <number> TCP connections established. [fast]
780 # NOTE: This only measures direct TCP links so X-Forwarded-For
781 # indirect clients are not counted.
782
783 acl aclname max_user_ip [-s] number
784 # This will be matched when the user attempts to log in from more
785 # than <number> different ip addresses. The authenticate_ip_ttl
786 # parameter controls the timeout on the ip entries. [fast]
787 # If -s is specified the limit is strict, denying browsing
788 # from any further IP addresses until the ttl has expired. Without
789 # -s Squid will just annoy the user by "randomly" denying requests.
790 # (the counter is reset each time the limit is reached and a
791 # request is denied)
792 # NOTE: in acceleration mode or where there is mesh of child proxies,
793 # clients may appear to come from multiple addresses if they are
794 # going through proxy farms, so a limit of 1 may cause user problems.
795
796 acl aclname random probability
797 # Pseudo-randomly match requests. Based on the probability given.
798 # Probability may be written as a decimal (0.333), fraction (1/3)
799 # or ratio of matches:non-matches (3:5).
800
801 acl aclname req_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
802 # regex match against the mime type of the request generated
803 # by the client. Can be used to detect file upload or some
804 # types HTTP tunneling requests [fast]
805 # NOTE: This does NOT match the reply. You cannot use this
806 # to match the returned file type.
807
808 acl aclname req_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
809 # regex match against any of the known request headers. May be
810 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
811 # ACL [fast]
812
813 acl aclname rep_mime_type [-i] mime-type ...
814 # regex match against the mime type of the reply received by
815 # squid. Can be used to detect file download or some
816 # types HTTP tunneling requests. [fast]
817 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
818 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
819 # http_reply_access.
820
821 acl aclname rep_header header-name [-i] any\.regex\.here
822 # regex match against any of the known reply headers. May be
823 # thought of as a superset of "browser", "referer" and "mime-type"
824 # ACLs [fast]
825
826 acl aclname external class_name [arguments...]
827 # external ACL lookup via a helper class defined by the
828 # external_acl_type directive [slow]
829
830 acl aclname user_cert attribute values...
831 # match against attributes in a user SSL certificate
832 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
833
834 acl aclname ca_cert attribute values...
835 # match against attributes a users issuing CA SSL certificate
836 # attribute is one of DN/C/O/CN/L/ST [fast]
837
838 acl aclname ext_user username ...
839 acl aclname ext_user_regex [-i] pattern ...
840 # string match on username returned by external acl helper [slow]
841 # use REQUIRED to accept any non-null user name.
842
843 acl aclname tag tagvalue ...
844 # string match on tag returned by external acl helper [slow]
845
846 acl aclname hier_code codename ...
847 # string match against squid hierarchy code(s); [fast]
848 # e.g., DIRECT, PARENT_HIT, NONE, etc.
849 #
850 # NOTE: This has no effect in http_access rules. It only has
851 # effect in rules that affect the reply data stream such as
852 # http_reply_access.
853
854 Examples:
855 acl macaddress arp 09:00:2b:23:45:67
856 acl myexample dst_as 1241
857 acl password proxy_auth REQUIRED
858 acl fileupload req_mime_type -i ^multipart/form-data$
859 acl javascript rep_mime_type -i ^application/x-javascript$
860
861 NOCOMMENT_START
862 #
863 # Recommended minimum configuration:
864 #
865 acl manager url_regex -i ^cache_object:// +i ^https?://[^/]+/squid-internal-mgr/
866 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1
867 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1
868
869 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
870 # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing
871 # should be allowed
872 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network
873 acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network
874 acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network
875 acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range
876 acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines
877
878 acl SSL_ports port 443
879 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
880 acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
881 acl Safe_ports port 443 # https
882 acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
883 acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
884 acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
885 acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
886 acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
887 acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
888 acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
889 acl CONNECT method CONNECT
890 NOCOMMENT_END
891 DOC_END
892
893 NAME: follow_x_forwarded_for
894 TYPE: acl_access
895 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
896 LOC: Config.accessList.followXFF
897 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
898 DOC_START
899 Allowing or Denying the X-Forwarded-For header to be followed to
900 find the original source of a request.
901
902 Requests may pass through a chain of several other proxies
903 before reaching us. The X-Forwarded-For header will contain a
904 comma-separated list of the IP addresses in the chain, with the
905 rightmost address being the most recent.
906
907 If a request reaches us from a source that is allowed by this
908 configuration item, then we consult the X-Forwarded-For header
909 to see where that host received the request from. If the
910 X-Forwarded-For header contains multiple addresses, we continue
911 backtracking until we reach an address for which we are not allowed
912 to follow the X-Forwarded-For header, or until we reach the first
913 address in the list. For the purpose of ACL used in the
914 follow_x_forwarded_for directive the src ACL type always matches
915 the address we are testing and srcdomain matches its rDNS.
916
917 The end result of this process is an IP address that we will
918 refer to as the indirect client address. This address may
919 be treated as the client address for access control, ICAP, delay
920 pools and logging, depending on the acl_uses_indirect_client,
921 icap_uses_indirect_client, delay_pool_uses_indirect_client,
922 log_uses_indirect_client and tproxy_uses_indirect_client options.
923
924 This clause only supports fast acl types.
925 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
926
927 SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS:
928
929 Any host for which we follow the X-Forwarded-For header
930 can place incorrect information in the header, and Squid
931 will use the incorrect information as if it were the
932 source address of the request. This may enable remote
933 hosts to bypass any access control restrictions that are
934 based on the client's source addresses.
935
936 For example:
937
938 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1
939 acl my_other_proxy srcdomain .proxy.example.com
940 follow_x_forwarded_for allow localhost
941 follow_x_forwarded_for allow my_other_proxy
942 DOC_END
943
944 NAME: acl_uses_indirect_client
945 COMMENT: on|off
946 TYPE: onoff
947 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
948 DEFAULT: on
949 LOC: Config.onoff.acl_uses_indirect_client
950 DOC_START
951 Controls whether the indirect client address
952 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
953 direct client address in acl matching.
954
955 NOTE: maxconn ACL considers direct TCP links and indirect
956 clients will always have zero. So no match.
957 DOC_END
958
959 NAME: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
960 COMMENT: on|off
961 TYPE: onoff
962 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_DELAY_POOLS
963 DEFAULT: on
964 LOC: Config.onoff.delay_pool_uses_indirect_client
965 DOC_START
966 Controls whether the indirect client address
967 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
968 direct client address in delay pools.
969 DOC_END
970
971 NAME: log_uses_indirect_client
972 COMMENT: on|off
973 TYPE: onoff
974 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR
975 DEFAULT: on
976 LOC: Config.onoff.log_uses_indirect_client
977 DOC_START
978 Controls whether the indirect client address
979 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
980 direct client address in the access log.
981 DOC_END
982
983 NAME: tproxy_uses_indirect_client
984 COMMENT: on|off
985 TYPE: onoff
986 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&LINUX_NETFILTER
987 DEFAULT: off
988 LOC: Config.onoff.tproxy_uses_indirect_client
989 DOC_START
990 Controls whether the indirect client address
991 (see follow_x_forwarded_for) is used instead of the
992 direct client address when spoofing the outgoing client.
993
994 This has no effect on requests arriving in non-tproxy
995 mode ports.
996
997 SECURITY WARNING: Usage of this option is dangerous
998 and should not be used trivially. Correct configuration
999 of folow_x_forewarded_for with a limited set of trusted
1000 sources is required to prevent abuse of your proxy.
1001 DOC_END
1002
1003 NAME: http_access
1004 TYPE: acl_access
1005 LOC: Config.accessList.http
1006 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1007 DOC_START
1008 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1009
1010 Access to the HTTP port:
1011 http_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1012
1013 NOTE on default values:
1014
1015 If there are no "access" lines present, the default is to deny
1016 the request.
1017
1018 If none of the "access" lines cause a match, the default is the
1019 opposite of the last line in the list. If the last line was
1020 deny, the default is allow. Conversely, if the last line
1021 is allow, the default will be deny. For these reasons, it is a
1022 good idea to have an "deny all" entry at the end of your access
1023 lists to avoid potential confusion.
1024
1025 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1026 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1027
1028 NOCOMMENT_START
1029
1030 #
1031 # Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration:
1032 #
1033 # Only allow cachemgr access from localhost
1034 http_access allow localhost manager
1035 http_access deny manager
1036
1037 # Deny requests to certain unsafe ports
1038 http_access deny !Safe_ports
1039
1040 # Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports
1041 http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
1042
1043 # We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent
1044 # web applications running on the proxy server who think the only
1045 # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user
1046 #http_access deny to_localhost
1047
1048 #
1049 # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS
1050 #
1051
1052 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks.
1053 # Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks
1054 # from where browsing should be allowed
1055 http_access allow localnet
1056 http_access allow localhost
1057
1058 # And finally deny all other access to this proxy
1059 http_access deny all
1060 NOCOMMENT_END
1061 DOC_END
1062
1063 NAME: adapted_http_access http_access2
1064 TYPE: acl_access
1065 LOC: Config.accessList.adapted_http
1066 DEFAULT: none
1067 DOC_START
1068 Allowing or Denying access based on defined access lists
1069
1070 Essentially identical to http_access, but runs after redirectors
1071 and ICAP/eCAP adaptation. Allowing access control based on their
1072 output.
1073
1074 If not set then only http_access is used.
1075 DOC_END
1076
1077 NAME: http_reply_access
1078 TYPE: acl_access
1079 LOC: Config.accessList.reply
1080 DEFAULT: none
1081 DOC_START
1082 Allow replies to client requests. This is complementary to http_access.
1083
1084 http_reply_access allow|deny [!] aclname ...
1085
1086 NOTE: if there are no access lines present, the default is to allow
1087 all replies
1088
1089 If none of the access lines cause a match the opposite of the
1090 last line will apply. Thus it is good practice to end the rules
1091 with an "allow all" or "deny all" entry.
1092
1093 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1094 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1095 DOC_END
1096
1097 NAME: icp_access
1098 TYPE: acl_access
1099 LOC: Config.accessList.icp
1100 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1101 DOC_START
1102 Allowing or Denying access to the ICP port based on defined
1103 access lists
1104
1105 icp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1106
1107 See http_access for details
1108
1109 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1110 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1111
1112 # Allow ICP queries from local networks only
1113 #icp_access allow localnet
1114 #icp_access deny all
1115 DOC_END
1116
1117 NAME: htcp_access
1118 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1119 TYPE: acl_access
1120 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp
1121 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1122 DOC_START
1123 Allowing or Denying access to the HTCP port based on defined
1124 access lists
1125
1126 htcp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1127
1128 See http_access for details
1129
1130 NOTE: The default if no htcp_access lines are present is to
1131 deny all traffic. This default may cause problems with peers
1132 using the htcp option.
1133
1134 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1135 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1136
1137 # Allow HTCP queries from local networks only
1138 #htcp_access allow localnet
1139 #htcp_access deny all
1140 DOC_END
1141
1142 NAME: htcp_clr_access
1143 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
1144 TYPE: acl_access
1145 LOC: Config.accessList.htcp_clr
1146 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1147 DOC_START
1148 Allowing or Denying access to purge content using HTCP based
1149 on defined access lists
1150
1151 htcp_clr_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
1152
1153 See http_access for details
1154
1155 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1156 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1157
1158 # Allow HTCP CLR requests from trusted peers
1159 acl htcp_clr_peer src 172.16.1.2
1160 htcp_clr_access allow htcp_clr_peer
1161 DOC_END
1162
1163 NAME: miss_access
1164 TYPE: acl_access
1165 LOC: Config.accessList.miss
1166 DEFAULT: allow all
1167 DOC_START
1168 Use to force your neighbors to use you as a sibling instead of
1169 a parent. For example:
1170
1171 acl localclients src 172.16.0.0/16
1172 miss_access allow localclients
1173 miss_access deny !localclients
1174
1175 This means only your local clients are allowed to fetch
1176 MISSES and all other clients can only fetch HITS.
1177
1178 By default, allow all clients who passed the http_access rules
1179 to fetch MISSES from us.
1180
1181 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1182 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1183 DOC_END
1184
1185 NAME: ident_lookup_access
1186 TYPE: acl_access
1187 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
1188 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
1189 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.identLookup
1190 DOC_START
1191 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, cause an ident
1192 (RFC 931) lookup to be performed for this request. For
1193 example, you might choose to always perform ident lookups
1194 for your main multi-user Unix boxes, but not for your Macs
1195 and PCs. By default, ident lookups are not performed for
1196 any requests.
1197
1198 To enable ident lookups for specific client addresses, you
1199 can follow this example:
1200
1201 acl ident_aware_hosts src 198.168.1.0/24
1202 ident_lookup_access allow ident_aware_hosts
1203 ident_lookup_access deny all
1204
1205 Only src type ACL checks are fully supported. A srcdomain
1206 ACL might work at times, but it will not always provide
1207 the correct result.
1208
1209 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1210 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1211 DOC_END
1212
1213 NAME: reply_body_max_size
1214 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
1215 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
1216 DEFAULT: none
1217 LOC: Config.ReplyBodySize
1218 DOC_START
1219 This option specifies the maximum size of a reply body. It can be
1220 used to prevent users from downloading very large files, such as
1221 MP3's and movies. When the reply headers are received, the
1222 reply_body_max_size lines are processed, and the first line where
1223 all (if any) listed ACLs are true is used as the maximum body size
1224 for this reply.
1225
1226 This size is checked twice. First when we get the reply headers,
1227 we check the content-length value. If the content length value exists
1228 and is larger than the allowed size, the request is denied and the
1229 user receives an error message that says "the request or reply
1230 is too large." If there is no content-length, and the reply
1231 size exceeds this limit, the client's connection is just closed
1232 and they will receive a partial reply.
1233
1234 WARNING: downstream caches probably can not detect a partial reply
1235 if there is no content-length header, so they will cache
1236 partial responses and give them out as hits. You should NOT
1237 use this option if you have downstream caches.
1238
1239 WARNING: A maximum size smaller than the size of squid's error messages
1240 will cause an infinite loop and crash squid. Ensure that the smallest
1241 non-zero value you use is greater that the maximum header size plus
1242 the size of your largest error page.
1243
1244 If you set this parameter none (the default), there will be
1245 no limit imposed.
1246
1247 Configuration Format is:
1248 reply_body_max_size SIZE UNITS [acl ...]
1249 ie.
1250 reply_body_max_size 10 MB
1251
1252 DOC_END
1253
1254 COMMENT_START
1255 NETWORK OPTIONS
1256 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1257 COMMENT_END
1258
1259 NAME: http_port ascii_port
1260 TYPE: http_port_list
1261 DEFAULT: none
1262 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.http
1263 DOC_START
1264 Usage: port [mode] [options]
1265 hostname:port [mode] [options]
1266 1.2.3.4:port [mode] [options]
1267
1268 The socket addresses where Squid will listen for HTTP client
1269 requests. You may specify multiple socket addresses.
1270 There are three forms: port alone, hostname with port, and
1271 IP address with port. If you specify a hostname or IP
1272 address, Squid binds the socket to that specific
1273 address. Most likely, you do not need to bind to a specific
1274 address, so you can use the port number alone.
1275
1276 If you are running Squid in accelerator mode, you
1277 probably want to listen on port 80 also, or instead.
1278
1279 The -a command line option may be used to specify additional
1280 port(s) where Squid listens for proxy request. Such ports will
1281 be plain proxy ports with no options.
1282
1283 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines.
1284
1285 Modes:
1286
1287 intercept Support for IP-Layer interception of
1288 outgoing requests without browser settings.
1289 NP: disables authentication and IPv6 on the port.
1290
1291 tproxy Support Linux TPROXY for spoofing outgoing
1292 connections using the client IP address.
1293 NP: disables authentication and maybe IPv6 on the port.
1294
1295 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1296 vhost / vport / defaultsite.
1297
1298 ssl-bump Intercept each CONNECT request matching ssl_bump ACL,
1299 establish secure connection with the client and with
1300 the server, decrypt HTTP messages as they pass through
1301 Squid, and treat them as unencrypted HTTP messages,
1302 becoming the man-in-the-middle.
1303
1304 The ssl_bump option is required to fully enable
1305 the SslBump feature.
1306
1307 Omitting the mode flag causes default forward proxy mode to be used.
1308
1309
1310 Accelerator Mode Options:
1311
1312 allow-direct Allow direct forwarding in accelerator mode. Normally
1313 accelerated requests are denied direct forwarding as if
1314 never_direct was used.
1315
1316 defaultsite=domainname
1317 What to use for the Host: header if it is not present
1318 in a request. Determines what site (not origin server)
1319 accelerators should consider the default.
1320 Implies accel.
1321
1322 vhost Using the Host header for virtual domain support.
1323 Also uses the port as specified in Host: header.
1324
1325 vport IP based virtual host support. Using the http_port number
1326 in passed on Host: headers.
1327
1328 vport=NN Uses the specified port number rather than the
1329 http_port number.
1330
1331 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1332 Defaults to http://.
1333
1334 act-as-origin
1335 Act as if this Squid is the origin server.
1336 This currently means generate new Date: and Expires:
1337 headers on HIT instead of adding Age:.
1338
1339 ignore-cc Ignore request Cache-Control headers.
1340
1341 Warning: This option violates HTTP specifications if
1342 used in non-accelerator setups.
1343
1344
1345 SSL Bump Mode Options:
1346
1347 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1348
1349 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1350 if not specified, the certificate file is
1351 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1352 key file.
1353
1354 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1355 1 automatic (default)
1356 2 SSLv2 only
1357 3 SSLv3 only
1358 4 TLSv1 only
1359
1360 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1361
1362 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1363 being:
1364 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1365 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1366 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1367 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1368 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1369 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1370 documentation for a complete list of options.
1371
1372 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1373 requesting a client certificate.
1374
1375 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1376 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1377 clientca will be used.
1378
1379 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1380 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1381
1382 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1383 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1384 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1385
1386 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1387 DH key exchanges.
1388
1389 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1390 DELAYED_AUTH
1391 Don't request client certificates
1392 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1393 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1394 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1395 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1396 to OpenSSL.
1397 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1398 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1399 will result in a new SSL session.
1400 VERIFY_CRL
1401 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1402 certificates.
1403 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1404 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1405 client certificate chain.
1406
1407 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1408
1409 generate-host-certificates[=<on|off>]
1410 Dynamically create SSL server certificates for the
1411 destination hosts of bumped CONNECT requests.When
1412 enabled, the cert and key options are used to sign
1413 generated certificates. Otherwise generated
1414 certificate will be selfsigned.
1415 If there is CA certificate life time of generated
1416 certificate equals lifetime of CA certificate. If
1417 generated certificate is selfsigned lifetime is three
1418 years.
1419 This option is enabled by default when SslBump is used.
1420 See the sslBump option above for more information.
1421
1422 dynamic_cert_mem_cache_size=SIZE
1423 Approximate total RAM size spent on cached generated
1424 certificates. If set to zero, caching is disabled. The
1425 default value is 4MB. An average XXX-bit certificate
1426 consumes about XXX bytes of RAM.
1427
1428 Other Options:
1429
1430 connection-auth[=on|off]
1431 use connection-auth=off to tell Squid to prevent
1432 forwarding Microsoft connection oriented authentication
1433 (NTLM, Negotiate and Kerberos)
1434
1435 disable-pmtu-discovery=
1436 Control Path-MTU discovery usage:
1437 off lets OS decide on what to do (default).
1438 transparent disable PMTU discovery when transparent
1439 support is enabled.
1440 always disable always PMTU discovery.
1441
1442 In many setups of transparently intercepting proxies
1443 Path-MTU discovery can not work on traffic towards the
1444 clients. This is the case when the intercepting device
1445 does not fully track connections and fails to forward
1446 ICMP must fragment messages to the cache server. If you
1447 have such setup and experience that certain clients
1448 sporadically hang or never complete requests set
1449 disable-pmtu-discovery option to 'transparent'.
1450
1451 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1452 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1453
1454 tcpkeepalive[=idle,interval,timeout]
1455 Enable TCP keepalive probes of idle connections.
1456 In seconds; idle is the initial time before TCP starts
1457 probing the connection, interval how often to probe, and
1458 timeout the time before giving up.
1459
1460 If you run Squid on a dual-homed machine with an internal
1461 and an external interface we recommend you to specify the
1462 internal address:port in http_port. This way Squid will only be
1463 visible on the internal address.
1464
1465 NOCOMMENT_START
1466
1467 # Squid normally listens to port 3128
1468 http_port @DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT@
1469 NOCOMMENT_END
1470 DOC_END
1471
1472 NAME: https_port
1473 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1474 TYPE: https_port_list
1475 DEFAULT: none
1476 LOC: Config.Sockaddr.https
1477 DOC_START
1478 Usage: [ip:]port cert=certificate.pem [key=key.pem] [options...]
1479
1480 The socket address where Squid will listen for HTTPS client
1481 requests.
1482
1483 This is really only useful for situations where you are running
1484 squid in accelerator mode and you want to do the SSL work at the
1485 accelerator level.
1486
1487 You may specify multiple socket addresses on multiple lines,
1488 each with their own SSL certificate and/or options.
1489
1490 Options:
1491
1492 accel Accelerator mode. Also needs at least one of
1493 defaultsite or vhost.
1494
1495 defaultsite= The name of the https site presented on
1496 this port. Implies accel.
1497
1498 vhost Accelerator mode using Host header for virtual
1499 domain support. Requires a wildcard certificate
1500 or other certificate valid for more than one domain.
1501 Implies accel.
1502
1503 protocol= Protocol to reconstruct accelerated requests with.
1504 Defaults to https.
1505
1506 cert= Path to SSL certificate (PEM format).
1507
1508 key= Path to SSL private key file (PEM format)
1509 if not specified, the certificate file is
1510 assumed to be a combined certificate and
1511 key file.
1512
1513 version= The version of SSL/TLS supported
1514 1 automatic (default)
1515 2 SSLv2 only
1516 3 SSLv3 only
1517 4 TLSv1 only
1518
1519 cipher= Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1520
1521 options= Various SSL engine options. The most important
1522 being:
1523 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1524 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1525 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1526 SINGLE_DH_USE Always create a new key when using
1527 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1528 See src/ssl_support.c or OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options
1529 documentation for a complete list of options.
1530
1531 clientca= File containing the list of CAs to use when
1532 requesting a client certificate.
1533
1534 cafile= File containing additional CA certificates to
1535 use when verifying client certificates. If unset
1536 clientca will be used.
1537
1538 capath= Directory containing additional CA certificates
1539 and CRL lists to use when verifying client certificates.
1540
1541 crlfile= File of additional CRL lists to use when verifying
1542 the client certificate, in addition to CRLs stored in
1543 the capath. Implies VERIFY_CRL flag below.
1544
1545 dhparams= File containing DH parameters for temporary/ephemeral
1546 DH key exchanges.
1547
1548 sslflags= Various flags modifying the use of SSL:
1549 DELAYED_AUTH
1550 Don't request client certificates
1551 immediately, but wait until acl processing
1552 requires a certificate (not yet implemented).
1553 NO_DEFAULT_CA
1554 Don't use the default CA lists built in
1555 to OpenSSL.
1556 NO_SESSION_REUSE
1557 Don't allow for session reuse. Each connection
1558 will result in a new SSL session.
1559 VERIFY_CRL
1560 Verify CRL lists when accepting client
1561 certificates.
1562 VERIFY_CRL_ALL
1563 Verify CRL lists for all certificates in the
1564 client certificate chain.
1565
1566 sslcontext= SSL session ID context identifier.
1567
1568 vport Accelerator with IP based virtual host support.
1569
1570 vport=NN As above, but uses specified port number rather
1571 than the https_port number. Implies accel.
1572
1573 name= Specifies a internal name for the port. Defaults to
1574 the port specification (port or addr:port)
1575
1576 DOC_END
1577
1578 NAME: tcp_outgoing_tos tcp_outgoing_ds tcp_outgoing_dscp
1579 TYPE: acl_tos
1580 DEFAULT: none
1581 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToServer
1582 DOC_START
1583 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets outgoing
1584 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1585
1586 tcp_outgoing_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1587
1588 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1589 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1590
1591 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1592 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1593 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1594 tcp_outgoing_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1595
1596 TOS/DSCP values really only have local significance - so you should
1597 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1598 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1599
1600 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255, or
1601 "default" to use whatever default your host has. Note that in
1602 practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1603 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1604
1605 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1606 matching line.
1607 DOC_END
1608
1609 NAME: clientside_tos
1610 TYPE: acl_tos
1611 DEFAULT: none
1612 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.tosToClient
1613 DOC_START
1614 Allows you to select a TOS/Diffserv value for packets being transmitted
1615 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1616
1617 clientside_tos ds-field [!]aclname ...
1618
1619 Example where normal_service_net uses the TOS value 0x00
1620 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1621
1622 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1623 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1624 clientside_tos 0x00 normal_service_net
1625 clientside_tos 0x20 good_service_net
1626
1627 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any TOS values set here
1628 will be overwritten by TOS values in qos_flows.
1629 DOC_END
1630
1631 NAME: tcp_outgoing_mark
1632 TYPE: acl_nfmark
1633 IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
1634 DEFAULT: none
1635 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToServer
1636 DOC_START
1637 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to outgoing packets
1638 on the server side, based on an ACL.
1639
1640 tcp_outgoing_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1641
1642 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1643 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1644
1645 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1646 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1647 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1648 tcp_outgoing_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1649 DOC_END
1650
1651 NAME: clientside_mark
1652 TYPE: acl_nfmark
1653 IFDEF: SO_MARK&&USE_LIBCAP
1654 DEFAULT: none
1655 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig.nfmarkToClient
1656 DOC_START
1657 Allows you to apply a Netfilter mark value to packets being transmitted
1658 on the client-side, based on an ACL.
1659
1660 clientside_mark mark-value [!]aclname ...
1661
1662 Example where normal_service_net uses the mark value 0x00
1663 and good_service_net uses 0x20
1664
1665 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1666 acl good_service_net src 10.0.1.0/24
1667 clientside_mark 0x00 normal_service_net
1668 clientside_mark 0x20 good_service_net
1669
1670 Note: This feature is incompatible with qos_flows. Any mark values set here
1671 will be overwritten by mark values in qos_flows.
1672 DOC_END
1673
1674 NAME: qos_flows
1675 TYPE: QosConfig
1676 IFDEF: USE_QOS_TOS
1677 DEFAULT: none
1678 LOC: Ip::Qos::TheConfig
1679 DOC_START
1680 Allows you to select a TOS/DSCP value to mark outgoing
1681 connections with, based on where the reply was sourced. For
1682 platforms using netfilter, allows you to set a netfilter mark
1683 value instead of, or in addition to, a TOS value.
1684
1685 TOS values really only have local significance - so you should
1686 know what you're specifying. For more information, see RFC2474,
1687 RFC2475, and RFC3260.
1688
1689 The TOS/DSCP byte must be exactly that - a octet value 0 - 255. Note that
1690 in practice often only multiples of 4 is usable as the two rightmost bits
1691 have been redefined for use by ECN (RFC 3168 section 23.1).
1692
1693 Mark values can be any unsigned 32-bit integer value.
1694
1695 This setting is configured by setting the following values:
1696
1697 tos|mark Whether to set TOS or netfilter mark values
1698
1699 local-hit=0xFF Value to mark local cache hits.
1700
1701 sibling-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from sibling peers.
1702
1703 parent-hit=0xFF Value to mark hits from parent peers.
1704
1705 miss=0xFF Value to mark cache misses. Takes precedence
1706 over the preserve-miss feature (see below).
1707
1708 The TOS variant of the following features are only possible on Linux
1709 and require your kernel to be patched with the TOS preserving ZPH
1710 patch, available from http://zph.bratcheda.org
1711 No patch is needed to preserve the netfilter mark, which will work
1712 with all variants of netfilter.
1713
1714 disable-preserve-miss
1715 This option disables the preservation of the TOS or netfilter
1716 mark. By default, the existing TOS or netfilter mark value of
1717 the response coming from the remote server will be retained
1718 and masked with miss-mark.
1719 NOTE: in the case of a netfilter mark, the mark must be set on
1720 the connection (using the CONNMARK target) not on the packet
1721 (MARK target).
1722
1723 miss-mask=0xFF
1724 Allows you to mask certain bits in the TOS or mark value
1725 received from the remote server, before copying the value to
1726 the TOS sent towards clients.
1727 Default for tos: 0xFF (TOS from server is not changed).
1728 Default for mark: 0xFFFFFFFF (mark from server is not changed).
1729
1730 All of these features require the --enable-zph-qos compilation flag
1731 (enabled by default). Netfilter marking also requires the
1732 libnetfilter_conntrack libraries (--with-netfilter-conntrack) and
1733 libcap 2.09+ (--with-libcap).
1734
1735 DOC_END
1736
1737 NAME: tcp_outgoing_address
1738 TYPE: acl_address
1739 DEFAULT: none
1740 LOC: Config.accessList.outgoing_address
1741 DOC_START
1742 Allows you to map requests to different outgoing IP addresses
1743 based on the username or source address of the user making
1744 the request.
1745
1746 tcp_outgoing_address ipaddr [[!]aclname] ...
1747
1748 For example;
1749 Forwarding clients with dedicated IPs for certain subnets.
1750
1751 acl normal_service_net src 10.0.0.0/24
1752 acl good_service_net src 10.0.2.0/24
1753
1754 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::c001 good_service_net
1755 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.2 good_service_net
1756
1757 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::beef normal_service_net
1758 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.1 normal_service_net
1759
1760 tcp_outgoing_address 2001:db8::1
1761 tcp_outgoing_address 10.1.0.3
1762
1763 Processing proceeds in the order specified, and stops at first fully
1764 matching line.
1765
1766 Squid will add an implicit IP version test to each line.
1767 Requests going to IPv4 websites will use the outgoing 10.1.0.* addresses.
1768 Requests going to IPv6 websites will use the outgoing 2001:db8:* addresses.
1769
1770
1771 NOTE: The use of this directive using client dependent ACLs is
1772 incompatible with the use of server side persistent connections. To
1773 ensure correct results it is best to set server_persistent_connections
1774 to off when using this directive in such configurations.
1775
1776 NOTE: The use of this directive to set a local IP on outgoing TCP links
1777 is incompatible with using TPROXY to set client IP out outbound TCP links.
1778 When needing to contact peers use the no-tproxy cache_peer option and the
1779 client_dst_passthru directive re-enable normal forwarding such as this.
1780
1781 DOC_END
1782
1783 COMMENT_START
1784 SSL OPTIONS
1785 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1786 COMMENT_END
1787
1788 NAME: ssl_unclean_shutdown
1789 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1790 TYPE: onoff
1791 DEFAULT: off
1792 LOC: Config.SSL.unclean_shutdown
1793 DOC_START
1794 Some browsers (especially MSIE) bugs out on SSL shutdown
1795 messages.
1796 DOC_END
1797
1798 NAME: ssl_engine
1799 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1800 TYPE: string
1801 LOC: Config.SSL.ssl_engine
1802 DEFAULT: none
1803 DOC_START
1804 The OpenSSL engine to use. You will need to set this if you
1805 would like to use hardware SSL acceleration for example.
1806 DOC_END
1807
1808 NAME: sslproxy_client_certificate
1809 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1810 DEFAULT: none
1811 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert
1812 TYPE: string
1813 DOC_START
1814 Client SSL Certificate to use when proxying https:// URLs
1815 DOC_END
1816
1817 NAME: sslproxy_client_key
1818 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1819 DEFAULT: none
1820 LOC: Config.ssl_client.key
1821 TYPE: string
1822 DOC_START
1823 Client SSL Key to use when proxying https:// URLs
1824 DOC_END
1825
1826 NAME: sslproxy_version
1827 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1828 DEFAULT: 1
1829 LOC: Config.ssl_client.version
1830 TYPE: int
1831 DOC_START
1832 SSL version level to use when proxying https:// URLs
1833 DOC_END
1834
1835 NAME: sslproxy_options
1836 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1837 DEFAULT: none
1838 LOC: Config.ssl_client.options
1839 TYPE: string
1840 DOC_START
1841 SSL engine options to use when proxying https:// URLs
1842
1843 The most important being:
1844
1845 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
1846 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
1847 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
1848 SINGLE_DH_USE
1849 Always create a new key when using
1850 temporary/ephemeral DH key exchanges
1851
1852 These options vary depending on your SSL engine.
1853 See the OpenSSL SSL_CTX_set_options documentation for a
1854 complete list of possible options.
1855 DOC_END
1856
1857 NAME: sslproxy_cipher
1858 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1859 DEFAULT: none
1860 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cipher
1861 TYPE: string
1862 DOC_START
1863 SSL cipher list to use when proxying https:// URLs
1864
1865 Colon separated list of supported ciphers.
1866 DOC_END
1867
1868 NAME: sslproxy_cafile
1869 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1870 DEFAULT: none
1871 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cafile
1872 TYPE: string
1873 DOC_START
1874 file containing CA certificates to use when verifying server
1875 certificates while proxying https:// URLs
1876 DOC_END
1877
1878 NAME: sslproxy_capath
1879 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1880 DEFAULT: none
1881 LOC: Config.ssl_client.capath
1882 TYPE: string
1883 DOC_START
1884 directory containing CA certificates to use when verifying
1885 server certificates while proxying https:// URLs
1886 DOC_END
1887
1888 NAME: ssl_bump
1889 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1890 TYPE: acl_access
1891 LOC: Config.accessList.ssl_bump
1892 DEFAULT: none
1893 DOC_START
1894 This ACL controls which CONNECT requests to an http_port
1895 marked with an sslBump flag are actually "bumped". Please
1896 see the sslBump flag of an http_port option for more details
1897 about decoding proxied SSL connections.
1898
1899 By default, no requests are bumped.
1900
1901 See also: http_port ssl-bump
1902
1903 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
1904 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1905
1906
1907 # Example: Bump all requests except those originating from localhost and
1908 # those going to webax.com or example.com sites.
1909
1910 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32
1911 acl broken_sites dstdomain .webax.com
1912 acl broken_sites dstdomain .example.com
1913 ssl_bump deny localhost
1914 ssl_bump deny broken_sites
1915 ssl_bump allow all
1916 DOC_END
1917
1918 NAME: sslproxy_flags
1919 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1920 DEFAULT: none
1921 LOC: Config.ssl_client.flags
1922 TYPE: string
1923 DOC_START
1924 Various flags modifying the use of SSL while proxying https:// URLs:
1925 DONT_VERIFY_PEER Accept certificates that fail verification.
1926 For refined control, see sslproxy_cert_error.
1927 NO_DEFAULT_CA Don't use the default CA list built in
1928 to OpenSSL.
1929 DOC_END
1930
1931 NAME: sslproxy_cert_error
1932 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1933 DEFAULT: none
1934 LOC: Config.ssl_client.cert_error
1935 TYPE: acl_access
1936 DOC_START
1937 Use this ACL to bypass server certificate validation errors.
1938
1939 For example, the following lines will bypass all validation errors
1940 when talking to servers located at 172.16.0.0/16. All other
1941 validation errors will result in ERR_SECURE_CONNECT_FAIL error.
1942
1943 acl BrokenServersAtTrustedIP dst 172.16.0.0/16
1944 sslproxy_cert_error allow BrokenServersAtTrustedIP
1945 sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1946
1947 This clause only supports fast acl types.
1948 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
1949 Using slow acl types may result in server crashes
1950
1951 Without this option, all server certificate validation errors
1952 terminate the transaction. Bypassing validation errors is dangerous
1953 because an error usually implies that the server cannot be trusted and
1954 the connection may be insecure.
1955
1956 See also: sslproxy_flags and DONT_VERIFY_PEER.
1957
1958 Default setting: sslproxy_cert_error deny all
1959 DOC_END
1960
1961 NAME: sslpassword_program
1962 IFDEF: USE_SSL
1963 DEFAULT: none
1964 LOC: Config.Program.ssl_password
1965 TYPE: string
1966 DOC_START
1967 Specify a program used for entering SSL key passphrases
1968 when using encrypted SSL certificate keys. If not specified
1969 keys must either be unencrypted, or Squid started with the -N
1970 option to allow it to query interactively for the passphrase.
1971
1972 The key file name is given as argument to the program allowing
1973 selection of the right password if you have multiple encrypted
1974 keys.
1975 DOC_END
1976
1977 COMMENT_START
1978 OPTIONS RELATING TO EXTERNAL SSL_CRTD
1979 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1980 COMMENT_END
1981
1982 NAME: sslcrtd_program
1983 TYPE: eol
1984 IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
1985 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -s @DEFAULT_SSL_DB_DIR@ -M 4MB
1986 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtd
1987 DOC_START
1988 Specify the location and options of the executable for ssl_crtd process.
1989 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ program requires -s and -M parameters
1990 For more information use:
1991 @DEFAULT_SSL_CRTD@ -h
1992 DOC_END
1993
1994 NAME: sslcrtd_children
1995 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
1996 IFDEF: USE_SSL_CRTD
1997 DEFAULT: 32 startup=5 idle=1
1998 LOC: Ssl::TheConfig.ssl_crtdChildren
1999 DOC_START
2000 The maximum number of processes spawn to service ssl server.
2001 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
2002
2003 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
2004 tuning.
2005
2006 startup=N
2007
2008 Sets the minimum number of processes to spawn when Squid
2009 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
2010 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
2011
2012 Starting too few children temporary slows Squid under load while it
2013 tries to spawn enough additional processes to cope with traffic.
2014
2015 idle=N
2016
2017 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
2018 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
2019 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
2020 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
2021
2022 You must have at least one ssl_crtd process.
2023 DOC_END
2024
2025 COMMENT_START
2026 OPTIONS WHICH AFFECT THE NEIGHBOR SELECTION ALGORITHM
2027 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2028 COMMENT_END
2029
2030 NAME: cache_peer
2031 TYPE: peer
2032 DEFAULT: none
2033 LOC: Config.peers
2034 DOC_START
2035 To specify other caches in a hierarchy, use the format:
2036
2037 cache_peer hostname type http-port icp-port [options]
2038
2039 For example,
2040
2041 # proxy icp
2042 # hostname type port port options
2043 # -------------------- -------- ----- ----- -----------
2044 cache_peer parent.foo.net parent 3128 3130 default
2045 cache_peer sib1.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2046 cache_peer sib2.foo.net sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only
2047 cache_peer example.com parent 80 0 no-query default
2048 cache_peer cdn.example.com sibling 3128 0
2049
2050 type: either 'parent', 'sibling', or 'multicast'.
2051
2052 proxy-port: The port number where the peer accept HTTP requests.
2053 For other Squid proxies this is usually 3128
2054 For web servers this is usually 80
2055
2056 icp-port: Used for querying neighbor caches about objects.
2057 Set to 0 if the peer does not support ICP or HTCP.
2058 See ICP and HTCP options below for additional details.
2059
2060
2061 ==== ICP OPTIONS ====
2062
2063 You MUST also set icp_port and icp_access explicitly when using these options.
2064 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using ICP.
2065
2066
2067 no-query Disable ICP queries to this neighbor.
2068
2069 multicast-responder
2070 Indicates the named peer is a member of a multicast group.
2071 ICP queries will not be sent directly to the peer, but ICP
2072 replies will be accepted from it.
2073
2074 closest-only Indicates that, for ICP_OP_MISS replies, we'll only forward
2075 CLOSEST_PARENT_MISSes and never FIRST_PARENT_MISSes.
2076
2077 background-ping
2078 To only send ICP queries to this neighbor infrequently.
2079 This is used to keep the neighbor round trip time updated
2080 and is usually used in conjunction with weighted-round-robin.
2081
2082
2083 ==== HTCP OPTIONS ====
2084
2085 You MUST also set htcp_port and htcp_access explicitly when using these options.
2086 The defaults will prevent peer traffic using HTCP.
2087
2088
2089 htcp Send HTCP, instead of ICP, queries to the neighbor.
2090 You probably also want to set the "icp-port" to 4827
2091 instead of 3130. This directive accepts a comma separated
2092 list of options described below.
2093
2094 htcp=oldsquid Send HTCP to old Squid versions (2.5 or earlier).
2095
2096 htcp=no-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but without
2097 sending any CLR requests. This cannot be used with
2098 only-clr.
2099
2100 htcp=only-clr Send HTCP to the neighbor but ONLY CLR requests.
2101 This cannot be used with no-clr.
2102
2103 htcp=no-purge-clr
2104 Send HTCP to the neighbor including CLRs but only when
2105 they do not result from PURGE requests.
2106
2107 htcp=forward-clr
2108 Forward any HTCP CLR requests this proxy receives to the peer.
2109
2110
2111 ==== PEER SELECTION METHODS ====
2112
2113 The default peer selection method is ICP, with the first responding peer
2114 being used as source. These options can be used for better load balancing.
2115
2116
2117 default This is a parent cache which can be used as a "last-resort"
2118 if a peer cannot be located by any of the peer-selection methods.
2119 If specified more than once, only the first is used.
2120
2121 round-robin Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2122 fashion in the absence of any ICP queries.
2123 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2124
2125 weighted-round-robin
2126 Load-Balance parents which should be used in a round-robin
2127 fashion with the frequency of each parent being based on the
2128 round trip time. Closer parents are used more often.
2129 Usually used for background-ping parents.
2130 weight=N can be used to add bias.
2131
2132 carp Load-Balance parents which should be used as a CARP array.
2133 The requests will be distributed among the parents based on the
2134 CARP load balancing hash function based on their weight.
2135
2136 userhash Load-balance parents based on the client proxy_auth or ident username.
2137
2138 sourcehash Load-balance parents based on the client source IP.
2139
2140 multicast-siblings
2141 To be used only for cache peers of type "multicast".
2142 ALL members of this multicast group have "sibling"
2143 relationship with it, not "parent". This is to a mulicast
2144 group when the requested object would be fetched only from
2145 a "parent" cache, anyway. It's useful, e.g., when
2146 configuring a pool of redundant Squid proxies, being
2147 members of the same multicast group.
2148
2149
2150 ==== PEER SELECTION OPTIONS ====
2151
2152 weight=N use to affect the selection of a peer during any weighted
2153 peer-selection mechanisms.
2154 The weight must be an integer; default is 1,
2155 larger weights are favored more.
2156 This option does not affect parent selection if a peering
2157 protocol is not in use.
2158
2159 basetime=N Specify a base amount to be subtracted from round trip
2160 times of parents.
2161 It is subtracted before division by weight in calculating
2162 which parent to fectch from. If the rtt is less than the
2163 base time the rtt is set to a minimal value.
2164
2165 ttl=N Specify a TTL to use when sending multicast ICP queries
2166 to this address.
2167 Only useful when sending to a multicast group.
2168 Because we don't accept ICP replies from random
2169 hosts, you must configure other group members as
2170 peers with the 'multicast-responder' option.
2171
2172 no-delay To prevent access to this neighbor from influencing the
2173 delay pools.
2174
2175 digest-url=URL Tell Squid to fetch the cache digest (if digests are
2176 enabled) for this host from the specified URL rather
2177 than the Squid default location.
2178
2179
2180 ==== ACCELERATOR / REVERSE-PROXY OPTIONS ====
2181
2182 originserver Causes this parent to be contacted as an origin server.
2183 Meant to be used in accelerator setups when the peer
2184 is a web server.
2185
2186 forceddomain=name
2187 Set the Host header of requests forwarded to this peer.
2188 Useful in accelerator setups where the server (peer)
2189 expects a certain domain name but clients may request
2190 others. ie example.com or www.example.com
2191
2192 no-digest Disable request of cache digests.
2193
2194 no-netdb-exchange
2195 Disables requesting ICMP RTT database (NetDB).
2196
2197
2198 ==== AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS ====
2199
2200 login=user:password
2201 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2202 requires proxy authentication.
2203
2204 Note: The string can include URL escapes (i.e. %20 for
2205 spaces). This also means % must be written as %%.
2206
2207 login=PASSTHRU
2208 Send login details received from client to this peer.
2209 Both Proxy- and WWW-Authorization headers are passed
2210 without alteration to the peer.
2211 Authentication is not required by Squid for this to work.
2212
2213 Note: This will pass any form of authentication but
2214 only Basic auth will work through a proxy unless the
2215 connection-auth options are also used.
2216
2217 login=PASS Send login details received from client to this peer.
2218 Authentication is not required by this option.
2219
2220 If there are no client-provided authentication headers
2221 to pass on, but username and password are available
2222 from an external ACL user= and password= result tags
2223 they may be sent instead.
2224
2225 Note: To combine this with proxy_auth both proxies must
2226 share the same user database as HTTP only allows for
2227 a single login (one for proxy, one for origin server).
2228 Also be warned this will expose your users proxy
2229 password to the peer. USE WITH CAUTION
2230
2231 login=*:password
2232 Send the username to the upstream cache, but with a
2233 fixed password. This is meant to be used when the peer
2234 is in another administrative domain, but it is still
2235 needed to identify each user.
2236 The star can optionally be followed by some extra
2237 information which is added to the username. This can
2238 be used to identify this proxy to the peer, similar to
2239 the login=username:password option above.
2240
2241 login=NEGOTIATE
2242 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2243 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2244 The first principal from the default keytab or defined by
2245 the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be used.
2246
2247 login=NEGOTIATE:principal_name
2248 If this is a personal/workgroup proxy and your parent
2249 requires a secure proxy authentication.
2250 The principal principal_name from the default keytab or
2251 defined by the environment variable KRB5_KTNAME will be
2252 used.
2253
2254 connection-auth=on|off
2255 Tell Squid that this peer does or not support Microsoft
2256 connection oriented authentication, and any such
2257 challenges received from there should be ignored.
2258 Default is auto to automatically determine the status
2259 of the peer.
2260
2261
2262 ==== SSL / HTTPS / TLS OPTIONS ====
2263
2264 ssl Encrypt connections to this peer with SSL/TLS.
2265
2266 sslcert=/path/to/ssl/certificate
2267 A client SSL certificate to use when connecting to
2268 this peer.
2269
2270 sslkey=/path/to/ssl/key
2271 The private SSL key corresponding to sslcert above.
2272 If 'sslkey' is not specified 'sslcert' is assumed to
2273 reference a combined file containing both the
2274 certificate and the key.
2275
2276 sslversion=1|2|3|4
2277 The SSL version to use when connecting to this peer
2278 1 = automatic (default)
2279 2 = SSL v2 only
2280 3 = SSL v3 only
2281 4 = TLS v1 only
2282
2283 sslcipher=... The list of valid SSL ciphers to use when connecting
2284 to this peer.
2285
2286 ssloptions=... Specify various SSL engine options:
2287 NO_SSLv2 Disallow the use of SSLv2
2288 NO_SSLv3 Disallow the use of SSLv3
2289 NO_TLSv1 Disallow the use of TLSv1
2290 See src/ssl_support.c or the OpenSSL documentation for
2291 a more complete list.
2292
2293 sslcafile=... A file containing additional CA certificates to use
2294 when verifying the peer certificate.
2295
2296 sslcapath=... A directory containing additional CA certificates to
2297 use when verifying the peer certificate.
2298
2299 sslcrlfile=... A certificate revocation list file to use when
2300 verifying the peer certificate.
2301
2302 sslflags=... Specify various flags modifying the SSL implementation:
2303
2304 DONT_VERIFY_PEER
2305 Accept certificates even if they fail to
2306 verify.
2307 NO_DEFAULT_CA
2308 Don't use the default CA list built in
2309 to OpenSSL.
2310 DONT_VERIFY_DOMAIN
2311 Don't verify the peer certificate
2312 matches the server name
2313
2314 ssldomain= The peer name as advertised in it's certificate.
2315 Used for verifying the correctness of the received peer
2316 certificate. If not specified the peer hostname will be
2317 used.
2318
2319 front-end-https
2320 Enable the "Front-End-Https: On" header needed when
2321 using Squid as a SSL frontend in front of Microsoft OWA.
2322 See MS KB document Q307347 for details on this header.
2323 If set to auto the header will only be added if the
2324 request is forwarded as a https:// URL.
2325
2326
2327 ==== GENERAL OPTIONS ====
2328
2329 connect-timeout=N
2330 A peer-specific connect timeout.
2331 Also see the peer_connect_timeout directive.
2332
2333 connect-fail-limit=N
2334 How many times connecting to a peer must fail before
2335 it is marked as down. Default is 10.
2336
2337 allow-miss Disable Squid's use of only-if-cached when forwarding
2338 requests to siblings. This is primarily useful when
2339 icp_hit_stale is used by the sibling. To extensive use
2340 of this option may result in forwarding loops, and you
2341 should avoid having two-way peerings with this option.
2342 For example to deny peer usage on requests from peer
2343 by denying cache_peer_access if the source is a peer.
2344
2345 max-conn=N Limit the amount of connections Squid may open to this
2346 peer. see also
2347
2348 name=xxx Unique name for the peer.
2349 Required if you have multiple peers on the same host
2350 but different ports.
2351 This name can be used in cache_peer_access and similar
2352 directives to dentify the peer.
2353 Can be used by outgoing access controls through the
2354 peername ACL type.
2355
2356 no-tproxy Do not use the client-spoof TPROXY support when forwarding
2357 requests to this peer. Use normal address selection instead.
2358
2359 proxy-only objects fetched from the peer will not be stored locally.
2360
2361 DOC_END
2362
2363 NAME: cache_peer_domain cache_host_domain
2364 TYPE: hostdomain
2365 DEFAULT: none
2366 LOC: none
2367 DOC_START
2368 Use to limit the domains for which a neighbor cache will be
2369 queried. Usage:
2370
2371 cache_peer_domain cache-host domain [domain ...]
2372 cache_peer_domain cache-host !domain
2373
2374 For example, specifying
2375
2376 cache_peer_domain parent.foo.net .edu
2377
2378 has the effect such that UDP query packets are sent to
2379 'bigserver' only when the requested object exists on a
2380 server in the .edu domain. Prefixing the domainname
2381 with '!' means the cache will be queried for objects
2382 NOT in that domain.
2383
2384 NOTE: * Any number of domains may be given for a cache-host,
2385 either on the same or separate lines.
2386 * When multiple domains are given for a particular
2387 cache-host, the first matched domain is applied.
2388 * Cache hosts with no domain restrictions are queried
2389 for all requests.
2390 * There are no defaults.
2391 * There is also a 'cache_peer_access' tag in the ACL
2392 section.
2393 DOC_END
2394
2395 NAME: cache_peer_access
2396 TYPE: peer_access
2397 DEFAULT: none
2398 LOC: none
2399 DOC_START
2400 Similar to 'cache_peer_domain' but provides more flexibility by
2401 using ACL elements.
2402
2403 cache_peer_access cache-host allow|deny [!]aclname ...
2404
2405 The syntax is identical to 'http_access' and the other lists of
2406 ACL elements. See the comments for 'http_access' below, or
2407 the Squid FAQ (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl).
2408 DOC_END
2409
2410 NAME: neighbor_type_domain
2411 TYPE: hostdomaintype
2412 DEFAULT: none
2413 LOC: none
2414 DOC_START
2415 usage: neighbor_type_domain neighbor parent|sibling domain domain ...
2416
2417 Modifying the neighbor type for specific domains is now
2418 possible. You can treat some domains differently than the
2419 default neighbor type specified on the 'cache_peer' line.
2420 Normally it should only be necessary to list domains which
2421 should be treated differently because the default neighbor type
2422 applies for hostnames which do not match domains listed here.
2423
2424 EXAMPLE:
2425 cache_peer cache.foo.org parent 3128 3130
2426 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .com .net
2427 neighbor_type_domain cache.foo.org sibling .au .de
2428 DOC_END
2429
2430 NAME: dead_peer_timeout
2431 COMMENT: (seconds)
2432 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
2433 TYPE: time_t
2434 LOC: Config.Timeout.deadPeer
2435 DOC_START
2436 This controls how long Squid waits to declare a peer cache
2437 as "dead." If there are no ICP replies received in this
2438 amount of time, Squid will declare the peer dead and not
2439 expect to receive any further ICP replies. However, it
2440 continues to send ICP queries, and will mark the peer as
2441 alive upon receipt of the first subsequent ICP reply.
2442
2443 This timeout also affects when Squid expects to receive ICP
2444 replies from peers. If more than 'dead_peer' seconds have
2445 passed since the last ICP reply was received, Squid will not
2446 expect to receive an ICP reply on the next query. Thus, if
2447 your time between requests is greater than this timeout, you
2448 will see a lot of requests sent DIRECT to origin servers
2449 instead of to your parents.
2450 DOC_END
2451
2452 NAME: forward_max_tries
2453 DEFAULT: 10
2454 TYPE: int
2455 LOC: Config.forward_max_tries
2456 DOC_START
2457 Controls how many different forward paths Squid will try
2458 before giving up. See also forward_timeout.
2459
2460 NOTE: connect_retries (default: none) can make each of these
2461 possible forwarding paths be tried multiple times.
2462 DOC_END
2463
2464 NAME: hierarchy_stoplist
2465 TYPE: wordlist
2466 DEFAULT: none
2467 LOC: Config.hierarchy_stoplist
2468 DOC_START
2469 A list of words which, if found in a URL, cause the object to
2470 be handled directly by this cache. In other words, use this
2471 to not query neighbor caches for certain objects. You may
2472 list this option multiple times.
2473 Note: never_direct overrides this option.
2474 NOCOMMENT_START
2475
2476 # We recommend you to use at least the following line.
2477 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
2478 NOCOMMENT_END
2479 DOC_END
2480
2481 COMMENT_START
2482 MEMORY CACHE OPTIONS
2483 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2484 COMMENT_END
2485
2486 NAME: cache_mem
2487 COMMENT: (bytes)
2488 TYPE: b_size_t
2489 DEFAULT: 256 MB
2490 LOC: Config.memMaxSize
2491 DOC_START
2492 NOTE: THIS PARAMETER DOES NOT SPECIFY THE MAXIMUM PROCESS SIZE.
2493 IT ONLY PLACES A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL MEMORY SQUID WILL
2494 USE AS A MEMORY CACHE OF OBJECTS. SQUID USES MEMORY FOR OTHER
2495 THINGS AS WELL. SEE THE SQUID FAQ SECTION 8 FOR DETAILS.
2496
2497 'cache_mem' specifies the ideal amount of memory to be used
2498 for:
2499 * In-Transit objects
2500 * Hot Objects
2501 * Negative-Cached objects
2502
2503 Data for these objects are stored in 4 KB blocks. This
2504 parameter specifies the ideal upper limit on the total size of
2505 4 KB blocks allocated. In-Transit objects take the highest
2506 priority.
2507
2508 In-transit objects have priority over the others. When
2509 additional space is needed for incoming data, negative-cached
2510 and hot objects will be released. In other words, the
2511 negative-cached and hot objects will fill up any unused space
2512 not needed for in-transit objects.
2513
2514 If circumstances require, this limit will be exceeded.
2515 Specifically, if your incoming request rate requires more than
2516 'cache_mem' of memory to hold in-transit objects, Squid will
2517 exceed this limit to satisfy the new requests. When the load
2518 decreases, blocks will be freed until the high-water mark is
2519 reached. Thereafter, blocks will be used to store hot
2520 objects.
2521 DOC_END
2522
2523 NAME: maximum_object_size_in_memory
2524 COMMENT: (bytes)
2525 TYPE: b_size_t
2526 DEFAULT: 512 KB
2527 LOC: Config.Store.maxInMemObjSize
2528 DOC_START
2529 Objects greater than this size will not be attempted to kept in
2530 the memory cache. This should be set high enough to keep objects
2531 accessed frequently in memory to improve performance whilst low
2532 enough to keep larger objects from hoarding cache_mem.
2533 DOC_END
2534
2535 NAME: memory_cache_mode
2536 TYPE: memcachemode
2537 LOC: Config
2538 DEFAULT: always
2539 DOC_START
2540 Controls which objects to keep in the memory cache (cache_mem)
2541
2542 always Keep most recently fetched objects in memory (default)
2543
2544 disk Only disk cache hits are kept in memory, which means
2545 an object must first be cached on disk and then hit
2546 a second time before cached in memory.
2547
2548 network Only objects fetched from network is kept in memory
2549 DOC_END
2550
2551 NAME: memory_replacement_policy
2552 TYPE: removalpolicy
2553 LOC: Config.memPolicy
2554 DEFAULT: lru
2555 DOC_START
2556 The memory replacement policy parameter determines which
2557 objects are purged from memory when memory space is needed.
2558
2559 See cache_replacement_policy for details.
2560 DOC_END
2561
2562 COMMENT_START
2563 DISK CACHE OPTIONS
2564 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2565 COMMENT_END
2566
2567 NAME: cache_replacement_policy
2568 TYPE: removalpolicy
2569 LOC: Config.replPolicy
2570 DEFAULT: lru
2571 DOC_START
2572 The cache replacement policy parameter determines which
2573 objects are evicted (replaced) when disk space is needed.
2574
2575 lru : Squid's original list based LRU policy
2576 heap GDSF : Greedy-Dual Size Frequency
2577 heap LFUDA: Least Frequently Used with Dynamic Aging
2578 heap LRU : LRU policy implemented using a heap
2579
2580 Applies to any cache_dir lines listed below this.
2581
2582 The LRU policies keeps recently referenced objects.
2583
2584 The heap GDSF policy optimizes object hit rate by keeping smaller
2585 popular objects in cache so it has a better chance of getting a
2586 hit. It achieves a lower byte hit rate than LFUDA though since
2587 it evicts larger (possibly popular) objects.
2588
2589 The heap LFUDA policy keeps popular objects in cache regardless of
2590 their size and thus optimizes byte hit rate at the expense of
2591 hit rate since one large, popular object will prevent many
2592 smaller, slightly less popular objects from being cached.
2593
2594 Both policies utilize a dynamic aging mechanism that prevents
2595 cache pollution that can otherwise occur with frequency-based
2596 replacement policies.
2597
2598 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2599 the value of maximum_object_size above its default of 4096 KB to
2600 to maximize the potential byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA.
2601
2602 For more information about the GDSF and LFUDA cache replacement
2603 policies see http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-1999-69.html
2604 and http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/techreports/98/HPL-98-173.html.
2605 DOC_END
2606
2607 NAME: cache_dir
2608 TYPE: cachedir
2609 DEFAULT: none
2610 LOC: Config.cacheSwap
2611 DOC_START
2612 Usage:
2613
2614 cache_dir Type Directory-Name Fs-specific-data [options]
2615
2616 You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
2617 cache among different disk partitions.
2618
2619 Type specifies the kind of storage system to use. Only "ufs"
2620 is built by default. To enable any of the other storage systems
2621 see the --enable-storeio configure option.
2622
2623 'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
2624 files will be stored. If you want to use an entire disk
2625 for caching, this can be the mount-point directory.
2626 The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
2627 process. Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
2628
2629 In SMP configurations, cache_dir must not precede the workers option
2630 and should use configuration macros or conditionals to give each
2631 worker interested in disk caching a dedicated cache directory.
2632
2633 The ufs store type:
2634
2635 "ufs" is the old well-known Squid storage format that has always
2636 been there.
2637
2638 cache_dir ufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
2639
2640 'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
2641 directory. The default is 100 MB. Change this to suit your
2642 configuration. Do NOT put the size of your disk drive here.
2643 Instead, if you want Squid to use the entire disk drive,
2644 subtract 20% and use that value.
2645
2646 'L1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
2647 will be created under the 'Directory'. The default is 16.
2648
2649 'L2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
2650 will be created under each first-level directory. The default
2651 is 256.
2652
2653 The aufs store type:
2654
2655 "aufs" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing
2656 POSIX-threads to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2657 disk-I/O. This was formerly known in Squid as async-io.
2658
2659 cache_dir aufs Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options]
2660
2661 see argument descriptions under ufs above
2662
2663 The diskd store type:
2664
2665 "diskd" uses the same storage format as "ufs", utilizing a
2666 separate process to avoid blocking the main Squid process on
2667 disk-I/O.
2668
2669 cache_dir diskd Directory-Name Mbytes L1 L2 [options] [Q1=n] [Q2=n]
2670
2671 see argument descriptions under ufs above
2672
2673 Q1 specifies the number of unacknowledged I/O requests when Squid
2674 stops opening new files. If this many messages are in the queues,
2675 Squid won't open new files. Default is 64
2676
2677 Q2 specifies the number of unacknowledged messages when Squid
2678 starts blocking. If this many messages are in the queues,
2679 Squid blocks until it receives some replies. Default is 72
2680
2681 When Q1 < Q2 (the default), the cache directory is optimized
2682 for lower response time at the expense of a decrease in hit
2683 ratio. If Q1 > Q2, the cache directory is optimized for
2684 higher hit ratio at the expense of an increase in response
2685 time.
2686
2687 The coss store type:
2688
2689 NP: COSS filesystem in Squid-3 has been deemed too unstable for
2690 production use and has thus been removed from this release.
2691 We hope that it can be made usable again soon.
2692
2693 block-size=n defines the "block size" for COSS cache_dir's.
2694 Squid uses file numbers as block numbers. Since file numbers
2695 are limited to 24 bits, the block size determines the maximum
2696 size of the COSS partition. The default is 512 bytes, which
2697 leads to a maximum cache_dir size of 512<<24, or 8 GB. Note
2698 you should not change the coss block size after Squid
2699 has written some objects to the cache_dir.
2700
2701 The coss file store has changed from 2.5. Now it uses a file
2702 called 'stripe' in the directory names in the config - and
2703 this will be created by squid -z.
2704
2705 Common options:
2706
2707 no-store, no new objects should be stored to this cache_dir
2708
2709 min-size=n, refers to the min object size in bytes this cache_dir
2710 will accept. It's used to restrict a cache_dir to only store
2711 large objects (e.g. aufs) while other storedirs are optimized
2712 for smaller objects (e.g. COSS). Defaults to 0.
2713
2714 max-size=n, refers to the max object size in bytes this cache_dir
2715 supports. It is used to select the cache_dir to store the object.
2716 Note: To make optimal use of the max-size limits you should order
2717 the cache_dir lines with the smallest max-size value first and the
2718 ones with no max-size specification last.
2719
2720 Note for coss, max-size must be less than COSS_MEMBUF_SZ,
2721 which can be changed with the --with-coss-membuf-size=N configure
2722 option.
2723 NOCOMMENT_START
2724
2725 # Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
2726 #cache_dir ufs @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@ 100 16 256
2727 NOCOMMENT_END
2728 DOC_END
2729
2730 NAME: store_dir_select_algorithm
2731 TYPE: string
2732 LOC: Config.store_dir_select_algorithm
2733 DEFAULT: least-load
2734 DOC_START
2735 Set this to 'round-robin' as an alternative.
2736 DOC_END
2737
2738 NAME: max_open_disk_fds
2739 TYPE: int
2740 LOC: Config.max_open_disk_fds
2741 DEFAULT: 0
2742 DOC_START
2743 To avoid having disk as the I/O bottleneck Squid can optionally
2744 bypass the on-disk cache if more than this amount of disk file
2745 descriptors are open.
2746
2747 A value of 0 indicates no limit.
2748 DOC_END
2749
2750 NAME: minimum_object_size
2751 COMMENT: (bytes)
2752 TYPE: b_int64_t
2753 DEFAULT: 0 KB
2754 LOC: Config.Store.minObjectSize
2755 DOC_START
2756 Objects smaller than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2757 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 0 KB, which
2758 means there is no minimum.
2759 DOC_END
2760
2761 NAME: maximum_object_size
2762 COMMENT: (bytes)
2763 TYPE: b_int64_t
2764 DEFAULT: 4096 KB
2765 LOC: Config.Store.maxObjectSize
2766 DOC_START
2767 Objects larger than this size will NOT be saved on disk. The
2768 value is specified in kilobytes, and the default is 4MB. If
2769 you wish to get a high BYTES hit ratio, you should probably
2770 increase this (one 32 MB object hit counts for 3200 10KB
2771 hits). If you wish to increase speed more than your want to
2772 save bandwidth you should leave this low.
2773
2774 NOTE: if using the LFUDA replacement policy you should increase
2775 this value to maximize the byte hit rate improvement of LFUDA!
2776 See replacement_policy below for a discussion of this policy.
2777 DOC_END
2778
2779 NAME: cache_swap_low
2780 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2781 TYPE: int
2782 DEFAULT: 90
2783 LOC: Config.Swap.lowWaterMark
2784 DOC_NONE
2785
2786 NAME: cache_swap_high
2787 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
2788 TYPE: int
2789 DEFAULT: 95
2790 LOC: Config.Swap.highWaterMark
2791 DOC_START
2792
2793 The low- and high-water marks for cache object replacement.
2794 Replacement begins when the swap (disk) usage is above the
2795 low-water mark and attempts to maintain utilization near the
2796 low-water mark. As swap utilization gets close to high-water
2797 mark object eviction becomes more aggressive. If utilization is
2798 close to the low-water mark less replacement is done each time.
2799
2800 Defaults are 90% and 95%. If you have a large cache, 5% could be
2801 hundreds of MB. If this is the case you may wish to set these
2802 numbers closer together.
2803 DOC_END
2804
2805 COMMENT_START
2806 LOGFILE OPTIONS
2807 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2808 COMMENT_END
2809
2810 NAME: logformat
2811 TYPE: logformat
2812 LOC: Log::TheConfig
2813 DEFAULT: none
2814 DOC_START
2815 Usage:
2816
2817 logformat <name> <format specification>
2818
2819 Defines an access log format.
2820
2821 The <format specification> is a string with embedded % format codes
2822
2823 % format codes all follow the same basic structure where all but
2824 the formatcode is optional. Output strings are automatically escaped
2825 as required according to their context and the output format
2826 modifiers are usually not needed, but can be specified if an explicit
2827 output format is desired.
2828
2829 % ["|[|'|#] [-] [[0]width] [{argument}] formatcode
2830
2831 " output in quoted string format
2832 [ output in squid text log format as used by log_mime_hdrs
2833 # output in URL quoted format
2834 ' output as-is
2835
2836 - left aligned
2837 width field width. If starting with 0 the
2838 output is zero padded
2839 {arg} argument such as header name etc
2840
2841 Format codes:
2842
2843 % a literal % character
2844 sn Unique sequence number per log line entry
2845 err_code The ID of an error response served by Squid or
2846 a similar internal error identifier.
2847 err_detail Additional err_code-dependent error information.
2848
2849 Connection related format codes:
2850
2851 >a Client source IP address
2852 >A Client FQDN
2853 >p Client source port
2854 >eui Client EUI (MAC address, EUI-48 or EUI-64 identifier)
2855 <A Server IP address or peer name
2856 la Local IP address (http_port)
2857 lp Local port number (http_port)
2858 <la Local IP address of the last server or peer connection
2859 <lp Local port number of the last server or peer connection
2860
2861 Time related format codes:
2862
2863 ts Seconds since epoch
2864 tu subsecond time (milliseconds)
2865 tl Local time. Optional strftime format argument
2866 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2867 tg GMT time. Optional strftime format argument
2868 default %d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S %z
2869 tr Response time (milliseconds)
2870 dt Total time spent making DNS lookups (milliseconds)
2871
2872 HTTP cache related format codes:
2873
2874 [http::]>h Original request header. Optional header name argument
2875 on the format header[:[separator]element]
2876 [http::]>ha The HTTP request headers after adaptation and redirection.
2877 Optional header name argument as for >h
2878 [http::]<h Reply header. Optional header name argument
2879 as for >h
2880 [http::]un User name
2881 [http::]ul User name from authentication
2882 [http::]ui User name from ident
2883 [http::]us User name from SSL
2884 [http::]ue User name from external acl helper
2885 [http::]>Hs HTTP status code sent to the client
2886 [http::]<Hs HTTP status code received from the next hop
2887 [http::]<bs Number of HTTP-equivalent message body bytes
2888 received from the next hop, excluding chunked
2889 transfer encoding and control messages.
2890 Generated FTP/Gopher listings are treated as
2891 received bodies.
2892 [http::]Ss Squid request status (TCP_MISS etc)
2893 [http::]Sh Squid hierarchy status (DEFAULT_PARENT etc)
2894 [http::]mt MIME content type
2895 [http::]rm Request method (GET/POST etc)
2896 [http::]>rm Request method from client
2897 [http::]<rm Request method sent to server or peer
2898 [http::]ru Request URL from client (historic, filtered for logging)
2899 [http::]>ru Request URL from client
2900 [http::]<ru Request URL sent to server or peer
2901 [http::]rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname
2902 [http::]>rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname from client
2903 [http::]<rp Request URL-Path excluding hostname sento to server or peer
2904 [http::]rv Request protocol version
2905 [http::]>rv Request protocol version from client
2906 [http::]<rv Request protocol version sent to server or peer
2907 [http::]et Tag returned by external acl
2908 [http::]ea Log string returned by external acl
2909 [http::]<st Sent reply size including HTTP headers
2910 [http::]>st Received request size including HTTP headers. In the
2911 case of chunked requests the chunked encoding metadata
2912 are not included
2913 [http::]>sh Received HTTP request headers size
2914 [http::]<sh Sent HTTP reply headers size
2915 [http::]st Request+Reply size including HTTP headers
2916 [http::]<sH Reply high offset sent
2917 [http::]<sS Upstream object size
2918 [http::]<pt Peer response time in milliseconds. The timer starts
2919 when the last request byte is sent to the next hop
2920 and stops when the last response byte is received.
2921 [http::]<tt Total server-side time in milliseconds. The timer
2922 starts with the first connect request (or write I/O)
2923 sent to the first selected peer. The timer stops
2924 with the last I/O with the last peer.
2925
2926 If ICAP is enabled, the following code becomes available (as
2927 well as ICAP log codes documented with the icap_log option):
2928
2929 icap::tt Total ICAP processing time for the HTTP
2930 transaction. The timer ticks when ICAP
2931 ACLs are checked and when ICAP
2932 transaction is in progress.
2933
2934 If adaptation is enabled the following three codes become available:
2935
2936 adapt::<last_h The header of the last ICAP response or
2937 meta-information from the last eCAP
2938 transaction related to the HTTP transaction.
2939 Like <h, accepts an optional header name
2940 argument.
2941
2942 adapt::sum_trs Summed adaptation transaction response
2943 times recorded as a comma-separated list in
2944 the order of transaction start time. Each time
2945 value is recorded as an integer number,
2946 representing response time of one or more
2947 adaptation (ICAP or eCAP) transaction in
2948 milliseconds. When a failed transaction is
2949 being retried or repeated, its time is not
2950 logged individually but added to the
2951 replacement (next) transaction. See also:
2952 adapt::all_trs.
2953
2954 adapt::all_trs All adaptation transaction response times.
2955 Same as adaptation_strs but response times of
2956 individual transactions are never added
2957 together. Instead, all transaction response
2958 times are recorded individually.
2959
2960 You can prefix adapt::*_trs format codes with adaptation
2961 service name in curly braces to record response time(s) specific
2962 to that service. For example: %{my_service}adapt::sum_trs
2963
2964 The default formats available (which do not need re-defining) are:
2965
2966 logformat squid %ts.%03tu %6tr %>a %Ss/%03>Hs %<st %rm %ru %un %Sh/%<A %mt
2967 logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st %Ss:%Sh
2968 logformat combined %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" %>Hs %<st "%{Referer}>h" "%{User-Agent}>h" %Ss:%Sh
2969 logformat referrer %ts.%03tu %>a %{Referer}>h %ru
2970 logformat useragent %>a [%tl] "%{User-Agent}>h"
2971
2972 When the log_mime_hdrs directive is set to ON. The squid, common and combined
2973 formats have a safely encoded copy of the mime headers appended to each line
2974 within a pair of brackets.
2975
2976 The common and combined formats are not quite true to the Apache definition.
2977 The logs from Squid contain an extra status and hierarchy code appended.
2978 DOC_END
2979
2980 NAME: access_log cache_access_log
2981 TYPE: access_log
2982 LOC: Config.Log.accesslogs
2983 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
2984 DOC_START
2985 These files log client request activities. Has a line every HTTP or
2986 ICP request. The format is:
2987 access_log <module>:<place> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
2988 access_log none [acl acl ...]]
2989
2990 Will log to the specified module:place using the specified format (which
2991 must be defined in a logformat directive) those entries which match
2992 ALL the acl's specified (which must be defined in acl clauses).
2993 If no acl is specified, all requests will be logged to this destination.
2994
2995 ===== Modules Currently available =====
2996
2997 none Do not log any requests matching these ACL.
2998 Do not specify Place or logformat name.
2999
3000 stdio Write each log line to disk immediately at the completion of
3001 each request.
3002 Place: the filename and path to be written.
3003
3004 daemon Very similar to stdio. But instead of writing to disk the log
3005 line is passed to a daemon helper for asychronous handling instead.
3006 Place: varies depending on the daemon.
3007
3008 log_file_daemon Place: the file name and path to be written.
3009
3010 syslog To log each request via syslog facility.
3011 Place: The syslog facility and priority level for these entries.
3012 Place Format: facility.priority
3013
3014 where facility could be any of:
3015 authpriv, daemon, local0 ... local7 or user.
3016
3017 And priority could be any of:
3018 err, warning, notice, info, debug.
3019
3020 udp To send each log line as text data to a UDP receiver.
3021 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3022 Place Format: \\host:port
3023
3024 tcp To send each log line as text data to a TCP receiver.
3025 Place: The destination host name or IP and port.
3026 Place Format: \\host:port
3027
3028 Default:
3029 access_log daemon:@DEFAULT_ACCESS_LOG@ squid
3030 DOC_END
3031
3032 NAME: icap_log
3033 TYPE: access_log
3034 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3035 LOC: Config.Log.icaplogs
3036 DEFAULT: none
3037 DOC_START
3038 ICAP log files record ICAP transaction summaries, one line per
3039 transaction.
3040
3041 The icap_log option format is:
3042 icap_log <filepath> [<logformat name> [acl acl ...]]
3043 icap_log none [acl acl ...]]
3044
3045 Please see access_log option documentation for details. The two
3046 kinds of logs share the overall configuration approach and many
3047 features.
3048
3049 ICAP processing of a single HTTP message or transaction may
3050 require multiple ICAP transactions. In such cases, multiple
3051 ICAP transaction log lines will correspond to a single access
3052 log line.
3053
3054 ICAP log uses logformat codes that make sense for an ICAP
3055 transaction. Header-related codes are applied to the HTTP header
3056 embedded in an ICAP server response, with the following caveats:
3057 For REQMOD, there is no HTTP response header unless the ICAP
3058 server performed request satisfaction. For RESPMOD, the HTTP
3059 request header is the header sent to the ICAP server. For
3060 OPTIONS, there are no HTTP headers.
3061
3062 The following format codes are also available for ICAP logs:
3063
3064 icap::<A ICAP server IP address. Similar to <A.
3065
3066 icap::<service_name ICAP service name from the icap_service
3067 option in Squid configuration file.
3068
3069 icap::ru ICAP Request-URI. Similar to ru.
3070
3071 icap::rm ICAP request method (REQMOD, RESPMOD, or
3072 OPTIONS). Similar to existing rm.
3073
3074 icap::>st Bytes sent to the ICAP server (TCP payload
3075 only; i.e., what Squid writes to the socket).
3076
3077 icap::<st Bytes received from the ICAP server (TCP
3078 payload only; i.e., what Squid reads from
3079 the socket).
3080
3081 icap::<bs Number of message body bytes received from the
3082 ICAP server. ICAP message body, if any, usually
3083 includes encapsulated HTTP message headers and
3084 possibly encapsulated HTTP message body. The
3085 HTTP body part is dechunked before its size is
3086 computed.
3087
3088 icap::tr Transaction response time (in
3089 milliseconds). The timer starts when
3090 the ICAP transaction is created and
3091 stops when the transaction is completed.
3092 Similar to tr.
3093
3094 icap::tio Transaction I/O time (in milliseconds). The
3095 timer starts when the first ICAP request
3096 byte is scheduled for sending. The timers
3097 stops when the last byte of the ICAP response
3098 is received.
3099
3100 icap::to Transaction outcome: ICAP_ERR* for all
3101 transaction errors, ICAP_OPT for OPTION
3102 transactions, ICAP_ECHO for 204
3103 responses, ICAP_MOD for message
3104 modification, and ICAP_SAT for request
3105 satisfaction. Similar to Ss.
3106
3107 icap::Hs ICAP response status code. Similar to Hs.
3108
3109 icap::>h ICAP request header(s). Similar to >h.
3110
3111 icap::<h ICAP response header(s). Similar to <h.
3112
3113 The default ICAP log format, which can be used without an explicit
3114 definition, is called icap_squid:
3115
3116 logformat icap_squid %ts.%03tu %6icap::tr %>a %icap::to/%03icap::Hs %icap::<size %icap::rm %icap::ru% %un -/%icap::<A -
3117
3118 See also: logformat, log_icap, and %adapt::<last_h
3119 DOC_END
3120
3121 NAME: logfile_daemon
3122 TYPE: string
3123 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_LOGFILED@
3124 LOC: Log::TheConfig.logfile_daemon
3125 DOC_START
3126 Specify the path to the logfile-writing daemon. This daemon is
3127 used to write the access and store logs, if configured.
3128
3129 Squid sends a number of commands to the log daemon:
3130 L<data>\n - logfile data
3131 R\n - rotate file
3132 T\n - truncate file
3133 O\n - reopen file
3134 F\n - flush file
3135 r<n>\n - set rotate count to <n>
3136 b<n>\n - 1 = buffer output, 0 = don't buffer output
3137
3138 No responses is expected.
3139 DOC_END
3140
3141 NAME: log_access
3142 TYPE: acl_access
3143 LOC: Config.accessList.log
3144 DEFAULT: none
3145 COMMENT: allow|deny acl acl...
3146 DOC_START
3147 This options allows you to control which requests gets logged
3148 to access.log (see access_log directive). Requests denied for
3149 logging will also not be accounted for in performance counters.
3150
3151 This clause only supports fast acl types.
3152 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3153 DOC_END
3154
3155 NAME: log_icap
3156 TYPE: acl_access
3157 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
3158 LOC: Config.accessList.icap
3159 DEFAULT: none
3160 DOC_START
3161 This options allows you to control which requests get logged
3162 to icap.log. See the icap_log directive for ICAP log details.
3163 DOC_END
3164
3165 NAME: cache_store_log
3166 TYPE: string
3167 DEFAULT: none
3168 LOC: Config.Log.store
3169 DOC_START
3170 Logs the activities of the storage manager. Shows which
3171 objects are ejected from the cache, and which objects are
3172 saved and for how long. To disable, enter "none" or remove the line.
3173 There are not really utilities to analyze this data, so you can safely
3174 disable it.
3175
3176 Example:
3177 cache_store_log @DEFAULT_STORE_LOG@
3178 DOC_END
3179
3180 NAME: cache_swap_state cache_swap_log
3181 TYPE: string
3182 LOC: Config.Log.swap
3183 DEFAULT: none
3184 DOC_START
3185 Location for the cache "swap.state" file. This index file holds
3186 the metadata of objects saved on disk. It is used to rebuild
3187 the cache during startup. Normally this file resides in each
3188 'cache_dir' directory, but you may specify an alternate
3189 pathname here. Note you must give a full filename, not just
3190 a directory. Since this is the index for the whole object
3191 list you CANNOT periodically rotate it!
3192
3193 If %s can be used in the file name it will be replaced with a
3194 a representation of the cache_dir name where each / is replaced
3195 with '.'. This is needed to allow adding/removing cache_dir
3196 lines when cache_swap_log is being used.
3197
3198 If have more than one 'cache_dir', and %s is not used in the name
3199 these swap logs will have names such as:
3200
3201 cache_swap_log.00
3202 cache_swap_log.01
3203 cache_swap_log.02
3204
3205 The numbered extension (which is added automatically)
3206 corresponds to the order of the 'cache_dir' lines in this
3207 configuration file. If you change the order of the 'cache_dir'
3208 lines in this file, these index files will NOT correspond to
3209 the correct 'cache_dir' entry (unless you manually rename
3210 them). We recommend you do NOT use this option. It is
3211 better to keep these index files in each 'cache_dir' directory.
3212 DOC_END
3213
3214 NAME: logfile_rotate
3215 TYPE: int
3216 DEFAULT: 10
3217 LOC: Config.Log.rotateNumber
3218 DOC_START
3219 Specifies the number of logfile rotations to make when you
3220 type 'squid -k rotate'. The default is 10, which will rotate
3221 with extensions 0 through 9. Setting logfile_rotate to 0 will
3222 disable the file name rotation, but the logfiles are still closed
3223 and re-opened. This will enable you to rename the logfiles
3224 yourself just before sending the rotate signal.
3225
3226 Note, the 'squid -k rotate' command normally sends a USR1
3227 signal to the running squid process. In certain situations
3228 (e.g. on Linux with Async I/O), USR1 is used for other
3229 purposes, so -k rotate uses another signal. It is best to get
3230 in the habit of using 'squid -k rotate' instead of 'kill -USR1
3231 <pid>'.
3232
3233 Note, from Squid-3.1 this option has no effect on the cache.log,
3234 that log can be rotated separately by using debug_options
3235 DOC_END
3236
3237 NAME: emulate_httpd_log
3238 TYPE: obsolete
3239 DOC_START
3240 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'common' or 'combined'.
3241 DOC_END
3242
3243 NAME: log_ip_on_direct
3244 COMMENT: on|off
3245 TYPE: onoff
3246 DEFAULT: on
3247 LOC: Config.onoff.log_ip_on_direct
3248 DOC_START
3249 Log the destination IP address in the hierarchy log tag when going
3250 direct. Earlier Squid versions logged the hostname here. If you
3251 prefer the old way set this to off.
3252 DOC_END
3253
3254 NAME: mime_table
3255 TYPE: string
3256 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_MIME_TABLE@
3257 LOC: Config.mimeTablePathname
3258 DOC_START
3259 Pathname to Squid's MIME table. You shouldn't need to change
3260 this, but the default file contains examples and formatting
3261 information if you do.
3262 DOC_END
3263
3264 NAME: log_mime_hdrs
3265 COMMENT: on|off
3266 TYPE: onoff
3267 LOC: Config.onoff.log_mime_hdrs
3268 DEFAULT: off
3269 DOC_START
3270 The Cache can record both the request and the response MIME
3271 headers for each HTTP transaction. The headers are encoded
3272 safely and will appear as two bracketed fields at the end of
3273 the access log (for either the native or httpd-emulated log
3274 formats). To enable this logging set log_mime_hdrs to 'on'.
3275 DOC_END
3276
3277 NAME: useragent_log
3278 TYPE: obsolete
3279 DOC_START
3280 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'useragent'.
3281 DOC_END
3282
3283 NAME: referer_log referrer_log
3284 TYPE: obsolete
3285 DOC_START
3286 Replace this with an access_log directive using the format 'referrer'.
3287 DOC_END
3288
3289 NAME: pid_filename
3290 TYPE: string
3291 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PID_FILE@
3292 LOC: Config.pidFilename
3293 DOC_START
3294 A filename to write the process-id to. To disable, enter "none".
3295 DOC_END
3296
3297 NAME: log_fqdn
3298 TYPE: obsolete
3299 DOC_START
3300 Remove this option from your config. To log FQDN use %>A in the log format.
3301 DOC_END
3302
3303 NAME: client_netmask
3304 TYPE: address
3305 LOC: Config.Addrs.client_netmask
3306 DEFAULT: no_addr
3307 DOC_START
3308 A netmask for client addresses in logfiles and cachemgr output.
3309 Change this to protect the privacy of your cache clients.
3310 A netmask of 255.255.255.0 will log all IP's in that range with
3311 the last digit set to '0'.
3312 DOC_END
3313
3314 NAME: forward_log
3315 TYPE: obsolete
3316 DOC_START
3317 Use a regular access.log with ACL limiting it to MISS events.
3318 DOC_END
3319
3320 NAME: strip_query_terms
3321 TYPE: onoff
3322 LOC: Config.onoff.strip_query_terms
3323 DEFAULT: on
3324 DOC_START
3325 By default, Squid strips query terms from requested URLs before
3326 logging. This protects your user's privacy.
3327 DOC_END
3328
3329 NAME: buffered_logs
3330 COMMENT: on|off
3331 TYPE: onoff
3332 DEFAULT: off
3333 LOC: Config.onoff.buffered_logs
3334 DOC_START
3335 cache.log log file is written with stdio functions, and as such
3336 it can be buffered or unbuffered. By default it will be unbuffered.
3337 Buffering it can speed up the writing slightly (though you are
3338 unlikely to need to worry unless you run with tons of debugging
3339 enabled in which case performance will suffer badly anyway..).
3340 DOC_END
3341
3342 NAME: netdb_filename
3343 TYPE: string
3344 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_NETDB_FILE@
3345 LOC: Config.netdbFilename
3346 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3347 DOC_START
3348 A filename where Squid stores it's netdb state between restarts.
3349 To disable, enter "none".
3350 DOC_END
3351
3352 COMMENT_START
3353 OPTIONS FOR TROUBLESHOOTING
3354 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3355 COMMENT_END
3356
3357 NAME: cache_log
3358 TYPE: string
3359 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: @DEFAULT_CACHE_LOG@
3360 LOC: Debug::cache_log
3361 DOC_START
3362 Cache logging file. This is where general information about
3363 your cache's behavior goes. You can increase the amount of data
3364 logged to this file and how often its rotated with "debug_options"
3365 DOC_END
3366
3367 NAME: debug_options
3368 TYPE: eol
3369 DEFAULT: ALL,1
3370 LOC: Debug::debugOptions
3371 DOC_START
3372 Logging options are set as section,level where each source file
3373 is assigned a unique section. Lower levels result in less
3374 output, Full debugging (level 9) can result in a very large
3375 log file, so be careful.
3376
3377 The magic word "ALL" sets debugging levels for all sections.
3378 We recommend normally running with "ALL,1".
3379
3380 The rotate=N option can be used to keep more or less of these logs
3381 than would otherwise be kept by logfile_rotate.
3382 For most uses a single log should be enough to monitor current
3383 events affecting Squid.
3384 DOC_END
3385
3386 NAME: coredump_dir
3387 TYPE: string
3388 LOC: Config.coredump_dir
3389 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: none
3390 DOC_START
3391 By default Squid leaves core files in the directory from where
3392 it was started. If you set 'coredump_dir' to a directory
3393 that exists, Squid will chdir() to that directory at startup
3394 and coredump files will be left there.
3395
3396 NOCOMMENT_START
3397
3398 # Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
3399 coredump_dir @DEFAULT_SWAP_DIR@
3400 NOCOMMENT_END
3401 DOC_END
3402
3403
3404 COMMENT_START
3405 OPTIONS FOR FTP GATEWAYING
3406 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3407 COMMENT_END
3408
3409 NAME: ftp_user
3410 TYPE: string
3411 DEFAULT: Squid@
3412 LOC: Config.Ftp.anon_user
3413 DOC_START
3414 If you want the anonymous login password to be more informative
3415 (and enable the use of picky ftp servers), set this to something
3416 reasonable for your domain, like wwwuser@somewhere.net
3417
3418 The reason why this is domainless by default is the
3419 request can be made on the behalf of a user in any domain,
3420 depending on how the cache is used.
3421 Some ftp server also validate the email address is valid
3422 (for example perl.com).
3423 DOC_END
3424
3425 NAME: ftp_passive
3426 TYPE: onoff
3427 DEFAULT: on
3428 LOC: Config.Ftp.passive
3429 DOC_START
3430 If your firewall does not allow Squid to use passive
3431 connections, turn off this option.
3432
3433 Use of ftp_epsv_all option requires this to be ON.
3434 DOC_END
3435
3436 NAME: ftp_epsv_all
3437 TYPE: onoff
3438 DEFAULT: off
3439 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv_all
3440 DOC_START
3441 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV ALL" command.
3442
3443 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3444 translator, as the EPRT command will never be used and therefore,
3445 translation of the data portion of the segments will never be needed.
3446
3447 When a client only expects to do two-way FTP transfers this may be
3448 useful.
3449 If squid finds that it must do a three-way FTP transfer after issuing
3450 an EPSV ALL command, the FTP session will fail.
3451
3452 If you have any doubts about this option do not use it.
3453 Squid will nicely attempt all other connection methods.
3454
3455 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3456 DOC_END
3457
3458 NAME: ftp_epsv
3459 TYPE: onoff
3460 DEFAULT: on
3461 LOC: Config.Ftp.epsv
3462 DOC_START
3463 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPSV" command.
3464
3465 NATs may be able to put the connection on a "fast path" through the
3466 translator using EPSV, as the EPRT command will never be used
3467 and therefore, translation of the data portion of the segments
3468 will never be needed.
3469
3470 Turning this OFF will prevent EPSV being attempted.
3471 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3472 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers.
3473
3474 Requires ftp_passive to be ON (default) for any effect.
3475 DOC_END
3476
3477 NAME: ftp_eprt
3478 TYPE: onoff
3479 DEFAULT: on
3480 LOC: Config.Ftp.eprt
3481 DOC_START
3482 FTP Protocol extensions permit the use of a special "EPRT" command.
3483
3484 This extension provides a protocol neutral alternative to the
3485 IPv4-only PORT command. When supported it enables active FTP data
3486 channels over IPv6 and efficient NAT handling.
3487
3488 Turning this OFF will prevent EPRT being attempted and will skip
3489 straight to using PORT for IPv4 servers.
3490
3491 Some devices are known to not handle this extension correctly and
3492 may result in crashes. Devices which suport EPRT enough to fail
3493 cleanly will result in Squid attempting PORT anyway. This directive
3494 should only be disabled when EPRT results in device failures.
3495
3496 WARNING: Doing so will convert Squid back to the old behavior with all
3497 the related problems with external NAT devices/layers and IPv4-only FTP.
3498 DOC_END
3499
3500 NAME: ftp_sanitycheck
3501 TYPE: onoff
3502 DEFAULT: on
3503 LOC: Config.Ftp.sanitycheck
3504 DOC_START
3505 For security and data integrity reasons Squid by default performs
3506 sanity checks of the addresses of FTP data connections ensure the
3507 data connection is to the requested server. If you need to allow
3508 FTP connections to servers using another IP address for the data
3509 connection turn this off.
3510 DOC_END
3511
3512 NAME: ftp_telnet_protocol
3513 TYPE: onoff
3514 DEFAULT: on
3515 LOC: Config.Ftp.telnet
3516 DOC_START
3517 The FTP protocol is officially defined to use the telnet protocol
3518 as transport channel for the control connection. However, many
3519 implementations are broken and does not respect this aspect of
3520 the FTP protocol.
3521
3522 If you have trouble accessing files with ASCII code 255 in the
3523 path or similar problems involving this ASCII code you can
3524 try setting this directive to off. If that helps, report to the
3525 operator of the FTP server in question that their FTP server
3526 is broken and does not follow the FTP standard.
3527 DOC_END
3528
3529 COMMENT_START
3530 OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS
3531 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3532 COMMENT_END
3533
3534 NAME: diskd_program
3535 TYPE: string
3536 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DISKD@
3537 LOC: Config.Program.diskd
3538 DOC_START
3539 Specify the location of the diskd executable.
3540 Note this is only useful if you have compiled in
3541 diskd as one of the store io modules.
3542 DOC_END
3543
3544 NAME: unlinkd_program
3545 IFDEF: USE_UNLINKD
3546 TYPE: string
3547 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_UNLINKD@
3548 LOC: Config.Program.unlinkd
3549 DOC_START
3550 Specify the location of the executable for file deletion process.
3551 DOC_END
3552
3553 NAME: pinger_program
3554 TYPE: string
3555 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_PINGER@
3556 LOC: Config.pinger.program
3557 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3558 DOC_START
3559 Specify the location of the executable for the pinger process.
3560 DOC_END
3561
3562 NAME: pinger_enable
3563 TYPE: onoff
3564 DEFAULT: on
3565 LOC: Config.pinger.enable
3566 IFDEF: USE_ICMP
3567 DOC_START
3568 Control whether the pinger is active at run-time.
3569 Enables turning ICMP pinger on and off with a simple
3570 squid -k reconfigure.
3571 DOC_END
3572
3573
3574 COMMENT_START
3575 OPTIONS FOR URL REWRITING
3576 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3577 COMMENT_END
3578
3579 NAME: url_rewrite_program redirect_program
3580 TYPE: wordlist
3581 LOC: Config.Program.redirect
3582 DEFAULT: none
3583 DOC_START
3584 Specify the location of the executable URL rewriter to use.
3585 Since they can perform almost any function there isn't one included.
3586
3587 For each requested URL, the rewriter will receive on line with the format
3588
3589 URL <SP> client_ip "/" fqdn <SP> user <SP> method [<SP> kvpairs]<NL>
3590
3591 In the future, the rewriter interface will be extended with
3592 key=value pairs ("kvpairs" shown above). Rewriter programs
3593 should be prepared to receive and possibly ignore additional
3594 whitespace-separated tokens on each input line.
3595
3596 And the rewriter may return a rewritten URL. The other components of
3597 the request line does not need to be returned (ignored if they are).
3598
3599 The rewriter can also indicate that a client-side redirect should
3600 be performed to the new URL. This is done by prefixing the returned
3601 URL with "301:" (moved permanently) or 302: (moved temporarily), etc.
3602
3603 By default, a URL rewriter is not used.
3604 DOC_END
3605
3606 NAME: url_rewrite_children redirect_children
3607 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
3608 DEFAULT: 20 startup=0 idle=1 concurrency=0
3609 LOC: Config.redirectChildren
3610 DOC_START
3611 The maximum number of redirector processes to spawn. If you limit
3612 it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of
3613 URLs, slowing it down. If you allow too many they will use RAM
3614 and other system resources noticably.
3615
3616 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
3617 tuning.
3618
3619 startup=
3620
3621 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
3622 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
3623 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
3624
3625 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
3626 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
3627
3628 idle=
3629
3630 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
3631 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
3632 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
3633 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
3634
3635 concurrency=
3636
3637 The number of requests each redirector helper can handle in
3638 parallel. Defaults to 0 which indicates the redirector
3639 is a old-style single threaded redirector.
3640
3641 When this directive is set to a value >= 1 then the protocol
3642 used to communicate with the helper is modified to include
3643 a request ID in front of the request/response. The request
3644 ID from the request must be echoed back with the response
3645 to that request.
3646 DOC_END
3647
3648 NAME: url_rewrite_host_header redirect_rewrites_host_header
3649 TYPE: onoff
3650 DEFAULT: on
3651 LOC: Config.onoff.redir_rewrites_host
3652 DOC_START
3653 By default Squid rewrites any Host: header in redirected
3654 requests. If you are running an accelerator this may
3655 not be a wanted effect of a redirector.
3656
3657 WARNING: Entries are cached on the result of the URL rewriting
3658 process, so be careful if you have domain-virtual hosts.
3659 DOC_END
3660
3661 NAME: url_rewrite_access redirector_access
3662 TYPE: acl_access
3663 DEFAULT: none
3664 LOC: Config.accessList.redirector
3665 DOC_START
3666 If defined, this access list specifies which requests are
3667 sent to the redirector processes. By default all requests
3668 are sent.
3669
3670 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3671 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3672 DOC_END
3673
3674 NAME: url_rewrite_bypass redirector_bypass
3675 TYPE: onoff
3676 LOC: Config.onoff.redirector_bypass
3677 DEFAULT: off
3678 DOC_START
3679 When this is 'on', a request will not go through the
3680 redirector if all redirectors are busy. If this is 'off'
3681 and the redirector queue grows too large, Squid will exit
3682 with a FATAL error and ask you to increase the number of
3683 redirectors. You should only enable this if the redirectors
3684 are not critical to your caching system. If you use
3685 redirectors for access control, and you enable this option,
3686 users may have access to pages they should not
3687 be allowed to request.
3688 DOC_END
3689
3690 COMMENT_START
3691 OPTIONS FOR TUNING THE CACHE
3692 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
3693 COMMENT_END
3694
3695 NAME: cache no_cache
3696 TYPE: acl_access
3697 DEFAULT: none
3698 LOC: Config.accessList.noCache
3699 DOC_START
3700 A list of ACL elements which, if matched and denied, cause the request to
3701 not be satisfied from the cache and the reply to not be cached.
3702 In other words, use this to force certain objects to never be cached.
3703
3704 You must use the words 'allow' or 'deny' to indicate whether items
3705 matching the ACL should be allowed or denied into the cache.
3706
3707 Default is to allow all to be cached.
3708
3709 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
3710 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
3711 DOC_END
3712
3713 NAME: max_stale
3714 COMMENT: time-units
3715 TYPE: time_t
3716 LOC: Config.maxStale
3717 DEFAULT: 1 week
3718 DOC_START
3719 This option puts an upper limit on how stale content Squid
3720 will serve from the cache if cache validation fails.
3721 Can be overriden by the refresh_pattern max-stale option.
3722 DOC_END
3723
3724 NAME: refresh_pattern
3725 TYPE: refreshpattern
3726 LOC: Config.Refresh
3727 DEFAULT: none
3728 DOC_START
3729 usage: refresh_pattern [-i] regex min percent max [options]
3730
3731 By default, regular expressions are CASE-SENSITIVE. To make
3732 them case-insensitive, use the -i option.
3733
3734 'Min' is the time (in minutes) an object without an explicit
3735 expiry time should be considered fresh. The recommended
3736 value is 0, any higher values may cause dynamic applications
3737 to be erroneously cached unless the application designer
3738 has taken the appropriate actions.
3739
3740 'Percent' is a percentage of the objects age (time since last
3741 modification age) an object without explicit expiry time
3742 will be considered fresh.
3743
3744 'Max' is an upper limit on how long objects without an explicit
3745 expiry time will be considered fresh.
3746
3747 options: override-expire
3748 override-lastmod
3749 reload-into-ims
3750 ignore-reload
3751 ignore-no-cache
3752 ignore-no-store
3753 ignore-must-revalidate
3754 ignore-private
3755 ignore-auth
3756 max-stale=NN
3757 refresh-ims
3758 store-stale
3759
3760 override-expire enforces min age even if the server
3761 sent an explicit expiry time (e.g., with the
3762 Expires: header or Cache-Control: max-age). Doing this
3763 VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature
3764 could make you liable for problems which it causes.
3765
3766 Note: override-expire does not enforce staleness - it only extends
3767 freshness / min. If the server returns a Expires time which
3768 is longer than your max time, Squid will still consider
3769 the object fresh for that period of time.
3770
3771 override-lastmod enforces min age even on objects
3772 that were modified recently.
3773
3774 reload-into-ims changes client no-cache or ``reload''
3775 to If-Modified-Since requests. Doing this VIOLATES the
3776 HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3777 liable for problems which it causes.
3778
3779 ignore-reload ignores a client no-cache or ``reload''
3780 header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3781 this feature could make you liable for problems which
3782 it causes.
3783
3784 ignore-no-cache ignores any ``Pragma: no-cache'' and
3785 ``Cache-control: no-cache'' headers received from a server.
3786 The HTTP RFC never allows the use of this (Pragma) header
3787 from a server, only a client, though plenty of servers
3788 send it anyway.
3789
3790 ignore-no-store ignores any ``Cache-control: no-store''
3791 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3792 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3793 liable for problems which it causes.
3794
3795 ignore-must-revalidate ignores any ``Cache-Control: must-revalidate``
3796 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3797 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3798 liable for problems which it causes.
3799
3800 ignore-private ignores any ``Cache-control: private''
3801 headers received from a server. Doing this VIOLATES
3802 the HTTP standard. Enabling this feature could make you
3803 liable for problems which it causes.
3804
3805 ignore-auth caches responses to requests with authorization,
3806 as if the originserver had sent ``Cache-control: public''
3807 in the response header. Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard.
3808 Enabling this feature could make you liable for problems which
3809 it causes.
3810
3811 refresh-ims causes squid to contact the origin server
3812 when a client issues an If-Modified-Since request. This
3813 ensures that the client will receive an updated version
3814 if one is available.
3815
3816 store-stale stores responses even if they don't have explicit
3817 freshness or a validator (i.e., Last-Modified or an ETag)
3818 present, or if they're already stale. By default, Squid will
3819 not cache such responses because they usually can't be
3820 reused. Note that such responses will be stale by default.
3821
3822 max-stale=NN provide a maximum staleness factor. Squid won't
3823 serve objects more stale than this even if it failed to
3824 validate the object. Default: use the max_stale global limit.
3825
3826 Basically a cached object is:
3827
3828 FRESH if expires < now, else STALE
3829 STALE if age > max
3830 FRESH if lm-factor < percent, else STALE
3831 FRESH if age < min
3832 else STALE
3833
3834 The refresh_pattern lines are checked in the order listed here.
3835 The first entry which matches is used. If none of the entries
3836 match the default will be used.
3837
3838 Note, you must uncomment all the default lines if you want
3839 to change one. The default setting is only active if none is
3840 used.
3841
3842 NOCOMMENT_START
3843
3844 # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these.
3845 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
3846 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
3847 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0
3848 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
3849 NOCOMMENT_END
3850 DOC_END
3851
3852 NAME: quick_abort_min
3853 COMMENT: (KB)
3854 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3855 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3856 LOC: Config.quickAbort.min
3857 DOC_NONE
3858
3859 NAME: quick_abort_max
3860 COMMENT: (KB)
3861 TYPE: kb_int64_t
3862 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3863 LOC: Config.quickAbort.max
3864 DOC_NONE
3865
3866 NAME: quick_abort_pct
3867 COMMENT: (percent)
3868 TYPE: int
3869 DEFAULT: 95
3870 LOC: Config.quickAbort.pct
3871 DOC_START
3872 The cache by default continues downloading aborted requests
3873 which are almost completed (less than 16 KB remaining). This
3874 may be undesirable on slow (e.g. SLIP) links and/or very busy
3875 caches. Impatient users may tie up file descriptors and
3876 bandwidth by repeatedly requesting and immediately aborting
3877 downloads.
3878
3879 When the user aborts a request, Squid will check the
3880 quick_abort values to the amount of data transfered until
3881 then.
3882
3883 If the transfer has less than 'quick_abort_min' KB remaining,
3884 it will finish the retrieval.
3885
3886 If the transfer has more than 'quick_abort_max' KB remaining,
3887 it will abort the retrieval.
3888
3889 If more than 'quick_abort_pct' of the transfer has completed,
3890 it will finish the retrieval.
3891
3892 If you do not want any retrieval to continue after the client
3893 has aborted, set both 'quick_abort_min' and 'quick_abort_max'
3894 to '0 KB'.
3895
3896 If you want retrievals to always continue if they are being
3897 cached set 'quick_abort_min' to '-1 KB'.
3898 DOC_END
3899
3900 NAME: read_ahead_gap
3901 COMMENT: buffer-size
3902 TYPE: b_int64_t
3903 LOC: Config.readAheadGap
3904 DEFAULT: 16 KB
3905 DOC_START
3906 The amount of data the cache will buffer ahead of what has been
3907 sent to the client when retrieving an object from another server.
3908 DOC_END
3909
3910 NAME: negative_ttl
3911 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
3912 COMMENT: time-units
3913 TYPE: time_t
3914 LOC: Config.negativeTtl
3915 DEFAULT: 0 seconds
3916 DOC_START
3917 Set the Default Time-to-Live (TTL) for failed requests.
3918 Certain types of failures (such as "connection refused" and
3919 "404 Not Found") are able to be negatively-cached for a short time.
3920 Modern web servers should provide Expires: header, however if they
3921 do not this can provide a minimum TTL.
3922 The default is not to cache errors with unknown expiry details.
3923
3924 Note that this is different from negative caching of DNS lookups.
3925
3926 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
3927 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
3928 causes.
3929 DOC_END
3930
3931 NAME: positive_dns_ttl
3932 COMMENT: time-units
3933 TYPE: time_t
3934 LOC: Config.positiveDnsTtl
3935 DEFAULT: 6 hours
3936 DOC_START
3937 Upper limit on how long Squid will cache positive DNS responses.
3938 Default is 6 hours (360 minutes). This directive must be set
3939 larger than negative_dns_ttl.
3940 DOC_END
3941
3942 NAME: negative_dns_ttl
3943 COMMENT: time-units
3944 TYPE: time_t
3945 LOC: Config.negativeDnsTtl
3946 DEFAULT: 1 minutes
3947 DOC_START
3948 Time-to-Live (TTL) for negative caching of failed DNS lookups.
3949 This also sets the lower cache limit on positive lookups.
3950 Minimum value is 1 second, and it is not recommendable to go
3951 much below 10 seconds.
3952 DOC_END
3953
3954 NAME: range_offset_limit
3955 COMMENT: size [acl acl...]
3956 TYPE: acl_b_size_t
3957 LOC: Config.rangeOffsetLimit
3958 DEFAULT: none
3959 DOC_START
3960 usage: (size) [units] [[!]aclname]
3961
3962 Sets an upper limit on how far (number of bytes) into the file
3963 a Range request may be to cause Squid to prefetch the whole file.
3964 If beyond this limit, Squid forwards the Range request as it is and
3965 the result is NOT cached.
3966
3967 This is to stop a far ahead range request (lets say start at 17MB)
3968 from making Squid fetch the whole object up to that point before
3969 sending anything to the client.
3970
3971 Multiple range_offset_limit lines may be specified, and they will
3972 be searched from top to bottom on each request until a match is found.
3973 The first match found will be used. If no line matches a request, the
3974 default limit of 0 bytes will be used.
3975
3976 'size' is the limit specified as a number of units.
3977
3978 'units' specifies whether to use bytes, KB, MB, etc.
3979 If no units are specified bytes are assumed.
3980
3981 A size of 0 causes Squid to never fetch more than the
3982 client requested. (default)
3983
3984 A size of 'none' causes Squid to always fetch the object from the
3985 beginning so it may cache the result. (2.0 style)
3986
3987 'aclname' is the name of a defined ACL.
3988
3989 NP: Using 'none' as the byte value here will override any quick_abort settings
3990 that may otherwise apply to the range request. The range request will
3991 be fully fetched from start to finish regardless of the client
3992 actions. This affects bandwidth usage.
3993 DOC_END
3994
3995 NAME: minimum_expiry_time
3996 COMMENT: (seconds)
3997 TYPE: time_t
3998 LOC: Config.minimum_expiry_time
3999 DEFAULT: 60 seconds
4000 DOC_START
4001 The minimum caching time according to (Expires - Date)
4002 Headers Squid honors if the object can't be revalidated
4003 defaults to 60 seconds. In reverse proxy environments it
4004 might be desirable to honor shorter object lifetimes. It
4005 is most likely better to make your server return a
4006 meaningful Last-Modified header however. In ESI environments
4007 where page fragments often have short lifetimes, this will
4008 often be best set to 0.
4009 DOC_END
4010
4011 NAME: store_avg_object_size
4012 COMMENT: (kbytes)
4013 TYPE: kb_int64_t
4014 DEFAULT: 13 KB
4015 LOC: Config.Store.avgObjectSize
4016 DOC_START
4017 Average object size, used to estimate number of objects your
4018 cache can hold. The default is 13 KB.
4019 DOC_END
4020
4021 NAME: store_objects_per_bucket
4022 TYPE: int
4023 DEFAULT: 20
4024 LOC: Config.Store.objectsPerBucket
4025 DOC_START
4026 Target number of objects per bucket in the store hash table.
4027 Lowering this value increases the total number of buckets and
4028 also the storage maintenance rate. The default is 20.
4029 DOC_END
4030
4031 COMMENT_START
4032 HTTP OPTIONS
4033 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4034 COMMENT_END
4035
4036 NAME: request_header_max_size
4037 COMMENT: (KB)
4038 TYPE: b_size_t
4039 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4040 LOC: Config.maxRequestHeaderSize
4041 DOC_START
4042 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a request.
4043 Request headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4044 Placing a limit on the request header size will catch certain
4045 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4046 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4047 DOC_END
4048
4049 NAME: reply_header_max_size
4050 COMMENT: (KB)
4051 TYPE: b_size_t
4052 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4053 LOC: Config.maxReplyHeaderSize
4054 DOC_START
4055 This specifies the maximum size for HTTP headers in a reply.
4056 Reply headers are usually relatively small (about 512 bytes).
4057 Placing a limit on the reply header size will catch certain
4058 bugs (for example with persistent connections) and possibly
4059 buffer-overflow or denial-of-service attacks.
4060 DOC_END
4061
4062 NAME: request_body_max_size
4063 COMMENT: (bytes)
4064 TYPE: b_int64_t
4065 DEFAULT: 0 KB
4066 LOC: Config.maxRequestBodySize
4067 DOC_START
4068 This specifies the maximum size for an HTTP request body.
4069 In other words, the maximum size of a PUT/POST request.
4070 A user who attempts to send a request with a body larger
4071 than this limit receives an "Invalid Request" error message.
4072 If you set this parameter to a zero (the default), there will
4073 be no limit imposed.
4074 DOC_END
4075
4076 NAME: client_request_buffer_max_size
4077 COMMENT: (bytes)
4078 TYPE: b_size_t
4079 DEFAULT: 512 KB
4080 LOC: Config.maxRequestBufferSize
4081 DOC_START
4082 This specifies the maximum buffer size of a client request.
4083 It prevents squid eating too much memory when somebody uploads
4084 a large file.
4085 DOC_END
4086
4087 NAME: chunked_request_body_max_size
4088 COMMENT: (bytes)
4089 TYPE: b_int64_t
4090 DEFAULT: 64 KB
4091 LOC: Config.maxChunkedRequestBodySize
4092 DOC_START
4093 A broken or confused HTTP/1.1 client may send a chunked HTTP
4094 request to Squid. Squid does not have full support for that
4095 feature yet. To cope with such requests, Squid buffers the
4096 entire request and then dechunks request body to create a
4097 plain HTTP/1.0 request with a known content length. The plain
4098 request is then used by the rest of Squid code as usual.
4099
4100 The option value specifies the maximum size of the buffer used
4101 to hold the request before the conversion. If the chunked
4102 request size exceeds the specified limit, the conversion
4103 fails, and the client receives an "unsupported request" error,
4104 as if dechunking was disabled.
4105
4106 Dechunking is enabled by default. To disable conversion of
4107 chunked requests, set the maximum to zero.
4108
4109 Request dechunking feature and this option in particular are a
4110 temporary hack. When chunking requests and responses are fully
4111 supported, there will be no need to buffer a chunked request.
4112 DOC_END
4113
4114 NAME: broken_posts
4115 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4116 TYPE: acl_access
4117 DEFAULT: none
4118 LOC: Config.accessList.brokenPosts
4119 DOC_START
4120 A list of ACL elements which, if matched, causes Squid to send
4121 an extra CRLF pair after the body of a PUT/POST request.
4122
4123 Some HTTP servers has broken implementations of PUT/POST,
4124 and rely on an extra CRLF pair sent by some WWW clients.
4125
4126 Quote from RFC2616 section 4.1 on this matter:
4127
4128 Note: certain buggy HTTP/1.0 client implementations generate an
4129 extra CRLF's after a POST request. To restate what is explicitly
4130 forbidden by the BNF, an HTTP/1.1 client must not preface or follow
4131 a request with an extra CRLF.
4132
4133 This clause only supports fast acl types.
4134 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
4135
4136 Example:
4137 acl buggy_server url_regex ^http://....
4138 broken_posts allow buggy_server
4139 DOC_END
4140
4141 NAME: adaptation_uses_indirect_client icap_uses_indirect_client
4142 COMMENT: on|off
4143 TYPE: onoff
4144 IFDEF: FOLLOW_X_FORWARDED_FOR&&USE_ADAPTATION
4145 DEFAULT: on
4146 LOC: Adaptation::Config::use_indirect_client
4147 DOC_START
4148 Controls whether the indirect client IP address (instead of the direct
4149 client IP address) is passed to adaptation services.
4150
4151 See also: follow_x_forwarded_for adaptation_send_client_ip
4152 DOC_END
4153
4154 NAME: via
4155 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4156 COMMENT: on|off
4157 TYPE: onoff
4158 DEFAULT: on
4159 LOC: Config.onoff.via
4160 DOC_START
4161 If set (default), Squid will include a Via header in requests and
4162 replies as required by RFC2616.
4163 DOC_END
4164
4165 NAME: ie_refresh
4166 COMMENT: on|off
4167 TYPE: onoff
4168 LOC: Config.onoff.ie_refresh
4169 DEFAULT: off
4170 DOC_START
4171 Microsoft Internet Explorer up until version 5.5 Service
4172 Pack 1 has an issue with transparent proxies, wherein it
4173 is impossible to force a refresh. Turning this on provides
4174 a partial fix to the problem, by causing all IMS-REFRESH
4175 requests from older IE versions to check the origin server
4176 for fresh content. This reduces hit ratio by some amount
4177 (~10% in my experience), but allows users to actually get
4178 fresh content when they want it. Note because Squid
4179 cannot tell if the user is using 5.5 or 5.5SP1, the behavior
4180 of 5.5 is unchanged from old versions of Squid (i.e. a
4181 forced refresh is impossible). Newer versions of IE will,
4182 hopefully, continue to have the new behavior and will be
4183 handled based on that assumption. This option defaults to
4184 the old Squid behavior, which is better for hit ratios but
4185 worse for clients using IE, if they need to be able to
4186 force fresh content.
4187 DOC_END
4188
4189 NAME: vary_ignore_expire
4190 COMMENT: on|off
4191 TYPE: onoff
4192 LOC: Config.onoff.vary_ignore_expire
4193 DEFAULT: off
4194 DOC_START
4195 Many HTTP servers supporting Vary gives such objects
4196 immediate expiry time with no cache-control header
4197 when requested by a HTTP/1.0 client. This option
4198 enables Squid to ignore such expiry times until
4199 HTTP/1.1 is fully implemented.
4200
4201 WARNING: If turned on this may eventually cause some
4202 varying objects not intended for caching to get cached.
4203 DOC_END
4204
4205 NAME: request_entities
4206 TYPE: onoff
4207 LOC: Config.onoff.request_entities
4208 DEFAULT: off
4209 DOC_START
4210 Squid defaults to deny GET and HEAD requests with request entities,
4211 as the meaning of such requests are undefined in the HTTP standard
4212 even if not explicitly forbidden.
4213
4214 Set this directive to on if you have clients which insists
4215 on sending request entities in GET or HEAD requests. But be warned
4216 that there is server software (both proxies and web servers) which
4217 can fail to properly process this kind of request which may make you
4218 vulnerable to cache pollution attacks if enabled.
4219 DOC_END
4220
4221 NAME: request_header_access
4222 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4223 TYPE: http_header_access[]
4224 LOC: Config.request_header_access
4225 DEFAULT: none
4226 DOC_START
4227 Usage: request_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4228
4229 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4230 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4231 causes.
4232
4233 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4234 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4235 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4236 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4237 mangling.
4238
4239 This option only applies to request headers, i.e., from the
4240 client to the server.
4241
4242 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4243 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4244 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
4245
4246 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4247 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4248
4249 request_header_access From deny all
4250 request_header_access Referer deny all
4251 request_header_access Server deny all
4252 request_header_access User-Agent deny all
4253 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4254 request_header_access Link deny all
4255
4256 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4257 you should use:
4258
4259 request_header_access Allow allow all
4260 request_header_access Authorization allow all
4261 request_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4262 request_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4263 request_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4264 request_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4265 request_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4266 request_header_access Content-Length allow all
4267 request_header_access Content-Type allow all
4268 request_header_access Date allow all
4269 request_header_access Expires allow all
4270 request_header_access Host allow all
4271 request_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4272 request_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4273 request_header_access Location allow all
4274 request_header_access Pragma allow all
4275 request_header_access Accept allow all
4276 request_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4277 request_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4278 request_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4279 request_header_access Content-Language allow all
4280 request_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4281 request_header_access Retry-After allow all
4282 request_header_access Title allow all
4283 request_header_access Connection allow all
4284 request_header_access All deny all
4285
4286 although many of those are HTTP reply headers, and so should be
4287 controlled with the reply_header_access directive.
4288
4289 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4290 performed).
4291 DOC_END
4292
4293 NAME: reply_header_access
4294 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4295 TYPE: http_header_access[]
4296 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4297 DEFAULT: none
4298 DOC_START
4299 Usage: reply_header_access header_name allow|deny [!]aclname ...
4300
4301 WARNING: Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling
4302 this feature could make you liable for problems which it
4303 causes.
4304
4305 This option only applies to reply headers, i.e., from the
4306 server to the client.
4307
4308 This is the same as request_header_access, but in the other
4309 direction.
4310
4311 This option replaces the old 'anonymize_headers' and the
4312 older 'http_anonymizer' option with something that is much
4313 more configurable. This new method creates a list of ACLs
4314 for each header, allowing you very fine-tuned header
4315 mangling.
4316
4317 You can only specify known headers for the header name.
4318 Other headers are reclassified as 'Other'. You can also
4319 refer to all the headers with 'All'.
4320
4321 For example, to achieve the same behavior as the old
4322 'http_anonymizer standard' option, you should use:
4323
4324 reply_header_access From deny all
4325 reply_header_access Referer deny all
4326 reply_header_access Server deny all
4327 reply_header_access User-Agent deny all
4328 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate deny all
4329 reply_header_access Link deny all
4330
4331 Or, to reproduce the old 'http_anonymizer paranoid' feature
4332 you should use:
4333
4334 reply_header_access Allow allow all
4335 reply_header_access Authorization allow all
4336 reply_header_access WWW-Authenticate allow all
4337 reply_header_access Proxy-Authorization allow all
4338 reply_header_access Proxy-Authenticate allow all
4339 reply_header_access Cache-Control allow all
4340 reply_header_access Content-Encoding allow all
4341 reply_header_access Content-Length allow all
4342 reply_header_access Content-Type allow all
4343 reply_header_access Date allow all
4344 reply_header_access Expires allow all
4345 reply_header_access Host allow all
4346 reply_header_access If-Modified-Since allow all
4347 reply_header_access Last-Modified allow all
4348 reply_header_access Location allow all
4349 reply_header_access Pragma allow all
4350 reply_header_access Accept allow all
4351 reply_header_access Accept-Charset allow all
4352 reply_header_access Accept-Encoding allow all
4353 reply_header_access Accept-Language allow all
4354 reply_header_access Content-Language allow all
4355 reply_header_access Mime-Version allow all
4356 reply_header_access Retry-After allow all
4357 reply_header_access Title allow all
4358 reply_header_access Connection allow all
4359 reply_header_access All deny all
4360
4361 although the HTTP request headers won't be usefully controlled
4362 by this directive -- see request_header_access for details.
4363
4364 By default, all headers are allowed (no anonymizing is
4365 performed).
4366 DOC_END
4367
4368 NAME: request_header_replace header_replace
4369 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4370 TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4371 LOC: Config.request_header_access
4372 DEFAULT: none
4373 DOC_START
4374 Usage: request_header_replace header_name message
4375 Example: request_header_replace User-Agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
4376
4377 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4378 denied with request_header_access above, by replacing them
4379 with some fixed string. This replaces the old fake_user_agent
4380 option.
4381
4382 This only applies to request headers, not reply headers.
4383
4384 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4385 DOC_END
4386
4387 NAME: reply_header_replace
4388 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
4389 TYPE: http_header_replace[]
4390 LOC: Config.reply_header_access
4391 DEFAULT: none
4392 DOC_START
4393 Usage: reply_header_replace header_name message
4394 Example: reply_header_replace Server Foo/1.0
4395
4396 This option allows you to change the contents of headers
4397 denied with reply_header_access above, by replacing them
4398 with some fixed string.
4399
4400 This only applies to reply headers, not request headers.
4401
4402 By default, headers are removed if denied.
4403 DOC_END
4404
4405 NAME: relaxed_header_parser
4406 COMMENT: on|off|warn
4407 TYPE: tristate
4408 LOC: Config.onoff.relaxed_header_parser
4409 DEFAULT: on
4410 DOC_START
4411 In the default "on" setting Squid accepts certain forms
4412 of non-compliant HTTP messages where it is unambiguous
4413 what the sending application intended even if the message
4414 is not correctly formatted. The messages is then normalized
4415 to the correct form when forwarded by Squid.
4416
4417 If set to "warn" then a warning will be emitted in cache.log
4418 each time such HTTP error is encountered.
4419
4420 If set to "off" then such HTTP errors will cause the request
4421 or response to be rejected.
4422 DOC_END
4423
4424 COMMENT_START
4425 TIMEOUTS
4426 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4427 COMMENT_END
4428
4429 NAME: forward_timeout
4430 COMMENT: time-units
4431 TYPE: time_t
4432 LOC: Config.Timeout.forward
4433 DEFAULT: 4 minutes
4434 DOC_START
4435 This parameter specifies how long Squid should at most attempt in
4436 finding a forwarding path for the request before giving up.
4437 DOC_END
4438
4439 NAME: connect_timeout
4440 COMMENT: time-units
4441 TYPE: time_t
4442 LOC: Config.Timeout.connect
4443 DEFAULT: 1 minute
4444 DOC_START
4445 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
4446 the requested server or peer to complete before Squid should
4447 attempt to find another path where to forward the request.
4448 DOC_END
4449
4450 NAME: peer_connect_timeout
4451 COMMENT: time-units
4452 TYPE: time_t
4453 LOC: Config.Timeout.peer_connect
4454 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
4455 DOC_START
4456 This parameter specifies how long to wait for a pending TCP
4457 connection to a peer cache. The default is 30 seconds. You
4458 may also set different timeout values for individual neighbors
4459 with the 'connect-timeout' option on a 'cache_peer' line.
4460 DOC_END
4461
4462 NAME: read_timeout
4463 COMMENT: time-units
4464 TYPE: time_t
4465 LOC: Config.Timeout.read
4466 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4467 DOC_START
4468 The read_timeout is applied on server-side connections. After
4469 each successful read(), the timeout will be extended by this
4470 amount. If no data is read again after this amount of time,
4471 the request is aborted and logged with ERR_READ_TIMEOUT. The
4472 default is 15 minutes.
4473 DOC_END
4474
4475 NAME: write_timeout
4476 COMMENT: time-units
4477 TYPE: time_t
4478 LOC: Config.Timeout.write
4479 DEFAULT: 15 minutes
4480 DOC_START
4481 This timeout is tracked for all connections that have data
4482 available for writing and are waiting for the socket to become
4483 ready. After each successful write, the timeout is extended by
4484 the configured amount. If Squid has data to write but the
4485 connection is not ready for the configured duration, the
4486 transaction associated with the connection is terminated. The
4487 default is 15 minutes.
4488 DOC_END
4489
4490 NAME: request_timeout
4491 TYPE: time_t
4492 LOC: Config.Timeout.request
4493 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
4494 DOC_START
4495 How long to wait for an HTTP request after initial
4496 connection establishment.
4497 DOC_END
4498
4499 NAME: persistent_request_timeout
4500 TYPE: time_t
4501 LOC: Config.Timeout.persistent_request
4502 DEFAULT: 2 minutes
4503 DOC_START
4504 How long to wait for the next HTTP request on a persistent
4505 connection after the previous request completes.
4506 DOC_END
4507
4508 NAME: client_lifetime
4509 COMMENT: time-units
4510 TYPE: time_t
4511 LOC: Config.Timeout.lifetime
4512 DEFAULT: 1 day
4513 DOC_START
4514 The maximum amount of time a client (browser) is allowed to
4515 remain connected to the cache process. This protects the Cache
4516 from having a lot of sockets (and hence file descriptors) tied up
4517 in a CLOSE_WAIT state from remote clients that go away without
4518 properly shutting down (either because of a network failure or
4519 because of a poor client implementation). The default is one
4520 day, 1440 minutes.
4521
4522 NOTE: The default value is intended to be much larger than any
4523 client would ever need to be connected to your cache. You
4524 should probably change client_lifetime only as a last resort.
4525 If you seem to have many client connections tying up
4526 filedescriptors, we recommend first tuning the read_timeout,
4527 request_timeout, persistent_request_timeout and quick_abort values.
4528 DOC_END
4529
4530 NAME: half_closed_clients
4531 TYPE: onoff
4532 LOC: Config.onoff.half_closed_clients
4533 DEFAULT: off
4534 DOC_START
4535 Some clients may shutdown the sending side of their TCP
4536 connections, while leaving their receiving sides open. Sometimes,
4537 Squid can not tell the difference between a half-closed and a
4538 fully-closed TCP connection.
4539
4540 By default, Squid will immediately close client connections when
4541 read(2) returns "no more data to read."
4542
4543 Change this option to 'on' and Squid will keep open connections
4544 until a read(2) or write(2) on the socket returns an error.
4545 This may show some benefits for reverse proxies. But if not
4546 it is recommended to leave OFF.
4547 DOC_END
4548
4549 NAME: pconn_timeout
4550 TYPE: time_t
4551 LOC: Config.Timeout.pconn
4552 DEFAULT: 1 minute
4553 DOC_START
4554 Timeout for idle persistent connections to servers and other
4555 proxies.
4556 DOC_END
4557
4558 NAME: ident_timeout
4559 TYPE: time_t
4560 IFDEF: USE_IDENT
4561 LOC: Ident::TheConfig.timeout
4562 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
4563 DOC_START
4564 Maximum time to wait for IDENT lookups to complete.
4565
4566 If this is too high, and you enabled IDENT lookups from untrusted
4567 users, you might be susceptible to denial-of-service by having
4568 many ident requests going at once.
4569 DOC_END
4570
4571 NAME: shutdown_lifetime
4572 COMMENT: time-units
4573 TYPE: time_t
4574 LOC: Config.shutdownLifetime
4575 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
4576 DOC_START
4577 When SIGTERM or SIGHUP is received, the cache is put into
4578 "shutdown pending" mode until all active sockets are closed.
4579 This value is the lifetime to set for all open descriptors
4580 during shutdown mode. Any active clients after this many
4581 seconds will receive a 'timeout' message.
4582 DOC_END
4583
4584 COMMENT_START
4585 ADMINISTRATIVE PARAMETERS
4586 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4587 COMMENT_END
4588
4589 NAME: cache_mgr
4590 TYPE: string
4591 DEFAULT: webmaster
4592 LOC: Config.adminEmail
4593 DOC_START
4594 Email-address of local cache manager who will receive
4595 mail if the cache dies. The default is "webmaster."
4596 DOC_END
4597
4598 NAME: mail_from
4599 TYPE: string
4600 DEFAULT: none
4601 LOC: Config.EmailFrom
4602 DOC_START
4603 From: email-address for mail sent when the cache dies.
4604 The default is to use 'appname@unique_hostname'.
4605 Default appname value is "squid", can be changed into
4606 src/globals.h before building squid.
4607 DOC_END
4608
4609 NAME: mail_program
4610 TYPE: eol
4611 DEFAULT: mail
4612 LOC: Config.EmailProgram
4613 DOC_START
4614 Email program used to send mail if the cache dies.
4615 The default is "mail". The specified program must comply
4616 with the standard Unix mail syntax:
4617 mail-program recipient < mailfile
4618
4619 Optional command line options can be specified.
4620 DOC_END
4621
4622 NAME: cache_effective_user
4623 TYPE: string
4624 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@
4625 LOC: Config.effectiveUser
4626 DOC_START
4627 If you start Squid as root, it will change its effective/real
4628 UID/GID to the user specified below. The default is to change
4629 to UID of @DEFAULT_CACHE_EFFECTIVE_USER@.
4630 see also; cache_effective_group
4631 DOC_END
4632
4633 NAME: cache_effective_group
4634 TYPE: string
4635 DEFAULT: none
4636 LOC: Config.effectiveGroup
4637 DOC_START
4638 Squid sets the GID to the effective user's default group ID
4639 (taken from the password file) and supplementary group list
4640 from the groups membership.
4641
4642 If you want Squid to run with a specific GID regardless of
4643 the group memberships of the effective user then set this
4644 to the group (or GID) you want Squid to run as. When set
4645 all other group privileges of the effective user are ignored
4646 and only this GID is effective. If Squid is not started as
4647 root the user starting Squid MUST be member of the specified
4648 group.
4649
4650 This option is not recommended by the Squid Team.
4651 Our preference is for administrators to configure a secure
4652 user account for squid with UID/GID matching system policies.
4653 DOC_END
4654
4655 NAME: httpd_suppress_version_string
4656 COMMENT: on|off
4657 TYPE: onoff
4658 DEFAULT: off
4659 LOC: Config.onoff.httpd_suppress_version_string
4660 DOC_START
4661 Suppress Squid version string info in HTTP headers and HTML error pages.
4662 DOC_END
4663
4664 NAME: visible_hostname
4665 TYPE: string
4666 LOC: Config.visibleHostname
4667 DEFAULT: none
4668 DOC_START
4669 If you want to present a special hostname in error messages, etc,
4670 define this. Otherwise, the return value of gethostname()
4671 will be used. If you have multiple caches in a cluster and
4672 get errors about IP-forwarding you must set them to have individual
4673 names with this setting.
4674 DOC_END
4675
4676 NAME: unique_hostname
4677 TYPE: string
4678 LOC: Config.uniqueHostname
4679 DEFAULT: none
4680 DOC_START
4681 If you want to have multiple machines with the same
4682 'visible_hostname' you must give each machine a different
4683 'unique_hostname' so forwarding loops can be detected.
4684 DOC_END
4685
4686 NAME: hostname_aliases
4687 TYPE: wordlist
4688 LOC: Config.hostnameAliases
4689 DEFAULT: none
4690 DOC_START
4691 A list of other DNS names your cache has.
4692 DOC_END
4693
4694 NAME: umask
4695 TYPE: int
4696 LOC: Config.umask
4697 DEFAULT: 027
4698 DOC_START
4699 Minimum umask which should be enforced while the proxy
4700 is running, in addition to the umask set at startup.
4701
4702 For a traditional octal representation of umasks, start
4703 your value with 0.
4704 DOC_END
4705
4706 COMMENT_START
4707 OPTIONS FOR THE CACHE REGISTRATION SERVICE
4708 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4709
4710 This section contains parameters for the (optional) cache
4711 announcement service. This service is provided to help
4712 cache administrators locate one another in order to join or
4713 create cache hierarchies.
4714
4715 An 'announcement' message is sent (via UDP) to the registration
4716 service by Squid. By default, the announcement message is NOT
4717 SENT unless you enable it with 'announce_period' below.
4718
4719 The announcement message includes your hostname, plus the
4720 following information from this configuration file:
4721
4722 http_port
4723 icp_port
4724 cache_mgr
4725
4726 All current information is processed regularly and made
4727 available on the Web at http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Tracker/.
4728 COMMENT_END
4729
4730 NAME: announce_period
4731 TYPE: time_t
4732 LOC: Config.Announce.period
4733 DEFAULT: 0
4734 DOC_START
4735 This is how frequently to send cache announcements. The
4736 default is `0' which disables sending the announcement
4737 messages.
4738
4739 To enable announcing your cache, just set an announce period.
4740
4741 Example:
4742 announce_period 1 day
4743 DOC_END
4744
4745 NAME: announce_host
4746 TYPE: string
4747 DEFAULT: tracker.ircache.net
4748 LOC: Config.Announce.host
4749 DOC_NONE
4750
4751 NAME: announce_file
4752 TYPE: string
4753 DEFAULT: none
4754 LOC: Config.Announce.file
4755 DOC_NONE
4756
4757 NAME: announce_port
4758 TYPE: u_short
4759 DEFAULT: 3131
4760 LOC: Config.Announce.port
4761 DOC_START
4762 announce_host and announce_port set the hostname and port
4763 number where the registration message will be sent.
4764
4765 Hostname will default to 'tracker.ircache.net' and port will
4766 default default to 3131. If the 'filename' argument is given,
4767 the contents of that file will be included in the announce
4768 message.
4769 DOC_END
4770
4771 COMMENT_START
4772 HTTPD-ACCELERATOR OPTIONS
4773 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4774 COMMENT_END
4775
4776 NAME: httpd_accel_surrogate_id
4777 TYPE: string
4778 DEFAULT: none
4779 LOC: Config.Accel.surrogate_id
4780 DOC_START
4781 Surrogates (http://www.esi.org/architecture_spec_1.0.html)
4782 need an identification token to allow control targeting. Because
4783 a farm of surrogates may all perform the same tasks, they may share
4784 an identification token.
4785
4786 The default ID is the visible_hostname
4787 DOC_END
4788
4789 NAME: http_accel_surrogate_remote
4790 COMMENT: on|off
4791 TYPE: onoff
4792 DEFAULT: off
4793 LOC: Config.onoff.surrogate_is_remote
4794 DOC_START
4795 Remote surrogates (such as those in a CDN) honour Surrogate-Control: no-store-remote.
4796 Set this to on to have squid behave as a remote surrogate.
4797 DOC_END
4798
4799 NAME: esi_parser
4800 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_ESI
4801 COMMENT: libxml2|expat|custom
4802 TYPE: string
4803 LOC: ESIParser::Type
4804 DEFAULT: custom
4805 DOC_START
4806 ESI markup is not strictly XML compatible. The custom ESI parser
4807 will give higher performance, but cannot handle non ASCII character
4808 encodings.
4809 DOC_END
4810
4811 COMMENT_START
4812 DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
4813 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4814 COMMENT_END
4815
4816 NAME: delay_pools
4817 TYPE: delay_pool_count
4818 DEFAULT: 0
4819 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4820 LOC: Config.Delay
4821 DOC_START
4822 This represents the number of delay pools to be used. For example,
4823 if you have one class 2 delay pool and one class 3 delays pool, you
4824 have a total of 2 delay pools.
4825 DOC_END
4826
4827 NAME: delay_class
4828 TYPE: delay_pool_class
4829 DEFAULT: none
4830 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4831 LOC: Config.Delay
4832 DOC_START
4833 This defines the class of each delay pool. There must be exactly one
4834 delay_class line for each delay pool. For example, to define two
4835 delay pools, one of class 2 and one of class 3, the settings above
4836 and here would be:
4837
4838 Example:
4839 delay_pools 4 # 4 delay pools
4840 delay_class 1 2 # pool 1 is a class 2 pool
4841 delay_class 2 3 # pool 2 is a class 3 pool
4842 delay_class 3 4 # pool 3 is a class 4 pool
4843 delay_class 4 5 # pool 4 is a class 5 pool
4844
4845 The delay pool classes are:
4846
4847 class 1 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4848 bucket.
4849
4850 class 2 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4851 bucket as well as an "individual" bucket chosen
4852 from bits 25 through 32 of the IPv4 address.
4853
4854 class 3 Everything is limited by a single aggregate
4855 bucket as well as a "network" bucket chosen
4856 from bits 17 through 24 of the IP address and a
4857 "individual" bucket chosen from bits 17 through
4858 32 of the IPv4 address.
4859
4860 class 4 Everything in a class 3 delay pool, with an
4861 additional limit on a per user basis. This
4862 only takes effect if the username is established
4863 in advance - by forcing authentication in your
4864 http_access rules.
4865
4866 class 5 Requests are grouped according their tag (see
4867 external_acl's tag= reply).
4868
4869
4870 Each pool also requires a delay_parameters directive to configure the pool size
4871 and speed limits used whenever the pool is applied to a request. Along with
4872 a set of delay_access directives to determine when it is used.
4873
4874 NOTE: If an IP address is a.b.c.d
4875 -> bits 25 through 32 are "d"
4876 -> bits 17 through 24 are "c"
4877 -> bits 17 through 32 are "c * 256 + d"
4878
4879 NOTE-2: Due to the use of bitmasks in class 2,3,4 pools they only apply to
4880 IPv4 traffic. Class 1 and 5 pools may be used with IPv6 traffic.
4881 DOC_END
4882
4883 NAME: delay_access
4884 TYPE: delay_pool_access
4885 DEFAULT: none
4886 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4887 LOC: Config.Delay
4888 DOC_START
4889 This is used to determine which delay pool a request falls into.
4890
4891 delay_access is sorted per pool and the matching starts with pool 1,
4892 then pool 2, ..., and finally pool N. The first delay pool where the
4893 request is allowed is selected for the request. If it does not allow
4894 the request to any pool then the request is not delayed (default).
4895
4896 For example, if you want some_big_clients in delay
4897 pool 1 and lotsa_little_clients in delay pool 2:
4898
4899 Example:
4900 delay_access 1 allow some_big_clients
4901 delay_access 1 deny all
4902 delay_access 2 allow lotsa_little_clients
4903 delay_access 2 deny all
4904 delay_access 3 allow authenticated_clients
4905 DOC_END
4906
4907 NAME: delay_parameters
4908 TYPE: delay_pool_rates
4909 DEFAULT: none
4910 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
4911 LOC: Config.Delay
4912 DOC_START
4913 This defines the parameters for a delay pool. Each delay pool has
4914 a number of "buckets" associated with it, as explained in the
4915 description of delay_class.
4916
4917 For a class 1 delay pool, the syntax is:
4918 delay_pools pool 1
4919 delay_parameters pool aggregate
4920
4921 For a class 2 delay pool:
4922 delay_pools pool 2
4923 delay_parameters pool aggregate individual
4924
4925 For a class 3 delay pool:
4926 delay_pools pool 3
4927 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual
4928
4929 For a class 4 delay pool:
4930 delay_pools pool 4
4931 delay_parameters pool aggregate network individual user
4932
4933 For a class 5 delay pool:
4934 delay_pools pool 5
4935 delay_parameters pool tagrate
4936
4937 The option variables are:
4938
4939 pool a pool number - ie, a number between 1 and the
4940 number specified in delay_pools as used in
4941 delay_class lines.
4942
4943 aggregate the speed limit parameters for the aggregate bucket
4944 (class 1, 2, 3).
4945
4946 individual the speed limit parameters for the individual
4947 buckets (class 2, 3).
4948
4949 network the speed limit parameters for the network buckets
4950 (class 3).
4951
4952 user the speed limit parameters for the user buckets
4953 (class 4).
4954
4955 tagrate the speed limit parameters for the tag buckets
4956 (class 5).
4957
4958 A pair of delay parameters is written restore/maximum, where restore is
4959 the number of bytes (not bits - modem and network speeds are usually
4960 quoted in bits) per second placed into the bucket, and maximum is the
4961 maximum number of bytes which can be in the bucket at any time.
4962
4963 There must be one delay_parameters line for each delay pool.
4964
4965
4966 For example, if delay pool number 1 is a class 2 delay pool as in the
4967 above example, and is being used to strictly limit each host to 64Kbit/sec
4968 (plus overheads), with no overall limit, the line is:
4969
4970 delay_parameters 1 -1/-1 8000/8000
4971
4972 Note that 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
4973
4974 Note that the figure -1 is used to represent "unlimited".
4975
4976
4977 And, if delay pool number 2 is a class 3 delay pool as in the above
4978 example, and you want to limit it to a total of 256Kbit/sec (strict limit)
4979 with each 8-bit network permitted 64Kbit/sec (strict limit) and each
4980 individual host permitted 4800bit/sec with a bucket maximum size of 64Kbits
4981 to permit a decent web page to be downloaded at a decent speed
4982 (if the network is not being limited due to overuse) but slow down
4983 large downloads more significantly:
4984
4985 delay_parameters 2 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/8000
4986
4987 Note that 8 x 32000 KByte/sec -> 256Kbit/sec.
4988 8 x 8000 KByte/sec -> 64Kbit/sec.
4989 8 x 600 Byte/sec -> 4800bit/sec.
4990
4991
4992 Finally, for a class 4 delay pool as in the example - each user will
4993 be limited to 128Kbits/sec no matter how many workstations they are logged into.:
4994
4995 delay_parameters 4 32000/32000 8000/8000 600/64000 16000/16000
4996 DOC_END
4997
4998 NAME: delay_initial_bucket_level
4999 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5000 TYPE: u_short
5001 DEFAULT: 50
5002 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5003 LOC: Config.Delay.initial
5004 DOC_START
5005 The initial bucket percentage is used to determine how much is put
5006 in each bucket when squid starts, is reconfigured, or first notices
5007 a host accessing it (in class 2 and class 3, individual hosts and
5008 networks only have buckets associated with them once they have been
5009 "seen" by squid).
5010 DOC_END
5011
5012 COMMENT_START
5013 CLIENT DELAY POOL PARAMETERS
5014 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5015 COMMENT_END
5016
5017 NAME: client_delay_pools
5018 TYPE: client_delay_pool_count
5019 DEFAULT: 0
5020 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5021 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5022 DOC_START
5023 This option specifies the number of client delay pools used. It must
5024 preceed other client_delay_* options.
5025
5026 Example:
5027 client_delay_pools 2
5028 DOC_END
5029
5030 NAME: client_delay_initial_bucket_level
5031 COMMENT: (percent, 0-no_limit)
5032 TYPE: u_short
5033 DEFAULT: 50
5034 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5035 LOC: Config.ClientDelay.initial
5036 DOC_START
5037 This option determines the initial bucket size as a percentage of
5038 max_bucket_size from client_delay_parameters. Buckets are created
5039 at the time of the "first" connection from the matching IP. Idle
5040 buckets are periodically deleted up.
5041
5042 You can specify more than 100 percent but note that such "oversized"
5043 buckets are not refilled until their size goes down to max_bucket_size
5044 from client_delay_parameters.
5045
5046 Example:
5047 client_delay_initial_bucket_level 50
5048 DOC_END
5049
5050 NAME: client_delay_parameters
5051 TYPE: client_delay_pool_rates
5052 DEFAULT: none
5053 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5054 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5055 DOC_START
5056
5057 This option configures client-side bandwidth limits using the
5058 following format:
5059
5060 client_delay_parameters pool speed_limit max_bucket_size
5061
5062 pool is an integer ID used for client_delay_access matching.
5063
5064 speed_limit is bytes added to the bucket per second.
5065
5066 max_bucket_size is the maximum size of a bucket, enforced after any
5067 speed_limit additions.
5068
5069 Please see the delay_parameters option for more information and
5070 examples.
5071
5072 Example:
5073 client_delay_parameters 1 1024 2048
5074 client_delay_parameters 2 51200 16384
5075 DOC_END
5076
5077 NAME: client_delay_access
5078 TYPE: client_delay_pool_access
5079 DEFAULT: none
5080 IFDEF: USE_DELAY_POOLS
5081 LOC: Config.ClientDelay
5082 DOC_START
5083
5084 This option determines the client-side delay pool for the
5085 request:
5086
5087 client_delay_access pool_ID allow|deny acl_name
5088
5089 All client_delay_access options are checked in their pool ID
5090 order, starting with pool 1. The first checked pool with allowed
5091 request is selected for the request. If no ACL matches or there
5092 are no client_delay_access options, the request bandwidth is not
5093 limited.
5094
5095 The ACL-selected pool is then used to find the
5096 client_delay_parameters for the request. Client-side pools are
5097 not used to aggregate clients. Clients are always aggregated
5098 based on their source IP addresses (one bucket per source IP).
5099
5100 Please see delay_access for more examples.
5101
5102 Example:
5103 client_delay_access 1 allow low_rate_network
5104 client_delay_access 2 allow vips_network
5105 DOC_END
5106
5107 COMMENT_START
5108 WCCPv1 AND WCCPv2 CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
5109 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5110 COMMENT_END
5111
5112 NAME: wccp_router
5113 TYPE: address
5114 LOC: Config.Wccp.router
5115 DEFAULT: any_addr
5116 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5117 DOC_START
5118 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5119 Squid.
5120
5121 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5122
5123 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5124
5125 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5126 which version of WCCP to use.
5127 DOC_END
5128
5129 NAME: wccp2_router
5130 TYPE: IpAddress_list
5131 LOC: Config.Wccp2.router
5132 DEFAULT: none
5133 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5134 DOC_START
5135 Use this option to define your WCCP ``home'' router for
5136 Squid.
5137
5138 wccp_router supports a single WCCP(v1) router
5139
5140 wccp2_router supports multiple WCCPv2 routers
5141
5142 only one of the two may be used at the same time and defines
5143 which version of WCCP to use.
5144 DOC_END
5145
5146 NAME: wccp_version
5147 TYPE: int
5148 LOC: Config.Wccp.version
5149 DEFAULT: 4
5150 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5151 DOC_START
5152 This directive is only relevant if you need to set up WCCP(v1)
5153 to some very old and end-of-life Cisco routers. In all other
5154 setups it must be left unset or at the default setting.
5155 It defines an internal version in the WCCP(v1) protocol,
5156 with version 4 being the officially documented protocol.
5157
5158 According to some users, Cisco IOS 11.2 and earlier only
5159 support WCCP version 3. If you're using that or an earlier
5160 version of IOS, you may need to change this value to 3, otherwise
5161 do not specify this parameter.
5162 DOC_END
5163
5164 NAME: wccp2_rebuild_wait
5165 TYPE: onoff
5166 LOC: Config.Wccp2.rebuildwait
5167 DEFAULT: on
5168 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5169 DOC_START
5170 If this is enabled Squid will wait for the cache dir rebuild to finish
5171 before sending the first wccp2 HereIAm packet
5172 DOC_END
5173
5174 NAME: wccp2_forwarding_method
5175 TYPE: wccp2_method
5176 LOC: Config.Wccp2.forwarding_method
5177 DEFAULT: gre
5178 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5179 DOC_START
5180 WCCP2 allows the setting of forwarding methods between the
5181 router/switch and the cache. Valid values are as follows:
5182
5183 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5184 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
5185
5186 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5187 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment method.
5188 DOC_END
5189
5190 NAME: wccp2_return_method
5191 TYPE: wccp2_method
5192 LOC: Config.Wccp2.return_method
5193 DEFAULT: gre
5194 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5195 DOC_START
5196 WCCP2 allows the setting of return methods between the
5197 router/switch and the cache for packets that the cache
5198 decides not to handle. Valid values are as follows:
5199
5200 gre - GRE encapsulation (forward the packet in a GRE/WCCP tunnel)
5201 l2 - L2 redirect (forward the packet using Layer 2/MAC rewriting)
5202
5203 Currently (as of IOS 12.4) cisco routers only support GRE.
5204 Cisco switches only support the L2 redirect assignment.
5205
5206 If the "ip wccp redirect exclude in" command has been
5207 enabled on the cache interface, then it is still safe for
5208 the proxy server to use a l2 redirect method even if this
5209 option is set to GRE.
5210 DOC_END
5211
5212 NAME: wccp2_assignment_method
5213 TYPE: wccp2_amethod
5214 LOC: Config.Wccp2.assignment_method
5215 DEFAULT: hash
5216 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5217 DOC_START
5218 WCCP2 allows the setting of methods to assign the WCCP hash
5219 Valid values are as follows:
5220
5221 hash - Hash assignment
5222 mask - Mask assignment
5223
5224 As a general rule, cisco routers support the hash assignment method
5225 and cisco switches support the mask assignment method.
5226 DOC_END
5227
5228 NAME: wccp2_service
5229 TYPE: wccp2_service
5230 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5231 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: standard 0
5232 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5233 DOC_START
5234 WCCP2 allows for multiple traffic services. There are two
5235 types: "standard" and "dynamic". The standard type defines
5236 one service id - http (id 0). The dynamic service ids can be from
5237 51 to 255 inclusive. In order to use a dynamic service id
5238 one must define the type of traffic to be redirected; this is done
5239 using the wccp2_service_info option.
5240
5241 The "standard" type does not require a wccp2_service_info option,
5242 just specifying the service id will suffice.
5243
5244 MD5 service authentication can be enabled by adding
5245 "password=<password>" to the end of this service declaration.
5246
5247 Examples:
5248
5249 wccp2_service standard 0 # for the 'web-cache' standard service
5250 wccp2_service dynamic 80 # a dynamic service type which will be
5251 # fleshed out with subsequent options.
5252 wccp2_service standard 0 password=foo
5253 DOC_END
5254
5255 NAME: wccp2_service_info
5256 TYPE: wccp2_service_info
5257 LOC: Config.Wccp2.info
5258 DEFAULT: none
5259 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5260 DOC_START
5261 Dynamic WCCPv2 services require further information to define the
5262 traffic you wish to have diverted.
5263
5264 The format is:
5265
5266 wccp2_service_info <id> protocol=<protocol> flags=<flag>,<flag>..
5267 priority=<priority> ports=<port>,<port>..
5268
5269 The relevant WCCPv2 flags:
5270 + src_ip_hash, dst_ip_hash
5271 + source_port_hash, dst_port_hash
5272 + src_ip_alt_hash, dst_ip_alt_hash
5273 + src_port_alt_hash, dst_port_alt_hash
5274 + ports_source
5275
5276 The port list can be one to eight entries.
5277
5278 Example:
5279
5280 wccp2_service_info 80 protocol=tcp flags=src_ip_hash,ports_source
5281 priority=240 ports=80
5282
5283 Note: the service id must have been defined by a previous
5284 'wccp2_service dynamic <id>' entry.
5285 DOC_END
5286
5287 NAME: wccp2_weight
5288 TYPE: int
5289 LOC: Config.Wccp2.weight
5290 DEFAULT: 10000
5291 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5292 DOC_START
5293 Each cache server gets assigned a set of the destination
5294 hash proportional to their weight.
5295 DOC_END
5296
5297 NAME: wccp_address
5298 TYPE: address
5299 LOC: Config.Wccp.address
5300 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5301 IFDEF: USE_WCCP
5302 DOC_NONE
5303
5304 NAME: wccp2_address
5305 TYPE: address
5306 LOC: Config.Wccp2.address
5307 DEFAULT: 0.0.0.0
5308 IFDEF: USE_WCCPv2
5309 DOC_START
5310 Use this option if you require WCCP to use a specific
5311 interface address.
5312
5313 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5314 DOC_END
5315
5316 COMMENT_START
5317 PERSISTENT CONNECTION HANDLING
5318 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5319
5320 Also see "pconn_timeout" in the TIMEOUTS section
5321 COMMENT_END
5322
5323 NAME: client_persistent_connections
5324 TYPE: onoff
5325 LOC: Config.onoff.client_pconns
5326 DEFAULT: on
5327 DOC_NONE
5328
5329 NAME: server_persistent_connections
5330 TYPE: onoff
5331 LOC: Config.onoff.server_pconns
5332 DEFAULT: on
5333 DOC_START
5334 Persistent connection support for clients and servers. By
5335 default, Squid uses persistent connections (when allowed)
5336 with its clients and servers. You can use these options to
5337 disable persistent connections with clients and/or servers.
5338 DOC_END
5339
5340 NAME: persistent_connection_after_error
5341 TYPE: onoff
5342 LOC: Config.onoff.error_pconns
5343 DEFAULT: on
5344 DOC_START
5345 With this directive the use of persistent connections after
5346 HTTP errors can be disabled. Useful if you have clients
5347 who fail to handle errors on persistent connections proper.
5348 DOC_END
5349
5350 NAME: detect_broken_pconn
5351 TYPE: onoff
5352 LOC: Config.onoff.detect_broken_server_pconns
5353 DEFAULT: off
5354 DOC_START
5355 Some servers have been found to incorrectly signal the use
5356 of HTTP/1.0 persistent connections even on replies not
5357 compatible, causing significant delays. This server problem
5358 has mostly been seen on redirects.
5359
5360 By enabling this directive Squid attempts to detect such
5361 broken replies and automatically assume the reply is finished
5362 after 10 seconds timeout.
5363 DOC_END
5364
5365 COMMENT_START
5366 CACHE DIGEST OPTIONS
5367 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5368 COMMENT_END
5369
5370 NAME: digest_generation
5371 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5372 TYPE: onoff
5373 LOC: Config.onoff.digest_generation
5374 DEFAULT: on
5375 DOC_START
5376 This controls whether the server will generate a Cache Digest
5377 of its contents. By default, Cache Digest generation is
5378 enabled if Squid is compiled with --enable-cache-digests defined.
5379 DOC_END
5380
5381 NAME: digest_bits_per_entry
5382 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5383 TYPE: int
5384 LOC: Config.digest.bits_per_entry
5385 DEFAULT: 5
5386 DOC_START
5387 This is the number of bits of the server's Cache Digest which
5388 will be associated with the Digest entry for a given HTTP
5389 Method and URL (public key) combination. The default is 5.
5390 DOC_END
5391
5392 NAME: digest_rebuild_period
5393 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5394 COMMENT: (seconds)
5395 TYPE: time_t
5396 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_period
5397 DEFAULT: 1 hour
5398 DOC_START
5399 This is the wait time between Cache Digest rebuilds.
5400 DOC_END
5401
5402 NAME: digest_rewrite_period
5403 COMMENT: (seconds)
5404 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5405 TYPE: time_t
5406 LOC: Config.digest.rewrite_period
5407 DEFAULT: 1 hour
5408 DOC_START
5409 This is the wait time between Cache Digest writes to
5410 disk.
5411 DOC_END
5412
5413 NAME: digest_swapout_chunk_size
5414 COMMENT: (bytes)
5415 TYPE: b_size_t
5416 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5417 LOC: Config.digest.swapout_chunk_size
5418 DEFAULT: 4096 bytes
5419 DOC_START
5420 This is the number of bytes of the Cache Digest to write to
5421 disk at a time. It defaults to 4096 bytes (4KB), the Squid
5422 default swap page.
5423 DOC_END
5424
5425 NAME: digest_rebuild_chunk_percentage
5426 COMMENT: (percent, 0-100)
5427 IFDEF: USE_CACHE_DIGESTS
5428 TYPE: int
5429 LOC: Config.digest.rebuild_chunk_percentage
5430 DEFAULT: 10
5431 DOC_START
5432 This is the percentage of the Cache Digest to be scanned at a
5433 time. By default it is set to 10% of the Cache Digest.
5434 DOC_END
5435
5436 COMMENT_START
5437 SNMP OPTIONS
5438 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5439 COMMENT_END
5440
5441 NAME: snmp_port
5442 TYPE: u_short
5443 LOC: Config.Port.snmp
5444 DEFAULT: 0
5445 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5446 DOC_START
5447 The port number where Squid listens for SNMP requests. To enable
5448 SNMP support set this to a suitable port number. Port number
5449 3401 is often used for the Squid SNMP agent. By default it's
5450 set to "0" (disabled)
5451
5452 Example:
5453 snmp_port 3401
5454 DOC_END
5455
5456 NAME: snmp_access
5457 TYPE: acl_access
5458 LOC: Config.accessList.snmp
5459 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
5460 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5461 DOC_START
5462 Allowing or denying access to the SNMP port.
5463
5464 All access to the agent is denied by default.
5465 usage:
5466
5467 snmp_access allow|deny [!]aclname ...
5468
5469 This clause only supports fast acl types.
5470 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
5471 Example:
5472 snmp_access allow snmppublic localhost
5473 snmp_access deny all
5474 DOC_END
5475
5476 NAME: snmp_incoming_address
5477 TYPE: address
5478 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_incoming
5479 DEFAULT: any_addr
5480 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5481 DOC_NONE
5482
5483 NAME: snmp_outgoing_address
5484 TYPE: address
5485 LOC: Config.Addrs.snmp_outgoing
5486 DEFAULT: no_addr
5487 IFDEF: SQUID_SNMP
5488 DOC_START
5489 Just like 'udp_incoming_address', but for the SNMP port.
5490
5491 snmp_incoming_address is used for the SNMP socket receiving
5492 messages from SNMP agents.
5493 snmp_outgoing_address is used for SNMP packets returned to SNMP
5494 agents.
5495
5496 The default snmp_incoming_address is to listen on all
5497 available network interfaces.
5498
5499 If snmp_outgoing_address is not set it will use the same socket
5500 as snmp_incoming_address. Only change this if you want to have
5501 SNMP replies sent using another address than where this Squid
5502 listens for SNMP queries.
5503
5504 NOTE, snmp_incoming_address and snmp_outgoing_address can not have
5505 the same value since they both use port 3401.
5506 DOC_END
5507
5508 COMMENT_START
5509 ICP OPTIONS
5510 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5511 COMMENT_END
5512
5513 NAME: icp_port udp_port
5514 TYPE: u_short
5515 DEFAULT: 0
5516 LOC: Config.Port.icp
5517 DOC_START
5518 The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP queries to
5519 and from neighbor caches. The standard UDP port for ICP is 3130.
5520 Default is disabled (0).
5521
5522 Example:
5523 icp_port @DEFAULT_ICP_PORT@
5524 DOC_END
5525
5526 NAME: htcp_port
5527 IFDEF: USE_HTCP
5528 TYPE: u_short
5529 DEFAULT: 0
5530 LOC: Config.Port.htcp
5531 DOC_START
5532 The port number where Squid sends and receives HTCP queries to
5533 and from neighbor caches. To turn it on you want to set it to
5534 4827. By default it is set to "0" (disabled).
5535
5536 Example:
5537 htcp_port 4827
5538 DOC_END
5539
5540 NAME: log_icp_queries
5541 COMMENT: on|off
5542 TYPE: onoff
5543 DEFAULT: on
5544 LOC: Config.onoff.log_udp
5545 DOC_START
5546 If set, ICP queries are logged to access.log. You may wish
5547 do disable this if your ICP load is VERY high to speed things
5548 up or to simplify log analysis.
5549 DOC_END
5550
5551 NAME: udp_incoming_address
5552 TYPE: address
5553 LOC:Config.Addrs.udp_incoming
5554 DEFAULT: any_addr
5555 DOC_START
5556 udp_incoming_address is used for UDP packets received from other
5557 caches.
5558
5559 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5560
5561 Only change this if you want to have all UDP queries received on
5562 a specific interface/address.
5563
5564 NOTE: udp_incoming_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5565 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5566
5567 see also; udp_outgoing_address
5568
5569 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5570 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5571 DOC_END
5572
5573 NAME: udp_outgoing_address
5574 TYPE: address
5575 LOC: Config.Addrs.udp_outgoing
5576 DEFAULT: no_addr
5577 DOC_START
5578 udp_outgoing_address is used for UDP packets sent out to other
5579 caches.
5580
5581 The default behavior is to not bind to any specific address.
5582
5583 Instead it will use the same socket as udp_incoming_address.
5584 Only change this if you want to have UDP queries sent using another
5585 address than where this Squid listens for UDP queries from other
5586 caches.
5587
5588 NOTE: udp_outgoing_address is used by the ICP, HTCP, and DNS
5589 modules. Altering it will affect all of them in the same manner.
5590
5591 see also; udp_incoming_address
5592
5593 NOTE, udp_incoming_address and udp_outgoing_address can not
5594 have the same value since they both use the same port.
5595 DOC_END
5596
5597 NAME: icp_hit_stale
5598 COMMENT: on|off
5599 TYPE: onoff
5600 DEFAULT: off
5601 LOC: Config.onoff.icp_hit_stale
5602 DOC_START
5603 If you want to return ICP_HIT for stale cache objects, set this
5604 option to 'on'. If you have sibling relationships with caches
5605 in other administrative domains, this should be 'off'. If you only
5606 have sibling relationships with caches under your control,
5607 it is probably okay to set this to 'on'.
5608 If set to 'on', your siblings should use the option "allow-miss"
5609 on their cache_peer lines for connecting to you.
5610 DOC_END
5611
5612 NAME: minimum_direct_hops
5613 TYPE: int
5614 DEFAULT: 4
5615 LOC: Config.minDirectHops
5616 DOC_START
5617 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5618 which are no more than this many hops away.
5619 DOC_END
5620
5621 NAME: minimum_direct_rtt
5622 TYPE: int
5623 DEFAULT: 400
5624 LOC: Config.minDirectRtt
5625 DOC_START
5626 If using the ICMP pinging stuff, do direct fetches for sites
5627 which are no more than this many rtt milliseconds away.
5628 DOC_END
5629
5630 NAME: netdb_low
5631 TYPE: int
5632 DEFAULT: 900
5633 LOC: Config.Netdb.low
5634 DOC_NONE
5635
5636 NAME: netdb_high
5637 TYPE: int
5638 DEFAULT: 1000
5639 LOC: Config.Netdb.high
5640 DOC_START
5641 The low and high water marks for the ICMP measurement
5642 database. These are counts, not percents. The defaults are
5643 900 and 1000. When the high water mark is reached, database
5644 entries will be deleted until the low mark is reached.
5645 DOC_END
5646
5647 NAME: netdb_ping_period
5648 TYPE: time_t
5649 LOC: Config.Netdb.period
5650 DEFAULT: 5 minutes
5651 DOC_START
5652 The minimum period for measuring a site. There will be at
5653 least this much delay between successive pings to the same
5654 network. The default is five minutes.
5655 DOC_END
5656
5657 NAME: query_icmp
5658 COMMENT: on|off
5659 TYPE: onoff
5660 DEFAULT: off
5661 LOC: Config.onoff.query_icmp
5662 DOC_START
5663 If you want to ask your peers to include ICMP data in their ICP
5664 replies, enable this option.
5665
5666 If your peer has configured Squid (during compilation) with
5667 '--enable-icmp' that peer will send ICMP pings to origin server
5668 sites of the URLs it receives. If you enable this option the
5669 ICP replies from that peer will include the ICMP data (if available).
5670 Then, when choosing a parent cache, Squid will choose the parent with
5671 the minimal RTT to the origin server. When this happens, the
5672 hierarchy field of the access.log will be
5673 "CLOSEST_PARENT_MISS". This option is off by default.
5674 DOC_END
5675
5676 NAME: test_reachability
5677 COMMENT: on|off
5678 TYPE: onoff
5679 DEFAULT: off
5680 LOC: Config.onoff.test_reachability
5681 DOC_START
5682 When this is 'on', ICP MISS replies will be ICP_MISS_NOFETCH
5683 instead of ICP_MISS if the target host is NOT in the ICMP
5684 database, or has a zero RTT.
5685 DOC_END
5686
5687 NAME: icp_query_timeout
5688 COMMENT: (msec)
5689 DEFAULT: 0
5690 TYPE: int
5691 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query
5692 DOC_START
5693 Normally Squid will automatically determine an optimal ICP
5694 query timeout value based on the round-trip-time of recent ICP
5695 queries. If you want to override the value determined by
5696 Squid, set this 'icp_query_timeout' to a non-zero value. This
5697 value is specified in MILLISECONDS, so, to use a 2-second
5698 timeout (the old default), you would write:
5699
5700 icp_query_timeout 2000
5701 DOC_END
5702
5703 NAME: maximum_icp_query_timeout
5704 COMMENT: (msec)
5705 DEFAULT: 2000
5706 TYPE: int
5707 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_max
5708 DOC_START
5709 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5710 sometimes it can lead to very large values (say 5 seconds).
5711 Use this option to put an upper limit on the dynamic timeout
5712 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5713 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5714 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
5715 DOC_END
5716
5717 NAME: minimum_icp_query_timeout
5718 COMMENT: (msec)
5719 DEFAULT: 5
5720 TYPE: int
5721 LOC: Config.Timeout.icp_query_min
5722 DOC_START
5723 Normally the ICP query timeout is determined dynamically. But
5724 sometimes it can lead to very small timeouts, even lower than
5725 the normal latency variance on your link due to traffic.
5726 Use this option to put an lower limit on the dynamic timeout
5727 value. Do NOT use this option to always use a fixed (instead
5728 of a dynamic) timeout value. To set a fixed timeout see the
5729 'icp_query_timeout' directive.
5730 DOC_END
5731
5732 NAME: background_ping_rate
5733 COMMENT: time-units
5734 TYPE: time_t
5735 DEFAULT: 10 seconds
5736 LOC: Config.backgroundPingRate
5737 DOC_START
5738 Controls how often the ICP pings are sent to siblings that
5739 have background-ping set.
5740 DOC_END
5741
5742 COMMENT_START
5743 MULTICAST ICP OPTIONS
5744 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5745 COMMENT_END
5746
5747 NAME: mcast_groups
5748 TYPE: wordlist
5749 LOC: Config.mcast_group_list
5750 DEFAULT: none
5751 DOC_START
5752 This tag specifies a list of multicast groups which your server
5753 should join to receive multicasted ICP queries.
5754
5755 NOTE! Be very careful what you put here! Be sure you
5756 understand the difference between an ICP _query_ and an ICP
5757 _reply_. This option is to be set only if you want to RECEIVE
5758 multicast queries. Do NOT set this option to SEND multicast
5759 ICP (use cache_peer for that). ICP replies are always sent via
5760 unicast, so this option does not affect whether or not you will
5761 receive replies from multicast group members.
5762
5763 You must be very careful to NOT use a multicast address which
5764 is already in use by another group of caches.
5765
5766 If you are unsure about multicast, please read the Multicast
5767 chapter in the Squid FAQ (http://www.squid-cache.org/FAQ/).
5768
5769 Usage: mcast_groups 239.128.16.128 224.0.1.20
5770
5771 By default, Squid doesn't listen on any multicast groups.
5772 DOC_END
5773
5774 NAME: mcast_miss_addr
5775 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5776 TYPE: address
5777 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.addr
5778 DEFAULT: no_addr
5779 DOC_START
5780 If you enable this option, every "cache miss" URL will
5781 be sent out on the specified multicast address.
5782
5783 Do not enable this option unless you are are absolutely
5784 certain you understand what you are doing.
5785 DOC_END
5786
5787 NAME: mcast_miss_ttl
5788 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5789 TYPE: u_short
5790 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.ttl
5791 DEFAULT: 16
5792 DOC_START
5793 This is the time-to-live value for packets multicasted
5794 when multicasting off cache miss URLs is enabled. By
5795 default this is set to 'site scope', i.e. 16.
5796 DOC_END
5797
5798 NAME: mcast_miss_port
5799 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5800 TYPE: u_short
5801 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.port
5802 DEFAULT: 3135
5803 DOC_START
5804 This is the port number to be used in conjunction with
5805 'mcast_miss_addr'.
5806 DOC_END
5807
5808 NAME: mcast_miss_encode_key
5809 IFDEF: MULTICAST_MISS_STREAM
5810 TYPE: string
5811 LOC: Config.mcast_miss.encode_key
5812 DEFAULT: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
5813 DOC_START
5814 The URLs that are sent in the multicast miss stream are
5815 encrypted. This is the encryption key.
5816 DOC_END
5817
5818 NAME: mcast_icp_query_timeout
5819 COMMENT: (msec)
5820 DEFAULT: 2000
5821 TYPE: int
5822 LOC: Config.Timeout.mcast_icp_query
5823 DOC_START
5824 For multicast peers, Squid regularly sends out ICP "probes" to
5825 count how many other peers are listening on the given multicast
5826 address. This value specifies how long Squid should wait to
5827 count all the replies. The default is 2000 msec, or 2
5828 seconds.
5829 DOC_END
5830
5831 COMMENT_START
5832 INTERNAL ICON OPTIONS
5833 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5834 COMMENT_END
5835
5836 NAME: icon_directory
5837 TYPE: string
5838 LOC: Config.icons.directory
5839 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5840 DOC_START
5841 Where the icons are stored. These are normally kept in
5842 @DEFAULT_ICON_DIR@
5843 DOC_END
5844
5845 NAME: global_internal_static
5846 TYPE: onoff
5847 LOC: Config.onoff.global_internal_static
5848 DEFAULT: on
5849 DOC_START
5850 This directive controls is Squid should intercept all requests for
5851 /squid-internal-static/ no matter which host the URL is requesting
5852 (default on setting), or if nothing special should be done for
5853 such URLs (off setting). The purpose of this directive is to make
5854 icons etc work better in complex cache hierarchies where it may
5855 not always be possible for all corners in the cache mesh to reach
5856 the server generating a directory listing.
5857 DOC_END
5858
5859 NAME: short_icon_urls
5860 TYPE: onoff
5861 LOC: Config.icons.use_short_names
5862 DEFAULT: on
5863 DOC_START
5864 If this is enabled Squid will use short URLs for icons.
5865 If disabled it will revert to the old behavior of including
5866 it's own name and port in the URL.
5867
5868 If you run a complex cache hierarchy with a mix of Squid and
5869 other proxies you may need to disable this directive.
5870 DOC_END
5871
5872 COMMENT_START
5873 ERROR PAGE OPTIONS
5874 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5875 COMMENT_END
5876
5877 NAME: error_directory
5878 TYPE: string
5879 LOC: Config.errorDirectory
5880 DEFAULT: none
5881 DOC_START
5882 If you wish to create your own versions of the default
5883 error files to customize them to suit your company copy
5884 the error/template files to another directory and point
5885 this tag at them.
5886
5887 WARNING: This option will disable multi-language support
5888 on error pages if used.
5889
5890 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5891 a wide variety of languages. If you are making translations for a
5892 language that Squid does not currently provide please consider
5893 contributing your translation back to the project.
5894 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5895
5896 The squid developers working on translations are happy to supply drop-in
5897 translated error files in exchange for any new language contributions.
5898 DOC_END
5899
5900 NAME: error_default_language
5901 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5902 TYPE: string
5903 LOC: Config.errorDefaultLanguage
5904 DEFAULT: none
5905 DOC_START
5906 Set the default language which squid will send error pages in
5907 if no existing translation matches the clients language
5908 preferences.
5909
5910 If unset (default) generic English will be used.
5911
5912 The squid developers are interested in making squid available in
5913 a wide variety of languages. If you are interested in making
5914 translations for any language see the squid wiki for details.
5915 http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Translations
5916 DOC_END
5917
5918 NAME: error_log_languages
5919 IFDEF: USE_ERR_LOCALES
5920 TYPE: onoff
5921 LOC: Config.errorLogMissingLanguages
5922 DEFAULT: on
5923 DOC_START
5924 Log to cache.log what languages users are attempting to
5925 auto-negotiate for translations.
5926
5927 Successful negotiations are not logged. Only failures
5928 have meaning to indicate that Squid may need an upgrade
5929 of its error page translations.
5930 DOC_END
5931
5932 NAME: err_page_stylesheet
5933 TYPE: string
5934 LOC: Config.errorStylesheet
5935 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/errorpage.css
5936 DOC_START
5937 CSS Stylesheet to pattern the display of Squid default error pages.
5938
5939 For information on CSS see http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
5940 DOC_END
5941
5942 NAME: err_html_text
5943 TYPE: eol
5944 LOC: Config.errHtmlText
5945 DEFAULT: none
5946 DOC_START
5947 HTML text to include in error messages. Make this a "mailto"
5948 URL to your admin address, or maybe just a link to your
5949 organizations Web page.
5950
5951 To include this in your error messages, you must rewrite
5952 the error template files (found in the "errors" directory).
5953 Wherever you want the 'err_html_text' line to appear,
5954 insert a %L tag in the error template file.
5955 DOC_END
5956
5957 NAME: email_err_data
5958 COMMENT: on|off
5959 TYPE: onoff
5960 LOC: Config.onoff.emailErrData
5961 DEFAULT: on
5962 DOC_START
5963 If enabled, information about the occurred error will be
5964 included in the mailto links of the ERR pages (if %W is set)
5965 so that the email body contains the data.
5966 Syntax is <A HREF="mailto:%w%W">%w</A>
5967 DOC_END
5968
5969 NAME: deny_info
5970 TYPE: denyinfo
5971 LOC: Config.denyInfoList
5972 DEFAULT: none
5973 DOC_START
5974 Usage: deny_info err_page_name acl
5975 or deny_info http://... acl
5976 or deny_info TCP_RESET acl
5977
5978 This can be used to return a ERR_ page for requests which
5979 do not pass the 'http_access' rules. Squid remembers the last
5980 acl it evaluated in http_access, and if a 'deny_info' line exists
5981 for that ACL Squid returns a corresponding error page.
5982
5983 The acl is typically the last acl on the http_access deny line which
5984 denied access. The exceptions to this rule are:
5985 - When Squid needs to request authentication credentials. It's then
5986 the first authentication related acl encountered
5987 - When none of the http_access lines matches. It's then the last
5988 acl processed on the last http_access line.
5989 - When the decision to deny access was made by an adaptation service,
5990 the acl name is the corresponding eCAP or ICAP service_name.
5991
5992 NP: If providing your own custom error pages with error_directory
5993 you may also specify them by your custom file name:
5994 Example: deny_info ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED bad_guys
5995
5996 By defaut Squid will send "403 Forbidden". A different 4xx or 5xx
5997 may be specified by prefixing the file name with the code and a colon.
5998 e.g. 404:ERR_CUSTOM_ACCESS_DENIED
5999
6000 Alternatively you can tell Squid to reset the TCP connection
6001 by specifying TCP_RESET.
6002
6003 Or you can specify an error URL or URL pattern. The browsers will
6004 get redirected to the specified URL after formatting tags have
6005 been replaced. Redirect will be done with 302 or 307 according to
6006 HTTP/1.1 specs. A different 3xx code may be specified by prefixing
6007 the URL. e.g. 303:http://example.com/
6008
6009 URL FORMAT TAGS:
6010 %a - username (if available. Password NOT included)
6011 %B - FTP path URL
6012 %e - Error number
6013 %E - Error description
6014 %h - Squid hostname
6015 %H - Request domain name
6016 %i - Client IP Address
6017 %M - Request Method
6018 %o - Message result from external ACL helper
6019 %p - Request Port number
6020 %P - Request Protocol name
6021 %R - Request URL path
6022 %T - Timestamp in RFC 1123 format
6023 %U - Full canonical URL from client
6024 (HTTPS URLs terminate with *)
6025 %u - Full canonical URL from client
6026 %w - Admin email from squid.conf
6027 %x - Error name
6028 %% - Literal percent (%) code
6029
6030 DOC_END
6031
6032 COMMENT_START
6033 OPTIONS INFLUENCING REQUEST FORWARDING
6034 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6035 COMMENT_END
6036
6037 NAME: nonhierarchical_direct
6038 TYPE: onoff
6039 LOC: Config.onoff.nonhierarchical_direct
6040 DEFAULT: on
6041 DOC_START
6042 By default, Squid will send any non-hierarchical requests
6043 (matching hierarchy_stoplist or not cacheable request type) direct
6044 to origin servers.
6045
6046 If you set this to off, Squid will prefer to send these
6047 requests to parents.
6048
6049 Note that in most configurations, by turning this off you will only
6050 add latency to these request without any improvement in global hit
6051 ratio.
6052
6053 If you are inside an firewall see never_direct instead of
6054 this directive.
6055 DOC_END
6056
6057 NAME: prefer_direct
6058 TYPE: onoff
6059 LOC: Config.onoff.prefer_direct
6060 DEFAULT: off
6061 DOC_START
6062 Normally Squid tries to use parents for most requests. If you for some
6063 reason like it to first try going direct and only use a parent if
6064 going direct fails set this to on.
6065
6066 By combining nonhierarchical_direct off and prefer_direct on you
6067 can set up Squid to use a parent as a backup path if going direct
6068 fails.
6069
6070 Note: If you want Squid to use parents for all requests see
6071 the never_direct directive. prefer_direct only modifies how Squid
6072 acts on cacheable requests.
6073 DOC_END
6074
6075 NAME: always_direct
6076 TYPE: acl_access
6077 LOC: Config.accessList.AlwaysDirect
6078 DEFAULT: none
6079 DOC_START
6080 Usage: always_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6081
6082 Here you can use ACL elements to specify requests which should
6083 ALWAYS be forwarded by Squid to the origin servers without using
6084 any peers. For example, to always directly forward requests for
6085 local servers ignoring any parents or siblings you may have use
6086 something like:
6087
6088 acl local-servers dstdomain my.domain.net
6089 always_direct allow local-servers
6090
6091 To always forward FTP requests directly, use
6092
6093 acl FTP proto FTP
6094 always_direct allow FTP
6095
6096 NOTE: There is a similar, but opposite option named
6097 'never_direct'. You need to be aware that "always_direct deny
6098 foo" is NOT the same thing as "never_direct allow foo". You
6099 may need to use a deny rule to exclude a more-specific case of
6100 some other rule. Example:
6101
6102 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6103 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6104 always_direct deny local-external
6105 always_direct allow local-servers
6106
6107 NOTE: If your goal is to make the client forward the request
6108 directly to the origin server bypassing Squid then this needs
6109 to be done in the client configuration. Squid configuration
6110 can only tell Squid how Squid should fetch the object.
6111
6112 NOTE: This directive is not related to caching. The replies
6113 is cached as usual even if you use always_direct. To not cache
6114 the replies see the 'cache' directive.
6115
6116 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6117 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6118 DOC_END
6119
6120 NAME: never_direct
6121 TYPE: acl_access
6122 LOC: Config.accessList.NeverDirect
6123 DEFAULT: none
6124 DOC_START
6125 Usage: never_direct allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6126
6127 never_direct is the opposite of always_direct. Please read
6128 the description for always_direct if you have not already.
6129
6130 With 'never_direct' you can use ACL elements to specify
6131 requests which should NEVER be forwarded directly to origin
6132 servers. For example, to force the use of a proxy for all
6133 requests, except those in your local domain use something like:
6134
6135 acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net
6136 never_direct deny local-servers
6137 never_direct allow all
6138
6139 or if Squid is inside a firewall and there are local intranet
6140 servers inside the firewall use something like:
6141
6142 acl local-intranet dstdomain .foo.net
6143 acl local-external dstdomain external.foo.net
6144 always_direct deny local-external
6145 always_direct allow local-intranet
6146 never_direct allow all
6147
6148 This clause supports both fast and slow acl types.
6149 See http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl for details.
6150 DOC_END
6151
6152 COMMENT_START
6153 ADVANCED NETWORKING OPTIONS
6154 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6155 COMMENT_END
6156
6157 NAME: incoming_icp_average
6158 TYPE: int
6159 DEFAULT: 6
6160 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_average
6161 DOC_NONE
6162
6163 NAME: incoming_http_average
6164 TYPE: int
6165 DEFAULT: 4
6166 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_average
6167 DOC_NONE
6168
6169 NAME: incoming_dns_average
6170 TYPE: int
6171 DEFAULT: 4
6172 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_average
6173 DOC_NONE
6174
6175 NAME: min_icp_poll_cnt
6176 TYPE: int
6177 DEFAULT: 8
6178 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.icp_min_poll
6179 DOC_NONE
6180
6181 NAME: min_dns_poll_cnt
6182 TYPE: int
6183 DEFAULT: 8
6184 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.dns_min_poll
6185 DOC_NONE
6186
6187 NAME: min_http_poll_cnt
6188 TYPE: int
6189 DEFAULT: 8
6190 LOC: Config.comm_incoming.http_min_poll
6191 DOC_START
6192 Heavy voodoo here. I can't even believe you are reading this.
6193 Are you crazy? Don't even think about adjusting these unless
6194 you understand the algorithms in comm_select.c first!
6195 DOC_END
6196
6197 NAME: accept_filter
6198 TYPE: string
6199 DEFAULT: none
6200 LOC: Config.accept_filter
6201 DOC_START
6202 FreeBSD:
6203
6204 The name of an accept(2) filter to install on Squid's
6205 listen socket(s). This feature is perhaps specific to
6206 FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
6207
6208 The 'httpready' filter delays delivering new connections
6209 to Squid until a full HTTP request has been received.
6210 See the accf_http(9) man page for details.
6211
6212 The 'dataready' filter delays delivering new connections
6213 to Squid until there is some data to process.
6214 See the accf_dataready(9) man page for details.
6215
6216 Linux:
6217
6218 The 'data' filter delays delivering of new connections
6219 to Squid until there is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.
6220 You may optionally specify a number of seconds to wait by
6221 'data=N' where N is the number of seconds. Defaults to 30
6222 if not specified. See the tcp(7) man page for details.
6223 EXAMPLE:
6224 # FreeBSD
6225 accept_filter httpready
6226 # Linux
6227 accept_filter data
6228 DOC_END
6229
6230 NAME: client_ip_max_connections
6231 TYPE: int
6232 LOC: Config.client_ip_max_connections
6233 DEFAULT: -1
6234 DOC_START
6235 Set an absolute limit on the number of connections a single
6236 client IP can use. Any more than this and Squid will begin to drop
6237 new connections from the client until it closes some links.
6238
6239 Note that this is a global limit. It affects all HTTP, HTCP, Gopher and FTP
6240 connections from the client. For finer control use the ACL access controls.
6241
6242 Requires client_db to be enabled (the default).
6243
6244 WARNING: This may noticably slow down traffic received via external proxies
6245 or NAT devices and cause them to rebound error messages back to their clients.
6246 DOC_END
6247
6248 NAME: tcp_recv_bufsize
6249 COMMENT: (bytes)
6250 TYPE: b_size_t
6251 DEFAULT: 0 bytes
6252 LOC: Config.tcpRcvBufsz
6253 DOC_START
6254 Size of receive buffer to set for TCP sockets. Probably just
6255 as easy to change your kernel's default. Set to zero to use
6256 the default buffer size.
6257 DOC_END
6258
6259 COMMENT_START
6260 ICAP OPTIONS
6261 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6262 COMMENT_END
6263
6264 NAME: icap_enable
6265 TYPE: onoff
6266 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6267 COMMENT: on|off
6268 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.onoff
6269 DEFAULT: off
6270 DOC_START
6271 If you want to enable the ICAP module support, set this to on.
6272 DOC_END
6273
6274 NAME: icap_connect_timeout
6275 TYPE: time_t
6276 DEFAULT: none
6277 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.connect_timeout_raw
6278 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6279 DOC_START
6280 This parameter specifies how long to wait for the TCP connect to
6281 the requested ICAP server to complete before giving up and either
6282 terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the failure.
6283
6284 The default for optional services is peer_connect_timeout.
6285 The default for essential services is connect_timeout.
6286 If this option is explicitly set, its value applies to all services.
6287 DOC_END
6288
6289 NAME: icap_io_timeout
6290 COMMENT: time-units
6291 TYPE: time_t
6292 DEFAULT: none
6293 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.io_timeout_raw
6294 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6295 DOC_START
6296 This parameter specifies how long to wait for an I/O activity on
6297 an established, active ICAP connection before giving up and
6298 either terminating the HTTP transaction or bypassing the
6299 failure.
6300
6301 The default is read_timeout.
6302 DOC_END
6303
6304 NAME: icap_service_failure_limit
6305 COMMENT: limit [in memory-depth time-units]
6306 TYPE: icap_service_failure_limit
6307 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6308 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
6309 DEFAULT: 10
6310 DOC_START
6311 The limit specifies the number of failures that Squid tolerates
6312 when establishing a new TCP connection with an ICAP service. If
6313 the number of failures exceeds the limit, the ICAP service is
6314 not used for new ICAP requests until it is time to refresh its
6315 OPTIONS.
6316
6317 A negative value disables the limit. Without the limit, an ICAP
6318 service will not be considered down due to connectivity failures
6319 between ICAP OPTIONS requests.
6320
6321 Squid forgets ICAP service failures older than the specified
6322 value of memory-depth. The memory fading algorithm
6323 is approximate because Squid does not remember individual
6324 errors but groups them instead, splitting the option
6325 value into ten time slots of equal length.
6326
6327 When memory-depth is 0 and by default this option has no
6328 effect on service failure expiration.
6329
6330 Squid always forgets failures when updating service settings
6331 using an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, regardless of this option
6332 setting.
6333
6334 For example,
6335 # suspend service usage after 10 failures in 5 seconds:
6336 icap_service_failure_limit 10 in 5 seconds
6337 DOC_END
6338
6339 NAME: icap_service_revival_delay
6340 TYPE: int
6341 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6342 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.service_revival_delay
6343 DEFAULT: 180
6344 DOC_START
6345 The delay specifies the number of seconds to wait after an ICAP
6346 OPTIONS request failure before requesting the options again. The
6347 failed ICAP service is considered "down" until fresh OPTIONS are
6348 fetched.
6349
6350 The actual delay cannot be smaller than the hardcoded minimum
6351 delay of 30 seconds.
6352 DOC_END
6353
6354 NAME: icap_preview_enable
6355 TYPE: onoff
6356 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6357 COMMENT: on|off
6358 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_enable
6359 DEFAULT: on
6360 DOC_START
6361 The ICAP Preview feature allows the ICAP server to handle the
6362 HTTP message by looking only at the beginning of the message body
6363 or even without receiving the body at all. In some environments,
6364 previews greatly speedup ICAP processing.
6365
6366 During an ICAP OPTIONS transaction, the server may tell Squid what
6367 HTTP messages should be previewed and how big the preview should be.
6368 Squid will not use Preview if the server did not request one.
6369
6370 To disable ICAP Preview for all ICAP services, regardless of
6371 individual ICAP server OPTIONS responses, set this option to "off".
6372 Example:
6373 icap_preview_enable off
6374 DOC_END
6375
6376 NAME: icap_preview_size
6377 TYPE: int
6378 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6379 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.preview_size
6380 DEFAULT: -1
6381 DOC_START
6382 The default size of preview data to be sent to the ICAP server.
6383 -1 means no preview. This value might be overwritten on a per server
6384 basis by OPTIONS requests.
6385 DOC_END
6386
6387 NAME: icap_206_enable
6388 TYPE: onoff
6389 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6390 COMMENT: on|off
6391 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.allow206_enable
6392 DEFAULT: on
6393 DOC_START
6394 206 (Partial Content) responses is an ICAP extension that allows the
6395 ICAP agents to optionally combine adapted and original HTTP message
6396 content. The decision to combine is postponed until the end of the
6397 ICAP response. Squid supports Partial Content extension by default.
6398
6399 Activation of the Partial Content extension is negotiated with each
6400 ICAP service during OPTIONS exchange. Most ICAP servers should handle
6401 negotation correctly even if they do not support the extension, but
6402 some might fail. To disable Partial Content support for all ICAP
6403 services and to avoid any negotiation, set this option to "off".
6404
6405 Example:
6406 icap_206_enable off
6407 DOC_END
6408
6409 NAME: icap_default_options_ttl
6410 TYPE: int
6411 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6412 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.default_options_ttl
6413 DEFAULT: 60
6414 DOC_START
6415 The default TTL value for ICAP OPTIONS responses that don't have
6416 an Options-TTL header.
6417 DOC_END
6418
6419 NAME: icap_persistent_connections
6420 TYPE: onoff
6421 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6422 COMMENT: on|off
6423 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.reuse_connections
6424 DEFAULT: on
6425 DOC_START
6426 Whether or not Squid should use persistent connections to
6427 an ICAP server.
6428 DOC_END
6429
6430 NAME: adaptation_send_client_ip icap_send_client_ip
6431 TYPE: onoff
6432 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6433 COMMENT: on|off
6434 LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_client_ip
6435 DEFAULT: off
6436 DOC_START
6437 If enabled, Squid shares HTTP client IP information with adaptation
6438 services. For ICAP, Squid adds the X-Client-IP header to ICAP requests.
6439 For eCAP, Squid sets the libecap::metaClientIp transaction option.
6440
6441 See also: adaptation_uses_indirect_client
6442 DOC_END
6443
6444 NAME: adaptation_send_username icap_send_client_username
6445 TYPE: onoff
6446 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6447 COMMENT: on|off
6448 LOC: Adaptation::Config::send_username
6449 DEFAULT: off
6450 DOC_START
6451 This sends authenticated HTTP client username (if available) to
6452 the adaptation service.
6453
6454 For ICAP, the username value is encoded based on the
6455 icap_client_username_encode option and is sent using the header
6456 specified by the icap_client_username_header option.
6457 DOC_END
6458
6459 NAME: icap_client_username_header
6460 TYPE: string
6461 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6462 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_header
6463 DEFAULT: X-Client-Username
6464 DOC_START
6465 ICAP request header name to use for adaptation_send_username.
6466 DOC_END
6467
6468 NAME: icap_client_username_encode
6469 TYPE: onoff
6470 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6471 COMMENT: on|off
6472 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.client_username_encode
6473 DEFAULT: off
6474 DOC_START
6475 Whether to base64 encode the authenticated client username.
6476 DOC_END
6477
6478 NAME: icap_service
6479 TYPE: icap_service_type
6480 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6481 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig
6482 DEFAULT: none
6483 DOC_START
6484 Defines a single ICAP service using the following format:
6485
6486 icap_service service_name vectoring_point [options] service_url
6487
6488 service_name: ID
6489 an opaque identifier which must be unique in squid.conf
6490
6491 vectoring_point: reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6492 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6493 ICAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6494 are not yet supported.
6495
6496 service_url: icap://servername:port/servicepath
6497 ICAP server and service location.
6498
6499 ICAP does not allow a single service to handle both REQMOD and RESPMOD
6500 transactions. Squid does not enforce that requirement. You can specify
6501 services with the same service_url and different vectoring_points. You
6502 can even specify multiple identical services as long as their
6503 service_names differ.
6504
6505
6506 Service options are separated by white space. ICAP services support
6507 the following name=value options:
6508
6509 bypass=on|off|1|0
6510 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is treated as
6511 optional. If the service cannot be reached or malfunctions,
6512 Squid will try to ignore any errors and process the message as
6513 if the service was not enabled. No all ICAP errors can be
6514 bypassed. If set to 0, the ICAP service is treated as
6515 essential and all ICAP errors will result in an error page
6516 returned to the HTTP client.
6517
6518 Bypass is off by default: services are treated as essential.
6519
6520 routing=on|off|1|0
6521 If set to 'on' or '1', the ICAP service is allowed to
6522 dynamically change the current message adaptation plan by
6523 returning a chain of services to be used next. The services
6524 are specified using the X-Next-Services ICAP response header
6525 value, formatted as a comma-separated list of service names.
6526 Each named service should be configured in squid.conf and
6527 should have the same method and vectoring point as the current
6528 ICAP transaction. Services violating these rules are ignored.
6529 An empty X-Next-Services value results in an empty plan which
6530 ends the current adaptation.
6531
6532 Routing is not allowed by default: the ICAP X-Next-Services
6533 response header is ignored.
6534
6535 ipv6=on|off
6536 Only has effect on split-stack systems. The default on those systems
6537 is to use IPv4-only connections. When set to 'on' this option will
6538 make Squid use IPv6-only connections to contact this ICAP service.
6539
6540 on-overload=block|bypass|wait|force
6541 If the service Max-Connections limit has been reached, do
6542 one of the following for each new ICAP transaction:
6543 * block: send an HTTP error response to the client
6544 * bypass: ignore the "over-connected" ICAP service
6545 * wait: wait (in a FIFO queue) for an ICAP connection slot
6546 * force: proceed, ignoring the Max-Connections limit
6547
6548 In SMP mode with N workers, each worker assumes the service
6549 connection limit is Max-Connections/N, even though not all
6550 workers may use a given service.
6551
6552 The default value is "bypass" if service is bypassable,
6553 otherwise it is set to "wait".
6554
6555
6556 max-conn=number
6557 Use the given number as the Max-Connections limit, regardless
6558 of the Max-Connections value given by the service, if any.
6559
6560 Older icap_service format without optional named parameters is
6561 deprecated but supported for backward compatibility.
6562
6563 Example:
6564 icap_service svcBlocker reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://icap1.mydomain.net:1344/reqmod
6565 icap_service svcLogger reqmod_precache routing=on icap://icap2.mydomain.net:1344/respmod
6566 DOC_END
6567
6568 NAME: icap_class
6569 TYPE: icap_class_type
6570 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6571 LOC: none
6572 DEFAULT: none
6573 DOC_START
6574 This deprecated option was documented to define an ICAP service
6575 chain, even though it actually defined a set of similar, redundant
6576 services, and the chains were not supported.
6577
6578 To define a set of redundant services, please use the
6579 adaptation_service_set directive. For service chains, use
6580 adaptation_service_chain.
6581 DOC_END
6582
6583 NAME: icap_access
6584 TYPE: icap_access_type
6585 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6586 LOC: none
6587 DEFAULT: none
6588 DOC_START
6589 This option is deprecated. Please use adaptation_access, which
6590 has the same ICAP functionality, but comes with better
6591 documentation, and eCAP support.
6592 DOC_END
6593
6594 COMMENT_START
6595 eCAP OPTIONS
6596 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6597 COMMENT_END
6598
6599 NAME: ecap_enable
6600 TYPE: onoff
6601 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6602 COMMENT: on|off
6603 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig.onoff
6604 DEFAULT: off
6605 DOC_START
6606 Controls whether eCAP support is enabled.
6607 DOC_END
6608
6609 NAME: ecap_service
6610 TYPE: ecap_service_type
6611 IFDEF: USE_ECAP
6612 LOC: Adaptation::Ecap::TheConfig
6613 DEFAULT: none
6614 DOC_START
6615 Defines a single eCAP service
6616
6617 ecap_service servicename vectoring_point bypass service_url
6618
6619 vectoring_point = reqmod_precache|reqmod_postcache|respmod_precache|respmod_postcache
6620 This specifies at which point of transaction processing the
6621 eCAP service should be activated. *_postcache vectoring points
6622 are not yet supported.
6623 bypass = 1|0
6624 If set to 1, the eCAP service is treated as optional. If the
6625 service cannot be reached or malfunctions, Squid will try to
6626 ignore any errors and process the message as if the service
6627 was not enabled. No all eCAP errors can be bypassed.
6628 If set to 0, the eCAP service is treated as essential and all
6629 eCAP errors will result in an error page returned to the
6630 HTTP client.
6631 service_url = ecap://vendor/service_name?custom&cgi=style&parameters=optional
6632
6633 Example:
6634 ecap_service service_1 reqmod_precache 0 ecap://filters-R-us/leakDetector?on_error=block
6635 ecap_service service_2 respmod_precache 1 icap://filters-R-us/virusFilter?config=/etc/vf.cfg
6636 DOC_END
6637
6638 NAME: loadable_modules
6639 TYPE: wordlist
6640 IFDEF: USE_LOADABLE_MODULES
6641 LOC: Config.loadable_module_names
6642 DEFAULT: none
6643 DOC_START
6644 Instructs Squid to load the specified dynamic module(s) or activate
6645 preloaded module(s).
6646 Example:
6647 loadable_modules @DEFAULT_PREFIX@/lib/MinimalAdapter.so
6648 DOC_END
6649
6650 COMMENT_START
6651 MESSAGE ADAPTATION OPTIONS
6652 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6653 COMMENT_END
6654
6655 NAME: adaptation_service_set
6656 TYPE: adaptation_service_set_type
6657 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6658 LOC: none
6659 DEFAULT: none
6660 DOC_START
6661
6662 Configures an ordered set of similar, redundant services. This is
6663 useful when hot standby or backup adaptation servers are available.
6664
6665 adaptation_service_set set_name service_name1 service_name2 ...
6666
6667 The named services are used in the set declaration order. The first
6668 applicable adaptation service from the set is used first. The next
6669 applicable service is tried if and only if the transaction with the
6670 previous service fails and the message waiting to be adapted is still
6671 intact.
6672
6673 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6674 not a part of the set. A broken service is a down optional service.
6675
6676 The services in a set must be attached to the same vectoring point
6677 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6678
6679 If all services in a set are optional then adaptation failures are
6680 bypassable. If all services in the set are essential, then a
6681 transaction failure with one service may still be retried using
6682 another service from the set, but when all services fail, the master
6683 transaction fails as well.
6684
6685 A set may contain a mix of optional and essential services, but that
6686 is likely to lead to surprising results because broken services become
6687 ignored (see above), making previously bypassable failures fatal.
6688 Technically, it is the bypassability of the last failed service that
6689 matters.
6690
6691 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_chain
6692
6693 Example:
6694 adaptation_service_set svcBlocker urlFilterPrimary urlFilterBackup
6695 adaptation service_set svcLogger loggerLocal loggerRemote
6696 DOC_END
6697
6698 NAME: adaptation_service_chain
6699 TYPE: adaptation_service_chain_type
6700 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6701 LOC: none
6702 DEFAULT: none
6703 DOC_START
6704
6705 Configures a list of complementary services that will be applied
6706 one-by-one, forming an adaptation chain or pipeline. This is useful
6707 when Squid must perform different adaptations on the same message.
6708
6709 adaptation_service_chain chain_name service_name1 svc_name2 ...
6710
6711 The named services are used in the chain declaration order. The first
6712 applicable adaptation service from the chain is used first. The next
6713 applicable service is applied to the successful adaptation results of
6714 the previous service in the chain.
6715
6716 When adaptation starts, broken services are ignored as if they were
6717 not a part of the chain. A broken service is a down optional service.
6718
6719 Request satisfaction terminates the adaptation chain because Squid
6720 does not currently allow declaration of RESPMOD services at the
6721 "reqmod_precache" vectoring point (see icap_service or ecap_service).
6722
6723 The services in a chain must be attached to the same vectoring point
6724 (e.g., pre-cache) and use the same adaptation method (e.g., REQMOD).
6725
6726 A chain may contain a mix of optional and essential services. If an
6727 essential adaptation fails (or the failure cannot be bypassed for
6728 other reasons), the master transaction fails. Otherwise, the failure
6729 is bypassed as if the failed adaptation service was not in the chain.
6730
6731 See also: adaptation_access adaptation_service_set
6732
6733 Example:
6734 adaptation_service_chain svcRequest requestLogger urlFilter leakDetector
6735 DOC_END
6736
6737 NAME: adaptation_access
6738 TYPE: adaptation_access_type
6739 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6740 LOC: none
6741 DEFAULT: none
6742 DOC_START
6743 Sends an HTTP transaction to an ICAP or eCAP adaptation service.
6744
6745 adaptation_access service_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6746 adaptation_access set_name allow|deny [!]aclname...
6747
6748 At each supported vectoring point, the adaptation_access
6749 statements are processed in the order they appear in this
6750 configuration file. Statements pointing to the following services
6751 are ignored (i.e., skipped without checking their ACL):
6752
6753 - services serving different vectoring points
6754 - "broken-but-bypassable" services
6755 - "up" services configured to ignore such transactions
6756 (e.g., based on the ICAP Transfer-Ignore header).
6757
6758 When a set_name is used, all services in the set are checked
6759 using the same rules, to find the first applicable one. See
6760 adaptation_service_set for details.
6761
6762 If an access list is checked and there is a match, the
6763 processing stops: For an "allow" rule, the corresponding
6764 adaptation service is used for the transaction. For a "deny"
6765 rule, no adaptation service is activated.
6766
6767 It is currently not possible to apply more than one adaptation
6768 service at the same vectoring point to the same HTTP transaction.
6769
6770 See also: icap_service and ecap_service
6771
6772 Example:
6773 adaptation_access service_1 allow all
6774 DOC_END
6775
6776 NAME: adaptation_service_iteration_limit
6777 TYPE: int
6778 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6779 LOC: Adaptation::Config::service_iteration_limit
6780 DEFAULT: 16
6781 DOC_START
6782 Limits the number of iterations allowed when applying adaptation
6783 services to a message. If your longest adaptation set or chain
6784 may have more than 16 services, increase the limit beyond its
6785 default value of 16. If detecting infinite iteration loops sooner
6786 is critical, make the iteration limit match the actual number
6787 of services in your longest adaptation set or chain.
6788
6789 Infinite adaptation loops are most likely with routing services.
6790
6791 See also: icap_service routing=1
6792 DOC_END
6793
6794 NAME: adaptation_masterx_shared_names
6795 TYPE: string
6796 IFDEF: USE_ADAPTATION
6797 LOC: Adaptation::Config::masterx_shared_name
6798 DEFAULT: none
6799 DOC_START
6800 For each master transaction (i.e., the HTTP request and response
6801 sequence, including all related ICAP and eCAP exchanges), Squid
6802 maintains a table of metadata. The table entries are (name, value)
6803 pairs shared among eCAP and ICAP exchanges. The table is destroyed
6804 with the master transaction.
6805
6806 This option specifies the table entry names that Squid must accept
6807 from and forward to the adaptation transactions.
6808
6809 An ICAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6810 shared table by returning an ICAP header field with a name
6811 specified in adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6812
6813 An eCAP REQMOD or RESPMOD transaction may set an entry in the
6814 shared table by implementing the libecap::visitEachOption() API
6815 to provide an option with a name specified in
6816 adaptation_masterx_shared_names.
6817
6818 Squid will store and forward the set entry to subsequent adaptation
6819 transactions within the same master transaction scope.
6820
6821 Only one shared entry name is supported at this time.
6822
6823 Example:
6824 # share authentication information among ICAP services
6825 adaptation_masterx_shared_names X-Subscriber-ID
6826 DOC_END
6827
6828 NAME: icap_retry
6829 TYPE: acl_access
6830 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6831 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat
6832 DEFAULT_IF_NONE: deny all
6833 DOC_START
6834 This ACL determines which retriable ICAP transactions are
6835 retried. Transactions that received a complete ICAP response
6836 and did not have to consume or produce HTTP bodies to receive
6837 that response are usually retriable.
6838
6839 icap_retry allow|deny [!]aclname ...
6840
6841 Squid automatically retries some ICAP I/O timeouts and errors
6842 due to persistent connection race conditions.
6843
6844 See also: icap_retry_limit
6845 DOC_END
6846
6847 NAME: icap_retry_limit
6848 TYPE: int
6849 IFDEF: ICAP_CLIENT
6850 LOC: Adaptation::Icap::TheConfig.repeat_limit
6851 DEFAULT: 0
6852 DOC_START
6853 Limits the number of retries allowed. When set to zero (default),
6854 no retries are allowed.
6855
6856 Communication errors due to persistent connection race
6857 conditions are unavoidable, automatically retried, and do not
6858 count against this limit.
6859
6860 See also: icap_retry
6861 DOC_END
6862
6863
6864 COMMENT_START
6865 DNS OPTIONS
6866 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
6867 COMMENT_END
6868
6869 NAME: check_hostnames
6870 TYPE: onoff
6871 DEFAULT: off
6872 LOC: Config.onoff.check_hostnames
6873 DOC_START
6874 For security and stability reasons Squid can check
6875 hostnames for Internet standard RFC compliance. If you want
6876 Squid to perform these checks turn this directive on.
6877 DOC_END
6878
6879 NAME: allow_underscore
6880 TYPE: onoff
6881 DEFAULT: on
6882 LOC: Config.onoff.allow_underscore
6883 DOC_START
6884 Underscore characters is not strictly allowed in Internet hostnames
6885 but nevertheless used by many sites. Set this to off if you want
6886 Squid to be strict about the standard.
6887 This check is performed only when check_hostnames is set to on.
6888 DOC_END
6889
6890 NAME: cache_dns_program
6891 TYPE: string
6892 IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6893 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_DNSSERVER@
6894 LOC: Config.Program.dnsserver
6895 DOC_START
6896 Specify the location of the executable for dnslookup process.
6897 DOC_END
6898
6899 NAME: dns_children
6900 TYPE: HelperChildConfig
6901 IFDEF: USE_DNSSERVERS
6902 DEFAULT: 32 startup=1 idle=1
6903 LOC: Config.dnsChildren
6904 DOC_START
6905 The maximum number of processes spawn to service DNS name lookups.
6906 If you limit it too few Squid will have to wait for them to process
6907 a backlog of requests, slowing it down. If you allow too many they
6908 will use RAM and other system resources noticably.
6909 The maximum this may be safely set to is 32.
6910
6911 The startup= and idle= options allow some measure of skew in your
6912 tuning.
6913
6914 startup=
6915
6916 Sets a minimum of how many processes are to be spawned when Squid
6917 starts or reconfigures. When set to zero the first request will
6918 cause spawning of the first child process to handle it.
6919
6920 Starting too few will cause an initial slowdown in traffic as Squid
6921 attempts to simultaneously spawn enough processes to cope.
6922
6923 idle=
6924
6925 Sets a minimum of how many processes Squid is to try and keep available
6926 at all times. When traffic begins to rise above what the existing
6927 processes can handle this many more will be spawned up to the maximum
6928 configured. A minimum setting of 1 is required.
6929 DOC_END
6930
6931 NAME: dns_retransmit_interval
6932 TYPE: time_msec
6933 DEFAULT: 5 seconds
6934 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_retransmit
6935 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6936 DOC_START
6937 Initial retransmit interval for DNS queries. The interval is
6938 doubled each time all configured DNS servers have been tried.
6939 DOC_END
6940
6941 NAME: dns_timeout
6942 TYPE: time_msec
6943 DEFAULT: 30 seconds
6944 LOC: Config.Timeout.idns_query
6945 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6946 DOC_START
6947 DNS Query timeout. If no response is received to a DNS query
6948 within this time all DNS servers for the queried domain
6949 are assumed to be unavailable.
6950 DOC_END
6951
6952 NAME: dns_packet_max
6953 TYPE: b_ssize_t
6954 DEFAULT: none
6955 LOC: Config.dns.packet_max
6956 IFDEF: !USE_DNSSERVERS
6957 DOC_START
6958 Maximum number of bytes packet size to advertise via EDNS.
6959 Set to "none" to disable EDNS large packet support.
6960
6961 For legacy reasons DNS UDP replies will default to 512 bytes which
6962 is too small for many responses. EDNS provides a means for Squid to
6963 negotiate receiving larger responses back immediately without having
6964 to failover with repeat requests. Responses larger than this limit
6965 will retain the old behaviour of failover to TCP DNS.
6966
6967 Squid has no real fixed limit internally, but allowing packet sizes
6968 over 1500 bytes requires network jumbogram support and is usually not
6969 necessary.
6970
6971 WARNING: The RFC also indicates that some older resolvers will reply
6972 with failure of the whole request if the extension is added. Some
6973 resolvers have already been identified which will reply with mangled
6974 EDNS response on occasion. Usually in response to many-KB jumbogram
6975 sizes being advertised by Squid.
6976 Squid will currently treat these both as an unable-to-resolve domain
6977 even if it would be resolvable without EDNS.
6978 DOC_END
6979
6980 NAME: dns_defnames
6981 COMMENT: on|off
6982 TYPE: onoff
6983 DEFAULT: off
6984 LOC: Config.onoff.res_defnames
6985 DOC_START
6986 Normally the RES_DEFNAMES resolver option is disabled
6987 (see res_init(3)). This prevents caches in a hierarchy
6988 from interpreting single-component hostnames locally. To allow
6989 Squid to handle single-component names, enable this option.
6990 DOC_END
6991
6992 NAME: dns_nameservers
6993 TYPE: wordlist
6994 DEFAULT: none
6995 LOC: Config.dns_nameservers
6996 DOC_START
6997 Use this if you want to specify a list of DNS name servers
6998 (IP addresses) to use instead of those given in your
6999 /etc/resolv.conf file.
7000 On Windows platforms, if no value is specified here or in
7001 the /etc/resolv.conf file, the list of DNS name servers are
7002 taken from the Windows registry, both static and dynamic DHCP
7003 configurations are supported.
7004
7005 Example: dns_nameservers 10.0.0.1 192.172.0.4
7006 DOC_END
7007
7008 NAME: hosts_file
7009 TYPE: string
7010 DEFAULT: @DEFAULT_HOSTS@
7011 LOC: Config.etcHostsPath
7012 DOC_START
7013 Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
7014 database. Most Operating Systems have such a file on different
7015 default locations:
7016 - Un*X & Linux: /etc/hosts
7017 - Windows NT/2000: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7018 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\winnt)
7019 - Windows XP/2003: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
7020 (%SystemRoot% value install default is c:\windows)
7021 - Windows 9x/Me: %windir%\hosts
7022 (%windir% value is usually c:\windows)
7023 - Cygwin: /etc/hosts
7024
7025 The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
7026 form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
7027 whitespace-separated. Lines beginning with an hash (#)
7028 character are comments.
7029
7030 The file is checked at startup and upon configuration.
7031 If set to 'none', it won't be checked.
7032 If append_domain is used, that domain will be added to
7033 domain-local (i.e. not containing any dot character) host
7034 definitions.
7035 DOC_END
7036
7037 NAME: append_domain
7038 TYPE: string
7039 LOC: Config.appendDomain
7040 DEFAULT: none
7041 DOC_START
7042 Appends local domain name to hostnames without any dots in
7043 them. append_domain must begin with a period.
7044
7045 Be warned there are now Internet names with no dots in
7046 them using only top-domain names, so setting this may
7047 cause some Internet sites to become unavailable.
7048
7049 Example:
7050 append_domain .yourdomain.com
7051 DOC_END
7052
7053 NAME: ignore_unknown_nameservers
7054 TYPE: onoff
7055 LOC: Config.onoff.ignore_unknown_nameservers
7056 DEFAULT: on
7057 DOC_START
7058 By default Squid checks that DNS responses are received
7059 from the same IP addresses they are sent to. If they
7060 don't match, Squid ignores the response and writes a warning
7061 message to cache.log. You can allow responses from unknown
7062 nameservers by setting this option to 'off'.
7063 DOC_END
7064
7065 NAME: dns_v4_fallback
7066 TYPE: onoff
7067 DEFAULT: on
7068 LOC: Config.onoff.dns_require_A
7069 DOC_START
7070 Standard practice with DNS is to lookup either A or AAAA records
7071 and use the results if it succeeds. Only looking up the other if
7072 the first attempt fails or otherwise produces no results.
7073
7074 That policy however will cause squid to produce error pages for some
7075 servers that advertise AAAA but are unreachable over IPv6.
7076
7077 If this is ON squid will always lookup both AAAA and A, using both.
7078 If this is OFF squid will lookup AAAA and only try A if none found.
7079
7080 WARNING: There are some possibly unwanted side-effects with this on:
7081 *) Doubles the load placed by squid on the DNS network.
7082 *) May negatively impact connection delay times.
7083 DOC_END
7084
7085 NAME: ipcache_size
7086 COMMENT: (number of entries)
7087 TYPE: int
7088 DEFAULT: 1024
7089 LOC: Config.ipcache.size
7090 DOC_NONE
7091
7092 NAME: ipcache_low
7093 COMMENT: (percent)
7094 TYPE: int
7095 DEFAULT: 90
7096 LOC: Config.ipcache.low
7097 DOC_NONE
7098
7099 NAME: ipcache_high
7100 COMMENT: (percent)
7101 TYPE: int
7102 DEFAULT: 95
7103 LOC: Config.ipcache.high
7104 DOC_START
7105 The size, low-, and high-water marks for the IP cache.
7106 DOC_END
7107
7108 NAME: fqdncache_size
7109 COMMENT: (number of entries)
7110 TYPE: int
7111 DEFAULT: 1024
7112 LOC: Config.fqdncache.size
7113 DOC_START
7114 Maximum number of FQDN cache entries.
7115 DOC_END
7116
7117 COMMENT_START
7118 MISCELLANEOUS
7119 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
7120 COMMENT_END
7121
7122 NAME: memory_pools
7123 COMMENT: on|off
7124 TYPE: onoff
7125 DEFAULT: on
7126 LOC: Config.onoff.mem_pools
7127 DOC_START
7128 If set, Squid will keep pools of allocated (but unused) memory
7129 available for future use. If memory is a premium on your
7130 system and you believe your malloc library outperforms Squid
7131 routines, disable this.
7132 DOC_END
7133
7134 NAME: memory_pools_limit
7135 COMMENT: (bytes)
7136 TYPE: b_int64_t
7137 DEFAULT: 5 MB
7138 LOC: Config.MemPools.limit
7139 DOC_START
7140 Used only with memory_pools on:
7141 memory_pools_limit 50 MB
7142
7143 If set to a non-zero value, Squid will keep at most the specified
7144 limit of allocated (but unused) memory in memory pools. All free()
7145 requests that exceed this limit will be handled by your malloc
7146 library. Squid does not pre-allocate any memory, just safe-keeps
7147 objects that otherwise would be free()d. Thus, it is safe to set
7148 memory_pools_limit to a reasonably high value even if your
7149 configuration will use less memory.
7150
7151 If set to none, Squid will keep all memory it can. That is, there
7152 will be no limit on the total amount of memory used for safe-keeping.
7153
7154 To disable memory allocation optimization, do not set
7155 memory_pools_limit to 0 or none. Set memory_pools to "off" instead.
7156
7157 An overhead for maintaining memory pools is not taken into account
7158 when the limit is checked. This overhead is close to four bytes per
7159 object kept. However, pools may actually _save_ memory because of
7160 reduced memory thrashing in your malloc library.
7161 DOC_END
7162
7163 NAME: forwarded_for
7164 COMMENT: on|off|transparent|truncate|delete
7165 TYPE: string
7166 DEFAULT: on
7167 LOC: opt_forwarded_for
7168 DOC_START
7169 If set to "on", Squid will append your client's IP address
7170 in the HTTP requests it forwards. By default it looks like:
7171
7172 X-Forwarded-For: 192.1.2.3
7173
7174 If set to "off", it will appear as
7175
7176 X-Forwarded-For: unknown
7177
7178 If set to "transparent", Squid will not alter the
7179 X-Forwarded-For header in any way.
7180
7181 If set to "delete", Squid will delete the entire
7182 X-Forwarded-For header.
7183
7184 If set to "truncate", Squid will remove all existing
7185 X-Forwarded-For entries, and place the client IP as the sole entry.
7186 DOC_END
7187
7188 NAME: cachemgr_passwd
7189 TYPE: cachemgrpasswd
7190 DEFAULT: none
7191 LOC: Config.passwd_list
7192 DOC_START
7193 Specify passwords for cachemgr operations.
7194
7195 Usage: cachemgr_passwd password action action ...
7196
7197 Some valid actions are (see cache manager menu for a full list):
7198 5min
7199 60min
7200 asndb
7201 authenticator
7202 cbdata
7203 client_list
7204 comm_incoming
7205 config *
7206 counters
7207 delay
7208 digest_stats
7209 dns
7210 events
7211 filedescriptors
7212 fqdncache
7213 histograms
7214 http_headers
7215 info
7216 io
7217 ipcache
7218 mem
7219 menu
7220 netdb
7221 non_peers
7222 objects
7223 offline_toggle *
7224 pconn
7225 peer_select
7226 reconfigure *
7227 redirector
7228 refresh
7229 server_list
7230 shutdown *
7231 store_digest
7232 storedir
7233 utilization
7234 via_headers
7235 vm_objects
7236
7237 * Indicates actions which will not be performed without a
7238 valid password, others can be performed if not listed here.
7239
7240 To disable an action, set the password to "disable".
7241 To allow performing an action without a password, set the
7242 password to "none".
7243
7244 Use the keyword "all" to set the same password for all actions.
7245
7246 Example:
7247 cachemgr_passwd secret shutdown
7248 cachemgr_passwd lesssssssecret info stats/objects
7249 cachemgr_passwd disable all
7250 DOC_END
7251
7252 NAME: client_db
7253 COMMENT: on|off
7254 TYPE: onoff
7255 DEFAULT: on
7256 LOC: Config.onoff.client_db
7257 DOC_START
7258 If you want to disable collecting per-client statistics,
7259 turn off client_db here.
7260 DOC_END
7261
7262 NAME: refresh_all_ims
7263 COMMENT: on|off
7264 TYPE: onoff
7265 DEFAULT: off
7266 LOC: Config.onoff.refresh_all_ims
7267 DOC_START
7268 When you enable this option, squid will always check
7269 the origin server for an update when a client sends an
7270 If-Modified-Since request. Many browsers use IMS
7271 requests when the user requests a reload, and this
7272 ensures those clients receive the latest version.
7273
7274 By default (off), squid may return a Not Modified response
7275 based on the age of the cached version.
7276 DOC_END
7277
7278 NAME: reload_into_ims
7279 IFDEF: USE_HTTP_VIOLATIONS
7280 COMMENT: on|off
7281 TYPE: onoff
7282 DEFAULT: off
7283 LOC: Config.onoff.reload_into_ims
7284 DOC_START
7285 When you enable this option, client no-cache or ``reload''
7286 requests will be changed to If-Modified-Since requests.
7287 Doing this VIOLATES the HTTP standard. Enabling this
7288 feature could make you liable for problems which it
7289 causes.
7290
7291 see also refresh_pattern for a more selective approach.
7292 DOC_END
7293
7294 NAME: connect_retries
7295 TYPE: int
7296 LOC: Config.connect_retries
7297 DEFAULT: 0
7298 DOC_START
7299 This sets the maximum number of connection attempts made for each
7300 TCP connection. The connect_retries attempts must all still
7301 complete within the connection timeout period.
7302
7303 The default is not to re-try if the first connection attempt fails.
7304 The (not recommended) maximum is 10 tries.
7305
7306 A warning message will be generated if it is set to a too-high
7307 value and the configured value will be over-ridden.
7308
7309 Note: These re-tries are in addition to forward_max_tries
7310 which limit how many different addresses may be tried to find
7311 a useful server.
7312 DOC_END
7313
7314 NAME: retry_on_error
7315 TYPE: onoff
7316 LOC: Config.retry.onerror
7317 DEFAULT: off
7318 DOC_START
7319 If set to on Squid will automatically retry requests when
7320 receiving an error response. This is mainly useful if you
7321 are in a complex cache hierarchy to work around access
7322 control errors.
7323 DOC_END
7324
7325 NAME: as_whois_server
7326 TYPE: string
7327 LOC: Config.as_whois_server
7328 DEFAULT: whois.ra.net
7329 DOC_START
7330 WHOIS server to query for AS numbers. NOTE: AS numbers are
7331 queried only when Squid starts up, not for every request.
7332 DOC_END
7333
7334 NAME: offline_mode
7335 TYPE: onoff
7336 LOC: Config.onoff.offline
7337 DEFAULT: off
7338 DOC_START
7339 Enable this option and Squid will never try to validate cached
7340 objects.
7341 DOC_END
7342
7343 NAME: uri_whitespace
7344 TYPE: uri_whitespace
7345 LOC: Config.uri_whitespace
7346 DEFAULT: strip
7347 DOC_START
7348 What to do with requests that have whitespace characters in the
7349 URI. Options:
7350
7351 strip: The whitespace characters are stripped out of the URL.
7352 This is the behavior recommended by RFC2396.
7353 deny: The request is denied. The user receives an "Invalid
7354 Request" message.
7355 allow: The request is allowed and the URI is not changed. The
7356 whitespace characters remain in the URI. Note the
7357 whitespace is passed to redirector processes if they
7358 are in use.
7359 encode: The request is allowed and the whitespace characters are
7360 encoded according to RFC1738. This could be considered
7361 a violation of the HTTP/1.1
7362 RFC because proxies are not allowed to rewrite URI's.
7363 chop: The request is allowed and the URI is chopped at the
7364 first whitespace. This might also be considered a
7365 violation.
7366 DOC_END
7367
7368 NAME: chroot
7369 TYPE: string
7370 LOC: Config.chroot_dir
7371 DEFAULT: none
7372 DOC_START
7373 Specifies a directory where Squid should do a chroot() while
7374 initializing. This also causes Squid to fully drop root
7375 privileges after initializing. This means, for example, if you
7376 use a HTTP port less than 1024 and try to reconfigure, you may
7377 get an error saying that Squid can not open the port.
7378 DOC_END
7379
7380 NAME: balance_on_multiple_ip
7381 TYPE: onoff
7382 LOC: Config.onoff.balance_on_multiple_ip
7383 DEFAULT: off
7384 DOC_START
7385 Modern IP resolvers in squid sort lookup results by preferred access.
7386 By default squid will use these IP in order and only rotates to
7387 the next listed when the most preffered fails.
7388
7389 Some load balancing servers based on round robin DNS have been
7390 found not to preserve user session state across requests
7391 to different IP addresses.
7392
7393 Enabling this directive Squid rotates IP's per request.
7394 DOC_END
7395
7396 NAME: pipeline_prefetch
7397 TYPE: onoff
7398 LOC: Config.onoff.pipeline_prefetch
7399 DEFAULT: off
7400 DOC_START
7401 To boost the performance of pipelined requests to closer
7402 match that of a non-proxied environment Squid can try to fetch
7403 up to two requests in parallel from a pipeline.
7404
7405 Defaults to off for bandwidth management and access logging
7406 reasons.
7407
7408 WARNING: pipelining breaks NTLM and Negotiate/Kerberos authentication.
7409 DOC_END
7410
7411 NAME: high_response_time_warning
7412 TYPE: int
7413 COMMENT: (msec)
7414 LOC: Config.warnings.high_rptm
7415 DEFAULT: 0
7416 DOC_START
7417 If the one-minute median response time exceeds this value,
7418 Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get the
7419 administrators attention. The value is in milliseconds.
7420 DOC_END
7421
7422 NAME: high_page_fault_warning
7423 TYPE: int
7424 LOC: Config.warnings.high_pf
7425 DEFAULT: 0
7426 DOC_START
7427 If the one-minute average page fault rate exceeds this
7428 value, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7429 the administrators attention. The value is in page faults
7430 per second.
7431 DOC_END
7432
7433 NAME: high_memory_warning
7434 TYPE: b_size_t
7435 LOC: Config.warnings.high_memory
7436 DEFAULT: 0 KB
7437 DOC_START
7438 If the memory usage (as determined by mallinfo) exceeds
7439 this amount, Squid prints a WARNING with debug level 0 to get
7440 the administrators attention.
7441 DOC_END
7442
7443 NAME: sleep_after_fork
7444 COMMENT: (microseconds)
7445 TYPE: int
7446 LOC: Config.sleep_after_fork
7447 DEFAULT: 0
7448 DOC_START
7449 When this is set to a non-zero value, the main Squid process
7450 sleeps the specified number of microseconds after a fork()
7451 system call. This sleep may help the situation where your
7452 system reports fork() failures due to lack of (virtual)
7453 memory. Note, however, if you have a lot of child
7454 processes, these sleep delays will add up and your
7455 Squid will not service requests for some amount of time
7456 until all the child processes have been started.
7457 On Windows value less then 1000 (1 milliseconds) are
7458 rounded to 1000.
7459 DOC_END
7460
7461 NAME: windows_ipaddrchangemonitor
7462 IFDEF: _SQUID_MSWIN_
7463 COMMENT: on|off
7464 TYPE: onoff
7465 DEFAULT: on
7466 LOC: Config.onoff.WIN32_IpAddrChangeMonitor
7467 DOC_START
7468 On Windows Squid by default will monitor IP address changes and will
7469 reconfigure itself after any detected event. This is very useful for
7470 proxies connected to internet with dial-up interfaces.
7471 In some cases (a Proxy server acting as VPN gateway is one) it could be
7472 desiderable to disable this behaviour setting this to 'off'.
7473 Note: after changing this, Squid service must be restarted.
7474 DOC_END
7475
7476 NAME: eui_lookup
7477 TYPE: onoff
7478 IFDEF: USE_SQUID_EUI
7479 DEFAULT: on
7480 LOC: Eui::TheConfig.euiLookup
7481 DOC_START
7482 Whether to lookup the EUI or MAC address of a connected client.
7483 DOC_END
7484
7485 NAME: max_filedescriptors max_filedesc
7486 TYPE: int
7487 DEFAULT: 0
7488 LOC: Config.max_filedescriptors
7489 DOC_START
7490 The maximum number of filedescriptors supported.
7491
7492 The default "0" means Squid inherits the current ulimit setting.
7493
7494 Note: Changing this requires a restart of Squid. Also
7495 not all comm loops supports large values.
7496 DOC_END
7497
7498 NAME: workers
7499 TYPE: int
7500 LOC: Config.workers
7501 DEFAULT: 1
7502 DOC_START
7503 Number of main Squid processes or "workers" to fork and maintain.
7504 0: "no daemon" mode, like running "squid -N ..."
7505 1: "no SMP" mode, start one main Squid process daemon (default)
7506 N: start N main Squid process daemons (i.e., SMP mode)
7507
7508 In SMP mode, each worker does nearly all what a single Squid daemon
7509 does (e.g., listen on http_port and forward HTTP requests).
7510 DOC_END
7511
7512 NAME: cpu_affinity_map
7513 TYPE: CpuAffinityMap
7514 LOC: Config.cpuAffinityMap
7515 DEFAULT: none
7516 DOC_START
7517 Usage: cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=P1,P2,... cores=C1,C2,...
7518
7519 Sets 1:1 mapping between Squid processes and CPU cores. For example,
7520
7521 cpu_affinity_map process_numbers=1,2,3,4 cores=1,3,5,7
7522
7523 affects processes 1 through 4 only and places them on the first
7524 four even cores, starting with core #1.
7525
7526 CPU cores are numbered starting from 1. Requires support for
7527 sched_getaffinity(2) and sched_setaffinity(2) system calls.
7528
7529 Multiple cpu_affinity_map options are merged.
7530
7531 See also: workers
7532 DOC_END
7533
7534 EOF