TAG NAME accept_filter
Description Specifies the name of the accept filter to install on squid’s listen socket.
Build Option
 Default
Usage
 accept_filter httpready | data
Default
 none


Synopsis

The name of an accept filter to install on Squid’s listen socket(s).

Options for BSD
 This feature is specific to FreeBSD and requires support in the kernel.
1.httpready
This filter delays the delivery of new connections to squid until a full http requests has been received.
2.dataready
This filter delays the delevery of new connections until afull HTTP request has been received.

Options for Linux
 data
This filter delays the delivery of new connections to squid until is some data to process by TCP_ACCEPT_DEFER.


Example(s)
FreeBSD
accept_filter httpready
Linux
accept_filter data