vyos-documentation/docs/configuration/service/webproxy.rst

.. _webproxy:

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Webproxy
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The proxy service in VyOS is based on Squid_ and some related modules.

Squid_ is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy. It has a wide variety of
uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching
web, DNS and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing
network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic. Although primarily
used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other
protocols including Internet Gopher, SSL,[6] TLS and HTTPS. Squid does not
support the SOCKS protocol.

URL Filtering is provided by SquidGuard_.

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Configuration
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.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy append-domain <domain>

  Use this command to specify a domain name to be appended to domain-names
  within URLs that do not include a dot ``.`` the domain is appended.

  Example: to be appended is set to ``vyos.net`` and the URL received is
  ``www/foo.html``, the system will use the generated, final URL of
  ``www.vyos.net/foo.html``.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy append-domain vyos.net

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy cache-size <size>

  The size of the on-disk Proxy cache is user configurable. The Proxies default
  cache-size is configured to 100 MB.

  Unit of this command is MB.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy cache-size 1024

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy default-port <port>

  Specify the port used on which the proxy service is listening for requests.
  This port is the default port used for the specified listen-address.

  Default port is 3128.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy default-port 8080

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy domain-block <domain>

  Used to block specific domains by the Proxy. Specifying "vyos.net" will block
  all access to vyos.net, and specifying ".xxx" will block all access to URLs
  having an URL ending on .xxx.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy domain-block vyos.net

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy domain-noncache <domain>

  Allow access to sites in a domain without retrieving them from the Proxy
  cache. Specifying "vyos.net" will allow access to vyos.net but the pages
  accessed will not be cached. It useful for working around problems with
  "If-Modified-Since" checking at certain sites.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy domain-noncache vyos.net

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy listen-address <address>

  Specifies proxy service listening address. The listen address is the IP
  address on which the web proxy service listens for client requests.

  For security, the listen address should only be used on internal/trusted
  networks!

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy listen-address 192.0.2.1

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy listen-address <address> disable-transparent

  Disables web proxy transparent mode at a listening address.

  In transparent proxy mode, all traffic arriving on port 80 and destined for
  the Internet is automatically forwarded through the proxy. This allows
  immediate proxy forwarding without configuring client browsers.

  Non-transparent proxying requires that the client browsers be configured with
  the proxy settings before requests are redirected. The advantage of this is
  that the client web browser can detect that a proxy is in use and can behave
  accordingly. In addition, web-transmitted malware can sometimes be blocked by
  a non-transparent web proxy, since they are not aware of the proxy settings.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy listen-address 192.0.2.1 disable-transparent

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy listen-address <address> port <port>

  Sets the listening port for a listening address. This overrides the default
  port of 3128 on the specific listen address.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy listen-address 192.0.2.1 port 8080


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy reply-block-mime <mime>

  Used to block a specific mime-type.

  .. code-block:: none

    # block all PDFs
    set service webproxy reply-block-mime application/pdf


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy reply-body-max-size <size>

  Specifies the maximum size of a reply body in KB, used to limit the reply
  size.

  All reply sizes are accepted by default.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy reply-body-max-size 2048

Authentication
==============

The embedded Squid proxy can use LDAP to authenticate users against a company
wide directory. The following configuration is an example of how to use Active
Directory as authentication backend. Queries are done via LDAP.

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication children <number>

  Maximum number of authenticator processes to spawn. If you start too few
  Squid will have to wait for them to process a backlog of credential
  verifications, slowing it down. When password verifications are done via a
  (slow) network you are likely to need lots of authenticator processes.

  This defaults to 5.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication children 10

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication credentials-ttl <time>

  Specifies how long squid assumes an externally validated username:password
  pair is valid for - in other words how often the helper program is called for
  that user. Set this low to force revalidation with short lived passwords.

  Time is in minutes and defaults to 60.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication credentials-ttl 120


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication method <ldap>

  Proxy authentication method, currently only LDAP is supported.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication method ldap

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication realm

  Specifies the protection scope (aka realm name) which is to be reported to
  the client for the authentication scheme. It is commonly part of the text
  the user will see when prompted for their username and password.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication realm "VyOS proxy auth"

LDAP
----

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap base-dn <base-dn>

  Specifies the base DN under which the users are located.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap base-dn DC=vyos,DC=net


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap bind-dn <bind-dn>

  The DN and password to bind as while performing searches.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap bind-dn CN=proxyuser,CN=Users,DC=vyos,DC=net

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap filter-expression <expr>

  LDAP search filter to locate the user DN. Required if the users are in a
  hierarchy below the base DN, or if the login name is not what builds the user
  specific part of the users DN.

  The search filter can contain up to 15 occurrences of %s which will be
  replaced by the username, as in "uid=%s" for :rfc:`2037` directories. For a
  detailed description of LDAP search filter syntax see :rfc:`2254`.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap filter-expression (cn=%s)

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap password <password>

  The DN and password to bind as while performing searches. As the password
  needs to be printed in plain text in your Squid configuration it is strongly
  recommended to use a account with minimal associated privileges. This to limit
  the damage in case someone could get hold of a copy of your Squid
  configuration file.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap password vyos

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap persistent-connection

  Use a persistent LDAP connection. Normally the LDAP connection is only open
  while validating a username to preserve resources at the LDAP server. This
  option causes the LDAP connection to be kept open, allowing it to be reused
  for further user validations.

  Recommended for larger installations.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap persistent-connection

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap port <port>

  Specify an alternate TCP port where the ldap server is listening if other than
  the default LDAP port 389.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap port 389

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap server <server>

  Specify the LDAP server to connect to.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap server ldap.vyos.net


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap use-ssl

  Use TLS encryption.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap use-ssl


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap username-attribute <attr>

  Specifies the name of the DN attribute that contains the username/login.
  Combined with the base DN to construct the users DN when no search filter is
  specified (`filter-expression`).

  Defaults to 'uid'

  .. note:: This can only be done if all your users are located directly under
    the same position in the LDAP tree and the login name is used for naming
    each user object. If your LDAP tree does not match these criterias or if you
    want to filter who are valid users then you need to use a search filter to
    search for your users DN (`filter-expression`).

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap username-attribute uid

.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy authentication ldap version <2 | 3>

  LDAP protocol version. Defaults to 3 if not specified.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy authentication ldap version 2

URL filtering
=============

.. include:: /_include/need_improvement.txt


.. cfgcmd:: set service webproxy url-filtering disable

  Disables web filtering without discarding configuration.

  .. code-block:: none

    set service webproxy url-filtering disable

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Operation
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.. include:: /_include/need_improvement.txt

Filtering
=========

Update
------

If you want to use existing blacklists you have to create/download a database
first. Otherwise you will not be able to commit the config changes.


.. opcmd:: update webproxy blacklists

  Download/Update complete blacklist

  .. code-block:: none

    vyos@vyos:~$ update webproxy blacklists
    Warning: No url-filtering blacklist installed
    Would you like to download a default blacklist? [confirm][y]
    Connecting to ftp.univ-tlse1.fr (193.49.48.249:21)
    blacklists.gz        100% |*************************************************************************************************************| 17.0M  0:00:00 ETA
    Uncompressing blacklist...
    Checking permissions...
    Skip link for   [ads] -> [publicite]
    Building DB for [adult/domains] - 2467177 entries
    Building DB for [adult/urls] - 67798 entries
    Skip link for   [aggressive] -> [agressif]
    Building DB for [agressif/domains] - 348 entries
    Building DB for [agressif/urls] - 36 entries
    Building DB for [arjel/domains] - 69 entries
    ...

    Building DB for [webmail/domains] - 374 entries
    Building DB for [webmail/urls] - 9 entries

    The webproxy daemon must be restarted
    Would you like to restart it now? [confirm][y]

    [ ok ] Restarting squid (via systemctl): squid.service.
    vyos@vyos:~$

.. opcmd:: update webproxy blacklists category <category>

  Download/Update partial blacklist.

  Use tab completion to get a list of categories.

* To auto update the blacklist files

  :code:`set service webproxy url-filtering squidguard auto-update
  update-hour 23`

* To configure blocking add the following to the configuration

  :code:`set service webproxy url-filtering squidguard block-category ads`

  :code:`set service webproxy url-filtering squidguard block-category malware`

Bypassing the webproxy
----------------------

.. include:: /_include/need_improvement.txt

Some services don't work correctly when being handled via a web proxy.
So sometimes it is useful to bypass a transparent proxy:

* To bypass the proxy for every request that is directed to a specific
  destination:

  :code:`set service webproxy whitelist destination-address 198.51.100.33`

  :code:`set service webproxy whitelist destination-address 192.0.2.0/24`


* To bypass the proxy for every request that is coming from a specific source:

  :code:`set service webproxy whitelist source-address 192.168.1.2`

  :code:`set service webproxy whitelist source-address 192.168.2.0/24`

  (This can be useful when a called service has many and/or often changing
  destination addresses - e.g. Netflix.)

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Examples
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.. code-block:: none

  vyos@vyos# show service webproxy
   authentication {
       children 5
       credentials-ttl 60
       ldap {
           base-dn DC=example,DC=local
           bind-dn CN=proxyuser,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=local
           filter-expression (cn=%s)
           password Qwert1234
           server ldap.example.local
           username-attribute cn
       }
       method ldap
       realm "VyOS Webproxy"
   }
   cache-size 100
   default-port 3128
   listen-address 192.168.188.103 {
       disable-transparent
   }

.. _Squid: http://www.squid-cache.org/
.. _SquidGuard: http://www.squidguard.org/