Configuration settings

These ICAP failover parameters are set in the records.config file (defaults shown):

Configuration Variable Data Type Default Value Description
proxy.config.icap. ICAPUri STRING (empty)

A comma-separated list of ICAP URIs. For example:

icap://1.2.3.4:1344/reqmod, icap://4.3.2.1:1344/reqmod
proxy.config.icap. ActiveTimeout INT 5 The read/response timeout in seconds. The activity is considered a failure if the timeout is exceeded.
proxy.config.icap. RetryTime INT 5 The recovery interval, in seconds, to test whether a down server is back up
proxy.config.icap. FailOpen INT 1

Set to:

  • 1 to allow traffic when the ICAP servers are down
  • 0 to send a block page if the ICAP servers are down
proxy.config.icap. LoadBalance INT 1

Set to:

  • 1 to distribute requests to all available servers
  • 0 to distribute requests to only the primary server