The build was dependent of the zlib.h header, regardless of the USE_ZLIB
option. The fix consists of several #ifdef in the source code.
It removes the overhead of the zstream structure in the session when you
don't use the option.
Keys are copied from samples to stick_table_key. If a key is larger
than the stick_table_key, we have an overflow. In pratice it does not
happen because it requires :
1) a configuration with tune.bufsize larger than BUFSIZE (common)
2) a stick-table configured with keys strictly larger than buffers
3) extraction of data larger than BUFSIZE (eg: using payload())
Points 2 and 3 don't make any sense for a real world configuration. That
said the issue needs be fixed. The solution consists in allocating it the
same size as the global buffer size, just like the samples. This fixes the
issue.
The trash is used everywhere to store the results of temporary strings
built out of s(n)printf, or as a storage for a chunk when chunks are
needed.
Using global.tune.bufsize is not the most convenient thing either.
So let's replace trash with a chunk and directly use it as such. We can
then use trash.size as the natural way to get its size, and get rid of
many intermediary chunks that were previously used.
The patch is huge because it touches many areas but it makes the code
a lot more clear and even outlines places where trash was used without
being that obvious.
We will need to be able to switch server connections on a session and
to keep idle connections. In order to achieve this, the preliminary
requirement is that the connections can survive the session and be
detached from them.
Right now they're still allocated at exactly the same place, so when
there is a session, there are always 2 connections. We could soon
improve on this by allocating the outgoing connection only during a
connect().
This current patch touches a lot of code and intentionally does not
change any functionnality. Performance tests show no regression (even
a very minor improvement). The doc has not yet been updated.
This commit introduces HTTP compression using the zlib library.
http_response_forward_body has been modified to call the compression
functions.
This feature includes 3 algorithms: identity, gzip and deflate:
* identity: this is mostly for debugging, and it was useful for
developping the compression feature. With Content-Length in input, it
is making each chunk with the data available in the current buffer.
With chunks in input, it is rechunking, the output chunks will be
bigger or smaller depending of the size of the input chunk and the
size of the buffer. Identity does not apply any change on data.
* gzip: same as identity, but applying a gzip compression. The data
are deflated using the Z_NO_FLUSH flag in zlib. When there is no more
data in the input buffer, it flushes the data in the output buffer
(Z_SYNC_FLUSH). At the end of data, when it receives the last chunk in
input, or when there is no more data to read, it writes the end of
data with Z_FINISH and the ending chunk.
* deflate: same as gzip, but with deflate algorithm and zlib format.
Note that this algorithm has ambiguous support on many browsers and
no support at all from recent ones. It is strongly recommended not
to use it for anything else than experimentation.
You can't choose the compression ratio at the moment, it will be set to
Z_BEST_SPEED (1), as tests have shown very little benefit in terms of
compression ration when going above for HTML contents, at the cost of
a massive CPU impact.
Compression will be activated depending of the Accept-Encoding request
header. With identity, it does not take care of that header.
To build HAProxy with zlib support, use USE_ZLIB=1 in the make
parameters.
This work was initially started by David Du Colombier at Exceliance.
This state's name is confusing as it is only used with chunked encoding
and makes newcomers think it's also related to the content-length. Let's
call it CHUNK_CRLF to clear any doubt on this.
The ssl_npn match could not work by itself because clients do not use
the NPN extension unless the server advertises the protocols it supports.
Thanks to Simone Bordet for the explanations on how to get it right.
The struct target contains one int and one pointer, causing it to be
64-bit aligned on 64-bit platforms. By marking it "packed", we can
save 8 bytes in struct connection and as many in struct session on
such platforms.
This field was used to trace precisely where a session was terminated
but it did not survive code rearchitecture and was not used at all
anymore. Let's get rid of it.
Now that the buffer is moved out of the channel, it is possible to move
the pointer earlier in the struct and reorder some fields. This new
ordering improves overall performance by 2%, mainly saved in the HTTP
parsers and data transfers.
With this commit, we now separate the channel from the buffer. This will
allow us to replace buffers on the fly without touching the channel. Since
nobody is supposed to keep a reference to a buffer anymore, doing so is not
a problem and will also permit some copy-less data manipulation.
Interestingly, these changes have shown a 2% performance increase on some
workloads, probably due to a better cache placement of data.
These two new log-format tags report the SSL protocol version (%sslv) and the
SSL ciphers (%sslc) used for the connection with the client. For instance, to
append these information just after the client's IP/port address information
on an HTTP log line, use the following configuration :
log-format %Ci:%Cp\ %sslv:%sslc\ [%t]\ %ft\ %b/%s\ %Tq/%Tw/%Tc/%Tr/%Tt\ %st\ %B\ %cc\ \ %cs\ %tsc\ %ac/%fc/%bc/%sc/%rc\ %sq/%bq\ %hr\ %hs\ %{+Q}r
It will report a line such as the following one :
Oct 12 20:47:30 haproxy[9643]: 127.0.0.1:43602 TLSv1:AES-SHA [12/Oct/2012:20:47:30.303] stick2~ stick2/s1 7/0/12/0/19 200 145 - - ---- 0/0/0/0/0 0/0 "GET /?t=0 HTTP/1.0"
This flag will have to be set on log tags which require transport layer
information. They will prevent the conn_xprt_close() call from releasing
the transport layer too early.
When we start logging SSL information, we need the SSL struct to be
present even past the conn_xprt_close() call. In order to achieve this,
we should use refcounting on the connection and the transport layer. At
the moment it's not worth using plain refcounting as only the logs require
this, so instead of real refcounting we just use a flag which will be set
by the log subsystem when SSL data need to be logged.
What happens then is that the xprt->close() call is ignored and the
transport layer is closed again during session_free(), after the log
line is emitted.
Until now it was not possible to know from the logs whether the incoming
connection was made over SSL or not. In order to address this in the existing
log formats, a new log format %ft was introduced, to log the frontend's name
suffixed with its transport layer. The only transport layer in use right now
is '~' for SSL, so that existing log formats for non-SSL traffic are not
affected at all, and SSL log formats have the frontend's name suffixed with
'~'.
The TCP, HTTP and CLF log format now use %ft instead of %f. This does not
affect existing log formats which still make use of %f however.
It now becomes possible to verify the server's certificate using the "verify"
directive. This one only supports "none" and "required", as it does not make
much sense to also support "optional" here.
Just like with the "bind" lines, we'll switch the "server" line
parsing to keyword registration. The code is essentially the same
as for bind keywords, with minor changes such as support for the
default-server keywords and support for variable argument count.
Baptiste Assmann reported a bug causing a crash on recent versions when
sticking rules were set on layer 7 in a TCP proxy. The bug is easier to
reproduce with the "defer-accept" option on the "bind" line in order to
have some contents to parse when the connection is accepted. The issue
is that the acl_prefetch_http() function called from HTTP fetches relies
on hdr_idx to be preinitialized, which is not the case if there is no L7
ACL.
The solution consists in adding a new SMP_CAP_L7 flag to fetches to indicate
that they are expected to work on L7 data, so that the proxy knows that the
hdr_idx has to be initialized. This is already how ACL and HTTP mode are
handled.
The bug was present since 1.5-dev9.
These ones are used to set the default ciphers suite on "bind" lines and
"server" lines respectively, instead of using OpenSSL's defaults. These
are probably mainly useful for distro packagers.
When health checks are configured on a server which has the send-proxy
directive and no "port" nor "addr" settings, the health check connections
will automatically use the PROXY protocol. If "port" or "addr" are set,
the "check-send-proxy" directive may be used to force the protocol.
Since it's possible for the checks to use a different protocol or transport layer
than the prod traffic, we need to have them referenced in the server. The
SSL checks are not enabled yet, but the transport layers are completely used.
Till now the request was made in the trash and sent to the network at
once, and the response was read into a preallocated char[]. Now we
allocate a full buffer for both the request and the response, and make
use of it.
Some of the operations will probably be replaced later with buffer macros
but the point was to ensure we could migrate to use the data layers soon.
One nice improvement caused by this change is that requests are now formed
at the beginning of the check and may safely be sent in multiple chunks if
needed.
The health checks in the servers are becoming a real mess, move them
into their own subsection. We'll soon need to have a struct buffer to
replace the char * as well as check-specific protocol and transport
layers.
This callback sends a PROXY protocol line on the outgoing connection,
with the local and remote endpoint information. This is used for local
connections (eg: health checks) where the other end needs to have a
valid address and no connection is relayed.
Just like ->init(), ->wake() may now be used to return an error and
abort the connection. Currently this is not used but will be with
embryonic sessions.
We now check the connection flags for changes in order not to call the
data->wake callback when there is no activity. Activity means a change
on any of the CO_FL_*_SH, CO_FL_ERROR, CO_FL_CONNECTED, CO_FL_WAIT_CONN*
flags, as well as a call to data->recv or data->send.
The connection flags have progressively been added one after the other
and were not very well organized. Some of them are often used together
and a number of operations are performed on the DATA/SOCK ENA/POL flags.
Thus, they have been reorganized so that flags that work together are
close to each other (allows immediate operands on ARM) and that polling
changes can be detected with fewer operations using a simple shift and
xor. The handshakes are now the last ones so that it will be easier to
add new ones after without risking a collision. All activity-related
flags are also grouped together.
The generic data-layer init callback is now used after the transport
layer is complete and before calling the data layer recv/send callbacks.
This allows the session to switch from the embryonic session data layer
to the complete stream interface data layer, by making conn_session_complete()
the data layer's init callback.
It sill looks awkwards that the init() callback must be used opon error,
but except by adding yet another one, it does not seem to be mergeable
into another function (eg: it should probably not be merged with ->wake
to avoid unneeded calls during the handshake, though semantically that
would make sense).
Instead of calling conn_notify_si() from the connection handler, we
now call data->wake(), which will allow us to use a different callback
with health checks.
Note that we still rely on a flag in order to decide whether or not
to call this function. The reason is that with embryonic sessions,
the callback is already initialized to si_conn_cb without the flag,
and we can't call the SI notify function in the leave path before
the stream interface is initialized.
This issue should be addressed by involving a different data_cb for
embryonic sessions and for stream interfaces, that would be changed
during session_complete() for the final data_cb.
Now conn->data will designate the data layer which is the client for
the transport layer. In practice it's the stream interface and will
soon also be the health checks.
While working on the changes required to make the health checks use the
new connections, it started to become obvious that some naming was not
logical at all in the connections. Specifically, it is not logical to
call the "data layer" the layer which is in charge for all the handshake
and which does not yet provide a data layer once established until a
session has allocated all the required buffers.
In fact, it's more a transport layer, which makes much more sense. The
transport layer offers a medium on which data can transit, and it offers
the functions to move these data when the upper layer requests this. And
it is the upper layer which iterates over the transport layer's functions
to move data which should be called the data layer.
The use case where it's obvious is with embryonic sessions : an incoming
SSL connection is accepted. Only the connection is allocated, not the
buffers nor stream interface, etc... The connection handles the SSL
handshake by itself. Once this handshake is complete, we can't use the
data functions because the buffers and stream interface are not there
yet. Hence we have to first call a specific function to complete the
session initialization, after which we'll be able to use the data
functions. This clearly proves that SSL here is only a transport layer
and that the stream interface constitutes the data layer.
A similar change will be performed to rename app_cb => data, but the
two could not be in the same commit for obvious reasons.
Each proxy contains a reference to the original config file and line
number where it was declared. The pointer used is just a reference to
the one passed to the function instead of being duplicated. The effect
is that it is not valid anymore at the end of the parsing and that all
proxies will be enumerated as coming from the same file on some late
configuration errors. This may happen for exmaple when reporting SSL
certificate issues.
By copying using strdup(), we avoid this issue.
1.4 has the same issue, though no report of the proxy file name is done
out of the config section. Anyway a backport is recommended to ease
post-mortem analysis.
