The "unix-bind prefix" feature was made for explicit "bind" statements. Since
the stats socket was changed to use str2listener(), it implicitly inherited
from this feature. But both are defined in the global section, and we don't
want them to be position-dependant.
So let's make str2listener() explicitly not apply the unix-bind prefix to the
global stats frontend.
This only affects 1.5-dev so it does not need any backport.
Add new tunable "tune.ssl.maxrecord".
Over SSL/TLS, the client can decipher the data only once it has received
a full record. With large records, it means that clients might have to
download up to 16kB of data before starting to process them. Limiting the
record size can improve page load times on browsers located over high
latency or low bandwidth networks. It is suggested to find optimal values
which fit into 1 or 2 TCP segments (generally 1448 bytes over Ethernet
with TCP timestamps enabled, or 1460 when timestamps are disabled), keeping
in mind that SSL/TLS add some overhead. Typical values of 1419 and 2859
gave good results during tests. Use "strace -e trace=write" to find the
best value.
This trick was first suggested by Mike Belshe :
http://www.belshe.com/2010/12/17/performance-and-the-tls-record-size/
Then requested again by Ilya Grigorik who provides some hints here :
http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449344764/_transport_layer_security_tls.html#ch04_00000101
When parsing the config, we now use str2sa_range() to detect when
ranges or port offsets were improperly used. Among the new checks
are "log", "source", "addr", "usesrc" which previously didn't check
for extra parameters.
Support a agent health check performed by opening a TCP socket to a
pre-defined port and reading an ASCII string. The string should have one of
the following forms:
* An ASCII representation of an positive integer percentage.
e.g. "75%"
Values in this format will set the weight proportional to the initial
weight of a server as configured when haproxy starts.
* The string "drain".
This will cause the weight of a server to be set to 0, and thus it will
not accept any new connections other than those that are accepted via
persistence.
* The string "down", optionally followed by a description string.
Mark the server as down and log the description string as the reason.
* The string "stopped", optionally followed by a description string.
This currently has the same behaviour as down (iii).
* The string "fail", optionally followed by a description string.
This currently has the same behaviour as down (iii).
A agent health check may be configured using "option lb-agent-chk".
The use of an alternate check-port, used to obtain agent heath check
information described above as opposed to the port of the service,
may be useful in conjunction with this option.
e.g.
option lb-agent-chk
server http1_1 10.0.0.10:80 check port 10000 weight 100
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Commit 2b0108ad accidently got rid of the ability to emit a "-" for
empty log fields. This can happen for captured request and response
cookies, as well as for fetches. Since we don't want to have this done
for headers however, we set the default log method when parsing the
format. It is still possible to force the desired mode using +M/-M.
Commit 290e63aa moved the unix parameters out of the global stats socket
to the bind_conf struct. As such the stats admin level was also moved
overthere, but it remained in the stats global section where it was not
used, except by a nasty memcpy() used to initialize the ux struct in the
bind_conf with too large data. Fortunately, the extra data copied were
the previous level over the new level so it did not have any impact, but
it could have been worse.
This bug is 1.5 specific, no backport is needed.
Reported-by: Dinko Korunic <dkorunic@reflected.net>
logsrv->minlvl gets the numeric log level from the equivalent string.
Upon error, ->level was checked due to a wrong copy-paste. The effect
is that a wrong name will silently be ignored and due to minlvl=-1,
will act as if the option was not set.
No backport is needed, this is 1.5-specific.
Reported-by: Dinko Korunic <dkorunic@reflected.net>
An error caused by an invalid port does not cause the raddr string to
be freed. This is harmless at the moment since we exit, but may have
an impact later if we ever support hot config changes.
Reported-by: Dinko Korunic <dkorunic@reflected.net>
If a peers section contains several instances of the local peer name, only
the first one was considered and the next ones were silently ignored. This
can cause some trouble to debug such a configuration. Now the extra entries
are rejected with an error message indicating where the first occurrence was
found.
Due to a typo in the peers section lookup code, the last declared peers
section was used instead of the one matching the requested name. This bug
has been there since the very first commit on peers section (1.5-dev2).
It happens that all of them call parse_logformat_line() which sets
proxy->to_log with a number of flags affecting the line format for
all three users. For example, having a unique-id specified disables
the default log-format since fe->to_log is tested when the session
is established.
Similarly, having "option logasap" will cause "+" to be inserted in
unique-id or headers referencing some of the fields depending on
LW_BYTES.
This patch first removes most of the dependency on fe->to_log whenever
possible. The first possible cleanup is to stop checking fe->to_log
for being null, considering that it always contains at least LW_INIT
when any such usage is made of the log-format!
Also, some checks are wrong. s->logs.logwait cannot be nulled by
"logwait &= ~LW_*" since LW_INIT is always there. This results in
getting the wrong log at the end of a request or session when a
unique-id or add-header is set, because logwait is still not null
but the log-format is not checked.
Further cleanups are required. Most LW_* flags should be removed or at
least replaced with what they really mean (eg: depend on client-side
connection, depend on server-side connection, etc...) and this should
only affect logging, not other mechanisms.
This patch fixes the default log-format and tries to limit interferences
between the log formats, but does not pretend to do more for the moment,
since it's the most visible breakage.
These two new statements allow to pass information extracted from the request
to the server. It's particularly useful for passing SSL information to the
server, but may be used for various other purposes such as combining headers
together to emulate internal variables.
Until now it was only possible to use track-sc1/sc2 with "src" which
is the IPv4 source address. Now we can use track-sc1/sc2 with any fetch
as well as any transformation type. It works just like the "stick"
directive.
Samples are automatically converted to the correct types for the table.
Only "tcp-request content" rules may use L7 information, and such information
must already be present when the tracking is set up. For example it becomes
possible to track the IP address passed in the X-Forwarded-For header.
HTTP request processing now also considers tracking from backend rules
because we want to be able to update the counters even when the request
was already parsed and tracked.
Some more controls need to be performed (eg: samples do not distinguish
between L4 and L6).
Both servers and proxies share a common set of parameters for outgoing
connections, and since they're not stored in a similar structure, a lot
of code is duplicated in the connection setup, which is one sensible
area.
Let's first define a common struct for these settings and make use of it.
Next patches will de-duplicate code.
This change also fixes a build breakage that happens when USE_LINUX_TPROXY
is not set but USE_CTTPROXY is set, which seem to be very unlikely
considering that the issue was introduced almost 2 years ago an never
reported.
Recent commit 16a214 to move the maxaccept parameter to listeners didn't
set it on the peers' listeners, resulting in the value zero being used
there. This caused a busy loop for each peers section, because no incoming
connection could be accepted.
Thanks to Herv Commowick for reporting this issue.
Some users need more than 64 characters to log large cookies. The limit
was set to 63 characters (and not 64 as previously documented). Now it
is possible to change this using the global "tune.http.cookielen" setting
if required.
New option 'maxcompcpuusage' in global section.
Sets the maximum CPU usage HAProxy can reach before stopping the
compression for new requests or decreasing the compression level of
current requests. It works like 'maxcomprate' but with the Idle.
global.tune.maxaccept was used for all listeners. This becomes really not
convenient when some listeners are bound to a single process and other ones
are bound to many processes.
Now we change the principle : we count the number of processes a listener
is bound to, and apply the maxaccept either entirely if there is a single
process, or divided by twice the number of processes in order to maintain
fairness.
The default limit has also been increased from 32 to 64 as it appeared that
on small machines, 32 was too low to achieve high connection rates.
The new "cpu-map" directive allows one to assign the CPU sets that
a process is allowed to bind to. This is useful in combination with
the "nbproc" and "bind-process" directives.
The support is implicit on Linux 2.6.28 and above.
Having nbproc preinitialized to zero is really annoying as it prevents
some checks from being correctly performed. Also the check to prevent
nbproc from being redefined is totally useless, so let's preset it to
1 and remove the test.
Instead of storing a couple of (int, ptr) in the struct connection
and the struct session, we use a different method : we only store a
pointer to an integer which is stored inside the target object and
which contains a unique type identifier. That way, the pointer allows
us to retrieve the object type (by dereferencing it) and the object's
address (by computing the displacement in the target structure). The
NULL pointer always corresponds to OBJ_TYPE_NONE.
This reduces the size of the connection and session structs. It also
simplifies target assignment and compare.
In order to improve the generated code, we try to put the obj_type
element at the beginning of all the structs (listener, server, proxy,
si_applet), so that the original and target pointers are always equal.
A lot of code was touched by massive replaces, but the changes are not
that important.
Now that all pollers make use of speculative I/O, there is no point
having two epoll implementations, so replace epoll with the sepoll code
and remove sepoll which has just become the standard epoll method.
This patch adds input and output rate calcutation on the HTTP compresion
feature.
Compression can be limited with a maximum rate value in kilobytes per
second. The rate is set with the global 'maxcomprate' option. You can
change this value dynamicaly with 'set rate-limit http-compression
global' on the UNIX socket.
With the global maxzlibmem option, you are able ton control the maximum
amount of RAM usable for HTTP compression.
A test is done before each zlib allocation, if the there isn't available
memory, the test fail and so the zlib initialization, so data won't be
compressed.
The window size and the memlevel of the zlib are now configurable using
global options tune.zlib.memlevel and tune.zlib.windowsize.
It affects the memory consumption of the zlib.
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.
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.
Using "stats bind-process", it becomes possible to indicate to haproxy which
process will get the incoming connections to the stats socket. It will also
shut down the warning when nbproc > 1.
All SSL-specific "server" keywords are now processed in ssl_sock.c. At
the moment, there is no more "not implemented" hint when SSL is disabled,
but keywords could be added in server.c if needed.
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.
With this change, we now use the connection's transport layer to receive
and send data during health checks. It even becomes possible to send data
in multiple times, which was not possible before.
The transport layer used is the same as the one used for the traffic, unless
a specific address and/or port is specified for the checks using "port" or
"addr", in which case the transport layer defaults to raw_sock. An option
will be provided to force SSL checks on different IP/ports later.
Connection errors and timeouts are still reported.
Some situations where strerror() was able to report a precise error after
a failed connect() in the past might not be reported with as much precision
anymore, but the error message was already meaningless. During the tests,
no situation was found where a message became less precise.
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 is a first step, we now use the connection layer without the data
layers (send/recv are still used by hand). The connection is established
using tcp_connect_server() and raw_sock is assumed and forced for now.
fdtab is not manipulated anymore and polling is managed via the connection
layer.
It becomes quite clear that the server needs a second ->ctrl and ->xprt
dedicated to the 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.
Since recent changes on the global frontend, it was not possible anymore
to soft-reload a process which had a stats socket because the socket would
not be disabled upon reload. The only solution to this endless madness is
to have the global frontend part of normal proxies.
Since we don't want to get an ID that shifts all other proxies and causes
trouble in deployed environments, we assign it ID #0 which other proxies
can't grab, and we don't report it in the stats pages.
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.
This allows to easily add/remove "bind" entries to a frontend without
being forced to remove it when the last entry is temporarily removed.
While "disabled" may sometimes work in a frontend, it becomes trickier
on "listen" sections which can also hold servers and be referenced by
other frontends.
Note that a "listen" section with no "bind" is equivalent to a "backend"
section.
Configs without any listeners are still reported as invalid and refuse
to load.
This is because "notlsv1" used to disable TLSv1.0 only and had no effect
on v1.1/v1.2. so better have an option for each version. This applies both
to "bind" and "server" statements.
We don't needa to lock the memory when there is a single process. This can
make a difference on small systems where locking is much more expensive than
just a test.
Add keyword 'verify' on bind:
'verify none': authentication disabled (default)
'verify optional': accept connection without certificate
and process a verify if the client sent a certificate
'verify required': reject connection without certificate
and process a verify if the client send a certificate
Add keyword 'cafile' on bind:
'cafile <path>' path to a client CA file used to verify.
'crlfile <path>' path to a client CRL file used to verify.
Check the protocol pointer and not the socket to report an unknown family
in servers or peers. This can never happen anyway, it's just to be completely
clean.
It's better to set all listeners to ssl_sock when seeing the "ssl"
keyword that to loop on all of them afterwards just for this. This
also removes some #ifdefs.
Unix permissions are per-bind configuration line and not per listener,
so let's concretize this in the way the config is stored. This avoids
some unneeded loops to set permissions on all listeners.
The access level is not part of the unix perms so it has been moved
away. Once we can use str2listener() to set all listener addresses,
we'll have a bind keyword parser for this one.
Navigating through listeners was very inconvenient and error-prone. Not to
mention that listeners were linked in reverse order and reverted afterwards.
In order to definitely get rid of these issues, we now do the following :
- frontends have a dual-linked list of bind_conf
- frontends have a dual-linked list of listeners
- bind_conf have a dual-linked list of listeners
- listeners have a pointer to their bind_conf
This way we can now navigate from anywhere to anywhere and always find the
proper bind_conf for a given listener, as well as find the list of listeners
for a current bind_conf.
Otherwise we would risk a segfault when checking the config's validity
(eg: when looking for conflicts on ID assignments).
Note that the same issue exists with peers_fe and the global stats_fe. All
listeners should be reviewed and simplified to use a compatible declaration
mode.
When an unknown "bind" keyword is detected, dump the list of all
registered keywords. Unsupported default alternatives are also reported
as "not supported".
The "mode", "uid", "gid", "user" and "group" bind options were moved to
proto_uxst as they are unix-specific.
Note that previous versions had a bug here, only the last listener was
updated with the specified settings. However, it almost never happens
that bind lines contain multiple UNIX socket paths so this is not that
much of a problem anyway.
Registering new SSL bind keywords was not particularly handy as it required
many #ifdef in cfgparse.c. Now the code has moved to ssl_sock.c which calls
a register function for all the keywords.
Error reporting was also improved by this move, because the called functions
build an error message using memprintf(), which can span multiple lines if
needed, and each of these errors will be displayed indented in the context of
the bind line being processed. This is important when dealing with certificate
directories which can report multiple errors.
Now proto_tcp.c is responsible for the 4 settings it handles :
- defer-accept
- interface
- mss
- transparent
These ones do not need to be handled in cfgparse anymore. If support for a
setting is disabled by a missing build option, then cfgparse correctly
reports :
[ALERT] 255/232700 (2701) : parsing [echo.cfg:114] : 'bind' : 'transparent' option is not implemented in this version (check build options).
With the arrival of SSL, the "bind" keyword has received even more options,
all of which are processed in cfgparse in a cumbersome way. So it's time to
let modules register their own bind options. This is done very similarly to
the ACLs with a small difference in that we make the difference between an
unknown option and a known, unimplemented option.
Some settings need to be merged per-bind config line and are not necessarily
SSL-specific. It becomes quite inconvenient to have this ssl_conf SSL-specific,
so let's replace it with something more generic.
A side effect of this change is that the "ssl" keyword on "bind" lines is now
just a boolean and that "crt" is needed to designate certificate files or
directories.
Note that much refcounting was needed to have the free() work correctly due to
the number of cert aliases which can make a context be shared by multiple names.
SSL config holds many parameters which are per bind line and not per
listener. Let's use a per-bind line config instead of having it
replicated for each listener.
At the moment we only do this for the SSL part but this should probably
evolved to handle more of the configuration and maybe even the state per
bind line.
This is very convenient to reduce SSL processing priority compared to
other traffic. This applies to CPU usage only, but has a direct impact
on latency under congestion.
SSL connections take a huge amount of memory, and unfortunately openssl
does not check malloc() returns and easily segfaults when too many
connections are used.
The only solution against this is to provide a global maxsslconn setting
to reject SSL connections above the limit in order to avoid reaching
unsafe limits.
With SSL, connections are much more expensive, so it is important to be
able to limit concurrent connections per listener in order to limit the
memory usage.
I wrote a small path to add the SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE OpenSSL option
to frontend, if the 'prefer-server-ciphers' keyword is set.
Example :
bind 10.11.12.13 ssl /etc/haproxy/ssl/cert.pem ciphers RC4:HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5 prefer-server-ciphers
This option mitigate the effect of the BEAST Attack (as I understand), and it
equivalent to :
- Apache HTTPd SSLHonorCipherOrder option.
- Nginx ssl_prefer_server_ciphers option.
[WT: added a test for the support of the option]
This is aimed at disabling SSLv3 and TLSv1 respectively. SSLv2 is always
disabled. This can be used in some situations where one version looks more
suitable than the other.
Since the SSL handshake involves an immediate reply from the server
to the client, there's no point responding with a quick-ack before
sending the data, so disable quick-ack by default, just as it is done
for HTTP.
This shows a 2-2.5% transaction rate increase on a dual-core atom.
CVE-2009-3555 suggests that client-initiated renegociation should be
prevented in the middle of data. The workaround here consists in having
the SSL layer notify our callback about a handshake occurring, which in
turn causes the connection to be marked in the error state if it was
already considered established (which means if a previous handshake was
completed). The result is that the connection with the client is immediately
aborted and any pending data are dropped.
This option currently takes no option and simply turns SSL on for all
connections going to the server. It is likely that more options will
be needed in the future.
The PROXY protocol is now decoded in the connection before other
handshakes. This means that it may be extracted from a TCP stream
before SSL is decoded from this stream.
Some parts of the sock_ops structure were only used by the stream
interface and have been moved into si_ops. Some of them were callbacks
to the stream interface from the connection and have been moved into
app_cp as they're the application seen from the connection (later,
health-checks will need to use them). The rest has moved to data_ops.
Normally at this point the connection could live without knowing about
stream interfaces at all.
The "raw_sock" prefix will be more convenient for naming functions as
it will be prefixed with the data layer and suffixed with the data
direction. So let's rename the files now to avoid any further confusion.
The #include directive was also removed from a number of files which do
not need it anymore.
The correct spelling is "independent", not "independant". This patch
fixes the doc and the configuration parser to accept the correct form.
The config parser still allows the old naming for backwards compatibility.
This implements the feature discussed in the earlier thread of killing
connections on backup servers when a non-backup server comes back up. For
example, you can use this to route to a mysql master & slave and ensure
clients don't stay on the slave after the master goes from down->up. I've done
some minimal testing and it seems to work.
[WT: added session flag & doc, moved the killing after logging the server UP,
and ensured that the new server is really usable]
httponly This option tells haproxy to add an "HttpOnly" cookie attribute
when a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a
user agent doesn't share the cookie with non-HTTP components.
Please check RFC6265 for more information on this attribute.
secure This option tells haproxy to add a "Secure" cookie attribute when
a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a user agent
never emits this cookie over non-secure channels, which means
that a cookie learned with this flag will be presented only over
SSL/TLS connections. Please check RFC6265 for more information on
this attribute.
This one was already taken care of in proxy_cfg_ensure_no_http(), so if a
cookie is presented in a TCP backend, we got two warnings.
This can be backported to 1.4 since it's been this way for 2 years (although not dramatic).
Cookies were mixed with many other options while they're not used as options.
Move them to a dedicated bitmask (ck_opts). This has released 7 flags in the
proxy options and leaves some room for new proxy flags.
Option httplog needs to be checked only once the proxy has been validated,
so that its final mode (tcp/http) can be used. Also we need to check for
httplog before checking the log format, so that we can report a warning
about this specific option and not about the format it implies.
The listener struct is now aware of the socket layer to use upon accept().
At the moment, only sock_raw is supported so this patch should not change
anything.
Before it was possible to resize the buffers using global.tune.bufsize,
the trash has always been the size of a buffer by design. Unfortunately,
the recent buffer sizing at runtime forgot to adjust the trash, resulting
in it being too short for content rewriting if buffers were enlarged from
the default value.
The bug was encountered in 1.4 so the fix must be backported there.
Tunnel timeouts are used when TCP connections are forwarded, or
when forwarding upgraded HTTP connections (WebSocket) as well as
CONNECT requests to proxies.
This timeout allows long-lived sessions to be supported without
having to set large timeouts to normal requests.
Instead of hard-coding sock_raw in connect_server(), we set this socket
operation at config parsing time. Right now, only servers and peers have
it. Proxies are still hard-coded as sock_raw. This will be needed for
future work on SSL which requires a different socket layer.
All keywords registered using a cfg_kw_list now make use of the new error reporting
framework. This allows easier and more precise error reporting without having to
deal with complex buffer allocation issues.
This is mainly a massive renaming in the code to get it in line with the
calling convention. Next patch will rename a few files to complete this
operation.
All parsing errors were known but impossible to return. Now by making use
of memprintf(), we're able to build meaningful error messages that the
caller can display.
Patterns were using a bitmask to indicate if request or response was desired
in fetch functions and keywords. ACLs were using a bitmask in fetch keywords
and a single bit in fetch functions. ACLs were also using an ACL_PARTIAL bit
in fetch functions indicating that a non-final fetch was performed, which was
an abuse of the existing direction flag.
The change now consists in using :
- a capabilities field for fetch keywords => SMP_CAP_REQ/RES to indicate
if a keyword supports requests, responses, both, etc...
- an option field for fetch functions to indicate what the caller expects
(request/response, final/non-final)
The ACL_PARTIAL bit was reversed to get SMP_OPT_FINAL as it's more explicit
to know we're working on a final buffer than on a non-final one.
ACL_DIR_* were removed, as well as PATTERN_FETCH_*. L4 fetches were improved
to support being called on responses too since they're still available.
The <dir> field of all fetch functions was changed to <opt> which is now
unsigned.
The patch is large but mostly made of cosmetic changes to accomodate this, as
almost no logic change happened.
The Unique ID, is an ID generated with several informations. You can use
a log-format string to customize it, with the "unique-id-format" keyword,
and insert it in the request header, with the "unique-id-header" keyword.
* logformat functions now take a format linked list as argument
* build_logline() build a logline using a format linked list
* rename LOG_* by LOG_FMT_* in enum
* improve error management in build_logline()
Sometimes it is desirable to forward a particular request to a specific
server without having to declare a dedicated backend for this server. This
can be achieved using the "use-server" rules. These rules are evaluated after
the "redirect" rules and before evaluating cookies, and they have precedence
on them. There may be as many "use-server" rules as desired. All of these
rules are evaluated in their declaration order, and the first one which
matches will assign the server.
Merge http_sess_log() and tcp_sess_log() to sess_log() and move it to
log.c
A new field in logformat_type define if you can use a logformat
variable in TCP or HTTP mode.
doc: log-format in tcp mode
Note that due to the way log buffer allocation currently works, trying to
log an HTTP request without "option httplog" is still not possible. This
will change in the near future.
The principle behind this load balancing algorithm was first imagined
and modeled by Steen Larsen then iteratively refined through several
work sessions until it would totally address its original goal.
The purpose of this algorithm is to always use the smallest number of
servers so that extra servers can be powered off during non-intensive
hours. Additional tools may be used to do that work, possibly by
locally monitoring the servers' activity.
The first server with available connection slots receives the connection.
The servers are choosen from the lowest numeric identifier to the highest
(see server parameter "id"), which defaults to the server's position in
the farm. Once a server reaches its maxconn value, the next server is used.
It does not make sense to use this algorithm without setting maxconn. Note
that it can however make sense to use minconn so that servers are not used
at full load before starting new servers, and so that introduction of new
servers requires a progressively increasing load (the number of servers
would more or less follow the square root of the load until maxconn is
reached). This algorithm ignores the server weight, and is more beneficial
to long sessions such as RDP or IMAP than HTTP, though it can be useful
there too.
parse_logformat_string: parse the string, detect the type: text,
separator or variable
parse_logformat_var: dectect variable name
parse_logformat_var_args: parse arguments and flags
add_to_logformat_list: add to the logformat linked list
When checking a configuration file using "-c -f xxx", sometimes it is
reported that a config is valid while it will later fail (eg: no enabled
listener). Instead, let's improve the return values :
- return 0 if config is 100% OK
- return 1 if config has errors
- return 2 if config is OK but no listener nor peer is enabled
If the local host is not found as a peer in a "peers" section, we have a
double free, and possibly a use-after-free because the peers section is
freed since it's aliased as the table's name.
In a config where server "s1" is marked disabled and "s2" tracks "s1",
s2 appears disabled on the stats but is still inserted into the LB farm
because the tracking is resolved too late in the configuration process.
We now resolve tracked servers before building LB maps and we also mark
the tracking server in maintenance mode, which previously was not done,
causing half of the issue.
Last point is that we also protect srv_is_usable() against electing a
server marked for maintenance. This is not absolutely needed but is a
safe choice and makes a lot of sense.
This fix must be backported to 1.4.
New option "http-send-name-header" specifies the name of a header which
will hold the server name in outgoing requests. This is the name of the
server the connection is really sent to, which means that upon redispatches,
the header's value is updated so that it always matches the server's name.
