When using hash-based load balancing, requests are always assigned to
the server corresponding to the hash bucket for the balancing key,
without taking maxconn or maxqueue into account, unlike in other load
balancing methods like 'first'. This adds a new backend directive that
can be used to take maxconn and possibly maxqueue in that context. This
can be used when hashing is desired to achieve cache locality, but
sending requests to a different server is preferable to queuing for a
long time or failing requests when the initial server is saturated.
By default, affinity is preserved as was the case previously. When
'hash-preserve-affinity' is set to 'maxqueue', servers are considered
successively in the order of the hash ring until a server that does not
have a full queue is found.
When 'maxconn' is set on a server, queueing cannot be disabled, as
'maxqueue=0' means unlimited. To support picking a different server
when a server is at 'maxconn' irrespective of the queue,
'hash-preserve-affinity' can be set to 'maxconn'.
Migrate recently added log-forward section options, currently stored under
proxy->options2 to proxy->options3 since proxy->options2 is running out of
space and we plan on adding more log-forward options.
proxy->options2 is almost full, yet we will add new log-forward options
in upcoming patches so we anticipate that by adding a new {no_}options3
and cfg_opts3[] to further extend proxy options
This commit introduces the dont-parse-log option to disable log message
parsing, allowing raw log data to be forwarded without modification.
Also, it adds the assume-rfc6587-ntf option to frame log messages
using only non-transparent framing as per RFC 6587. This avoids
missparsing in certain cases (mainly with non RFC compliant messages).
The documentation is updated to include details on the new options and
their intended use cases.
This feature was discussed in GH #2856
Current pr_mode enum is a regular enum because a proxy only supports one
mode at a time. However it can be handy for a function to be given a
list of compatible modes for a proxy, and we can't do that using a
bitfield because pr_mode is not bitfield compatible (values share
the same bits).
In this patch we manually define pr_mode values so that they are all
using separate bits and allows a function to take a bitfield of
compatible modes as parameter.
For both servers and proxies, use one connection queue per thread-group,
instead of only one. Having only one can lead to severe performance
issues on NUMA machines, it is actually trivial to get the watchdog to
trigger on an AMD machine, having a server with a maxconn of 96, and an
injector that uses 160 concurrent connections.
We now have one queue per thread-group, however when dequeueing, we're
dequeuing MAX_SELF_USE_QUEUE (currently 9) pendconns from our own queue,
before dequeueing one from another thread group, if available, to make
sure everybody is still running.
Add a per-thread group field to struct proxy, that will contain a struct
queue, as well as a new field, "queueslength".
This is currently unused, so should change nothing.
Please note that proxy_init_per_thr() must now be called for each proxy
once the thread groups number is known.
There is a small race condition, where a server would check if there is
something left in the proxy queue, and adding something to the proxy
queue. If the server checks just before the stream is added to the queue,
and it no longer has any stream to deal with, then nothing will take
care of the stream, that may stay in the queue forever.
This was worked around with commit 5541d4995d, by checking for that exact
condition after adding the stream to the queue, and trying again to get
a server assigned if it is detected.
That fix lead to multiple infinite loops, that got fixed, but it is not
unlikely that it could happen again. So let's fix the initial problem
differently : a single server may mark itself as ready, and it removes
itself once used. The principle is that when we discover that the just
queued stream is alone with no active request anywhere ot dequeue it,
instead of rebalancing it, it will be assigned to that current "ready"
server that is available to handle it. The extra cost of the atomic ops
is negligible since the situation is super rare.
The "421" status can now be specified on retry-on directives. PR_RE_* flags
were updated to remains sorted.
This patch should fix the issue #2794. It is quite simple so it may safely
be backported to 3.1 if necessary.
It is now possible to use a log-format string to define the "Set-Cookie"
header value of a response generated by a redirect rule. There is no special
check on the result format and it is not possible during the configuration
parsing. It is proably not a big deal because already existing "set-cookie"
and "clear-cookie" options don't perform any check.
Here is an example:
http-request redirect location https://someurl.com/ set-cookie haproxy="%[var(txn.var)]"
This patch should fix the issue #1784.
For now it is only available for proxies with frontend capability because
log-steps are only evaluated under sess_log() or strm_log() which
essentially focus on the frontend side when it comes to log settings so
it's better to keep it this way for better consistency, at least for now.
For now the setting does nothing (it is not considered during runtime),
it will be implemented and documented in upcoming commits.
add proxy->conf.log_steps eb32 root tree which will be used to store the
log origin identifiers that should result in haproxy emitting a log as
configured by the user using upcoming "log-steps" proxy keyword.
It was chosen to use eb32 tree instead of simple bitfield because despite
the slight overhead it is more future-proof given that we already
implemented the prerequisites for seamless custom log origins registration
that will also be usable from "log-steps" proxy keyword.
It has never been permitted to explicitly reference named defaults
sections for which there are duplicate names. This means that when
a duplicate defaults section is found, there's no point in keeping
it since it will never be used for lookups, so it can be dropped.
However, some such defaults sections might have some rules in them
that are implicitly referenced by proxies placed after them. In this
case they cannot be removed.
What is done here is that upon each new named section creation, if
another one is found with the same name, its config location is stored
into the new proxy's {prev_file,prev_line} pair, and the old section is
either destroyed if its refcount is null, or just unindexed. The dup
check when creating a new proxy now consists in checking the prev_line
instead of performing a dup lookup on the defaults section.
This will guarantee that we can't find duplicate defaults sections in
their tree anymore, while still keeping track of what's allocated and
releasing everything upon exit.
Beyond the consistency gain, there are nice savings for large configs
involving many defaults sections: a test with 300k sections saved
about 1.9 GB of RAM, and started 25% faster likely thanks to spending
less time allocating memory.
Proxy file names are assigned a bit everywhere (resolvers, peers,
cli, logs, proxy). All these elements were enumerated and now use
copy_file_name(). The only ha_free() call was turned to drop_file_name().
As a bonus side effect, a 300k backend config saved 14 MB of RAM.
The "429" status can now be specified on retry-on directives. PR_RE_* flags
were updated to remains sorted.
This patch should fix the issue #2687. It is quite simple so it may safely
be backported to 3.0 if necessary.
Implement a new set of rules labelled as quic-initial.
These rules as specific to QUIC. They are scheduled to be executed early
on Initial packet parsing, prior a new QUIC connection instantiation.
Contrary to tcp-request connection, this allows to reject traffic
earlier, most notably by avoiding unnecessary QUIC SSL handshake
processing.
A new module quic_rules is created. Its main function
quic_init_exec_rules() is called on Initial packet parsing in function
quic_rx_pkt_retrieve_conn().
For the moment, only "accept" and "dgram-drop" are valid actions. Both
are final. The latter drops silently the Initial packet instead of
allocating a new QUIC connection.
The SPOE was significantly lightened. It is now possible to refactor it to
use a dedicated multiplexer. The first step is to add a SPOP mode for
proxies. The corresponding multiplexer mode is also added.
For now, there is no SPOP multiplexer, so it is only declarative. But at the
end, the SPOP multiplexer will be automatically selected for servers inside
a SPOP backend.
The related issue is #2502.
As shown in GH #2608 and ("BUG/MEDIUM: proxy: fix email-alert invalid
free"), simply calling free_email_alert() from free_proxy() is not the
right thing to do.
In this patch, we reuse proxy->email_alert.set memory space to introduce
proxy->email_alert.flags in order to support 2 flags:
PR_EMAIL_ALERT_SET (to mimic proxy->email_alert.set) and
PR_EMAIL_ALERT_RESOLVED (set once init_email_alert() was called on the
proxy to resolve email_alert.mailer pointer).
Thanks to PR_EMAIL_ALERT_RESOLVED flag, free_email_alert() may now
properly handle the freeing of proxy email_alert settings: if the RESOLVED
flag is set, then it means the .email_alert.mailers.name parsing hint was
replaced by the actual mailers pointer, thus no free should be attempted.
No backport needed: as described in ("BUG/MEDIUM: proxy: fix email-alert
invalid free"), this historical leak is not sensitive as it cannot be
triggered during runtime.. thus given that the fix is not backport-
friendly, it's not worth the trouble.
last_change was a member present in both proxy and server struct. It is
used as an age statistics to report the last update of the object.
Move last_change into fe_counters/be_counters. This is necessary to be
able to manipulate it through generic stat column and report it into
stats-file.
Note that there is a change for proxy structure with now 2 different
last_change values, on frontend and backend side. Special care was taken
to ensure that the value is initialized only on the proxy side. The
other value is set to 0 unless a listen proxy is instantiated. For the
moment, only backend counter is reported in stats. However, with now two
distinct values, stats could be extended to report it on both side.
Move freq-ctr defined in proxy or server structures into their dedicated
fe_counters/be_counters struct.
Functionnaly no change here. This commit will allow to convert rate
stats column to generic one, which is mandatory to manipulate them in
the stats-file.
This commit is the first one of a series which aims to align counters
usage between frontends/listeners on one side and backends/servers on
the other.
Remove <down_trans> field from proxy structure. Use instead the same
name field from be_counters structure, which is already used for
servers.
Implement proxy identiciation through GUID. As such, a guid_node member
is inserted into proxy structure. A proxy keyword "guid" is defined to
allow user to fix its value.
Currently, the way proxy-oriented logformat directives are handled is way
too complicated. Indeed, "log-format", "log-format-error", "log-format-sd"
and "unique-id-format" all rely on preparsing hints stored inside
proxy->conf member struct. Those preparsing hints include the original
string that should be compiled once the proxy parameters are known plus
the config file and line number where the string was found to generate
precise error messages in case of failure during the compiling process
that happens within check_config_validity().
Now that lf_expr API permits to compile a lf_expr struct that was
previously prepared (with original string and config hints), let's
leverage lf_expr_compile() from check_config_validity() and instead
of relying on individual proxy->conf hints for each logformat expression,
store string and config hints in the lf_expr struct directly and use
lf_expr helpers funcs to handle them when relevant (ie: original
logformat string freeing is now done at a central place inside
lf_expr_deinit(), which allows for some simplifications)
Doing so allows us to greatly simplify the preparsing logic for those 4
proxy directives, and to finally save some space in the proxy struct.
Also, since httpclient proxy has its "logformat" automatically compiled
in check_config_validity(), we now use the file hint from the logformat
expression struct to set an explicit name that will be reported in case
of error ("parsing [httpclient:0] : ...") and remove the extraneous check
in httpclient_precheck() (logformat was parsed twice previously..)
This patch tries to address a design flaw with how logformat expressions
are parsed from config. Indeed, some parse_logformat_string() calls are
performed during config parsing when the proxy mode is not yet known.
Here's a config example that illustrates the issue:
defaults
mode tcp
listen test
bind :8888
http-response set-header custom-hdr "%trl" # needs http
mode http
The above config should work, because the effective proxy mode is http,
yet haproxy fails with this error:
[ALERT] (99051) : config : parsing [repro.conf:6] : error detected in proxy 'test' while parsing 'http-response set-header' rule : format tag 'trl' is reserved for HTTP mode.
To fix the issue once and for all, let's implement smart postparsing for
logformat expressions encountered during config parsing:
- split parse_logformat_string() (and subfonctions) in order to create a
new lf_expr_postcheck() function that must be called to finish
preparing and checking the logformat expression once the proxy type is
known.
- save some config hints info during parse_logformat_string() to
generate more precise error messages during lf_expr_postcheck(), if
needed, we rely on curpx->conf.args.{file,line} hints for that because
parse_logformat_string() doesn't know about current file and line
number.
- lf_expr_postcheck() uses PR_FL_CHECKED proxy flag to know if the
function may try to make the proxy compatible with the expression, or
if it should simply fail as soon as an incompatibility is detected.
- if parse_logformat_string() is called from an unchecked proxy, then
schedule the expression for postparsing, else (ie: during runtime),
run the postcheck right away.
This change will also allow for some logformat expression error handling
simplifications in the future.
PR_FL_CHECKED is set on proxy once the proxy configuration was fully
checked (including postparsing checks).
This information may be useful to functions that need to know if some
config-related proxy properties are likely to change or not due to parsing
or postparsing/check logics. Also, during runtime, except for some rare cases
config-related proxy properties are not supposed to be changed.
log format expressions are broadly used within the code: once they are
parsed from input string, they are converted to a linked list of
logformat nodes.
We're starting to face some limitations because we're simply storing the
converted expression as a generic logformat_node list.
The first issue we're facing is that storing logformat expressions that
way doesn't allow us to add metadata alongside the list, which is part
of the prerequites for implementing log-profiles.
Another issue with storing logformat expressions as generic lists of
logformat_node elements is that it's starting to become really hard to
tell when we rely on logformat expressions or not in the code given that
there isn't always a comment near the list declaration or manipulation
to indicate that it's relying on logformat expressions under the hood,
so this adds some complexity for code maintenance.
This patch looks quite impressive due to changes in a lot of header and
source files (since logformat expressions are broadly used), but it does
a simple thing: it defines the lf_expr structure which itself holds a
generic list of logformat nodes, and then declares some helpers to
manipulate lf_expr elements and fixes the code so that we now exclusively
manipulate logformat_node lists as lf_expr elements outside of log.c.
For now, lf_expr struct only contains the list of logformat nodes (no
additional metadata), but now that we have dedicated type and helpers,
doing so in the future won't be problematic at all and won't require
extensive code changes.
Since 3d6350e10 ("MINOR: log: Remove log-error-via-logformat option"),
PR_O_ERR_LOGFMT flag is not used anymore, but it was left in the proxy-t.h
header file. Simply removing it and adding a comment to indicate that the
corresponding bit is now unused.
When a TCP frontend uses an HTTP backend, the stream is automatically
upgraded and it results in a similar behavior as if a switch-mode http
rule was evaluated since stream_set_http_mode() gets called in both
situations and minimal HTTP analyzers are set.
In the current implementation, some postparsing checks are generating
errors or warnings when the frontend is in TCP mode with some HTTP options
set and no upgrade is expected (no switch-rule http). But as you can guess,
unfortunately this leads in issues when such "HTTP" only options are used
in a frontend that has implicit switching rules (that is, when the
frontend uses an HTTP backend for example), because in this case the
PR_O_HTTP_UPG will not be set, so the postparsing checks will consider
that some options are not relevant and will raise some warnings.
Consider the following example:
backend back
mode http
server s1 git.haproxy.org:80
frontend front
mode tcp
bind localhost:8080
http-request set-var(txn.test) str(TRUE),debug(WORKING,stderr)
use_backend back
By starting an haproxy instance with the above example conf, we end up
having this warning:
[WARNING] (400280) : config : 'http-request' rules ignored for frontend 'front' as they require HTTP mode.
However, by making a request on the frontend, we notice that the request
rules are still executed, and that's because the stream is effectively
upgraded as a result of an implicit upgrade:
[debug] WORKING: type=str <TRUE>
So this confirms the previous description: since implicit and explicit
upgrades result in approximately the same behavior on the frontend side,
we should consider them both when doing postparsing checks.
This is what we try to address in the following commit: PR_O_HTTP_UPG
flag is now more generic in the sense that it refers to either implicit
(through default_backend or use_backend rules) or explicit (switch-mode
rules) upgrades. Indeed, everytime an HTTP or dynamic backend (where the
mode cannot be assumed during parsing) is encountered in default_backend
directive or use_backend rules, we explicitly position the upgrade flag
so that further checks that depend on the proxy being in HTTP context
don't report false warnings.
Add a new timeout for the handshake, on the frontend side only. Such a hanshake
will be typically used for TLS hanshakes during client connections to TLS/TCP or
QUIC frontends.
When 'log' directive was implemented, the internal representation was
named 'struct logsrv', because the 'log' directive would directly point
to the log target, which used to be a (UDP) log server exclusively at
that time, hence the name.
But things have become more complex, since today 'log' directive can point
to ring targets (implicit, or named) for example.
Indeed, a 'log' directive does no longer reference the "final" server to
which the log will be sent, but instead it describes which log API and
parameters to use for transporting the log messages to the proper log
destination.
So now the term 'logsrv' is rather confusing and prevents us from
introducing a new level of abstraction because they would be mixed
with logsrv.
So in order to better designate this 'log' directive, and make it more
generic, we chose the word 'logger' which now replaces logsrv everywhere
it was used in the code (including related comments).
This is internal rewording, so no functional change should be expected
on user-side.
Since eb77824 ("MEDIUM: proxy: remove the deprecated "grace" keyword"),
stop_time is never set, so the related code in manage_proxy() is not
relevant anymore.
Removing code that refers to p->stop_time, since it was probably
overlooked.
We are simply renaming pause_listener() to suspend_listener() to prevent
confusion around listener pausing.
A suspended listener can be in two differents valid states:
- LI_PAUSED: the listener is effectively paused, it will unpause on
resume_listener()
- LI_ASSIGNED (not bound): the listener does not support the LI_PAUSED
state, so it was unbound to satisfy the suspend request, it will
correcly re-bind on resume_listener()
Besides that, we add the LI_F_SUSPENDED flag to mark suspended listeners in
suspend_listener() and unmark them in resume_listener().
We're also adding li_suspend proxy variable to track the number of currently
suspended listeners:
That is, the number of listeners that were suspended through suspend_listener()
and that are either in LI_PAUSED or LI_ASSIGNED state.
Counter is increased on successful suspend in suspend_listener() and it is
decreased on successful resume in resume_listener()
--
Backport notes:
-> 2.4 only, as "MINOR: proxy/listener: support for additional PAUSED state"
was not backported:
Replace this:
| /* PROXY_LOCK is require
| proxy_cond_resume(px);
By this:
| ha_warning("Resumed %s %s.\n", proxy_cap_str(px->cap), px->id);
| send_log(px, LOG_WARNING, "Resumed %s %s.\n", proxy_cap_str(px->cap), px->id);
-> 2.6 and 2.7 only, as "MINOR: listener: make sure we don't pause/resume" was
custom patched:
Replace this:
|@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ struct listener {
|
| /* listener flags (16 bits) */
| #define LI_F_FINALIZED 0x0001 /* listener made it to the READY||LIMITED||FULL state at least once, may be suspended/resumed safely */
|+#define LI_F_SUSPENDED 0x0002 /* listener has been suspended using suspend_listener(), it is either is LI_PAUSED or LI_ASSIGNED state */
|
| /* Descriptor for a "bind" keyword. The ->parse() function returns 0 in case of
| * success, or a combination of ERR_* flags if an error is encountered. The
By this:
|@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ struct li_per_thread {
|
| #define LI_F_QUIC_LISTENER 0x00000001 /* listener uses proto quic */
| #define LI_F_FINALIZED 0x00000002 /* listener made it to the READY||LIMITED||FULL state at least once, may be suspended/resumed safely */
|+#define LI_F_SUSPENDED 0x00000004 /* listener has been suspended using suspend_listener(), it is either is LI_PAUSED or LI_ASSIGNED state */
|
| /* The listener will be directly referenced by the fdtab[] which holds its
| * socket. The listener provides the protocol-specific accept() function to
proxy http-only options implemented in http_ext were statically stored
within proxy struct.
We're making some changes so that http_ext are now stored in a dynamically
allocated structs.
http_ext related structs are only allocated when needed to save some space
whenever possible, and they are automatically freed upon proxy deletion.
Related PX_O_HTTP{7239,XFF,XOT) option flags were removed because we're now
considering an http_ext option as 'active' if it is allocated (ptr is not NULL)
A few checks (and BUG_ON) were added to make these changes safe because
it adds some (acceptable) complexity to the previous design.
Also, proxy.http was renamed to proxy.http_ext to make things more explicit.
Just like forwarded (7239) header and forwardfor header, move parsing,
logic and management of 'originalto' option into http_ext dedicated class.
We're only doing this to standardize proxy http options management.
Existing behavior remains untouched.
Just like forwarded (7239) header, move parsing, logic and management
of 'forwardfor' option into http_ext dedicated class.
We're only doing this to standardize proxy http options management.
Existing behavior remains untouched.
Introducing http_ext class for http extension related work that
doesn't fit into existing http classes.
HTTP extension "forwarded", introduced with 7239 RFC is now supported
by haproxy.
The option supports various modes from simple to complex usages involving
custom sample expressions.
Examples :
# Those servers want the ip address and protocol of the client request
# Resulting header would look like this:
# forwarded: proto=http;for=127.0.0.1
backend www_default
mode http
option forwarded
#equivalent to: option forwarded proto for
# Those servers want the requested host and hashed client ip address
# as well as client source port (you should use seed for xxh32 if ensuring
# ip privacy is a concern)
# Resulting header would look like this:
# forwarded: host="haproxy.org";for="_000000007F2F367E:60138"
backend www_host
mode http
option forwarded host for-expr src,xxh32,hex for_port
# Those servers want custom data in host, for and by parameters
# Resulting header would look like this:
# forwarded: host="host.com";by=_haproxy;for="[::1]:10"
backend www_custom
mode http
option forwarded host-expr str(host.com) by-expr str(_haproxy) for for_port-expr int(10)
# Those servers want random 'for' obfuscated identifiers for request
# tracing purposes while protecting sensitive IP information
# Resulting header would look like this:
# forwarded: for=_000000002B1F4D63
backend www_for_hide
mode http
option forwarded for-expr rand,hex
By default (no argument provided), forwarded option will try to mimic
x-forward-for common setups (source client ip address + source protocol)
The option is not available for frontends.
no option forwarded is supported.
More info about 7239 RFC here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7239.html
More info about the feature in doc/configuration.txt
This should address feature request GH #575
Depends on:
- "MINOR: http_htx: add http_append_header() to append value to header"
- "MINOR: sample: add ARGC_OPT"
- "MINOR: proxy: introduce http only options"
This commit is innoffensive but will allow to do some code refactors in
existing proxy http options. Newly created http related proxy options
will also benefit from this.
httpclient_create_proxy() is a function which creates a proxy that could
be used for the httpclient. It will allocate a proxy, a raw server and
an ssl server.
This patch moves most of the code from httpclient_precheck() into a
generic function httpclient_create_proxy().
The proxy will have the PR_CAP_HTTPCLIENT capability.
This could be used for specifics httpclient instances that needs
different proxy settings.
This patch is a prerequisite for #1626.
Adding PAUSED state to the list of available proxy states.
The flag is set when the proxy is paused at runtime (pause_listener()).
It is cleared when the proxy is resumed (resume_listener()).
It should be backported to 2.6, 2.5 and 2.4
The "http-restrict-req-hdr-names" option can now be set to restrict allowed
characters in the request header names to the "[a-zA-Z0-9-]" charset.
Idea of this option is to not send header names with non-alphanumeric or
hyphen character. It is especially important for FastCGI application because
all those characters are converted to underscore. For instance,
"X-Forwarded-For" and "X_Forwarded_For" are both converted to
"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR". So, header names can be mixed up by FastCGI
applications. And some HAProxy rules may be bypassed by mangling header
names. In addition, some non-HTTP compliant servers may incorrectly handle
requests when header names contain characters ouside the "[a-zA-Z0-9-]"
charset.
When this option is set, the policy must be specify:
* preserve: It disables the filtering. It is the default mode for HTTP
proxies with no FastCGI application configured.
* delete: It removes request headers with a name containing a character
outside the "[a-zA-Z0-9-]" charset. It is the default mode for
HTTP backends with a configured FastCGI application.
* reject: It rejects the request with a 403-Forbidden response if it
contains a header name with a character outside the
"[a-zA-Z0-9-]" charset.
The option is evaluated per-proxy and after http-request rules evaluation.
This patch may be backported to avoid any secuirty issue with FastCGI
application (so as far as 2.2).
The server_id_hdr_name is already processed as an ist in various locations lets
also just store it as such.
see 0643b0e7e ("MINOR: proxy: Make `header_unique_id` a `struct ist`") for a
very similar past commit.
The orgto_hdr_name is already processed as an ist in `http_process_request`,
lets also just store it as such.
see 0643b0e7e ("MINOR: proxy: Make `header_unique_id` a `struct ist`") for a
very similar past commit.
The fwdfor_hdr_name is already processed as an ist in `http_process_request`,
lets also just store it as such.
see 0643b0e7e ("MINOR: proxy: Make `header_unique_id` a `struct ist`") for a
very similar past commit.
The monitor_uri is already processed as an ist in `http_wait_for_request`, lets
also just store it as such.
see 0643b0e7e ("MINOR: proxy: Make `header_unique_id` a `struct ist`") for a
very similar past commit.
Avoid closing idle connections if a soft stop is in progress.
By default, idle connections will be closed during a soft stop. In some
environments, a client talking to the proxy may have prepared some idle
connections in order to send requests later. If there is no proper retry
on write errors, this can result in errors while haproxy is reloading.
Even though a proper implementation should retry on connection/write
errors, this option was introduced to support back compat with haproxy <
v2.4. Indeed before v2.4, we were waiting for a last request to be able
to add a "connection: close" header and advice the client to close the
connection.
In a real life example, this behavior was seen in AWS using the ALB in
front of a haproxy. The end result was ALB sending 502 during haproxy
reloads.
This patch was tested on haproxy v2.4, with a regular reload on the
process, and a constant trend of requests coming in. Before the patch,
we see regular 502 returned to the client; when activating the option,
the 502 disappear.
This patch should help fixing github issue #1506.
In order to unblock some v2.3 to v2.4 migraton, this patch should be
backported up to v2.4 branch.
Signed-off-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
[wt: minor edits to the doc to mention other options to care about]
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
