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Some rare commands in the worker require to keep their input open and
terminate when it's closed ("show events -w", "wait"). Others maintain
a per-session context ("set anon on"). But in its default operation
mode, the master CLI passes commands one at a time to the worker, and
closes the CLI's input channel so that the command can immediately
close upon response. This effectively prevents these two specific cases
from being used.
Here the approach that we take is to introduce a bidirectional mode to
connect to the worker, where everything sent to the master is immediately
forwarded to the worker (including the raw command), allowing to queue
multiple commands at once in the same session, and to continue to watch
the input to detect when the client closes. It must be a client's choice
however, since doing so means that the client cannot batch many commands
at once to the master process, but must wait for these commands to complete
before sending new ones. For this reason we use the prefix "@@<pid>" for
this. It works exactly like "@" except that it maintains the channel
open during the whole execution. Similarly to "@<pid>" with no command,
"@@<pid>" will simply open an interactive CLI session to the worker, that
will be ended by "quit" or by closing the connection. This can be convenient
for the user, and possibly for clients willing to dedicate a connection to
the worker.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.