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In 2.5-dev9, commit 631c7e866 ("MEDIUM: h1: Force close mode for invalid
uses of T-E header") enforced a recently arrived new security rule in the
HTTP specification aiming at preventing a class of content-smuggling
attacks involving HTTP/1.0 agents. It consists in handling the very rare
T-E + C-L requests or responses in close mode.
It happens it does have an impact of a rare few and very old clients
(probably running insecure TLS stacks by the way) that continue to send
both with their POST requests. The impact is that for each and every
request they'll have to reconnect, possibly negotiating a full TLS
handshake that becomes harmful to the machine in terms of CPU computation.
This commit adds a new option "h1-do-not-close-on-insecure-transfer-encoding"
that does exactly what it says, it just asks not to close on such messages,
even though the message continues to be sanitized and C-L dropped. It means
that the risk is only between the sender and haproxy, which is limited, and
might be the only acceptable solution for such environments having to deal
with broken implementations.
The cases are so rare that it should not need to be backported, or in the
worst case, to the latest LTS if there is any demand.
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.