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Willy Tarreau 5c15ba5eff MEDIUM: proxy: mark the "dispatch" directive as deprecated
As mentioned in [1], the "dispatch" directive from haproxy 1.0 has long
outlived its original purpose and still suffers from a number of technical
limitations (no checks, no SSL, no idle connes etc) and still hinders some
internal evolutions. It's now time to mark it as deprecated, and to remove
it in 3.5 [2]. It was already recommended against in the documentation but
remained popular in raw TCP environments for being shorter to write.

The directive will now cause a warning to be emitted, suggesting an
alternate method involving "server". The warning can be shut using
"expose-deprecated-directives". The rare configs from 1.0 where
"dispatch" is combined with sticky servers using cookies will just
need to set these servers's weights to zero to prevent them from
being selected by the load balancing algorithm. All of this is
explained in the doc with examples.

Two reg tests were using this method, one purposely for this directive,
which now has expose-deprecated-directives, and another one to test the
behavior of idle connections, which was updated to use "server" and
extended to test both "http-reuse never" and "http-reuse always".

[1] https://github.com/orgs/haproxy/discussions/2921
[2] https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/Breaking-changes
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HAProxy

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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:

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.