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As discussed on https://github.com/orgs/haproxy/discussions/3146 and on the mailing list, there's a marked preference for having abortonclose enabled by default when relevant. The point being that with todays' internet, the large majority of requests sent with a closed input channel are aborted requests, and that it's pointless to waste resources processing them. This patch now considers both "option abortonclose" and its opposite "no option abortonclose" to figure whether abortonclose is enabled or disabled in a backend. When neither are set (thus not even inherited from a defaults section), then it considers the proxy's mode, and HTTP mode implies abortonclose by default. This may make some legacy services fail starting with 3.3. In this case it will be sufficient to add "no option abortonclose" in either the affected backend or the defaults section it derives from. But for internet-facing proxies it's better to stay with the option enabled.
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.