Trailing spaces on the lines of the config file create an empty arg which makes it complicated to detect really empty args. Let's first address this. Note that it is not user-visible but prevents from fixing user-visible issues. No backport is needed. The initial issue was introduced with this fix that already tried to address it: 8a6767d266 ("BUG/MINOR: config: don't count trailing spaces as empty arg (v2)") The current patch properly addresses leading and trailing spaces by only counting arguments if non-lws chars were found on the line. LWS do not cause a transition to a new arg anymore but they complete the current one. The whole new code relies on a state machine to detect when to create an arg (!in_arg->in_arg), and when to close the current arg. A special care was taken for word expansion in the form of "${ARGS[*]}" which still continue to emit individual arguments past the first LWS. This example works fine: ARGS="100 check inter 1000" server name 192.168.1."${ARGS[*]}" It properly results in 6 args: "server", "name", "192.168.1.100", "check", "inter", "1000" This fix should not have any visible user impact and is a bit tricky, so it's best not to backport it, at least for a while. Co-authored-by: Valentine Krasnobaeva <vkrasnobaeva@haproxy.com>
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.