RFC1034 states the following: By convention, domain names can be stored with arbitrary case, but domain name comparisons for all present domain functions are done in a case-insensitive manner, assuming an ASCII character set, and a high order zero bit. This means that you are free to create a node with label "A" or a node with label "a", but not both as brothers; you could refer to either using "a" or "A". In practice, most DNS resolvers normalize domain labels (i.e., convert them to lowercase) before performing searches or comparisons to ensure this requirement is met. While HAProxy normalizes the domain name in the request, it currently does not do so for the response. Commit 75cc653 ("MEDIUM: resolvers: replace bogus resolv_hostname_cmp() with memcmp()") intentionally removed the `tolower()` conversion from `resolv_hostname_cmp()` for safety and performance reasons. This commit re-introduces the necessary normalization for FQDNs received in the response. The change is made in `resolv_read_name()`, where labels are processed as an unsigned char string, allowing `tolower()` to be applied safely. Since a typical FQDN has only 3-4 labels, replacing `memcpy()` with an explicit copy that also applies `tolower()` should not introduce a significant performance degradation. This patch addresses the rare edge case, as most resolvers perform this normalization themselves. This fixes the GitHub issue #3102. This fix may be backported in all stable versions since 2.5 included 2.5.
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.