The fiprm and beprm were added to ease the transition between
a single listener mode to frontends+backends. They are no longer
needed and make the code a bit more complicated. Remove them.
Struct server has gathered lots of informations over the time, but
it's better for clarity and performance to group those information
by usage, the most common ones at the top and the least ones at the
bottom.
Patch from Fabrice Dulaunoy. Explanation below, and script
merged in examples/.
This patch allow to put a different address in the check part for each
server (and not only a specific port)
I need this feature because I've a complex settings where, when a specific
farm goes down, I need to switch a set of other farm either if these other
farm behave perfectly well.
For that purpose, I've made a small PERL daemon with some REGEX or PORT
test which allow me to test a bunch of thing.
Patch from Bryan Germann for 1.2.17.
In some circumstances, it is useful not to add the X-Forwarded-For
header, for instance when the client is another reverse-proxy or
stunnel running on the same machine and which already adds it. This
patch adds the "except" keyword to the "forwardfor" option, allowing
to specify an address or network which will not be added to this
header.
Some session flags were clearly related to HTTP transactions.
A new 'flags' field has been added to http_txn, and the
associated flags moved to proto_http.h.
Some parts of HTTP processing were incorrectly called "request" while
they are messages or transactions. The following structure members
have changed :
http_msg.hdr_state => msg_state
http_msg.sor => som
http_req.req_state => removed
http_req => http_txn
The HTTP parser has been rewritten for better compliance to RFC2616.
The same parser is now usable for both requests and responses, and
it now supports HTTP/0.9 as well as multi-line headers. It has also
been improved for speed ; a typicial HTTP request is parsed in about
2 microseconds on a 1 GHz processor.
The monitor-uri check has been moved so that the requests are not
logged. The httpclose option now tries to change as little as
possible in the request, and does not affect the first header if
it is already set to 'close'. HTTP/0.9 requests are converted to
HTTP/1.0 before being forwarded.
Headers and request transformations are now distinct. The headers
list is updated after each insertion/removal/transformation. The
request is re-parsed and checked after each transformation. It is
not possible anymore to remove a request, and requests which lead
to invalid request lines are now rejected.
A struct http_req has been created to collect every information
related to an HTTP request being processed. Right now, it is
still in the struct session but the frontier is clear now.
This patch from Sin Yu makes use of an rbtree for the wait queue,
which will solve the slowdown problem encountered when timeouts
are heterogenous in the configuration. The next step will be to
turn maintain_proxies() into a per-proxy task so that we won't
have to scan them all after each poll() loop.
The stats page could not tell the difference between a FE and a BE.
It has been revamped to indicate all relevant information. The font
is also slightly smaller in order for all the info to fit into small
screens. The data output path has been greatly simplified to use
string chunks.
The notion of capabilities has been added to the proxy so that we
know whether a proxy supports frontend, backend, or rulesets. Given
this, some parameters are optionnal, some are ignored with a warning
and others are forbidden. It is now possible to write valid two level
configs without binding to dummy address/ports.
The maxconn argument is used only for the listeners, and the
fullconn is used only for the backends. If unset, it inherits
maxconn's value which itself can inherit the default or the
global value (we might need to change this).
HTTP error messages were all specific cases handled by an IF.
Now they are all in an array so that it will be easier to add
new ones. Also, the return functions now use chunks as inputs
so that it should be easier to provide alternative return
messages if needed.
The nbconn attribute in the proxies was not relevant anymore because
a frontend A may use backend B and both of them must account for their
respective connections. For this reason, there now are two separate
counters for frontend and backend connections.
The stats page has been updated to reflect the backend, but a separate
line entry for the frontend with error counts would be good.
Note that as of now, beconn may be higher than maxconn, because maxconn
applies to the frontend, while beconn may be increased due to sessions
passed from another frontend.
There was a confusion about the way to find filters and backend
parameters from sessions. The chaining has been changed between
the session and the proxy.
Now, a session knows only two proxies : one frontend (->fe) and
one backend (->be). Each proxy has a link to the proxy providing
filters and to the proxy providing backend parameters (both self
by default).
The captures (cookies and headers) have been attached to the
frontend's filters for now.
The uri_auth and the statistics are attached to the backend's
filters so that the uri can depend on a hostname for instance.
A proxy will be able to borrow parameters from another one.
In particular, the filters will be inheritable from another
proxy, and the backend parameters too.
The req_cap, hdr_state, hdr_idx, auth_hdr and req_line have been moved
to a dedicated hreq structure in the session. It makes is easier to
add HTTP-specific fields such as SOR (start of request) and EOF (end
of headers).
It also made it possible to fix two bugs introduced by last commit :
- end of headers not correctly detected
- hdr_idx not freed upon one specific error during session creation
When the backend side will be reworked, it should rely on a similar
structure.
The new parser uses an FSM to strictly follow RFC2616.
Headers are indexed and parsed only once they're all available.
That way, complex regexes make more sense.
HTTP processing is now performed in several phases by calling
multiple functions, making the code cleaner and easier to read.
Note that req[i]pass does not work anymore because it would
require that we mark a header to be ignored. What is really
needed is to have the ability to add an exception to a matching
(match xx except yy).
Several bugs have been fixed in appsession during the conversion
to the new FSM (method length and recovery on malloc errors).
The code does build and work with the debug examples, but is
not usable yet to connect to anything as it does not forward
the requests yet.
This structure will consume 4 bytes per header to keep track of
headers within a request or a response without having to parse
the whole request for each regex. As it's not possible to allocate
only 4 bytes, we define a max number of HTTP headers. We set it
to (BUFSIZE+79)/80 so that 8kB buffers can contain 100 headers
(like Apache), resulting in 400 bytes dedicated to indexation,
or about 400/(2*8kB) ~= 2.4% of the memory usage.
The references to the proxy from the session have been turned into
Frontend (fe), Filters (fi) and Backend (be). This should ease the
migration to the L7 switching features. Next step will be to kill
the struct proxy and have 3 independant structs instead, each
referenced from entities called listener, frontend, filters and
backend.
Using the cttproxy kernel patch, it's possible to bind to any source
address. It is highly recommended to use the 03-natdel patch with the
other ones.
A new keyword appears as a complement to the "source" keyword : "usesrc".
The source address is mandatory and must be valid on the interface which
will see the packets. The "usesrc" option supports "client" (for full
client_ip:client_port spoofing), "client_ip" (for client_ip spoofing)
and any 'IP[:port]' combination to pretend to be another machine.
Right now, the source binding is missing from server health-checks if
set to another address. It must be implemented (think restricted firewalls).
The doc is still missing too.
Linux and BSD know about u_int32_t, while Solaris knows about uint32_t.
This is getting boring and unsigned int perfectly fits the goal for the
moment. Further investigation will be performed anyway.
It is now possible to tarpit connections based on regex matches.
The tarpit timeout is equal to the contimeout. A 500 server error
response is faked, and the logs show the status flags as "PT" which
indicate the connection has been tarpitted.
This makes it possible to relay SSL connections in pure TCP instances while
ensuring the remote end really receives our data eventhough intermediate
agents (firewalls, proxies, ...) might acknowledge the connection.
The files are now stored under :
- include/haproxy for the generic includes
- include/types.h for the structures needed within prototypes
- include/proto.h for function prototypes and inline functions
- src/*.c for the C files
Most include files are now covered by LGPL. A last move still needs
to be done to put inline functions under GPL and not LGPL.
Version has been set to 1.3.0 in the code but some control still
needs to be done before releasing.
