were erroneously load-balanced while the doc said the opposite.
Since load-balanced backup servers is one of the features some
people have been asking for, the problem was fixed to reflect the
documented behaviour and a new option 'allbackups' was introduced
to provide the feature to those who need it.
its timeout times the number of retransmits exceeded the server
read or write timeout, because the later was used to compute
select()'s timeout while the connection timeout was not reached.
could trigger both a read and a write calls, thus sometimes inducing headers
being directly sent from srv to cli without modification, and leading further
modification to crash the process by memory corruption, because
rep.data+rep.l<rep.h so the memmove() length argument is negative. Only
observed with epoll() and never poll(), though this one should have been
affected too. Now, only call functions which have been allowed to.
because event_srv_chk_r() is called before _w() and flushes the socket
error. The result is that the server remains UP. The problem only
affects pure TCP health-checks when select() is disabled. You may
encounter this on SSL or SMTP proxies.
an error if the connection was refused before the the timeout. So the
client was sent to the server anyway and then got its connection broken
because of the write error. This is not a real problem with persistence,
but it definitely is for new clients. This stupid bug must have been
present for years !
be displayed even in quiet mode.
* display an alert when a listener has no address, invalid or no port, or when
there are no enabled listeners upon startup.
* second batch of socklen_t changes.
* clean-ups from Cameron Simpson.
* because tv_remain() does not know about eternity, using no timeout can
make select() spin around a null time-out. Bug reported by Cameron Simpson.
* client read timeout was not properly set to eternity initialized after an
accept() if it was not set in the config. It remained undetected so long
because eternity is 0 and newly allocated pages are zeroed by the system.
* do not call get_original_dst() when not in transparent mode.
* implemented a workaround for a bug in certain epoll() implementations on
linux-2.4 kernels (epoll-lt <= 0.21).
* implemented TCP keepalive with new options : tcpka, clitcpka, srvtcpka.
* the time-out fix introduced in 1.1.25 caused a corner case where it was
possible for a client to keep a connection maintained regardless of the
timeout if the server closed the connection during the HEADER phase,
while the client ignored the close request while doing nothing in the
other direction. This has been fixed now by ensuring that read timeouts
are re-armed when switching to any SHUTW state.
* enhanced error reporting in the logs. Now the proxy will precisely detect
various error conditions related to the system and/or process limits, and
generate LOG_EMERG logs indicating that a resource has been exhausted.
* logs will contain two new characters for the error cause : 'R' indicates
a resource exhausted, and 'I' indicates an internal error, though this
one should never happen.
* server connection timeouts can now be reported in the logs (sC), as well
as connections refused because of maxconn limitations (PC).
* new global configuration keyword "ulimit-n" may be used to raise the FD
limit to usable values.
* a warning is now displayed on startup if the FD limit is lower than the
configured maximum number of sockets.
* new configuration keyword "monitor-net" makes it possible to be monitored
by external devices which connect to the proxy without being logged nor
forwarded to any server. Particularly useful on generic TCPv4 relays.
* dirty hack to fix a bug introduced with epoll : if we close an FD and
immediately reassign it to another session through a connect(), the
Prev{Read,Write}Events are not updated, which causes trouble detecting
changes, thus leading to many timeouts at high loads.
* changed the runtime argument to disable epoll() to '-de'
* changed the runtime argument to disable poll() to '-dp'
* added global options 'nopoll' and 'noepoll' to do the same at the
configuration level.
* added a 'linux24e' target to the Makefile for Linux 2.4 systems patched to
support epoll().
* changed default FD_SETSIZE to 65536 on Solaris (default=1024)
* conditionned signals redirection to #ifdef DEBUG_MEMORY
* made epoll() support a compile-time option : ENABLE_EPOLL
* provided a very little libc replacement for a possibly missing epoll()
implementation which can be enabled by -DUSE_MY_EPOLL
* implemented the poll() poller, which can be enabled with -DENABLE_POLL.
The equivalent runtime argument becomes '-P'. A few tests show that it
performs like select() with many fds, but slightly slower (certainly
because of the higher amount of memory involved).
* separated the 3 polling methods and the tasks scheduler into 4 distinct
functions which makes the code a lot more modular.
* moved some event tables to private static declarations inside the poller
functions.
* the poller functions can now initialize themselves, run, and cleanup.
* changed the runtime argument to enable epoll() to '-E'.
* removed buggy epoll_ctl() code in the client_retnclose() function. This
function was never meant to remove anything.
* fixed a typo which caused glibc to yell about a double free on exit.
* removed error checking after epoll_ctl(DEL) because we can never know if
the fd is still active or already closed.
* added a few entries in the makefile
* implemented the HTTP 303 code for error redirection. This forces the
browser to fetch the given URI with a GET request. The new keyword for
this is 'errorloc303', and a new 'errorloc302' keyword has been created
to make them easily distinguishable.
* added more controls in the parser for valid use of '\x' sequence.
* few fixes from Alex & Klaus
* fixed a few errors in the documentation
* do not pre-initialize unused file-descriptors before select() anymore.
* merged Alexander Lazic's and Klaus Wagner's work on application
cookie-based persistence. Since this is the first merge, this version is
not intended for general use and reports are more than welcome. Some
documentation is really needed though.
* add an architecture guide to the documentation
* released without any changes
* increased default BUFSIZE to 16 kB to accept max headers of 8 kB which is
compatible with Apache. This limit can be configured in the makefile now.
Thanks to Eric Fehr for the checks.
* added a per-server "source" option which now makes it possible to bind to
a different source for each (potentially identical) server.
* changed cookie-based server selection slightly to allow several servers to
share a same cookie, thus making it possible to associate backup servers to
live servers and ease soft-stop for maintenance periods. (Alexander Lazic)
* added the cookie 'prefix' mode which makes it possible to use persistence
with thin clients which support only one cookie. The server name is prefixed
before the application cookie, and restore back.
* fixed the order of servers within an instance to match documentation. Now
the servers are *really* used in the order of their declaration. This is
particularly important when multiple backup servers are in use.
* fixed a bug where a TCP connection would be logged twice if the 'logasap'
option was enabled without the 'tcplog' option.
* encode_string() would use hdr_encode_map instead of the map argument.
* the logged request is now encoded with '#XX' for unprintable characters
* new keywords 'capture request header' and 'capture response header' enable
logging of arbitrary HTTP headers in requests and responses
* removed "-DSOLARIS" after replacing the last inet_aton() with inet_pton()
* added the '-V' command line option to verbosely report errors even though
the -q or 'quiet' options are specified. This is useful with '-c'.
* added a Red Hat init script and a .spec from Simon Matter <simon.matter@invoca.ch>
* added 'rspdeny' and 'rspideny' to block certain responses to avoid sensible
information leak from servers.
* more examples added into the configuration
* add the "logasap" option which produces a log without waiting for the data
to be transferred from the server to the client.
* add the "httpclose" option which removes any "connection:" header and adds
"Connection: close" in both direction.
* send an EMERG log when no server is available for a given proxy
* added the '-c' command line option to syntactically check the
configuration file without starting the service.
* the configurable HTTP health check introduced in 1.1.23 revealed a shameful
bug : the code still assumed that HTTP requests were the same size as the
original ones (22 bytes), and failed if they were not.
* added support for pidfiles.
* the fix introduced in 1.1.25 for client timeouts while waiting for servers
broke almost all compatibility with POST requests, because the proxy
stopped to read anything from the client as soon as it got all of its
headers.
* added the 'tcplog' option, which provides enhanced, HTTP-like logs for
generic TCP proxies, or lighter logs for HTTP proxies.
* fixed a time-out condition wrongly reported as client time-out in data
phase if the client timeout was lower than the connect timeout times the
number of retries.
* doc: added some precisions about the log timers
* if a client sent a full request then shut its write connection down, then
the request was aborted. This case was detected only when using haproxy
both as health-check client and as a server.
* if 'option httpchk' is used in a 'health' mode server, then responses will
change from 'OK' to 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK'.
* fixed a Linux-only bug in case of HTTP server health-checks, where a single
server response followed by a close could be ignored, and the server seen
as failed.
* renamed 'haproxy.txt' to 'haproxy-fr.txt'
* large documentation and examples cleanups
* fixed a stupid bug introduced in 1.1.22 which caused second and subsequent
'default' sections to keep previous parameters, and not initialize logs
correctly.
* fixed a second stupid bug introduced in 1.1.22 which caused configurations
relying on 'dispatch' mode to segfault at the first connection.
* 'option httpchk' now supports method, HTTP version and a few headers.
* now, 'option httpchk', 'cookie' and 'capture' can be specified in
'defaults' section
* a fresh new english documentation
* large Makefile cleanup for increased portability
* new build script 'build.cfg' for Formilux-0.1.8
* new startup script 'init.haproxy.flx0' for Formilux-0.1.8
* 'listen' now supports optionnal address:port-range lists
* 'bind' introduced to add new listen addresses
* fixed a bug which caused a session to be kept established on a server till
it timed out if the client closed during the DATA phase.
* the port part of each server address can now be empty to make the proxy
connect to the server on the same port it was connected to, be an absolute
unsigned number to reflect a single port (as in older versions), or an
explicitly signed number (+N/-N) to indicate that this offset must be
applied to the port the proxy was connected to, when connecting to the
server.
* the 'port' server option allows the user to specify a different
health-check port than the service one. It is mandatory when only relative
ports have been specified and check is required. By default, the checks are
sent to the service port.
* new 'defaults' section which is rather similar to 'listen' except that all
values are only used as default values for future 'listen' sections, until
a new 'defaults' resets them. At the moment, server options, regexes,
cookie names and captures cannot be set in the 'defaults' section.
* Makefile now optimizes for Ultrasparc by default on Solaris/Sparc
* large documentation updates and fixes
* new 'tests' directory with some debug files
