The http-error directive can now be used instead of errorfile to define an error
message in a proxy section (including default sections). This directive uses the
same syntax that http return rules. The only real difference is the limitation
on status code that may be specified. Only status codes supported by errorfile
directives are supported for this new directive. Parsing of errorfile directive
remains independent from http-error parsing. But functionally, it may be
expressed in terms of http-errors :
errorfile <status> <file> ==> http-errror status <status> errorfile <file>
With server-template was introduced the possibility to scale the
number of servers in a backend without needing a configuration change
and associated reload. On the other hand it became impractical to
write use-server rules for these servers as they would only accept
existing server labels as argument. This patch allows the use of
log-format notation to describe targets of a use-server rules, such
as in the example below:
listen test
bind *:1234
use-server %[hdr(srv)] if { hdr(srv) -m found }
use-server s1 if { path / }
server s1 127.0.0.1:18080
server s2 127.0.0.1:18081
If a use-server rule is applied because it was conditionned by an
ACL returning true, but the target of the use-server rule cannot be
resolved, no other use-server rule is evaluated and we fall back to
load balancing.
This feature was requested on the ML, and bumped with issue #563.
This patch adds the support for the "table" line parsing in "peers" sections
to declare stick-table in such sections. This also prevents the user from having
to declare dummy backends sections with a unique stick-table inside.
Even if still supported, this usage will become deprecated.
To do so, the ->table member of proxy struct which is a stktable struct is replaced
by a pointer to a stktable struct allocated at parsing time in src/cfgparse-listen.c
for the dummy stick-table backends and in src/cfgparse.c for "peers" sections.
This has an impact on the code for stick-table sample converters and on the stickiness
rules parsers which first store the name of the dummy before resolving the rules.
This patch replaces proxy_tbl_by_name() calls by stktable_find_by_name() calls
to lookup for stick-tables stored in "stktable_by_name" ebtree at parsing time.
There is only one remaining place where proxy_tbl_by_name() is used: src/hlua.c.
At several places in the code we relied on the fact that ->size member of stick-table
was equal to zero to consider the stick-table was present by not configured,
this do not make sense anymore as ->table member of struct proxyis fow now on a pointer.
These tests are replaced by a test on ->table value itself.
In "peers" section we do not have to temporary store the name of the section the
stick-table are attached to because this name is obviously already known just after
having entered this "peers" section.
About the CLI stick-table I/O handler, the pointer to proxy struct is replaced by
a pointer to a stktable struct.
Now all the code used to manipulate chunks uses a struct buffer instead.
The functions are still called "chunk*", and some of them will progressively
move to the generic buffer handling code as they are cleaned up.
The incorrect comment was introduced in commit:
2ac5718dbd
v1.5-dev9 is the first tag containing this comment, the fix
should be backported to haproxy 1.5 and newer.
SPOE makes possible the communication with external components to retrieve some
info using an in-house binary protocol, the Stream Processing Offload Protocol
(SPOP). In the long term, its aim is to allow any kind of offloading on the
streams. This first version, besides being experimental, won't do lot of
things. The most important today is to validate the protocol design and lay the
foundations of what will, one day, be a full offload engine for the stream
processing.
So, for now, the SPOE can offload the stream processing before "tcp-request
content", "tcp-response content", "http-request" and "http-response" rules. And
it only supports variables creation/suppression. But, in spite of these limited
features, we can easily imagine to implement a SSO solution, an ip reputation
service or an ip geolocation service.
Internally, the SPOE is implemented as a filter. So, to use it, you must use
following line in a proxy proxy section:
frontend my-front
...
filter spoe [engine <name>] config <file>
...
It uses its own configuration file to keep the HAProxy configuration clean. It
is also a easy way to disable it by commenting out the filter line.
See "doc/SPOE.txt" for all details about the SPOE configuration.
This patch adds a new RFC5424-specific log-format for the structured-data
that is automatically send by __send_log() when the sender is in RFC5424
mode.
A new statement "log-format-sd" should be used in order to set log-format
for the structured-data part in RFC5424 formatted syslog messages.
Example:
log-format-sd [exampleSDID@1234\ bytes=\"%B\"\ status=\"%ST\"]
This patch adds support of variables during the processing of each stream. The
variables scope can be set as 'session', 'transaction', 'request' or 'response'.
The variable type is the type returned by the assignment expression. The type
can change while the processing.
The allocated memory can be controlled for each scope and each request, and for
the global process.
This one will be used when a regex is expected. It is automatically
resolved after the parsing and compiled into a regex. Some optional
flags are supported in the type-specific flags that should be set by
the optional arg checker. One is used during the regex compilation :
ARGF_REG_ICASE to ignore case.
These flags are meant to be used by arg checkers to pass out-of-band
information related to some args. A typical use is to indicate how a
regex is expected to be compiled/matched based on other arguments.
These flags are initialized to zero by default and it is up to the args
checkers to set them if needed.
We'll soon need to add new argument types, and we don't use the current
limit of 7 arguments, so let's increase the arg type size to 5 bits and
reduce the arg count to 5 (3 max are used today).
This is in order to add new types. This patch does not change anything
else. Two remaining (harmless) occurrences of a count of 8 instead of 7
were fixed by this patch : empty_arg_list[] and the for() loop counting
args.
We handle "http-request redirect" with a log-format string now, but we
leave "redirect" unaffected.
Note that the control of the special "/" case is move from the runtime
execution to the configuration parsing. If the format rule list is
empty, the build_logline() function does nothing.
While ACL args were resolved after all the config was parsed, it was not the
case with sample fetch args because they're almost everywhere now.
The issue is that ACLs now solely rely on sample fetches, so their args
resolving doesn't work anymore. And many fetches involving a server, a
proxy or a userlist don't work at all.
The real issue is that at the bottom layers we have no information about
proxies, line numbers, even ACLs in order to report understandable errors,
and that at the top layers we have no visibility over the locations where
fetches are referenced (think log node).
After failing multiple unsatisfying solutions attempts, we now have a new
concept of args list. The principle is that every proxy has a list head
which contains a number of indications such as the config keyword, the
context where it's used, the file and line number, etc... and a list of
arguments. This list head is of the same type as the elements, so it
serves as a template for adding new elements. This way, it is filled from
top to bottom by the callers with the information they have (eg: line
numbers, ACL name, ...) and the lower layers just have to duplicate it and
add an element when they face an argument they cannot resolve yet.
Then at the end of the configuration parsing, a loop passes over each
proxy's list and resolves all the args in sequence. And this way there is
all necessary information to report verbose errors.
The first immediate benefit is that for the first time we got very precise
location of issues (arg number in a keyword in its context, ...). Second,
in order to do this we had to parse log-format and unique-id-format a bit
earlier, so that was a great opportunity for doing so when the directives
are encountered (unless it's a default section). This way, the recorded
line numbers for these args are the ones of the place where the log format
is declared, not the end of the file.
Userlists report slightly more information now. They're the only remaining
ones in the ACL resolving function.
When passing arguments to ACLs and samples, some types are stored as
strings then resolved later after config parsing is done. Upon exit,
the arguments need to be freed only if the string was not resolved
yet. At the moment we can encounter double free during deinit()
because some arguments (eg: userlists) are freed once as their own
type and once as a string.
The solution consists in adding an "unresolved" flag to the args to
say whether the value is still held in the <str> part or is final.
This could be debugged thanks to a useful bug report from Sander Klein.
make_arg_list() builds an array of typed arguments with their values,
that the caller describes how to parse. This will be used to support
multiple arguments for ACLs and patterns, which is currently problematic
and prevents ACLs and patterns from being merged. Up to 7 arguments types
may be enumerated in a single 32-bit word, including their number of
mandatory parts.
At the moment, these files are not used yet, they're only built. Note that
the 4-bit encoding for the type has left only one unused type!
