haproxy/doc
Willy Tarreau 5c15ba5eff MEDIUM: proxy: mark the "dispatch" directive as deprecated
As mentioned in [1], the "dispatch" directive from haproxy 1.0 has long
outlived its original purpose and still suffers from a number of technical
limitations (no checks, no SSL, no idle connes etc) and still hinders some
internal evolutions. It's now time to mark it as deprecated, and to remove
it in 3.5 [2]. It was already recommended against in the documentation but
remained popular in raw TCP environments for being shorter to write.

The directive will now cause a warning to be emitted, suggesting an
alternate method involving "server". The warning can be shut using
"expose-deprecated-directives". The rare configs from 1.0 where
"dispatch" is combined with sticky servers using cookies will just
need to set these servers's weights to zero to prevent them from
being selected by the load balancing algorithm. All of this is
explained in the doc with examples.

Two reg tests were using this method, one purposely for this directive,
which now has expose-deprecated-directives, and another one to test the
behavior of idle connections, which was updated to use "server" and
extended to test both "http-reuse never" and "http-reuse always".

[1] https://github.com/orgs/haproxy/discussions/2921
[2] https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/Breaking-changes
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design-thoughts CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
internals DOC: watchdog: update the doc to reflect the recent changes 2025-05-21 11:34:55 +02:00
lua-api MAJOR: mailers: remove native mailers support 2025-06-24 10:55:58 +02:00
51Degrees-device-detection.txt DOC: 51d: updated 51Degrees repo URL for v3.2.10 2023-11-23 16:26:13 +01:00
acl.fig [DOC] add diagrams of queuing and future ACL design 2009-02-22 16:46:38 +01:00
coding-style.txt DOC: fix a few remainig cases of "Haproxy" and "HAproxy" in doc and comments 2021-05-09 06:50:46 +02:00
configuration.txt MEDIUM: proxy: mark the "dispatch" directive as deprecated 2025-06-26 15:29:47 +02:00
cookie-options.txt DOC: fix a few typos in the documentation 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
DeviceAtlas-device-detection.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2024-03-05 11:50:34 +01:00
gpl.txt [LICENSE] licensing clarifications 2006-06-15 21:48:13 +02:00
haproxy.1 DOC: add description of pidfile in master-worker mode 2020-08-26 18:40:53 +02:00
HAProxyCommunityEdition_60px.png DOC: replace the README by a markdown version 2024-05-30 13:53:46 +02:00
intro.txt [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev0 2025-05-28 16:46:34 +02:00
lgpl.txt [LICENSE] licensing clarifications 2006-06-15 21:48:13 +02:00
linux-syn-cookies.txt DOC: add doc/linux-syn-cookies.txt 2015-08-11 12:17:41 +02:00
lua.txt [RELEASE] Released version 3.1-dev6 2024-08-21 17:50:03 +02:00
management.txt DOC: remove the program section from the documentation 2025-06-25 15:42:57 +02:00
netscaler-client-ip-insertion-protocol.txt DOC: fix typos 2019-05-25 07:34:24 +02:00
network-namespaces.txt MAJOR: namespace: add Linux network namespace support 2014-11-21 07:51:57 +01:00
peers-v2.0.txt MEDIUM: stick-tables: add a new stored type for glitch_cnt and glitch_rate 2024-02-08 15:51:49 +01:00
peers.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2022-12-07 09:08:18 +01:00
proxy-protocol.txt DOC: proxy-protocol: fix wrong byte in provided example 2023-02-12 09:26:48 +01:00
queuing.fig [DOC] add diagrams of queuing and future ACL design 2009-02-22 16:46:38 +01:00
regression-testing.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2023-11-23 16:23:14 +01:00
seamless_reload.txt CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
SOCKS4.protocol.txt MEDIUM: connection: Upstream SOCKS4 proxy support 2019-05-31 17:24:06 +02:00
SPOE.txt CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code, commits and doc 2025-04-03 11:37:25 +02:00
WURFL-device-detection.txt CONTRIB: move src/wurfl.c and contrib/wurfl to addons/wurfl 2021-04-02 17:48:42 +02:00