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Willy Tarreau 0657621669 BUG/MEDIUM: h1: drop headers whose names contain invalid chars
Originally with "option accept-invalid-http-request", we couldn't really
edit the request on the fly to remove offending headers. But since we
have HTX and the headers are indexed one at a time, it has become
trivial. A non-negligible number of violations are conditioned by the
now renamed "option accept-unsafe-violations-in-http-request", and a
controversial one could definitely be reporting and passing invalid
header names containing control chars or spaces. The option was placed
so as not to block requests/responses containing them, but there's no
point in passing them to the other side. Most of the time it will be
totally harmless since the other side will reject them. But in case
haproxy is placed in front of a non-compliant server, it would fail
to protect it.

This patch implements a name check for all headers when a parsing
error was detected. It's cheap enough (especially since only done
after an error), and will skip the header if its name is invalid.
This may also remove some possibilities of confusion in logs, or
when encoding headers names for example.

This should be backported at least till the last LTS.
2026-05-24 13:59:21 +02:00
.github CI: github: add DEBUG_STRICT=2 to ASAN jobs 2026-04-30 17:46:30 +02:00
addons BUILD: 51d.c: cleanup, fix preprocessor ifdefs 2026-05-13 17:00:20 +02:00
admin CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
doc BUG/MEDIUM: h1: drop headers whose names contain invalid chars 2026-05-24 13:59:21 +02:00
examples MEDIUM: mux_quic: rename qmux traces to qcm 2026-05-13 16:23:58 +02:00
include CLEANUP: resolvers: fix comment typos and wrong filenames in file headers 2026-05-23 18:22:05 +02:00
reg-tests BUG/MINOR: h1: Don't mask websocket protocol if multiple protocols used 2026-05-19 17:50:50 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: announce-release: add a link to the OpenTelemetry filter 2026-05-08 12:05:09 +02:00
src BUG/MEDIUM: h1: drop headers whose names contain invalid chars 2026-05-24 13:59:21 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES CLEANUP: tree-wide: fix typos in user-invisible files 2026-05-13 17:03:48 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev13 2026-05-20 17:46:36 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL DOC: update supported gcc and openssl versions in INSTALL 2026-05-20 17:45:23 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: traces: add USE_TRACE allowing to disable traces 2026-05-20 11:46:43 +02:00
README.md CI: github: add cross-zoo.yml in README.md 2026-04-20 11:47:20 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev13 2026-05-20 17:46:36 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev13 2026-05-20 17:46:36 +02:00

HAProxy

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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:

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.