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Amaury Denoyelle 21fb0a3f58 MEDIUM: proxy: do not select a backend if disabled
A proxy can be marked as disabled using the keyword with the same name.
The doc mentions that it won't process any traffic. However, this is not
really the case for backends as they may still be selected via switching
rules during stream processing.

In fact, currently access to disabled backends will be conducted up to
assign_server(). However, no eligible server is found at this stage,
resulting in a connection closure or an HTTP 503, which is expected. So
in the end, servers in disabled backends won't receive any traffic. But
this is only because post-parsing steps are not performed on such
backends. Thus, this can be considered as functional but only via
side-effects.

This patch clarifies the handling of disable backends, so that they are
never selected via switching rules. Now, process_switching_rules() will
ignore disable backends and continue rules evaluation.

As this is a behavior change, this patch is labelled as medium. The
documentation manuel for use_backend is updated accordingly.
2026-01-15 09:08:18 +01:00
.github CI: github: remove ERR=1 temporarly from the ECH job 2026-01-08 17:32:27 +01:00
addons MINOR: applet: Add a flag to know an applet is using HTX buffers 2025-08-25 11:11:05 +02:00
admin CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code, commits and doc 2025-12-25 19:45:29 +01:00
dev CLEANUP: use the automatic alignment feature 2025-12-09 17:14:58 +01:00
doc MEDIUM: proxy: do not select a backend if disabled 2026-01-15 09:08:18 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MEDIUM: proxy: do not select a backend if disabled 2026-01-15 09:08:18 +01:00
reg-tests MEDIUM: proxy: do not select a backend if disabled 2026-01-15 09:08:18 +01:00
scripts REGTESTS: fix error when no test are skipped 2025-12-18 17:26:50 +01:00
src MEDIUM: proxy: do not select a backend if disabled 2026-01-15 09:08:18 +01:00
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 DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +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-dev2 2026-01-07 11:02:12 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
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 MINOR: net_helper: add sample converters to decode ethernet frames 2025-12-31 17:15:36 +01:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +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-dev2 2026-01-07 11:02:12 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev2 2026-01-07 11:02:12 +01:00

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.