One other thought I had which is probably more complicated is timeouts based on 
ACLs. Specifically so I can set the timeout on specific URLs to be longer than 
the default.

I think both features would be useful but either of them might be good enough 
to get around the issues I'm having.  

-Joe



On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Joe Williams wrote:

> 
> Is it possible for haproxy to basically kill (and/or retry) established 
> backend connections for a failed backend server as soon as it fails a content 
> check? Basically I have some long running requests that are expected to hang, 
> in some cases the server they are connected to goes unavailable, failing the 
> health check, but the connection sits until the timeout is reached while no 
> new connections are routed to it. Ideally I would be able to keep my high 
> server timeout but have those connections closed and retried (similar to 
> redispatch/retry) if there was a health check failure after they were 
> established. From what I can tell redispatch and retries don't cover this 
> case. Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> 
> 
> Name: Joseph A. Williams
> Email: [email protected]
> Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/williamsjoe
> 
> 

Name: Joseph A. Williams
Email: [email protected]
Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/williamsjoe


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