On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 06:38:53PM +0000, Chris wrote: > Is it possible to use a map file to specify a rate for a specific source > IP/subnet? Something like this? > > acl conn_rate_abuse sc2_conn_rate gt > %[src,map_ip_int(/etc/haproxy/src_to_rate.map)]
No it's not possible, patterns are constants. > I can see there might be a problem because a map isn't guaranteed to have a > match? It might be a nice feature to have a version of the map functions > that take a default as a parameter. Something like: > > map_ip_int(my_map_file, 10) > > where 10 is the default returned if there is no match. For now we cannot operate on multiple variables, only one at a time. It's a limitation caused by the config parser for one part, and by the sample expression evaluator for another part. > p.s. What do you call the %[] thing? I may be blind, but have yet to see > it named in the documentation. We call this a format string or log-format string, because initially that was made only for custom log formats, and as you can see, anytime you can build a composite string, it ends up propagating everywhere... Willy
