Also more importantly, can I use proxy protocol with TCP backends? I need TCP backends to support SPDY.
http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/355#comment:2 seems to indicate that it does, but I just wanted to confirm. On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Viranch Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 02:00:11PM +0530, Viranch Mehta wrote: >>> Hey, >>> >>> One more thing: I'd also prefer to be able to add X-Forwarded-* >>> headers to the proxied requests. While I don't see this possible due >>> to TCP backends, is there a possible workaround? >> >> For TCP, you can enable the proxy protocol ("send-proxy" on the server >> lines), but it requires that the server supports it. Recent nginx versions >> do support it now. You'd rather avoid mixing x-forwarded-for and the proxy >> protocol since you'll have to pick only one on the server and you could >> quickly become confused. So better just use proxy proto for both http and >> spdy. > > How would I include the Host header in the health checks in this case? > Currently I insert it with: > > option httpchk HEAD /check HTTP/1.1\r\nHost:\ site1.foo.com > > How can I do this with proxy health checks? > > Viranch
