I've probably got lost in the masses of documentation on this subject, but I'm
trying to configure my HAProxy process to send the PROXY protocol header as
described at http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt. This
is because I am having to write support for the PROXY protocol into a C++
server (in order for it to have access to the client IP/port) and I want to
test my code is working properly with the parsing of the PROXY header.
Here is my minimal config file:
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global
maxconn 4096
defaults
log global
mode http
retries 3
option redispatch
maxconn 2000
timeout connect 5000
timeout client 50000
timeout server 50000
frontend TestServerTest
bind 10.6.186.24:54781
mode tcp
default_backend TestServernodes
backend TestServernodes
mode tcp
# Note there is no 'check' after the below line unlike the others as we
don't want to send the
# healthcheck ("OPTIONS / HTTP/1.0"...) string to the TestServer as it
doesn't understand it!
server TestServer01 10.6.186.24:48080
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What I am finding is that when I start HAProxy and connect to 54781, the first
data that TestServer at 48080 receives is the data which is sent from my
client; it is not the PROXY header described at the link I posted.
Can someone please tell me what I am missing in my configuration that is
preventing the PROXY header being sent to my backend server?
Thanks in advance.
Dave J
