I have configured a backend as follows: backend be-testing mode http option httpclose option http_proxy
and hit this using Google's IP as: wget --header="Host: http://216.58.197.46:80" <vip> but this fails with 503 error, debug shows: 00000003:fp-testing.clireq[0009:ffffffff]: GET / HTTP/1.1 00000003:fp-testing.clihdr[0009:ffffffff]: User-Agent: Wget/1.16 (linux-gnu) 00000003:fp-testing.clihdr[0009:ffffffff]: Accept: */* 00000003:fp-testing.clihdr[0009:ffffffff]: Host: http://216.58.197.46:80 00000003:fp-testing.clihdr[0009:ffffffff]: Connection: Keep-Alive What am I doing wrong? Is it also possible to use DNS name with a newer version of HAProxy? Thanks, - Krishna