On IRC, waintroub_ asked me if I had a use case to show what mariadb could gain from adding support for proxy protocol.
In a nutshell, it allows the mysql servers behind a proxy to know what's the IP address of the client connecting to the proxy. Without it, the backend servers will only see the IP address of the proxy front-end. Thus making it not possible to use the IP address of the clients for grants, or for logging, query analysis, ... Here's a post that has some graphics and more detail for these user cases: https://blog.haproxy.com/2017/03/24/using-haproxy-with-the-proxy-protocol-to-better-secure-your-database/ Hope this makes it clearer. --josé _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
