DOC: indicate in the doc that track-sc* can wait if data are missing
Since commit 1b71eb5 ("BUG/MEDIUM: counters: fix track-sc* to wait on
unstable contents"), we don't need the "if HTTP" anymore. But the doc
was not updated to reflect this.
Since this change was backported to 1.5, this doc update should be
backported as well.
diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
index 194ce23..ea19625 100644
--- a/doc/configuration.txt
+++ b/doc/configuration.txt
@@ -7585,9 +7585,9 @@
contents will always be immediately present when the rule is evaluated first.
Tracking layer7 information is also possible provided that the information
- are present when the rule is processed. The current solution for making the
- rule engine wait for such information is to set an inspect delay and to
- condition its execution with an ACL relying on such information.
+ are present when the rule is processed. The rule processing engine is able to
+ wait until the inspect delay expires when the data to be tracked is not yet
+ available.
Example:
# Accept HTTP requests containing a Host header saying "example.com"
@@ -7612,12 +7612,12 @@
Example:
# Track the last IP from X-Forwarded-For
tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
- tcp-request content track-sc0 hdr(x-forwarded-for,-1) if HTTP
+ tcp-request content track-sc0 hdr(x-forwarded-for,-1)
Example:
# track request counts per "base" (concatenation of Host+URL)
tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
- tcp-request content track-sc0 base table req-rate if HTTP
+ tcp-request content track-sc0 base table req-rate
Example: track per-frontend and per-backend counters, block abusers at the
frontend when the backend detects abuse.