tree db25b1df1e378500a84498a80e7674921ea665b4
parent 56f1e8b368d08a08ed09cef2dd6371000ebfe51c
author Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@ans.pl> 1192120868 +0200
committer Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1192433578 +0200

[MINOR] prevent the system from sending an RST when closing health-checks

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:23:38AM +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> > I noticed that with httpchk, haproxy generates TCP RST at end of a check.
> > IMHO, it would be more polite to send FIN to a server, especially that
> > each TCP RST found by a tcpdump makes me concerned that something is
> > wrong, as it is hard to distinguish between a RST from a httpchk and from
> > a normal request, forwarded for a client.
>
> I have also noticed it very recently. In fact, it's never the
> application (here haproxy) which decides to send an RST, it's the
> system. It does so because the server returns data on a terminated
> socket. I guess it's because the health-check code does not read much
> of the response. In fact, we just need to read enough to process common
> responses. If people are dumb enough to check with something like "GET
> /image.iso", they should expect to get an RST after a few kbytes
> instead of reading the whole file!

Right, that was easy. Attached patch changed what you described. Now
haproxy finishes http checks with FIN.