tree 733784f129413cf5a4dd24670307373d4f5abdcc
parent 2c2c2e381bc2d1488ca4d85611379e824605ea3c
author Christopher Faulet <cfaulet@haproxy.com> 1580469712 +0100
committer Christopher Faulet <cfaulet@haproxy.com> 1580998384 +0100

MEDIUM: lua: Add ability for actions to intercept HTTP messages

It is now possible to intercept HTTP messages from a lua action and reply to
clients. To do so, a reply object must be provided to the function
txn:done(). It may contain a status code with a reason, a header list and a
body. By default, if an empty reply object is used, an empty 200 response is
returned. If no reply is passed when txn:done() is called, the previous
behaviour is respected, the transaction is terminated and nothing is returned to
the client. The same is done for TCP streams. When txn:done() is called, the
action is terminated with the code ACT_RET_DONE on success and ACT_RET_ERR on
error, interrupting the message analysis.

The reply object may be created for the lua, by hand. Or txn:reply() may be
called. If so, this object provides some methods to fill it:

  * Reply:set_status(<status> [  <reason>]) : Set the status and optionally the
   reason. If no reason is provided, the default one corresponding to the status
   code is used.

  * Reply:add_header(<name>, <value>) : Add a header. For a given name, the
    values are stored in an ordered list.

  * Reply:del_header(<name>) : Removes all occurrences of a header name.

  * Reply:set_body(<body>) : Set the reply body.

Here are some examples, all doing the same:

    -- ex. 1
    txn:done{
        status  = 400,
        reason  = "Bad request",
        headers = {
            ["content-type"]  = { "text/html" },
            ["cache-control"] = { "no-cache", "no-store" },
        },
        body = "<html><body><h1>invalid request<h1></body></html>"
    }

    -- ex. 2
    local reply = txn:reply{
        status  = 400,
        reason  = "Bad request",
        headers = {
            ["content-type"]  = { "text/html" },
            ["cache-control"] = { "no-cache", "no-store" }
        },
        body = "<html><body><h1>invalid request<h1></body></html>"
    }
    txn:done(reply)

    -- ex. 3
    local reply = txn:reply()
    reply:set_status(400, "Bad request")
    reply:add_header("content-length", "text/html")
    reply:add_header("cache-control", "no-cache")
    reply:add_header("cache-control", "no-store")
    reply:set_body("<html><body><h1>invalid request<h1></body></html>")
    txn:done(reply)