MEDIUM: config: inform the user about the deprecatedness of "block" rules
It's just a warning emitted once.
diff --git a/include/types/global.h b/include/types/global.h
index 21433e8..967d3b4 100644
--- a/include/types/global.h
+++ b/include/types/global.h
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
extern unsigned int warned; /* bitfield of a few warnings to emit just once */
/* bit values to go with "warned" above */
-/* #define WARN_* */
+#define WARN_BLOCK_DEPRECATED 0x00000001
/* to be used with warned and WARN_* */
static inline int already_warned(unsigned int warning)
diff --git a/src/cfgparse.c b/src/cfgparse.c
index f2afcd0..4852059 100644
--- a/src/cfgparse.c
+++ b/src/cfgparse.c
@@ -2896,6 +2896,10 @@
(curproxy->cap & PR_CAP_FE) ? SMP_VAL_FE_HRQ_HDR : SMP_VAL_BE_HRQ_HDR,
file, linenum);
LIST_ADDQ(&curproxy->block_rules, &rule->list);
+
+ if (!already_warned(WARN_BLOCK_DEPRECATED))
+ Warning("parsing [%s:%d] : The '%s' directive is now deprecated in favor of 'http-request deny' which uses the exact same syntax. The rules are translated but support might disappear in a future version.\n", file, linenum, args[0]);
+
}
else if (!strcmp(args[0], "redirect")) {
struct redirect_rule *rule;