doc/configuration.txt

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                                HAProxy
                          Configuration Manual
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                              version 2.4
                             willy tarreau
                              2020/12/21


This document covers the configuration language as implemented in the version
specified above. It does not provide any hints, examples, or advice. For such
documentation, please refer to the Reference Manual or the Architecture Manual.
The summary below is meant to help you find sections by name and navigate
through the document.

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Summary
-------

1.    Quick reminder about HTTP
1.1.      The HTTP transaction model
1.2.      HTTP request
1.2.1.        The request line
1.2.2.        The request headers
1.3.      HTTP response
1.3.1.        The response line
1.3.2.        The response headers

2.    Configuring HAProxy
2.1.      Configuration file format
2.2.      Quoting and escaping
2.3.      Environment variables
2.4.      Time format
2.5.      Examples

3.    Global parameters
3.1.      Process management and security
3.2.      Performance tuning
3.3.      Debugging
3.4.      Userlists
3.5.      Peers
3.6.      Mailers
3.7.      Programs
3.8.      HTTP-errors
3.9.      Rings
3.10.     Log forwarding

4.    Proxies
4.1.      Proxy keywords matrix
4.2.      Alphabetically sorted keywords reference

5.    Bind and server options
5.1.      Bind options
5.2.      Server and default-server options
5.3.      Server DNS resolution
5.3.1.      Global overview
5.3.2.      The resolvers section

6.    Cache
6.1.      Limitation
6.2.      Setup
6.2.1.        Cache section
6.2.2.        Proxy section

7.    Using ACLs and fetching samples
7.1.      ACL basics
7.1.1.      Matching booleans
7.1.2.      Matching integers
7.1.3.      Matching strings
7.1.4.      Matching regular expressions (regexes)
7.1.5.      Matching arbitrary data blocks
7.1.6.      Matching IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
7.2.      Using ACLs to form conditions
7.3.      Fetching samples
7.3.1.        Converters
7.3.2.        Fetching samples from internal states
7.3.3.        Fetching samples at Layer 4
7.3.4.        Fetching samples at Layer 5
7.3.5.        Fetching samples from buffer contents (Layer 6)
7.3.6.        Fetching HTTP samples (Layer 7)
7.3.7.        Fetching samples for developers
7.4.      Pre-defined ACLs

8.    Logging
8.1.      Log levels
8.2.      Log formats
8.2.1.        Default log format
8.2.2.        TCP log format
8.2.3.        HTTP log format
8.2.4.        Custom log format
8.2.5.        Error log format
8.3.      Advanced logging options
8.3.1.        Disabling logging of external tests
8.3.2.        Logging before waiting for the session to terminate
8.3.3.        Raising log level upon errors
8.3.4.        Disabling logging of successful connections
8.4.      Timing events
8.5.      Session state at disconnection
8.6.      Non-printable characters
8.7.      Capturing HTTP cookies
8.8.      Capturing HTTP headers
8.9.      Examples of logs

9.    Supported filters
9.1.      Trace
9.2.      HTTP compression
9.3.      Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE)
9.4.      Cache
9.5.      fcgi-app
9.6.      OpenTracing

10.   FastCGI applications
10.1.     Setup
10.1.1.       Fcgi-app section
10.1.2.       Proxy section
10.1.3.       Example
10.2.     Default parameters
10.3.     Limitations


1. Quick reminder about HTTP
----------------------------

When HAProxy is running in HTTP mode, both the request and the response are
fully analyzed and indexed, thus it becomes possible to build matching criteria
on almost anything found in the contents.

However, it is important to understand how HTTP requests and responses are
formed, and how HAProxy decomposes them. It will then become easier to write
correct rules and to debug existing configurations.


1.1. The HTTP transaction model
-------------------------------

The HTTP protocol is transaction-driven. This means that each request will lead
to one and only one response. Traditionally, a TCP connection is established
from the client to the server, a request is sent by the client through the
connection, the server responds, and the connection is closed. A new request
will involve a new connection :

  [CON1] [REQ1] ... [RESP1] [CLO1] [CON2] [REQ2] ... [RESP2] [CLO2] ...

In this mode, called the "HTTP close" mode, there are as many connection
establishments as there are HTTP transactions. Since the connection is closed
by the server after the response, the client does not need to know the content
length.

Due to the transactional nature of the protocol, it was possible to improve it
to avoid closing a connection between two subsequent transactions. In this mode
however, it is mandatory that the server indicates the content length for each
response so that the client does not wait indefinitely. For this, a special
header is used: "Content-length". This mode is called the "keep-alive" mode :

  [CON] [REQ1] ... [RESP1] [REQ2] ... [RESP2] [CLO] ...

Its advantages are a reduced latency between transactions, and less processing
power required on the server side. It is generally better than the close mode,
but not always because the clients often limit their concurrent connections to
a smaller value.

Another improvement in the communications is the pipelining mode. It still uses
keep-alive, but the client does not wait for the first response to send the
second request. This is useful for fetching large number of images composing a
page :

  [CON] [REQ1] [REQ2] ... [RESP1] [RESP2] [CLO] ...

This can obviously have a tremendous benefit on performance because the network
latency is eliminated between subsequent requests. Many HTTP agents do not
correctly support pipelining since there is no way to associate a response with
the corresponding request in HTTP. For this reason, it is mandatory for the
server to reply in the exact same order as the requests were received.

The next improvement is the multiplexed mode, as implemented in HTTP/2. This
time, each transaction is assigned a single stream identifier, and all streams
are multiplexed over an existing connection. Many requests can be sent in
parallel by the client, and responses can arrive in any order since they also
carry the stream identifier.

By default HAProxy operates in keep-alive mode with regards to persistent
connections: for each connection it processes each request and response, and
leaves the connection idle on both sides between the end of a response and the
start of a new request. When it receives HTTP/2 connections from a client, it
processes all the requests in parallel and leaves the connection idling,
waiting for new requests, just as if it was a keep-alive HTTP connection.

HAProxy supports 4 connection modes :
  - keep alive    : all requests and responses are processed (default)
  - tunnel        : only the first request and response are processed,
                    everything else is forwarded with no analysis (deprecated).
  - server close  : the server-facing connection is closed after the response.
  - close         : the connection is actively closed after end of response.



1.2. HTTP request
-----------------

First, let's consider this HTTP request :

  Line     Contents
  number
     1     GET /serv/login.php?lang=en&profile=2 HTTP/1.1
     2     Host: www.mydomain.com
     3     User-agent: my small browser
     4     Accept: image/jpeg, image/gif
     5     Accept: image/png


1.2.1. The Request line
-----------------------

Line 1 is the "request line". It is always composed of 3 fields :

  - a METHOD      : GET
  - a URI         : /serv/login.php?lang=en&profile=2
  - a version tag : HTTP/1.1

All of them are delimited by what the standard calls LWS (linear white spaces),
which are commonly spaces, but can also be tabs or line feeds/carriage returns
followed by spaces/tabs. The method itself cannot contain any colon (':') and
is limited to alphabetic letters. All those various combinations make it
desirable that HAProxy performs the splitting itself rather than leaving it to
the user to write a complex or inaccurate regular expression.

The URI itself can have several forms :

  - A "relative URI" :

      /serv/login.php?lang=en&profile=2

    It is a complete URL without the host part. This is generally what is
    received by servers, reverse proxies and transparent proxies.

  - An "absolute URI", also called a "URL" :

      http://192.168.0.12:8080/serv/login.php?lang=en&profile=2

    It is composed of a "scheme" (the protocol name followed by '://'), a host
    name or address, optionally a colon (':') followed by a port number, then
    a relative URI beginning at the first slash ('/') after the address part.
    This is generally what proxies receive, but a server supporting HTTP/1.1
    must accept this form too.

  - a star ('*') : this form is only accepted in association with the OPTIONS
    method and is not relayable. It is used to inquiry a next hop's
    capabilities.

  - an address:port combination : 192.168.0.12:80
    This is used with the CONNECT method, which is used to establish TCP
    tunnels through HTTP proxies, generally for HTTPS, but sometimes for
    other protocols too.

In a relative URI, two sub-parts are identified. The part before the question
mark is called the "path". It is typically the relative path to static objects
on the server. The part after the question mark is called the "query string".
It is mostly used with GET requests sent to dynamic scripts and is very
specific to the language, framework or application in use.

HTTP/2 doesn't convey a version information with the request, so the version is
assumed to be the same as the one of the underlying protocol (i.e. "HTTP/2").


1.2.2. The request headers
--------------------------

The headers start at the second line. They are composed of a name at the
beginning of the line, immediately followed by a colon (':'). Traditionally,
an LWS is added after the colon but that's not required. Then come the values.
Multiple identical headers may be folded into one single line, delimiting the
values with commas, provided that their order is respected. This is commonly
encountered in the "Cookie:" field. A header may span over multiple lines if
the subsequent lines begin with an LWS. In the example in 1.2, lines 4 and 5
define a total of 3 values for the "Accept:" header.

Contrary to a common misconception, header names are not case-sensitive, and
their values are not either if they refer to other header names (such as the
"Connection:" header). In HTTP/2, header names are always sent in lower case,
as can be seen when running in debug mode. Internally, all header names are
normalized to lower case so that HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 use the exact same
representation, and they are sent as-is on the other side. This explains why an
HTTP/1.x request typed with camel case is delivered in lower case.

The end of the headers is indicated by the first empty line. People often say
that it's a double line feed, which is not exact, even if a double line feed
is one valid form of empty line.

Fortunately, HAProxy takes care of all these complex combinations when indexing
headers, checking values and counting them, so there is no reason to worry
about the way they could be written, but it is important not to accuse an
application of being buggy if it does unusual, valid things.

Important note:
   As suggested by RFC7231, HAProxy normalizes headers by replacing line breaks
   in the middle of headers by LWS in order to join multi-line headers. This
   is necessary for proper analysis and helps less capable HTTP parsers to work
   correctly and not to be fooled by such complex constructs.


1.3. HTTP response
------------------

An HTTP response looks very much like an HTTP request. Both are called HTTP
messages. Let's consider this HTTP response :

  Line     Contents
  number
     1     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
     2     Content-length: 350
     3     Content-Type: text/html

As a special case, HTTP supports so called "Informational responses" as status
codes 1xx. These messages are special in that they don't convey any part of the
response, they're just used as sort of a signaling message to ask a client to
continue to post its request for instance. In the case of a status 100 response
the requested information will be carried by the next non-100 response message
following the informational one. This implies that multiple responses may be
sent to a single request, and that this only works when keep-alive is enabled
(1xx messages are HTTP/1.1 only). HAProxy handles these messages and is able to
correctly forward and skip them, and only process the next non-100 response. As
such, these messages are neither logged nor transformed, unless explicitly
state otherwise. Status 101 messages indicate that the protocol is changing
over the same connection and that haproxy must switch to tunnel mode, just as
if a CONNECT had occurred. Then the Upgrade header would contain additional
information about the type of protocol the connection is switching to.


1.3.1. The response line
------------------------

Line 1 is the "response line". It is always composed of 3 fields :

  - a version tag : HTTP/1.1
  - a status code : 200
  - a reason      : OK

The status code is always 3-digit. The first digit indicates a general status :
 - 1xx = informational message to be skipped (e.g. 100, 101)
 - 2xx = OK, content is following   (e.g. 200, 206)
 - 3xx = OK, no content following   (e.g. 302, 304)
 - 4xx = error caused by the client (e.g. 401, 403, 404)
 - 5xx = error caused by the server (e.g. 500, 502, 503)

Please refer to RFC7231 for the detailed meaning of all such codes. The
"reason" field is just a hint, but is not parsed by clients. Anything can be
found there, but it's a common practice to respect the well-established
messages. It can be composed of one or multiple words, such as "OK", "Found",
or "Authentication Required".

HAProxy may emit the following status codes by itself :

  Code  When / reason
   200  access to stats page, and when replying to monitoring requests
   301  when performing a redirection, depending on the configured code
   302  when performing a redirection, depending on the configured code
   303  when performing a redirection, depending on the configured code
   307  when performing a redirection, depending on the configured code
   308  when performing a redirection, depending on the configured code
   400  for an invalid or too large request
   401  when an authentication is required to perform the action (when
        accessing the stats page)
   403  when a request is forbidden by a "http-request deny" rule
   404  when the requested resource could not be found
   408  when the request timeout strikes before the request is complete
   410  when the requested resource is no longer available and will not
        be available again
   500  when haproxy encounters an unrecoverable internal error, such as a
        memory allocation failure, which should never happen
   502  when the server returns an empty, invalid or incomplete response, or
        when an "http-response deny" rule blocks the response.
   503  when no server was available to handle the request, or in response to
        monitoring requests which match the "monitor fail" condition
   504  when the response timeout strikes before the server responds

The error 4xx and 5xx codes above may be customized (see "errorloc" in section
4.2).


1.3.2. The response headers
---------------------------

Response headers work exactly like request headers, and as such, HAProxy uses
the same parsing function for both. Please refer to paragraph 1.2.2 for more
details.


2. Configuring HAProxy
----------------------

2.1. Configuration file format
------------------------------

HAProxy's configuration process involves 3 major sources of parameters :

  - the arguments from the command-line, which always take precedence
  - the configuration file(s), whose format is described here
  - the running process' environment, in case some environment variables are
    explicitly referenced

The configuration file follows a fairly simple hierarchical format which obey
a few basic rules:

  1. a configuration file is an ordered sequence of statements

  2. a statement is a single non-empty line before any unprotected "#" (hash)

  3. a line is a series of tokens or "words" delimited by unprotected spaces or
     tab characters

  4. the first word or sequence of words of a line is one of the keywords or
     keyword sequences listed in this document

  5. all other words are all arguments of the first one, some being well-known
     keywords listed in this document, others being values, references to other
     parts of the configuration, or expressions

  6. certain keywords delimit a section inside which only a subset of keywords
     are supported

  7. a section ends at the end of a file or on a special keyword starting a new
     section

This is all that is needed to know to write a simple but reliable configuration
generator, but this is not enough to reliably parse any configuration nor to
figure how to deal with certain corner cases.

First, there are a few consequences of the rules above. Rule 6 and 7 imply that
the keywords used to define a new section are valid everywhere and cannot have
a different meaning in a specific section. These keywords are always a single
word (as opposed to a sequence of words), and traditionally the section that
follows them is designated using the same name. For example when speaking about
the "global section", it designates the section of configuration that follows
the "global" keyword. This usage is used a lot in error messages to help locate
the parts that need to be addressed.

A number of sections create an internal object or configuration space, which
requires to be distinguished from other ones. In this case they will take an
extra word which will set the name of this particular section. For some of them
the section name is mandatory. For example "frontend foo" will create a new
section of type "frontend" named "foo". Usually a name is specific to its
section and two sections of different types may use the same name, but this is
not recommended as it tends to complexify configuration management.

A direct consequence of rule 7 is that when multiple files are read at once,
each of them must start with a new section, and the end of each file will end
a section. A file cannot contain sub-sections nor end an existing section and
start a new one.

Rule 1 mentioned that ordering matters. Indeed, some keywords create directives
that can be repeated multiple times to create ordered sequences of rules to be
applied in a certain order. For example "tcp-request" can be used to alternate
"accept" and "reject" rules on varying criteria. As such, a configuration file
processor must always preserve a section's ordering when editing a file. The
ordering of sections usually does not matter except for the global section
which must be placed before other sections, but it may be repeated if needed.
In addition, some automatic identifiers may automatically be assigned to some
of the created objects (e.g. proxies), and by reordering sections, their
identifiers will change. These ones appear in the statistics for example. As
such, the configuration below will assign "foo" ID number 1 and "bar" ID number
2, which will be swapped if the two sections are reversed:

     listen foo
         bind :80

     listen bar
         bind :81

Another important point is that according to rules 2 and 3 above, empty lines,
spaces, tabs, and comments following and unprotected "#" character are not part
of the configuration as they are just used as delimiters. This implies that the
following configurations are strictly equivalent:

         global#this is the global section
     daemon#daemonize
         frontend         foo
     mode             http   # or tcp

and:

     global
         daemon

     # this is the public web frontend
     frontend foo
         mode http

The common practice is to align to the left only the keyword that initiates a
new section, and indent (i.e. prepend a tab character or a few spaces) all
other keywords so that it's instantly visible that they belong to the same
section (as done in the second example above). Placing comments before a new
section helps the reader decide if it's the desired one. Leaving a blank line
at the end of a section also visually helps spotting the end when editing it.

Tabs are very convenient for indent but they do not copy-paste well. If spaces
are used instead, it is recommended to avoid placing too many (2 to 4) so that
editing in field doesn't become a burden with limited editors that do not
support automatic indent.

In the early days it used to be common to see arguments split at fixed tab
positions because most keywords would not take more than two arguments. With
modern versions featuring complex expressions this practice does not stand
anymore, and is not recommended.


2.2. Quoting and escaping
-------------------------

In modern configurations, some arguments require the use of some characters
that were previously considered as pure delimiters. In order to make this
possible, HAProxy supports character escaping by prepending a backslash ('\')
in front of the character to be escaped, weak quoting within double quotes
('"') and strong quoting within single quotes ("'").

This is pretty similar to what is done in a number of programming languages and
very close to what is commonly encountered in Bourne shell. The principle is
the following: while the configuration parser cuts the lines into words, it
also takes care of quotes and backslashes to decide whether a character is a
delimiter or is the raw representation of this character within the current
word. The escape character is then removed, the quotes are removed, and the
remaining word is used as-is as a keyword or argument for example.

If a backslash is needed in a word, it must either be escaped using itself
(i.e. double backslash) or be strongly quoted.

Escaping outside quotes is achieved by preceding a special character by a
backslash ('\'):

  \    to mark a space and differentiate it from a delimiter
  \#   to mark a hash and differentiate it from a comment
  \\   to use a backslash
  \'   to use a single quote and differentiate it from strong quoting
  \"   to use a double quote and differentiate it from weak quoting

In addition, a few non-printable characters may be emitted using their usual
C-language representation:

  \n   to insert a line feed (LF, character \x0a or ASCII 10 decimal)
  \r   to insert a carriage return (CR, character \x0d or ASCII 13 decimal)
  \t   to insert a tab (character \x09 or ASCII 9 decimal)
  \xNN to insert character having ASCII code hex NN (e.g \x0a for LF).

Weak quoting is achieved by surrounding double quotes ("") around the character
or sequence of characters to protect. Weak quoting prevents the interpretation
of:

       space or tab as a word separator
  '    single quote as a strong quoting delimiter
  #    hash as a comment start

Weak quoting permits the interpretation of environment variables (which are not
evaluated outside of quotes) by preceding them with a dollar sign ('$'). If a
dollar character is needed inside double quotes, it must be escaped using a
backslash.

Strong quoting is achieved by surrounding single quotes ('') around the
character or sequence of characters to protect. Inside single quotes, nothing
is interpreted, it's the efficient way to quote regular expressions.

As a result, here is the matrix indicating how special characters can be
entered in different contexts (unprintable characters are replaced with their
name within angle brackets). Note that some characters that may only be
represented escaped have no possible representation inside single quotes,
hence the '-' there:

  Character  |  Unquoted     |  Weakly quoted              |  Strongly quoted
  -----------+---------------+-----------------------------+-----------------
    <TAB>    |  \<TAB>, \x09 |  "<TAB>", "\<TAB>", "\x09"  |  '<TAB>'
    <LF>     |  \n, \x0a     |  "\n", "\x0a"               |   -
    <CR>     |  \r, \x0d     |  "\r", "\x0d"               |   -
    <SPC>    |  \<SPC>, \x20 |  "<SPC>", "\<SPC>", "\x20"  |  '<SPC>'
    "        |  \", \x22     |  "\"", "\x22"               |  '"'
    #        |  \#, \x23     |  "#", "\#", "\x23"          |  '#'
    $        |  $, \$, \x24  |  "\$", "\x24"               |  '$'
    '        |  \', \x27     |  "'", "\'", "\x27"          |   -
    \        |  \\, \x5c     |  "\\", "\x5c"               |  '\'

  Example:
      # those are all strictly equivalent:
      log-format %{+Q}o\ %t\ %s\ %{-Q}r
      log-format "%{+Q}o %t %s %{-Q}r"
      log-format '%{+Q}o %t %s %{-Q}r'
      log-format "%{+Q}o %t"' %s %{-Q}r'
      log-format "%{+Q}o %t"' %s'\ %{-Q}r

There is one particular case where a second level of quoting or escaping may be
necessary. Some keywords take arguments within parenthesis, sometimes delimited
by commas. These arguments are commonly integers or predefined words, but when
they are arbitrary strings, it may be required to perform a separate level of
escaping to disambiguate the characters that belong to the argument from the
characters that are used to delimit the arguments themselves. A pretty common
case is the "regsub" converter. It takes a regular expression in argument, and
if a closing parenthesis is needed inside, this one will require to have its
own quotes.

The keyword argument parser is exactly the same as the top-level one regarding
quotes, except that is will not make special cases of backslashes. But what is
not always obvious is that the delimiters used inside must first be escaped or
quoted so that they are not resolved at the top level.

Let's take this example making use of the "regsub" converter which takes 3
arguments, one regular expression, one replacement string and one set of flags:

    # replace all occurrences of "foo" with "blah" in the path:
    http-request set-path %[path,regsub(foo,blah,g)]

Here no special quoting was necessary. But if now we want to replace either
"foo" or "bar" with "blah", we'll need the regular expression "(foo|bar)". We
cannot write:

    http-request set-path %[path,regsub((foo|bar),blah,g)]

because we would like the string to cut like this:

    http-request set-path %[path,regsub((foo|bar),blah,g)]
                                       |---------|----|-|
                                 arg1 _/         /    /
                                 arg2 __________/    /
                                 arg3 ______________/

but actually what is passed is a string between the opening and closing
parenthesis then garbage:

    http-request set-path %[path,regsub((foo|bar),blah,g)]
                                       |--------|--------|
                        arg1=(foo|bar _/        /
                    trailing garbage  _________/

The obvious solution here seems to be that the closing parenthesis needs to be
quoted, but alone this will not work, because as mentioned above, quotes are
processed by the top-level parser which will resolve them before processing
this word:

    http-request set-path %[path,regsub("(foo|bar)",blah,g)]
    ------------ -------- ----------------------------------
       word1       word2    word3=%[path,regsub((foo|bar),blah,g)]

So we didn't change anything for the argument parser at the second level which
still sees a truncated regular expression as the only argument, and garbage at
the end of the string. By escaping the quotes they will be passed unmodified to
the second level:

    http-request set-path %[path,regsub(\"(foo|bar)\",blah,g)]
    ------------ -------- ------------------------------------
       word1       word2    word3=%[path,regsub("(foo|bar)",blah,g)]
                                                |---------||----|-|
                                arg1=(foo|bar) _/          /    /
                                    arg2=blah  ___________/    /
                                        arg3=g _______________/

Another approach consists in using single quotes outside the whole string and
double quotes inside (so that the double quotes are not stripped again):

    http-request set-path '%[path,regsub("(foo|bar)",blah,g)]'
    ------------ --------  ----------------------------------
       word1       word2    word3=%[path,regsub("(foo|bar)",blah,g)]
                                                |---------||----|-|
                                arg1=(foo|bar) _/          /    /
                                          arg2 ___________/    /
                                          arg3 _______________/

When using regular expressions, it can happen that the dollar ('$') character
appears in the expression or that a backslash ('\') is used in the replacement
string. In this case these ones will also be processed inside the double quotes
thus single quotes are preferred (or double escaping). Example:

    http-request set-path '%[path,regsub("^/(here)(/|$)","my/\1",g)]'
    ------------ --------  -----------------------------------------
       word1       word2    word3=%[path,regsub("^/(here)(/|$)","my/\1",g)]
                                                |-------------| |-----||-|
                              arg1=(here)(/|$) _/               /      /
                                    arg2=my/\1 ________________/      /
                                          arg3 ______________________/

Remember that backslahes are not escape characters within single quotes and
that the whole word3 above is already protected against them using the single
quotes. Conversely, if double quotes had been used around the whole expression,
single the dollar character and the backslashes would have been resolved at top
level, breaking the argument contents at the second level.

When in doubt, simply do not use quotes anywhere, and start to place single or
double quotes around arguments that require a comma or a closing parenthesis,
and think about escaping these quotes using a backslash of the string contains
a dollar or a backslash. Again, this is pretty similar to what is used under
a Bourne shell when double-escaping a command passed to "eval". For API writers
the best is probably to place escaped quotes around each and every argument,
regardless of their contents. Users will probably find that using single quotes
around the whole expression and double quotes around each argument provides
more readable configurations.


2.3. Environment variables
--------------------------

HAProxy's configuration supports environment variables. Those variables are
interpreted only within double quotes. Variables are expanded during the
configuration parsing. Variable names must be preceded by a dollar ("$") and
optionally enclosed with braces ("{}") similarly to what is done in Bourne
shell. Variable names can contain alphanumerical characters or the character
underscore ("_") but should not start with a digit. If the variable contains a
list of several values separated by spaces, it can be expanded as individual
arguments by enclosing the variable with braces and appending the suffix '[*]'
before the closing brace.

  Example:

      bind "fd@${FD_APP1}"

      log "${LOCAL_SYSLOG}:514" local0 notice   # send to local server

      user "$HAPROXY_USER"

Some variables are defined by HAProxy, they can be used in the configuration
file, or could be inherited by a program (See 3.7. Programs):

* HAPROXY_LOCALPEER: defined at the startup of the process which contains the
  name of the local peer. (See "-L" in the management guide.)

* HAPROXY_CFGFILES: list of the configuration files loaded by HAProxy,
  separated by semicolons. Can be useful in the case you specified a
  directory.

* HAPROXY_MWORKER: In master-worker mode, this variable is set to 1.

* HAPROXY_CLI: configured listeners addresses of the stats socket for every
  processes, separated by semicolons.

* HAPROXY_MASTER_CLI: In master-worker mode, listeners addresses of the master
  CLI, separated by semicolons.

See also "external-check command" for other variables.

2.4. Time format
----------------

Some parameters involve values representing time, such as timeouts. These
values are generally expressed in milliseconds (unless explicitly stated
otherwise) but may be expressed in any other unit by suffixing the unit to the
numeric value. It is important to consider this because it will not be repeated
for every keyword. Supported units are :

  - us : microseconds. 1 microsecond = 1/1000000 second
  - ms : milliseconds. 1 millisecond = 1/1000 second. This is the default.
  - s  : seconds. 1s = 1000ms
  - m  : minutes. 1m = 60s = 60000ms
  - h  : hours.   1h = 60m = 3600s = 3600000ms
  - d  : days.    1d = 24h = 1440m = 86400s = 86400000ms


2.5. Examples
-------------

    # Simple configuration for an HTTP proxy listening on port 80 on all
    # interfaces and forwarding requests to a single backend "servers" with a
    # single server "server1" listening on 127.0.0.1:8000
    global
        daemon
        maxconn 256

    defaults
        mode http
        timeout connect 5000ms
        timeout client 50000ms
        timeout server 50000ms

    frontend http-in
        bind *:80
        default_backend servers

    backend servers
        server server1 127.0.0.1:8000 maxconn 32


    # The same configuration defined with a single listen block. Shorter but
    # less expressive, especially in HTTP mode.
    global
        daemon
        maxconn 256

    defaults
        mode http
        timeout connect 5000ms
        timeout client 50000ms
        timeout server 50000ms

    listen http-in
        bind *:80
        server server1 127.0.0.1:8000 maxconn 32


Assuming haproxy is in $PATH, test these configurations in a shell with:

    $ sudo haproxy -f configuration.conf -c


3. Global parameters
--------------------

Parameters in the "global" section are process-wide and often OS-specific. They
are generally set once for all and do not need being changed once correct. Some
of them have command-line equivalents.

The following keywords are supported in the "global" section :

 * Process management and security
   - ca-base
   - chroot
   - crt-base
   - cpu-map
   - daemon
   - description
   - deviceatlas-json-file
   - deviceatlas-log-level
   - deviceatlas-separator
   - deviceatlas-properties-cookie
   - external-check
   - gid
   - group
   - hard-stop-after
   - h1-case-adjust
   - h1-case-adjust-file
   - insecure-fork-wanted
   - insecure-setuid-wanted
   - issuers-chain-path
   - localpeer
   - log
   - log-tag
   - log-send-hostname
   - lua-load
   - lua-load-per-thread
   - lua-prepend-path
   - mworker-max-reloads
   - nbproc
   - nbthread
   - node
   - pidfile
   - pp2-never-send-local
   - presetenv
   - resetenv
   - uid
   - ulimit-n
   - user
   - set-dumpable
   - setenv
   - stats
   - ssl-default-bind-ciphers
   - ssl-default-bind-ciphersuites
   - ssl-default-bind-curves
   - ssl-default-bind-options
   - ssl-default-server-ciphers
   - ssl-default-server-ciphersuites
   - ssl-default-server-options
   - ssl-dh-param-file
   - ssl-server-verify
   - ssl-skip-self-issued-ca
   - unix-bind
   - unsetenv
   - 51degrees-data-file
   - 51degrees-property-name-list
   - 51degrees-property-separator
   - 51degrees-cache-size
   - wurfl-data-file
   - wurfl-information-list
   - wurfl-information-list-separator
   - wurfl-cache-size
   - strict-limits

 * Performance tuning
   - busy-polling
   - max-spread-checks
   - maxconn
   - maxconnrate
   - maxcomprate
   - maxcompcpuusage
   - maxpipes
   - maxsessrate
   - maxsslconn
   - maxsslrate
   - maxzlibmem
   - noepoll
   - nokqueue
   - noevports
   - nopoll
   - nosplice
   - nogetaddrinfo
   - noreuseport
   - profiling.tasks
   - spread-checks
   - server-state-base
   - server-state-file
   - ssl-engine
   - ssl-mode-async
   - tune.buffers.limit
   - tune.buffers.reserve
   - tune.bufsize
   - tune.chksize
   - tune.comp.maxlevel
   - tune.fd.edge-triggered
   - tune.h2.header-table-size
   - tune.h2.initial-window-size
   - tune.h2.max-concurrent-streams
   - tune.http.cookielen
   - tune.http.logurilen
   - tune.http.maxhdr
   - tune.idle-pool.shared
   - tune.idletimer
   - tune.lua.forced-yield
   - tune.lua.maxmem
   - tune.lua.session-timeout
   - tune.lua.task-timeout
   - tune.lua.service-timeout
   - tune.maxaccept
   - tune.maxpollevents
   - tune.maxrewrite
   - tune.pattern.cache-size
   - tune.pipesize
   - tune.pool-high-fd-ratio
   - tune.pool-low-fd-ratio
   - tune.rcvbuf.client
   - tune.rcvbuf.server
   - tune.recv_enough
   - tune.runqueue-depth
   - tune.sched.low-latency
   - tune.sndbuf.client
   - tune.sndbuf.server
   - tune.ssl.cachesize
   - tune.ssl.keylog
   - tune.ssl.lifetime
   - tune.ssl.force-private-cache
   - tune.ssl.maxrecord
   - tune.ssl.default-dh-param
   - tune.ssl.ssl-ctx-cache-size
   - tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size
   - tune.vars.global-max-size
   - tune.vars.proc-max-size
   - tune.vars.reqres-max-size
   - tune.vars.sess-max-size
   - tune.vars.txn-max-size
   - tune.zlib.memlevel
   - tune.zlib.windowsize

 * Debugging
   - quiet
   - zero-warning


3.1. Process management and security
------------------------------------

ca-base <dir>
  Assigns a default directory to fetch SSL CA certificates and CRLs from when a
  relative path is used with "ca-file", "ca-verify-file" or "crl-file"
  directives. Absolute locations specified in "ca-file", "ca-verify-file" and
  "crl-file" prevail and ignore "ca-base".

chroot <jail dir>
  Changes current directory to <jail dir> and performs a chroot() there before
  dropping privileges. This increases the security level in case an unknown
  vulnerability would be exploited, since it would make it very hard for the
  attacker to exploit the system. This only works when the process is started
  with superuser privileges. It is important to ensure that <jail_dir> is both
  empty and non-writable to anyone.

cpu-map [auto:]<process-set>[/<thread-set>] <cpu-set>...
  On Linux 2.6 and above, it is possible to bind a process or a thread to a
  specific CPU set. This means that the process or the thread will never run on
  other CPUs. The "cpu-map" directive specifies CPU sets for process or thread
  sets. The first argument is a process set, eventually followed by a thread
  set. These sets have the format

      all | odd | even | number[-[number]]

  <number>> must be a number between 1 and 32 or 64, depending on the machine's
  word size. Any process IDs above nbproc and any thread IDs above nbthread are
  ignored. It is possible to specify a range with two such number delimited by
  a dash ('-'). It also is possible to specify all processes at once using
  "all", only odd numbers using "odd" or even numbers using "even", just like
  with the "bind-process" directive. The second and forthcoming arguments are
  CPU sets. Each CPU set is either a unique number between 0 and 31 or 63 or a
  range with two such numbers delimited by a dash ('-'). Multiple CPU numbers
  or ranges may be specified, and the processes or threads will be allowed to
  bind to all of them. Obviously, multiple "cpu-map" directives may be
  specified. Each "cpu-map" directive will replace the previous ones when they
  overlap. A thread will be bound on the intersection of its mapping and the
  one of the process on which it is attached. If the intersection is null, no
  specific binding will be set for the thread.

  Ranges can be partially defined. The higher bound can be omitted. In such
  case, it is replaced by the corresponding maximum value, 32 or 64 depending
  on the machine's word size.

  The prefix "auto:" can be added before the process set to let HAProxy
  automatically bind a process or a thread to a CPU by incrementing
  process/thread and CPU sets. To be valid, both sets must have the same
  size. No matter the declaration order of the CPU sets, it will be bound from
  the lowest to the highest bound. Having a process and a thread range with the
  "auto:" prefix is not supported. Only one range is supported, the other one
  must be a fixed number.

  Examples:
      cpu-map 1-4 0-3   # bind processes 1 to 4 on the first 4 CPUs

      cpu-map 1/all 0-3 # bind all threads of the first process on the
                        # first 4 CPUs

      cpu-map 1- 0-     # will be replaced by "cpu-map 1-64 0-63"
                        # or "cpu-map 1-32 0-31" depending on the machine's
                        # word size.

      # all these lines bind the process 1 to the cpu 0, the process 2 to cpu 1
      # and so on.
      cpu-map auto:1-4   0-3
      cpu-map auto:1-4   0-1 2-3
      cpu-map auto:1-4   3 2 1 0

      # all these lines bind the thread 1 to the cpu 0, the thread 2 to cpu 1
      # and so on.
      cpu-map auto:1/1-4   0-3
      cpu-map auto:1/1-4   0-1 2-3
      cpu-map auto:1/1-4   3 2 1 0

      # bind each process to exactly one CPU using all/odd/even keyword
      cpu-map auto:all   0-63
      cpu-map auto:even  0-31
      cpu-map auto:odd   32-63

      # invalid cpu-map because process and CPU sets have different sizes.
      cpu-map auto:1-4   0    # invalid
      cpu-map auto:1     0-3  # invalid

      # invalid cpu-map because automatic binding is used with a process range
      # and a thread range.
      cpu-map auto:all/all   0 # invalid
      cpu-map auto:all/1-4   0 # invalid
      cpu-map auto:1-4/all   0 # invalid

crt-base <dir>
  Assigns a default directory to fetch SSL certificates from when a relative
  path is used with "crtfile" or "crt" directives. Absolute locations specified
  prevail and ignore "crt-base".

daemon
  Makes the process fork into background. This is the recommended mode of
  operation. It is equivalent to the command line "-D" argument. It can be
  disabled by the command line "-db" argument. This option is ignored in
  systemd mode.

deviceatlas-json-file <path>
  Sets the path of the DeviceAtlas JSON data file to be loaded by the API.
  The path must be a valid JSON data file and accessible by HAProxy process.

deviceatlas-log-level <value>
  Sets the level of information returned by the API. This directive is
  optional and set to 0 by default if not set.

deviceatlas-separator <char>
  Sets the character separator for the API properties results. This directive
  is optional and set to | by default if not set.

deviceatlas-properties-cookie <name>
  Sets the client cookie's name used for the detection if the DeviceAtlas
  Client-side component was used during the request. This directive is optional
  and set to DAPROPS by default if not set.

external-check
  Allows the use of an external agent to perform health checks. This is
  disabled by default as a security precaution, and even when enabled, checks
  may still fail unless "insecure-fork-wanted" is enabled as well. If the
  program launched makes use of a setuid executable (it should really not),
  you may also need to set "insecure-setuid-wanted" in the global section.
  See "option external-check", and "insecure-fork-wanted", and
  "insecure-setuid-wanted".

gid <number>
  Changes the process' group ID to <number>. It is recommended that the group
  ID is dedicated to HAProxy or to a small set of similar daemons. HAProxy must
  be started with a user belonging to this group, or with superuser privileges.
  Note that if haproxy is started from a user having supplementary groups, it
  will only be able to drop these groups if started with superuser privileges.
  See also "group" and "uid".

group <group name>
  Similar to "gid" but uses the GID of group name <group name> from /etc/group.
  See also "gid" and "user".

hard-stop-after <time>
  Defines the maximum time allowed to perform a clean soft-stop.

  Arguments :
    <time>  is the maximum time (by default in milliseconds) for which the
            instance will remain alive when a soft-stop is received via the
            SIGUSR1 signal.

  This may be used to ensure that the instance will quit even if connections
  remain opened during a soft-stop (for example with long timeouts for a proxy
  in tcp mode). It applies both in TCP and HTTP mode.

  Example:
    global
      hard-stop-after 30s

h1-case-adjust <from> <to>
  Defines the case adjustment to apply, when enabled, to the header name
  <from>, to change it to <to> before sending it to HTTP/1 clients or
  servers. <from> must be in lower case, and <from> and <to> must not differ
  except for their case. It may be repeated if several header names need to be
  adjusted. Duplicate entries are not allowed. If a lot of header names have to
  be adjusted, it might be more convenient to use "h1-case-adjust-file".
  Please note that no transformation will be applied unless "option
  h1-case-adjust-bogus-client" or "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server" is
  specified in a proxy.

  There is no standard case for header names because, as stated in RFC7230,
  they are case-insensitive. So applications must handle them in a case-
  insensitive manner. But some bogus applications violate the standards and
  erroneously rely on the cases most commonly used by browsers. This problem
  becomes critical with HTTP/2 because all header names must be exchanged in
  lower case, and HAProxy follows the same convention. All header names are
  sent in lower case to clients and servers, regardless of the HTTP version.

  Applications which fail to properly process requests or responses may require
  to temporarily use such workarounds to adjust header names sent to them for
  the time it takes the application to be fixed. Please note that an
  application which requires such workarounds might be vulnerable to content
  smuggling attacks and must absolutely be fixed.

  Example:
    global
      h1-case-adjust content-length Content-Length

  See "h1-case-adjust-file", "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client" and
  "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server".

h1-case-adjust-file <hdrs-file>
  Defines a file containing a list of key/value pairs used to adjust the case
  of some header names before sending them to HTTP/1 clients or servers. The
  file <hdrs-file> must contain 2 header names per line. The first one must be
  in lower case and both must not differ except for their case. Lines which
  start with '#' are ignored, just like empty lines. Leading and trailing tabs
  and spaces are stripped. Duplicate entries are not allowed. Please note that
  no transformation will be applied unless "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client"
  or "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server" is specified in a proxy.

  If this directive is repeated, only the last one will be processed.  It is an
  alternative to the directive "h1-case-adjust" if a lot of header names need
  to be adjusted. Please read the risks associated with using this.

  See "h1-case-adjust", "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client" and
  "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server".

insecure-fork-wanted
  By default haproxy tries hard to prevent any thread and process creation
  after it starts. Doing so is particularly important when using Lua files of
  uncertain origin, and when experimenting with development versions which may
  still contain bugs whose exploitability is uncertain. And generally speaking
  it's good hygiene to make sure that no unexpected background activity can be
  triggered by traffic. But this prevents external checks from working, and may
  break some very specific Lua scripts which actively rely on the ability to
  fork. This option is there to disable this protection. Note that it is a bad
  idea to disable it, as a vulnerability in a library or within haproxy itself
  will be easier to exploit once disabled. In addition, forking from Lua or
  anywhere else is not reliable as the forked process may randomly embed a lock
  set by another thread and never manage to finish an operation. As such it is
  highly recommended that this option is never used and that any workload
  requiring such a fork be reconsidered and moved to a safer solution (such as
  agents instead of external checks). This option supports the "no" prefix to
  disable it.

insecure-setuid-wanted
  HAProxy doesn't need to call executables at run time (except when using
  external checks which are strongly recommended against), and is even expected
  to isolate itself into an empty chroot. As such, there basically is no valid
  reason to allow a setuid executable to be called without the user being fully
  aware of the risks. In a situation where haproxy would need to call external
  checks and/or disable chroot, exploiting a vulnerability in a library or in
  haproxy itself could lead to the execution of an external program. On Linux
  it is possible to lock the process so that any setuid bit present on such an
  executable is ignored. This significantly reduces the risk of privilege
  escalation in such a situation. This is what haproxy does by default. In case
  this causes a problem to an external check (for example one which would need
  the "ping" command), then it is possible to disable this protection by
  explicitly adding this directive in the global section. If enabled, it is
  possible to turn it back off by prefixing it with the "no" keyword.

issuers-chain-path <dir>
  Assigns a directory to load certificate chain for issuer completion. All
  files must be in PEM format. For certificates loaded with "crt" or "crt-list",
  if certificate chain is not included in PEM (also commonly known as
  intermediate certificate), haproxy will complete chain if the issuer of the
  certificate corresponds to the first certificate of the chain loaded with
  "issuers-chain-path".
  A "crt" file with PrivateKey+Certificate+IntermediateCA2+IntermediateCA1
  could be replaced with PrivateKey+Certificate. HAProxy will complete the
  chain if a file with IntermediateCA2+IntermediateCA1 is present in
  "issuers-chain-path" directory. All other certificates with the same issuer
  will share the chain in memory.

localpeer <name>
  Sets the local instance's peer name. It will be ignored if the "-L"
  command line argument is specified or if used after "peers" section
  definitions. In such cases, a warning message will be emitted during
  the configuration parsing.

  This option will also set the HAPROXY_LOCALPEER environment variable.
  See also "-L" in the management guide and "peers" section below.

log <address> [len <length>] [format <format>] [sample <ranges>:<sample_size>]
    <facility> [max level [min level]]
  Adds a global syslog server. Several global servers can be defined. They
  will receive logs for starts and exits, as well as all logs from proxies
  configured with "log global".

  <address> can be one of:

        - An IPv4 address optionally followed by a colon and a UDP port. If
          no port is specified, 514 is used by default (the standard syslog
          port).

        - An IPv6 address followed by a colon and optionally a UDP port. If
          no port is specified, 514 is used by default (the standard syslog
          port).

        - A filesystem path to a datagram UNIX domain socket, keeping in mind
          considerations for chroot (be sure the path is accessible inside
          the chroot) and uid/gid (be sure the path is appropriately
          writable).

        - A file descriptor number in the form "fd@<number>", which may point
          to a pipe, terminal, or socket. In this case unbuffered logs are used
          and one writev() call per log is performed. This is a bit expensive
          but acceptable for most workloads. Messages sent this way will not be
          truncated but may be dropped, in which case the DroppedLogs counter
          will be incremented. The writev() call is atomic even on pipes for
          messages up to PIPE_BUF size, which POSIX recommends to be at least
          512 and which is 4096 bytes on most modern operating systems. Any
          larger message may be interleaved with messages from other processes.
          Exceptionally for debugging purposes the file descriptor may also be
          directed to a file, but doing so will significantly slow haproxy down
          as non-blocking calls will be ignored. Also there will be no way to
          purge nor rotate this file without restarting the process. Note that
          the configured syslog format is preserved, so the output is suitable
          for use with a TCP syslog server. See also the "short" and "raw"
          format below.

        - "stdout" / "stderr", which are respectively aliases for "fd@1" and
          "fd@2", see above.

        - A ring buffer in the form "ring@<name>", which will correspond to an
          in-memory ring buffer accessible over the CLI using the "show events"
          command, which will also list existing rings and their sizes. Such
          buffers are lost on reload or restart but when used as a complement
          this can help troubleshooting by having the logs instantly available.

        You may want to reference some environment variables in the address
        parameter, see section 2.3 about environment variables.

  <length> is an optional maximum line length. Log lines larger than this value
           will be truncated before being sent. The reason is that syslog
           servers act differently on log line length. All servers support the
           default value of 1024, but some servers simply drop larger lines
           while others do log them. If a server supports long lines, it may
           make sense to set this value here in order to avoid truncating long
           lines. Similarly, if a server drops long lines, it is preferable to
           truncate them before sending them. Accepted values are 80 to 65535
           inclusive. The default value of 1024 is generally fine for all
           standard usages. Some specific cases of long captures or
           JSON-formatted logs may require larger values. You may also need to
           increase "tune.http.logurilen" if your request URIs are truncated.

  <format> is the log format used when generating syslog messages. It may be
           one of the following :

    local     Analog to rfc3164 syslog message format except that hostname
              field is stripped. This is the default.
              Note: option "log-send-hostname" switches the default to
              rfc3164.

    rfc3164   The RFC3164 syslog message format.
              (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164)

    rfc5424   The RFC5424 syslog message format.
              (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424)

    priority  A message containing only a level plus syslog facility between
              angle brackets such as '<63>', followed by the text. The PID,
              date, time, process name and system name are omitted. This is
              designed to be used with a local log server.

    short     A message containing only a level between angle brackets such as
              '<3>', followed by the text. The PID, date, time, process name
              and system name are omitted. This is designed to be used with a
              local log server. This format is compatible with what the systemd
              logger consumes.

    timed     A message containing only a level between angle brackets such as
             '<3>', followed by ISO date and by the text. The PID, process
              name and system name are omitted. This is designed to be
              used with a local log server.

    iso       A message containing only the ISO date, followed by the text.
              The PID, process name and system name are omitted. This is
              designed to be used with a local log server.

    raw       A message containing only the text. The level, PID, date, time,
              process name and system name are omitted. This is designed to be
              used in containers or during development, where the severity only
              depends on the file descriptor used (stdout/stderr).

  <ranges>   A list of comma-separated ranges to identify the logs to sample.
             This is used to balance the load of the logs to send to the log
             server. The limits of the ranges cannot be null. They are numbered
             from 1. The size or period (in number of logs) of the sample must be
             set with <sample_size> parameter.

  <sample_size>
             The size of the sample in number of logs to consider when balancing
             their logging loads. It is used to balance the load of the logs to
             send to the syslog server. This size must be greater or equal to the
             maximum of the high limits of the ranges.
             (see also <ranges> parameter).

  <facility> must be one of the 24 standard syslog facilities :

                 kern   user   mail   daemon auth   syslog lpr    news
                 uucp   cron   auth2  ftp    ntp    audit  alert  cron2
                 local0 local1 local2 local3 local4 local5 local6 local7

             Note that the facility is ignored for the "short" and "raw"
             formats, but still required as a positional field. It is
             recommended to use "daemon" in this case to make it clear that
             it's only supposed to be used locally.

  An optional level can be specified to filter outgoing messages. By default,
  all messages are sent. If a maximum level is specified, only messages with a
  severity at least as important as this level will be sent. An optional minimum
  level can be specified. If it is set, logs emitted with a more severe level
  than this one will be capped to this level. This is used to avoid sending
  "emerg" messages on all terminals on some default syslog configurations.
  Eight levels are known :

          emerg  alert  crit   err    warning notice info  debug

log-send-hostname [<string>]
  Sets the hostname field in the syslog header. If optional "string" parameter
  is set the header is set to the string contents, otherwise uses the hostname
  of the system. Generally used if one is not relaying logs through an
  intermediate syslog server or for simply customizing the hostname printed in
  the logs.

log-tag <string>
  Sets the tag field in the syslog header to this string. It defaults to the
  program name as launched from the command line, which usually is "haproxy".
  Sometimes it can be useful to differentiate between multiple processes
  running on the same host. See also the per-proxy "log-tag" directive.

lua-load <file>
  This global directive loads and executes a Lua file in the shared context
  that is visible to all threads. Any variable set in such a context is visible
  from any thread. This is the easiest and recommended way to load Lua programs
  but it will not scale well if a lot of Lua calls are performed, as only one
  thread may be running on the global state at a time. A program loaded this
  way will always see 0 in the "core.thread" variable. This directive can be
  used multiple times.

lua-load-per-thread <file>
  This global directive loads and executes a Lua file into each started thread.
  Any global variable has a thread-local visibility so that each thread could
  see a different value. As such it is strongly recommended not to use global
  variables in programs loaded this way. An independent copy is loaded and
  initialized for each thread, everything is done sequentially and in the
  thread's numeric order from 1 to nbthread. If some operations need to be
  performed only once, the program should check the "core.thread" variable to
  figure what thread is being initialized. Programs loaded this way will run
  concurrently on all threads and will be highly scalable. This is the
  recommended way to load simple functions that register sample-fetches,
  converters, actions or services once it is certain the program doesn't depend
  on global variables. For the sake of simplicity, the directive is available
  even if only one thread is used and even if threads are disabled (in which
  case it will be equivalent to lua-load). This directive can be used multiple
  times.

lua-prepend-path <string> [<type>]
  Prepends the given string followed by a semicolon to Lua's package.<type>
  variable.
  <type> must either be "path" or "cpath". If <type> is not given it defaults
  to "path".

  Lua's paths are semicolon delimited lists of patterns that specify how the
  `require` function attempts to find the source file of a library. Question
  marks (?) within a pattern will be replaced by module name. The path is
  evaluated left to right. This implies that paths that are prepended later
  will be checked earlier.

  As an example by specifying the following path:

    lua-prepend-path /usr/share/haproxy-lua/?/init.lua
    lua-prepend-path /usr/share/haproxy-lua/?.lua

  When `require "example"` is being called Lua will first attempt to load the
  /usr/share/haproxy-lua/example.lua script, if that does not exist the
  /usr/share/haproxy-lua/example/init.lua will be attempted and the default
  paths if that does not exist either.

  See https://www.lua.org/pil/8.1.html for the details within the Lua
  documentation.

master-worker [no-exit-on-failure]
  Master-worker mode. It is equivalent to the command line "-W" argument.
  This mode will launch a "master" which will monitor the "workers". Using
  this mode, you can reload HAProxy directly by sending a SIGUSR2 signal to
  the master. The master-worker mode is compatible either with the foreground
  or daemon mode. It is recommended to use this mode with multiprocess and
  systemd.
  By default, if a worker exits with a bad return code, in the case of a
  segfault for example, all workers will be killed, and the master will leave.
  It is convenient to combine this behavior with Restart=on-failure in a
  systemd unit file in order to relaunch the whole process. If you don't want
  this behavior, you must use the keyword "no-exit-on-failure".

  See also "-W" in the management guide.

mworker-max-reloads <number>
  In master-worker mode, this option limits the number of time a worker can
  survive to a reload. If the worker did not leave after a reload, once its
  number of reloads is greater than this number, the worker will receive a
  SIGTERM. This option helps to keep under control the number of workers.
  See also "show proc" in the Management Guide.

nbproc <number>  (deprecated)
  Creates <number> processes when going daemon. This requires the "daemon"
  mode. By default, only one process is created, which is the recommended mode
  of operation. For systems limited to small sets of file descriptors per
  process, it may be needed to fork multiple daemons. When set to a value
  larger than 1, threads are automatically disabled. USING MULTIPLE PROCESSES
  IS HARDER TO DEBUG AND IS REALLY DISCOURAGED. This directive is deprecated
  and scheduled for removal in 2.5. Please use "nbthread" instead. See also
  "daemon" and "nbthread".

nbthread <number>
  This setting is only available when support for threads was built in. It
  makes haproxy run on <number> threads. This is exclusive with "nbproc". While
  "nbproc" historically used to be the only way to use multiple processors, it
  also involved a number of shortcomings related to the lack of synchronization
  between processes (health-checks, peers, stick-tables, stats, ...) which do
  not affect threads. As such, any modern configuration is strongly encouraged
  to migrate away from "nbproc" to "nbthread". "nbthread" also works when
  HAProxy is started in foreground. On some platforms supporting CPU affinity,
  when nbproc is not used, the default "nbthread" value is automatically set to
  the number of CPUs the process is bound to upon startup. This means that the
  thread count can easily be adjusted from the calling process using commands
  like "taskset" or "cpuset". Otherwise, this value defaults to 1. The default
  value is reported in the output of "haproxy -vv". See also "nbproc".

pidfile <pidfile>
  Writes PIDs of all daemons into file <pidfile> when daemon mode or writes PID
  of master process into file <pidfile> when master-worker mode. This option is
  equivalent to the "-p" command line argument. The file must be accessible to
  the user starting the process. See also "daemon" and "master-worker".

pp2-never-send-local
  A bug in the PROXY protocol v2 implementation was present in HAProxy up to
  version 2.1, causing it to emit a PROXY command instead of a LOCAL command
  for health checks. This is particularly minor but confuses some servers'
  logs. Sadly, the bug was discovered very late and revealed that some servers
  which possibly only tested their PROXY protocol implementation against
  HAProxy fail to properly handle the LOCAL command, and permanently remain in
  the "down" state when HAProxy checks them. When this happens, it is possible
  to enable this global option to revert to the older (bogus) behavior for the
  time it takes to contact the affected components' vendors and get them fixed.
  This option is disabled by default and acts on all servers having the
  "send-proxy-v2" statement.

presetenv <name> <value>
  Sets environment variable <name> to value <value>. If the variable exists, it
  is NOT overwritten. The changes immediately take effect so that the next line
  in the configuration file sees the new value. See also "setenv", "resetenv",
  and "unsetenv".

resetenv [<name> ...]
  Removes all environment variables except the ones specified in argument. It
  allows to use a clean controlled environment before setting new values with
  setenv or unsetenv. Please note that some internal functions may make use of
  some environment variables, such as time manipulation functions, but also
  OpenSSL or even external checks. This must be used with extreme care and only
  after complete validation. The changes immediately take effect so that the
  next line in the configuration file sees the new environment. See also
  "setenv", "presetenv", and "unsetenv".

stats bind-process [ all | odd | even | <process_num>[-[process_num>]] ] ...
  Limits the stats socket to a certain set of processes numbers. By default the
  stats socket is bound to all processes, causing a warning to be emitted when
  nbproc is greater than 1 because there is no way to select the target process
  when connecting. However, by using this setting, it becomes possible to pin
  the stats socket to a specific set of processes, typically the first one. The
  warning will automatically be disabled when this setting is used, whatever
  the number of processes used. The maximum process ID depends on the machine's
  word size (32 or 64). Ranges can be partially defined. The higher bound can
  be omitted. In such case, it is replaced by the corresponding maximum
  value. A better option consists in using the "process" setting of the "stats
  socket" line to force the process on each line.

server-state-base <directory>
  Specifies the directory prefix to be prepended in front of all servers state
  file names which do not start with a '/'. See also "server-state-file",
  "load-server-state-from-file" and "server-state-file-name".

server-state-file <file>
  Specifies the path to the file containing state of servers. If the path starts
  with a slash ('/'), it is considered absolute, otherwise it is considered
  relative to the directory specified using "server-state-base" (if set) or to
  the current directory. Before reloading HAProxy, it is possible to save the
  servers' current state using the stats command "show servers state". The
  output of this command must be written in the file pointed by <file>. When
  starting up, before handling traffic, HAProxy will read, load and apply state
  for each server found in the file and available in its current running
  configuration. See also "server-state-base" and "show servers state",
  "load-server-state-from-file" and "server-state-file-name"

setenv <name> <value>
  Sets environment variable <name> to value <value>. If the variable exists, it
  is overwritten. The changes immediately take effect so that the next line in
  the configuration file sees the new value. See also "presetenv", "resetenv",
  and "unsetenv".

set-dumpable
  This option is better left disabled by default and enabled only upon a
  developer's request. If it has been enabled, it may still be forcibly
  disabled by prefixing it with the "no" keyword. It has no impact on
  performance nor stability but will try hard to re-enable core dumps that were
  possibly disabled by file size limitations (ulimit -f), core size limitations
  (ulimit -c), or "dumpability" of a process after changing its UID/GID (such
  as /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable on Linux). Core dumps might still be limited by
  the current directory's permissions (check what directory the file is started
  from), the chroot directory's permission (it may be needed to temporarily
  disable the chroot directive or to move it to a dedicated writable location),
  or any other system-specific constraint. For example, some Linux flavours are
  notorious for replacing the default core file with a path to an executable
  not even installed on the system (check /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern). Often,
  simply writing "core", "core.%p" or "/var/log/core/core.%p" addresses the
  issue. When trying to enable this option waiting for a rare issue to
  re-appear, it's often a good idea to first try to obtain such a dump by
  issuing, for example, "kill -11" to the haproxy process and verify that it
  leaves a core where expected when dying.

ssl-default-bind-ciphers <ciphers>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  the default string describing the list of cipher algorithms ("cipher suite")
  that are negotiated during the SSL/TLS handshake up to TLSv1.2 for all
  "bind" lines which do not explicitly define theirs. The format of the string
  is defined in "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages. For background
  information and recommendations see e.g.
  (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS) and
  (https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/). For TLSv1.3
  cipher configuration, please check the "ssl-default-bind-ciphersuites" keyword.
  Please check the "bind" keyword for more information.

ssl-default-bind-ciphersuites <ciphersuites>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in and
  OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later was used to build HAProxy. It sets the default string
  describing the list of cipher algorithms ("cipher suite") that are negotiated
  during the TLSv1.3 handshake for all "bind" lines which do not explicitly define
  theirs. The format of the string is defined in
  "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages under the section "ciphersuites". For
  cipher configuration for TLSv1.2 and earlier, please check the
  "ssl-default-bind-ciphers" keyword. Please check the "bind" keyword for more
  information.

ssl-default-bind-curves <curves>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  the default string describing the list of elliptic curves algorithms ("curve
  suite") that are negotiated during the SSL/TLS handshake with ECDHE. The format
  of the string is a colon-delimited list of curve name.
  Please check the "bind" keyword for more information.

ssl-default-bind-options [<option>]...
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  default ssl-options to force on all "bind" lines. Please check the "bind"
  keyword to see available options.

  Example:
        global
           ssl-default-bind-options ssl-min-ver TLSv1.0 no-tls-tickets

ssl-default-server-ciphers <ciphers>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  sets the default string describing the list of cipher algorithms that are
  negotiated during the SSL/TLS handshake up to TLSv1.2 with the server,
  for all "server" lines which do not explicitly define theirs. The format of
  the string is defined in "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages. For background
  information and recommendations see e.g.
  (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS) and
  (https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/).
  For TLSv1.3 cipher configuration, please check the
  "ssl-default-server-ciphersuites" keyword. Please check the "server" keyword
  for more information.

ssl-default-server-ciphersuites <ciphersuites>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in and
  OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later was used to build HAProxy. It sets the default
  string describing the list of cipher algorithms that are negotiated during
  the TLSv1.3 handshake with the server, for all "server" lines which do not
  explicitly define theirs. The format of the string is defined in
  "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages under the section "ciphersuites". For
  cipher configuration for TLSv1.2 and earlier, please check the
  "ssl-default-server-ciphers" keyword. Please check the "server" keyword for
  more information.

ssl-default-server-options [<option>]...
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  default ssl-options to force on all "server" lines. Please check the "server"
  keyword to see available options.

ssl-dh-param-file <file>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  the default DH parameters that are used during the SSL/TLS handshake when
  ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) key exchange is used, for all "bind" lines
  which do not explicitly define theirs. It will be overridden by custom DH
  parameters found in a bind certificate file if any. If custom DH parameters
  are not specified either by using ssl-dh-param-file or by setting them
  directly in the certificate file, pre-generated DH parameters of the size
  specified by tune.ssl.default-dh-param will be used. Custom parameters are
  known to be more secure and therefore their use is recommended.
  Custom DH parameters may be generated by using the OpenSSL command
  "openssl dhparam <size>", where size should be at least 2048, as 1024-bit DH
  parameters should not be considered secure anymore.

ssl-load-extra-del-ext
  This setting allows to configure the way HAProxy does the lookup for the
  extra SSL files. By default HAProxy adds a new extension to the filename.
  (ex: with "foobar.crt" load "foobar.crt.key"). With this option enabled,
  HAProxy removes the extension before adding the new one (ex: with
  "foobar.crt" load "foobar.key").

  Your crt file must have a ".crt" extension for this option to work.

  This option is not compatible with bundle extensions (.ecdsa, .rsa. .dsa)
  and won't try to remove them.

  This option is disabled by default. See also "ssl-load-extra-files".

ssl-load-extra-files <none|all|bundle|sctl|ocsp|issuer|key>*
  This setting alters the way HAProxy will look for unspecified files during
  the loading of the SSL certificates associated to "bind" lines. It does not
  apply to certificates used for client authentication on "server" lines.

  By default, HAProxy discovers automatically a lot of files not specified in
  the configuration, and you may want to disable this behavior if you want to
  optimize the startup time.

  "none": Only load the files specified in the configuration. Don't try to load
  a certificate bundle if the file does not exist. In the case of a directory,
  it won't try to bundle the certificates if they have the same basename.

  "all": This is the default behavior, it will try to load everything,
  bundles, sctl, ocsp, issuer, key.

  "bundle": When a file specified in the configuration does not exist, HAProxy
  will try to load a "cert bundle".

  Starting from HAProxy 2.3, the bundles are not loaded in the same OpenSSL
  certificate store, instead it will loads each certificate in a separate
  store which is equivalent to declaring multiple "crt". OpenSSL 1.1.1 is
  required to achieve this. Which means that bundles are now used only for
  backward compatibility and are not mandatory anymore to do an hybrid RSA/ECC
  bind configuration..

  To associate these PEM files into a "cert bundle" that is recognized by
  haproxy, they must be named in the following way: All PEM files that are to
  be bundled must have the same base name, with a suffix indicating the key
  type. Currently, three suffixes are supported: rsa, dsa and ecdsa. For
  example, if www.example.com has two PEM files, an RSA file and an ECDSA
  file, they must be named: "example.pem.rsa" and "example.pem.ecdsa". The
  first part of the filename is arbitrary; only the suffix matters. To load
  this bundle into haproxy, specify the base name only:

  Example :  bind :8443 ssl crt example.pem

  Note that the suffix is not given to haproxy; this tells haproxy to look for
  a cert bundle.

  HAProxy will load all PEM files in the bundle as if they were configured
  separately in several "crt".

  The bundle loading does not have an impact anymore on the directory loading
  since files are loading separately.

  On the CLI, bundles are seen as separate files, and the bundle extension is
  required to commit them.

  OCSP files (.ocsp), issuer files (.issuer), Certificate Transparency (.sctl)
  as well as private keys (.key) are supported with multi-cert bundling.

  "sctl": Try to load "<basename>.sctl" for each crt keyword.

  "ocsp": Try to load "<basename>.ocsp" for each crt keyword.

  "issuer": Try to load "<basename>.issuer" if the issuer of the OCSP file is
  not provided in the PEM file.

  "key": If the private key was not provided by the PEM file, try to load a
  file "<basename>.key" containing a private key.

  The default behavior is "all".

  Example:
    ssl-load-extra-files bundle sctl
    ssl-load-extra-files sctl ocsp issuer
    ssl-load-extra-files none

  See also: "crt", section 5.1 about bind options.

ssl-server-verify [none|required]
  The default behavior for SSL verify on servers side. If specified to 'none',
  servers certificates are not verified. The default is 'required' except if
  forced using cmdline option '-dV'.

ssl-skip-self-issued-ca
  Self issued CA, aka x509 root CA, is the anchor for chain validation: as a
  server is useless to send it, client must have it. Standard configuration
  need to not include such CA in PEM file. This option allows you to keep such
  CA in PEM file without sending it to the client. Use case is to provide
  issuer for ocsp without the need for '.issuer' file and be able to share it
  with 'issuers-chain-path'. This concerns all certificates without intermediate
  certificates. It's useless for BoringSSL, .issuer is ignored because ocsp
  bits does not need it. Requires at least OpenSSL 1.0.2.

stats socket [<address:port>|<path>] [param*]
  Binds a UNIX socket to <path> or a TCPv4/v6 address to <address:port>.
  Connections to this socket will return various statistics outputs and even
  allow some commands to be issued to change some runtime settings. Please
  consult section 9.3 "Unix Socket commands" of Management Guide for more
  details.

  All parameters supported by "bind" lines are supported, for instance to
  restrict access to some users or their access rights. Please consult
  section 5.1 for more information.

stats timeout <timeout, in milliseconds>
  The default timeout on the stats socket is set to 10 seconds. It is possible
  to change this value with "stats timeout". The value must be passed in
  milliseconds, or be suffixed by a time unit among { us, ms, s, m, h, d }.

stats maxconn <connections>
  By default, the stats socket is limited to 10 concurrent connections. It is
  possible to change this value with "stats maxconn".

uid <number>
  Changes the process' user ID to <number>. It is recommended that the user ID
  is dedicated to HAProxy or to a small set of similar daemons. HAProxy must
  be started with superuser privileges in order to be able to switch to another
  one. See also "gid" and "user".

ulimit-n <number>
  Sets the maximum number of per-process file-descriptors to <number>. By
  default, it is automatically computed, so it is recommended not to use this
  option.

unix-bind [ prefix <prefix> ] [ mode <mode> ] [ user <user> ] [ uid <uid> ]
          [ group <group> ] [ gid <gid> ]

  Fixes common settings to UNIX listening sockets declared in "bind" statements.
  This is mainly used to simplify declaration of those UNIX sockets and reduce
  the risk of errors, since those settings are most commonly required but are
  also process-specific. The <prefix> setting can be used to force all socket
  path to be relative to that directory. This might be needed to access another
  component's chroot. Note that those paths are resolved before haproxy chroots
  itself, so they are absolute. The <mode>, <user>, <uid>, <group> and <gid>
  all have the same meaning as their homonyms used by the "bind" statement. If
  both are specified, the "bind" statement has priority, meaning that the
  "unix-bind" settings may be seen as process-wide default settings.

unsetenv [<name> ...]
  Removes environment variables specified in arguments. This can be useful to
  hide some sensitive information that are occasionally inherited from the
  user's environment during some operations. Variables which did not exist are
  silently ignored so that after the operation, it is certain that none of
  these variables remain. The changes immediately take effect so that the next
  line in the configuration file will not see these variables. See also
  "setenv", "presetenv", and "resetenv".

user <user name>
  Similar to "uid" but uses the UID of user name <user name> from /etc/passwd.
  See also "uid" and "group".

node <name>
  Only letters, digits, hyphen and underscore are allowed, like in DNS names.

  This statement is useful in HA configurations where two or more processes or
  servers share the same IP address. By setting a different node-name on all
  nodes, it becomes easy to immediately spot what server is handling the
  traffic.

description <text>
  Add a text that describes the instance.

  Please note that it is required to escape certain characters (# for example)
  and this text is inserted into a html page so you should avoid using
  "<" and ">" characters.

51degrees-data-file <file path>
  The path of the 51Degrees data file to provide device detection services. The
  file should be unzipped and accessible by HAProxy with relevant permissions.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_51DEGREES.

51degrees-property-name-list [<string> ...]
  A list of 51Degrees property names to be load from the dataset. A full list
  of names is available on the 51Degrees website:
  https://51degrees.com/resources/property-dictionary

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_51DEGREES.

51degrees-property-separator <char>
  A char that will be appended to every property value in a response header
  containing 51Degrees results. If not set that will be set as ','.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_51DEGREES.

51degrees-cache-size <number>
  Sets the size of the 51Degrees converter cache to <number> entries. This
  is an LRU cache which reminds previous device detections and their results.
  By default, this cache is disabled.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_51DEGREES.

wurfl-data-file <file path>
  The path of the WURFL data file to provide device detection services. The
  file should be accessible by HAProxy with relevant permissions.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been compiled
  with USE_WURFL=1.

wurfl-information-list [<capability>]*
  A space-delimited list of WURFL capabilities, virtual capabilities, property
  names we plan to use in injected headers. A full list of capability and
  virtual capability names is available on the Scientiamobile website :

      https://www.scientiamobile.com/wurflCapability

  Valid WURFL properties are:
  - wurfl_id                    Contains the device ID of the matched device.

  - wurfl_root_id               Contains the device root ID of the matched
                                device.

  - wurfl_isdevroot             Tells if the matched device is a root device.
                                Possible values are "TRUE" or "FALSE".

  - wurfl_useragent             The original useragent coming with this
                                particular web request.

  - wurfl_api_version           Contains a string representing the currently
                                used Libwurfl API version.

  - wurfl_info                  A string containing information on the parsed
                                wurfl.xml and its full path.

  - wurfl_last_load_time        Contains the UNIX timestamp of the last time
                                WURFL has been loaded successfully.

  - wurfl_normalized_useragent  The normalized useragent.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been compiled
  with USE_WURFL=1.

wurfl-information-list-separator <char>
  A char that will be used to separate values in a response header containing
  WURFL results. If not set that a comma (',') will be used by default.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been compiled
  with USE_WURFL=1.

wurfl-patch-file [<file path>]
  A list of WURFL patch file paths. Note that patches are loaded during startup
  thus before the chroot.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been compiled
  with USE_WURFL=1.

wurfl-cache-size <size>
  Sets the WURFL Useragent cache size. For faster lookups, already processed user
  agents are kept in a LRU cache :
  - "0"     : no cache is used.
  - <size>  : size of lru cache in elements.

  Please note that this option is only available when haproxy has been compiled
  with USE_WURFL=1.

strict-limits
  Makes process fail at startup when a setrlimit fails. Haproxy tries to set the
  best setrlimit according to what has been calculated. If it fails, it will
  emit a warning. This option is here to guarantee an explicit failure of
  haproxy when those limits fail. It is enabled by default. It may still be
  forcibly disabled by prefixing it with the "no" keyword.

3.2. Performance tuning
-----------------------

busy-polling
  In some situations, especially when dealing with low latency on processors
  supporting a variable frequency or when running inside virtual machines, each
  time the process waits for an I/O using the poller, the processor goes back
  to sleep or is offered to another VM for a long time, and it causes
  excessively high latencies. This option provides a solution preventing the
  processor from sleeping by always using a null timeout on the pollers. This
  results in a significant latency reduction (30 to 100 microseconds observed)
  at the expense of a risk to overheat the processor. It may even be used with
  threads, in which case improperly bound threads may heavily conflict,
  resulting in a worse performance and high values for the CPU stolen fields
  in "show info" output, indicating which threads are misconfigured. It is
  important not to let the process run on the same processor as the network
  interrupts when this option is used. It is also better to avoid using it on
  multiple CPU threads sharing the same core. This option is disabled by
  default. If it has been enabled, it may still be forcibly disabled by
  prefixing it with the "no" keyword. It is ignored by the "select" and
  "poll" pollers.

  This option is automatically disabled on old processes in the context of
  seamless reload; it avoids too much cpu conflicts when multiple processes
  stay around for some time waiting for the end of their current connections.

max-spread-checks <delay in milliseconds>
  By default, haproxy tries to spread the start of health checks across the
  smallest health check interval of all the servers in a farm. The principle is
  to avoid hammering services running on the same server. But when using large
  check intervals (10 seconds or more), the last servers in the farm take some
  time before starting to be tested, which can be a problem. This parameter is
  used to enforce an upper bound on delay between the first and the last check,
  even if the servers' check intervals are larger. When servers run with
  shorter intervals, their intervals will be respected though.

maxconn <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process number of concurrent connections to <number>. It
  is equivalent to the command-line argument "-n". Proxies will stop accepting
  connections when this limit is reached. The "ulimit-n" parameter is
  automatically adjusted according to this value. See also "ulimit-n". Note:
  the "select" poller cannot reliably use more than 1024 file descriptors on
  some platforms. If your platform only supports select and reports "select
  FAILED" on startup, you need to reduce maxconn until it works (slightly
  below 500 in general). If this value is not set, it will automatically be
  calculated based on the current file descriptors limit reported by the
  "ulimit -n" command, possibly reduced to a lower value if a memory limit
  is enforced, based on the buffer size, memory allocated to compression, SSL
  cache size, and use or not of SSL and the associated maxsslconn (which can
  also be automatic).

maxconnrate <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process number of connections per second to <number>.
  Proxies will stop accepting connections when this limit is reached. It can be
  used to limit the global capacity regardless of each frontend capacity. It is
  important to note that this can only be used as a service protection measure,
  as there will not necessarily be a fair share between frontends when the
  limit is reached, so it's a good idea to also limit each frontend to some
  value close to its expected share. Also, lowering tune.maxaccept can improve
  fairness.

maxcomprate <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process input compression rate to <number> kilobytes
  per second. For each session, if the maximum is reached, the compression
  level will be decreased during the session. If the maximum is reached at the
  beginning of a session, the session will not compress at all. If the maximum
  is not reached, the compression level will be increased up to
  tune.comp.maxlevel. A value of zero means there is no limit, this is the
  default value.

maxcompcpuusage <number>
  Sets the maximum CPU usage HAProxy can reach before stopping the compression
  for new requests or decreasing the compression level of current requests.
  It works like 'maxcomprate' but measures CPU usage instead of incoming data
  bandwidth. The value is expressed in percent of the CPU used by haproxy. In
  case of multiple processes (nbproc > 1), each process manages its individual
  usage. A value of 100 disable the limit. The default value is 100. Setting
  a lower value will prevent the compression work from slowing the whole
  process down and from introducing high latencies.

maxpipes <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process number of pipes to <number>. Currently, pipes
  are only used by kernel-based tcp splicing. Since a pipe contains two file
  descriptors, the "ulimit-n" value will be increased accordingly. The default
  value is maxconn/4, which seems to be more than enough for most heavy usages.
  The splice code dynamically allocates and releases pipes, and can fall back
  to standard copy, so setting this value too low may only impact performance.

maxsessrate <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process number of sessions per second to <number>.
  Proxies will stop accepting connections when this limit is reached. It can be
  used to limit the global capacity regardless of each frontend capacity. It is
  important to note that this can only be used as a service protection measure,
  as there will not necessarily be a fair share between frontends when the
  limit is reached, so it's a good idea to also limit each frontend to some
  value close to its expected share. Also, lowering tune.maxaccept can improve
  fairness.

maxsslconn <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process number of concurrent SSL connections to
  <number>. By default there is no SSL-specific limit, which means that the
  global maxconn setting will apply to all connections. Setting this limit
  avoids having openssl use too much memory and crash when malloc returns NULL
  (since it unfortunately does not reliably check for such conditions). Note
  that the limit applies both to incoming and outgoing connections, so one
  connection which is deciphered then ciphered accounts for 2 SSL connections.
  If this value is not set, but a memory limit is enforced, this value will be
  automatically computed based on the memory limit, maxconn,  the buffer size,
  memory allocated to compression, SSL cache size, and use of SSL in either
  frontends, backends or both. If neither maxconn nor maxsslconn are specified
  when there is a memory limit, haproxy will automatically adjust these values
  so that 100% of the connections can be made over SSL with no risk, and will
  consider the sides where it is enabled (frontend, backend, both).

maxsslrate <number>
  Sets the maximum per-process number of SSL sessions per second to <number>.
  SSL listeners will stop accepting connections when this limit is reached. It
  can be used to limit the global SSL CPU usage regardless of each frontend
  capacity. It is important to note that this can only be used as a service
  protection measure, as there will not necessarily be a fair share between
  frontends when the limit is reached, so it's a good idea to also limit each
  frontend to some value close to its expected share. It is also important to
  note that the sessions are accounted before they enter the SSL stack and not
  after, which also protects the stack against bad handshakes. Also, lowering
  tune.maxaccept can improve fairness.

maxzlibmem <number>
  Sets the maximum amount of RAM in megabytes per process usable by the zlib.
  When the maximum amount is reached, future sessions will not compress as long
  as RAM is unavailable. When sets to 0, there is no limit.
  The default value is 0. The value is available in bytes on the UNIX socket
  with "show info" on the line "MaxZlibMemUsage", the memory used by zlib is
  "ZlibMemUsage" in bytes.

noepoll
  Disables the use of the "epoll" event polling system on Linux. It is
  equivalent to the command-line argument "-de". The next polling system
  used will generally be "poll". See also "nopoll".

nokqueue
  Disables the use of the "kqueue" event polling system on BSD. It is
  equivalent to the command-line argument "-dk". The next polling system
  used will generally be "poll". See also "nopoll".

noevports
  Disables the use of the event ports event polling system on SunOS systems
  derived from Solaris 10 and later. It is equivalent to the command-line
  argument "-dv". The next polling system used will generally be "poll". See
  also "nopoll".

nopoll
  Disables the use of the "poll" event polling system. It is equivalent to the
  command-line argument "-dp". The next polling system used will be "select".
  It should never be needed to disable "poll" since it's available on all
  platforms supported by HAProxy. See also "nokqueue", "noepoll" and
  "noevports".

nosplice
  Disables the use of kernel tcp splicing between sockets on Linux. It is
  equivalent to the command line argument "-dS". Data will then be copied
  using conventional and more portable recv/send calls. Kernel tcp splicing is
  limited to some very recent instances of kernel 2.6. Most versions between
  2.6.25 and 2.6.28 are buggy and will forward corrupted data, so they must not
  be used. This option makes it easier to globally disable kernel splicing in
  case of doubt. See also "option splice-auto", "option splice-request" and
  "option splice-response".

nogetaddrinfo
  Disables the use of getaddrinfo(3) for name resolving. It is equivalent to
  the command line argument "-dG". Deprecated gethostbyname(3) will be used.

noreuseport
  Disables the use of SO_REUSEPORT - see socket(7). It is equivalent to the
  command line argument "-dR".

profiling.tasks { auto | on | off }
  Enables ('on') or disables ('off') per-task CPU profiling. When set to 'auto'
  the profiling automatically turns on a thread when it starts to suffer from
  an average latency of 1000 microseconds or higher as reported in the
  "avg_loop_us" activity field, and automatically turns off when the latency
  returns below 990 microseconds (this value is an average over the last 1024
  loops so it does not vary quickly and tends to significantly smooth short
  spikes). It may also spontaneously trigger from time to time on overloaded
  systems, containers, or virtual machines, or when the system swaps (which
  must absolutely never happen on a load balancer).

  CPU profiling per task can be very convenient to report where the time is
  spent and which requests have what effect on which other request. Enabling
  it will typically affect the overall's performance by less than 1%, thus it
  is recommended to leave it to the default 'auto' value so that it only
  operates when a problem is identified. This feature requires a system
  supporting the clock_gettime(2) syscall with clock identifiers
  CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, otherwise the reported time will
  be zero. This option may be changed at run time using "set profiling" on the
  CLI.

spread-checks <0..50, in percent>
  Sometimes it is desirable to avoid sending agent and health checks to
  servers at exact intervals, for instance when many logical servers are
  located on the same physical server. With the help of this parameter, it
  becomes possible to add some randomness in the check interval between 0
  and +/- 50%. A value between 2 and 5 seems to show good results. The
  default value remains at 0.

ssl-engine <name> [algo <comma-separated list of algorithms>]
  Sets the OpenSSL engine to <name>. List of valid values for <name> may be
  obtained using the command "openssl engine". This statement may be used
  multiple times, it will simply enable multiple crypto engines. Referencing an
  unsupported engine will prevent haproxy from starting. Note that many engines
  will lead to lower HTTPS performance than pure software with recent
  processors. The optional command "algo" sets the default algorithms an ENGINE
  will supply using the OPENSSL function ENGINE_set_default_string(). A value
  of "ALL" uses the engine for all cryptographic operations. If no list of
  algo is specified then the value of "ALL" is used. A comma-separated list
  of different algorithms may be specified, including: RSA, DSA, DH, EC, RAND,
  CIPHERS, DIGESTS, PKEY, PKEY_CRYPTO, PKEY_ASN1. This is the same format that
  openssl configuration file uses:
  https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.0.2/apps/config.html

ssl-mode-async
  Adds SSL_MODE_ASYNC mode to the SSL context. This enables asynchronous TLS
  I/O operations if asynchronous capable SSL engines are used. The current
  implementation supports a maximum of 32 engines. The Openssl ASYNC API
  doesn't support moving read/write buffers and is not compliant with
  haproxy's buffer management. So the asynchronous mode is disabled on
  read/write  operations (it is only enabled during initial and renegotiation
  handshakes).

tune.buffers.limit <number>
  Sets a hard limit on the number of buffers which may be allocated per process.
  The default value is zero which means unlimited. The minimum non-zero value
  will always be greater than "tune.buffers.reserve" and should ideally always
  be about twice as large. Forcing this value can be particularly useful to
  limit the amount of memory a process may take, while retaining a sane
  behavior. When this limit is reached, sessions which need a buffer wait for
  another one to be released by another session. Since buffers are dynamically
  allocated and released, the waiting time is very short and not perceptible
  provided that limits remain reasonable. In fact sometimes reducing the limit
  may even increase performance by increasing the CPU cache's efficiency. Tests
  have shown good results on average HTTP traffic with a limit to 1/10 of the
  expected global maxconn setting, which also significantly reduces memory
  usage. The memory savings come from the fact that a number of connections
  will not allocate 2*tune.bufsize. It is best not to touch this value unless
  advised to do so by an haproxy core developer.

tune.buffers.reserve <number>
  Sets the number of buffers which are pre-allocated and reserved for use only
  during memory shortage conditions resulting in failed memory allocations. The
  minimum value is 2 and is also the default. There is no reason a user would
  want to change this value, it's mostly aimed at haproxy core developers.

tune.bufsize <number>
  Sets the buffer size to this size (in bytes). Lower values allow more
  sessions to coexist in the same amount of RAM, and higher values allow some
  applications with very large cookies to work. The default value is 16384 and
  can be changed at build time. It is strongly recommended not to change this
  from the default value, as very low values will break some services such as
  statistics, and values larger than default size will increase memory usage,
  possibly causing the system to run out of memory. At least the global maxconn
  parameter should be decreased by the same factor as this one is increased. In
  addition, use of HTTP/2 mandates that this value must be 16384 or more. If an
  HTTP request is larger than (tune.bufsize - tune.maxrewrite), haproxy will
  return HTTP 400 (Bad Request) error. Similarly if an HTTP response is larger
  than this size, haproxy will return HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway). Note that the
  value set using this parameter will automatically be rounded up to the next
  multiple of 8 on 32-bit machines and 16 on 64-bit machines.

tune.chksize <number> (deprecated)
  This option is deprecated and ignored.

tune.comp.maxlevel <number>
  Sets the maximum compression level. The compression level affects CPU
  usage during compression. This value affects CPU usage during compression.
  Each session using compression initializes the compression algorithm with
  this value. The default value is 1.

tune.fail-alloc
  If compiled with DEBUG_FAIL_ALLOC, gives the percentage of chances an
  allocation attempt fails. Must be between 0 (no failure) and 100 (no
  success). This is useful to debug and make sure memory failures are handled
  gracefully.

tune.fd.edge-triggered { on | off }  [ EXPERIMENTAL ]
  Enables ('on') or disables ('off') the edge-triggered polling mode for FDs
  that support it. This is currently only support with epoll. It may noticeably
  reduce the number of epoll_ctl() calls and slightly improve performance in
  certain scenarios. This is still experimental, it may result in frozen
  connections if bugs are still present, and is disabled by default.

tune.h2.header-table-size <number>
  Sets the HTTP/2 dynamic header table size. It defaults to 4096 bytes and
  cannot be larger than 65536 bytes. A larger value may help certain clients
  send more compact requests, depending on their capabilities. This amount of
  memory is consumed for each HTTP/2 connection. It is recommended not to
  change it.

tune.h2.initial-window-size <number>
  Sets the HTTP/2 initial window size, which is the number of bytes the client
  can upload before waiting for an acknowledgment from haproxy. This setting
  only affects payload contents (i.e. the body of POST requests), not headers.
  The default value is 65535, which roughly allows up to 5 Mbps of upload
  bandwidth per client over a network showing a 100 ms ping time, or 500 Mbps
  over a 1-ms local network. It can make sense to increase this value to allow
  faster uploads, or to reduce it to increase fairness when dealing with many
  clients. It doesn't affect resource usage.

tune.h2.max-concurrent-streams <number>
  Sets the HTTP/2 maximum number of concurrent streams per connection (ie the
  number of outstanding requests on a single connection). The default value is
  100. A larger one may slightly improve page load time for complex sites when
  visited over high latency networks, but increases the amount of resources a
  single client may allocate. A value of zero disables the limit so a single
  client may create as many streams as allocatable by haproxy. It is highly
  recommended not to change this value.

tune.h2.max-frame-size <number>
  Sets the HTTP/2 maximum frame size that haproxy announces it is willing to
  receive to its peers. The default value is the largest between 16384 and the
  buffer size (tune.bufsize). In any case, haproxy will not announce support
  for frame sizes larger than buffers. The main purpose of this setting is to
  allow to limit the maximum frame size setting when using large buffers. Too
  large frame sizes might have performance impact or cause some peers to
  misbehave. It is highly recommended not to change this value.

tune.http.cookielen <number>
  Sets the maximum length of captured cookies. This is the maximum value that
  the "capture cookie xxx len yyy" will be allowed to take, and any upper value
  will automatically be truncated to this one. It is important not to set too
  high a value because all cookie captures still allocate this size whatever
  their configured value (they share a same pool). This value is per request
  per response, so the memory allocated is twice this value per connection.
  When not specified, the limit is set to 63 characters. It is recommended not
  to change this value.

tune.http.logurilen <number>
  Sets the maximum length of request URI in logs. This prevents truncating long
  request URIs with valuable query strings in log lines. This is not related
  to syslog limits. If you increase this limit, you may also increase the
  'log ... len yyy' parameter. Your syslog daemon may also need specific
  configuration directives too.
  The default value is 1024.

tune.http.maxhdr <number>
  Sets the maximum number of headers in a request. When a request comes with a
  number of headers greater than this value (including the first line), it is
  rejected with a "400 Bad Request" status code. Similarly, too large responses
  are blocked with "502 Bad Gateway". The default value is 101, which is enough
  for all usages, considering that the widely deployed Apache server uses the
  same limit. It can be useful to push this limit further to temporarily allow
  a buggy application to work by the time it gets fixed. The accepted range is
  1..32767. Keep in mind that each new header consumes 32bits of memory for
  each session, so don't push this limit too high.

tune.idle-pool.shared { on | off }
  Enables ('on') or disables ('off') sharing of idle connection pools between
  threads for a same server. The default is to share them between threads in
  order to minimize the number of persistent connections to a server, and to
  optimize the connection reuse rate. But to help with debugging or when
  suspecting a bug in HAProxy around connection reuse, it can be convenient to
  forcefully disable this idle pool sharing between multiple threads, and force
  this option to "off". The default is on.

tune.idletimer <timeout>
  Sets the duration after which haproxy will consider that an empty buffer is
  probably associated with an idle stream. This is used to optimally adjust
  some packet sizes while forwarding large and small data alternatively. The
  decision to use splice() or to send large buffers in SSL is modulated by this
  parameter. The value is in milliseconds between 0 and 65535. A value of zero
  means that haproxy will not try to detect idle streams. The default is 1000,
  which seems to correctly detect end user pauses (e.g. read a page before
  clicking). There should be no reason for changing this value. Please check
  tune.ssl.maxrecord below.

tune.listener.multi-queue { on | off }
  Enables ('on') or disables ('off') the listener's multi-queue accept which
  spreads the incoming traffic to all threads a "bind" line is allowed to run
  on instead of taking them for itself. This provides a smoother traffic
  distribution and scales much better, especially in environments where threads
  may be unevenly loaded due to external activity (network interrupts colliding
  with one thread for example). This option is enabled by default, but it may
  be forcefully disabled for troubleshooting or for situations where it is
  estimated that the operating system already provides a good enough
  distribution and connections are extremely short-lived.

tune.lua.forced-yield <number>
  This directive forces the Lua engine to execute a yield each <number> of
  instructions executed. This permits interrupting a long script and allows the
  HAProxy scheduler to process other tasks like accepting connections or
  forwarding traffic. The default value is 10000 instructions. If HAProxy often
  executes some Lua code but more responsiveness is required, this value can be
  lowered. If the Lua code is quite long and its result is absolutely required
  to process the data, the <number> can be increased.

tune.lua.maxmem
  Sets the maximum amount of RAM in megabytes per process usable by Lua. By
  default it is zero which means unlimited. It is important to set a limit to
  ensure that a bug in a script will not result in the system running out of
  memory.

tune.lua.session-timeout <timeout>
  This is the execution timeout for the Lua sessions. This is useful for
  preventing infinite loops or spending too much time in Lua. This timeout
  counts only the pure Lua runtime. If the Lua does a sleep, the sleep is
  not taken in account. The default timeout is 4s.

tune.lua.task-timeout <timeout>
  Purpose is the same as "tune.lua.session-timeout", but this timeout is
  dedicated to the tasks. By default, this timeout isn't set because a task may
  remain alive during of the lifetime of HAProxy. For example, a task used to
  check servers.

tune.lua.service-timeout <timeout>
  This is the execution timeout for the Lua services. This is useful for
  preventing infinite loops or spending too much time in Lua. This timeout
  counts only the pure Lua runtime. If the Lua does a sleep, the sleep is
  not taken in account. The default timeout is 4s.

tune.maxaccept <number>
  Sets the maximum number of consecutive connections a process may accept in a
  row before switching to other work. In single process mode, higher numbers
  give better performance at high connection rates. However in multi-process
  modes, keeping a bit of fairness between processes generally is better to
  increase performance. This value applies individually to each listener, so
  that the number of processes a listener is bound to is taken into account.
  This value defaults to 64. In multi-process mode, it is divided by twice
  the number of processes the listener is bound to. Setting this value to -1
  completely disables the limitation. It should normally not be needed to tweak
  this value.

tune.maxpollevents <number>
  Sets the maximum amount of events that can be processed at once in a call to
  the polling system. The default value is adapted to the operating system. It
  has been noticed that reducing it below 200 tends to slightly decrease
  latency at the expense of network bandwidth, and increasing it above 200
  tends to trade latency for slightly increased bandwidth.

tune.maxrewrite <number>
  Sets the reserved buffer space to this size in bytes. The reserved space is
  used for header rewriting or appending. The first reads on sockets will never
  fill more than bufsize-maxrewrite. Historically it has defaulted to half of
  bufsize, though that does not make much sense since there are rarely large
  numbers of headers to add. Setting it too high prevents processing of large
  requests or responses. Setting it too low prevents addition of new headers
  to already large requests or to POST requests. It is generally wise to set it
  to about 1024. It is automatically readjusted to half of bufsize if it is
  larger than that. This means you don't have to worry about it when changing
  bufsize.

tune.pattern.cache-size <number>
  Sets the size of the pattern lookup cache to <number> entries. This is an LRU
  cache which reminds previous lookups and their results. It is used by ACLs
  and maps on slow pattern lookups, namely the ones using the "sub", "reg",
  "dir", "dom", "end", "bin" match methods as well as the case-insensitive
  strings. It applies to pattern expressions which means that it will be able
  to memorize the result of a lookup among all the patterns specified on a
  configuration line (including all those loaded from files). It automatically
  invalidates entries which are updated using HTTP actions or on the CLI. The
  default cache size is set to 10000 entries, which limits its footprint to
  about 5 MB per process/thread on 32-bit systems and 8 MB per process/thread
  on 64-bit systems, as caches are thread/process local. There is a very low
  risk of collision in this cache, which is in the order of the size of the
  cache divided by 2^64. Typically, at 10000 requests per second with the
  default cache size of 10000 entries, there's 1% chance that a brute force
  attack could cause a single collision after 60 years, or 0.1% after 6 years.
  This is considered much lower than the risk of a memory corruption caused by
  aging components. If this is not acceptable, the cache can be disabled by
  setting this parameter to 0.

tune.pipesize <number>
  Sets the kernel pipe buffer size to this size (in bytes). By default, pipes
  are the default size for the system. But sometimes when using TCP splicing,
  it can improve performance to increase pipe sizes, especially if it is
  suspected that pipes are not filled and that many calls to splice() are
  performed. This has an impact on the kernel's memory footprint, so this must
  not be changed if impacts are not understood.

tune.pool-high-fd-ratio <number>
  This setting sets the max number of file descriptors (in percentage) used by
  haproxy globally against the maximum number of file descriptors haproxy can
  use before we start killing idle connections when we can't reuse a connection
  and we have to create a new one. The default is 25 (one quarter of the file
  descriptor will mean that roughly half of the maximum front connections can
  keep an idle connection behind, anything beyond this probably doesn't make
  much sense in the general case when targeting connection reuse).

tune.pool-low-fd-ratio <number>
  This setting sets the max number of file descriptors (in percentage) used by
  haproxy globally against the maximum number of file descriptors haproxy can
  use before we stop putting connection into the idle pool for reuse. The
  default is 20.

tune.rcvbuf.client <number>
tune.rcvbuf.server <number>
  Forces the kernel socket receive buffer size on the client or the server side
  to the specified value in bytes. This value applies to all TCP/HTTP frontends
  and backends. It should normally never be set, and the default size (0) lets
  the kernel auto-tune this value depending on the amount of available memory.
  However it can sometimes help to set it to very low values (e.g. 4096) in
  order to save kernel memory by preventing it from buffering too large amounts
  of received data. Lower values will significantly increase CPU usage though.

tune.recv_enough <number>
  HAProxy uses some hints to detect that a short read indicates the end of the
  socket buffers. One of them is that a read returns more than <recv_enough>
  bytes, which defaults to 10136 (7 segments of 1448 each). This default value
  may be changed by this setting to better deal with workloads involving lots
  of short messages such as telnet or SSH sessions.

tune.runqueue-depth <number>
  Sets the maximum amount of task that can be processed at once when running
  tasks. The default value is 200. Increasing it may incur latency when
  dealing with I/Os, making it too small can incur extra overhead. When
  experimenting with much larger values, it may be useful to also enable
  tune.sched.low-latency to limit the maximum latency to the lowest possible.

tune.sched.low-latency { on | off }
  Enables ('on') or disables ('off') the low-latency task scheduler. By default
  haproxy processes tasks from several classes one class at a time as this is
  the most efficient. But when running with large values of tune.runqueue-depth
  this can have a measurable effect on request or connection latency. When this
  low-latency setting is enabled, tasks of lower priority classes will always
  be executed before other ones if they exist. This will permit to lower the
  maximum latency experienced by new requests or connections in the middle of
  massive traffic, at the expense of a higher impact on this large traffic.
  For regular usage it is better to leave this off. The default value is off.

tune.sndbuf.client <number>
tune.sndbuf.server <number>
  Forces the kernel socket send buffer size on the client or the server side to
  the specified value in bytes. This value applies to all TCP/HTTP frontends
  and backends. It should normally never be set, and the default size (0) lets
  the kernel auto-tune this value depending on the amount of available memory.
  However it can sometimes help to set it to very low values (e.g. 4096) in
  order to save kernel memory by preventing it from buffering too large amounts
  of received data. Lower values will significantly increase CPU usage though.
  Another use case is to prevent write timeouts with extremely slow clients due
  to the kernel waiting for a large part of the buffer to be read before
  notifying haproxy again.

tune.ssl.cachesize <number>
  Sets the size of the global SSL session cache, in a number of blocks. A block
  is large enough to contain an encoded session without peer certificate.
  An encoded session with peer certificate is stored in multiple blocks
  depending on the size of the peer certificate. A block uses approximately
  200 bytes of memory. The default value may be forced at build time, otherwise
  defaults to 20000. When the cache is full, the most idle entries are purged
  and reassigned. Higher values reduce the occurrence of such a purge, hence
  the number of CPU-intensive SSL handshakes by ensuring that all users keep
  their session as long as possible. All entries are pre-allocated upon startup
  and are shared between all processes if "nbproc" is greater than 1. Setting
  this value to 0 disables the SSL session cache.

tune.ssl.force-private-cache
  This option disables SSL session cache sharing between all processes. It
  should normally not be used since it will force many renegotiations due to
  clients hitting a random process. But it may be required on some operating
  systems where none of the SSL cache synchronization method may be used. In
  this case, adding a first layer of hash-based load balancing before the SSL
  layer might limit the impact of the lack of session sharing.

tune.ssl.keylog { on | off }
  This option activates the logging of the TLS keys. It should be used with
  care as it will consume more memory per SSL session and could decrease
  performances. This is disabled by default.

  These sample fetches should be used to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE that is
  required to decipher traffic with wireshark.

  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Key_Log_Format

  The SSLKEYLOG is a series of lines which are formatted this way:

    <Label> <space> <ClientRandom> <space> <Secret>

  The ClientRandom is provided by the %[ssl_fc_client_random,hex] sample
  fetch, the secret and the Label could be find in the array below. You need
  to generate a SSLKEYLOGFILE with all the labels in this array.

  The following sample fetches are hexadecimal strings and does not need to be
  converted.

  SSLKEYLOGFILE Label             |  Sample fetches for the Secrets
  --------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
  CLIENT_EARLY_TRAFFIC_SECRET     |  %[ssl_fc_client_early_traffic_secret]
  CLIENT_HANDSHAKE_TRAFFIC_SECRET |  %[ssl_fc_client_handshake_traffic_secret]
  SERVER_HANDSHAKE_TRAFFIC_SECRET |  %[ssl_fc_server_handshake_traffic_secret]
  CLIENT_TRAFFIC_SECRET_0         |  %[ssl_fc_client_traffic_secret_0]
  SERVER_TRAFFIC_SECRET_0         |  %[ssl_fc_server_traffic_secret_0]
  EXPORTER_SECRET                 |  %[ssl_fc_exporter_secret]
  EARLY_EXPORTER_SECRET           |  %[ssl_fc_early_exporter_secret]

  This is only available with OpenSSL 1.1.1, and useful with TLS1.3 session.

  If you want to generate the content of a SSLKEYLOGFILE with TLS < 1.3, you
  only need this line:

  "CLIENT_RANDOM %[ssl_fc_client_random,hex] %[ssl_fc_session_key,hex]"

tune.ssl.lifetime <timeout>
  Sets how long a cached SSL session may remain valid. This time is expressed
  in seconds and defaults to 300 (5 min). It is important to understand that it
  does not guarantee that sessions will last that long, because if the cache is
  full, the longest idle sessions will be purged despite their configured
  lifetime. The real usefulness of this setting is to prevent sessions from
  being used for too long.

tune.ssl.maxrecord <number>
  Sets the maximum amount of bytes passed to SSL_write() at a time. Default
  value 0 means there is no limit. Over SSL/TLS, the client can decipher the
  data only once it has received a full record. With large records, it means
  that clients might have to download up to 16kB of data before starting to
  process them. Limiting the value can improve page load times on browsers
  located over high latency or low bandwidth networks. It is suggested to find
  optimal values which fit into 1 or 2 TCP segments (generally 1448 bytes over
  Ethernet with TCP timestamps enabled, or 1460 when timestamps are disabled),
  keeping in mind that SSL/TLS add some overhead. Typical values of 1419 and
  2859 gave good results during tests. Use "strace -e trace=write" to find the
  best value. HAProxy will automatically switch to this setting after an idle
  stream has been detected (see tune.idletimer above).

tune.ssl.default-dh-param <number>
  Sets the maximum size of the Diffie-Hellman parameters used for generating
  the ephemeral/temporary Diffie-Hellman key in case of DHE key exchange. The
  final size will try to match the size of the server's RSA (or DSA) key (e.g,
  a 2048 bits temporary DH key for a 2048 bits RSA key), but will not exceed
  this maximum value. Default value if 2048. Only 1024 or higher values are
  allowed. Higher values will increase the CPU load, and values greater than
  1024 bits are not supported by Java 7 and earlier clients. This value is not
  used if static Diffie-Hellman parameters are supplied either directly
  in the certificate file or by using the ssl-dh-param-file parameter.

tune.ssl.ssl-ctx-cache-size <number>
  Sets the size of the cache used to store generated certificates to <number>
  entries. This is a LRU cache. Because generating a SSL certificate
  dynamically is expensive, they are cached. The default cache size is set to
  1000 entries.

tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size <number>
  Sets the maximum size of the buffer used for capturing client-hello cipher
  list. If the value is 0 (default value) the capture is disabled, otherwise
  a buffer is allocated for each SSL/TLS connection.

tune.vars.global-max-size <size>
tune.vars.proc-max-size <size>
tune.vars.reqres-max-size <size>
tune.vars.sess-max-size <size>
tune.vars.txn-max-size <size>
  These five tunes help to manage the maximum amount of memory used by the
  variables system. "global" limits the overall amount of memory available for
  all scopes. "proc" limits the memory for the process scope, "sess" limits the
  memory for the session scope, "txn" for the transaction scope, and "reqres"
  limits the memory for each request or response processing.
  Memory accounting is hierarchical, meaning more coarse grained limits include
  the finer grained ones: "proc" includes "sess", "sess" includes "txn", and
  "txn" includes "reqres".

  For example, when "tune.vars.sess-max-size" is limited to 100,
  "tune.vars.txn-max-size" and "tune.vars.reqres-max-size" cannot exceed
  100 either. If we create a variable "txn.var" that contains 100 bytes,
  all available space is consumed.
  Notice that exceeding the limits at runtime will not result in an error
  message, but values might be cut off or corrupted. So make sure to accurately
  plan for the amount of space needed to store all your variables.

tune.zlib.memlevel <number>
  Sets the memLevel parameter in zlib initialization for each session. It
  defines how much memory should be allocated for the internal compression
  state. A value of 1 uses minimum memory but is slow and reduces compression
  ratio, a value of 9 uses maximum memory for optimal speed. Can be a value
  between 1 and 9. The default value is 8.

tune.zlib.windowsize <number>
  Sets the window size (the size of the history buffer) as a parameter of the
  zlib initialization for each session. Larger values of this parameter result
  in better compression at the expense of memory usage. Can be a value between
  8 and 15. The default value is 15.

3.3. Debugging
--------------

quiet
  Do not display any message during startup. It is equivalent to the command-
  line argument "-q".

zero-warning
  When this option is set, haproxy will refuse to start if any warning was
  emitted while processing the configuration. It is highly recommended to set
  this option on configurations that are not changed often, as it helps detect
  subtle mistakes and keep the configuration clean and forward-compatible. Note
  that "haproxy -c" will also report errors in such a case. This option is
  equivalent to command line argument "-dW".


3.4. Userlists
--------------
It is possible to control access to frontend/backend/listen sections or to
http stats by allowing only authenticated and authorized users. To do this,
it is required to create at least one userlist and to define users.

userlist <listname>
  Creates new userlist with name <listname>. Many independent userlists can be
  used to store authentication & authorization data for independent customers.

group <groupname> [users <user>,<user>,(...)]
  Adds group <groupname> to the current userlist. It is also possible to
  attach users to this group by using a comma separated list of names
  proceeded by "users" keyword.

user <username> [password|insecure-password <password>]
                [groups <group>,<group>,(...)]
  Adds user <username> to the current userlist. Both secure (encrypted) and
  insecure (unencrypted) passwords can be used. Encrypted passwords are
  evaluated using the crypt(3) function, so depending on the system's
  capabilities, different algorithms are supported. For example, modern Glibc
  based Linux systems support MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512, and, of course, the
  classic DES-based method of encrypting passwords.

  Attention: Be aware that using encrypted passwords might cause significantly
  increased CPU usage, depending on the number of requests, and the algorithm
  used. For any of the hashed variants, the password for each request must
  be processed through the chosen algorithm, before it can be compared to the
  value specified in the config file. Most current algorithms are deliberately
  designed to be expensive to compute to achieve resistance against brute
  force attacks. They do not simply salt/hash the clear text password once,
  but thousands of times. This can quickly become a major factor in haproxy's
  overall CPU consumption!

  Example:
        userlist L1
          group G1 users tiger,scott
          group G2 users xdb,scott

          user tiger password $6$k6y3o.eP$JlKBx9za9667qe4(...)xHSwRv6J.C0/D7cV91
          user scott insecure-password elgato
          user xdb insecure-password hello

        userlist L2
          group G1
          group G2

          user tiger password $6$k6y3o.eP$JlKBx(...)xHSwRv6J.C0/D7cV91 groups G1
          user scott insecure-password elgato groups G1,G2
          user xdb insecure-password hello groups G2

  Please note that both lists are functionally identical.


3.5. Peers
----------
It is possible to propagate entries of any data-types in stick-tables between
several haproxy instances over TCP connections in a multi-master fashion. Each
instance pushes its local updates and insertions to remote peers. The pushed
values overwrite remote ones without aggregation. Interrupted exchanges are
automatically detected and recovered from the last known point.
In addition, during a soft restart, the old process connects to the new one
using such a TCP connection to push all its entries before the new process
tries to connect to other peers. That ensures very fast replication during a
reload, it typically takes a fraction of a second even for large tables.
Note that Server IDs are used to identify servers remotely, so it is important
that configurations look similar or at least that the same IDs are forced on
each server on all participants.

peers <peersect>
  Creates a new peer list with name <peersect>. It is an independent section,
  which is referenced by one or more stick-tables.

bind [<address>]:<port_range> [, ...] [param*]
  Defines the binding parameters of the local peer of this "peers" section.
  Such lines are not supported with "peer" line in the same "peers" section.

disabled
  Disables a peers section. It disables both listening and any synchronization
  related to this section. This is provided to disable synchronization of stick
  tables without having to comment out all "peers" references.

default-bind [param*]
  Defines the binding parameters for the local peer, excepted its address.

default-server [param*]
  Change default options for a server in a "peers" section.

  Arguments:
    <param*>  is a list of parameters for this server. The "default-server"
              keyword accepts an important number of options and has a complete
              section dedicated to it. Please refer to section 5 for more
              details.


  See also: "server" and section 5 about server options

enable
  This re-enables a disabled peers section which was previously disabled.

log <address> [len <length>] [format <format>] [sample <ranges>:<sample_size>]
    <facility> [<level> [<minlevel>]]
  "peers" sections support the same "log" keyword as for the proxies to
  log information about the "peers" listener. See "log" option for proxies for
  more details.

peer <peername> <ip>:<port> [param*]
  Defines a peer inside a peers section.
  If <peername> is set to the local peer name (by default hostname, or forced
  using "-L" command line option or "localpeer" global configuration setting),
  haproxy will listen for incoming remote peer connection on <ip>:<port>.
  Otherwise, <ip>:<port> defines where to connect to in order to join the
  remote peer, and <peername> is used at the protocol level to identify and
  validate the remote peer on the server side.

  During a soft restart, local peer <ip>:<port> is used by the old instance to
  connect the new one and initiate a complete replication (teaching process).

  It is strongly recommended to have the exact same peers declaration on all
  peers and to only rely on the "-L" command line argument or the "localpeer"
  global configuration setting to change the local peer name. This makes it
  easier to maintain coherent configuration files across all peers.

  You may want to reference some environment variables in the address
  parameter, see section 2.3 about environment variables.

  Note: "peer" keyword may transparently be replaced by "server" keyword (see
  "server" keyword explanation below).

server <peername> [<ip>:<port>] [param*]
  As previously mentioned, "peer" keyword may be replaced by "server" keyword
  with a support for all "server" parameters found in 5.2 paragraph.
  If the underlying peer is local, <ip>:<port> parameters must not be present.
  These parameters must  be provided on a "bind" line (see "bind" keyword
  of this "peers" section).
  Some of these parameters are irrelevant for "peers" sections.


  Example:
    # The old way.
    peers mypeers
        peer haproxy1 192.168.0.1:1024
        peer haproxy2 192.168.0.2:1024
        peer haproxy3 10.2.0.1:1024

    backend mybackend
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        stick-table type ip size 20k peers mypeers
        stick on src

        server srv1 192.168.0.30:80
        server srv2 192.168.0.31:80

   Example:
     peers mypeers
         bind 127.0.0.11:10001 ssl crt mycerts/pem
         default-server ssl verify none
         server hostA  127.0.0.10:10000
         server hostB  #local peer


table <tablename> type {ip | integer | string [len <length>] | binary [len <length>]}
      size <size> [expire <expire>] [nopurge] [store <data_type>]*

  Configure a stickiness table for the current section. This line is parsed
  exactly the same way as the "stick-table" keyword in others section, except
  for the "peers" argument which is not required here and with an additional
  mandatory first parameter to designate the stick-table. Contrary to others
  sections, there may be several "table" lines in "peers" sections (see also
  "stick-table" keyword).

  Also be aware of the fact that "peers" sections have their own stick-table
  namespaces to avoid collisions between stick-table names identical in
  different "peers" section. This is internally handled prepending the "peers"
  sections names to the name of the stick-tables followed by a '/' character.
  If somewhere else in the configuration file you have to refer to such
  stick-tables declared in "peers" sections you must use the prefixed version
  of the stick-table name as follows:

      peers mypeers
          peer A ...
          peer B ...
          table t1 ...

      frontend fe1
          tcp-request content track-sc0 src table mypeers/t1

  This is also this prefixed version of the stick-table names which must be
  used to refer to stick-tables through the CLI.

  About "peers" protocol, as only "peers" belonging to the same section may
  communicate with each others, there is no need to do such a distinction.
  Several "peers" sections may declare stick-tables with the same name.
  This is shorter version of the stick-table name  which is sent over the network.
  There is only a '/' character as prefix to avoid stick-table name collisions between
  stick-tables declared as backends and stick-table declared in "peers" sections
  as follows in this weird but supported configuration:

      peers mypeers
          peer A ...
          peer B ...
          table t1 type string size 10m store gpc0

      backend t1
          stick-table type string size 10m store gpc0 peers mypeers

  Here "t1" table declared in "mypeers" section has "mypeers/t1" as global name.
  "t1" table declared as a backend as "t1" as global name. But at peer protocol
  level the former table is named "/t1", the latter is again named "t1".

3.6. Mailers
------------
It is possible to send email alerts when the state of servers changes.
If configured email alerts are sent to each mailer that is configured
in a mailers section. Email is sent to mailers using SMTP.

mailers <mailersect>
  Creates a new mailer list with the name <mailersect>. It is an
  independent section which is referenced by one or more proxies.

mailer <mailername> <ip>:<port>
  Defines a mailer inside a mailers section.

  Example:
    mailers mymailers
        mailer smtp1 192.168.0.1:587
        mailer smtp2 192.168.0.2:587

    backend mybackend
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin

        email-alert mailers mymailers
        email-alert from test1@horms.org
        email-alert to test2@horms.org

        server srv1 192.168.0.30:80
        server srv2 192.168.0.31:80

timeout mail <time>
  Defines the time available for a mail/connection to be made and send to
  the mail-server. If not defined the default value is 10 seconds. To allow
  for at least two SYN-ACK packets to be send during initial TCP handshake it
  is advised to keep this value above 4 seconds.

  Example:
    mailers mymailers
        timeout mail 20s
        mailer smtp1 192.168.0.1:587

3.7. Programs
-------------
In master-worker mode, it is possible to launch external binaries with the
master, these processes are called programs. These programs are launched and
managed the same way as the workers.

During a reload of HAProxy, those processes are dealing with the same
sequence as a worker:

  - the master is re-executed
  - the master sends a SIGUSR1 signal to the program
  - if "option start-on-reload" is not disabled, the master launches a new
    instance of the program

During a stop, or restart, a SIGTERM is sent to the programs.

program <name>
  This is a new program section, this section will create an instance <name>
  which is visible in "show proc" on the master CLI. (See "9.4. Master CLI" in
  the management guide).

command <command> [arguments*]
  Define the command to start with optional arguments. The command is looked
  up in the current PATH if it does not include an absolute path. This is a
  mandatory option of the program section. Arguments containing spaces must
  be enclosed in quotes or double quotes or be prefixed by a backslash.

user <user name>
  Changes the executed command user ID to the <user name> from /etc/passwd.
  See also "group".

group <group name>
  Changes the executed command group ID to the <group name> from /etc/group.
  See also "user".

option start-on-reload
no option start-on-reload
  Start (or not) a new instance of the program upon a reload of the master.
  The default is to start a new instance. This option may only be used in a
  program section.


3.8. HTTP-errors
----------------

It is possible to globally declare several groups of HTTP errors, to be
imported afterwards in any proxy section. Same group may be referenced at
several places and can be fully or partially imported.

http-errors <name>
  Create a new http-errors group with the name <name>. It is an independent
  section that may be referenced by one or more proxies using its name.

errorfile <code> <file>
  Associate a file contents to an HTTP error code

  Arguments :
    <code>    is the HTTP status code. Currently, HAProxy is capable of
              generating codes 200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410,
              425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504.

    <file>    designates a file containing the full HTTP response. It is
              recommended to follow the common practice of appending ".http" to
              the filename so that people do not confuse the response with HTML
              error pages, and to use absolute paths, since files are read
              before any chroot is performed.

  Please referrers to "errorfile" keyword in section 4 for details.

  Example:
    http-errors website-1
        errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/site1/400.http
        errorfile 404 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/site1/404.http
        errorfile 408 /dev/null  # work around Chrome pre-connect bug

    http-errors website-2
        errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/site2/400.http
        errorfile 404 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/site2/404.http
        errorfile 408 /dev/null  # work around Chrome pre-connect bug

3.9. Rings
----------

It is possible to globally declare ring-buffers, to be used as target for log
servers or traces.

ring <ringname>
  Creates a new ring-buffer with name <ringname>.

description <text>
  The description is an optional description string of the ring. It will
  appear on CLI. By default, <name> is reused to fill this field.

format <format>
  Format used to store events into the ring buffer.

  Arguments:
    <format> is the log format used when generating syslog messages. It may be
             one of the following :

      iso     A message containing only the ISO date, followed by the text.
              The PID, process name and system name are omitted. This is
              designed to be used with a local log server.

      local   Analog to rfc3164 syslog message format except that hostname
              field is stripped. This is the default.
              Note: option "log-send-hostname" switches the default to
              rfc3164.

      raw     A message containing only the text. The level, PID, date, time,
              process name and system name are omitted. This is designed to be
              used in containers or during development, where the severity
              only depends on the file descriptor used (stdout/stderr). This
              is the default.

      rfc3164 The RFC3164 syslog message format.
              (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164)

      rfc5424 The RFC5424 syslog message format.
              (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424)

      short   A message containing only a level between angle brackets such as
              '<3>', followed by the text. The PID, date, time, process name
              and system name are omitted. This is designed to be used with a
              local log server. This format is compatible with what the systemd
              logger consumes.

     priority A message containing only a level plus syslog facility between angle
              brackets such as '<63>', followed by the text. The PID, date, time,
              process name and system name are omitted. This is designed to be used
              with a local log server.

      timed   A message containing only a level between angle brackets such as
              '<3>', followed by ISO date and by the text. The PID, process
              name and system name are omitted. This is designed to be
              used with a local log server.

maxlen <length>
  The maximum length of an event message stored into the ring,
  including formatted header. If an event message is longer than
  <length>, it will be truncated to this length.

server <name> <address> [param*]
  Used to configure a syslog tcp server to forward messages from ring buffer.
  This supports for all "server" parameters found in 5.2 paragraph. Some of
  these parameters are irrelevant for "ring" sections. Important point: there
  is little reason to add more than one server to a ring, because all servers
  will receive the exact same copy of the ring contents, and as such the ring
  will progress at the speed of the slowest server. If one server does not
  respond, it will prevent old messages from being purged and may block new
  messages from being inserted into the ring. The proper way to send messages
  to multiple servers is to use one distinct ring per log server, not to
  attach multiple servers to the same ring. Note that specific server directive
  "log-proto" is used to set the protocol used to send messages.

size <size>
  This is the optional size in bytes for the ring-buffer. Default value is
  set to BUFSIZE.

timeout connect <timeout>
  Set the maximum time to wait for a connection attempt to a server to succeed.

  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

timeout server <timeout>
  Set the maximum time for pending data staying into output buffer.

  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  Example:
    global
        log ring@myring local7

    ring myring
        description "My local buffer"
        format rfc3164
        maxlen 1200
        size 32764
        timeout connect 5s
        timeout server 10s
        server mysyslogsrv 127.0.0.1:6514 log-proto octet-count

3.10. Log forwarding
-------------------

It is possible to declare one or multiple log forwarding section,
haproxy will forward all received log messages to a log servers list.

log-forward <name>
  Creates a new log forwarder proxy identified as <name>.

backlog <conns>
  Give hints to the system about the approximate listen backlog desired size
  on connections accept.

bind <addr> [param*]
  Used to configure a stream log listener to receive messages to forward.
  This supports the "bind" parameters found in 5.1 paragraph including
  those about ssl but some statements such as "alpn" may be irrelevant for
  syslog protocol over TCP.
  Those listeners support both "Octet Counting" and "Non-Transparent-Framing"
  modes as defined in rfc-6587.

dgram-bind <addr> [param*]
  Used to configure a datagram log listener to receive messages to forward.
  Addresses must be in IPv4 or IPv6 form,followed by a port. This supports
  for some of the "bind" parameters found in 5.1 paragraph among which
  "interface", "namespace" or "transparent", the other ones being
  silently ignored as irrelevant for UDP/syslog case.

log global
log <address> [len <length>] [format <format>] [sample <ranges>:<sample_size>]
    <facility> [<level> [<minlevel>]]
  Used to configure target log servers. See more details on proxies
  documentation.
  If no format specified, haproxy tries to keep the incoming log format.
  Configured facility is ignored, except if incoming message does not
  present a facility but one is mandatory on the outgoing format.
  If there is no timestamp available in the input format, but the field
  exists in output format, haproxy will use the local date.

  Example:
    global
       log stderr format iso local7

    ring myring
        description "My local buffer"
        format rfc5424
        maxlen 1200
        size 32764
        timeout connect 5s
        timeout server 10s
        # syslog tcp server
        server mysyslogsrv 127.0.0.1:514 log-proto octet-count

    log-forward sylog-loadb
        dgram-bind 127.0.0.1:1514
        bind 127.0.0.1:1514
        # all messages on stderr
        log global
        # all messages on local tcp syslog server
        log ring@myring local0
        # load balance messages on 4 udp syslog servers
        log 127.0.0.1:10001 sample 1:4 local0
        log 127.0.0.1:10002 sample 2:4 local0
        log 127.0.0.1:10003 sample 3:4 local0
        log 127.0.0.1:10004 sample 4:4 local0

maxconn <conns>
  Fix the maximum number of concurrent connections on a log forwarder.
  10 is the default.

timeout client <timeout>
  Set the maximum inactivity time on the client side.

4. Proxies
----------

Proxy configuration can be located in a set of sections :
 - defaults [<name>]
 - frontend <name>
 - backend  <name>
 - listen   <name>

A "defaults" section sets default parameters for all other sections following
its declaration. Those default parameters are reset by the next "defaults"
section. See below for the list of parameters which can be set in a "defaults"
section. The name is optional but its use is encouraged for better readability.

A "frontend" section describes a set of listening sockets accepting client
connections.

A "backend" section describes a set of servers to which the proxy will connect
to forward incoming connections.

A "listen" section defines a complete proxy with its frontend and backend
parts combined in one section. It is generally useful for TCP-only traffic.

All proxy names must be formed from upper and lower case letters, digits,
'-' (dash), '_' (underscore) , '.' (dot) and ':' (colon). ACL names are
case-sensitive, which means that "www" and "WWW" are two different proxies.

Historically, all proxy names could overlap, it just caused troubles in the
logs. Since the introduction of content switching, it is mandatory that two
proxies with overlapping capabilities (frontend/backend) have different names.
However, it is still permitted that a frontend and a backend share the same
name, as this configuration seems to be commonly encountered.

Right now, two major proxy modes are supported : "tcp", also known as layer 4,
and "http", also known as layer 7. In layer 4 mode, HAProxy simply forwards
bidirectional traffic between two sides. In layer 7 mode, HAProxy analyzes the
protocol, and can interact with it by allowing, blocking, switching, adding,
modifying, or removing arbitrary contents in requests or responses, based on
arbitrary criteria.

In HTTP mode, the processing applied to requests and responses flowing over
a connection depends in the combination of the frontend's HTTP options and
the backend's. HAProxy supports 3 connection modes :

  - KAL : keep alive ("option http-keep-alive") which is the default mode : all
    requests and responses are processed, and connections remain open but idle
    between responses and new requests.

  - SCL: server close ("option http-server-close") : the server-facing
    connection is closed after the end of the response is received, but the
    client-facing connection remains open.

  - CLO: close ("option httpclose"): the connection is closed after the end of
    the response and "Connection: close" appended in both directions.

The effective mode that will be applied to a connection passing through a
frontend and a backend can be determined by both proxy modes according to the
following matrix, but in short, the modes are symmetric, keep-alive is the
weakest option and close is the strongest.

                   Backend mode

                | KAL | SCL | CLO
            ----+-----+-----+----
            KAL | KAL | SCL | CLO
            ----+-----+-----+----
   mode     SCL | SCL | SCL | CLO
            ----+-----+-----+----
            CLO | CLO | CLO | CLO



4.1. Proxy keywords matrix
--------------------------

The following list of keywords is supported. Most of them may only be used in a
limited set of section types. Some of them are marked as "deprecated" because
they are inherited from an old syntax which may be confusing or functionally
limited, and there are new recommended keywords to replace them. Keywords
marked with "(*)" can be optionally inverted using the "no" prefix, e.g. "no
option contstats". This makes sense when the option has been enabled by default
and must be disabled for a specific instance. Such options may also be prefixed
with "default" in order to restore default settings regardless of what has been
specified in a previous "defaults" section.


 keyword                              defaults   frontend   listen    backend
------------------------------------+----------+----------+---------+---------
acl                                       -          X         X         X
backlog                                   X          X         X         -
balance                                   X          -         X         X
bind                                      -          X         X         -
bind-process                              X          X         X         X
capture cookie                            -          X         X         -
capture request header                    -          X         X         -
capture response header                   -          X         X         -
clitcpka-cnt                              X          X         X         -
clitcpka-idle                             X          X         X         -
clitcpka-intvl                            X          X         X         -
compression                               X          X         X         X
cookie                                    X          -         X         X
declare capture                           -          X         X         -
default-server                            X          -         X         X
default_backend                           X          X         X         -
description                               -          X         X         X
disabled                                  X          X         X         X
dispatch                                  -          -         X         X
email-alert from                          X          X         X         X
email-alert level                         X          X         X         X
email-alert mailers                       X          X         X         X
email-alert myhostname                    X          X         X         X
email-alert to                            X          X         X         X
enabled                                   X          X         X         X
errorfile                                 X          X         X         X
errorfiles                                X          X         X         X
errorloc                                  X          X         X         X
errorloc302                               X          X         X         X
-- keyword -------------------------- defaults - frontend - listen -- backend -
errorloc303                               X          X         X         X
force-persist                             -          -         X         X
filter                                    -          X         X         X
fullconn                                  X          -         X         X
grace                                     X          X         X         X
hash-type                                 X          -         X         X
http-after-response                       -          X         X         X
http-check comment                        X          -         X         X
http-check connect                        X          -         X         X
http-check disable-on-404                 X          -         X         X
http-check expect                         X          -         X         X
http-check send                           X          -         X         X
http-check send-state                     X          -         X         X
http-check set-var                        X          -         X         X
http-check unset-var                      X          -         X         X
http-error                                X          X         X         X
http-request                              -          X         X         X
http-response                             -          X         X         X
http-reuse                                X          -         X         X
http-send-name-header                     -          -         X         X
id                                        -          X         X         X
ignore-persist                            -          -         X         X
load-server-state-from-file               X          -         X         X
log                                  (*)  X          X         X         X
log-format                                X          X         X         -
log-format-sd                             X          X         X         -
log-tag                                   X          X         X         X
max-keep-alive-queue                      X          -         X         X
maxconn                                   X          X         X         -
mode                                      X          X         X         X
monitor fail                              -          X         X         -
monitor-uri                               X          X         X         -
option abortonclose                  (*)  X          -         X         X
option accept-invalid-http-request   (*)  X          X         X         -
option accept-invalid-http-response  (*)  X          -         X         X
option allbackups                    (*)  X          -         X         X
option checkcache                    (*)  X          -         X         X
option clitcpka                      (*)  X          X         X         -
option contstats                     (*)  X          X         X         -
option disable-h2-upgrade            (*)  X          X         X         -
option dontlog-normal                (*)  X          X         X         -
option dontlognull                   (*)  X          X         X         -
-- keyword -------------------------- defaults - frontend - listen -- backend -
option forwardfor                         X          X         X         X
option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client   (*)  X          X         X         -
option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server   (*)  X          -         X         X
option http-buffer-request           (*)  X          X         X         X
option http-ignore-probes            (*)  X          X         X         -
option http-keep-alive               (*)  X          X         X         X
option http-no-delay                 (*)  X          X         X         X
option http-pretend-keepalive        (*)  X          -         X         X
option http-server-close             (*)  X          X         X         X
option http-use-proxy-header         (*)  X          X         X         -
option httpchk                            X          -         X         X
option httpclose                     (*)  X          X         X         X
option httplog                            X          X         X         -
option http_proxy                    (*)  X          X         X         X
option independent-streams           (*)  X          X         X         X
option ldap-check                         X          -         X         X
option external-check                     X          -         X         X
option log-health-checks             (*)  X          -         X         X
option log-separate-errors           (*)  X          X         X         -
option logasap                       (*)  X          X         X         -
option mysql-check                        X          -         X         X
option nolinger                      (*)  X          X         X         X
option originalto                         X          X         X         X
option persist                       (*)  X          -         X         X
option pgsql-check                        X          -         X         X
option prefer-last-server            (*)  X          -         X         X
option redispatch                    (*)  X          -         X         X
option redis-check                        X          -         X         X
option smtpchk                            X          -         X         X
option socket-stats                  (*)  X          X         X         -
option splice-auto                   (*)  X          X         X         X
option splice-request                (*)  X          X         X         X
option splice-response               (*)  X          X         X         X
option spop-check                         -          -         -         X
option srvtcpka                      (*)  X          -         X         X
option ssl-hello-chk                      X          -         X         X
-- keyword -------------------------- defaults - frontend - listen -- backend -
option tcp-check                          X          -         X         X
option tcp-smart-accept              (*)  X          X         X         -
option tcp-smart-connect             (*)  X          -         X         X
option tcpka                              X          X         X         X
option tcplog                             X          X         X         X
option transparent                   (*)  X          -         X         X
external-check command                    X          -         X         X
external-check path                       X          -         X         X
persist rdp-cookie                        X          -         X         X
rate-limit sessions                       X          X         X         -
redirect                                  -          X         X         X
-- keyword -------------------------- defaults - frontend - listen -- backend -
retries                                   X          -         X         X
retry-on                                  X          -         X         X
server                                    -          -         X         X
server-state-file-name                    X          -         X         X
server-template                           -          -         X         X
source                                    X          -         X         X
srvtcpka-cnt                              X          -         X         X
srvtcpka-idle                             X          -         X         X
srvtcpka-intvl                            X          -         X         X
stats admin                               -          X         X         X
stats auth                                X          X         X         X
stats enable                              X          X         X         X
stats hide-version                        X          X         X         X
stats http-request                        -          X         X         X
stats realm                               X          X         X         X
stats refresh                             X          X         X         X
stats scope                               X          X         X         X
stats show-desc                           X          X         X         X
stats show-legends                        X          X         X         X
stats show-node                           X          X         X         X
stats uri                                 X          X         X         X
-- keyword -------------------------- defaults - frontend - listen -- backend -
stick match                               -          -         X         X
stick on                                  -          -         X         X
stick store-request                       -          -         X         X
stick store-response                      -          -         X         X
stick-table                               -          X         X         X
tcp-check comment                         X          -         X         X
tcp-check connect                         X          -         X         X
tcp-check expect                          X          -         X         X
tcp-check send                            X          -         X         X
tcp-check send-lf                         X          -         X         X
tcp-check send-binary                     X          -         X         X
tcp-check send-binary-lf                  X          -         X         X
tcp-check set-var                         X          -         X         X
tcp-check unset-var                       X          -         X         X
tcp-request connection                    -          X         X         -
tcp-request content                       -          X         X         X
tcp-request inspect-delay                 -          X         X         X
tcp-request session                       -          X         X         -
tcp-response content                      -          -         X         X
tcp-response inspect-delay                -          -         X         X
timeout check                             X          -         X         X
timeout client                            X          X         X         -
timeout client-fin                        X          X         X         -
timeout connect                           X          -         X         X
timeout http-keep-alive                   X          X         X         X
timeout http-request                      X          X         X         X
timeout queue                             X          -         X         X
timeout server                            X          -         X         X
timeout server-fin                        X          -         X         X
timeout tarpit                            X          X         X         X
timeout tunnel                            X          -         X         X
transparent                 (deprecated)  X          -         X         X
unique-id-format                          X          X         X         -
unique-id-header                          X          X         X         -
use_backend                               -          X         X         -
use-fcgi-app                              -          -         X         X
use-server                                -          -         X         X
------------------------------------+----------+----------+---------+---------
 keyword                              defaults   frontend   listen    backend


4.2. Alphabetically sorted keywords reference
---------------------------------------------

This section provides a description of each keyword and its usage.


acl <aclname> <criterion> [flags] [operator] <value> ...
  Declare or complete an access list.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Example:
        acl invalid_src  src          0.0.0.0/7 224.0.0.0/3
        acl invalid_src  src_port     0:1023
        acl local_dst    hdr(host) -i localhost

  See section 7 about ACL usage.


backlog <conns>
  Give hints to the system about the approximate listen backlog desired size
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <conns>   is the number of pending connections. Depending on the operating
              system, it may represent the number of already acknowledged
              connections, of non-acknowledged ones, or both.

  In order to protect against SYN flood attacks, one solution is to increase
  the system's SYN backlog size. Depending on the system, sometimes it is just
  tunable via a system parameter, sometimes it is not adjustable at all, and
  sometimes the system relies on hints given by the application at the time of
  the listen() syscall. By default, HAProxy passes the frontend's maxconn value
  to the listen() syscall. On systems which can make use of this value, it can
  sometimes be useful to be able to specify a different value, hence this
  backlog parameter.

  On Linux 2.4, the parameter is ignored by the system. On Linux 2.6, it is
  used as a hint and the system accepts up to the smallest greater power of
  two, and never more than some limits (usually 32768).

  See also : "maxconn" and the target operating system's tuning guide.


balance <algorithm> [ <arguments> ]
balance url_param <param> [check_post]
  Define the load balancing algorithm to be used in a backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <algorithm> is the algorithm used to select a server when doing load
                balancing. This only applies when no persistence information
                is available, or when a connection is redispatched to another
                server. <algorithm> may be one of the following :

      roundrobin  Each server is used in turns, according to their weights.
                  This is the smoothest and fairest algorithm when the server's
                  processing time remains equally distributed. This algorithm
                  is dynamic, which means that server weights may be adjusted
                  on the fly for slow starts for instance. It is limited by
                  design to 4095 active servers per backend. Note that in some
                  large farms, when a server becomes up after having been down
                  for a very short time, it may sometimes take a few hundreds
                  requests for it to be re-integrated into the farm and start
                  receiving traffic. This is normal, though very rare. It is
                  indicated here in case you would have the chance to observe
                  it, so that you don't worry.

      static-rr   Each server is used in turns, according to their weights.
                  This algorithm is as similar to roundrobin except that it is
                  static, which means that changing a server's weight on the
                  fly will have no effect. On the other hand, it has no design
                  limitation on the number of servers, and when a server goes
                  up, it is always immediately reintroduced into the farm, once
                  the full map is recomputed. It also uses slightly less CPU to
                  run (around -1%).

      leastconn   The server with the lowest number of connections receives the
                  connection. Round-robin is performed within groups of servers
                  of the same load to ensure that all servers will be used. Use
                  of this algorithm is recommended where very long sessions are
                  expected, such as LDAP, SQL, TSE, etc... but is not very well
                  suited for protocols using short sessions such as HTTP. This
                  algorithm is dynamic, which means that server weights may be
                  adjusted on the fly for slow starts for instance. It will
                  also consider the number of queued connections in addition to
                  the established ones in order to minimize queuing.

      first       The first server with available connection slots receives the
                  connection. The servers are chosen from the lowest numeric
                  identifier to the highest (see server parameter "id"), which
                  defaults to the server's position in the farm. Once a server
                  reaches its maxconn value, the next server is used. It does
                  not make sense to use this algorithm without setting maxconn.
                  The purpose of this algorithm is to always use the smallest
                  number of servers so that extra servers can be powered off
                  during non-intensive hours. This algorithm ignores the server
                  weight, and brings more benefit to long session such as RDP
                  or IMAP than HTTP, though it can be useful there too. In
                  order to use this algorithm efficiently, it is recommended
                  that a cloud controller regularly checks server usage to turn
                  them off when unused, and regularly checks backend queue to
                  turn new servers on when the queue inflates. Alternatively,
                  using "http-check send-state" may inform servers on the load.

      source      The source IP address is hashed and divided by the total
                  weight of the running servers to designate which server will
                  receive the request. This ensures that the same client IP
                  address will always reach the same server as long as no
                  server goes down or up. If the hash result changes due to the
                  number of running servers changing, many clients will be
                  directed to a different server. This algorithm is generally
                  used in TCP mode where no cookie may be inserted. It may also
                  be used on the Internet to provide a best-effort stickiness
                  to clients which refuse session cookies. This algorithm is
                  static by default, which means that changing a server's
                  weight on the fly will have no effect, but this can be
                  changed using "hash-type".

      uri         This algorithm hashes either the left part of the URI (before
                  the question mark) or the whole URI (if the "whole" parameter
                  is present) and divides the hash value by the total weight of
                  the running servers. The result designates which server will
                  receive the request. This ensures that the same URI will
                  always be directed to the same server as long as no server
                  goes up or down. This is used with proxy caches and
                  anti-virus proxies in order to maximize the cache hit rate.
                  Note that this algorithm may only be used in an HTTP backend.
                  This algorithm is static by default, which means that
                  changing a server's weight on the fly will have no effect,
                  but this can be changed using "hash-type".

                  This algorithm supports two optional parameters "len" and
                  "depth", both followed by a positive integer number. These
                  options may be helpful when it is needed to balance servers
                  based on the beginning of the URI only. The "len" parameter
                  indicates that the algorithm should only consider that many
                  characters at the beginning of the URI to compute the hash.
                  Note that having "len" set to 1 rarely makes sense since most
                  URIs start with a leading "/".

                  The "depth" parameter indicates the maximum directory depth
                  to be used to compute the hash. One level is counted for each
                  slash in the request. If both parameters are specified, the
                  evaluation stops when either is reached.

                  A "path-only" parameter indicates that the hashing key starts
                  at the first '/' of the path. This can be used to ignore the
                  authority part of absolute URIs, and to make sure that HTTP/1
                  and HTTP/2 URIs will provide the same hash.

      url_param   The URL parameter specified in argument will be looked up in
                  the query string of each HTTP GET request.

                  If the modifier "check_post" is used, then an HTTP POST
                  request entity will be searched for the parameter argument,
                  when it is not found in a query string after a question mark
                  ('?') in the URL. The message body will only start to be
                  analyzed once either the advertised amount of data has been
                  received or the request buffer is full. In the unlikely event
                  that chunked encoding is used, only the first chunk is
                  scanned. Parameter values separated by a chunk boundary, may
                  be randomly balanced if at all. This keyword used to support
                  an optional <max_wait> parameter which is now ignored.

                  If the parameter is found followed by an equal sign ('=') and
                  a value, then the value is hashed and divided by the total
                  weight of the running servers. The result designates which
                  server will receive the request.

                  This is used to track user identifiers in requests and ensure
                  that a same user ID will always be sent to the same server as
                  long as no server goes up or down. If no value is found or if
                  the parameter is not found, then a round robin algorithm is
                  applied. Note that this algorithm may only be used in an HTTP
                  backend. This algorithm is static by default, which means
                  that changing a server's weight on the fly will have no
                  effect, but this can be changed using "hash-type".

      hdr(<name>) The HTTP header <name> will be looked up in each HTTP
                  request. Just as with the equivalent ACL 'hdr()' function,
                  the header name in parenthesis is not case sensitive. If the
                  header is absent or if it does not contain any value, the
                  roundrobin algorithm is applied instead.

                  An optional 'use_domain_only' parameter is available, for
                  reducing the hash algorithm to the main domain part with some
                  specific headers such as 'Host'. For instance, in the Host
                  value "haproxy.1wt.eu", only "1wt" will be considered.

                  This algorithm is static by default, which means that
                  changing a server's weight on the fly will have no effect,
                  but this can be changed using "hash-type".

      random
      random(<draws>)
                  A random number will be used as the key for the consistent
                  hashing function. This means that the servers' weights are
                  respected, dynamic weight changes immediately take effect, as
                  well as new server additions. Random load balancing can be
                  useful with large farms or when servers are frequently added
                  or removed as it may avoid the hammering effect that could
                  result from roundrobin or leastconn in this situation. The
                  hash-balance-factor directive can be used to further improve
                  fairness of the load balancing, especially in situations
                  where servers show highly variable response times. When an
                  argument <draws> is present, it must be an integer value one
                  or greater, indicating the number of draws before selecting
                  the least loaded of these servers. It was indeed demonstrated
                  that picking the least loaded of two servers is enough to
                  significantly improve the fairness of the algorithm, by
                  always avoiding to pick the most loaded server within a farm
                  and getting rid of any bias that could be induced by the
                  unfair distribution of the consistent list. Higher values N
                  will take away N-1 of the highest loaded servers at the
                  expense of performance. With very high values, the algorithm
                  will converge towards the leastconn's result but much slower.
                  The default value is 2, which generally shows very good
                  distribution and performance. This algorithm is also known as
                  the Power of Two Random Choices and is described here :
                  http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/handbook2001.pdf

      rdp-cookie
      rdp-cookie(<name>)
                  The RDP cookie <name> (or "mstshash" if omitted) will be
                  looked up and hashed for each incoming TCP request. Just as
                  with the equivalent ACL 'req_rdp_cookie()' function, the name
                  is not case-sensitive. This mechanism is useful as a degraded
                  persistence mode, as it makes it possible to always send the
                  same user (or the same session ID) to the same server. If the
                  cookie is not found, the normal roundrobin algorithm is
                  used instead.

                  Note that for this to work, the frontend must ensure that an
                  RDP cookie is already present in the request buffer. For this
                  you must use 'tcp-request content accept' rule combined with
                  a 'req_rdp_cookie_cnt' ACL.

                  This algorithm is static by default, which means that
                  changing a server's weight on the fly will have no effect,
                  but this can be changed using "hash-type".

                  See also the rdp_cookie pattern fetch function.

    <arguments> is an optional list of arguments which may be needed by some
                algorithms. Right now, only "url_param" and "uri" support an
                optional argument.

  The load balancing algorithm of a backend is set to roundrobin when no other
  algorithm, mode nor option have been set. The algorithm may only be set once
  for each backend.

  With authentication schemes that require the same connection like NTLM, URI
  based algorithms must not be used, as they would cause subsequent requests
  to be routed to different backend servers, breaking the invalid assumptions
  NTLM relies on.

  Examples :
        balance roundrobin
        balance url_param userid
        balance url_param session_id check_post 64
        balance hdr(User-Agent)
        balance hdr(host)
        balance hdr(Host) use_domain_only

  Note: the following caveats and limitations on using the "check_post"
  extension with "url_param" must be considered :

    - all POST requests are eligible for consideration, because there is no way
      to determine if the parameters will be found in the body or entity which
      may contain binary data. Therefore another method may be required to
      restrict consideration of POST requests that have no URL parameters in
      the body. (see acl http_end)

    - using a <max_wait> value larger than the request buffer size does not
      make sense and is useless. The buffer size is set at build time, and
      defaults to 16 kB.

    - Content-Encoding is not supported, the parameter search will probably
      fail; and load balancing will fall back to Round Robin.

    - Expect: 100-continue is not supported, load balancing will fall back to
      Round Robin.

    - Transfer-Encoding (RFC7230 3.3.1) is only supported in the first chunk.
      If the entire parameter value is not present in the first chunk, the
      selection of server is undefined (actually, defined by how little
      actually appeared in the first chunk).

    - This feature does not support generation of a 100, 411 or 501 response.

    - In some cases, requesting "check_post" MAY attempt to scan the entire
      contents of a message body. Scanning normally terminates when linear
      white space or control characters are found, indicating the end of what
      might be a URL parameter list. This is probably not a concern with SGML
      type message bodies.

  See also : "dispatch", "cookie", "transparent", "hash-type" and "http_proxy".


bind [<address>]:<port_range> [, ...] [param*]
bind /<path> [, ...] [param*]
  Define one or several listening addresses and/or ports in a frontend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <address>     is optional and can be a host name, an IPv4 address, an IPv6
                  address, or '*'. It designates the address the frontend will
                  listen on. If unset, all IPv4 addresses of the system will be
                  listened on. The same will apply for '*' or the system's
                  special address "0.0.0.0". The IPv6 equivalent is '::'.
                  Optionally, an address family prefix may be used before the
                  address to force the family regardless of the address format,
                  which can be useful to specify a path to a unix socket with
                  no slash ('/'). Currently supported prefixes are :
                    - 'ipv4@'  -> address is always IPv4
                    - 'ipv6@'  -> address is always IPv6
                    - 'udp@'   -> address is resolved as IPv4 or IPv6 and
                      protocol UDP is used. Currently those listeners are
                      supported only in log-forward sections.
                    - 'udp4@'  -> address is always IPv4 and protocol UDP
                      is used. Currently those listeners are supported
                      only in log-forward sections.
                    - 'udp6@'  -> address is always IPv6 and protocol UDP
                      is used. Currently those listeners are supported
                      only in log-forward sections.
                    - 'unix@'  -> address is a path to a local unix socket
                    - 'abns@'  -> address is in abstract namespace (Linux only).
                      Note: since abstract sockets are not "rebindable", they
                            do not cope well with multi-process mode during
                            soft-restart, so it is better to avoid them if
                            nbproc is greater than 1. The effect is that if the
                            new process fails to start, only one of the old ones
                            will be able to rebind to the socket.
                    - 'fd@<n>' -> use file descriptor <n> inherited from the
                      parent. The fd must be bound and may or may not already
                      be listening.
                    - 'sockpair@<n>'-> like fd@ but you must use the fd of a
                      connected unix socket or of a socketpair. The bind waits
                      to receive a FD over the unix socket and uses it as if it
                      was the FD of an accept(). Should be used carefully.
                  You may want to reference some environment variables in the
                  address parameter, see section 2.3 about environment
                  variables.

    <port_range>  is either a unique TCP port, or a port range for which the
                  proxy will accept connections for the IP address specified
                  above. The port is mandatory for TCP listeners. Note that in
                  the case of an IPv6 address, the port is always the number
                  after the last colon (':'). A range can either be :
                   - a numerical port (ex: '80')
                   - a dash-delimited ports range explicitly stating the lower
                     and upper bounds (ex: '2000-2100') which are included in
                     the range.

                  Particular care must be taken against port ranges, because
                  every <address:port> couple consumes one socket (= a file
                  descriptor), so it's easy to consume lots of descriptors
                  with a simple range, and to run out of sockets. Also, each
                  <address:port> couple must be used only once among all
                  instances running on a same system. Please note that binding
                  to ports lower than 1024 generally require particular
                  privileges to start the program, which are independent of
                  the 'uid' parameter.

    <path>        is a UNIX socket path beginning with a slash ('/'). This is
                  alternative to the TCP listening port. HAProxy will then
                  receive UNIX connections on the socket located at this place.
                  The path must begin with a slash and by default is absolute.
                  It can be relative to the prefix defined by "unix-bind" in
                  the global section. Note that the total length of the prefix
                  followed by the socket path cannot exceed some system limits
                  for UNIX sockets, which commonly are set to 107 characters.

    <param*>      is a list of parameters common to all sockets declared on the
                  same line. These numerous parameters depend on OS and build
                  options and have a complete section dedicated to them. Please
                  refer to section 5 to for more details.

  It is possible to specify a list of address:port combinations delimited by
  commas. The frontend will then listen on all of these addresses. There is no
  fixed limit to the number of addresses and ports which can be listened on in
  a frontend, as well as there is no limit to the number of "bind" statements
  in a frontend.

  Example :
        listen http_proxy
            bind :80,:443
            bind 10.0.0.1:10080,10.0.0.1:10443
            bind /var/run/ssl-frontend.sock user root mode 600 accept-proxy

        listen http_https_proxy
            bind :80
            bind :443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy/site.pem

        listen http_https_proxy_explicit
            bind ipv6@:80
            bind ipv4@public_ssl:443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy/site.pem
            bind unix@ssl-frontend.sock user root mode 600 accept-proxy

        listen external_bind_app1
            bind "fd@${FD_APP1}"

  Note: regarding Linux's abstract namespace sockets, HAProxy uses the whole
        sun_path length is used for the address length. Some other programs
        such as socat use the string length only by default. Pass the option
        ",unix-tightsocklen=0" to any abstract socket definition in socat to
        make it compatible with HAProxy's.

  See also : "source", "option forwardfor", "unix-bind" and the PROXY protocol
             documentation, and section 5 about bind options.


bind-process [ all | odd | even | <process_num>[-[<process_num>]] ] ...
  Limit visibility of an instance to a certain set of processes numbers.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    all           All process will see this instance. This is the default. It
                  may be used to override a default value.

    odd           This instance will be enabled on processes 1,3,5,...63. This
                  option may be combined with other numbers.

    even          This instance will be enabled on processes 2,4,6,...64. This
                  option may be combined with other numbers. Do not use it
                  with less than 2 processes otherwise some instances might be
                  missing from all processes.

    process_num   The instance will be enabled on this process number or range,
                  whose values must all be between 1 and 32 or 64 depending on
                  the machine's word size. Ranges can be partially defined. The
                  higher bound can be omitted. In such case, it is replaced by
                  the corresponding maximum value. If a proxy is bound to
                  process numbers greater than the configured global.nbproc, it
                  will either be forced to process #1 if a single process was
                  specified, or to all processes otherwise.

  This keyword limits binding of certain instances to certain processes. This
  is useful in order not to have too many processes listening to the same
  ports. For instance, on a dual-core machine, it might make sense to set
  'nbproc 2' in the global section, then distributes the listeners among 'odd'
  and 'even' instances.

  At the moment, it is not possible to reference more than 32 or 64 processes
  using this keyword, but this should be more than enough for most setups.
  Please note that 'all' really means all processes regardless of the machine's
  word size, and is not limited to the first 32 or 64.

  Each "bind" line may further be limited to a subset of the proxy's processes,
  please consult the "process" bind keyword in section 5.1.

  When a frontend has no explicit "bind-process" line, it tries to bind to all
  the processes referenced by its "bind" lines. That means that frontends can
  easily adapt to their listeners' processes.

  If some backends are referenced by frontends bound to other processes, the
  backend automatically inherits the frontend's processes.

  Example :
        listen app_ip1
            bind 10.0.0.1:80
            bind-process odd

        listen app_ip2
            bind 10.0.0.2:80
            bind-process even

        listen management
            bind 10.0.0.3:80
            bind-process 1 2 3 4

        listen management
            bind 10.0.0.4:80
            bind-process 1-4

  See also : "nbproc" in global section, and "process" in section 5.1.


capture cookie <name> len <length>
  Capture and log a cookie in the request and in the response.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the beginning of the name of the cookie to capture. In order
              to match the exact name, simply suffix the name with an equal
              sign ('='). The full name will appear in the logs, which is
              useful with application servers which adjust both the cookie name
              and value (e.g. ASPSESSIONXXX).

    <length>  is the maximum number of characters to report in the logs, which
              include the cookie name, the equal sign and the value, all in the
              standard "name=value" form. The string will be truncated on the
              right if it exceeds <length>.

  Only the first cookie is captured. Both the "cookie" request headers and the
  "set-cookie" response headers are monitored. This is particularly useful to
  check for application bugs causing session crossing or stealing between
  users, because generally the user's cookies can only change on a login page.

  When the cookie was not presented by the client, the associated log column
  will report "-". When a request does not cause a cookie to be assigned by the
  server, a "-" is reported in the response column.

  The capture is performed in the frontend only because it is necessary that
  the log format does not change for a given frontend depending on the
  backends. This may change in the future. Note that there can be only one
  "capture cookie" statement in a frontend. The maximum capture length is set
  by the global "tune.http.cookielen" setting and defaults to 63 characters. It
  is not possible to specify a capture in a "defaults" section.

  Example:
        capture cookie ASPSESSION len 32

  See also : "capture request header", "capture response header" as well as
            section 8 about logging.


capture request header <name> len <length>
  Capture and log the last occurrence of the specified request header.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the name of the header to capture. The header names are not
              case-sensitive, but it is a common practice to write them as they
              appear in the requests, with the first letter of each word in
              upper case. The header name will not appear in the logs, only the
              value is reported, but the position in the logs is respected.

    <length>  is the maximum number of characters to extract from the value and
              report in the logs. The string will be truncated on the right if
              it exceeds <length>.

  The complete value of the last occurrence of the header is captured. The
  value will be added to the logs between braces ('{}'). If multiple headers
  are captured, they will be delimited by a vertical bar ('|') and will appear
  in the same order they were declared in the configuration. Non-existent
  headers will be logged just as an empty string. Common uses for request
  header captures include the "Host" field in virtual hosting environments, the
  "Content-length" when uploads are supported, "User-agent" to quickly
  differentiate between real users and robots, and "X-Forwarded-For" in proxied
  environments to find where the request came from.

  Note that when capturing headers such as "User-agent", some spaces may be
  logged, making the log analysis more difficult. Thus be careful about what
  you log if you know your log parser is not smart enough to rely on the
  braces.

  There is no limit to the number of captured request headers nor to their
  length, though it is wise to keep them low to limit memory usage per session.
  In order to keep log format consistent for a same frontend, header captures
  can only be declared in a frontend. It is not possible to specify a capture
  in a "defaults" section.

  Example:
        capture request header Host len 15
        capture request header X-Forwarded-For len 15
        capture request header Referer len 15

  See also : "capture cookie", "capture response header" as well as section 8
             about logging.


capture response header <name> len <length>
  Capture and log the last occurrence of the specified response header.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the name of the header to capture. The header names are not
              case-sensitive, but it is a common practice to write them as they
              appear in the response, with the first letter of each word in
              upper case. The header name will not appear in the logs, only the
              value is reported, but the position in the logs is respected.

    <length>  is the maximum number of characters to extract from the value and
              report in the logs. The string will be truncated on the right if
              it exceeds <length>.

  The complete value of the last occurrence of the header is captured. The
  result will be added to the logs between braces ('{}') after the captured
  request headers. If multiple headers are captured, they will be delimited by
  a vertical bar ('|') and will appear in the same order they were declared in
  the configuration. Non-existent headers will be logged just as an empty
  string. Common uses for response header captures include the "Content-length"
  header which indicates how many bytes are expected to be returned, the
  "Location" header to track redirections.

  There is no limit to the number of captured response headers nor to their
  length, though it is wise to keep them low to limit memory usage per session.
  In order to keep log format consistent for a same frontend, header captures
  can only be declared in a frontend. It is not possible to specify a capture
  in a "defaults" section.

  Example:
        capture response header Content-length len 9
        capture response header Location len 15

  See also : "capture cookie", "capture request header" as well as section 8
             about logging.


clitcpka-cnt <count>
  Sets the maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping
  the connection on the client side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <count>   is the maximum number of keepalive probes.

  This keyword corresponds to the socket option TCP_KEEPCNT. If this keyword
  is not specified, system-wide TCP parameter (tcp_keepalive_probes) is used.
  The availability of this setting depends on the operating system. It is
  known to work on Linux.

  See also : "option clitcpka", "clitcpka-idle", "clitcpka-intvl".


clitcpka-idle <timeout>
  Sets the time the connection needs to remain idle before TCP starts sending
  keepalive probes, if enabled the sending of TCP keepalive packets on the
  client side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the time the connection needs to remain idle before TCP starts
              sending keepalive probes. It is specified in seconds by default,
              but can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the
              unit, as explained at the top of this document.

  This keyword corresponds to the socket option TCP_KEEPIDLE. If this keyword
  is not specified, system-wide TCP parameter (tcp_keepalive_time) is used.
  The availability of this setting depends on the operating system. It is
  known to work on Linux.

  See also : "option clitcpka", "clitcpka-cnt", "clitcpka-intvl".


clitcpka-intvl <timeout>
  Sets the time between individual keepalive probes on the client side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the time between individual keepalive probes. It is specified
              in seconds by default, but can be in any other unit if the number
              is suffixed by the unit, as explained at the top of this
              document.

  This keyword corresponds to the socket option TCP_KEEPINTVL. If this keyword
  is not specified, system-wide TCP parameter (tcp_keepalive_intvl) is used.
  The availability of this setting depends on the operating system. It is
  known to work on Linux.

  See also : "option clitcpka", "clitcpka-cnt", "clitcpka-idle".


compression algo <algorithm> ...
compression type <mime type> ...
compression offload
  Enable HTTP compression.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    algo     is followed by the list of supported compression algorithms.
    type     is followed by the list of MIME types that will be compressed.
    offload  makes haproxy work as a compression offloader only (see notes).

  The currently supported algorithms are :
    identity     this is mostly for debugging, and it was useful for developing
                 the compression feature. Identity does not apply any change on
                 data.

    gzip         applies gzip compression. This setting is only available when
                 support for zlib or libslz was built in.

    deflate      same as "gzip", but with deflate algorithm and zlib format.
                 Note that this algorithm has ambiguous support on many
                 browsers and no support at all from recent ones. It is
                 strongly recommended not to use it for anything else than
                 experimentation. This setting is only available when support
                 for zlib or libslz was built in.

    raw-deflate  same as "deflate" without the zlib wrapper, and used as an
                 alternative when the browser wants "deflate". All major
                 browsers understand it and despite violating the standards,
                 it is known to work better than "deflate", at least on MSIE
                 and some versions of Safari. Do not use it in conjunction
                 with "deflate", use either one or the other since both react
                 to the same Accept-Encoding token. This setting is only
                 available when support for zlib or libslz was built in.

  Compression will be activated depending on the Accept-Encoding request
  header. With identity, it does not take care of that header.
  If backend servers support HTTP compression, these directives
  will be no-op: haproxy will see the compressed response and will not
  compress again. If backend servers do not support HTTP compression and
  there is Accept-Encoding header in request, haproxy will compress the
  matching response.

  The "offload" setting makes haproxy remove the Accept-Encoding header to
  prevent backend servers from compressing responses. It is strongly
  recommended not to do this because this means that all the compression work
  will be done on the single point where haproxy is located. However in some
  deployment scenarios, haproxy may be installed in front of a buggy gateway
  with broken HTTP compression implementation which can't be turned off.
  In that case haproxy can be used to prevent that gateway from emitting
  invalid payloads. In this case, simply removing the header in the
  configuration does not work because it applies before the header is parsed,
  so that prevents haproxy from compressing. The "offload" setting should
  then be used for such scenarios. Note: for now, the "offload" setting is
  ignored when set in a defaults section.

  Compression is disabled when:
    * the request does not advertise a supported compression algorithm in the
      "Accept-Encoding" header
    * the response message is not HTTP/1.1
    * HTTP status code is not one of 200, 201, 202, or 203
    * response contain neither a "Content-Length" header nor a
      "Transfer-Encoding" whose last value is "chunked"
    * response contains a "Content-Type" header whose first value starts with
      "multipart"
    * the response contains the "no-transform" value in the "Cache-control"
      header
    * User-Agent matches "Mozilla/4" unless it is MSIE 6 with XP SP2, or MSIE 7
      and later
    * The response contains a "Content-Encoding" header, indicating that the
      response is already compressed (see compression offload)
    * The response contains an invalid "ETag" header or multiple ETag headers

  Note: The compression does not emit the Warning header.

  Examples :
        compression algo gzip
        compression type text/html text/plain


cookie <name> [ rewrite | insert | prefix ] [ indirect ] [ nocache ]
              [ postonly ] [ preserve ] [ httponly ] [ secure ]
              [ domain <domain> ]* [ maxidle <idle> ] [ maxlife <life> ]
              [ dynamic ] [ attr <value> ]*
  Enable cookie-based persistence in a backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the name of the cookie which will be monitored, modified or
              inserted in order to bring persistence. This cookie is sent to
              the client via a "Set-Cookie" header in the response, and is
              brought back by the client in a "Cookie" header in all requests.
              Special care should be taken to choose a name which does not
              conflict with any likely application cookie. Also, if the same
              backends are subject to be used by the same clients (e.g.
              HTTP/HTTPS), care should be taken to use different cookie names
              between all backends if persistence between them is not desired.

    rewrite   This keyword indicates that the cookie will be provided by the
              server and that haproxy will have to modify its value to set the
              server's identifier in it. This mode is handy when the management
              of complex combinations of "Set-cookie" and "Cache-control"
              headers is left to the application. The application can then
              decide whether or not it is appropriate to emit a persistence
              cookie. Since all responses should be monitored, this mode
              doesn't work in HTTP tunnel mode. Unless the application
              behavior is very complex and/or broken, it is advised not to
              start with this mode for new deployments. This keyword is
              incompatible with "insert" and "prefix".

    insert    This keyword indicates that the persistence cookie will have to
              be inserted by haproxy in server responses if the client did not

              already have a cookie that would have permitted it to access this
              server. When used without the "preserve" option, if the server
              emits a cookie with the same name, it will be removed before
              processing. For this reason, this mode can be used to upgrade
              existing configurations running in the "rewrite" mode. The cookie
              will only be a session cookie and will not be stored on the
              client's disk. By default, unless the "indirect" option is added,
              the server will see the cookies emitted by the client. Due to
              caching effects, it is generally wise to add the "nocache" or
              "postonly" keywords (see below). The "insert" keyword is not
              compatible with "rewrite" and "prefix".

    prefix    This keyword indicates that instead of relying on a dedicated
              cookie for the persistence, an existing one will be completed.
              This may be needed in some specific environments where the client
              does not support more than one single cookie and the application
              already needs it. In this case, whenever the server sets a cookie
              named <name>, it will be prefixed with the server's identifier
              and a delimiter. The prefix will be removed from all client
              requests so that the server still finds the cookie it emitted.
              Since all requests and responses are subject to being modified,
              this mode doesn't work with tunnel mode. The "prefix" keyword is
              not compatible with "rewrite" and "insert". Note: it is highly
              recommended not to use "indirect" with "prefix", otherwise server
              cookie updates would not be sent to clients.

    indirect  When this option is specified, no cookie will be emitted to a
              client which already has a valid one for the server which has
              processed the request. If the server sets such a cookie itself,
              it will be removed, unless the "preserve" option is also set. In
              "insert" mode, this will additionally remove cookies from the
              requests transmitted to the server, making the persistence
              mechanism totally transparent from an application point of view.
              Note: it is highly recommended not to use "indirect" with
              "prefix", otherwise server cookie updates would not be sent to
              clients.

    nocache   This option is recommended in conjunction with the insert mode
              when there is a cache between the client and HAProxy, as it
              ensures that a cacheable response will be tagged non-cacheable if
              a cookie needs to be inserted. This is important because if all
              persistence cookies are added on a cacheable home page for
              instance, then all customers will then fetch the page from an
              outer cache and will all share the same persistence cookie,
              leading to one server receiving much more traffic than others.
              See also the "insert" and "postonly" options.

    postonly  This option ensures that cookie insertion will only be performed
              on responses to POST requests. It is an alternative to the
              "nocache" option, because POST responses are not cacheable, so
              this ensures that the persistence cookie will never get cached.
              Since most sites do not need any sort of persistence before the
              first POST which generally is a login request, this is a very
              efficient method to optimize caching without risking to find a
              persistence cookie in the cache.
              See also the "insert" and "nocache" options.

    preserve  This option may only be used with "insert" and/or "indirect". It
              allows the server to emit the persistence cookie itself. In this
              case, if a cookie is found in the response, haproxy will leave it
              untouched. This is useful in order to end persistence after a
              logout request for instance. For this, the server just has to
              emit a cookie with an invalid value (e.g. empty) or with a date in
              the past. By combining this mechanism with the "disable-on-404"
              check option, it is possible to perform a completely graceful
              shutdown because users will definitely leave the server after
              they logout.

    httponly  This option tells haproxy to add an "HttpOnly" cookie attribute
              when a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a
              user agent doesn't share the cookie with non-HTTP components.
              Please check RFC6265 for more information on this attribute.

    secure    This option tells haproxy to add a "Secure" cookie attribute when
              a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a user agent
              never emits this cookie over non-secure channels, which means
              that a cookie learned with this flag will be presented only over
              SSL/TLS connections. Please check RFC6265 for more information on
              this attribute.

    domain    This option allows to specify the domain at which a cookie is
              inserted. It requires exactly one parameter: a valid domain
              name. If the domain begins with a dot, the browser is allowed to
              use it for any host ending with that name. It is also possible to
              specify several domain names by invoking this option multiple
              times. Some browsers might have small limits on the number of
              domains, so be careful when doing that. For the record, sending
              10 domains to MSIE 6 or Firefox 2 works as expected.

    maxidle   This option allows inserted cookies to be ignored after some idle
              time. It only works with insert-mode cookies. When a cookie is
              sent to the client, the date this cookie was emitted is sent too.
              Upon further presentations of this cookie, if the date is older
              than the delay indicated by the parameter (in seconds), it will
              be ignored. Otherwise, it will be refreshed if needed when the
              response is sent to the client. This is particularly useful to
              prevent users who never close their browsers from remaining for
              too long on the same server (e.g. after a farm size change). When
              this option is set and a cookie has no date, it is always
              accepted, but gets refreshed in the response. This maintains the
              ability for admins to access their sites. Cookies that have a
              date in the future further than 24 hours are ignored. Doing so
              lets admins fix timezone issues without risking kicking users off
              the site.

    maxlife   This option allows inserted cookies to be ignored after some life
              time, whether they're in use or not. It only works with insert
              mode cookies. When a cookie is first sent to the client, the date
              this cookie was emitted is sent too. Upon further presentations
              of this cookie, if the date is older than the delay indicated by
              the parameter (in seconds), it will be ignored. If the cookie in
              the request has no date, it is accepted and a date will be set.
              Cookies that have a date in the future further than 24 hours are
              ignored. Doing so lets admins fix timezone issues without risking
              kicking users off the site. Contrary to maxidle, this value is
              not refreshed, only the first visit date counts. Both maxidle and
              maxlife may be used at the time. This is particularly useful to
              prevent users who never close their browsers from remaining for
              too long on the same server (e.g. after a farm size change). This
              is stronger than the maxidle method in that it forces a
              redispatch after some absolute delay.

    dynamic   Activate dynamic cookies. When used, a session cookie is
              dynamically created for each server, based on the IP and port
              of the server, and a secret key, specified in the
              "dynamic-cookie-key" backend directive.
              The cookie will be regenerated each time the IP address change,
              and is only generated for IPv4/IPv6.

    attr      This option tells haproxy to add an extra attribute when a
              cookie is inserted. The attribute value can contain any
              characters except control ones or ";". This option may be
              repeated.

  There can be only one persistence cookie per HTTP backend, and it can be
  declared in a defaults section. The value of the cookie will be the value
  indicated after the "cookie" keyword in a "server" statement. If no cookie
  is declared for a given server, the cookie is not set.

  Examples :
        cookie JSESSIONID prefix
        cookie SRV insert indirect nocache
        cookie SRV insert postonly indirect
        cookie SRV insert indirect nocache maxidle 30m maxlife 8h

  See also : "balance source", "capture cookie", "server" and "ignore-persist".


declare capture [ request | response ] len <length>
  Declares a capture slot.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments:
    <length> is the length allowed for the capture.

  This declaration is only available in the frontend or listen section, but the
  reserved slot can be used in the backends. The "request" keyword allocates a
  capture slot for use in the request, and "response" allocates a capture slot
  for use in the response.

  See also: "capture-req", "capture-res" (sample converters),
            "capture.req.hdr", "capture.res.hdr" (sample fetches),
            "http-request capture" and "http-response capture".


default-server [param*]
  Change default options for a server in a backend
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments:
    <param*>  is a list of parameters for this server. The "default-server"
              keyword accepts an important number of options and has a complete
              section dedicated to it. Please refer to section 5 for more
              details.

  Example :
        default-server inter 1000 weight 13

  See also: "server" and section 5 about server options


default_backend <backend>
  Specify the backend to use when no "use_backend" rule has been matched.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <backend> is the name of the backend to use.

  When doing content-switching between frontend and backends using the
  "use_backend" keyword, it is often useful to indicate which backend will be
  used when no rule has matched. It generally is the dynamic backend which
  will catch all undetermined requests.

  Example :

        use_backend     dynamic  if  url_dyn
        use_backend     static   if  url_css url_img extension_img
        default_backend dynamic

  See also : "use_backend"


description <string>
  Describe a listen, frontend or backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : string

  Allows to add a sentence to describe the related object in the HAProxy HTML
  stats page. The description will be printed on the right of the object name
  it describes.
  No need to backslash spaces in the <string> arguments.


disabled
  Disable a proxy, frontend or backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  The "disabled" keyword is used to disable an instance, mainly in order to
  liberate a listening port or to temporarily disable a service. The instance
  will still be created and its configuration will be checked, but it will be
  created in the "stopped" state and will appear as such in the statistics. It
  will not receive any traffic nor will it send any health-checks or logs. It
  is possible to disable many instances at once by adding the "disabled"
  keyword in a "defaults" section.

  See also : "enabled"


dispatch <address>:<port>
  Set a default server address
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :

    <address> is the IPv4 address of the default server. Alternatively, a
              resolvable hostname is supported, but this name will be resolved
              during start-up.

    <ports>   is a mandatory port specification. All connections will be sent
              to this port, and it is not permitted to use port offsets as is
              possible with normal servers.

  The "dispatch" keyword designates a default server for use when no other
  server can take the connection. In the past it was used to forward non
  persistent connections to an auxiliary load balancer. Due to its simple
  syntax, it has also been used for simple TCP relays. It is recommended not to
  use it for more clarity, and to use the "server" directive instead.

  See also : "server"


dynamic-cookie-key <string>
  Set the dynamic cookie secret key for a backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : The secret key to be used.

  When dynamic cookies are enabled (see the "dynamic" directive for cookie),
  a dynamic cookie is created for each server (unless one is explicitly
  specified on the "server" line), using a hash of the IP address of the
  server, the TCP port, and the secret key.
  That way, we can ensure session persistence across multiple load-balancers,
  even if servers are dynamically added or removed.

enabled
  Enable a proxy, frontend or backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  The "enabled" keyword is used to explicitly enable an instance, when the
  defaults has been set to "disabled". This is very rarely used.

  See also : "disabled"


errorfile <code> <file>
  Return a file contents instead of errors generated by HAProxy
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <code>    is the HTTP status code. Currently, HAProxy is capable of
              generating codes 200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410,
              413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504.

    <file>    designates a file containing the full HTTP response. It is
              recommended to follow the common practice of appending ".http" to
              the filename so that people do not confuse the response with HTML
              error pages, and to use absolute paths, since files are read
              before any chroot is performed.

  It is important to understand that this keyword is not meant to rewrite
  errors returned by the server, but errors detected and returned by HAProxy.
  This is why the list of supported errors is limited to a small set.

  Code 200 is emitted in response to requests matching a "monitor-uri" rule.

  The files are parsed when HAProxy starts and must be valid according to the
  HTTP specification. They should not exceed the configured buffer size
  (BUFSIZE), which generally is 16 kB, otherwise an internal error will be
  returned. It is also wise not to put any reference to local contents
  (e.g. images) in order to avoid loops between the client and HAProxy when all
  servers are down, causing an error to be returned instead of an
  image. Finally, The response cannot exceed (tune.bufsize - tune.maxrewrite)
  so that "http-after-response" rules still have room to operate (see
  "tune.maxrewrite").

  The files are read at the same time as the configuration and kept in memory.
  For this reason, the errors continue to be returned even when the process is
  chrooted, and no file change is considered while the process is running. A
  simple method for developing those files consists in associating them to the
  403 status code and interrogating a blocked URL.

  See also : "http-error", "errorloc", "errorloc302", "errorloc303"

  Example :
        errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/400badreq.http
        errorfile 408 /dev/null  # work around Chrome pre-connect bug
        errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/403forbid.http
        errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/503sorry.http


errorfiles <name> [<code> ...]
  Import, fully or partially, the error files defined in the <name> http-errors
  section.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>  is the name of an existing http-errors section.

    <code>  is a HTTP status code. Several status code may be listed.
            Currently, HAProxy is capable of generating codes 200, 400, 401,
            403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410, 413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504.

  Errors defined in the http-errors section with the name <name> are imported
  in the current proxy. If no status code is specified, all error files of the
  http-errors section are imported. Otherwise, only error files associated to
  the listed status code are imported. Those error files override the already
  defined custom errors for the proxy. And they may be overridden by following
  ones. Functionally, it is exactly the same as declaring all error files by
  hand using "errorfile" directives.

  See also : "http-error", "errorfile", "errorloc", "errorloc302" ,
             "errorloc303" and section 3.8 about http-errors.

  Example :
        errorfiles generic
	errorfiles site-1 403 404


errorloc <code> <url>
errorloc302 <code> <url>
  Return an HTTP redirection to a URL instead of errors generated by HAProxy
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <code>    is the HTTP status code. Currently, HAProxy is capable of
              generating codes 200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410,
              413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504.

    <url>     it is the exact contents of the "Location" header. It may contain
              either a relative URI to an error page hosted on the same site,
              or an absolute URI designating an error page on another site.
              Special care should be given to relative URIs to avoid redirect
              loops if the URI itself may generate the same error (e.g. 500).

  It is important to understand that this keyword is not meant to rewrite
  errors returned by the server, but errors detected and returned by HAProxy.
  This is why the list of supported errors is limited to a small set.

  Code 200 is emitted in response to requests matching a "monitor-uri" rule.

  Note that both keyword return the HTTP 302 status code, which tells the
  client to fetch the designated URL using the same HTTP method. This can be
  quite problematic in case of non-GET methods such as POST, because the URL
  sent to the client might not be allowed for something other than GET. To
  work around this problem, please use "errorloc303" which send the HTTP 303
  status code, indicating to the client that the URL must be fetched with a GET
  request.

  See also : "http-error", "errorfile", "errorloc303"


errorloc303 <code> <url>
  Return an HTTP redirection to a URL instead of errors generated by HAProxy
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <code>    is the HTTP status code. Currently, HAProxy is capable of
              generating codes 200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410,
              413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504.

    <url>     it is the exact contents of the "Location" header. It may contain
              either a relative URI to an error page hosted on the same site,
              or an absolute URI designating an error page on another site.
              Special care should be given to relative URIs to avoid redirect
              loops if the URI itself may generate the same error (e.g. 500).

  It is important to understand that this keyword is not meant to rewrite
  errors returned by the server, but errors detected and returned by HAProxy.
  This is why the list of supported errors is limited to a small set.

  Code 200 is emitted in response to requests matching a "monitor-uri" rule.

  Note that both keyword return the HTTP 303 status code, which tells the
  client to fetch the designated URL using the same HTTP GET method. This
  solves the usual problems associated with "errorloc" and the 302 code. It is
  possible that some very old browsers designed before HTTP/1.1 do not support
  it, but no such problem has been reported till now.

  See also : "http-error", "errorfile", "errorloc", "errorloc302"


email-alert from <emailaddr>
  Declare the from email address to be used in both the envelope and header
  of email alerts. This is the address that email alerts are sent from.
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :

    <emailaddr> is the from email address to use when sending email alerts

  Also requires "email-alert mailers" and "email-alert to" to be set
  and if so sending email alerts is enabled for the proxy.

  See also : "email-alert level", "email-alert mailers",
             "email-alert myhostname", "email-alert to", section 3.6 about
             mailers.


email-alert level <level>
  Declare the maximum log level of messages for which email alerts will be
  sent. This acts as a filter on the sending of email alerts.
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :

    <level> One of the 8 syslog levels:
              emerg alert crit err warning notice info  debug
            The above syslog levels are ordered from lowest to highest.

  By default level is alert

  Also requires "email-alert from", "email-alert mailers" and
  "email-alert to" to be set and if so sending email alerts is enabled
  for the proxy.

  Alerts are sent when :

  * An un-paused server is marked as down and <level> is alert or lower
  * A paused server is marked as down and <level> is notice or lower
  * A server is marked as up or enters the drain state and <level>
    is notice or lower
  * "option log-health-checks" is enabled, <level> is info or lower,
     and a health check status update occurs

  See also : "email-alert from", "email-alert mailers",
             "email-alert myhostname", "email-alert to",
             section 3.6 about mailers.


email-alert mailers <mailersect>
  Declare the mailers to be used when sending email alerts
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :

    <mailersect> is the name of the mailers section to send email alerts.

  Also requires "email-alert from" and "email-alert to" to be set
  and if so sending email alerts is enabled for the proxy.

  See also : "email-alert from", "email-alert level", "email-alert myhostname",
             "email-alert to", section 3.6 about mailers.


email-alert myhostname <hostname>
  Declare the to hostname address to be used when communicating with
  mailers.
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :

    <hostname> is the hostname to use when communicating with mailers

  By default the systems hostname is used.

  Also requires "email-alert from", "email-alert mailers" and
  "email-alert to" to be set and if so sending email alerts is enabled
  for the proxy.

  See also : "email-alert from", "email-alert level", "email-alert mailers",
             "email-alert to", section 3.6 about mailers.


email-alert to <emailaddr>
  Declare both the recipient address in the envelope and to address in the
  header of email alerts. This is the address that email alerts are sent to.
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :

    <emailaddr> is the to email address to use when sending email alerts

  Also requires "email-alert mailers" and "email-alert to" to be set
  and if so sending email alerts is enabled for the proxy.

  See also : "email-alert from", "email-alert level", "email-alert mailers",
             "email-alert myhostname", section 3.6 about mailers.


force-persist { if | unless } <condition>
  Declare a condition to force persistence on down servers
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  By default, requests are not dispatched to down servers. It is possible to
  force this using "option persist", but it is unconditional and redispatches
  to a valid server if "option redispatch" is set. That leaves with very little
  possibilities to force some requests to reach a server which is artificially
  marked down for maintenance operations.

  The "force-persist" statement allows one to declare various ACL-based
  conditions which, when met, will cause a request to ignore the down status of
  a server and still try to connect to it. That makes it possible to start a
  server, still replying an error to the health checks, and run a specially
  configured browser to test the service. Among the handy methods, one could
  use a specific source IP address, or a specific cookie. The cookie also has
  the advantage that it can easily be added/removed on the browser from a test
  page. Once the service is validated, it is then possible to open the service
  to the world by returning a valid response to health checks.

  The forced persistence is enabled when an "if" condition is met, or unless an
  "unless" condition is met. The final redispatch is always disabled when this
  is used.

  See also : "option redispatch", "ignore-persist", "persist",
             and section 7 about ACL usage.


filter <name> [param*]
  Add the filter <name> in the filter list attached to the proxy.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |   yes    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>     is the name of the filter. Officially supported filters are
               referenced in section 9.

    <param*>   is a list of parameters accepted by the filter <name>. The
               parsing of these parameters are the responsibility of the
               filter. Please refer to the documentation of the corresponding
               filter (section 9) for all details on the supported parameters.

  Multiple occurrences of the filter line can be used for the same proxy. The
  same filter can be referenced many times if needed.

  Example:
      listen
        bind *:80

        filter trace name BEFORE-HTTP-COMP
        filter compression
        filter trace name AFTER-HTTP-COMP

        compression algo gzip
        compression offload

        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80

  See also : section 9.


fullconn <conns>
  Specify at what backend load the servers will reach their maxconn
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <conns>   is the number of connections on the backend which will make the
              servers use the maximal number of connections.

  When a server has a "maxconn" parameter specified, it means that its number
  of concurrent connections will never go higher. Additionally, if it has a
  "minconn" parameter, it indicates a dynamic limit following the backend's
  load. The server will then always accept at least <minconn> connections,
  never more than <maxconn>, and the limit will be on the ramp between both
  values when the backend has less than <conns> concurrent connections. This
  makes it possible to limit the load on the servers during normal loads, but
  push it further for important loads without overloading the servers during
  exceptional loads.

  Since it's hard to get this value right, haproxy automatically sets it to
  10% of the sum of the maxconns of all frontends that may branch to this
  backend (based on "use_backend" and "default_backend" rules). That way it's
  safe to leave it unset. However, "use_backend" involving dynamic names are
  not counted since there is no way to know if they could match or not.

  Example :
     # The servers will accept between 100 and 1000 concurrent connections each
     # and the maximum of 1000 will be reached when the backend reaches 10000
     # connections.
     backend dynamic
        fullconn   10000
        server     srv1   dyn1:80 minconn 100 maxconn 1000
        server     srv2   dyn2:80 minconn 100 maxconn 1000

  See also : "maxconn", "server"


grace <time> (deprecated)
  Maintain a proxy operational for some time after a soft stop
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <time>    is the time (by default in milliseconds) for which the instance
              will remain operational with the frontend sockets still listening
              when a soft-stop is received via the SIGUSR1 signal.

  This may be used to ensure that the services disappear in a certain order.
  This was designed so that frontends which are dedicated to monitoring by an
  external equipment fail immediately while other ones remain up for the time
  needed by the equipment to detect the failure.

  Note that currently, there is very little benefit in using this parameter,
  and it may in fact complicate the soft-reconfiguration process more than
  simplify it.


hash-balance-factor <factor>
  Specify the balancing factor for bounded-load consistent hashing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   no   |   yes
  Arguments :
    <factor> is the control for the maximum number of concurrent requests to
             send to a server, expressed as a percentage of the average number
             of concurrent requests across all of the active servers.

  Specifying a "hash-balance-factor" for a server with "hash-type consistent"
  enables an algorithm that prevents any one server from getting too many
  requests at once, even if some hash buckets receive many more requests than
  others. Setting <factor> to 0 (the default) disables the feature. Otherwise,
  <factor> is a percentage greater than 100. For example, if <factor> is 150,
  then no server will be allowed to have a load more than 1.5 times the average.
  If server weights are used, they will be respected.

  If the first-choice server is disqualified, the algorithm will choose another
  server based on the request hash, until a server with additional capacity is
  found. A higher <factor> allows more imbalance between the servers, while a
  lower <factor> means that more servers will be checked on average, affecting
  performance. Reasonable values are from 125 to 200.

  This setting is also used by "balance random" which internally relies on the
  consistent hashing mechanism.

  See also : "balance" and "hash-type".


hash-type <method> <function> <modifier>
  Specify a method to use for mapping hashes to servers
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <method> is the method used to select a server from the hash computed by
             the <function> :

      map-based   the hash table is a static array containing all alive servers.
                  The hashes will be very smooth, will consider weights, but
                  will be static in that weight changes while a server is up
                  will be ignored. This means that there will be no slow start.
                  Also, since a server is selected by its position in the array,
                  most mappings are changed when the server count changes. This
                  means that when a server goes up or down, or when a server is
                  added to a farm, most connections will be redistributed to
                  different servers. This can be inconvenient with caches for
                  instance.

      consistent  the hash table is a tree filled with many occurrences of each
                  server. The hash key is looked up in the tree and the closest
                  server is chosen. This hash is dynamic, it supports changing
                  weights while the servers are up, so it is compatible with the
                  slow start feature. It has the advantage that when a server
                  goes up or down, only its associations are moved. When a
                  server is added to the farm, only a few part of the mappings
                  are redistributed, making it an ideal method for caches.
                  However, due to its principle, the distribution will never be
                  very smooth and it may sometimes be necessary to adjust a
                  server's weight or its ID to get a more balanced distribution.
                  In order to get the same distribution on multiple load
                  balancers, it is important that all servers have the exact
                  same IDs. Note: consistent hash uses sdbm and avalanche if no
                  hash function is specified.

    <function> is the hash function to be used :

       sdbm   this function was created initially for sdbm (a public-domain
              reimplementation of ndbm) database library. It was found to do
              well in scrambling bits, causing better distribution of the keys
              and fewer splits. It also happens to be a good general hashing
              function with good distribution, unless the total server weight
              is a multiple of 64, in which case applying the avalanche
              modifier may help.

       djb2   this function was first proposed by Dan Bernstein many years ago
              on comp.lang.c. Studies have shown that for certain workload this
              function provides a better distribution than sdbm. It generally
              works well with text-based inputs though it can perform extremely
              poorly with numeric-only input or when the total server weight is
              a multiple of 33, unless the avalanche modifier is also used.

       wt6    this function was designed for haproxy while testing other
              functions in the past. It is not as smooth as the other ones, but
              is much less sensible to the input data set or to the number of
              servers. It can make sense as an alternative to sdbm+avalanche or
              djb2+avalanche for consistent hashing or when hashing on numeric
              data such as a source IP address or a visitor identifier in a URL
              parameter.

       crc32  this is the most common CRC32 implementation as used in Ethernet,
              gzip, PNG, etc. It is slower than the other ones but may provide
              a better distribution or less predictable results especially when
              used on strings.

    <modifier> indicates an optional method applied after hashing the key :

       avalanche   This directive indicates that the result from the hash
                   function above should not be used in its raw form but that
                   a 4-byte full avalanche hash must be applied first. The
                   purpose of this step is to mix the resulting bits from the
                   previous hash in order to avoid any undesired effect when
                   the input contains some limited values or when the number of
                   servers is a multiple of one of the hash's components (64
                   for SDBM, 33 for DJB2). Enabling avalanche tends to make the
                   result less predictable, but it's also not as smooth as when
                   using the original function. Some testing might be needed
                   with some workloads. This hash is one of the many proposed
                   by Bob Jenkins.

  The default hash type is "map-based" and is recommended for most usages. The
  default function is "sdbm", the selection of a function should be based on
  the range of the values being hashed.

  See also : "balance", "hash-balance-factor", "server"


http-after-response <action> <options...> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Access control for all Layer 7 responses (server, applet/service and internal
  ones).

  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  The http-after-response statement defines a set of rules which apply to layer
  7 processing. The rules are evaluated in their declaration order when they
  are met in a frontend, listen or backend section. Any rule may optionally be
  followed by an ACL-based condition, in which case it will only be evaluated
  if the condition is true. Since these rules apply on responses, the backend
  rules are applied first, followed by the frontend's rules.

  Unlike http-response rules, these ones are applied on all responses, the
  server ones but also to all responses generated by HAProxy. These rules are
  evaluated at the end of the responses analysis, before the data forwarding.

  The first keyword is the rule's action. The supported actions are described
  below.

  There is no limit to the number of http-after-response statements per
  instance.

  Note: Errors emitted in early stage of the request parsing are handled by the
        multiplexer at a lower level, before any http analysis. Thus no
        http-after-response ruleset is evaluated on these errors.

  Example:
    http-after-response set-header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000"
    http-after-response set-header Cache-Control "no-store,no-cache,private"
    http-after-response set-header Pragma "no-cache"

http-after-response add-header <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This appends an HTTP header field whose name is specified in <name> and whose
  value is defined by <fmt> which follows the log-format rules (see Custom Log
  Format in section 8.2.4). This may be used to send a cookie to a client for
  example, or to pass some internal information.
  This rule is not final, so it is possible to add other similar rules.
  Note that header addition is performed immediately, so one rule might reuse
  the resulting header from a previous rule.

http-after-response allow [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and lets the response pass the check.
  No further "http-after-response" rules are evaluated.

http-after-response del-header <name> [ -m <meth> ] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This removes all HTTP header fields whose name is specified in <name>. <meth>
  is the matching method, applied on the header name. Supported matching methods
  are "str" (exact match), "beg" (prefix match), "end" (suffix match), "sub"
  (substring match) and "reg" (regex match). If not specified, exact matching
  method is used.

http-after-response replace-header <name> <regex-match> <replace-fmt>
                                   [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "http-response replace-header".

  Example:
    http-after-response replace-header Set-Cookie (C=[^;]*);(.*) \1;ip=%bi;\2

    # applied to:
    Set-Cookie: C=1; expires=Tue, 14-Jun-2016 01:40:45 GMT

    # outputs:
    Set-Cookie: C=1;ip=192.168.1.20; expires=Tue, 14-Jun-2016 01:40:45 GMT

    # assuming the backend IP is 192.168.1.20.

http-after-response replace-value <name> <regex-match> <replace-fmt>
                                 [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "http-response replace-value".

  Example:
    http-after-response replace-value Cache-control ^public$ private

    # applied to:
    Cache-Control: max-age=3600, public

    # outputs:
    Cache-Control: max-age=3600, private

http-after-response set-header <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This does the same as "add-header" except that the header name is first
  removed if it existed. This is useful when passing security information to
  the server, where the header must not be manipulated by external users.

http-after-response set-status <status> [reason <str>]
                               [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This replaces the response status code with <status> which must be an integer
  between 100 and 999. Optionally, a custom reason text can be provided defined
  by <str>, or the default reason for the specified code will be used as a
  fallback.

  Example:
    # return "431 Request Header Fields Too Large"
    http-response set-status 431
    # return "503 Slow Down", custom reason
    http-response set-status 503 reason "Slow Down"

http-after-response set-var(<var-name>) <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the contents of a variable. The variable is declared
  inline.

  Arguments:
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
                  "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction
                           (request and response)
                  "req"  : the variable is shared only during request
                           processing
                  "res"  : the variable is shared only during response
                           processing
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.'
                and '_'.

    <expr>      Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                followed by some converters.

  Example:
    http-after-response set-var(sess.last_redir) res.hdr(location)

http-after-response strict-mode { on | off }

  This enables or disables the strict rewriting mode for following rules. It
  does not affect rules declared before it and it is only applicable on rules
  performing a rewrite on the responses. When the strict mode is enabled, any
  rewrite failure triggers an internal error. Otherwise, such errors are
  silently ignored. The purpose of the strict rewriting mode is to make some
  rewrites optional while others must be performed to continue the response
  processing.

  By default, the strict rewriting mode is enabled. Its value is also reset
  when a ruleset evaluation ends. So, for instance, if you change the mode on
  the backend, the default mode is restored when HAProxy starts the frontend
  rules evaluation.

http-after-response unset-var(<var-name>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to unset a variable. See "http-after-response set-var" for
  details about <var-name>.

  Example:
    http-after-response unset-var(sess.last_redir)


http-check comment <string>
  Defines a comment for the following the http-check rule, reported in logs if
  it fails.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <string>  is the comment message to add in logs if the following http-check
              rule fails.

  It only works for connect, send and expect rules. It is useful to make
  user-friendly error reporting.

  See also : "option httpchk", "http-check connect", "http-check send" and
             "http-check expect".


http-check connect [default] [port <expr>] [addr <ip>] [send-proxy]
                   [via-socks4] [ssl] [sni <sni>] [alpn <alpn>] [linger]
		   [proto <name>] [comment <msg>]
  Opens a new connection to perform an HTTP health check
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    default      Use default options of the server line to do the health
                 checks. The server options are used only if not redefined.

    port <expr>  if not set, check port or server port is used.
                 It tells HAProxy where to open the connection to.
                 <port> must be a valid TCP port source integer, from 1 to
                 65535 or an sample-fetch expression.

    addr <ip>    defines the IP address to do the health check.

    send-proxy   send a PROXY protocol string

    via-socks4   enables outgoing health checks using upstream socks4 proxy.

    ssl          opens a ciphered connection

    sni <sni>    specifies the SNI to use to do health checks over SSL.

    alpn <alpn>  defines which protocols to advertise with ALPN. The protocol
                 list consists in a comma-delimited list of protocol names,
                 for instance: "h2,http/1.1". If it is not set, the server ALPN
                 is used.

    proto <name> forces the multiplexer's protocol to use for this connection.
                 It must be an HTTP mux protocol and it must be usable on the
                 backend side. The list of available protocols is reported in
                 haproxy -vv.

    linger       cleanly close the connection instead of using a single RST.

  Just like tcp-check health checks, it is possible to configure the connection
  to use to perform HTTP health check. This directive should also be used to
  describe a scenario involving several request/response exchanges, possibly on
  different ports or with different servers.

  When there are no TCP port configured on the server line neither server port
  directive, then the first step of the http-check sequence must be to specify
  the port with a "http-check connect".

  In an http-check ruleset a 'connect' is required, it is also mandatory to start
  the ruleset with a 'connect' rule. Purpose is to ensure admin know what they
  do.

  When a connect must start the ruleset, if may still be preceded by set-var,
  unset-var or comment rules.

  Examples :
         # check HTTP and HTTPs services on a server.
         # first open port 80 thanks to server line port directive, then
         # tcp-check opens port 443, ciphered and run a request on it:
         option httpchk

         http-check connect
         http-check send meth GET uri / ver HTTP/1.1 hdr host haproxy.1wt.eu
         http-check expect status 200-399
         http-check connect port 443 ssl sni haproxy.1wt.eu
         http-check send meth GET uri / ver HTTP/1.1 hdr host haproxy.1wt.eu
         http-check expect status 200-399

         server www 10.0.0.1 check port 80

  See also : "option httpchk", "http-check send", "http-check expect"


http-check disable-on-404
  Enable a maintenance mode upon HTTP/404 response to health-checks
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When this option is set, a server which returns an HTTP code 404 will be
  excluded from further load-balancing, but will still receive persistent
  connections. This provides a very convenient method for Web administrators
  to perform a graceful shutdown of their servers. It is also important to note
  that a server which is detected as failed while it was in this mode will not
  generate an alert, just a notice. If the server responds 2xx or 3xx again, it
  will immediately be reinserted into the farm. The status on the stats page
  reports "NOLB" for a server in this mode. It is important to note that this
  option only works in conjunction with the "httpchk" option. If this option
  is used with "http-check expect", then it has precedence over it so that 404
  responses will still be considered as soft-stop. Note also that a stopped
  server will stay stopped even if it replies 404s. This option is only
  evaluated for running servers.

  See also : "option httpchk" and "http-check expect".


http-check expect [min-recv <int>] [comment <msg>]
                  [ok-status <st>] [error-status <st>] [tout-status <st>]
                  [on-success <fmt>] [on-error <fmt>] [status-code <expr>]
                  [!] <match> <pattern>
  Make HTTP health checks consider response contents or specific status codes
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    min-recv  is optional and can define the minimum amount of data required to
              evaluate the current expect rule. If the number of received bytes
              is under this limit, the check will wait for more data. This
              option can be used to resolve some ambiguous matching rules or to
              avoid executing costly regex matches on content known to be still
              incomplete. If an exact string is used, the minimum between the
              string length and this parameter is used. This parameter is
              ignored if it is set to -1. If the expect rule does not match,
              the check will wait for more data. If set to 0, the evaluation
              result is always conclusive.

    ok-status <st>     is optional and can be used to set the check status if
                       the expect rule is successfully evaluated and if it is
                       the last rule in the tcp-check ruleset. "L7OK", "L7OKC",
                       "L6OK" and "L4OK" are supported :
                         - L7OK  : check passed on layer 7
                         - L7OKC : check conditionally passed on layer 7, set
                                   server to NOLB state.
                         - L6OK  : check passed on layer 6
                         - L4OK  : check passed on layer 4
                       By default "L7OK" is used.

    error-status <st>  is optional and can be used to set the check status if
                       an error occurred during the expect rule evaluation.
                       "L7OKC", "L7RSP", "L7STS", "L6RSP" and "L4CON" are
                       supported :
                         - L7OKC : check conditionally passed on layer 7, set
                                   server to NOLB state.
                         - L7RSP : layer 7 invalid response - protocol error
                         - L7STS : layer 7 response error, for example HTTP 5xx
                         - L6RSP : layer 6 invalid response - protocol error
                         - L4CON : layer 1-4 connection problem
                       By default "L7RSP" is used.

    tout-status <st>   is optional and can be used to set the check status if
                       a timeout occurred during the expect rule evaluation.
                       "L7TOUT", "L6TOUT", and "L4TOUT" are supported :
                         - L7TOUT : layer 7 (HTTP/SMTP) timeout
                         - L6TOUT : layer 6 (SSL) timeout
                         - L4TOUT : layer 1-4 timeout
                       By default "L7TOUT" is used.

    on-success <fmt>   is optional and can be used to customize the
                       informational message reported in logs if the expect
                       rule is successfully evaluated and if it is the last rule
                       in the tcp-check ruleset. <fmt> is a log-format string.

    on-error <fmt>     is optional and can be used to customize the
                       informational message reported in logs if an error
                       occurred during the expect rule evaluation. <fmt> is a
                       log-format string.

    <match>   is a keyword indicating how to look for a specific pattern in the
              response. The keyword may be one of "status", "rstatus", "hdr",
              "fhdr", "string", or "rstring". The keyword may be preceded by an
              exclamation mark ("!") to negate the match. Spaces are allowed
              between the exclamation mark and the keyword. See below for more
              details on the supported keywords.

    <pattern> is the pattern to look for. It may be a string, a regular
              expression or a more complex pattern with several arguments. If
              the string pattern contains spaces, they must be escaped with the
              usual backslash ('\').

  By default, "option httpchk" considers that response statuses 2xx and 3xx
  are valid, and that others are invalid. When "http-check expect" is used,
  it defines what is considered valid or invalid. Only one "http-check"
  statement is supported in a backend. If a server fails to respond or times
  out, the check obviously fails. The available matches are :

    status <codes> :  test the status codes found parsing <codes> string. it
                      must be a comma-separated list of status codes or range
                      codes. A health check response will be considered as
                      valid if the response's status code matches any status
                      code or is inside any range of the list. If the "status"
                      keyword is prefixed with "!", then the response will be
                      considered invalid if the status code matches.

    rstatus <regex> : test a regular expression for the HTTP status code.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's status code matches the expression. If the
                      "rstatus" keyword is prefixed with "!", then the response
                      will be considered invalid if the status code matches.
                      This is mostly used to check for multiple codes.

    hdr  { name | name-lf } [ -m <meth> ] <name>
         [ { value | value-lf } [ -m <meth> ] <value> :
                      test the specified header pattern on the HTTP response
                      headers. The name pattern is mandatory but the value
                      pattern is optional. If not specified, only the header
                      presence is verified. <meth> is the matching method,
                      applied on the header name or the header value. Supported
                      matching methods are "str" (exact match), "beg" (prefix
                      match), "end" (suffix match), "sub" (substring match) or
                      "reg" (regex match). If not specified, exact matching
                      method is used. If the "name-lf" parameter is used,
                      <name> is evaluated as a log-format string. If "value-lf"
                      parameter is used, <value> is evaluated as a log-format
                      string. These parameters cannot be used with the regex
                      matching method. Finally, the header value is considered
                      as comma-separated list. Note that matchings are case
                      insensitive on the header names.

    fhdr { name | name-lf } [ -m <meth> ] <name>
         [ { value | value-lf } [ -m <meth> ] <value> :
                      test the specified full header pattern on the HTTP
                      response headers. It does exactly the same than "hdr"
                      keyword, except the full header value is tested, commas
                      are not considered as delimiters.

    string <string> : test the exact string match in the HTTP response body.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's body contains this exact string. If the
                      "string" keyword is prefixed with "!", then the response
                      will be considered invalid if the body contains this
                      string. This can be used to look for a mandatory word at
                      the end of a dynamic page, or to detect a failure when a
                      specific error appears on the check page (e.g. a stack
                      trace).

    rstring <regex> : test a regular expression on the HTTP response body.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's body matches this expression. If the "rstring"
                      keyword is prefixed with "!", then the response will be
                      considered invalid if the body matches the expression.
                      This can be used to look for a mandatory word at the end
                      of a dynamic page, or to detect a failure when a specific
                      error appears on the check page (e.g. a stack trace).

    string-lf <fmt> : test a log-format string match in the HTTP response body.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's body contains the  string resulting of the
                      evaluation of <fmt>, which follows the log-format rules.
                      If prefixed with "!", then the response will be
                      considered invalid if the body contains the string.

  It is important to note that the responses will be limited to a certain size
  defined by the global "tune.bufsize" option, which defaults to 16384 bytes.
  Thus, too large responses may not contain the mandatory pattern when using
  "string" or "rstring". If a large response is absolutely required, it is
  possible to change the default max size by setting the global variable.
  However, it is worth keeping in mind that parsing very large responses can
  waste some CPU cycles, especially when regular expressions are used, and that
  it is always better to focus the checks on smaller resources.

  In an http-check ruleset, the last expect rule may be implicit. If no expect
  rule is specified after the last "http-check send", an implicit expect rule
  is defined to match on 2xx or 3xx status codes. It means this rule is also
  defined if there is no "http-check" rule at all, when only "option httpchk"
  is set.

  Last, if "http-check expect" is combined with "http-check disable-on-404",
  then this last one has precedence when the server responds with 404.

  Examples :
         # only accept status 200 as valid
         http-check expect status 200,201,300-310

         # be sure a sessid coookie is set
         http-check expect header name "set-cookie" value -m beg "sessid="

         # consider SQL errors as errors
         http-check expect ! string SQL\ Error

         # consider status 5xx only as errors
         http-check expect ! rstatus ^5

         # check that we have a correct hexadecimal tag before /html
         http-check expect rstring <!--tag:[0-9a-f]*--></html>

  See also : "option httpchk", "http-check connect", "http-check disable-on-404"
             and "http-check send".


http-check send [meth <method>] [{ uri <uri> | uri-lf <fmt> }>] [ver <version>]
                [hdr <name> <fmt>]* [{ body <string> | body-lf <fmt> }]
                [comment <msg>]
  Add a possible list of headers and/or a body to the request sent during HTTP
  health checks.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    meth <method>  is the optional HTTP method used with the requests. When not
                   set, the "OPTIONS" method is used, as it generally requires
                   low server processing and is easy to filter out from the
                   logs. Any method may be used, though it is not recommended
                   to invent non-standard ones.

    uri <uri>      is optional and set the URI referenced in the HTTP requests
                   to the string <uri>. It defaults to "/" which is accessible
                   by default on almost any server, but may be changed to any
                   other URI. Query strings are permitted.

    uri-lf <fmt>   is optional and set the URI referenced in the HTTP requests
                   using the log-format string <fmt>. It defaults to "/" which
                   is accessible by default on almost any server, but may be
                   changed to any other URI. Query strings are permitted.

    ver <version>  is the optional HTTP version string. It defaults to
                   "HTTP/1.0" but some servers might behave incorrectly in HTTP
                   1.0, so turning it to HTTP/1.1 may sometimes help. Note that
                   the Host field is mandatory in HTTP/1.1, use "hdr" argument
                   to add it.

    hdr <name> <fmt>  adds the HTTP header field whose name is specified in
                      <name> and whose value is defined by <fmt>, which follows
                      to the log-format rules.

    body <string>  add the body defined by <string> to the request sent during
                   HTTP health checks. If defined, the "Content-Length" header
                   is thus automatically added to the request.

    body-lf <fmt>  add the body defined by the log-format string <fmt> to the
                   request sent during HTTP health checks. If defined, the
                   "Content-Length" header is thus automatically added to the
                   request.

  In addition to the request line defined by the "option httpchk" directive,
  this one is the valid way to add some headers and optionally a body to the
  request sent during HTTP health checks. If a body is defined, the associate
  "Content-Length" header is automatically added. Thus, this header or
  "Transfer-encoding" header should not be present in the request provided by
  "http-check send". If so, it will be ignored. The old trick consisting to add
  headers after the version string on the "option httpchk" line is now
  deprecated. Note also the "Connection: close" header is still added if a
  "http-check expect" directive is defined independently of this directive, just
  like the state header if the directive "http-check send-state" is defined.

  Also "http-check send" doesn't support HTTP keep-alive. Keep in mind that it
  will automatically append a "Connection: close" header, meaning that this
  header should not be present in the request provided by "http-check send". If
  so, it will be ignored.

  Note that the Host header and the request authority, when both defined, are
  automatically synchronized. It means when the HTTP request is sent, when a
  Host is inserted in the request, the request authority is accordingly
  updated. Thus, don't be surprised if the Host header value overwrites the
  configured request authority.

  Note also for now, no Host header is automatically added in HTTP/1.1 or above
  requests. You should add it explicitly.

  See also : "option httpchk", "http-check send-state" and "http-check expect".


http-check send-state
  Enable emission of a state header with HTTP health checks
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When this option is set, haproxy will systematically send a special header
  "X-Haproxy-Server-State" with a list of parameters indicating to each server
  how they are seen by haproxy. This can be used for instance when a server is
  manipulated without access to haproxy and the operator needs to know whether
  haproxy still sees it up or not, or if the server is the last one in a farm.

  The header is composed of fields delimited by semi-colons, the first of which
  is a word ("UP", "DOWN", "NOLB"), possibly followed by a number of valid
  checks on the total number before transition, just as appears in the stats
  interface. Next headers are in the form "<variable>=<value>", indicating in
  no specific order some values available in the stats interface :
    - a variable "address", containing the address of the backend server.
      This corresponds to the <address> field in the server declaration. For
      unix domain sockets, it will read "unix".

    - a variable "port", containing the port of the backend server. This
      corresponds to the <port> field in the server declaration. For unix
      domain sockets, it will read "unix".

    - a variable "name", containing the name of the backend followed by a slash
      ("/") then the name of the server. This can be used when a server is
      checked in multiple backends.

    - a variable "node" containing the name of the haproxy node, as set in the
      global "node" variable, otherwise the system's hostname if unspecified.

    - a variable "weight" indicating the weight of the server, a slash ("/")
      and the total weight of the farm (just counting usable servers). This
      helps to know if other servers are available to handle the load when this
      one fails.

    - a variable "scur" indicating the current number of concurrent connections
      on the server, followed by a slash ("/") then the total number of
      connections on all servers of the same backend.

    - a variable "qcur" indicating the current number of requests in the
      server's queue.

  Example of a header received by the application server :
    >>>  X-Haproxy-Server-State: UP 2/3; name=bck/srv2; node=lb1; weight=1/2; \
           scur=13/22; qcur=0

  See also : "option httpchk", "http-check disable-on-404" and
             "http-check send".


http-check set-var(<var-name>) <expr>
  This operation sets the content of a variable. The variable is declared inline.
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed for http-check are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process.
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the tcp-check session.
                  "check": the variable is declared for the lifetime of the tcp-check.
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.',
                and '-'.

    <expr>      Is a sample-fetch expression potentially followed by converters.

  Examples :
        http-check set-var(check.port) int(1234)


http-check unset-var(<var-name>)
  Free a reference to a variable within its scope.
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed for http-check are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process.
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the tcp-check session.
                  "check": the variable is declared for the lifetime of the tcp-check.
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.',
                and '-'.

  Examples :
        http-check unset-var(check.port)


http-error status <code> [content-type <type>]
           [ { default-errorfiles | errorfile <file> | errorfiles <name> |
               file <file> | lf-file <file> | string <str> | lf-string <fmt> } ]
           [ hdr <name> <fmt> ]*
  Defines a custom error message to use instead of errors generated by HAProxy.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    status <code>        is the HTTP status code. It must be specified.
                         Currently, HAProxy is capable of generating codes
                         200, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 407, 408, 410, 413, 425,
                         429, 500, 502, 503, and 504.

    content-type <type>  is the response content type, for instance
                         "text/plain". This parameter is ignored and should be
                         omitted when an errorfile is configured or when the
                         payload is empty. Otherwise, it must be defined.

    default-errorfiles   Reset the previously defined error message for current
                         proxy for the status <code>. If used on a backend, the
                         frontend error message is used, if defined. If used on
                         a frontend, the default error message is used.

    errorfile <file>     designates a file containing the full HTTP response.
                         It is recommended to follow the common practice of
                         appending ".http" to the filename so that people do
                         not confuse the response with HTML error pages, and to
                         use absolute paths, since files are read before any
                         chroot is performed.

    errorfiles <name>    designates the http-errors section to use to import
                         the error message with the status code <code>. If no
                         such message is found, the proxy's error messages are
                         considered.

    file <file>          specifies the file to use as response payload. If the
                         file is not empty, its content-type must be set as
                         argument to "content-type", otherwise, any
                         "content-type" argument is ignored. <file> is
                         considered as a raw string.

    string <str>         specifies the raw string to use as response payload.
                         The content-type must always be set as argument to
                         "content-type".

    lf-file <file>       specifies the file to use as response payload. If the
                         file is not empty, its content-type must be set as
                         argument to "content-type", otherwise, any
                         "content-type" argument is ignored. <file> is
                         evaluated as a log-format string.

    lf-string <str>      specifies the log-format string to use as response
                         payload. The content-type must always be set as
                         argument to "content-type".

    hdr <name> <fmt>     adds to the response the HTTP header field whose name
                         is specified in <name> and whose value is defined by
                         <fmt>, which follows to the log-format rules.
                         This parameter is ignored if an errorfile is used.

  This directive may be used instead of "errorfile", to define a custom error
  message. As "errorfile" directive, it is used for errors detected and
  returned by HAProxy. If an errorfile is defined, it is parsed when HAProxy
  starts and must be valid according to the HTTP standards. The generated
  response must not exceed the configured buffer size (BUFFSIZE), otherwise an
  internal error will be returned.  Finally, if you consider to use some
  http-after-response rules to rewrite these errors, the reserved buffer space
  should be available (see "tune.maxrewrite").

  The files are read at the same time as the configuration and kept in memory.
  For this reason, the errors continue to be returned even when the process is
  chrooted, and no file change is considered while the process is running.

  Note: 400/408/500 errors emitted in early stage of the request parsing are
        handled by the multiplexer at a lower level. No custom formatting is
        supported at this level. Thus only static error messages, defined with
        "errorfile" directive, are supported. However, this limitation only
        exists during the request headers parsing or between two transactions.

  See also : "errorfile", "errorfiles", "errorloc", "errorloc302",
             "errorloc303" and section 3.8 about http-errors.


http-request <action> [options...] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Access control for Layer 7 requests

  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  The http-request statement defines a set of rules which apply to layer 7
  processing. The rules are evaluated in their declaration order when they are
  met in a frontend, listen or backend section. Any rule may optionally be
  followed by an ACL-based condition, in which case it will only be evaluated
  if the condition is true.

  The first keyword is the rule's action. The supported actions are described
  below.

  There is no limit to the number of http-request statements per instance.

  Example:
        acl nagios src 192.168.129.3
        acl local_net src 192.168.0.0/16
        acl auth_ok http_auth(L1)

        http-request allow if nagios
        http-request allow if local_net auth_ok
        http-request auth realm Gimme if local_net auth_ok
        http-request deny

  Example:
        acl key req.hdr(X-Add-Acl-Key) -m found
        acl add path /addacl
        acl del path /delacl

        acl myhost hdr(Host) -f myhost.lst

        http-request add-acl(myhost.lst) %[req.hdr(X-Add-Acl-Key)] if key add
        http-request del-acl(myhost.lst) %[req.hdr(X-Add-Acl-Key)] if key del

  Example:
        acl value  req.hdr(X-Value) -m found
        acl setmap path /setmap
        acl delmap path /delmap

        use_backend bk_appli if { hdr(Host),map_str(map.lst) -m found }

        http-request set-map(map.lst) %[src] %[req.hdr(X-Value)] if setmap value
        http-request del-map(map.lst) %[src]                     if delmap

  See also : "stats http-request", section 3.4 about userlists and section 7
             about ACL usage.

http-request add-acl(<file-name>) <key fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to add a new entry into an ACL. The ACL must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the ACL to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes one argument: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, to collect content of the new entry. It performs a lookup
  in the ACL before insertion, to avoid duplicated (or more) values. This
  lookup is done by a linear search and can be expensive with large lists!
  It is the equivalent of the "add acl" command from the stats socket, but can
  be triggered by an HTTP request.

http-request add-header <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This appends an HTTP header field whose name is specified in <name> and
  whose value is defined by <fmt> which follows the log-format rules (see
  Custom Log Format in section 8.2.4). This is particularly useful to pass
  connection-specific information to the server (e.g. the client's SSL
  certificate), or to combine several headers into one. This rule is not
  final, so it is possible to add other similar rules. Note that header
  addition is performed immediately, so one rule might reuse the resulting
  header from a previous rule.

http-request allow [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and lets the request pass the check.
  No further "http-request" rules are evaluated.


http-request auth [realm <realm>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately responds with an
  HTTP 401 or 407 error code to invite the user to present a valid user name
  and password. No further "http-request" rules are evaluated. An optional
  "realm" parameter is supported, it sets the authentication realm that is
  returned with the response (typically the application's name).

  The corresponding proxy's error message is used. It may be customized using
  an "errorfile" or an "http-error" directive. For 401 responses, all
  occurrences of the WWW-Authenticate header are removed and replaced by a new
  one with a basic authentication challenge for realm "<realm>". For 407
  responses, the same is done on the Proxy-Authenticate header. If the error
  message must not be altered, consider to use "http-request return" rule
  instead.

  Example:
        acl auth_ok http_auth_group(L1) G1
        http-request auth unless auth_ok

http-request cache-use <name> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  See section 6.2 about cache setup.

http-request capture <sample> [ len <length> | id <id> ]
                     [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This captures sample expression <sample> from the request buffer, and
  converts it to a string of at most <len> characters. The resulting string is
  stored into the next request "capture" slot, so it will possibly appear next
  to some captured HTTP headers. It will then automatically appear in the logs,
  and it will be possible to extract it using sample fetch rules to feed it
  into headers or anything. The length should be limited given that this size
  will be allocated for each capture during the whole session life.
  Please check section 7.3 (Fetching samples) and "capture request header" for
  more information.

  If the keyword "id" is used instead of "len", the action tries to store the
  captured string in a previously declared capture slot. This is useful to run
  captures in backends. The slot id can be declared by a previous directive
  "http-request capture" or with the "declare capture" keyword.

  When using this action in a backend, double check that the relevant
  frontend(s) have the required capture slots otherwise, this rule will be
  ignored at run time. This can't be detected at configuration parsing time
  due to HAProxy's ability to dynamically resolve backend name at runtime.

http-request del-acl(<file-name>) <key fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to delete an entry from an ACL. The ACL must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the ACL to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes one argument: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, to collect content of the entry to delete.
  It is the equivalent of the "del acl" command from the stats socket, but can
  be triggered by an HTTP request.

http-request del-header <name> [ -m <meth> ] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This removes all HTTP header fields whose name is specified in <name>. <meth>
  is the matching method, applied on the header name. Supported matching methods
  are "str" (exact match), "beg" (prefix match), "end" (suffix match), "sub"
  (substring match) and "reg" (regex match). If not specified, exact matching
  method is used.

http-request del-map(<file-name>) <key fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to delete an entry from a MAP. The MAP must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the MAP to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes one argument: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, to collect content of the entry to delete.
  It takes one argument: "file name" It is the equivalent of the "del map"
  command from the stats socket, but can be triggered by an HTTP request.

http-request deny [deny_status <status>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-request deny [ { status | deny_status } <code>] [content-type <type>]
          [ { default-errorfiles | errorfile <file> | errorfiles <name> |
              file <file> | lf-file <file> | string <str> | lf-string <fmt> } ]
          [ hdr <name> <fmt> ]*
          [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately rejects the request.
  By default an HTTP 403 error is returned. But the response may be customized
  using same syntax than "http-request return" rules. Thus, see "http-request
  return" for details. For compatibility purpose, when no argument is defined,
  or only "deny_status", the argument "default-errorfiles" is implied. It means
  "http-request deny [deny_status <status>]" is an alias of
  "http-request deny [status <status>] default-errorfiles".
  No further "http-request" rules are evaluated.
  See also "http-request return".

http-request disable-l7-retry [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  This disables any attempt to retry the request if it fails for any other
  reason than a connection failure. This can be useful for example to make
  sure POST requests aren't retried on failure.

http-request do-resolve(<var>,<resolvers>,[ipv4,ipv6]) <expr> :

  This action performs a DNS resolution of the output of <expr> and stores
  the result in the variable <var>. It uses the DNS resolvers section
  pointed by <resolvers>.
  It is possible to choose a resolution preference using the optional
  arguments 'ipv4' or 'ipv6'.
  When performing the DNS resolution, the client side connection is on
  pause waiting till the end of the resolution.
  If an IP address can be found, it is stored into <var>. If any kind of
  error occurs, then <var> is not set.
  One can use this action to discover a server IP address at run time and
  based on information found in the request (IE a Host header).
  If this action is used to find the server's IP address (using the
  "set-dst" action), then the server IP address in the backend must be set
  to 0.0.0.0.

  Example:
    resolvers mydns
      nameserver local 127.0.0.53:53
      nameserver google 8.8.8.8:53
      timeout retry   1s
      hold valid 10s
      hold nx 3s
      hold other 3s
      hold obsolete 0s
      accepted_payload_size 8192

    frontend fe
      bind 10.42.0.1:80
      http-request do-resolve(txn.myip,mydns,ipv4) hdr(Host),lower
      http-request capture var(txn.myip) len 40

      # return 503 when the variable is not set,
      # which mean DNS resolution error
      use_backend b_503 unless { var(txn.myip) -m found }

      default_backend be

    backend b_503
      # dummy backend used to return 503.
      # one can use the errorfile directive to send a nice
      # 503 error page to end users

    backend be
      # rule to prevent HAProxy from reconnecting to services
      # on the local network (forged DNS name used to scan the network)
      http-request deny if { var(txn.myip) -m ip 127.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0/8 }
      http-request set-dst var(txn.myip)
      server clear 0.0.0.0:0

  NOTE: Don't forget to set the "protection" rules to ensure HAProxy won't
        be used to scan the network or worst won't loop over itself...

http-request early-hint <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to build an HTTP 103 Early Hints response prior to any other one.
  This appends an HTTP header field to this response whose name is specified in
  <name> and whose value is defined by <fmt> which follows the log-format rules
  (see Custom Log Format in section 8.2.4). This is particularly useful to pass
  to the client some Link headers to preload resources required to render the
  HTML documents.

  See RFC 8297 for more information.

http-request redirect <rule> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This performs an HTTP redirection based on a redirect rule. This is exactly
  the same as the "redirect" statement except that it inserts a redirect rule
  which can be processed in the middle of other "http-request" rules and that
  these rules use the "log-format" strings. See the "redirect" keyword for the
  rule's syntax.

http-request reject [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately closes the connection
  without sending any response. It acts similarly to the
  "tcp-request content reject" rules. It can be useful to force an immediate
  connection closure on HTTP/2 connections.

http-request replace-header <name> <match-regex> <replace-fmt>
                            [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This matches the value of all occurrences of header field <name> against
  <match-regex>. Matching is performed case-sensitively. Matching values are
  completely replaced by <replace-fmt>. Format characters are allowed in
  <replace-fmt> and work like <fmt> arguments in "http-request add-header".
  Standard back-references using the backslash ('\') followed by a number are
  supported.

  This action acts on whole header lines, regardless of the number of values
  they may contain. Thus it is well-suited to process headers naturally
  containing commas in their value, such as If-Modified-Since. Headers that
  contain a comma-separated list of values, such as Accept, should be processed
  using "http-request replace-value".

  Example:
    http-request replace-header Cookie foo=([^;]*);(.*) foo=\1;ip=%bi;\2

    # applied to:
    Cookie: foo=foobar; expires=Tue, 14-Jun-2016 01:40:45 GMT;

    # outputs:
    Cookie: foo=foobar;ip=192.168.1.20; expires=Tue, 14-Jun-2016 01:40:45 GMT;

    # assuming the backend IP is 192.168.1.20

    http-request replace-header User-Agent curl foo

    # applied to:
    User-Agent: curl/7.47.0

    # outputs:
    User-Agent: foo

http-request replace-path <match-regex> <replace-fmt>
                           [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "replace-header" except that it works on the request's path
  component instead of a header. The path component starts at the first '/'
  after an optional scheme+authority and ends before the question mark. Thus,
  the replacement does not modify the scheme, the authority and the
  query-string.

  It is worth noting that regular expressions may be more expensive to evaluate
  than certain ACLs, so rare replacements may benefit from a condition to avoid
  performing the evaluation at all if it does not match.

  Example:
    # prefix /foo : turn /bar?q=1 into /foo/bar?q=1 :
    http-request replace-path (.*) /foo\1

    # strip /foo : turn /foo/bar?q=1 into /bar?q=1
    http-request replace-path /foo/(.*) /\1
    # or more efficient if only some requests match :
    http-request replace-path /foo/(.*) /\1 if { url_beg /foo/ }

http-request replace-pathq <match-regex> <replace-fmt>
                           [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This does the same as "http-request replace-path" except that the path
  contains the query-string if any is present. Thus, the path and the
  query-string are replaced.

  Example:
    # suffix /foo : turn /bar?q=1 into /bar/foo?q=1 :
    http-request replace-pathq ([^?]*)(\?(.*))? \1/foo\2

http-request replace-uri <match-regex> <replace-fmt>
                           [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "replace-header" except that it works on the request's URI part
  instead of a header. The URI part may contain an optional scheme, authority or
  query string. These are considered to be part of the value that is matched
  against.

  It is worth noting that regular expressions may be more expensive to evaluate
  than certain ACLs, so rare replacements may benefit from a condition to avoid
  performing the evaluation at all if it does not match.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: historically in HTTP/1.x, the vast majority of requests sent
  by browsers use the "origin form", which differs from the "absolute form" in
  that they do not contain a scheme nor authority in the URI portion. Mostly
  only requests sent to proxies, those forged by hand and some emitted by
  certain applications use the absolute form. As such, "replace-uri" usually
  works fine most of the time in HTTP/1.x with rules starting with a "/". But
  with HTTP/2, clients are encouraged to send absolute URIs only, which look
  like the ones HTTP/1 clients use to talk to proxies. Such partial replace-uri
  rules may then fail in HTTP/2 when they work in HTTP/1. Either the rules need
  to be adapted to optionally match a scheme and authority, or replace-path
  should be used.

  Example:
    # rewrite all "http" absolute requests to "https":
    http-request replace-uri ^http://(.*) https://\1

    # prefix /foo : turn /bar?q=1 into /foo/bar?q=1 :
    http-request replace-uri ([^/:]*://[^/]*)?(.*) \1/foo\2

http-request replace-value <name> <match-regex> <replace-fmt>
                           [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "replace-header" except that it matches the regex against
  every comma-delimited value of the header field <name> instead of the
  entire header. This is suited for all headers which are allowed to carry
  more than one value. An example could be the Accept header.

  Example:
    http-request replace-value X-Forwarded-For ^192\.168\.(.*)$ 172.16.\1

    # applied to:
    X-Forwarded-For: 192.168.10.1, 192.168.13.24, 10.0.0.37

    # outputs:
    X-Forwarded-For: 172.16.10.1, 172.16.13.24, 10.0.0.37

http-request return [status <code>] [content-type <type>]
          [ { default-errorfiles | errorfile <file> | errorfiles <name> |
              file <file> | lf-file <file> | string <str> | lf-string <fmt> } ]
	  [ hdr <name> <fmt> ]*
          [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately returns a response. The
  default status code used for the response is 200. It can be optionally
  specified as an arguments to "status". The response content-type may also be
  specified as an argument to "content-type". Finally the response itself may
  be defined. It can be a full HTTP response specifying the errorfile to use,
  or the response payload specifying the file or the string to use. These rules
  are followed to create the response :

  * If neither the errorfile nor the payload to use is defined, a dummy
    response is returned. Only the "status" argument is considered. It can be
    any code in the range [200, 599]. The "content-type" argument, if any, is
    ignored.

  * If "default-errorfiles" argument is set, the proxy's errorfiles are
    considered.  If the "status" argument is defined, it must be one of the
    status code handled by haproxy (200, 400, 403, 404, 405, 408, 410, 413,
    425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504). The "content-type" argument, if any,
    is ignored.

  * If a specific errorfile is defined, with an "errorfile" argument, the
    corresponding file, containing a full HTTP response, is returned. Only the
    "status" argument is considered. It must be one of the status code handled
    by haproxy (200, 400, 403, 404, 405, 408, 410, 413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503,
    and 504). The "content-type" argument, if any, is ignored.

  * If an http-errors section is defined, with an "errorfiles" argument, the
    corresponding file in the specified http-errors section, containing a full
    HTTP response, is returned. Only the "status" argument is considered. It
    must be one of the status code handled by haproxy (200, 400, 403, 404, 405,
    408, 410, 413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504). The "content-type"
    argument, if any, is ignored.

  * If a "file" or a "lf-file" argument is specified, the file's content is
    used as the response payload. If the file is not empty, its content-type
    must be set as argument to "content-type". Otherwise, any "content-type"
    argument is ignored. With a "lf-file" argument, the file's content is
    evaluated as a log-format string. With a "file" argument, it is considered
    as a raw content.

  * If a "string" or "lf-string" argument is specified, the defined string is
    used as the response payload. The content-type must always be set as
    argument to "content-type". With a "lf-string" argument, the string is
    evaluated as a log-format string. With a "string" argument, it is
    considered as a raw string.

  When the response is not based on an errorfile, it is possible to append HTTP
  header fields to the response using "hdr" arguments. Otherwise, all "hdr"
  arguments are ignored. For each one, the header name is specified in <name>
  and its value is defined by <fmt> which follows the log-format rules.

  Note that the generated response must be smaller than a buffer. And to avoid
  any warning, when an errorfile or a raw file is loaded, the buffer space
  reserved for the headers rewriting should also be free.

  No further "http-request" rules are evaluated.

  Example:
    http-request return errorfile /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/200.http \
        if { path /ping }

    http-request return content-type image/x-icon file /var/www/favicon.ico  \
        if { path /favicon.ico }

    http-request return status 403 content-type text/plain    \
        lf-string "Access denied. IP %[src] is blacklisted."  \
        if { src -f /etc/haproxy/blacklist.lst }

http-request sc-inc-gpc0(<sc-id>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-request sc-inc-gpc1(<sc-id>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This actions increments the GPC0 or GPC1 counter according with the sticky
  counter designated by <sc-id>. If an error occurs, this action silently fails
  and the actions evaluation continues.

http-request sc-set-gpt0(<sc-id>) { <int> | <expr> }
                                  [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This action sets the 32-bit unsigned GPT0 tag according to the sticky counter
  designated by <sc-id> and the value of <int>/<expr>. The expected result is a
  boolean. If an error occurs, this action silently fails and the actions
  evaluation continues.

http-request set-dst <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the destination IP address to the value of specified
  expression. Useful when a proxy in front of HAProxy rewrites destination IP,
  but provides the correct IP in a HTTP header; or you want to mask the IP for
  privacy. If you want to connect to the new address/port, use '0.0.0.0:0' as a
  server address in the backend.

  Arguments:
    <expr>  Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch followed
            by some converters.

  Example:
    http-request set-dst hdr(x-dst)
    http-request set-dst dst,ipmask(24)

  When possible, set-dst preserves the original destination port as long as the
  address family allows it, otherwise the destination port is set to 0.

http-request set-dst-port <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the destination port address to the value of specified
  expression. If you want to connect to the new address/port, use '0.0.0.0:0'
  as a server address in the backend.

  Arguments:
    <expr>  Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
            followed by some converters.

  Example:
    http-request set-dst-port hdr(x-port)
    http-request set-dst-port int(4000)

  When possible, set-dst-port preserves the original destination address as
  long as the address family supports a port, otherwise it forces the
  destination address to IPv4 "0.0.0.0" before rewriting the port.

http-request set-header <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This does the same as "http-request add-header" except that the header name
  is first removed if it existed. This is useful when passing security
  information to the server, where the header must not be manipulated by
  external users. Note that the new value is computed before the removal so it
  is possible to concatenate a value to an existing header.

  Example:
        http-request set-header X-Haproxy-Current-Date %T
        http-request set-header X-SSL                  %[ssl_fc]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Session_ID       %[ssl_fc_session_id,hex]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Client-Verify    %[ssl_c_verify]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Client-DN        %{+Q}[ssl_c_s_dn]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Client-CN        %{+Q}[ssl_c_s_dn(cn)]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Issuer           %{+Q}[ssl_c_i_dn]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Client-NotBefore %{+Q}[ssl_c_notbefore]
        http-request set-header X-SSL-Client-NotAfter  %{+Q}[ssl_c_notafter]

http-request set-log-level <level> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to change the log level of the current request when a certain
  condition is met. Valid levels are the 8 syslog levels (see the "log"
  keyword) plus the special level "silent" which disables logging for this
  request. This rule is not final so the last matching rule wins. This rule
  can be useful to disable health checks coming from another equipment.

http-request set-map(<file-name>) <key fmt> <value fmt>
                                  [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to add a new entry into a MAP. The MAP must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the MAP to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes 2 arguments: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, used to collect MAP key, and <value fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, used to collect content for the new entry.
  It performs a lookup in the MAP before insertion, to avoid duplicated (or
  more) values. This lookup is done by a linear search and can be expensive
  with large lists! It is the equivalent of the "set map" command from the
  stats socket, but can be triggered by an HTTP request.

http-request set-mark <mark> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the Netfilter MARK on all packets sent to the client to
  the value passed in <mark> on platforms which support it. This value is an
  unsigned 32 bit value which can be matched by netfilter and by the routing
  table. It can be expressed both in decimal or hexadecimal format (prefixed by
  "0x"). This can be useful to force certain packets to take a different route
  (for example a cheaper network path for bulk downloads). This works on Linux
  kernels 2.6.32 and above and requires admin privileges.

http-request set-method <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This rewrites the request method with the result of the evaluation of format
  string <fmt>. There should be very few valid reasons for having to do so as
  this is more likely to break something than to fix it.

http-request set-nice <nice> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This sets the "nice" factor of the current request being processed. It only
  has effect against the other requests being processed at the same time.
  The default value is 0, unless altered by the "nice" setting on the "bind"
  line. The accepted range is -1024..1024. The higher the value, the nicest
  the request will be. Lower values will make the request more important than
  other ones. This can be useful to improve the speed of some requests, or
  lower the priority of non-important requests. Using this setting without
  prior experimentation can cause some major slowdown.

http-request set-path <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

    This rewrites the request path with the result of the evaluation of format
    string <fmt>. The query string, if any, is left intact. If a scheme and
    authority is found before the path, they are left intact as well. If the
    request doesn't have a path ("*"), this one is replaced with the format.
    This can be used to prepend a directory component in front of a path for
    example. See also "http-request set-query" and "http-request set-uri".

    Example :
      # prepend the host name before the path
      http-request set-path /%[hdr(host)]%[path]

http-request set-pathq <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This does the same as "http-request set-path" except that the query-string is
  also rewritten. It may be used to remove the query-string, including the
  question mark (it is not possible using "http-request set-query").

http-request set-priority-class <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the queue priority class of the current request.
  The value must be a sample expression which converts to an integer in the
  range -2047..2047. Results outside this range will be truncated.
  The priority class determines the order in which queued requests are
  processed. Lower values have higher priority.

http-request set-priority-offset <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the queue priority timestamp offset of the current
  request. The value must be a sample expression which converts to an integer
  in the range -524287..524287. Results outside this range will be truncated.
  When a request is queued, it is ordered first by the priority class, then by
  the current timestamp adjusted by the given offset in milliseconds. Lower
  values have higher priority.
  Note that the resulting timestamp is is only tracked with enough precision
  for 524,287ms (8m44s287ms). If the request is queued long enough to where the
  adjusted timestamp exceeds this value, it will be misidentified as highest
  priority. Thus it is important to set "timeout queue" to a value, where when
  combined with the offset, does not exceed this limit.

http-request set-query <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This rewrites the request's query string which appears after the first
  question mark ("?") with the result of the evaluation of format string <fmt>.
  The part prior to the question mark is left intact. If the request doesn't
  contain a question mark and the new value is not empty, then one is added at
  the end of the URI, followed by the new value. If a question mark was
  present, it will never be removed even if the value is empty. This can be
  used to add or remove parameters from the query string.

  See also "http-request set-query" and "http-request set-uri".

  Example:
    # replace "%3D" with "=" in the query string
    http-request set-query %[query,regsub(%3D,=,g)]

http-request set-src <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  This is used to set the source IP address to the value of specified
  expression. Useful when a proxy in front of HAProxy rewrites source IP, but
  provides the correct IP in a HTTP header; or you want to mask source IP for
  privacy. All subsequent calls to "src" fetch will return this value
  (see example).

  Arguments :
    <expr>  Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch followed
            by some converters.

  See also "option forwardfor".

  Example:
    http-request set-src hdr(x-forwarded-for)
    http-request set-src src,ipmask(24)

    # After the masking this will track connections
    # based on the IP address with the last byte zeroed out.
    http-request track-sc0 src

  When possible, set-src preserves the original source port as long as the
  address family allows it, otherwise the source port is set to 0.

http-request set-src-port <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the source port address to the value of specified
  expression.

  Arguments:
    <expr>  Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch followed
            by some converters.

  Example:
    http-request set-src-port hdr(x-port)
    http-request set-src-port int(4000)

  When possible, set-src-port preserves the original source address as long as
  the address family supports a port, otherwise it forces the source address to
  IPv4 "0.0.0.0" before rewriting the port.

http-request set-timeout server|tunnel { <timeout> | <expr> }
                                       [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This action overrides the specified "server" or "tunnel" timeout for the
  current stream only. The timeout can be specified in millisecond or with any
  other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit as explained at the top of
  this document. It is also possible to write an expression which must returns
  a number interpreted as a timeout in millisecond.

  Note that the server/tunnel timeouts are only relevant on the backend side
  and thus this rule is only available for the proxies with backend
  capabilities. Also the timeout value must be non-null to obtain the expected
  results.

  Example:
    http-request set-timeout server 5s
    http-request set-timeout hdr(host),map_int(host.lst)

http-request set-tos <tos> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the TOS or DSCP field value of packets sent to the client
  to the value passed in <tos> on platforms which support this. This value
  represents the whole 8 bits of the IP TOS field, and can be expressed both in
  decimal or hexadecimal format (prefixed by "0x"). Note that only the 6 higher
  bits are used in DSCP or TOS, and the two lower bits are always 0. This can
  be used to adjust some routing behavior on border routers based on some
  information from the request.

  See RFC 2474, 2597, 3260 and 4594 for more information.

http-request set-uri <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This rewrites the request URI with the result of the evaluation of format
  string <fmt>. The scheme, authority, path and query string are all replaced
  at once. This can be used to rewrite hosts in front of proxies, or to
  perform complex modifications to the URI such as moving parts between the
  path and the query string.
  See also "http-request set-path" and "http-request set-query".

http-request set-var(<var-name>) <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the contents of a variable. The variable is declared
  inline.

  Arguments:
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
                  "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction
                           (request and response)
                  "req"  : the variable is shared only during request
                           processing
                  "res"  : the variable is shared only during response
                           processing
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9'
                and '_'.

    <expr>      Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                followed by some converters.

  Example:
    http-request set-var(req.my_var) req.fhdr(user-agent),lower

http-request send-spoe-group <engine-name> <group-name>
                             [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This action is used to trigger sending of a group of SPOE messages. To do so,
  the SPOE engine used to send messages must be defined, as well as the SPOE
  group to send. Of course, the SPOE engine must refer to an existing SPOE
  filter. If not engine name is provided on the SPOE filter line, the SPOE
  agent name must be used.

  Arguments:
    <engine-name>  The SPOE engine name.

    <group-name>   The SPOE group name as specified in the engine
                   configuration.

http-request silent-drop [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and makes the client-facing connection
  suddenly disappear using a system-dependent way that tries to prevent the
  client from being notified. The effect it then that the client still sees an
  established connection while there's none on HAProxy. The purpose is to
  achieve a comparable effect to "tarpit" except that it doesn't use any local
  resource at all on the machine running HAProxy. It can resist much higher
  loads than "tarpit", and slow down stronger attackers. It is important to
  understand the impact of using this mechanism. All stateful equipment placed
  between the client and HAProxy (firewalls, proxies, load balancers) will also
  keep the established connection for a long time and may suffer from this
  action.
  On modern Linux systems running with enough privileges, the TCP_REPAIR socket
  option is used to block the emission of a TCP reset. On other systems, the
  socket's TTL is reduced to 1 so that the TCP reset doesn't pass the first
  router, though it's still delivered to local networks. Do not use it unless
  you fully understand how it works.

http-request strict-mode { on | off }

  This enables or disables the strict rewriting mode for following rules. It
  does not affect rules declared before it and it is only applicable on rules
  performing a rewrite on the requests. When the strict mode is enabled, any
  rewrite failure triggers an internal error. Otherwise, such errors are
  silently ignored. The purpose of the strict rewriting mode is to make some
  rewrites optional while others must be performed to continue the request
  processing.

  By default, the strict rewriting mode is enabled. Its value is also reset
  when a ruleset evaluation ends. So, for instance, if you change the mode on
  the frontend, the default mode is restored when HAProxy starts the backend
  rules evaluation.

http-request tarpit [deny_status <status>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-request tarpit [ { status | deny_status } <code>] [content-type <type>]
          [ { default-errorfiles | errorfile <file> | errorfiles <name> |
              file <file> | lf-file <file> | string <str> | lf-string <fmt> } ]
          [ hdr <name> <fmt> ]*
          [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately blocks the request
  without responding for a delay specified by "timeout tarpit" or
  "timeout connect" if the former is not set. After that delay, if the client
  is still connected, a response is returned so that the client does not
  suspect it has been tarpitted. Logs will report the flags "PT". The goal of
  the tarpit rule is to slow down robots during an attack when they're limited
  on the number of concurrent requests. It can be very efficient against very
  dumb robots, and will significantly reduce the load on firewalls compared to
  a "deny" rule. But when facing "correctly" developed robots, it can make
  things worse by forcing haproxy and the front firewall to support insane
  number of concurrent connections. By default an HTTP error 500 is returned.
  But the response may be customized using same syntax than
  "http-request return" rules. Thus, see "http-request return" for details.
  For compatibility purpose, when no argument is defined, or only "deny_status",
  the argument "default-errorfiles" is implied. It means
  "http-request tarpit [deny_status <status>]" is an alias of
  "http-request tarpit [status <status>] default-errorfiles".
  No further "http-request" rules are evaluated.
  See also "http-request return" and "http-request silent-drop".

http-request track-sc0 <key> [table <table>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-request track-sc1 <key> [table <table>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-request track-sc2 <key> [table <table>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This enables tracking of sticky counters from current request. These rules do
  not stop evaluation and do not change default action. The number of counters
  that may be simultaneously tracked by the same connection is set in
  MAX_SESS_STKCTR at build time (reported in haproxy -vv) which defaults to 3,
  so the track-sc number is between 0 and (MAX_SESS_STKCTR-1). The first
  "track-sc0" rule executed enables tracking of the counters of the specified
  table as the first set. The first "track-sc1" rule executed enables tracking
  of the counters of the specified table as the second set. The first
  "track-sc2" rule executed enables tracking of the counters of the specified
  table as the third set. It is a recommended practice to use the first set of
  counters for the per-frontend counters and the second set for the per-backend
  ones. But this is just a guideline, all may be used everywhere.

  Arguments :
    <key>   is mandatory, and is a sample expression rule as described in
            section 7.3. It describes what elements of the incoming request or
            connection will be analyzed, extracted, combined, and used to
            select which table entry to update the counters.

    <table> is an optional table to be used instead of the default one, which
            is the stick-table declared in the current proxy. All the counters
            for the matches and updates for the key will then be performed in
            that table until the session ends.

  Once a "track-sc*" rule is executed, the key is looked up in the table and if
  it is not found, an entry is allocated for it. Then a pointer to that entry
  is kept during all the session's life, and this entry's counters are updated
  as often as possible, every time the session's counters are updated, and also
  systematically when the session ends. Counters are only updated for events
  that happen after the tracking has been started. As an exception, connection
  counters and request counters are systematically updated so that they reflect
  useful information.

  If the entry tracks concurrent connection counters, one connection is counted
  for as long as the entry is tracked, and the entry will not expire during
  that time. Tracking counters also provides a performance advantage over just
  checking the keys, because only one table lookup is performed for all ACL
  checks that make use of it.

http-request unset-var(<var-name>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to unset a variable. See above for details about <var-name>.

  Example:
    http-request unset-var(req.my_var)

http-request use-service <service-name> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This directive executes the configured HTTP service to reply to the request
  and stops the evaluation of the rules. An HTTP service may choose to reply by
  sending any valid HTTP response or it may immediately close the connection
  without sending any response. Outside natives services, for instance the
  Prometheus exporter, it is possible to write your own services in Lua. No
  further "http-request" rules are evaluated.

  Arguments :
    <service-name>  is mandatory. It is the service to call

  Example:
    http-request use-service prometheus-exporter if { path /metrics }

http-request wait-for-handshake [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This will delay the processing of the request until the SSL handshake
  happened. This is mostly useful to delay processing early data until we're
  sure they are valid.


http-response <action> <options...> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Access control for Layer 7 responses

  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  The http-response statement defines a set of rules which apply to layer 7
  processing. The rules are evaluated in their declaration order when they are
  met in a frontend, listen or backend section. Any rule may optionally be
  followed by an ACL-based condition, in which case it will only be evaluated
  if the condition is true. Since these rules apply on responses, the backend
  rules are applied first, followed by the frontend's rules.

  The first keyword is the rule's action. The supported actions are described
  below.

  There is no limit to the number of http-response statements per instance.

  Example:
    acl key_acl res.hdr(X-Acl-Key) -m found

    acl myhost hdr(Host) -f myhost.lst

    http-response add-acl(myhost.lst) %[res.hdr(X-Acl-Key)] if key_acl
    http-response del-acl(myhost.lst) %[res.hdr(X-Acl-Key)] if key_acl

  Example:
    acl value  res.hdr(X-Value) -m found

    use_backend bk_appli if { hdr(Host),map_str(map.lst) -m found }

    http-response set-map(map.lst) %[src] %[res.hdr(X-Value)] if value
    http-response del-map(map.lst) %[src]                     if ! value

  See also : "http-request", section 3.4 about userlists and section 7 about
             ACL usage.

http-response add-acl(<file-name>) <key fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to add a new entry into an ACL. The ACL must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the ACL to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes one argument: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, to collect content of the new entry. It performs a lookup
  in the ACL before insertion, to avoid duplicated (or more) values.
  This lookup is done by a linear search and can be expensive with large lists!
  It is the equivalent of the "add acl" command from the stats socket, but can
  be triggered by an HTTP response.

http-response add-header <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This appends an HTTP header field whose name is specified in <name> and whose
  value is defined by <fmt> which follows the log-format rules (see Custom Log
  Format in section 8.2.4). This may be used to send a cookie to a client for
  example, or to pass some internal information.
  This rule is not final, so it is possible to add other similar rules.
  Note that header addition is performed immediately, so one rule might reuse
  the resulting header from a previous rule.

http-response allow [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and lets the response pass the check.
  No further "http-response" rules are evaluated for the current section.

http-response cache-store <name> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  See section 6.2 about cache setup.

http-response capture <sample> id <id> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This captures sample expression <sample> from the response buffer, and
  converts it to a string. The resulting string is stored into the next request
  "capture" slot, so it will possibly appear next to some captured HTTP
  headers. It will then automatically appear in the logs, and it will be
  possible to extract it using sample fetch rules to feed it into headers or
  anything. Please check section 7.3 (Fetching samples) and
  "capture response header" for more information.

  The keyword "id" is the id of the capture slot which is used for storing the
  string. The capture slot must be defined in an associated frontend.
  This is useful to run captures in backends. The slot id can be declared by a
  previous directive "http-response capture" or with the "declare capture"
  keyword.

  When using this action in a backend, double check that the relevant
  frontend(s) have the required capture slots otherwise, this rule will be
  ignored at run time. This can't be detected at configuration parsing time
  due to HAProxy's ability to dynamically resolve backend name at runtime.

http-response del-acl(<file-name>) <key fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to delete an entry from an ACL. The ACL must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the ACL to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes one argument: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, to collect content of the entry to delete.
  It is the equivalent of the "del acl" command from the stats socket, but can
  be triggered by an HTTP response.

http-response del-header <name> [ -m <meth> ] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This removes all HTTP header fields whose name is specified in <name>. <meth>
  is the matching method, applied on the header name. Supported matching methods
  are "str" (exact match), "beg" (prefix match), "end" (suffix match), "sub"
  (substring match) and "reg" (regex match). If not specified, exact matching
  method is used.

http-response del-map(<file-name>) <key fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to delete an entry from a MAP. The MAP must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the MAP to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes one argument: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, to collect content of the entry to delete.
  It takes one argument: "file name" It is the equivalent of the "del map"
  command from the stats socket, but can be triggered by an HTTP response.

http-response deny [deny_status <status>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-response deny [ { status | deny_status } <code>] [content-type <type>]
          [ { default-errorfiles | errorfile <file> | errorfiles <name> |
              file <file> | lf-file <file> | string <str> | lf-string <fmt> } ]
          [ hdr <name> <fmt> ]*
          [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately rejects the response.
  By default an HTTP 502 error is returned. But the response may be customized
  using same syntax than "http-response return" rules. Thus, see
  "http-response return" for details. For compatibility purpose, when no
  argument is defined, or only "deny_status", the argument "default-errorfiles"
  is implied. It means "http-response deny [deny_status <status>]" is an alias
  of "http-response deny [status <status>] default-errorfiles".
  No further "http-response" rules are evaluated.
  See also "http-response return".

http-response redirect <rule> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This performs an HTTP redirection based on a redirect rule.
  This supports a format string similarly to "http-request redirect" rules,
  with the exception that only the "location" type of redirect is possible on
  the response. See the "redirect" keyword for the rule's syntax. When a
  redirect rule is applied during a response, connections to the server are
  closed so that no data can be forwarded from the server to the client.

http-response replace-header <name> <regex-match> <replace-fmt>
                             [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "http-request replace-header" except that it works on the
  server's response instead of the client's request.

  Example:
    http-response replace-header Set-Cookie (C=[^;]*);(.*) \1;ip=%bi;\2

    # applied to:
    Set-Cookie: C=1; expires=Tue, 14-Jun-2016 01:40:45 GMT

    # outputs:
    Set-Cookie: C=1;ip=192.168.1.20; expires=Tue, 14-Jun-2016 01:40:45 GMT

    # assuming the backend IP is 192.168.1.20.

http-response replace-value <name> <regex-match> <replace-fmt>
                            [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This works like "http-request replace-value" except that it works on the
  server's response instead of the client's request.

  Example:
    http-response replace-value Cache-control ^public$ private

    # applied to:
    Cache-Control: max-age=3600, public

    # outputs:
    Cache-Control: max-age=3600, private

http-response return [status <code>] [content-type <type>]
          [ { default-errorfiles | errorfile <file> | errorfiles <name> |
              file <file> | lf-file <file> | string <str> | lf-string <fmt> } ]
	  [ hdr <name> <value> ]*
          [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and immediately returns a response. The
  default status code used for the response is 200. It can be optionally
  specified as an arguments to "status". The response content-type may also be
  specified as an argument to "content-type". Finally the response itself may
  be defined. If can be a full HTTP response specifying the errorfile to use,
  or the response payload specifying the file or the string to use. These rules
  are followed to create the response :

  * If neither the errorfile nor the payload to use is defined, a dummy
    response is returned. Only the "status" argument is considered. It can be
    any code in the range [200, 599]. The "content-type" argument, if any, is
    ignored.

  * If "default-errorfiles" argument is set, the proxy's errorfiles are
    considered.  If the "status" argument is defined, it must be one of the
    status code handled by haproxy (200, 400, 403, 404, 405, 408, 410, 413,
    425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504). The "content-type" argument, if any,
    is ignored.

  * If a specific errorfile is defined, with an "errorfile" argument, the
    corresponding file, containing a full HTTP response, is returned. Only the
    "status" argument is considered. It must be one of the status code handled
    by haproxy (200, 400, 403, 404, 405, 408, 410, 413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503,
    and 504). The "content-type" argument, if any, is ignored.

  * If an http-errors section is defined, with an "errorfiles" argument, the
    corresponding file in the specified http-errors section, containing a full
    HTTP response, is returned. Only the "status" argument is considered. It
    must be one of the status code handled by haproxy (200, 400, 403, 404, 405,
    408, 410, 413, 425, 429, 500, 502, 503, and 504). The "content-type"
    argument, if any, is ignored.

  * If a "file" or a "lf-file" argument is specified, the file's content is
    used as the response payload. If the file is not empty, its content-type
    must be set as argument to "content-type". Otherwise, any "content-type"
    argument is ignored. With a "lf-file" argument, the file's content is
    evaluated as a log-format string. With a "file" argument, it is considered
    as a raw content.

  * If a "string" or "lf-string" argument is specified, the defined string is
    used as the response payload. The content-type must always be set as
    argument to "content-type". With a "lf-string" argument, the string is
    evaluated as a log-format string. With a "string" argument, it is
    considered as a raw string.

  When the response is not based an errorfile, it is possible to appends HTTP
  header fields to the response using "hdr" arguments. Otherwise, all "hdr"
  arguments are ignored. For each one, the header name is specified in <name>
  and its value is defined by <fmt> which follows the log-format rules.

  Note that the generated response must be smaller than a buffer. And to avoid
  any warning, when an errorfile or a raw file is loaded, the buffer space
  reserved to the headers rewriting should also be free.

  No further "http-response" rules are evaluated.

  Example:
    http-response return errorfile /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/200.http \
        if { status eq 404 }

    http-response return content-type text/plain  \
        string "This is the end !"                \
        if { status eq 500 }

http-response sc-inc-gpc0(<sc-id>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-response sc-inc-gpc1(<sc-id>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This action increments the GPC0 or GPC1 counter according with the sticky
  counter designated by <sc-id>. If an error occurs, this action silently fails
  and the actions evaluation continues.

http-response sc-set-gpt0(<sc-id>) { <int> | <expr> }
                                   [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This action sets the 32-bit unsigned GPT0 tag according to the sticky counter
  designated by <sc-id> and the value of <int>/<expr>. The expected result is a
  boolean. If an error occurs, this action silently fails and the actions
  evaluation continues.

http-response send-spoe-group [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This action is used to trigger sending of a group of SPOE messages. To do so,
  the SPOE engine used to send messages must be defined, as well as the SPOE
  group to send. Of course, the SPOE engine must refer to an existing SPOE
  filter. If not engine name is provided on the SPOE filter line, the SPOE
  agent name must be used.

  Arguments:
    <engine-name>  The SPOE engine name.

    <group-name>   The SPOE group name as specified in the engine
                   configuration.

http-response set-header <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This does the same as "add-header" except that the header name is first
  removed if it existed. This is useful when passing security information to
  the server, where the header must not be manipulated by external users.

http-response set-log-level <level> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to change the log level of the current request when a certain
  condition is met. Valid levels are the 8 syslog levels (see the "log"
  keyword) plus the special level "silent" which disables logging for this
  request. This rule is not final so the last matching rule wins. This rule can
  be useful to disable health checks coming from another equipment.

http-response set-map(<file-name>) <key fmt> <value fmt>

  This is used to add a new entry into a MAP. The MAP must be loaded from a
  file (even a dummy empty file). The file name of the MAP to be updated is
  passed between parentheses. It takes 2 arguments: <key fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, used to collect MAP key, and <value fmt>, which follows
  log-format rules, used to collect content for the new entry. It performs a
  lookup in the MAP before insertion, to avoid duplicated (or more) values.
  This lookup is done by a linear search and can be expensive with large lists!
  It is the equivalent of the "set map" command from the stats socket, but can
  be triggered by an HTTP response.

http-response set-mark <mark> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the Netfilter MARK on all packets sent to the client to
  the value passed in <mark> on platforms which support it. This value is an
  unsigned 32 bit value which can be matched by netfilter and by the routing
  table. It can be expressed both in decimal or hexadecimal format (prefixed
  by "0x"). This can be useful to force certain packets to take a different
  route (for example a cheaper network path for bulk downloads). This works on
  Linux kernels 2.6.32 and above and requires admin privileges.

http-response set-nice <nice> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This sets the "nice" factor of the current request being processed.
  It only has effect against the other requests being processed at the same
  time. The default value is 0, unless altered by the "nice" setting on the
  "bind" line. The accepted range is -1024..1024. The higher the value, the
  nicest the request will be. Lower values will make the request more important
  than other ones. This can be useful to improve the speed of some requests, or
  lower the priority of non-important requests. Using this setting without
  prior experimentation can cause some major slowdown.

http-response set-status <status> [reason <str>]
                         [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This replaces the response status code with <status> which must be an integer
  between 100 and 999. Optionally, a custom reason text can be provided defined
  by <str>, or the default reason for the specified code will be used as a
  fallback.

  Example:
    # return "431 Request Header Fields Too Large"
    http-response set-status 431
    # return "503 Slow Down", custom reason
    http-response set-status 503 reason "Slow Down".

http-response set-tos <tos> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the TOS or DSCP field value of packets sent to the client
  to the value passed in <tos> on platforms which support this.
  This value represents the whole 8 bits of the IP TOS field, and can be
  expressed both in decimal or hexadecimal format (prefixed by "0x"). Note that
  only the 6 higher bits are used in DSCP or TOS, and the two lower bits are
  always 0. This can be used to adjust some routing behavior on border routers
  based on some information from the request.

  See RFC 2474, 2597, 3260 and 4594 for more information.

http-response set-var(<var-name>) <expr> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to set the contents of a variable. The variable is declared
  inline.

  Arguments:
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
                  "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction
                           (request and response)
                  "req"  : the variable is shared only during request
                           processing
                  "res"  : the variable is shared only during response
                           processing
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.'
                and '_'.

    <expr>      Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                followed by some converters.

  Example:
    http-response set-var(sess.last_redir) res.hdr(location)

http-response silent-drop [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This stops the evaluation of the rules and makes the client-facing connection
  suddenly disappear using a system-dependent way that tries to prevent the
  client from being notified. The effect it then that the client still sees an
  established connection while there's none on HAProxy. The purpose is to
  achieve a comparable effect to "tarpit" except that it doesn't use any local
  resource at all on the machine running HAProxy. It can resist much higher
  loads than "tarpit", and slow down stronger attackers. It is important to
  understand the impact of using this mechanism. All stateful equipment placed
  between the client and HAProxy (firewalls, proxies, load balancers) will also
  keep the established connection for a long time and may suffer from this
  action.
  On modern Linux systems running with enough privileges, the TCP_REPAIR socket
  option is used to block the emission of a TCP reset. On other systems, the
  socket's TTL is reduced to 1 so that the TCP reset doesn't pass the first
  router, though it's still delivered to local networks. Do not use it unless
  you fully understand how it works.

http-response strict-mode { on | off }

  This enables or disables the strict rewriting mode for following rules. It
  does not affect rules declared before it and it is only applicable on rules
  performing a rewrite on the responses. When the strict mode is enabled, any
  rewrite failure triggers an internal error. Otherwise, such errors are
  silently ignored. The purpose of the strict rewriting mode is to make some
  rewrites optional while others must be performed to continue the response
  processing.

  By default, the strict rewriting mode is enabled. Its value is also reset
  when a ruleset evaluation ends. So, for instance, if you change the mode on
  the backend, the default mode is restored when HAProxy starts the frontend
  rules evaluation.

http-response track-sc0 <key> [table <table>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-response track-sc1 <key> [table <table>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
http-response track-sc2 <key> [table <table>] [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This enables tracking of sticky counters from current response. Please refer
  to "http-request track-sc" for a complete description. The only difference
  from "http-request track-sc" is the <key> sample expression can only make use
  of samples in response (e.g. res.*, status etc.) and samples below Layer 6
  (e.g. SSL-related samples, see section 7.3.4). If the sample is not
  supported, haproxy will fail and warn while parsing the config.

http-response unset-var(<var-name>) [ { if | unless } <condition> ]

  This is used to unset a variable. See "http-response set-var" for details
  about <var-name>.

  Example:
    http-response unset-var(sess.last_redir)


http-reuse { never | safe | aggressive | always }
  Declare how idle HTTP connections may be shared between requests

  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  By default, a connection established between haproxy and the backend server
  which is considered safe for reuse is moved back to the server's idle
  connections pool so that any other request can make use of it. This is the
  "safe" strategy below.

  The argument indicates the desired connection reuse strategy :

    - "never"  : idle connections are never shared between sessions. This mode
                 may be enforced to cancel a different strategy inherited from
                 a defaults section or for troubleshooting. For example, if an
                 old bogus application considers that multiple requests over
                 the same connection come from the same client and it is not
                 possible to fix the application, it may be desirable to
                 disable connection sharing in a single backend. An example of
                 such an application could be an old haproxy using cookie
                 insertion in tunnel mode and not checking any request past the
                 first one.

    - "safe"   : this is the default and the recommended strategy. The first
                 request of a session is always sent over its own connection,
                 and only subsequent requests may be dispatched over other
                 existing connections. This ensures that in case the server
                 closes the connection when the request is being sent, the
                 browser can decide to silently retry it. Since it is exactly
                 equivalent to regular keep-alive, there should be no side
                 effects. There is also a special handling for the connections
                 using protocols subject to Head-of-line blocking (backend with
                 h2 or fcgi). In this case, when at least one stream is
                 processed, the used connection is reserved to handle streams
                 of the same session. When no more streams are processed, the
                 connection is released and can be reused.

    - "aggressive" : this mode may be useful in webservices environments where
                 all servers are not necessarily known and where it would be
                 appreciable to deliver most first requests over existing
                 connections. In this case, first requests are only delivered
                 over existing connections that have been reused at least once,
                 proving that the server correctly supports connection reuse.
                 It should only be used when it's sure that the client can
                 retry a failed request once in a while and where the benefit
                 of aggressive connection reuse significantly outweighs the
                 downsides of rare connection failures.

    - "always" : this mode is only recommended when the path to the server is
                 known for never breaking existing connections quickly after
                 releasing them. It allows the first request of a session to be
                 sent to an existing connection. This can provide a significant
                 performance increase over the "safe" strategy when the backend
                 is a cache farm, since such components tend to show a
                 consistent behavior and will benefit from the connection
                 sharing. It is recommended that the "http-keep-alive" timeout
                 remains low in this mode so that no dead connections remain
                 usable. In most cases, this will lead to the same performance
                 gains as "aggressive" but with more risks. It should only be
                 used when it improves the situation over "aggressive".

  When http connection sharing is enabled, a great care is taken to respect the
  connection properties and compatibility. Specifically :
    - connections made with "usesrc" followed by a client-dependent value
      ("client", "clientip", "hdr_ip") are marked private and never shared;

    - connections sent to a server with a variable value as TLS SNI extension
      are marked private and are never shared. This is not the case if the SNI
      is guaranteed to be a constant, as for example using a literal string;

    - connections with certain bogus authentication schemes (relying on the
      connection) like NTLM are detected, marked private and are never shared;

  A connection pool is involved and configurable with "pool-max-conn".

  Note: connection reuse improves the accuracy of the "server maxconn" setting,
  because almost no new connection will be established while idle connections
  remain available. This is particularly true with the "always" strategy.

  See also : "option http-keep-alive", "server maxconn"


http-send-name-header [<header>]
  Add the server name to a request. Use the header string given by <header>
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <header>  The header string to use to send the server name

  The "http-send-name-header" statement causes the header field named <header>
  to be set to the name of the target server at the moment the request is about
  to be sent on the wire. Any existing occurrences of this header are removed.
  Upon retries and redispatches, the header field is updated to always reflect
  the server being attempted to connect to. Given that this header is modified
  very late in the connection setup, it may have unexpected effects on already
  modified headers. For example using it with transport-level header such as
  connection, content-length, transfer-encoding and so on will likely result in
  invalid requests being sent to the server. Additionally it has been reported
  that this directive is currently being used as a way to overwrite the Host
  header field in outgoing requests; while this trick has been known to work
  as a side effect of the feature for some time, it is not officially supported
  and might possibly not work anymore in a future version depending on the
  technical difficulties this feature induces. A long-term solution instead
  consists in fixing the application which required this trick so that it binds
  to the correct host name.

  See also : "server"

id <value>
  Set a persistent ID to a proxy.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  Set a persistent ID for the proxy. This ID must be unique and positive.
  An unused ID will automatically be assigned if unset. The first assigned
  value will be 1. This ID is currently only returned in statistics.


ignore-persist { if | unless } <condition>
  Declare a condition to ignore persistence
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  By default, when cookie persistence is enabled, every requests containing
  the cookie are unconditionally persistent (assuming the target server is up
  and running).

  The "ignore-persist" statement allows one to declare various ACL-based
  conditions which, when met, will cause a request to ignore persistence.
  This is sometimes useful to load balance requests for static files, which
  often don't require persistence. This can also be used to fully disable
  persistence for a specific User-Agent (for example, some web crawler bots).

  The persistence is ignored when an "if" condition is met, or unless an
  "unless" condition is met.

  Example:
      acl url_static  path_beg         /static /images /img /css
      acl url_static  path_end         .gif .png .jpg .css .js
      ignore-persist  if url_static

  See also : "force-persist", "cookie", and section 7 about ACL usage.

load-server-state-from-file { global | local | none }
  Allow seamless reload of HAProxy
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  yes   |    no   |   yes  |   yes

  This directive points HAProxy to a file where server state from previous
  running process has been saved. That way, when starting up, before handling
  traffic, the new process can apply old states to servers exactly has if no
  reload occurred. The purpose of the "load-server-state-from-file" directive is
  to tell haproxy which file to use. For now, only 2 arguments to either prevent
  loading state or load states from a file containing all backends and servers.
  The state file can be generated by running the command "show servers state"
  over the stats socket and redirect output.

  The format of the file is versioned and is very specific. To understand it,
  please read the documentation of the "show servers state" command (chapter
  9.3 of Management Guide).

  Arguments:
    global     load the content of the file pointed by the global directive
               named "server-state-file".

    local      load the content of the file pointed by the directive
               "server-state-file-name" if set. If not set, then the backend
               name is used as a file name.

    none       don't load any stat for this backend

  Notes:
    - server's IP address is preserved across reloads by default, but the
      order can be changed thanks to the server's "init-addr" setting. This
      means that an IP address change performed on the CLI at run time will
      be preserved, and that any change to the local resolver (e.g. /etc/hosts)
      will possibly not have any effect if the state file is in use.

    - server's weight is applied from previous running process unless it has
      has changed between previous and new configuration files.

  Example: Minimal configuration

      global
       stats socket /tmp/socket
       server-state-file /tmp/server_state

      defaults
       load-server-state-from-file global

      backend bk
       server s1 127.0.0.1:22 check weight 11
       server s2 127.0.0.1:22 check weight 12


  Then one can run :

    socat /tmp/socket - <<< "show servers state" > /tmp/server_state

  Content of the file /tmp/server_state would be like this:

    1
    # <field names skipped for the doc example>
    1 bk 1 s1 127.0.0.1 2 0 11 11 4 6 3 4 6 0 0
    1 bk 2 s2 127.0.0.1 2 0 12 12 4 6 3 4 6 0 0

  Example: Minimal configuration

    global
     stats socket /tmp/socket
     server-state-base /etc/haproxy/states

    defaults
     load-server-state-from-file local

    backend bk
     server s1 127.0.0.1:22 check weight 11
     server s2 127.0.0.1:22 check weight 12


  Then one can run :

    socat /tmp/socket - <<< "show servers state bk" > /etc/haproxy/states/bk

  Content of the file /etc/haproxy/states/bk would be like this:

    1
    # <field names skipped for the doc example>
    1 bk 1 s1 127.0.0.1 2 0 11 11 4 6 3 4 6 0 0
    1 bk 2 s2 127.0.0.1 2 0 12 12 4 6 3 4 6 0 0

  See also: "server-state-file", "server-state-file-name", and
  "show servers state"


log global
log <address> [len <length>] [format <format>] [sample <ranges>:<sample_size>]
    <facility> [<level> [<minlevel>]]
no log
  Enable per-instance logging of events and traffic.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Prefix :
    no         should be used when the logger list must be flushed. For example,
               if you don't want to inherit from the default logger list. This
               prefix does not allow arguments.

  Arguments :
    global     should be used when the instance's logging parameters are the
               same as the global ones. This is the most common usage. "global"
               replaces <address>, <facility> and <level> with those of the log
               entries found in the "global" section. Only one "log global"
               statement may be used per instance, and this form takes no other
               parameter.

    <address>  indicates where to send the logs. It takes the same format as
               for the "global" section's logs, and can be one of :

               - An IPv4 address optionally followed by a colon (':') and a UDP
                 port. If no port is specified, 514 is used by default (the
                 standard syslog port).

               - An IPv6 address followed by a colon (':') and optionally a UDP
                 port. If no port is specified, 514 is used by default (the
                 standard syslog port).

               - A filesystem path to a UNIX domain socket, keeping in mind
                 considerations for chroot (be sure the path is accessible
                 inside the chroot) and uid/gid (be sure the path is
                 appropriately writable).

               - A file descriptor number in the form "fd@<number>", which may
                 point to a pipe, terminal, or socket. In this case unbuffered
                 logs are used and one writev() call per log is performed. This
                 is a bit expensive but acceptable for most workloads. Messages
                 sent this way will not be truncated but may be dropped, in
                 which case the DroppedLogs counter will be incremented. The
                 writev() call is atomic even on pipes for messages up to
                 PIPE_BUF size, which POSIX recommends to be at least 512 and
                 which is 4096 bytes on most modern operating systems. Any
                 larger message may be interleaved with messages from other
                 processes.  Exceptionally for debugging purposes the file
                 descriptor may also be directed to a file, but doing so will
                 significantly slow haproxy down as non-blocking calls will be
                 ignored. Also there will be no way to purge nor rotate this
                 file without restarting the process. Note that the configured
                 syslog format is preserved, so the output is suitable for use
                 with a TCP syslog server. See also the "short" and "raw"
                 formats below.

               - "stdout" / "stderr", which are respectively aliases for "fd@1"
                 and "fd@2", see above.

               - A ring buffer in the form "ring@<name>", which will correspond
                 to an in-memory ring buffer accessible over the CLI using the
                 "show events" command, which will also list existing rings and
                 their sizes. Such buffers are lost on reload or restart but
                 when used as a complement this can help troubleshooting by
                 having the logs instantly available.

               You may want to reference some environment variables in the
               address parameter, see section 2.3 about environment variables.

    <length>   is an optional maximum line length. Log lines larger than this
               value will be truncated before being sent. The reason is that
               syslog servers act differently on log line length. All servers
               support the default value of 1024, but some servers simply drop
               larger lines while others do log them. If a server supports long
               lines, it may make sense to set this value here in order to avoid
               truncating long lines. Similarly, if a server drops long lines,
               it is preferable to truncate them before sending them. Accepted
               values are 80 to 65535 inclusive. The default value of 1024 is
               generally fine for all standard usages. Some specific cases of
               long captures or JSON-formatted logs may require larger values.

    <ranges>   A list of comma-separated ranges to identify the logs to sample.
               This is used to balance the load of the logs to send to the log
               server. The limits of the ranges cannot be null. They are numbered
               from 1. The size or period (in number of logs) of the sample must
               be set with <sample_size> parameter.

    <sample_size>
               The size of the sample in number of logs to consider when balancing
               their logging loads. It is used to balance the load of the logs to
               send to the syslog server. This size must be greater or equal to the
               maximum of the high limits of the ranges.
               (see also <ranges> parameter).

    <format> is the log format used when generating syslog messages. It may be
             one of the following :

      local     Analog to rfc3164 syslog message format except that hostname
                field is stripped. This is the default.
                Note: option "log-send-hostname" switches the default to
                rfc3164.

      rfc3164   The RFC3164 syslog message format.
                (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164)

      rfc5424   The RFC5424 syslog message format.
                (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424)

      priority  A message containing only a level plus syslog facility between
                angle brackets such as '<63>', followed by the text. The PID,
                date, time, process name and system name are omitted. This is
                designed to be used with a local log server.

      short     A message containing only a level between angle brackets such as
                '<3>', followed by the text. The PID, date, time, process name
                and system name are omitted. This is designed to be used with a
                local log server. This format is compatible with what the
                systemd logger consumes.

      timed     A message containing only a level between angle brackets such as
                '<3>', followed by ISO date and by the text. The PID, process
                name and system name are omitted. This is designed to be
                used with a local log server.

      iso       A message containing only the ISO date, followed by the text.
                The PID, process name and system name are omitted. This is
                designed to be used with a local log server.

      raw       A message containing only the text. The level, PID, date, time,
                process name and system name are omitted. This is designed to
                be used in containers or during development, where the severity
                only depends on the file descriptor used (stdout/stderr).

    <facility> must be one of the 24 standard syslog facilities :

                   kern   user   mail   daemon auth   syslog lpr    news
                   uucp   cron   auth2  ftp    ntp    audit  alert  cron2
                   local0 local1 local2 local3 local4 local5 local6 local7

               Note that the facility is ignored for the "short" and "raw"
               formats, but still required as a positional field. It is
               recommended to use "daemon" in this case to make it clear that
               it's only supposed to be used locally.

    <level>    is optional and can be specified to filter outgoing messages. By
               default, all messages are sent. If a level is specified, only
               messages with a severity at least as important as this level
               will be sent. An optional minimum level can be specified. If it
               is set, logs emitted with a more severe level than this one will
               be capped to this level. This is used to avoid sending "emerg"
               messages on all terminals on some default syslog configurations.
               Eight levels are known :

                 emerg  alert  crit   err    warning notice info  debug

  It is important to keep in mind that it is the frontend which decides what to
  log from a connection, and that in case of content switching, the log entries
  from the backend will be ignored. Connections are logged at level "info".

  However, backend log declaration define how and where servers status changes
  will be logged. Level "notice" will be used to indicate a server going up,
  "warning" will be used for termination signals and definitive service
  termination, and "alert" will be used for when a server goes down.

  Note : According to RFC3164, messages are truncated to 1024 bytes before
         being emitted.

  Example :
    log global
    log stdout format short daemon          # send log to systemd
    log stdout format raw daemon            # send everything to stdout
    log stderr format raw daemon notice     # send important events to stderr
    log 127.0.0.1:514 local0 notice         # only send important events
    log 127.0.0.1:514 local0 notice notice  # same but limit output level
    log "${LOCAL_SYSLOG}:514" local0 notice   # send to local server


log-format <string>
  Specifies the log format string to use for traffic logs
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |    no

  This directive specifies the log format string that will be used for all logs
  resulting from traffic passing through the frontend using this line. If the
  directive is used in a defaults section, all subsequent frontends will use
  the same log format. Please see section 8.2.4 which covers the log format
  string in depth.

  "log-format" directive overrides previous "option tcplog", "log-format" and
  "option httplog" directives.

log-format-sd <string>
  Specifies the RFC5424 structured-data log format string
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |    no

  This directive specifies the RFC5424 structured-data log format string that
  will be used for all logs resulting from traffic passing through the frontend
  using this line. If the directive is used in a defaults section, all
  subsequent frontends will use the same log format. Please see section 8.2.4
  which covers the log format string in depth.

  See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.3 for more information
  about the RFC5424 structured-data part.

  Note : This log format string will be used only for loggers that have set
         log format to "rfc5424".

  Example :
    log-format-sd [exampleSDID@1234\ bytes=\"%B\"\ status=\"%ST\"]


log-tag <string>
  Specifies the log tag to use for all outgoing logs
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Sets the tag field in the syslog header to this string. It defaults to the
  log-tag set in the global section, otherwise the program name as launched
  from the command line, which usually is "haproxy". Sometimes it can be useful
  to differentiate between multiple processes running on the same host, or to
  differentiate customer instances running in the same process. In the backend,
  logs about servers up/down will use this tag. As a hint, it can be convenient
  to set a log-tag related to a hosted customer in a defaults section then put
  all the frontends and backends for that customer, then start another customer
  in a new defaults section. See also the global "log-tag" directive.

max-keep-alive-queue <value>
  Set the maximum server queue size for maintaining keep-alive connections
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |     no   |   yes  |   yes

  HTTP keep-alive tries to reuse the same server connection whenever possible,
  but sometimes it can be counter-productive, for example if a server has a lot
  of connections while other ones are idle. This is especially true for static
  servers.

  The purpose of this setting is to set a threshold on the number of queued
  connections at which haproxy stops trying to reuse the same server and prefers
  to find another one. The default value, -1, means there is no limit. A value
  of zero means that keep-alive requests will never be queued. For very close
  servers which can be reached with a low latency and which are not sensible to
  breaking keep-alive, a low value is recommended (e.g. local static server can
  use a value of 10 or less). For remote servers suffering from a high latency,
  higher values might be needed to cover for the latency and/or the cost of
  picking a different server.

  Note that this has no impact on responses which are maintained to the same
  server consecutively to a 401 response. They will still go to the same server
  even if they have to be queued.

  See also : "option http-server-close", "option prefer-last-server", server
             "maxconn" and cookie persistence.

max-session-srv-conns <nb>
  Set the maximum number of outgoing connections we can keep idling for a given
  client session. The default is 5 (it precisely equals MAX_SRV_LIST which is
  defined at build time).

maxconn <conns>
  Fix the maximum number of concurrent connections on a frontend
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <conns>   is the maximum number of concurrent connections the frontend will
              accept to serve. Excess connections will be queued by the system
              in the socket's listen queue and will be served once a connection
              closes.

  If the system supports it, it can be useful on big sites to raise this limit
  very high so that haproxy manages connection queues, instead of leaving the
  clients with unanswered connection attempts. This value should not exceed the
  global maxconn. Also, keep in mind that a connection contains two buffers
  of tune.bufsize (16kB by default) each, as well as some other data resulting
  in about 33 kB of RAM being consumed per established connection. That means
  that a medium system equipped with 1GB of RAM can withstand around
  20000-25000 concurrent connections if properly tuned.

  Also, when <conns> is set to large values, it is possible that the servers
  are not sized to accept such loads, and for this reason it is generally wise
  to assign them some reasonable connection limits.

  When this value is set to zero, which is the default, the global "maxconn"
  value is used.

  See also : "server", global section's "maxconn", "fullconn"


mode { tcp|http }
  Set the running mode or protocol of the instance
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    tcp       The instance will work in pure TCP mode. A full-duplex connection
              will be established between clients and servers, and no layer 7
              examination will be performed. This is the default mode. It
              should be used for SSL, SSH, SMTP, ...

    http      The instance will work in HTTP mode. The client request will be
              analyzed in depth before connecting to any server. Any request
              which is not RFC-compliant will be rejected. Layer 7 filtering,
              processing and switching will be possible. This is the mode which
              brings HAProxy most of its value.

  When doing content switching, it is mandatory that the frontend and the
  backend are in the same mode (generally HTTP), otherwise the configuration
  will be refused.

  Example :
     defaults http_instances
         mode http


monitor fail { if | unless } <condition>
  Add a condition to report a failure to a monitor HTTP request.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    if <cond>     the monitor request will fail if the condition is satisfied,
                  and will succeed otherwise. The condition should describe a
                  combined test which must induce a failure if all conditions
                  are met, for instance a low number of servers both in a
                  backend and its backup.

    unless <cond> the monitor request will succeed only if the condition is
                  satisfied, and will fail otherwise. Such a condition may be
                  based on a test on the presence of a minimum number of active
                  servers in a list of backends.

  This statement adds a condition which can force the response to a monitor
  request to report a failure. By default, when an external component queries
  the URI dedicated to monitoring, a 200 response is returned. When one of the
  conditions above is met, haproxy will return 503 instead of 200. This is
  very useful to report a site failure to an external component which may base
  routing advertisements between multiple sites on the availability reported by
  haproxy. In this case, one would rely on an ACL involving the "nbsrv"
  criterion. Note that "monitor fail" only works in HTTP mode. Both status
  messages may be tweaked using "errorfile" or "errorloc" if needed.

  Example:
     frontend www
        mode http
        acl site_dead nbsrv(dynamic) lt 2
        acl site_dead nbsrv(static)  lt 2
        monitor-uri   /site_alive
        monitor fail  if site_dead

  See also : "monitor-uri", "errorfile", "errorloc"


monitor-uri <uri>
  Intercept a URI used by external components' monitor requests
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <uri>     is the exact URI which we want to intercept to return HAProxy's
              health status instead of forwarding the request.

  When an HTTP request referencing <uri> will be received on a frontend,
  HAProxy will not forward it nor log it, but instead will return either
  "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" or "HTTP/1.0 503 Service unavailable", depending on failure
  conditions defined with "monitor fail". This is normally enough for any
  front-end HTTP probe to detect that the service is UP and running without
  forwarding the request to a backend server. Note that the HTTP method, the
  version and all headers are ignored, but the request must at least be valid
  at the HTTP level. This keyword may only be used with an HTTP-mode frontend.

  Monitor requests are processed very early, just after the request is parsed
  and even before any "http-request". The only rulesets applied before are the
  tcp-request ones. They cannot be logged either, and it is the intended
  purpose. They are only used to report HAProxy's health to an upper component,
  nothing more. However, it is possible to add any number of conditions using
  "monitor fail" and ACLs so that the result can be adjusted to whatever check
  can be imagined (most often the number of available servers in a backend).

  Note: if <uri> starts by a slash ('/'), the matching is performed against the
        request's path instead of the request's uri. It is a workaround to let
        the HTTP/2 requests match the monitor-uri. Indeed, in HTTP/2, clients
        are encouraged to send absolute URIs only.

  Example :
    # Use /haproxy_test to report haproxy's status
    frontend www
        mode http
        monitor-uri /haproxy_test

  See also : "monitor fail"


option abortonclose
no option abortonclose
  Enable or disable early dropping of aborted requests pending in queues.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |     no   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  In presence of very high loads, the servers will take some time to respond.
  The per-instance connection queue will inflate, and the response time will
  increase respective to the size of the queue times the average per-session
  response time. When clients will wait for more than a few seconds, they will
  often hit the "STOP" button on their browser, leaving a useless request in
  the queue, and slowing down other users, and the servers as well, because the
  request will eventually be served, then aborted at the first error
  encountered while delivering the response.

  As there is no way to distinguish between a full STOP and a simple output
  close on the client side, HTTP agents should be conservative and consider
  that the client might only have closed its output channel while waiting for
  the response. However, this introduces risks of congestion when lots of users
  do the same, and is completely useless nowadays because probably no client at
  all will close the session while waiting for the response. Some HTTP agents
  support this behavior (Squid, Apache, HAProxy), and others do not (TUX, most
  hardware-based load balancers). So the probability for a closed input channel
  to represent a user hitting the "STOP" button is close to 100%, and the risk
  of being the single component to break rare but valid traffic is extremely
  low, which adds to the temptation to be able to abort a session early while
  still not served and not pollute the servers.

  In HAProxy, the user can choose the desired behavior using the option
  "abortonclose". By default (without the option) the behavior is HTTP
  compliant and aborted requests will be served. But when the option is
  specified, a session with an incoming channel closed will be aborted while
  it is still possible, either pending in the queue for a connection slot, or
  during the connection establishment if the server has not yet acknowledged
  the connection request. This considerably reduces the queue size and the load
  on saturated servers when users are tempted to click on STOP, which in turn
  reduces the response time for other users.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "timeout queue" and server's "maxconn" and "maxqueue" parameters


option accept-invalid-http-request
no option accept-invalid-http-request
  Enable or disable relaxing of HTTP request parsing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  By default, HAProxy complies with RFC7230 in terms of message parsing. This
  means that invalid characters in header names are not permitted and cause an
  error to be returned to the client. This is the desired behavior as such
  forbidden characters are essentially used to build attacks exploiting server
  weaknesses, and bypass security filtering. Sometimes, a buggy browser or
  server will emit invalid header names for whatever reason (configuration,
  implementation) and the issue will not be immediately fixed. In such a case,
  it is possible to relax HAProxy's header name parser to accept any character
  even if that does not make sense, by specifying this option. Similarly, the
  list of characters allowed to appear in a URI is well defined by RFC3986, and
  chars 0-31, 32 (space), 34 ('"'), 60 ('<'), 62 ('>'), 92 ('\'), 94 ('^'), 96
  ('`'), 123 ('{'), 124 ('|'), 125 ('}'), 127 (delete) and anything above are
  not allowed at all. HAProxy always blocks a number of them (0..32, 127). The
  remaining ones are blocked by default unless this option is enabled. This
  option also relaxes the test on the HTTP version, it allows HTTP/0.9 requests
  to pass through (no version specified) and multiple digits for both the major
  and the minor version.

  This option should never be enabled by default as it hides application bugs
  and open security breaches. It should only be deployed after a problem has
  been confirmed.

  When this option is enabled, erroneous header names will still be accepted in
  requests, but the complete request will be captured in order to permit later
  analysis using the "show errors" request on the UNIX stats socket. Similarly,
  requests containing invalid chars in the URI part will be logged. Doing this
  also helps confirming that the issue has been solved.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option accept-invalid-http-response" and "show errors" on the
             stats socket.


option accept-invalid-http-response
no option accept-invalid-http-response
  Enable or disable relaxing of HTTP response parsing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |     no   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  By default, HAProxy complies with RFC7230 in terms of message parsing. This
  means that invalid characters in header names are not permitted and cause an
  error to be returned to the client. This is the desired behavior as such
  forbidden characters are essentially used to build attacks exploiting server
  weaknesses, and bypass security filtering. Sometimes, a buggy browser or
  server will emit invalid header names for whatever reason (configuration,
  implementation) and the issue will not be immediately fixed. In such a case,
  it is possible to relax HAProxy's header name parser to accept any character
  even if that does not make sense, by specifying this option. This option also
  relaxes the test on the HTTP version format, it allows multiple digits for
  both the major and the minor version.

  This option should never be enabled by default as it hides application bugs
  and open security breaches. It should only be deployed after a problem has
  been confirmed.

  When this option is enabled, erroneous header names will still be accepted in
  responses, but the complete response will be captured in order to permit
  later analysis using the "show errors" request on the UNIX stats socket.
  Doing this also helps confirming that the issue has been solved.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option accept-invalid-http-request" and "show errors" on the
             stats socket.


option allbackups
no option allbackups
  Use either all backup servers at a time or only the first one
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |     no   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  By default, the first operational backup server gets all traffic when normal
  servers are all down. Sometimes, it may be preferred to use multiple backups
  at once, because one will not be enough. When "option allbackups" is enabled,
  the load balancing will be performed among all backup servers when all normal
  ones are unavailable. The same load balancing algorithm will be used and the
  servers' weights will be respected. Thus, there will not be any priority
  order between the backup servers anymore.

  This option is mostly used with static server farms dedicated to return a
  "sorry" page when an application is completely offline.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.


option checkcache
no option checkcache
  Analyze all server responses and block responses with cacheable cookies
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |     no   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  Some high-level frameworks set application cookies everywhere and do not
  always let enough control to the developer to manage how the responses should
  be cached. When a session cookie is returned on a cacheable object, there is a
  high risk of session crossing or stealing between users traversing the same
  caches. In some situations, it is better to block the response than to let
  some sensitive session information go in the wild.

  The option "checkcache" enables deep inspection of all server responses for
  strict compliance with HTTP specification in terms of cacheability. It
  carefully checks "Cache-control", "Pragma" and "Set-cookie" headers in server
  response to check if there's a risk of caching a cookie on a client-side
  proxy. When this option is enabled, the only responses which can be delivered
  to the client are :
    - all those without "Set-Cookie" header;
    - all those with a return code other than 200, 203, 204, 206, 300, 301,
      404, 405, 410, 414, 501, provided that the server has not set a
      "Cache-control: public" header field;
    - all those that result from a request using a method other than GET, HEAD,
      OPTIONS, TRACE, provided that the server has not set a 'Cache-Control:
      public' header field;
    - those with a 'Pragma: no-cache' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: private' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: no-store' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: max-age=0' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: s-maxage=0' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: no-cache' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: no-cache="set-cookie"' header
    - those with a 'Cache-control: no-cache="set-cookie,' header
      (allowing other fields after set-cookie)

  If a response doesn't respect these requirements, then it will be blocked
  just as if it was from an "http-response deny" rule, with an "HTTP 502 bad
  gateway". The session state shows "PH--" meaning that the proxy blocked the
  response during headers processing. Additionally, an alert will be sent in
  the logs so that admins are informed that there's something to be fixed.

  Due to the high impact on the application, the application should be tested
  in depth with the option enabled before going to production. It is also a
  good practice to always activate it during tests, even if it is not used in
  production, as it will report potentially dangerous application behaviors.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.


option clitcpka
no option clitcpka
  Enable or disable the sending of TCP keepalive packets on the client side
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  When there is a firewall or any session-aware component between a client and
  a server, and when the protocol involves very long sessions with long idle
  periods (e.g. remote desktops), there is a risk that one of the intermediate
  components decides to expire a session which has remained idle for too long.

  Enabling socket-level TCP keep-alives makes the system regularly send packets
  to the other end of the connection, leaving it active. The delay between
  keep-alive probes is controlled by the system only and depends both on the
  operating system and its tuning parameters.

  It is important to understand that keep-alive packets are neither emitted nor
  received at the application level. It is only the network stacks which sees
  them. For this reason, even if one side of the proxy already uses keep-alives
  to maintain its connection alive, those keep-alive packets will not be
  forwarded to the other side of the proxy.

  Please note that this has nothing to do with HTTP keep-alive.

  Using option "clitcpka" enables the emission of TCP keep-alive probes on the
  client side of a connection, which should help when session expirations are
  noticed between HAProxy and a client.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option srvtcpka", "option tcpka"


option contstats
  Enable continuous traffic statistics updates
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  By default, counters used for statistics calculation are incremented
  only when a session finishes. It works quite well when serving small
  objects, but with big ones (for example large images or archives) or
  with A/V streaming, a graph generated from haproxy counters looks like
  a hedgehog. With this option enabled counters get incremented frequently
  along the session, typically every 5 seconds, which is often enough to
  produce clean graphs. Recounting touches a hotpath directly so it is not
  not enabled by default, as it can cause a lot of wakeups for very large
  session counts and cause a small performance drop.

option disable-h2-upgrade
no option disable-h2-upgrade
  Enable or disable the implicit HTTP/2 upgrade from an HTTP/1.x client
  connection.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  By default, HAProxy is able to implicitly upgrade an HTTP/1.x client
  connection to an HTTP/2 connection if the first request it receives from a
  given HTTP connection matches the HTTP/2 connection preface (i.e. the string
  "PRI * HTTP/2.0\r\n\r\nSM\r\n\r\n"). This way, it is possible to support
  HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 clients on a non-SSL connections. This option must be used to
  disable the implicit upgrade. Note this implicit upgrade is only supported
  for HTTP proxies, thus this option too. Note also it is possible to force the
  HTTP/2 on clear connections by specifying "proto h2" on the bind line.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

option dontlog-normal
no option dontlog-normal
  Enable or disable logging of normal, successful connections
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  There are large sites dealing with several thousand connections per second
  and for which logging is a major pain. Some of them are even forced to turn
  logs off and cannot debug production issues. Setting this option ensures that
  normal connections, those which experience no error, no timeout, no retry nor
  redispatch, will not be logged. This leaves disk space for anomalies. In HTTP
  mode, the response status code is checked and return codes 5xx will still be
  logged.

  It is strongly discouraged to use this option as most of the time, the key to
  complex issues is in the normal logs which will not be logged here. If you
  need to separate logs, see the "log-separate-errors" option instead.

  See also : "log", "dontlognull", "log-separate-errors" and section 8 about
             logging.


option dontlognull
no option dontlognull
  Enable or disable logging of null connections
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  In certain environments, there are components which will regularly connect to
  various systems to ensure that they are still alive. It can be the case from
  another load balancer as well as from monitoring systems. By default, even a
  simple port probe or scan will produce a log. If those connections pollute
  the logs too much, it is possible to enable option "dontlognull" to indicate
  that a connection on which no data has been transferred will not be logged,
  which typically corresponds to those probes. Note that errors will still be
  returned to the client and accounted for in the stats. If this is not what is
  desired, option http-ignore-probes can be used instead.

  It is generally recommended not to use this option in uncontrolled
  environments (e.g. internet), otherwise scans and other malicious activities
  would not be logged.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "log", "http-ignore-probes", "monitor-uri", and
             section 8 about logging.


option forwardfor [ except <network> ] [ header <name> ] [ if-none ]
  Enable insertion of the X-Forwarded-For header to requests sent to servers
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <network> is an optional argument used to disable this option for sources
              matching <network>
    <name>    an optional argument to specify a different "X-Forwarded-For"
              header name.

  Since HAProxy works in reverse-proxy mode, the servers see its IP address as
  their client address. This is sometimes annoying when the client's IP address
  is expected in server logs. To solve this problem, the well-known HTTP header
  "X-Forwarded-For" may be added by HAProxy to all requests sent to the server.
  This header contains a value representing the client's IP address. Since this
  header is always appended at the end of the existing header list, the server
  must be configured to always use the last occurrence of this header only. See
  the server's manual to find how to enable use of this standard header. Note
  that only the last occurrence of the header must be used, since it is really
  possible that the client has already brought one.

  The keyword "header" may be used to supply a different header name to replace
  the default "X-Forwarded-For". This can be useful where you might already
  have a "X-Forwarded-For" header from a different application (e.g. stunnel),
  and you need preserve it. Also if your backend server doesn't use the
  "X-Forwarded-For" header and requires different one (e.g. Zeus Web Servers
  require "X-Cluster-Client-IP").

  Sometimes, a same HAProxy instance may be shared between a direct client
  access and a reverse-proxy access (for instance when an SSL reverse-proxy is
  used to decrypt HTTPS traffic). It is possible to disable the addition of the
  header for a known source address or network by adding the "except" keyword
  followed by the network address. In this case, any source IP matching the
  network will not cause an addition of this header. Most common uses are with
  private networks or 127.0.0.1.

  Alternatively, the keyword "if-none" states that the header will only be
  added if it is not present. This should only be used in perfectly trusted
  environment, as this might cause a security issue if headers reaching haproxy
  are under the control of the end-user.

  This option may be specified either in the frontend or in the backend. If at
  least one of them uses it, the header will be added. Note that the backend's
  setting of the header subargument takes precedence over the frontend's if
  both are defined. In the case of the "if-none" argument, if at least one of
  the frontend or the backend does not specify it, it wants the addition to be
  mandatory, so it wins.

  Example :
    # Public HTTP address also used by stunnel on the same machine
    frontend www
        mode http
        option forwardfor except 127.0.0.1  # stunnel already adds the header

    # Those servers want the IP Address in X-Client
    backend www
        mode http
        option forwardfor header X-Client

  See also : "option httpclose", "option http-server-close",
             "option http-keep-alive"


option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client
no option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client
  Enable or disable the case adjustment of HTTP/1 headers sent to bogus clients
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  There is no standard case for header names because, as stated in RFC7230,
  they are case-insensitive. So applications must handle them in a case-
  insensitive manner. But some bogus applications violate the standards and
  erroneously rely on the cases most commonly used by browsers. This problem
  becomes critical with HTTP/2 because all header names must be exchanged in
  lower case, and HAProxy follows the same convention. All header names are
  sent in lower case to clients and servers, regardless of the HTTP version.

  When HAProxy receives an HTTP/1 response, its header names are converted to
  lower case and manipulated and sent this way to the clients. If a client is
  known to violate the HTTP standards and to fail to process a response coming
  from HAProxy, it is possible to transform the lower case header names to a
  different format when the response is formatted and sent to the client, by
  enabling this option and specifying the list of headers to be reformatted
  using the global directives "h1-case-adjust" or "h1-case-adjust-file". This
  must only be a temporary workaround for the time it takes the client to be
  fixed, because clients which require such workarounds might be vulnerable to
  content smuggling attacks and must absolutely be fixed.

  Please note that this option will not affect standards-compliant clients.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also: "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server", "h1-case-adjust",
  "h1-case-adjust-file".


option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server
no option h1-case-adjust-bogus-server
  Enable or disable the case adjustment of HTTP/1 headers sent to bogus servers
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  There is no standard case for header names because, as stated in RFC7230,
  they are case-insensitive. So applications must handle them in a case-
  insensitive manner. But some bogus applications violate the standards and
  erroneously rely on the cases most commonly used by browsers. This problem
  becomes critical with HTTP/2 because all header names must be exchanged in
  lower case, and HAProxy follows the same convention. All header names are
  sent in lower case to clients and servers, regardless of the HTTP version.

  When HAProxy receives an HTTP/1 request, its header names are converted to
  lower case and manipulated and sent this way to the servers. If a server is
  known to violate the HTTP standards and to fail to process a request coming
  from HAProxy, it is possible to transform the lower case header names to a
  different format when the request is formatted and sent to the server, by
  enabling this option and specifying the list of headers to be reformatted
  using the global directives "h1-case-adjust" or "h1-case-adjust-file". This
  must only be a temporary workaround for the time it takes the server to be
  fixed, because servers which require such workarounds might be vulnerable to
  content smuggling attacks and must absolutely be fixed.

  Please note that this option will not affect standards-compliant servers.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also: "option h1-case-adjust-bogus-client", "h1-case-adjust",
  "h1-case-adjust-file".


option http-buffer-request
no option http-buffer-request
  Enable or disable waiting for whole HTTP request body before proceeding
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  It is sometimes desirable to wait for the body of an HTTP request before
  taking a decision. This is what is being done by "balance url_param" for
  example. The first use case is to buffer requests from slow clients before
  connecting to the server. Another use case consists in taking the routing
  decision based on the request body's contents. This option placed in a
  frontend or backend forces the HTTP processing to wait until either the whole
  body is received or the request buffer is full. It can have undesired side
  effects with some applications abusing HTTP by expecting unbuffered
  transmissions between the frontend and the backend, so this should definitely
  not be used by default.

  See also : "option http-no-delay", "timeout http-request"


option http-ignore-probes
no option http-ignore-probes
  Enable or disable logging of null connections and request timeouts
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  Recently some browsers started to implement a "pre-connect" feature
  consisting in speculatively connecting to some recently visited web sites
  just in case the user would like to visit them. This results in many
  connections being established to web sites, which end up in 408 Request
  Timeout if the timeout strikes first, or 400 Bad Request when the browser
  decides to close them first. These ones pollute the log and feed the error
  counters. There was already "option dontlognull" but it's insufficient in
  this case. Instead, this option does the following things :
     - prevent any 400/408 message from being sent to the client if nothing
       was received over a connection before it was closed;
     - prevent any log from being emitted in this situation;
     - prevent any error counter from being incremented

  That way the empty connection is silently ignored. Note that it is better
  not to use this unless it is clear that it is needed, because it will hide
  real problems. The most common reason for not receiving a request and seeing
  a 408 is due to an MTU inconsistency between the client and an intermediary
  element such as a VPN, which blocks too large packets. These issues are
  generally seen with POST requests as well as GET with large cookies. The logs
  are often the only way to detect them.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "log", "dontlognull", "errorfile", and section 8 about logging.


option http-keep-alive
no option http-keep-alive
  Enable or disable HTTP keep-alive from client to server
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  By default HAProxy operates in keep-alive mode with regards to persistent
  connections: for each connection it processes each request and response, and
  leaves the connection idle on both sides between the end of a response and
  the start of a new request. This mode may be changed by several options such
  as "option http-server-close" or "option httpclose". This option allows to
  set back the keep-alive mode, which can be useful when another mode was used
  in a defaults section.

  Setting "option http-keep-alive" enables HTTP keep-alive mode on the client-
  and server- sides. This provides the lowest latency on the client side (slow
  network) and the fastest session reuse on the server side at the expense
  of maintaining idle connections to the servers. In general, it is possible
  with this option to achieve approximately twice the request rate that the
  "http-server-close" option achieves on small objects. There are mainly two
  situations where this option may be useful :

    - when the server is non-HTTP compliant and authenticates the connection
      instead of requests (e.g. NTLM authentication)

    - when the cost of establishing the connection to the server is significant
      compared to the cost of retrieving the associated object from the server.

  This last case can happen when the server is a fast static server of cache.
  In this case, the server will need to be properly tuned to support high enough
  connection counts because connections will last until the client sends another
  request.

  If the client request has to go to another backend or another server due to
  content switching or the load balancing algorithm, the idle connection will
  immediately be closed and a new one re-opened. Option "prefer-last-server" is
  available to try optimize server selection so that if the server currently
  attached to an idle connection is usable, it will be used.

  At the moment, logs will not indicate whether requests came from the same
  session or not. The accept date reported in the logs corresponds to the end
  of the previous request, and the request time corresponds to the time spent
  waiting for a new request. The keep-alive request time is still bound to the
  timeout defined by "timeout http-keep-alive" or "timeout http-request" if
  not set.

  This option disables and replaces any previous "option httpclose" or "option
  http-server-close". When backend and frontend options differ, all of these 4
  options have precedence over "option http-keep-alive".

  See also : "option httpclose",, "option http-server-close",
             "option prefer-last-server", "option http-pretend-keepalive",
             and "1.1. The HTTP transaction model".


option http-no-delay
no option http-no-delay
  Instruct the system to favor low interactive delays over performance in HTTP
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  In HTTP, each payload is unidirectional and has no notion of interactivity.
  Any agent is expected to queue data somewhat for a reasonably low delay.
  There are some very rare server-to-server applications that abuse the HTTP
  protocol and expect the payload phase to be highly interactive, with many
  interleaved data chunks in both directions within a single request. This is
  absolutely not supported by the HTTP specification and will not work across
  most proxies or servers. When such applications attempt to do this through
  haproxy, it works but they will experience high delays due to the network
  optimizations which favor performance by instructing the system to wait for
  enough data to be available in order to only send full packets. Typical
  delays are around 200 ms per round trip. Note that this only happens with
  abnormal uses. Normal uses such as CONNECT requests nor WebSockets are not
  affected.

  When "option http-no-delay" is present in either the frontend or the backend
  used by a connection, all such optimizations will be disabled in order to
  make the exchanges as fast as possible. Of course this offers no guarantee on
  the functionality, as it may break at any other place. But if it works via
  HAProxy, it will work as fast as possible. This option should never be used
  by default, and should never be used at all unless such a buggy application
  is discovered. The impact of using this option is an increase of bandwidth
  usage and CPU usage, which may significantly lower performance in high
  latency environments.

  See also : "option http-buffer-request"


option http-pretend-keepalive
no option http-pretend-keepalive
  Define whether haproxy will announce keepalive to the server or not
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When running with "option http-server-close" or "option httpclose", haproxy
  adds a "Connection: close" header to the request forwarded to the server.
  Unfortunately, when some servers see this header, they automatically refrain
  from using the chunked encoding for responses of unknown length, while this
  is totally unrelated. The immediate effect is that this prevents haproxy from
  maintaining the client connection alive. A second effect is that a client or
  a cache could receive an incomplete response without being aware of it, and
  consider the response complete.

  By setting "option http-pretend-keepalive", haproxy will make the server
  believe it will keep the connection alive. The server will then not fall back
  to the abnormal undesired above. When haproxy gets the whole response, it
  will close the connection with the server just as it would do with the
  "option httpclose". That way the client gets a normal response and the
  connection is correctly closed on the server side.

  It is recommended not to enable this option by default, because most servers
  will more efficiently close the connection themselves after the last packet,
  and release its buffers slightly earlier. Also, the added packet on the
  network could slightly reduce the overall peak performance. However it is
  worth noting that when this option is enabled, haproxy will have slightly
  less work to do. So if haproxy is the bottleneck on the whole architecture,
  enabling this option might save a few CPU cycles.

  This option may be set in backend and listen sections. Using it in a frontend
  section will be ignored and a warning will be reported during startup. It is
  a backend related option, so there is no real reason to set it on a
  frontend. This option may be combined with "option httpclose", which will
  cause keepalive to be announced to the server and close to be announced to
  the client. This practice is discouraged though.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option httpclose", "option http-server-close", and
             "option http-keep-alive"


option http-server-close
no option http-server-close
  Enable or disable HTTP connection closing on the server side
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  By default HAProxy operates in keep-alive mode with regards to persistent
  connections: for each connection it processes each request and response, and
  leaves the connection idle on both sides between the end of a response and
  the start of a new request. This mode may be changed by several options such
  as "option http-server-close" or "option httpclose". Setting "option
  http-server-close" enables HTTP connection-close mode on the server side
  while keeping the ability to support HTTP keep-alive and pipelining on the
  client side. This provides the lowest latency on the client side (slow
  network) and the fastest session reuse on the server side to save server
  resources, similarly to "option httpclose".  It also permits non-keepalive
  capable servers to be served in keep-alive mode to the clients if they
  conform to the requirements of RFC7230. Please note that some servers do not
  always conform to those requirements when they see "Connection: close" in the
  request. The effect will be that keep-alive will never be used. A workaround
  consists in enabling "option http-pretend-keepalive".

  At the moment, logs will not indicate whether requests came from the same
  session or not. The accept date reported in the logs corresponds to the end
  of the previous request, and the request time corresponds to the time spent
  waiting for a new request. The keep-alive request time is still bound to the
  timeout defined by "timeout http-keep-alive" or "timeout http-request" if
  not set.

  This option may be set both in a frontend and in a backend. It is enabled if
  at least one of the frontend or backend holding a connection has it enabled.
  It disables and replaces any previous "option httpclose" or "option
  http-keep-alive". Please check section 4 ("Proxies") to see how this option
  combines with others when frontend and backend options differ.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option httpclose", "option http-pretend-keepalive",
             "option http-keep-alive", and "1.1. The HTTP transaction model".

option http-use-proxy-header
no option http-use-proxy-header
  Make use of non-standard Proxy-Connection header instead of Connection
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  While RFC7230 explicitly states that HTTP/1.1 agents must use the
  Connection header to indicate their wish of persistent or non-persistent
  connections, both browsers and proxies ignore this header for proxied
  connections and make use of the undocumented, non-standard Proxy-Connection
  header instead. The issue begins when trying to put a load balancer between
  browsers and such proxies, because there will be a difference between what
  haproxy understands and what the client and the proxy agree on.

  By setting this option in a frontend, haproxy can automatically switch to use
  that non-standard header if it sees proxied requests. A proxied request is
  defined here as one where the URI begins with neither a '/' nor a '*'. This
  is incompatible with the HTTP tunnel mode. Note that this option can only be
  specified in a frontend and will affect the request along its whole life.

  Also, when this option is set, a request which requires authentication will
  automatically switch to use proxy authentication headers if it is itself a
  proxied request. That makes it possible to check or enforce authentication in
  front of an existing proxy.

  This option should normally never be used, except in front of a proxy.

  See also : "option httpclose", and "option http-server-close".

option httpchk
option httpchk <uri>
option httpchk <method> <uri>
option httpchk <method> <uri> <version>
  Enables HTTP protocol to check on the servers health
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <method>  is the optional HTTP method used with the requests. When not set,
              the "OPTIONS" method is used, as it generally requires low server
              processing and is easy to filter out from the logs. Any method
              may be used, though it is not recommended to invent non-standard
              ones.

    <uri>     is the URI referenced in the HTTP requests. It defaults to " / "
              which is accessible by default on almost any server, but may be
              changed to any other URI. Query strings are permitted.

    <version> is the optional HTTP version string. It defaults to "HTTP/1.0"
              but some servers might behave incorrectly in HTTP 1.0, so turning
              it to HTTP/1.1 may sometimes help. Note that the Host field is
              mandatory in HTTP/1.1, use "http-check send" directive to add it.

  By default, server health checks only consist in trying to establish a TCP
  connection. When "option httpchk" is specified, a complete HTTP request is
  sent once the TCP connection is established, and responses 2xx and 3xx are
  considered valid, while all other ones indicate a server failure, including
  the lack of any response.

  Combined with "http-check" directives, it is possible to customize the
  request sent during the HTTP health checks or the matching rules on the
  response. It is also possible to configure a send/expect sequence, just like
  with the directive "tcp-check" for TCP health checks.

  The server configuration is used by default to open connections to perform
  HTTP health checks. By it is also possible to overwrite server parameters
  using "http-check connect" rules.

  "httpchk" option does not necessarily require an HTTP backend, it also works
  with plain TCP backends. This is particularly useful to check simple scripts
  bound to some dedicated ports using the inetd daemon. However, it will always
  internally relies on an HTX multiplexer. Thus, it means the request
  formatting and the response parsing will be strict.

  Note : For a while, there was no way to add headers or body in the request
         used for HTTP health checks. So a workaround was to hide it at the end
         of the version string with a "\r\n" after the version. It is now
	 deprecated. The directive "http-check send" must be used instead.

  Examples :
        # Relay HTTPS traffic to Apache instance and check service availability
        # using HTTP request "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1" on port 80.
        backend https_relay
            mode tcp
            option httpchk OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
            http-check send hdr Host www
            server apache1 192.168.1.1:443 check port 80

  See also : "option ssl-hello-chk", "option smtpchk", "option mysql-check",
             "option pgsql-check", "http-check" and the "check", "port" and
             "inter" server options.


option httpclose
no option httpclose
  Enable or disable HTTP connection closing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  By default HAProxy operates in keep-alive mode with regards to persistent
  connections: for each connection it processes each request and response, and
  leaves the connection idle on both sides between the end of a response and
  the start of a new request. This mode may be changed by several options such
  as "option http-server-close" or "option httpclose".

  If "option httpclose" is set, HAProxy will close connections with the server
  and the client as soon as the request and the response are received. It will
  also check if a "Connection: close" header is already set in each direction,
  and will add one if missing. Any "Connection" header different from "close"
  will also be removed.

  This option may also be combined with "option http-pretend-keepalive", which
  will disable sending of the "Connection: close" header, but will still cause
  the connection to be closed once the whole response is received.

  This option may be set both in a frontend and in a backend. It is enabled if
  at least one of the frontend or backend holding a connection has it enabled.
  It disables and replaces any previous "option http-server-close" or "option
  http-keep-alive". Please check section 4 ("Proxies") to see how this option
  combines with others when frontend and backend options differ.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option http-server-close" and "1.1. The HTTP transaction model".


option httplog [ clf ]
  Enable logging of HTTP request, session state and timers
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    clf       if the "clf" argument is added, then the output format will be
              the CLF format instead of HAProxy's default HTTP format. You can
              use this when you need to feed HAProxy's logs through a specific
              log analyzer which only support the CLF format and which is not
              extensible.

  By default, the log output format is very poor, as it only contains the
  source and destination addresses, and the instance name. By specifying
  "option httplog", each log line turns into a much richer format including,
  but not limited to, the HTTP request, the connection timers, the session
  status, the connections numbers, the captured headers and cookies, the
  frontend, backend and server name, and of course the source address and
  ports.

  Specifying only "option httplog" will automatically clear the 'clf' mode
  if it was set by default.

  "option httplog" overrides any previous "log-format" directive.

  See also :  section 8 about logging.


option http_proxy
no option http_proxy
  Enable or disable plain HTTP proxy mode
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  It sometimes happens that people need a pure HTTP proxy which understands
  basic proxy requests without caching nor any fancy feature. In this case,
  it may be worth setting up an HAProxy instance with the "option http_proxy"
  set. In this mode, no server is declared, and the connection is forwarded to
  the IP address and port found in the URL after the "http://" scheme.

  No host address resolution is performed, so this only works when pure IP
  addresses are passed. Since this option's usage perimeter is rather limited,
  it will probably be used only by experts who know they need exactly it. This
  is incompatible with the HTTP tunnel mode.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  Example :
    # this backend understands HTTP proxy requests and forwards them directly.
    backend direct_forward
        option httpclose
        option http_proxy

  See also : "option httpclose"


option independent-streams
no option independent-streams
  Enable or disable independent timeout processing for both directions
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |  yes
  Arguments : none

  By default, when data is sent over a socket, both the write timeout and the
  read timeout for that socket are refreshed, because we consider that there is
  activity on that socket, and we have no other means of guessing if we should
  receive data or not.

  While this default behavior is desirable for almost all applications, there
  exists a situation where it is desirable to disable it, and only refresh the
  read timeout if there are incoming data. This happens on sessions with large
  timeouts and low amounts of exchanged data such as telnet session. If the
  server suddenly disappears, the output data accumulates in the system's
  socket buffers, both timeouts are correctly refreshed, and there is no way
  to know the server does not receive them, so we don't timeout. However, when
  the underlying protocol always echoes sent data, it would be enough by itself
  to detect the issue using the read timeout. Note that this problem does not
  happen with more verbose protocols because data won't accumulate long in the
  socket buffers.

  When this option is set on the frontend, it will disable read timeout updates
  on data sent to the client. There probably is little use of this case. When
  the option is set on the backend, it will disable read timeout updates on
  data sent to the server. Doing so will typically break large HTTP posts from
  slow lines, so use it with caution.

  See also : "timeout client", "timeout server" and "timeout tunnel"


option ldap-check
  Use LDAPv3 health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  It is possible to test that the server correctly talks LDAPv3 instead of just
  testing that it accepts the TCP connection. When this option is set, an
  LDAPv3 anonymous simple bind message is sent to the server, and the response
  is analyzed to find an LDAPv3 bind response message.

  The server is considered valid only when the LDAP response contains success
  resultCode (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4511#section-4.1.9).

  Logging of bind requests is server dependent see your documentation how to
  configure it.

  Example :
        option ldap-check

  See also : "option httpchk"


option external-check
  Use external processes for server health checks
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  It is possible to test the health of a server using an external command.
  This is achieved by running the executable set using "external-check
  command".

  Requires the "external-check" global to be set.

  See also : "external-check", "external-check command", "external-check path"


option log-health-checks
no option log-health-checks
  Enable or disable logging of health checks status updates
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |  yes
  Arguments : none

  By default, failed health check are logged if server is UP and successful
  health checks are logged if server is DOWN, so the amount of additional
  information is limited.

  When this option is enabled, any change of the health check status or to
  the server's health will be logged, so that it becomes possible to know
  that a server was failing occasional checks before crashing, or exactly when
  it failed to respond a valid HTTP status, then when the port started to
  reject connections, then when the server stopped responding at all.

  Note that status changes not caused by health checks (e.g. enable/disable on
  the CLI) are intentionally not logged by this option.

  See also: "option httpchk", "option ldap-check", "option mysql-check",
            "option pgsql-check", "option redis-check", "option smtpchk",
            "option tcp-check", "log" and section 8 about logging.


option log-separate-errors
no option log-separate-errors
  Change log level for non-completely successful connections
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  Sometimes looking for errors in logs is not easy. This option makes haproxy
  raise the level of logs containing potentially interesting information such
  as errors, timeouts, retries, redispatches, or HTTP status codes 5xx. The
  level changes from "info" to "err". This makes it possible to log them
  separately to a different file with most syslog daemons. Be careful not to
  remove them from the original file, otherwise you would lose ordering which
  provides very important information.

  Using this option, large sites dealing with several thousand connections per
  second may log normal traffic to a rotating buffer and only archive smaller
  error logs.

  See also : "log", "dontlognull", "dontlog-normal" and section 8 about
             logging.


option logasap
no option logasap
  Enable or disable early logging.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  By default, logs are emitted when all the log format variables and sample
  fetches used in the definition of the log-format string return a value, or
  when the session is terminated. This allows the built in log-format strings
  to account for the transfer time, or the number of bytes in log messages.

  When handling long lived connections such as large file transfers or RDP,
  it may take a while for the request or connection to appear in the logs.
  Using "option logasap", the log message is created as soon as the server
  connection is established in mode tcp, or as soon as the server sends the
  complete headers in mode http. Missing information in the logs will be the
  total number of bytes which will only indicate the amount of data transferred
  before the message was created and the total time which will not take the
  remainder of the connection life or transfer time into account. For the case
  of HTTP, it is good practice to capture the Content-Length response header
  so that the logs at least indicate how many bytes are expected to be
  transferred.

  Examples :
      listen http_proxy 0.0.0.0:80
          mode http
          option httplog
          option logasap
          log 192.168.2.200 local3

    >>> Feb  6 12:14:14 localhost \
          haproxy[14389]: 10.0.1.2:33317 [06/Feb/2009:12:14:14.655] http-in \
          static/srv1 9/10/7/14/+30 200 +243 - - ---- 3/1/1/1/0 1/0 \
          "GET /image.iso HTTP/1.0"

  See also : "option httplog", "capture response header", and section 8 about
             logging.


option mysql-check [ user <username> [ { post-41 | pre-41 } ] ]
  Use MySQL health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <username> This is the username which will be used when connecting to MySQL
               server.
    post-41    Send post v4.1 client compatible checks (the default)
    pre-41     Send pre v4.1 client compatible checks

  If you specify a username, the check consists of sending two MySQL packet,
  one Client Authentication packet, and one QUIT packet, to correctly close
  MySQL session. We then parse the MySQL Handshake Initialization packet and/or
  Error packet. It is a basic but useful test which does not produce error nor
  aborted connect on the server. However, it requires adding an authorization
  in the MySQL table, like this :

      USE mysql;
      INSERT INTO user (Host,User) values ('<ip_of_haproxy>','<username>');
      FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

  If you don't specify a username (it is deprecated and not recommended), the
  check only consists in parsing the Mysql Handshake Initialization packet or
  Error packet, we don't send anything in this mode. It was reported that it
  can generate lockout if check is too frequent and/or if there is not enough
  traffic. In fact, you need in this case to check MySQL "max_connect_errors"
  value as if a connection is established successfully within fewer than MySQL
  "max_connect_errors" attempts after a previous connection was interrupted,
  the error count for the host is cleared to zero. If HAProxy's server get
  blocked, the "FLUSH HOSTS" statement is the only way to unblock it.

  Remember that this does not check database presence nor database consistency.
  To do this, you can use an external check with xinetd for example.

  The check requires MySQL >=3.22, for older version, please use TCP check.

  Most often, an incoming MySQL server needs to see the client's IP address for
  various purposes, including IP privilege matching and connection logging.
  When possible, it is often wise to masquerade the client's IP address when
  connecting to the server using the "usesrc" argument of the "source" keyword,
  which requires the transparent proxy feature to be compiled in, and the MySQL
  server to route the client via the machine hosting haproxy.

  See also: "option httpchk"


option nolinger
no option nolinger
  Enable or disable immediate session resource cleaning after close
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When clients or servers abort connections in a dirty way (e.g. they are
  physically disconnected), the session timeouts triggers and the session is
  closed. But it will remain in FIN_WAIT1 state for some time in the system,
  using some resources and possibly limiting the ability to establish newer
  connections.

  When this happens, it is possible to activate "option nolinger" which forces
  the system to immediately remove any socket's pending data on close. Thus,
  a TCP RST is emitted, any pending data are truncated, and the session is
  instantly purged from the system's tables. The generally visible effect for
  a client is that responses are truncated if the close happens with a last
  block of data (e.g. on a redirect or error response). On the server side,
  it may help release the source ports immediately when forwarding a client
  aborts in tunnels. In both cases, TCP resets are emitted and given that
  the session is instantly destroyed, there will be no retransmit. On a lossy
  network this can increase problems, especially when there is a firewall on
  the lossy side, because the firewall might see and process the reset (hence
  purge its session) and block any further traffic for this session,, including
  retransmits from the other side. So if the other side doesn't receive it,
  it will never receive any RST again, and the firewall might log many blocked
  packets.

  For all these reasons, it is strongly recommended NOT to use this option,
  unless absolutely needed as a last resort. In most situations, using the
  "client-fin" or "server-fin" timeouts achieves similar results with a more
  reliable behavior. On Linux it's also possible to use the "tcp-ut" bind or
  server setting.

  This option may be used both on frontends and backends, depending on the side
  where it is required. Use it on the frontend for clients, and on the backend
  for servers. While this option is technically supported in "defaults"
  sections, it must really not be used there as it risks to accidentally
  propagate to sections that must no use it and to cause problems there.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also: "timeout client-fin", "timeout server-fin", "tcp-ut" bind or server
            keywords.

option originalto [ except <network> ] [ header <name> ]
  Enable insertion of the X-Original-To header to requests sent to servers
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <network> is an optional argument used to disable this option for sources
              matching <network>
    <name>    an optional argument to specify a different "X-Original-To"
              header name.

  Since HAProxy can work in transparent mode, every request from a client can
  be redirected to the proxy and HAProxy itself can proxy every request to a
  complex SQUID environment and the destination host from SO_ORIGINAL_DST will
  be lost. This is annoying when you want access rules based on destination ip
  addresses. To solve this problem, a new HTTP header "X-Original-To" may be
  added by HAProxy to all requests sent to the server. This header contains a
  value representing the original destination IP address. Since this must be
  configured to always use the last occurrence of this header only. Note that
  only the last occurrence of the header must be used, since it is really
  possible that the client has already brought one.

  The keyword "header" may be used to supply a different header name to replace
  the default "X-Original-To". This can be useful where you might already
  have a "X-Original-To" header from a different application, and you need
  preserve it. Also if your backend server doesn't use the "X-Original-To"
  header and requires different one.

  Sometimes, a same HAProxy instance may be shared between a direct client
  access and a reverse-proxy access (for instance when an SSL reverse-proxy is
  used to decrypt HTTPS traffic). It is possible to disable the addition of the
  header for a known source address or network by adding the "except" keyword
  followed by the network address. In this case, any source IP matching the
  network will not cause an addition of this header. Most common uses are with
  private networks or 127.0.0.1.

  This option may be specified either in the frontend or in the backend. If at
  least one of them uses it, the header will be added. Note that the backend's
  setting of the header subargument takes precedence over the frontend's if
  both are defined.

  Examples :
    # Original Destination address
    frontend www
        mode http
        option originalto except 127.0.0.1

    # Those servers want the IP Address in X-Client-Dst
    backend www
        mode http
        option originalto header X-Client-Dst

  See also : "option httpclose", "option http-server-close".


option persist
no option persist
  Enable or disable forced persistence on down servers
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When an HTTP request reaches a backend with a cookie which references a dead
  server, by default it is redispatched to another server. It is possible to
  force the request to be sent to the dead server first using "option persist"
  if absolutely needed. A common use case is when servers are under extreme
  load and spend their time flapping. In this case, the users would still be
  directed to the server they opened the session on, in the hope they would be
  correctly served. It is recommended to use "option redispatch" in conjunction
  with this option so that in the event it would not be possible to connect to
  the server at all (server definitely dead), the client would finally be
  redirected to another valid server.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option redispatch", "retries", "force-persist"


option pgsql-check [ user <username> ]
  Use PostgreSQL health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <username> This is the username which will be used when connecting to
               PostgreSQL server.

  The check sends a PostgreSQL StartupMessage and waits for either
  Authentication request or ErrorResponse message. It is a basic but useful
  test which does not produce error nor aborted connect on the server.
  This check is identical with the "mysql-check".

  See also: "option httpchk"


option prefer-last-server
no option prefer-last-server
  Allow multiple load balanced requests to remain on the same server
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When the load balancing algorithm in use is not deterministic, and a previous
  request was sent to a server to which haproxy still holds a connection, it is
  sometimes desirable that subsequent requests on a same session go to the same
  server as much as possible. Note that this is different from persistence, as
  we only indicate a preference which haproxy tries to apply without any form
  of warranty. The real use is for keep-alive connections sent to servers. When
  this option is used, haproxy will try to reuse the same connection that is
  attached to the server instead of rebalancing to another server, causing a
  close of the connection. This can make sense for static file servers. It does
  not make much sense to use this in combination with hashing algorithms. Note,
  haproxy already automatically tries to stick to a server which sends a 401 or
  to a proxy which sends a 407 (authentication required), when the load
  balancing algorithm is not deterministic. This is mandatory for use with the
  broken NTLM authentication challenge, and significantly helps in
  troubleshooting some faulty applications. Option prefer-last-server might be
  desirable in these environments as well, to avoid redistributing the traffic
  after every other response.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also: "option http-keep-alive"


option redispatch
option redispatch <interval>
no option redispatch
  Enable or disable session redistribution in case of connection failure
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <interval> The optional integer value that controls how often redispatches
               occur when retrying connections. Positive value P indicates a
               redispatch is desired on every Pth retry, and negative value
               N indicate a redispatch is desired on the Nth retry prior to the
               last retry. For example, the default of -1 preserves the
               historical behavior of redispatching on the last retry, a
               positive value of 1 would indicate a redispatch on every retry,
               and a positive value of 3 would indicate a redispatch on every
               third retry. You can disable redispatches with a value of 0.


  In HTTP mode, if a server designated by a cookie is down, clients may
  definitely stick to it because they cannot flush the cookie, so they will not
  be able to access the service anymore.

  Specifying "option redispatch" will allow the proxy to break cookie or
  consistent hash based persistence and redistribute them to a working server.

  Active servers are selected from a subset of the list of available
  servers. Active servers that are not down or in maintenance (i.e., whose
  health is not checked or that have been checked as "up"), are selected in the
  following order:

    1. Any active, non-backup server, if any, or,

    2. If the "allbackups" option is not set, the first backup server in the
       list, or

    3. If the "allbackups" option is set, any backup server.

  When a retry occurs, HAProxy tries to select another server than the last
  one. The new server is selected from the current list of servers.

  Sometimes, if the list is updated between retries (e.g., if numerous retries
  occur and last longer than the time needed to check that a server is down,
  remove it from the list and fall back on the list of backup servers),
  connections may be redirected to a backup server, though.

  It also allows to retry connections to another server in case of multiple
  connection failures. Of course, it requires having "retries" set to a nonzero
  value.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "retries", "force-persist"


option redis-check
  Use redis health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  It is possible to test that the server correctly talks REDIS protocol instead
  of just testing that it accepts the TCP connection. When this option is set,
  a PING redis command is sent to the server, and the response is analyzed to
  find the "+PONG" response message.

  Example :
        option redis-check

  See also : "option httpchk", "option tcp-check", "tcp-check expect"


option smtpchk
option smtpchk <hello> <domain>
  Use SMTP health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <hello>   is an optional argument. It is the "hello" command to use. It can
              be either "HELO" (for SMTP) or "EHLO" (for ESMTP). All other
              values will be turned into the default command ("HELO").

    <domain>  is the domain name to present to the server. It may only be
              specified (and is mandatory) if the hello command has been
              specified. By default, "localhost" is used.

  When "option smtpchk" is set, the health checks will consist in TCP
  connections followed by an SMTP command. By default, this command is
  "HELO localhost". The server's return code is analyzed and only return codes
  starting with a "2" will be considered as valid. All other responses,
  including a lack of response will constitute an error and will indicate a
  dead server.

  This test is meant to be used with SMTP servers or relays. Depending on the
  request, it is possible that some servers do not log each connection attempt,
  so you may want to experiment to improve the behavior. Using telnet on port
  25 is often easier than adjusting the configuration.

  Most often, an incoming SMTP server needs to see the client's IP address for
  various purposes, including spam filtering, anti-spoofing and logging. When
  possible, it is often wise to masquerade the client's IP address when
  connecting to the server using the "usesrc" argument of the "source" keyword,
  which requires the transparent proxy feature to be compiled in.

  Example :
        option smtpchk HELO mydomain.org

  See also : "option httpchk", "source"


option socket-stats
no option socket-stats

  Enable or disable collecting & providing separate statistics for each socket.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no

  Arguments : none


option splice-auto
no option splice-auto
  Enable or disable automatic kernel acceleration on sockets in both directions
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When this option is enabled either on a frontend or on a backend, haproxy
  will automatically evaluate the opportunity to use kernel tcp splicing to
  forward data between the client and the server, in either direction. HAProxy
  uses heuristics to estimate if kernel splicing might improve performance or
  not. Both directions are handled independently. Note that the heuristics used
  are not much aggressive in order to limit excessive use of splicing. This
  option requires splicing to be enabled at compile time, and may be globally
  disabled with the global option "nosplice". Since splice uses pipes, using it
  requires that there are enough spare pipes.

  Important note: kernel-based TCP splicing is a Linux-specific feature which
  first appeared in kernel 2.6.25. It offers kernel-based acceleration to
  transfer data between sockets without copying these data to user-space, thus
  providing noticeable performance gains and CPU cycles savings. Since many
  early implementations are buggy, corrupt data and/or are inefficient, this
  feature is not enabled by default, and it should be used with extreme care.
  While it is not possible to detect the correctness of an implementation,
  2.6.29 is the first version offering a properly working implementation. In
  case of doubt, splicing may be globally disabled using the global "nosplice"
  keyword.

  Example :
        option splice-auto

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option splice-request", "option splice-response", and global
             options "nosplice" and "maxpipes"


option splice-request
no option splice-request
  Enable or disable automatic kernel acceleration on sockets for requests
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When this option is enabled either on a frontend or on a backend, haproxy
  will use kernel tcp splicing whenever possible to forward data going from
  the client to the server. It might still use the recv/send scheme if there
  are no spare pipes left. This option requires splicing to be enabled at
  compile time, and may be globally disabled with the global option "nosplice".
  Since splice uses pipes, using it requires that there are enough spare pipes.

  Important note: see "option splice-auto" for usage limitations.

  Example :
        option splice-request

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option splice-auto", "option splice-response", and global options
             "nosplice" and "maxpipes"


option splice-response
no option splice-response
  Enable or disable automatic kernel acceleration on sockets for responses
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When this option is enabled either on a frontend or on a backend, haproxy
  will use kernel tcp splicing whenever possible to forward data going from
  the server to the client. It might still use the recv/send scheme if there
  are no spare pipes left. This option requires splicing to be enabled at
  compile time, and may be globally disabled with the global option "nosplice".
  Since splice uses pipes, using it requires that there are enough spare pipes.

  Important note: see "option splice-auto" for usage limitations.

  Example :
        option splice-response

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option splice-auto", "option splice-request", and global options
             "nosplice" and "maxpipes"


option spop-check
  Use SPOP health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   no   |   yes
  Arguments : none

  It is possible to test that the server correctly talks SPOP protocol instead
  of just testing that it accepts the TCP connection. When this option is set,
  a HELLO handshake is performed between HAProxy and the server, and the
  response is analyzed to check no error is reported.

  Example :
        option spop-check

  See also : "option httpchk"


option srvtcpka
no option srvtcpka
  Enable or disable the sending of TCP keepalive packets on the server side
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When there is a firewall or any session-aware component between a client and
  a server, and when the protocol involves very long sessions with long idle
  periods (e.g. remote desktops), there is a risk that one of the intermediate
  components decides to expire a session which has remained idle for too long.

  Enabling socket-level TCP keep-alives makes the system regularly send packets
  to the other end of the connection, leaving it active. The delay between
  keep-alive probes is controlled by the system only and depends both on the
  operating system and its tuning parameters.

  It is important to understand that keep-alive packets are neither emitted nor
  received at the application level. It is only the network stacks which sees
  them. For this reason, even if one side of the proxy already uses keep-alives
  to maintain its connection alive, those keep-alive packets will not be
  forwarded to the other side of the proxy.

  Please note that this has nothing to do with HTTP keep-alive.

  Using option "srvtcpka" enables the emission of TCP keep-alive probes on the
  server side of a connection, which should help when session expirations are
  noticed between HAProxy and a server.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option clitcpka", "option tcpka"


option ssl-hello-chk
  Use SSLv3 client hello health checks for server testing
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When some SSL-based protocols are relayed in TCP mode through HAProxy, it is
  possible to test that the server correctly talks SSL instead of just testing
  that it accepts the TCP connection. When "option ssl-hello-chk" is set, pure
  SSLv3 client hello messages are sent once the connection is established to
  the server, and the response is analyzed to find an SSL server hello message.
  The server is considered valid only when the response contains this server
  hello message.

  All servers tested till there correctly reply to SSLv3 client hello messages,
  and most servers tested do not even log the requests containing only hello
  messages, which is appreciable.

  Note that this check works even when SSL support was not built into haproxy
  because it forges the SSL message. When SSL support is available, it is best
  to use native SSL health checks instead of this one.

  See also: "option httpchk", "check-ssl"


option tcp-check
  Perform health checks using tcp-check send/expect sequences
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  This health check method is intended to be combined with "tcp-check" command
  lists in order to support send/expect types of health check sequences.

  TCP checks currently support 4 modes of operations :
    - no "tcp-check" directive : the health check only consists in a connection
      attempt, which remains the default mode.

    - "tcp-check send" or "tcp-check send-binary" only is mentioned : this is
      used to send a string along with a connection opening. With some
      protocols, it helps sending a "QUIT" message for example that prevents
      the server from logging a connection error for each health check. The
      check result will still be based on the ability to open the connection
      only.

    - "tcp-check expect" only is mentioned : this is used to test a banner.
      The connection is opened and haproxy waits for the server to present some
      contents which must validate some rules. The check result will be based
      on the matching between the contents and the rules. This is suited for
      POP, IMAP, SMTP, FTP, SSH, TELNET.

    - both "tcp-check send" and "tcp-check expect" are mentioned : this is
      used to test a hello-type protocol. HAProxy sends a message, the server
      responds and its response is analyzed. the check result will be based on
      the matching between the response contents and the rules. This is often
      suited for protocols which require a binding or a request/response model.
      LDAP, MySQL, Redis and SSL are example of such protocols, though they
      already all have their dedicated checks with a deeper understanding of
      the respective protocols.
      In this mode, many questions may be sent and many answers may be
      analyzed.

  A fifth mode can be used to insert comments in different steps of the script.

  For each tcp-check rule you create, you can add a "comment" directive,
  followed by a string. This string will be reported in the log and stderr in
  debug mode. It is useful to make user-friendly error reporting.  The
  "comment" is of course optional.

  During the execution of a health check, a variable scope is made available to
  store data samples, using the "tcp-check set-var" operation. Freeing those
  variable is possible using "tcp-check unset-var".


  Examples :
         # perform a POP check (analyze only server's banner)
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check expect string +OK\ POP3\ ready comment POP\ protocol

         # perform an IMAP check (analyze only server's banner)
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check expect string *\ OK\ IMAP4\ ready comment IMAP\ protocol

         # look for the redis master server after ensuring it speaks well
         # redis protocol, then it exits properly.
         # (send a command then analyze the response 3 times)
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check comment PING\ phase
         tcp-check send PING\r\n
         tcp-check expect string +PONG
         tcp-check comment role\ check
         tcp-check send info\ replication\r\n
         tcp-check expect string role:master
         tcp-check comment QUIT\ phase
         tcp-check send QUIT\r\n
         tcp-check expect string +OK

         forge a HTTP request, then analyze the response
         (send many headers before analyzing)
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check comment forge\ and\ send\ HTTP\ request
         tcp-check send HEAD\ /\ HTTP/1.1\r\n
         tcp-check send Host:\ www.mydomain.com\r\n
         tcp-check send User-Agent:\ HAProxy\ tcpcheck\r\n
         tcp-check send \r\n
         tcp-check expect rstring HTTP/1\..\ (2..|3..) comment check\ HTTP\ response


  See also : "tcp-check connect", "tcp-check expect" and "tcp-check send".


option tcp-smart-accept
no option tcp-smart-accept
  Enable or disable the saving of one ACK packet during the accept sequence
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |    no
  Arguments : none

  When an HTTP connection request comes in, the system acknowledges it on
  behalf of HAProxy, then the client immediately sends its request, and the
  system acknowledges it too while it is notifying HAProxy about the new
  connection. HAProxy then reads the request and responds. This means that we
  have one TCP ACK sent by the system for nothing, because the request could
  very well be acknowledged by HAProxy when it sends its response.

  For this reason, in HTTP mode, HAProxy automatically asks the system to avoid
  sending this useless ACK on platforms which support it (currently at least
  Linux). It must not cause any problem, because the system will send it anyway
  after 40 ms if the response takes more time than expected to come.

  During complex network debugging sessions, it may be desirable to disable
  this optimization because delayed ACKs can make troubleshooting more complex
  when trying to identify where packets are delayed. It is then possible to
  fall back to normal behavior by specifying "no option tcp-smart-accept".

  It is also possible to force it for non-HTTP proxies by simply specifying
  "option tcp-smart-accept". For instance, it can make sense with some services
  such as SMTP where the server speaks first.

  It is recommended to avoid forcing this option in a defaults section. In case
  of doubt, consider setting it back to automatic values by prepending the
  "default" keyword before it, or disabling it using the "no" keyword.

  See also : "option tcp-smart-connect"


option tcp-smart-connect
no option tcp-smart-connect
  Enable or disable the saving of one ACK packet during the connect sequence
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  On certain systems (at least Linux), HAProxy can ask the kernel not to
  immediately send an empty ACK upon a connection request, but to directly
  send the buffer request instead. This saves one packet on the network and
  thus boosts performance. It can also be useful for some servers, because they
  immediately get the request along with the incoming connection.

  This feature is enabled when "option tcp-smart-connect" is set in a backend.
  It is not enabled by default because it makes network troubleshooting more
  complex.

  It only makes sense to enable it with protocols where the client speaks first
  such as HTTP. In other situations, if there is no data to send in place of
  the ACK, a normal ACK is sent.

  If this option has been enabled in a "defaults" section, it can be disabled
  in a specific instance by prepending the "no" keyword before it.

  See also : "option tcp-smart-accept"


option tcpka
  Enable or disable the sending of TCP keepalive packets on both sides
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  When there is a firewall or any session-aware component between a client and
  a server, and when the protocol involves very long sessions with long idle
  periods (e.g. remote desktops), there is a risk that one of the intermediate
  components decides to expire a session which has remained idle for too long.

  Enabling socket-level TCP keep-alives makes the system regularly send packets
  to the other end of the connection, leaving it active. The delay between
  keep-alive probes is controlled by the system only and depends both on the
  operating system and its tuning parameters.

  It is important to understand that keep-alive packets are neither emitted nor
  received at the application level. It is only the network stacks which sees
  them. For this reason, even if one side of the proxy already uses keep-alives
  to maintain its connection alive, those keep-alive packets will not be
  forwarded to the other side of the proxy.

  Please note that this has nothing to do with HTTP keep-alive.

  Using option "tcpka" enables the emission of TCP keep-alive probes on both
  the client and server sides of a connection. Note that this is meaningful
  only in "defaults" or "listen" sections. If this option is used in a
  frontend, only the client side will get keep-alives, and if this option is
  used in a backend, only the server side will get keep-alives. For this
  reason, it is strongly recommended to explicitly use "option clitcpka" and
  "option srvtcpka" when the configuration is split between frontends and
  backends.

  See also : "option clitcpka", "option srvtcpka"


option tcplog
  Enable advanced logging of TCP connections with session state and timers
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments : none

  By default, the log output format is very poor, as it only contains the
  source and destination addresses, and the instance name. By specifying
  "option tcplog", each log line turns into a much richer format including, but
  not limited to, the connection timers, the session status, the connections
  numbers, the frontend, backend and server name, and of course the source
  address and ports. This option is useful for pure TCP proxies in order to
  find which of the client or server disconnects or times out. For normal HTTP
  proxies, it's better to use "option httplog" which is even more complete.

  "option tcplog" overrides any previous "log-format" directive.

  See also :  "option httplog", and section 8 about logging.


option transparent
no option transparent
  Enable client-side transparent proxying
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  This option was introduced in order to provide layer 7 persistence to layer 3
  load balancers. The idea is to use the OS's ability to redirect an incoming
  connection for a remote address to a local process (here HAProxy), and let
  this process know what address was initially requested. When this option is
  used, sessions without cookies will be forwarded to the original destination
  IP address of the incoming request (which should match that of another
  equipment), while requests with cookies will still be forwarded to the
  appropriate server.

  Note that contrary to a common belief, this option does NOT make HAProxy
  present the client's IP to the server when establishing the connection.

  See also: the "usesrc" argument of the "source" keyword, and the
            "transparent" option of the "bind" keyword.


external-check command <command>
  Executable to run when performing an external-check
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <command> is the external command to run

  The arguments passed to the to the command are:

  <proxy_address> <proxy_port> <server_address> <server_port>

  The <proxy_address> and <proxy_port> are derived from the first listener
  that is either IPv4, IPv6 or a UNIX socket. In the case of a UNIX socket
  listener the proxy_address will be the path of the socket and the
  <proxy_port> will be the string "NOT_USED". In a backend section, it's not
  possible to determine a listener, and both <proxy_address> and <proxy_port>
  will have the string value "NOT_USED".

  Some values are also provided through environment variables.

  Environment variables :
    HAPROXY_PROXY_ADDR      The first bind address if available (or empty if not
                            applicable, for example in a "backend" section).

    HAPROXY_PROXY_ID        The backend id.

    HAPROXY_PROXY_NAME      The backend name.

    HAPROXY_PROXY_PORT      The first bind port if available (or empty if not
                            applicable, for example in a "backend" section or
                            for a UNIX socket).

    HAPROXY_SERVER_ADDR     The server address.

    HAPROXY_SERVER_CURCONN  The current number of connections on the server.

    HAPROXY_SERVER_ID       The server id.

    HAPROXY_SERVER_MAXCONN  The server max connections.

    HAPROXY_SERVER_NAME     The server name.

    HAPROXY_SERVER_PORT     The server port if available (or empty for a UNIX
                            socket).

    PATH                    The PATH environment variable used when executing
                            the command may be set using "external-check path".

  See also "2.3. Environment variables" for other variables.

  If the command executed and exits with a zero status then the check is
  considered to have passed, otherwise the check is considered to have
  failed.

  Example :
        external-check command /bin/true

  See also : "external-check", "option external-check", "external-check path"


external-check path <path>
  The value of the PATH environment variable used when running an external-check
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <path> is the path used when executing external command to run

  The default path is "".

  Example :
        external-check path "/usr/bin:/bin"

  See also : "external-check", "option external-check",
             "external-check command"


persist rdp-cookie
persist rdp-cookie(<name>)
  Enable RDP cookie-based persistence
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the optional name of the RDP cookie to check. If omitted, the
              default cookie name "msts" will be used. There currently is no
              valid reason to change this name.

  This statement enables persistence based on an RDP cookie. The RDP cookie
  contains all information required to find the server in the list of known
  servers. So when this option is set in the backend, the request is analyzed
  and if an RDP cookie is found, it is decoded. If it matches a known server
  which is still UP (or if "option persist" is set), then the connection is
  forwarded to this server.

  Note that this only makes sense in a TCP backend, but for this to work, the
  frontend must have waited long enough to ensure that an RDP cookie is present
  in the request buffer. This is the same requirement as with the "rdp-cookie"
  load-balancing method. Thus it is highly recommended to put all statements in
  a single "listen" section.

  Also, it is important to understand that the terminal server will emit this
  RDP cookie only if it is configured for "token redirection mode", which means
  that the "IP address redirection" option is disabled.

  Example :
        listen tse-farm
            bind :3389
            # wait up to 5s for an RDP cookie in the request
            tcp-request inspect-delay 5s
            tcp-request content accept if RDP_COOKIE
            # apply RDP cookie persistence
            persist rdp-cookie
            # if server is unknown, let's balance on the same cookie.
            # alternatively, "balance leastconn" may be useful too.
            balance rdp-cookie
            server srv1 1.1.1.1:3389
            server srv2 1.1.1.2:3389

  See also : "balance rdp-cookie", "tcp-request", the "req_rdp_cookie" ACL and
  the rdp_cookie pattern fetch function.


rate-limit sessions <rate>
  Set a limit on the number of new sessions accepted per second on a frontend
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <rate>    The <rate> parameter is an integer designating the maximum number
              of new sessions per second to accept on the frontend.

  When the frontend reaches the specified number of new sessions per second, it
  stops accepting new connections until the rate drops below the limit again.
  During this time, the pending sessions will be kept in the socket's backlog
  (in system buffers) and haproxy will not even be aware that sessions are
  pending. When applying very low limit on a highly loaded service, it may make
  sense to increase the socket's backlog using the "backlog" keyword.

  This feature is particularly efficient at blocking connection-based attacks
  or service abuse on fragile servers. Since the session rate is measured every
  millisecond, it is extremely accurate. Also, the limit applies immediately,
  no delay is needed at all to detect the threshold.

  Example : limit the connection rate on SMTP to 10 per second max
        listen smtp
            mode tcp
            bind :25
            rate-limit sessions 10
            server smtp1 127.0.0.1:1025

  Note : when the maximum rate is reached, the frontend's status is not changed
         but its sockets appear as "WAITING" in the statistics if the
         "socket-stats" option is enabled.

  See also : the "backlog" keyword and the "fe_sess_rate" ACL criterion.


redirect location <loc> [code <code>] <option> [{if | unless} <condition>]
redirect prefix   <pfx> [code <code>] <option> [{if | unless} <condition>]
redirect scheme   <sch> [code <code>] <option> [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Return an HTTP redirection if/unless a condition is matched
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  If/unless the condition is matched, the HTTP request will lead to a redirect
  response. If no condition is specified, the redirect applies unconditionally.

  Arguments :
    <loc>     With "redirect location", the exact value in <loc> is placed into
              the HTTP "Location" header. When used in an "http-request" rule,
              <loc> value follows the log-format rules and can include some
              dynamic values (see Custom Log Format in section 8.2.4).

    <pfx>     With "redirect prefix", the "Location" header is built from the
              concatenation of <pfx> and the complete URI path, including the
              query string, unless the "drop-query" option is specified (see
              below). As a special case, if <pfx> equals exactly "/", then
              nothing is inserted before the original URI. It allows one to
              redirect to the same URL (for instance, to insert a cookie). When
              used in an "http-request" rule, <pfx> value follows the log-format
              rules and can include some dynamic values (see Custom Log Format
              in section 8.2.4).

    <sch>     With "redirect scheme", then the "Location" header is built by
              concatenating <sch> with "://" then the first occurrence of the
              "Host" header, and then the URI path, including the query string
              unless the "drop-query" option is specified (see below). If no
              path is found or if the path is "*", then "/" is used instead. If
              no "Host" header is found, then an empty host component will be
              returned, which most recent browsers interpret as redirecting to
              the same host. This directive is mostly used to redirect HTTP to
              HTTPS. When used in an "http-request" rule, <sch> value follows
              the log-format rules and can include some dynamic values (see
              Custom Log Format in section 8.2.4).

    <code>    The code is optional. It indicates which type of HTTP redirection
              is desired. Only codes 301, 302, 303, 307 and 308 are supported,
              with 302 used by default if no code is specified. 301 means
              "Moved permanently", and a browser may cache the Location. 302
              means "Moved temporarily" and means that the browser should not
              cache the redirection. 303 is equivalent to 302 except that the
              browser will fetch the location with a GET method. 307 is just
              like 302 but makes it clear that the same method must be reused.
              Likewise, 308 replaces 301 if the same method must be used.

    <option>  There are several options which can be specified to adjust the
              expected behavior of a redirection :

      - "drop-query"
        When this keyword is used in a prefix-based redirection, then the
        location will be set without any possible query-string, which is useful
        for directing users to a non-secure page for instance. It has no effect
        with a location-type redirect.

      - "append-slash"
        This keyword may be used in conjunction with "drop-query" to redirect
        users who use a URL not ending with a '/' to the same one with the '/'.
        It can be useful to ensure that search engines will only see one URL.
        For this, a return code 301 is preferred.

      - "set-cookie NAME[=value]"
        A "Set-Cookie" header will be added with NAME (and optionally "=value")
        to the response. This is sometimes used to indicate that a user has
        been seen, for instance to protect against some types of DoS. No other
        cookie option is added, so the cookie will be a session cookie. Note
        that for a browser, a sole cookie name without an equal sign is
        different from a cookie with an equal sign.

      - "clear-cookie NAME[=]"
        A "Set-Cookie" header will be added with NAME (and optionally "="), but
        with the "Max-Age" attribute set to zero. This will tell the browser to
        delete this cookie. It is useful for instance on logout pages. It is
        important to note that clearing the cookie "NAME" will not remove a
        cookie set with "NAME=value". You have to clear the cookie "NAME=" for
        that, because the browser makes the difference.

  Example: move the login URL only to HTTPS.
        acl clear      dst_port  80
        acl secure     dst_port  8080
        acl login_page url_beg   /login
        acl logout     url_beg   /logout
        acl uid_given  url_reg   /login?userid=[^&]+
        acl cookie_set hdr_sub(cookie) SEEN=1

        redirect prefix   https://mysite.com set-cookie SEEN=1 if !cookie_set
        redirect prefix   https://mysite.com           if login_page !secure
        redirect prefix   http://mysite.com drop-query if login_page !uid_given
        redirect location http://mysite.com/           if !login_page secure
        redirect location / clear-cookie USERID=       if logout

  Example: send redirects for request for articles without a '/'.
        acl missing_slash path_reg ^/article/[^/]*$
        redirect code 301 prefix / drop-query append-slash if missing_slash

  Example: redirect all HTTP traffic to HTTPS when SSL is handled by haproxy.
        redirect scheme https if !{ ssl_fc }

  Example: append 'www.' prefix in front of all hosts not having it
        http-request redirect code 301 location      \
          http://www.%[hdr(host)]%[capture.req.uri]  \
          unless { hdr_beg(host) -i www }

  See section 7 about ACL usage.


retries <value>
  Set the number of retries to perform on a server after a connection failure
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <value>   is the number of times a connection attempt should be retried on
              a server when a connection either is refused or times out. The
              default value is 3.

  It is important to understand that this value applies to the number of
  connection attempts, not full requests. When a connection has effectively
  been established to a server, there will be no more retry.

  In order to avoid immediate reconnections to a server which is restarting,
  a turn-around timer of min("timeout connect", one second) is applied before
  a retry occurs.

  When "option redispatch" is set, the last retry may be performed on another
  server even if a cookie references a different server.

  See also : "option redispatch"


retry-on [list of keywords]
  Specify when to attempt to automatically retry a failed request.
  This setting is only valid when "mode" is set to http and is silently ignored
  otherwise.
  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <keywords>  is a list of keywords or HTTP status codes, each representing a
                type of failure event on which an attempt to retry the request
                is desired. Please read the notes at the bottom before changing
                this setting. The following keywords are supported :

      none              never retry

      conn-failure      retry when the connection or the SSL handshake failed
                        and the request could not be sent. This is the default.

      empty-response    retry when the server connection was closed after part
                        of the request was sent, and nothing was received from
                        the server. This type of failure may be caused by the
                        request timeout on the server side, poor network
                        condition, or a server crash or restart while
                        processing the request.

      junk-response     retry when the server returned something not looking
                        like a complete HTTP response. This includes partial
                        responses headers as well as non-HTTP contents. It
                        usually is a bad idea to retry on such events, which
                        may be caused a configuration issue (wrong server port)
                        or by the request being harmful to the server (buffer
                        overflow attack for example).

      response-timeout  the server timeout stroke while waiting for the server
                        to respond to the request. This may be caused by poor
                        network condition, the reuse of an idle connection
                        which has expired on the path, or by the request being
                        extremely expensive to process. It generally is a bad
                        idea to retry on such events on servers dealing with
                        heavy database processing (full scans, etc) as it may
                        amplify denial of service attacks.

      0rtt-rejected     retry requests which were sent over early data and were
                        rejected by the server. These requests are generally
                        considered to be safe to retry.

      <status>          any HTTP status code among "401" (Unauthorized), "403"
                        (Forbidden), "404" (Not Found), "408" (Request Timeout),
                        "425" (Too Early), "500" (Server Error), "501" (Not
                        Implemented), "502" (Bad Gateway), "503" (Service
                        Unavailable), "504" (Gateway Timeout).

      all-retryable-errors
                        retry request for any error that are considered
			retryable. This currently activates "conn-failure",
			"empty-response", "junk-response", "response-timeout",
			"0rtt-rejected", "500", "502", "503", and "504".

  Using this directive replaces any previous settings with the new ones; it is
  not cumulative.

  Please note that using anything other than "none" and "conn-failure" requires
  to allocate a buffer and copy the whole request into it, so it has memory and
  performance impacts. Requests not fitting in a single buffer will never be
  retried (see the global tune.bufsize setting).

  You have to make sure the application has a replay protection mechanism built
  in such as a unique transaction IDs passed in requests, or that replaying the
  same request has no consequence, or it is very dangerous to use any retry-on
  value beside "conn-failure" and "none". Static file servers and caches are
  generally considered safe against any type of retry. Using a status code can
  be useful to quickly leave a server showing an abnormal behavior (out of
  memory, file system issues, etc), but in this case it may be a good idea to
  immediately redispatch the connection to another server (please see "option
  redispatch" for this). Last, it is important to understand that most causes
  of failures are the requests themselves and that retrying a request causing a
  server to misbehave will often make the situation even worse for this server,
  or for the whole service in case of redispatch.

  Unless you know exactly how the application deals with replayed requests, you
  should not use this directive.

  The default is "conn-failure".

  See also: "retries", "option redispatch", "tune.bufsize"

server <name> <address>[:[port]] [param*]
  Declare a server in a backend
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the internal name assigned to this server. This name will
              appear in logs and alerts. If "http-send-name-header" is
              set, it will be added to the request header sent to the server.

    <address> is the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the server. Alternatively, a
              resolvable hostname is supported, but this name will be resolved
              during start-up. Address "0.0.0.0" or "*" has a special meaning.
              It indicates that the connection will be forwarded to the same IP
              address as the one from the client connection. This is useful in
              transparent proxy architectures where the client's connection is
              intercepted and haproxy must forward to the original destination
              address. This is more or less what the "transparent" keyword does
              except that with a server it's possible to limit concurrency and
              to report statistics. Optionally, an address family prefix may be
              used before the address to force the family regardless of the
              address format, which can be useful to specify a path to a unix
              socket with no slash ('/'). Currently supported prefixes are :
                    - 'ipv4@'  -> address is always IPv4
                    - 'ipv6@'  -> address is always IPv6
                    - 'unix@'  -> address is a path to a local unix socket
                    - 'abns@'  -> address is in abstract namespace (Linux only)
                    - 'sockpair@' -> address is the FD of a connected unix
                      socket or of a socketpair. During a connection, the
                      backend creates a pair of connected sockets, and passes
                      one of them over the FD. The bind part will use the
                      received socket as the client FD. Should be used
                      carefully.
              You may want to reference some environment variables in the
              address parameter, see section 2.3 about environment
              variables. The "init-addr" setting can be used to modify the way
              IP addresses should be resolved upon startup.

    <port>    is an optional port specification. If set, all connections will
              be sent to this port. If unset, the same port the client
              connected to will be used. The port may also be prefixed by a "+"
              or a "-". In this case, the server's port will be determined by
              adding this value to the client's port.

    <param*>  is a list of parameters for this server. The "server" keywords
              accepts an important number of options and has a complete section
              dedicated to it. Please refer to section 5 for more details.

  Examples :
        server first  10.1.1.1:1080 cookie first  check inter 1000
        server second 10.1.1.2:1080 cookie second check inter 1000
        server transp ipv4@
        server backup "${SRV_BACKUP}:1080" backup
        server www1_dc1 "${LAN_DC1}.101:80"
        server www1_dc2 "${LAN_DC2}.101:80"

  Note: regarding Linux's abstract namespace sockets, HAProxy uses the whole
        sun_path length is used for the address length. Some other programs
        such as socat use the string length only by default. Pass the option
        ",unix-tightsocklen=0" to any abstract socket definition in socat to
        make it compatible with HAProxy's.

  See also: "default-server", "http-send-name-header" and section 5 about
             server options

server-state-file-name [<file>]
  Set the server state file to read, load and apply to servers available in
  this backend. It only applies when the directive "load-server-state-from-file"
  is set to "local". When <file> is not provided or if this directive is not
  set, then backend name is used. If <file> starts with a slash '/', then it is
  considered as an absolute path. Otherwise, <file> is concatenated to the
  global directive "server-state-file-base".

  Example: the minimal configuration below would make HAProxy look for the
           state server file '/etc/haproxy/states/bk':

    global
      server-state-file-base /etc/haproxy/states

    backend bk
      load-server-state-from-file

  See also: "server-state-file-base", "load-server-state-from-file", and
  "show servers state"

server-template <prefix> <num | range> <fqdn>[:<port>] [params*]
  Set a template to initialize servers with shared parameters.
  The names of these servers are built from <prefix> and <num | range> parameters.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments:
    <prefix>  A prefix for the server names to be built.

    <num | range>
              If <num> is provided, this template initializes <num> servers
              with 1 up to <num> as server name suffixes. A range of numbers
              <num_low>-<num_high> may also be used to use <num_low> up to
              <num_high> as server name suffixes.

    <fqdn>    A FQDN for all the servers this template initializes.

    <port>    Same meaning as "server" <port> argument (see "server" keyword).

    <params*>
              Remaining server parameters among all those supported by "server"
              keyword.

  Examples:
    # Initializes 3 servers with srv1, srv2 and srv3 as names,
    # google.com as FQDN, and health-check enabled.
    server-template srv 1-3 google.com:80 check

    # or
    server-template srv 3 google.com:80 check

    # would be equivalent to:
    server srv1 google.com:80 check
    server srv2 google.com:80 check
    server srv3 google.com:80 check



source <addr>[:<port>] [usesrc { <addr2>[:<port2>] | client | clientip } ]
source <addr>[:<port>] [usesrc { <addr2>[:<port2>] | hdr_ip(<hdr>[,<occ>]) } ]
source <addr>[:<port>] [interface <name>]
  Set the source address for outgoing connections
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <addr>    is the IPv4 address HAProxy will bind to before connecting to a
              server. This address is also used as a source for health checks.

              The default value of 0.0.0.0 means that the system will select
              the most appropriate address to reach its destination. Optionally
              an address family prefix may be used before the address to force
              the family regardless of the address format, which can be useful
              to specify a path to a unix socket with no slash ('/'). Currently
              supported prefixes are :
                - 'ipv4@' -> address is always IPv4
                - 'ipv6@' -> address is always IPv6
                - 'unix@' -> address is a path to a local unix socket
                - 'abns@' -> address is in abstract namespace (Linux only)
              You may want to reference some environment variables in the
              address parameter, see section 2.3 about environment variables.

    <port>    is an optional port. It is normally not needed but may be useful
              in some very specific contexts. The default value of zero means
              the system will select a free port. Note that port ranges are not
              supported in the backend. If you want to force port ranges, you
              have to specify them on each "server" line.

    <addr2>   is the IP address to present to the server when connections are
              forwarded in full transparent proxy mode. This is currently only
              supported on some patched Linux kernels. When this address is
              specified, clients connecting to the server will be presented
              with this address, while health checks will still use the address
              <addr>.

    <port2>   is the optional port to present to the server when connections
              are forwarded in full transparent proxy mode (see <addr2> above).
              The default value of zero means the system will select a free
              port.

    <hdr>     is the name of a HTTP header in which to fetch the IP to bind to.
              This is the name of a comma-separated header list which can
              contain multiple IP addresses. By default, the last occurrence is
              used. This is designed to work with the X-Forwarded-For header
              and to automatically bind to the client's IP address as seen
              by previous proxy, typically Stunnel. In order to use another
              occurrence from the last one, please see the <occ> parameter
              below. When the header (or occurrence) is not found, no binding
              is performed so that the proxy's default IP address is used. Also
              keep in mind that the header name is case insensitive, as for any
              HTTP header.

    <occ>     is the occurrence number of a value to be used in a multi-value
              header. This is to be used in conjunction with "hdr_ip(<hdr>)",
              in order to specify which occurrence to use for the source IP
              address. Positive values indicate a position from the first
              occurrence, 1 being the first one. Negative values indicate
              positions relative to the last one, -1 being the last one. This
              is helpful for situations where an X-Forwarded-For header is set
              at the entry point of an infrastructure and must be used several
              proxy layers away. When this value is not specified, -1 is
              assumed. Passing a zero here disables the feature.

    <name>    is an optional interface name to which to bind to for outgoing
              traffic. On systems supporting this features (currently, only
              Linux), this allows one to bind all traffic to the server to
              this interface even if it is not the one the system would select
              based on routing tables. This should be used with extreme care.
              Note that using this option requires root privileges.

  The "source" keyword is useful in complex environments where a specific
  address only is allowed to connect to the servers. It may be needed when a
  private address must be used through a public gateway for instance, and it is
  known that the system cannot determine the adequate source address by itself.

  An extension which is available on certain patched Linux kernels may be used
  through the "usesrc" optional keyword. It makes it possible to connect to the
  servers with an IP address which does not belong to the system itself. This
  is called "full transparent proxy mode". For this to work, the destination
  servers have to route their traffic back to this address through the machine
  running HAProxy, and IP forwarding must generally be enabled on this machine.

  In this "full transparent proxy" mode, it is possible to force a specific IP
  address to be presented to the servers. This is not much used in fact. A more
  common use is to tell HAProxy to present the client's IP address. For this,
  there are two methods :

    - present the client's IP and port addresses. This is the most transparent
      mode, but it can cause problems when IP connection tracking is enabled on
      the machine, because a same connection may be seen twice with different
      states. However, this solution presents the huge advantage of not
      limiting the system to the 64k outgoing address+port couples, because all
      of the client ranges may be used.

    - present only the client's IP address and select a spare port. This
      solution is still quite elegant but slightly less transparent (downstream
      firewalls logs will not match upstream's). It also presents the downside
      of limiting the number of concurrent connections to the usual 64k ports.
      However, since the upstream and downstream ports are different, local IP
      connection tracking on the machine will not be upset by the reuse of the
      same session.

  This option sets the default source for all servers in the backend. It may
  also be specified in a "defaults" section. Finer source address specification
  is possible at the server level using the "source" server option. Refer to
  section 5 for more information.

  In order to work, "usesrc" requires root privileges.

  Examples :
        backend private
            # Connect to the servers using our 192.168.1.200 source address
            source 192.168.1.200

        backend transparent_ssl1
            # Connect to the SSL farm from the client's source address
            source 192.168.1.200 usesrc clientip

        backend transparent_ssl2
            # Connect to the SSL farm from the client's source address and port
            # not recommended if IP conntrack is present on the local machine.
            source 192.168.1.200 usesrc client

        backend transparent_ssl3
            # Connect to the SSL farm from the client's source address. It
            # is more conntrack-friendly.
            source 192.168.1.200 usesrc clientip

        backend transparent_smtp
            # Connect to the SMTP farm from the client's source address/port
            # with Tproxy version 4.
            source 0.0.0.0 usesrc clientip

        backend transparent_http
            # Connect to the servers using the client's IP as seen by previous
            # proxy.
            source 0.0.0.0 usesrc hdr_ip(x-forwarded-for,-1)

  See also : the "source" server option in section 5, the Tproxy patches for
             the Linux kernel on www.balabit.com, the "bind" keyword.


srvtcpka-cnt <count>
  Sets the maximum number of keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping
  the connection on the server side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <count>   is the maximum number of keepalive probes.

  This keyword corresponds to the socket option TCP_KEEPCNT. If this keyword
  is not specified, system-wide TCP parameter (tcp_keepalive_probes) is used.
  The availability of this setting depends on the operating system. It is
  known to work on Linux.

  See also : "option srvtcpka", "srvtcpka-idle", "srvtcpka-intvl".


srvtcpka-idle <timeout>
  Sets the time the connection needs to remain idle before TCP starts sending
  keepalive probes, if enabled the sending of TCP keepalive packets on the
  server side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the time the connection needs to remain idle before TCP starts
              sending keepalive probes. It is specified in seconds by default,
              but can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the
              unit, as explained at the top of this document.

  This keyword corresponds to the socket option TCP_KEEPIDLE. If this keyword
  is not specified, system-wide TCP parameter (tcp_keepalive_time) is used.
  The availability of this setting depends on the operating system. It is
  known to work on Linux.

  See also : "option srvtcpka", "srvtcpka-cnt", "srvtcpka-intvl".


srvtcpka-intvl <timeout>
  Sets the time between individual keepalive probes on the server side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the time between individual keepalive probes. It is specified
              in seconds by default, but can be in any other unit if the number
              is suffixed by the unit, as explained at the top of this
              document.

  This keyword corresponds to the socket option TCP_KEEPINTVL. If this keyword
  is not specified, system-wide TCP parameter (tcp_keepalive_intvl) is used.
  The availability of this setting depends on the operating system. It is
  known to work on Linux.

  See also : "option srvtcpka", "srvtcpka-cnt", "srvtcpka-idle".


stats admin { if | unless } <cond>
  Enable statistics admin level if/unless a condition is matched
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  This statement enables the statistics admin level if/unless a condition is
  matched.

  The admin level allows to enable/disable servers from the web interface. By
  default, statistics page is read-only for security reasons.

  Note : Consider not using this feature in multi-process mode (nbproc > 1)
         unless you know what you do : memory is not shared between the
         processes, which can result in random behaviors.

  Currently, the POST request is limited to the buffer size minus the reserved
  buffer space, which means that if the list of servers is too long, the
  request won't be processed. It is recommended to alter few servers at a
  time.

  Example :
    # statistics admin level only for localhost
    backend stats_localhost
        stats enable
        stats admin if LOCALHOST

  Example :
    # statistics admin level always enabled because of the authentication
    backend stats_auth
        stats enable
        stats auth  admin:AdMiN123
        stats admin if TRUE

  Example :
    # statistics admin level depends on the authenticated user
    userlist stats-auth
        group admin    users admin
        user  admin    insecure-password AdMiN123
        group readonly users haproxy
        user  haproxy  insecure-password haproxy

    backend stats_auth
        stats enable
        acl AUTH       http_auth(stats-auth)
        acl AUTH_ADMIN http_auth_group(stats-auth) admin
        stats http-request auth unless AUTH
        stats admin if AUTH_ADMIN

  See also : "stats enable", "stats auth", "stats http-request", "nbproc",
             "bind-process", section 3.4 about userlists and section 7 about
             ACL usage.


stats auth <user>:<passwd>
  Enable statistics with authentication and grant access to an account
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <user>    is a user name to grant access to

    <passwd>  is the cleartext password associated to this user

  This statement enables statistics with default settings, and restricts access
  to declared users only. It may be repeated as many times as necessary to
  allow as many users as desired. When a user tries to access the statistics
  without a valid account, a "401 Forbidden" response will be returned so that
  the browser asks the user to provide a valid user and password. The real
  which will be returned to the browser is configurable using "stats realm".

  Since the authentication method is HTTP Basic Authentication, the passwords
  circulate in cleartext on the network. Thus, it was decided that the
  configuration file would also use cleartext passwords to remind the users
  that those ones should not be sensitive and not shared with any other account.

  It is also possible to reduce the scope of the proxies which appear in the
  report using "stats scope".

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats enable", "stats realm", "stats scope", "stats uri"


stats enable
  Enable statistics reporting with default settings
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  This statement enables statistics reporting with default settings defined
  at build time. Unless stated otherwise, these settings are used :
    - stats uri   : /haproxy?stats
    - stats realm : "HAProxy Statistics"
    - stats auth  : no authentication
    - stats scope : no restriction

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats auth", "stats realm", "stats uri"


stats hide-version
  Enable statistics and hide HAProxy version reporting
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  By default, the stats page reports some useful status information along with
  the statistics. Among them is HAProxy's version. However, it is generally
  considered dangerous to report precise version to anyone, as it can help them
  target known weaknesses with specific attacks. The "stats hide-version"
  statement removes the version from the statistics report. This is recommended
  for public sites or any site with a weak login/password.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats auth", "stats enable", "stats realm", "stats uri"


stats http-request { allow | deny | auth [realm <realm>] }
             [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Access control for statistics

  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  As "http-request", these set of options allow to fine control access to
  statistics. Each option may be followed by if/unless and acl.
  First option with matched condition (or option without condition) is final.
  For "deny" a 403 error will be returned, for "allow" normal processing is
  performed, for "auth" a 401/407 error code is returned so the client
  should be asked to enter a username and password.

  There is no fixed limit to the number of http-request statements per
  instance.

  See also : "http-request", section 3.4 about userlists and section 7
             about ACL usage.


stats realm <realm>
  Enable statistics and set authentication realm
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <realm>   is the name of the HTTP Basic Authentication realm reported to
              the browser. The browser uses it to display it in the pop-up
              inviting the user to enter a valid username and password.

  The realm is read as a single word, so any spaces in it should be escaped
  using a backslash ('\').

  This statement is useful only in conjunction with "stats auth" since it is
  only related to authentication.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats auth", "stats enable", "stats uri"


stats refresh <delay>
  Enable statistics with automatic refresh
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <delay>   is the suggested refresh delay, specified in seconds, which will
              be returned to the browser consulting the report page. While the
              browser is free to apply any delay, it will generally respect it
              and refresh the page this every seconds. The refresh interval may
              be specified in any other non-default time unit, by suffixing the
              unit after the value, as explained at the top of this document.

  This statement is useful on monitoring displays with a permanent page
  reporting the load balancer's activity. When set, the HTML report page will
  include a link "refresh"/"stop refresh" so that the user can select whether
  they want automatic refresh of the page or not.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats auth", "stats enable", "stats realm", "stats uri"


stats scope { <name> | "." }
  Enable statistics and limit access scope
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the name of a listen, frontend or backend section to be
              reported. The special name "." (a single dot) designates the
              section in which the statement appears.

  When this statement is specified, only the sections enumerated with this
  statement will appear in the report. All other ones will be hidden. This
  statement may appear as many times as needed if multiple sections need to be
  reported. Please note that the name checking is performed as simple string
  comparisons, and that it is never checked that a give section name really
  exists.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats auth", "stats enable", "stats realm", "stats uri"


stats show-desc [ <desc> ]
  Enable reporting of a description on the statistics page.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

    <desc>    is an optional description to be reported. If unspecified, the
              description from global section is automatically used instead.

  This statement is useful for users that offer shared services to their
  customers, where node or description should be different for each customer.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters. By default description is not shown.

  Example :
    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats show-desc Master node for Europe, Asia, Africa
        stats uri       /admin?stats
        stats refresh   5s

  See also: "show-node", "stats enable", "stats uri" and "description" in
            global section.


stats show-legends
  Enable reporting additional information on the statistics page
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  Enable reporting additional information on the statistics page :
    - cap: capabilities (proxy)
    - mode: one of tcp, http or health (proxy)
    - id: SNMP ID (proxy, socket, server)
    - IP (socket, server)
    - cookie (backend, server)

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters. Default behavior is not to show this information.

  See also: "stats enable", "stats uri".


stats show-modules
  Enable display of extra statistics module on the statistics page
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  New columns are added at the end of the line containing the extra statistics
  values as a tooltip.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters. Default behavior is not to show this information.

  See also: "stats enable", "stats uri".


stats show-node [ <name> ]
  Enable reporting of a host name on the statistics page.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments:
    <name>    is an optional name to be reported. If unspecified, the
              node name from global section is automatically used instead.

  This statement is useful for users that offer shared services to their
  customers, where node or description might be different on a stats page
  provided for each customer. Default behavior is not to show host name.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example:
    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats show-node Europe-1
        stats uri       /admin?stats
        stats refresh   5s

  See also: "show-desc", "stats enable", "stats uri", and "node" in global
            section.


stats uri <prefix>
  Enable statistics and define the URI prefix to access them
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <prefix>  is the prefix of any URI which will be redirected to stats. This
              prefix may contain a question mark ('?') to indicate part of a
              query string.

  The statistics URI is intercepted on the relayed traffic, so it appears as a
  page within the normal application. It is strongly advised to ensure that the
  selected URI will never appear in the application, otherwise it will never be
  possible to reach it in the application.

  The default URI compiled in haproxy is "/haproxy?stats", but this may be
  changed at build time, so it's better to always explicitly specify it here.
  It is generally a good idea to include a question mark in the URI so that
  intermediate proxies refrain from caching the results. Also, since any string
  beginning with the prefix will be accepted as a stats request, the question
  mark helps ensuring that no valid URI will begin with the same words.

  It is sometimes very convenient to use "/" as the URI prefix, and put that
  statement in a "listen" instance of its own. That makes it easy to dedicate
  an address or a port to statistics only.

  Though this statement alone is enough to enable statistics reporting, it is
  recommended to set all other settings in order to avoid relying on default
  unobvious parameters.

  Example :
    # public access (limited to this backend only)
    backend public_www
        server srv1 192.168.0.1:80
        stats enable
        stats hide-version
        stats scope   .
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats realm   HAProxy\ Statistics
        stats auth    admin1:AdMiN123
        stats auth    admin2:AdMiN321

    # internal monitoring access (unlimited)
    backend private_monitoring
        stats enable
        stats uri     /admin?stats
        stats refresh 5s

  See also : "stats auth", "stats enable", "stats realm"


stick match <pattern> [table <table>] [{if | unless} <cond>]
  Define a request pattern matching condition to stick a user to a server
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <pattern>  is a sample expression rule as described in section 7.3. It
               describes what elements of the incoming request or connection
               will be analyzed in the hope to find a matching entry in a
               stickiness table. This rule is mandatory.

    <table>    is an optional stickiness table name. If unspecified, the same
               backend's table is used. A stickiness table is declared using
               the "stick-table" statement.

    <cond>     is an optional matching condition. It makes it possible to match
               on a certain criterion only when other conditions are met (or
               not met). For instance, it could be used to match on a source IP
               address except when a request passes through a known proxy, in
               which case we'd match on a header containing that IP address.

  Some protocols or applications require complex stickiness rules and cannot
  always simply rely on cookies nor hashing. The "stick match" statement
  describes a rule to extract the stickiness criterion from an incoming request
  or connection. See section 7 for a complete list of possible patterns and
  transformation rules.

  The table has to be declared using the "stick-table" statement. It must be of
  a type compatible with the pattern. By default it is the one which is present
  in the same backend. It is possible to share a table with other backends by
  referencing it using the "table" keyword. If another table is referenced,
  the server's ID inside the backends are used. By default, all server IDs
  start at 1 in each backend, so the server ordering is enough. But in case of
  doubt, it is highly recommended to force server IDs using their "id" setting.

  It is possible to restrict the conditions where a "stick match" statement
  will apply, using "if" or "unless" followed by a condition. See section 7 for
  ACL based conditions.

  There is no limit on the number of "stick match" statements. The first that
  applies and matches will cause the request to be directed to the same server
  as was used for the request which created the entry. That way, multiple
  matches can be used as fallbacks.

  The stick rules are checked after the persistence cookies, so they will not
  affect stickiness if a cookie has already been used to select a server. That
  way, it becomes very easy to insert cookies and match on IP addresses in
  order to maintain stickiness between HTTP and HTTPS.

  Note : Consider not using this feature in multi-process mode (nbproc > 1)
         unless you know what you do : memory is not shared between the
         processes, which can result in random behaviors.

  Example :
    # forward SMTP users to the same server they just used for POP in the
    # last 30 minutes
    backend pop
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        stick store-request src
        stick-table type ip size 200k expire 30m
        server s1 192.168.1.1:110
        server s2 192.168.1.1:110

    backend smtp
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        stick match src table pop
        server s1 192.168.1.1:25
        server s2 192.168.1.1:25

  See also : "stick-table", "stick on", "nbproc", "bind-process" and section 7
             about ACLs and samples fetching.


stick on <pattern> [table <table>] [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Define a request pattern to associate a user to a server
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Note : This form is exactly equivalent to "stick match" followed by
         "stick store-request", all with the same arguments. Please refer
         to both keywords for details. It is only provided as a convenience
         for writing more maintainable configurations.

  Note : Consider not using this feature in multi-process mode (nbproc > 1)
         unless you know what you do : memory is not shared between the
         processes, which can result in random behaviors.

  Examples :
    # The following form ...
    stick on src table pop if !localhost

    # ...is strictly equivalent to this one :
    stick match src table pop if !localhost
    stick store-request src table pop if !localhost


    # Use cookie persistence for HTTP, and stick on source address for HTTPS as
    # well as HTTP without cookie. Share the same table between both accesses.
    backend http
        mode http
        balance roundrobin
        stick on src table https
        cookie SRV insert indirect nocache
        server s1 192.168.1.1:80 cookie s1
        server s2 192.168.1.1:80 cookie s2

    backend https
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        stick-table type ip size 200k expire 30m
        stick on src
        server s1 192.168.1.1:443
        server s2 192.168.1.1:443

  See also : "stick match", "stick store-request", "nbproc" and "bind-process".


stick store-request <pattern> [table <table>] [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Define a request pattern used to create an entry in a stickiness table
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <pattern>  is a sample expression rule as described in section 7.3. It
               describes what elements of the incoming request or connection
               will be analyzed, extracted and stored in the table once a
               server is selected.

    <table>    is an optional stickiness table name. If unspecified, the same
               backend's table is used. A stickiness table is declared using
               the "stick-table" statement.

    <cond>     is an optional storage condition. It makes it possible to store
               certain criteria only when some conditions are met (or not met).
               For instance, it could be used to store the source IP address
               except when the request passes through a known proxy, in which
               case we'd store a converted form of a header containing that IP
               address.

  Some protocols or applications require complex stickiness rules and cannot
  always simply rely on cookies nor hashing. The "stick store-request" statement
  describes a rule to decide what to extract from the request and when to do
  it, in order to store it into a stickiness table for further requests to
  match it using the "stick match" statement. Obviously the extracted part must
  make sense and have a chance to be matched in a further request. Storing a
  client's IP address for instance often makes sense. Storing an ID found in a
  URL parameter also makes sense. Storing a source port will almost never make
  any sense because it will be randomly matched. See section 7 for a complete
  list of possible patterns and transformation rules.

  The table has to be declared using the "stick-table" statement. It must be of
  a type compatible with the pattern. By default it is the one which is present
  in the same backend. It is possible to share a table with other backends by
  referencing it using the "table" keyword. If another table is referenced,
  the server's ID inside the backends are used. By default, all server IDs
  start at 1 in each backend, so the server ordering is enough. But in case of
  doubt, it is highly recommended to force server IDs using their "id" setting.

  It is possible to restrict the conditions where a "stick store-request"
  statement will apply, using "if" or "unless" followed by a condition. This
  condition will be evaluated while parsing the request, so any criteria can be
  used. See section 7 for ACL based conditions.

  There is no limit on the number of "stick store-request" statements, but
  there is a limit of 8 simultaneous stores per request or response. This
  makes it possible to store up to 8 criteria, all extracted from either the
  request or the response, regardless of the number of rules. Only the 8 first
  ones which match will be kept. Using this, it is possible to feed multiple
  tables at once in the hope to increase the chance to recognize a user on
  another protocol or access method. Using multiple store-request rules with
  the same table is possible and may be used to find the best criterion to rely
  on, by arranging the rules by decreasing preference order. Only the first
  extracted criterion for a given table will be stored. All subsequent store-
  request rules referencing the same table will be skipped and their ACLs will
  not be evaluated.

  The "store-request" rules are evaluated once the server connection has been
  established, so that the table will contain the real server that processed
  the request.

  Note : Consider not using this feature in multi-process mode (nbproc > 1)
         unless you know what you do : memory is not shared between the
         processes, which can result in random behaviors.

  Example :
    # forward SMTP users to the same server they just used for POP in the
    # last 30 minutes
    backend pop
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        stick store-request src
        stick-table type ip size 200k expire 30m
        server s1 192.168.1.1:110
        server s2 192.168.1.1:110

    backend smtp
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        stick match src table pop
        server s1 192.168.1.1:25
        server s2 192.168.1.1:25

  See also : "stick-table", "stick on", "nbproc", "bind-process" and section 7
             about ACLs and sample fetching.


stick-table type {ip | integer | string [len <length>] | binary [len <length>]}
            size <size> [expire <expire>] [nopurge] [peers <peersect>]
            [store <data_type>]*
  Configure the stickiness table for the current section
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    ip         a table declared with "type ip" will only store IPv4 addresses.
               This form is very compact (about 50 bytes per entry) and allows
               very fast entry lookup and stores with almost no overhead. This
               is mainly used to store client source IP addresses.

    ipv6       a table declared with "type ipv6" will only store IPv6 addresses.
               This form is very compact (about 60 bytes per entry) and allows
               very fast entry lookup and stores with almost no overhead. This
               is mainly used to store client source IP addresses.

    integer    a table declared with "type integer" will store 32bit integers
               which can represent a client identifier found in a request for
               instance.

    string     a table declared with "type string" will store substrings of up
               to <len> characters. If the string provided by the pattern
               extractor is larger than <len>, it will be truncated before
               being stored. During matching, at most <len> characters will be
               compared between the string in the table and the extracted
               pattern. When not specified, the string is automatically limited
               to 32 characters.

    binary     a table declared with "type binary" will store binary blocks
               of <len> bytes. If the block provided by the pattern
               extractor is larger than <len>, it will be truncated before
               being stored. If the block provided by the sample expression
               is shorter than <len>, it will be padded by 0. When not
               specified, the block is automatically limited to 32 bytes.

    <length>   is the maximum number of characters that will be stored in a
               "string" type table (See type "string" above). Or the number
               of bytes of the block in "binary" type table. Be careful when
               changing this parameter as memory usage will proportionally
               increase.

    <size>     is the maximum number of entries that can fit in the table. This
               value directly impacts memory usage. Count approximately
               50 bytes per entry, plus the size of a string if any. The size
               supports suffixes "k", "m", "g" for 2^10, 2^20 and 2^30 factors.

    [nopurge]  indicates that we refuse to purge older entries when the table
               is full. When not specified and the table is full when haproxy
               wants to store an entry in it, it will flush a few of the oldest
               entries in order to release some space for the new ones. This is
               most often the desired behavior. In some specific cases, it
               be desirable to refuse new entries instead of purging the older
               ones. That may be the case when the amount of data to store is
               far above the hardware limits and we prefer not to offer access
               to new clients than to reject the ones already connected. When
               using this parameter, be sure to properly set the "expire"
               parameter (see below).

    <peersect> is the name of the peers section to use for replication. Entries
               which associate keys to server IDs are kept synchronized with
               the remote peers declared in this section. All entries are also
               automatically learned from the local peer (old process) during a
               soft restart.

               NOTE : each peers section may be referenced only by tables
                      belonging to the same unique process.

    <expire>   defines the maximum duration of an entry in the table since it
               was last created, refreshed or matched. The expiration delay is
               defined using the standard time format, similarly as the various
               timeouts. The maximum duration is slightly above 24 days. See
               section 2.4 for more information. If this delay is not specified,
               the session won't automatically expire, but older entries will
               be removed once full. Be sure not to use the "nopurge" parameter
               if not expiration delay is specified.

   <data_type> is used to store additional information in the stick-table. This
               may be used by ACLs in order to control various criteria related
               to the activity of the client matching the stick-table. For each
               item specified here, the size of each entry will be inflated so
               that the additional data can fit. Several data types may be
               stored with an entry. Multiple data types may be specified after
               the "store" keyword, as a comma-separated list. Alternatively,
               it is possible to repeat the "store" keyword followed by one or
               several data types. Except for the "server_id" type which is
               automatically detected and enabled, all data types must be
               explicitly declared to be stored. If an ACL references a data
               type which is not stored, the ACL will simply not match. Some
               data types require an argument which must be passed just after
               the type between parenthesis. See below for the supported data
               types and their arguments.

  The data types that can be stored with an entry are the following :
    - server_id : this is an integer which holds the numeric ID of the server a
      request was assigned to. It is used by the "stick match", "stick store",
      and "stick on" rules. It is automatically enabled when referenced.

    - gpc0 : first General Purpose Counter. It is a positive 32-bit integer
      integer which may be used for anything. Most of the time it will be used
      to put a special tag on some entries, for instance to note that a
      specific behavior was detected and must be known for future matches.

    - gpc0_rate(<period>) : increment rate of the first General Purpose Counter
      over a period. It is a positive 32-bit integer integer which may be used
      for anything. Just like <gpc0>, it counts events, but instead of keeping
      a cumulative number, it maintains the rate at which the counter is
      incremented. Most of the time it will be used to measure the frequency of
      occurrence of certain events (e.g. requests to a specific URL).

    - gpc1 : second General Purpose Counter. It is a positive 32-bit integer
      integer which may be used for anything. Most of the time it will be used
      to put a special tag on some entries, for instance to note that a
      specific behavior was detected and must be known for future matches.

    - gpc1_rate(<period>) : increment rate of the second General Purpose Counter
      over a period. It is a positive 32-bit integer integer which may be used
      for anything. Just like <gpc1>, it counts events, but instead of keeping
      a cumulative number, it maintains the rate at which the counter is
      incremented. Most of the time it will be used to measure the frequency of
      occurrence of certain events (e.g. requests to a specific URL).

    - conn_cnt : Connection Count. It is a positive 32-bit integer which counts
      the absolute number of connections received from clients which matched
      this entry. It does not mean the connections were accepted, just that
      they were received.

    - conn_cur : Current Connections. It is a positive 32-bit integer which
      stores the concurrent connection counts for the entry. It is incremented
      once an incoming connection matches the entry, and decremented once the
      connection leaves. That way it is possible to know at any time the exact
      number of concurrent connections for an entry.

    - conn_rate(<period>) : frequency counter (takes 12 bytes). It takes an
      integer parameter <period> which indicates in milliseconds the length
      of the period over which the average is measured. It reports the average
      incoming connection rate over that period, in connections per period. The
      result is an integer which can be matched using ACLs.

    - sess_cnt : Session Count. It is a positive 32-bit integer which counts
      the absolute number of sessions received from clients which matched this
      entry. A session is a connection that was accepted by the layer 4 rules.

    - sess_rate(<period>) : frequency counter (takes 12 bytes). It takes an
      integer parameter <period> which indicates in milliseconds the length
      of the period over which the average is measured. It reports the average
      incoming session rate over that period, in sessions per period. The
      result is an integer which can be matched using ACLs.

    - http_req_cnt : HTTP request Count. It is a positive 32-bit integer which
      counts the absolute number of HTTP requests received from clients which
      matched this entry. It does not matter whether they are valid requests or
      not. Note that this is different from sessions when keep-alive is used on
      the client side.

    - http_req_rate(<period>) : frequency counter (takes 12 bytes). It takes an
      integer parameter <period> which indicates in milliseconds the length
      of the period over which the average is measured. It reports the average
      HTTP request rate over that period, in requests per period. The result is
      an integer which can be matched using ACLs. It does not matter whether
      they are valid requests or not. Note that this is different from sessions
      when keep-alive is used on the client side.

    - http_err_cnt : HTTP Error Count. It is a positive 32-bit integer which
      counts the absolute number of HTTP requests errors induced by clients
      which matched this entry. Errors are counted on invalid and truncated
      requests, as well as on denied or tarpitted requests, and on failed
      authentications. If the server responds with 4xx, then the request is
      also counted as an error since it's an error triggered by the client
      (e.g. vulnerability scan).

    - http_err_rate(<period>) : frequency counter (takes 12 bytes). It takes an
      integer parameter <period> which indicates in milliseconds the length
      of the period over which the average is measured. It reports the average
      HTTP request error rate over that period, in requests per period (see
      http_err_cnt above for what is accounted as an error). The result is an
      integer which can be matched using ACLs.

    - bytes_in_cnt : client to server byte count. It is a positive 64-bit
      integer which counts the cumulative number of bytes received from clients
      which matched this entry. Headers are included in the count. This may be
      used to limit abuse of upload features on photo or video servers.

    - bytes_in_rate(<period>) : frequency counter (takes 12 bytes). It takes an
      integer parameter <period> which indicates in milliseconds the length
      of the period over which the average is measured. It reports the average
      incoming bytes rate over that period, in bytes per period. It may be used
      to detect users which upload too much and too fast. Warning: with large
      uploads, it is possible that the amount of uploaded data will be counted
      once upon termination, thus causing spikes in the average transfer speed
      instead of having a smooth one. This may partially be smoothed with
      "option contstats" though this is not perfect yet. Use of byte_in_cnt is
      recommended for better fairness.

    - bytes_out_cnt : server to client byte count. It is a positive 64-bit
      integer which counts the cumulative number of bytes sent to clients which
      matched this entry. Headers are included in the count. This may be used
      to limit abuse of bots sucking the whole site.

    - bytes_out_rate(<period>) : frequency counter (takes 12 bytes). It takes
      an integer parameter <period> which indicates in milliseconds the length
      of the period over which the average is measured. It reports the average
      outgoing bytes rate over that period, in bytes per period. It may be used
      to detect users which download too much and too fast. Warning: with large
      transfers, it is possible that the amount of transferred data will be
      counted once upon termination, thus causing spikes in the average
      transfer speed instead of having a smooth one. This may partially be
      smoothed with "option contstats" though this is not perfect yet. Use of
      byte_out_cnt is recommended for better fairness.

  There is only one stick-table per proxy. At the moment of writing this doc,
  it does not seem useful to have multiple tables per proxy. If this happens
  to be required, simply create a dummy backend with a stick-table in it and
  reference it.

  It is important to understand that stickiness based on learning information
  has some limitations, including the fact that all learned associations are
  lost upon restart unless peers are properly configured to transfer such
  information upon restart (recommended). In general it can be good as a
  complement but not always as an exclusive stickiness.

  Last, memory requirements may be important when storing many data types.
  Indeed, storing all indicators above at once in each entry requires 116 bytes
  per entry, or 116 MB for a 1-million entries table. This is definitely not
  something that can be ignored.

  Example:
        # Keep track of counters of up to 1 million IP addresses over 5 minutes
        # and store a general purpose counter and the average connection rate
        # computed over a sliding window of 30 seconds.
        stick-table type ip size 1m expire 5m store gpc0,conn_rate(30s)

  See also : "stick match", "stick on", "stick store-request", section 2.4
             about time format and section 7 about ACLs.


stick store-response <pattern> [table <table>] [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Define a response pattern used to create an entry in a stickiness table
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <pattern>  is a sample expression rule as described in section 7.3. It
               describes what elements of the response or connection will
               be analyzed, extracted and stored in the table once a
               server is selected.

    <table>    is an optional stickiness table name. If unspecified, the same
               backend's table is used. A stickiness table is declared using
               the "stick-table" statement.

    <cond>     is an optional storage condition. It makes it possible to store
               certain criteria only when some conditions are met (or not met).
               For instance, it could be used to store the SSL session ID only
               when the response is a SSL server hello.

  Some protocols or applications require complex stickiness rules and cannot
  always simply rely on cookies nor hashing. The "stick store-response"
  statement  describes a rule to decide what to extract from the response and
  when to do it, in order to store it into a stickiness table for further
  requests to match it using the "stick match" statement. Obviously the
  extracted part must make sense and have a chance to be matched in a further
  request. Storing an ID found in a header of a response makes sense.
  See section 7 for a complete list of possible patterns and transformation
  rules.

  The table has to be declared using the "stick-table" statement. It must be of
  a type compatible with the pattern. By default it is the one which is present
  in the same backend. It is possible to share a table with other backends by
  referencing it using the "table" keyword. If another table is referenced,
  the server's ID inside the backends are used. By default, all server IDs
  start at 1 in each backend, so the server ordering is enough. But in case of
  doubt, it is highly recommended to force server IDs using their "id" setting.

  It is possible to restrict the conditions where a "stick store-response"
  statement will apply, using "if" or "unless" followed by a condition. This
  condition will be evaluated while parsing the response, so any criteria can
  be used. See section 7 for ACL based conditions.

  There is no limit on the number of "stick store-response" statements, but
  there is a limit of 8 simultaneous stores per request or response. This
  makes it possible to store up to 8 criteria, all extracted from either the
  request or the response, regardless of the number of rules. Only the 8 first
  ones which match will be kept. Using this, it is possible to feed multiple
  tables at once in the hope to increase the chance to recognize a user on
  another protocol or access method. Using multiple store-response rules with
  the same table is possible and may be used to find the best criterion to rely
  on, by arranging the rules by decreasing preference order. Only the first
  extracted criterion for a given table will be stored. All subsequent store-
  response rules referencing the same table will be skipped and their ACLs will
  not be evaluated. However, even if a store-request rule references a table, a
  store-response rule may also use the same table. This means that each table
  may learn exactly one element from the request and one element from the
  response at once.

  The table will contain the real server that processed the request.

  Example :
    # Learn SSL session ID from both request and response and create affinity.
    backend https
        mode tcp
        balance roundrobin
        # maximum SSL session ID length is 32 bytes.
        stick-table type binary len 32 size 30k expire 30m

        acl clienthello req_ssl_hello_type 1
        acl serverhello rep_ssl_hello_type 2

        # use tcp content accepts to detects ssl client and server hello.
        tcp-request inspect-delay 5s
        tcp-request content accept if clienthello

        # no timeout on response inspect delay by default.
        tcp-response content accept if serverhello

        # SSL session ID (SSLID) may be present on a client or server hello.
        # Its length is coded on 1 byte at offset 43 and its value starts
        # at offset 44.

        # Match and learn on request if client hello.
        stick on payload_lv(43,1) if clienthello

        # Learn on response if server hello.
        stick store-response payload_lv(43,1) if serverhello

        server s1 192.168.1.1:443
        server s2 192.168.1.1:443

  See also : "stick-table", "stick on", and section 7 about ACLs and pattern
             extraction.


tcp-check comment <string>
  Defines a comment for the following the tcp-check rule, reported in logs if
  it fails.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <string>  is the comment message to add in logs if the following tcp-check
              rule fails.

  It only works for connect, send and expect rules. It is useful to make
  user-friendly error reporting.

  See also : "option tcp-check", "tcp-check connect", "tcp-check send" and
             "tcp-check expect".


tcp-check connect [default] [port <expr>] [addr <ip>] [send-proxy] [via-socks4]
                  [ssl] [sni <sni>] [alpn <alpn>] [linger]
                  [proto <name>] [comment <msg>]
  Opens a new connection
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    default      Use default options of the server line to do the health
                 checks. The server options are used only if not redefined.

    port <expr>  if not set, check port or server port is used.
                 It tells HAProxy where to open the connection to.
                 <port> must be a valid TCP port source integer, from 1 to
                 65535 or an sample-fetch expression.

    addr <ip>    defines the IP address to do the health check.

    send-proxy   send a PROXY protocol string

    via-socks4   enables outgoing health checks using upstream socks4 proxy.

    ssl          opens a ciphered connection

    sni <sni>    specifies the SNI to use to do health checks over SSL.

    alpn <alpn>  defines which protocols to advertise with ALPN. The protocol
                 list consists in a comma-delimited list of protocol names,
                 for instance: "http/1.1,http/1.0" (without quotes).
                 If it is not set, the server ALPN is used.

    proto <name> forces the multiplexer's protocol to use for this connection.
                 It must be a TCP mux protocol and it must be usable on the
                 backend side. The list of available protocols is reported in
                 haproxy -vv.

    linger       cleanly close the connection instead of using a single RST.

  When an application lies on more than a single TCP port or when HAProxy
  load-balance many services in a single backend, it makes sense to probe all
  the services individually before considering a server as operational.

  When there are no TCP port configured on the server line neither server port
  directive, then the 'tcp-check connect port <port>' must be the first step
  of the sequence.

  In a tcp-check ruleset a 'connect' is required, it is also mandatory to start
  the ruleset with a 'connect' rule. Purpose is to ensure admin know what they
  do.

  When a connect must start the ruleset, if may still be preceded by set-var,
  unset-var or comment rules.

  Examples :
         # check HTTP and HTTPs services on a server.
         # first open port 80 thanks to server line port directive, then
         # tcp-check opens port 443, ciphered and run a request on it:
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check connect
         tcp-check send GET\ /\ HTTP/1.0\r\n
         tcp-check send Host:\ haproxy.1wt.eu\r\n
         tcp-check send \r\n
         tcp-check expect rstring (2..|3..)
         tcp-check connect port 443 ssl
         tcp-check send GET\ /\ HTTP/1.0\r\n
         tcp-check send Host:\ haproxy.1wt.eu\r\n
         tcp-check send \r\n
         tcp-check expect rstring (2..|3..)
         server www 10.0.0.1 check port 80

         # check both POP and IMAP from a single server:
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check connect port 110 linger
         tcp-check expect string +OK\ POP3\ ready
         tcp-check connect port 143
         tcp-check expect string *\ OK\ IMAP4\ ready
         server mail 10.0.0.1 check

  See also : "option tcp-check", "tcp-check send", "tcp-check expect"


tcp-check expect [min-recv <int>] [comment <msg>]
                 [ok-status <st>] [error-status <st>] [tout-status <st>]
                 [on-success <fmt>] [on-error <fmt>] [status-code <expr>]
                 [!] <match> <pattern>
  Specify data to be collected and analyzed during a generic health check
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    min-recv  is optional and can define the minimum amount of data required to
              evaluate the current expect rule. If the number of received bytes
              is under this limit, the check will wait for more data. This
              option can be used to resolve some ambiguous matching rules or to
              avoid executing costly regex matches on content known to be still
              incomplete. If an exact string (string or binary) is used, the
              minimum between the string length and this parameter is used.
              This parameter is ignored if it is set to -1. If the expect rule
              does not match, the check will wait for more data. If set to 0,
              the evaluation result is always conclusive.

    <match>   is a keyword indicating how to look for a specific pattern in the
              response. The keyword may be one of "string", "rstring", "binary" or
              "rbinary".
              The keyword may be preceded by an exclamation mark ("!") to negate
              the match. Spaces are allowed between the exclamation mark and the
              keyword. See below for more details on the supported keywords.

    ok-status <st>     is optional and can be used to set the check status if
                       the expect rule is successfully evaluated and if it is
                       the last rule in the tcp-check ruleset. "L7OK", "L7OKC",
                       "L6OK" and "L4OK" are supported :
                         - L7OK  : check passed on layer 7
                         - L7OKC : check conditionally passed on layer 7, set
                                   server to NOLB state.
                         - L6OK  : check passed on layer 6
                         - L4OK  : check passed on layer 4
                        By default "L7OK" is used.

    error-status <st>  is optional and can be used to set the check status if
                       an error occurred during the expect rule evaluation.
                       "L7OKC", "L7RSP", "L7STS", "L6RSP" and "L4CON" are
                       supported :
                         - L7OKC : check conditionally passed on layer 7, set
                                   server to NOLB state.
                         - L7RSP : layer 7 invalid response - protocol error
                         - L7STS : layer 7 response error, for example HTTP 5xx
                         - L6RSP : layer 6 invalid response - protocol error
                         - L4CON : layer 1-4 connection problem
                       By default "L7RSP" is used.

    tout-status <st>   is optional and can be used to set the check status if
                       a timeout occurred during the expect rule evaluation.
                       "L7TOUT", "L6TOUT", and "L4TOUT" are supported :
                         - L7TOUT : layer 7 (HTTP/SMTP) timeout
                         - L6TOUT : layer 6 (SSL) timeout
                         - L4TOUT : layer 1-4 timeout
                       By default "L7TOUT" is used.

    on-success <fmt>   is optional and can be used to customize the
                       informational message reported in logs if the expect
                       rule is successfully evaluated and if it is the last rule
                       in the tcp-check ruleset. <fmt> is a log-format string.

    on-error <fmt>     is optional and can be used to customize the
                       informational message reported in logs if an error
                       occurred during the expect rule evaluation. <fmt> is a
                       log-format string.

    status-code <expr> is optional and can be used to set the check status code
                       reported in logs, on success or on error. <expr> is a
                       standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                       followed by some converters.

    <pattern> is the pattern to look for. It may be a string or a regular
              expression. If the pattern contains spaces, they must be escaped
              with the usual backslash ('\').
              If the match is set to binary, then the pattern must be passed as
              a series of hexadecimal digits in an even number. Each sequence of
              two digits will represent a byte. The hexadecimal digits may be
              used upper or lower case.

  The available matches are intentionally similar to their http-check cousins :

    string <string> : test the exact string matches in the response buffer.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's buffer contains this exact string. If the
                      "string" keyword is prefixed with "!", then the response
                      will be considered invalid if the body contains this
                      string. This can be used to look for a mandatory pattern
                      in a protocol response, or to detect a failure when a
                      specific error appears in a protocol banner.

    rstring <regex> : test a regular expression on the response buffer.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's buffer matches this expression. If the
                      "rstring" keyword is prefixed with "!", then the response
                      will be considered invalid if the body matches the
                      expression.

    string-lf <fmt> : test a log-format string match in the response's buffer.
                      A health check response will be considered valid if the
                      response's buffer contains the  string resulting of the
                      evaluation of <fmt>, which follows the log-format rules.
                      If prefixed with "!", then the response will be
                      considered invalid if the buffer contains the string.

    binary <hexstring> : test the exact string in its hexadecimal form matches
                         in the response buffer. A health check response will
                         be considered valid if the response's buffer contains
                         this exact hexadecimal string.
                         Purpose is to match data on binary protocols.

    rbinary <regex> : test a regular expression on the response buffer, like
                      "rstring". However, the response buffer is transformed
                      into its hexadecimal form, including NUL-bytes. This
                      allows using all regex engines to match any binary
                      content.  The hexadecimal transformation takes twice the
                      size of the original response. As such, the expected
                      pattern should work on at-most half the response buffer
                      size.

    binary-lf <hexfmt> : test a log-format string in its hexadecimal form
                         match in the response's buffer. A health check response
                         will be considered valid if the response's buffer
                         contains the hexadecimal string resulting of the
                         evaluation of <fmt>, which follows the log-format
                         rules. If prefixed with "!", then the response will be
                         considered invalid if the buffer contains the
                         hexadecimal string. The hexadecimal string is converted
                         in a binary string before matching the response's
                         buffer.

  It is important to note that the responses will be limited to a certain size
  defined by the global "tune.bufsize" option, which defaults to 16384 bytes.
  Thus, too large responses may not contain the mandatory pattern when using
  "string", "rstring" or binary. If a large response is absolutely required, it
  is possible to change the default max size by setting the global variable.
  However, it is worth keeping in mind that parsing very large responses can
  waste some CPU cycles, especially when regular expressions are used, and that
  it is always better to focus the checks on smaller resources. Also, in its
  current state, the check will not find any string nor regex past a null
  character in the response. Similarly it is not possible to request matching
  the null character.

  Examples :
         # perform a POP check
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check expect string +OK\ POP3\ ready

         # perform an IMAP check
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check expect string *\ OK\ IMAP4\ ready

         # look for the redis master server
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check send PING\r\n
         tcp-check expect string +PONG
         tcp-check send info\ replication\r\n
         tcp-check expect string role:master
         tcp-check send QUIT\r\n
         tcp-check expect string +OK


  See also : "option tcp-check", "tcp-check connect", "tcp-check send",
             "tcp-check send-binary", "http-check expect", tune.bufsize


tcp-check send <data> [comment <msg>]
tcp-check send-lf <fmt> [comment <msg>]
  Specify a string or a log-format string to be sent as a question during a
  generic health check
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    <data>         is the string that will be sent during a generic health
                   check session.

    <fmt>          is the log-format string that will be sent, once evaluated,
                   during a generic health check session.

  Examples :
         # look for the redis master server
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check send info\ replication\r\n
         tcp-check expect string role:master

  See also : "option tcp-check", "tcp-check connect", "tcp-check expect",
             "tcp-check send-binary", tune.bufsize


tcp-check send-binary <hexstring> [comment <msg>]
tcp-check send-binary-lf <hexfmt> [comment <msg>]
  Specify an hex digits string or an hex digits log-format string to be sent as
  a binary question during a raw tcp health check
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    comment <msg>  defines a message to report if the rule evaluation fails.

    <hexstring>    is the hexadecimal string that will be send, once converted
                   to binary, during a generic health check session.

    <hexfmt>       is the hexadecimal log-format string that will be send, once
                   evaluated and converted to binary, during a generic health
                   check session.

  Examples :
         # redis check in binary
         option tcp-check
         tcp-check send-binary 50494e470d0a # PING\r\n
         tcp-check expect binary 2b504F4e47 # +PONG


  See also : "option tcp-check", "tcp-check connect", "tcp-check expect",
             "tcp-check send", tune.bufsize


tcp-check set-var(<var-name>) <expr>
  This operation sets the content of a variable. The variable is declared inline.
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed for tcp-check are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process.
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the tcp-check session.
                  "check": the variable is declared for the lifetime of the tcp-check.
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.',
                and '-'.

    <expr>      Is a sample-fetch expression potentially followed by converters.

  Examples :
    tcp-check set-var(check.port) int(1234)


tcp-check unset-var(<var-name>)
  Free a reference to a variable within its scope.
  May be used in sections:   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                               yes    |    no    |   yes  |   yes

  Arguments :
    <var-name>  The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
                scope. The scopes allowed for tcp-check are:
                  "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process.
                  "sess" : the variable is shared with the tcp-check session.
                  "check": the variable is declared for the lifetime of the tcp-check.
                This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
                The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.',
                and '-'.

  Examples :
    tcp-check unset-var(check.port)


tcp-request connection <action> [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Perform an action on an incoming connection depending on a layer 4 condition
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <action>    defines the action to perform if the condition applies. See
                below.

    <condition> is a standard layer4-only ACL-based condition (see section 7).

  Immediately after acceptance of a new incoming connection, it is possible to
  evaluate some conditions to decide whether this connection must be accepted
  or dropped or have its counters tracked. Those conditions cannot make use of
  any data contents because the connection has not been read from yet, and the
  buffers are not yet allocated. This is used to selectively and very quickly
  accept or drop connections from various sources with a very low overhead. If
  some contents need to be inspected in order to take the decision, the
  "tcp-request content" statements must be used instead.

  The "tcp-request connection" rules are evaluated in their exact declaration
  order. If no rule matches or if there is no rule, the default action is to
  accept the incoming connection. There is no specific limit to the number of
  rules which may be inserted.

  Four types of actions are supported :
    - accept :
        accepts the connection if the condition is true (when used with "if")
        or false (when used with "unless"). The first such rule executed ends
        the rules evaluation.

    - reject :
        rejects the connection if the condition is true (when used with "if")
        or false (when used with "unless"). The first such rule executed ends
        the rules evaluation. Rejected connections do not even become a
        session, which is why they are accounted separately for in the stats,
        as "denied connections". They are not considered for the session
        rate-limit and are not logged either. The reason is that these rules
        should only be used to filter extremely high connection rates such as
        the ones encountered during a massive DDoS attack. Under these extreme
        conditions, the simple action of logging each event would make the
        system collapse and would considerably lower the filtering capacity. If
        logging is absolutely desired, then "tcp-request content" rules should
        be used instead, as "tcp-request session" rules will not log either.

    - expect-proxy layer4 :
        configures the client-facing connection to receive a PROXY protocol
        header before any byte is read from the socket. This is equivalent to
        having the "accept-proxy" keyword on the "bind" line, except that using
        the TCP rule allows the PROXY protocol to be accepted only for certain
        IP address ranges using an ACL. This is convenient when multiple layers
        of load balancers are passed through by traffic coming from public
        hosts.

    - expect-netscaler-cip layer4 :
        configures the client-facing connection to receive a NetScaler Client
        IP insertion protocol header before any byte is read from the socket.
        This is equivalent to having the "accept-netscaler-cip" keyword on the
        "bind" line, except that using the TCP rule allows the PROXY protocol
        to be accepted only for certain IP address ranges using an ACL. This
        is convenient when multiple layers of load balancers are passed
        through by traffic coming from public hosts.

    - capture <sample> len <length> :
        This only applies to "tcp-request content" rules. It captures sample
        expression <sample> from the request buffer, and converts it to a
        string of at most <len> characters. The resulting string is stored into
        the next request "capture" slot, so it will possibly appear next to
        some captured HTTP headers. It will then automatically appear in the
        logs, and it will be possible to extract it using sample fetch rules to
        feed it into headers or anything. The length should be limited given
        that this size will be allocated for each capture during the whole
        session life. Please check section 7.3 (Fetching samples) and "capture
        request header" for more information.

    - { track-sc0 | track-sc1 | track-sc2 } <key> [table <table>] :
        enables tracking of sticky counters from current connection. These
        rules do not stop evaluation and do not change default action. The
        number of counters that may be simultaneously tracked by the same
        connection is set in MAX_SESS_STKCTR at build time (reported in
        haproxy -vv) which defaults to 3, so the track-sc number is between 0
        and (MAX_SESS_STKCTR-1). The first "track-sc0" rule executed enables
        tracking of the counters of the specified table as the first set. The
        first "track-sc1" rule executed enables tracking of the counters of the
        specified table as the second set. The first "track-sc2" rule executed
        enables tracking of the counters of the specified table as the third
        set. It is a recommended practice to use the first set of counters for
        the per-frontend counters and the second set for the per-backend ones.
        But this is just a guideline, all may be used everywhere.

        These actions take one or two arguments :
          <key>   is mandatory, and is a sample expression rule as described
                  in section 7.3. It describes what elements of the incoming
                  request or connection will be analyzed, extracted, combined,
                  and used to select which table entry to update the counters.
                  Note that "tcp-request connection" cannot use content-based
                  fetches.

         <table>  is an optional table to be used instead of the default one,
                  which is the stick-table declared in the current proxy. All
                  the counters for the matches and updates for the key will
                  then be performed in that table until the session ends.

        Once a "track-sc*" rule is executed, the key is looked up in the table
        and if it is not found, an entry is allocated for it. Then a pointer to
        that entry is kept during all the session's life, and this entry's
        counters are updated as often as possible, every time the session's
        counters are updated, and also systematically when the session ends.
        Counters are only updated for events that happen after the tracking has
        been started. For example, connection counters will not be updated when
        tracking layer 7 information, since the connection event happens before
        layer7 information is extracted.

        If the entry tracks concurrent connection counters, one connection is
        counted for as long as the entry is tracked, and the entry will not
        expire during that time. Tracking counters also provides a performance
        advantage over just checking the keys, because only one table lookup is
        performed for all ACL checks that make use of it.

    - sc-inc-gpc0(<sc-id>):
        The "sc-inc-gpc0" increments the GPC0 counter according to the sticky
        counter designated by <sc-id>. If an error occurs, this action silently
        fails and the actions evaluation continues.

    - sc-inc-gpc1(<sc-id>):
        The "sc-inc-gpc1" increments the GPC1 counter according to the sticky
        counter designated by <sc-id>. If an error occurs, this action silently
        fails and the actions evaluation continues.

    - sc-set-gpt0(<sc-id>) { <int> | <expr> }:
        This action sets the 32-bit unsigned GPT0 tag according to the sticky
        counter designated by <sc-id> and the value of <int>/<expr>. The
        expected result is a boolean. If an error occurs, this action silently
        fails and the actions evaluation continues.

    - set-src <expr> :
      Is used to set the source IP address to the value of specified
      expression. Useful if you want to mask source IP for privacy.
      If you want to provide an IP from a HTTP header use "http-request
      set-src".

      Arguments:
         <expr>  Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                 followed by some converters.

      Example:
         tcp-request connection set-src src,ipmask(24)

      When possible, set-src preserves the original source port as long as the
      address family allows it, otherwise the source port is set to 0.

    - set-src-port <expr> :
      Is used to set the source port address to the value of specified
      expression.

      Arguments:
         <expr>  Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                 followed by some converters.

      Example:
         tcp-request connection set-src-port int(4000)

      When possible, set-src-port preserves the original source address as long
      as the address family supports a port, otherwise it forces the source
      address to IPv4 "0.0.0.0" before rewriting the port.

    - set-dst <expr> :
      Is used to set the destination IP address to the value of specified
      expression. Useful if you want to mask IP for privacy in log.
      If you want to provide an IP from a HTTP header use "http-request
      set-dst". If you want to connect to the new address/port, use
      '0.0.0.0:0' as a server address in the backend.

         <expr>    Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                   followed by some converters.

      Example:

         tcp-request connection set-dst dst,ipmask(24)
         tcp-request connection set-dst ipv4(10.0.0.1)

      When possible, set-dst preserves the original destination port as long as
      the address family allows it, otherwise the destination port is set to 0.

    - set-dst-port <expr> :
      Is used to set the destination port address to the value of specified
      expression. If you want to connect to the new address/port, use
      '0.0.0.0:0' as a server address in the backend.


         <expr>    Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
                   followed by some converters.

      Example:

         tcp-request connection set-dst-port int(4000)

      When possible, set-dst-port preserves the original destination address as
      long as the address family supports a port, otherwise it forces the
      destination address to IPv4 "0.0.0.0" before rewriting the port.

    - "silent-drop" :
        This stops the evaluation of the rules and makes the client-facing
        connection suddenly disappear using a system-dependent way that tries
        to prevent the client from being notified. The effect it then that the
        client still sees an established connection while there's none on
        HAProxy. The purpose is to achieve a comparable effect to "tarpit"
        except that it doesn't use any local resource at all on the machine
        running HAProxy. It can resist much higher loads than "tarpit", and
        slow down stronger attackers. It is important to understand the impact
        of using this mechanism. All stateful equipment placed between the
        client and HAProxy (firewalls, proxies, load balancers) will also keep
        the established connection for a long time and may suffer from this
        action. On modern Linux systems running with enough privileges, the
        TCP_REPAIR socket option is used to block the emission of a TCP
        reset. On other systems, the socket's TTL is reduced to 1 so that the
        TCP reset doesn't pass the first router, though it's still delivered to
        local networks. Do not use it unless you fully understand how it works.

  Note that the "if/unless" condition is optional. If no condition is set on
  the action, it is simply performed unconditionally. That can be useful for
  "track-sc*" actions as well as for changing the default action to a reject.

  Example: accept all connections from white-listed hosts, reject too fast
           connection without counting them, and track accepted connections.
           This results in connection rate being capped from abusive sources.

        tcp-request connection accept if { src -f /etc/haproxy/whitelist.lst }
        tcp-request connection reject if { src_conn_rate gt 10 }
        tcp-request connection track-sc0 src

  Example: accept all connections from white-listed hosts, count all other
           connections and reject too fast ones. This results in abusive ones
           being blocked as long as they don't slow down.

        tcp-request connection accept if { src -f /etc/haproxy/whitelist.lst }
        tcp-request connection track-sc0 src
        tcp-request connection reject if { sc0_conn_rate gt 10 }

  Example: enable the PROXY protocol for traffic coming from all known proxies.

        tcp-request connection expect-proxy layer4 if { src -f proxies.lst }

  See section 7 about ACL usage.

  See also : "tcp-request session", "tcp-request content", "stick-table"


tcp-request content <action> [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Perform an action on a new session depending on a layer 4-7 condition
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <action>    defines the action to perform if the condition applies. See
                below.

    <condition> is a standard layer 4-7 ACL-based condition (see section 7).

  A request's contents can be analyzed at an early stage of request processing
  called "TCP content inspection". During this stage, ACL-based rules are
  evaluated every time the request contents are updated, until either an
  "accept" or a "reject" rule matches, or the TCP request inspection delay
  expires with no matching rule.

  The first difference between these rules and "tcp-request connection" rules
  is that "tcp-request content" rules can make use of contents to take a
  decision. Most often, these decisions will consider a protocol recognition or
  validity. The second difference is that content-based rules can be used in
  both frontends and backends. In case of HTTP keep-alive with the client, all
  tcp-request content rules are evaluated again, so haproxy keeps a record of
  what sticky counters were assigned by a "tcp-request connection" versus a
  "tcp-request content" rule, and flushes all the content-related ones after
  processing an HTTP request, so that they may be evaluated again by the rules
  being evaluated again for the next request. This is of particular importance
  when the rule tracks some L7 information or when it is conditioned by an
  L7-based ACL, since tracking may change between requests.

  Content-based rules are evaluated in their exact declaration order. If no
  rule matches or if there is no rule, the default action is to accept the
  contents. There is no specific limit to the number of rules which may be
  inserted.

  Several types of actions are supported :
    - accept : the request is accepted
    - do-resolve: perform a DNS resolution
    - reject : the request is rejected and the connection is closed
    - capture : the specified sample expression is captured
    - set-priority-class <expr> | set-priority-offset <expr>
    - { track-sc0 | track-sc1 | track-sc2 } <key> [table <table>]
    - sc-inc-gpc0(<sc-id>)
    - sc-inc-gpc1(<sc-id>)
    - sc-set-gpt0(<sc-id>) { <int> | <expr> }
    - set-dst <expr>
    - set-dst-port <expr>
    - set-var(<var-name>) <expr>
    - unset-var(<var-name>)
    - silent-drop
    - send-spoe-group <engine-name> <group-name>
    - use-service <service-name>

  They have the same meaning as their counter-parts in "tcp-request connection"
  so please refer to that section for a complete description.
  For "do-resolve" action, please check the "http-request do-resolve"
  configuration section.

  While there is nothing mandatory about it, it is recommended to use the
  track-sc0 in "tcp-request connection" rules, track-sc1 for "tcp-request
  content" rules in the frontend, and track-sc2 for "tcp-request content"
  rules in the backend, because that makes the configuration more readable
  and easier to troubleshoot, but this is just a guideline and all counters
  may be used everywhere.

  Note that the "if/unless" condition is optional. If no condition is set on
  the action, it is simply performed unconditionally. That can be useful for
  "track-sc*" actions as well as for changing the default action to a reject.

  Note also that it is recommended to use a "tcp-request session" rule to track
  information that does *not* depend on Layer 7 contents, especially for HTTP
  frontends. Some HTTP processing are performed at the session level and may
  lead to an early rejection of the requests. Thus, the tracking at the content
  level may be disturbed in such case. A warning is emitted during startup to
  prevent, as far as possible, such unreliable usage.

  It is perfectly possible to match layer 7 contents with "tcp-request content"
  rules from a TCP proxy, since HTTP-specific ACL matches are able to
  preliminarily parse the contents of a buffer before extracting the required
  data. If the buffered contents do not parse as a valid HTTP message, then the
  ACL does not match.  The parser which is involved there is exactly the same
  as for all other HTTP processing, so there is no risk of parsing something
  differently. In an HTTP frontend or an HTTP backend, it is guaranteed that
  HTTP contents will always be immediately present when the rule is evaluated
  first because the HTTP parsing is performed in the early stages of the
  connection processing, at the session level. But for such proxies, using
  "http-request" rules is much more natural and recommended.

  Tracking layer7 information is also possible provided that the 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.

  The "set-dst" and "set-dst-port" are used to set respectively the destination
  IP and port. More information on how to use it at "http-request set-dst".

  The "set-var" is used to set the content of a variable. The variable is
  declared inline. For "tcp-request session" rules, only session-level
  variables can be used, without any layer7 contents.

    <var-name> The name of the variable starts with an indication about
               its scope. The scopes allowed are:
                 "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
                 "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
                 "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction
                          (request and response)
                 "req"  : the variable is shared only during request
                          processing
                 "res"  : the variable is shared only during response
                          processing
               This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
               The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9',
               '.' and '_'.

    <expr>     Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
               followed by some converters.

  The "unset-var" is used to unset a variable. See above for details about
  <var-name>.

  The "set-priority-class" is used to set the queue priority class of the
  current request. The value must be a sample expression which converts to an
  integer in the range -2047..2047. Results outside this range will be
  truncated. The priority class determines the order in which queued requests
  are processed. Lower values have higher priority.

  The "set-priority-offset" is used to set the queue priority timestamp offset
  of the current request. The value must be a sample expression which converts
  to an integer in the range -524287..524287. Results outside this range will be
  truncated. When a request is queued, it is ordered first by the priority
  class, then by the current timestamp adjusted by the given offset in
  milliseconds. Lower values have higher priority.
  Note that the resulting timestamp is is only tracked with enough precision for
  524,287ms (8m44s287ms). If the request is queued long enough to where the
  adjusted timestamp exceeds this value, it will be misidentified as highest
  priority.  Thus it is important to set "timeout queue" to a value, where when
  combined with the offset, does not exceed this limit.

  The "send-spoe-group" is used to trigger sending of a group of SPOE
  messages. To do so, the SPOE engine used to send messages must be defined, as
  well as the SPOE group to send. Of course, the SPOE engine must refer to an
  existing SPOE filter. If not engine name is provided on the SPOE filter line,
  the SPOE agent name must be used.

    <engine-name> The SPOE engine name.

    <group-name>  The SPOE group name as specified in the engine configuration.

  The "use-service" is used to executes a TCP service which will reply to the
  request and stop the evaluation of the rules. This service may choose to
  reply by sending any valid response or it may immediately close the
  connection without sending anything. Outside natives services, it is possible
  to write your own services in Lua. No further "tcp-request" rules are
  evaluated.

  Example:
    tcp-request content use-service lua.deny { src -f /etc/haproxy/blacklist.lst }

  Example:

        tcp-request content set-var(sess.my_var) src
        tcp-request content unset-var(sess.my_var2)

  Example:
        # Accept HTTP requests containing a Host header saying "example.com"
        # and reject everything else.
        acl is_host_com hdr(Host) -i example.com
        tcp-request inspect-delay 30s
        tcp-request content accept if is_host_com
        tcp-request content reject

  Example:
        # reject SMTP connection if client speaks first
        tcp-request inspect-delay 30s
        acl content_present req_len gt 0
        tcp-request content reject if content_present

        # Forward HTTPS connection only if client speaks
        tcp-request inspect-delay 30s
        acl content_present req_len gt 0
        tcp-request content accept if content_present
        tcp-request content reject

  Example:
        # Track the last IP(stick-table type string) from X-Forwarded-For
        tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
        tcp-request content track-sc0 hdr(x-forwarded-for,-1)
        # Or track the last IP(stick-table type ip|ipv6) from X-Forwarded-For
        tcp-request content track-sc0 req.hdr_ip(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

  Example: track per-frontend and per-backend counters, block abusers at the
           frontend when the backend detects abuse(and marks gpc0).

        frontend http
            # Use General Purpose Counter 0 in SC0 as a global abuse counter
            # protecting all our sites
            stick-table type ip size 1m expire 5m store gpc0
            tcp-request connection track-sc0 src
            tcp-request connection reject if { sc0_get_gpc0 gt 0 }
            ...
            use_backend http_dynamic if { path_end .php }

        backend http_dynamic
            # if a source makes too fast requests to this dynamic site (tracked
            # by SC1), block it globally in the frontend.
            stick-table type ip size 1m expire 5m store http_req_rate(10s)
            acl click_too_fast sc1_http_req_rate gt 10
            acl mark_as_abuser sc0_inc_gpc0(http) gt 0
            tcp-request content track-sc1 src
            tcp-request content reject if click_too_fast mark_as_abuser

  See section 7 about ACL usage.

  See also : "tcp-request connection", "tcp-request session",
             "tcp-request inspect-delay", and "http-request".


tcp-request inspect-delay <timeout>
  Set the maximum allowed time to wait for data during content inspection
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  People using haproxy primarily as a TCP relay are often worried about the
  risk of passing any type of protocol to a server without any analysis. In
  order to be able to analyze the request contents, we must first withhold
  the data then analyze them. This statement simply enables withholding of
  data for at most the specified amount of time.

  TCP content inspection applies very early when a connection reaches a
  frontend, then very early when the connection is forwarded to a backend. This
  means that a connection may experience a first delay in the frontend and a
  second delay in the backend if both have tcp-request rules.

  Note that when performing content inspection, haproxy will evaluate the whole
  rules for every new chunk which gets in, taking into account the fact that
  those data are partial. If no rule matches before the aforementioned delay,
  a last check is performed upon expiration, this time considering that the
  contents are definitive. If no delay is set, haproxy will not wait at all
  and will immediately apply a verdict based on the available information.
  Obviously this is unlikely to be very useful and might even be racy, so such
  setups are not recommended.

  As soon as a rule matches, the request is released and continues as usual. If
  the timeout is reached and no rule matches, the default policy will be to let
  it pass through unaffected.

  For most protocols, it is enough to set it to a few seconds, as most clients
  send the full request immediately upon connection. Add 3 or more seconds to
  cover TCP retransmits but that's all. For some protocols, it may make sense
  to use large values, for instance to ensure that the client never talks
  before the server (e.g. SMTP), or to wait for a client to talk before passing
  data to the server (e.g. SSL). Note that the client timeout must cover at
  least the inspection delay, otherwise it will expire first. If the client
  closes the connection or if the buffer is full, the delay immediately expires
  since the contents will not be able to change anymore.

  See also : "tcp-request content accept", "tcp-request content reject",
             "timeout client".


tcp-response content <action> [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Perform an action on a session response depending on a layer 4-7 condition
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <action>    defines the action to perform if the condition applies. See
                below.

    <condition> is a standard layer 4-7 ACL-based condition (see section 7).

  Response contents can be analyzed at an early stage of response processing
  called "TCP content inspection". During this stage, ACL-based rules are
  evaluated every time the response contents are updated, until either an
  "accept", "close" or a "reject" rule matches, or a TCP response inspection
  delay is set and expires with no matching rule.

  Most often, these decisions will consider a protocol recognition or validity.

  Content-based rules are evaluated in their exact declaration order. If no
  rule matches or if there is no rule, the default action is to accept the
  contents. There is no specific limit to the number of rules which may be
  inserted.

  Several types of actions are supported :
    - accept :
        accepts the response if the condition is true (when used with "if")
        or false (when used with "unless"). The first such rule executed ends
        the rules evaluation.

    - close :
        immediately closes the connection with the server if the condition is
        true (when used with "if"), or false (when used with "unless"). The
        first such rule executed ends the rules evaluation. The main purpose of
        this action is to force a connection to be finished between a client
        and a server after an exchange when the application protocol expects
        some long time outs to elapse first. The goal is to eliminate idle
        connections which take significant resources on servers with certain
        protocols.

    - reject :
        rejects the response if the condition is true (when used with "if")
        or false (when used with "unless"). The first such rule executed ends
        the rules evaluation. Rejected session are immediately closed.

    - set-var(<var-name>) <expr>
        Sets a variable.

    - unset-var(<var-name>)
        Unsets a variable.

    - sc-inc-gpc0(<sc-id>):
        This action increments the GPC0 counter according to the sticky
        counter designated by <sc-id>. If an error occurs, this action fails
        silently and the actions evaluation continues.

    - sc-inc-gpc1(<sc-id>):
        This action increments the GPC1 counter according to the sticky
        counter designated by <sc-id>. If an error occurs, this action fails
        silently and the actions evaluation continues.

    - sc-set-gpt0(<sc-id>) { <int> | <expr> }
        This action sets the 32-bit unsigned GPT0 tag according to the sticky
        counter designated by <sc-id> and the value of <int>/<expr>. The
        expected result is a boolean. If an error occurs, this action silently
        fails and the actions evaluation continues.

    - "silent-drop" :
        This stops the evaluation of the rules and makes the client-facing
        connection suddenly disappear using a system-dependent way that tries
        to prevent the client from being notified. The effect it then that the
        client still sees an established connection while there's none on
        HAProxy. The purpose is to achieve a comparable effect to "tarpit"
        except that it doesn't use any local resource at all on the machine
        running HAProxy. It can resist much higher loads than "tarpit", and
        slow down stronger attackers. It is important to understand the impact
        of using this mechanism. All stateful equipment placed between the
        client and HAProxy (firewalls, proxies, load balancers) will also keep
        the established connection for a long time and may suffer from this
        action. On modern Linux systems running with enough privileges, the
        TCP_REPAIR socket option is used to block the emission of a TCP
        reset. On other systems, the socket's TTL is reduced to 1 so that the
        TCP reset doesn't pass the first router, though it's still delivered to
        local networks. Do not use it unless you fully understand how it works.

    - send-spoe-group <engine-name> <group-name>
        Send a group of SPOE messages.

  Note that the "if/unless" condition is optional. If no condition is set on
  the action, it is simply performed unconditionally. That can be useful for
  for changing the default action to a reject.

  It is perfectly possible to match layer 7 contents with "tcp-response
  content" rules, but then it is important to ensure that a full response has
  been buffered, otherwise no contents will match. In order to achieve this,
  the best solution involves detecting the HTTP protocol during the inspection
  period.

  The "set-var" is used to set the content of a variable. The variable is
  declared inline.

    <var-name> The name of the variable starts with an indication about
               its scope. The scopes allowed are:
                 "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
                 "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
                 "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction
                          (request and response)
                 "req"  : the variable is shared only during request
                          processing
                 "res"  : the variable is shared only during response
                          processing
               This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'.
               The name may only contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9',
               '.' and '_'.

    <expr>     Is a standard HAProxy expression formed by a sample-fetch
               followed by some converters.

  Example:

        tcp-request content set-var(sess.my_var) src

  The "unset-var" is used to unset a variable. See above for details about
  <var-name>.

  Example:

        tcp-request content unset-var(sess.my_var)

  The "send-spoe-group" is used to trigger sending of a group of SPOE
  messages. To do so, the SPOE engine used to send messages must be defined, as
  well as the SPOE group to send. Of course, the SPOE engine must refer to an
  existing SPOE filter. If not engine name is provided on the SPOE filter line,
  the SPOE agent name must be used.

    <engine-name> The SPOE engine name.

    <group-name>  The SPOE group name as specified in the engine configuration.

  See section 7 about ACL usage.

  See also : "tcp-request content", "tcp-response inspect-delay"


tcp-request session <action> [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Perform an action on a validated session depending on a layer 5 condition
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <action>    defines the action to perform if the condition applies. See
                below.

    <condition> is a standard layer5-only ACL-based condition (see section 7).

  Once a session is validated, (i.e. after all handshakes have been completed),
  it is possible to evaluate some conditions to decide whether this session
  must be accepted or dropped or have its counters tracked. Those conditions
  cannot make use of any data contents because no buffers are allocated yet and
  the processing cannot wait at this stage. The main use case it to copy some
  early information into variables (since variables are accessible in the
  session), or to keep track of some information collected after the handshake,
  such as SSL-level elements (SNI, ciphers, client cert's CN) or information
  from the PROXY protocol header (e.g. track a source forwarded this way). The
  extracted information can thus be copied to a variable or tracked using
  "track-sc" rules. Of course it is also possible to decide to accept/reject as
  with other rulesets. Most operations performed here could also be performed
  in "tcp-request content" rules, except that in HTTP these rules are evaluated
  for each new request, and that might not always be acceptable. For example a
  rule might increment a counter on each evaluation. It would also be possible
  that a country is resolved by geolocation from the source IP address,
  assigned to a session-wide variable, then the source address rewritten from
  an HTTP header for all requests. If some contents need to be inspected in
  order to take the decision, the "tcp-request content" statements must be used
  instead.

  The "tcp-request session" rules are evaluated in their exact declaration
  order. If no rule matches or if there is no rule, the default action is to
  accept the incoming session. There is no specific limit to the number of
  rules which may be inserted.

  Several types of actions are supported :
    - accept : the request is accepted
    - reject : the request is rejected and the connection is closed
    - { track-sc0 | track-sc1 | track-sc2 } <key> [table <table>]
    - sc-inc-gpc0(<sc-id>)
    - sc-inc-gpc1(<sc-id>)
    - sc-set-gpt0(<sc-id>) { <int> | <expr> }
    - set-var(<var-name>) <expr>
    - unset-var(<var-name>)
    - silent-drop

  These actions have the same meaning as their respective counter-parts in
  "tcp-request connection" and "tcp-request content", so please refer to these
  sections for a complete description.

  Note that the "if/unless" condition is optional. If no condition is set on
  the action, it is simply performed unconditionally. That can be useful for
  "track-sc*" actions as well as for changing the default action to a reject.

  Example: track the original source address by default, or the one advertised
           in the PROXY protocol header for connection coming from the local
           proxies. The first connection-level rule enables receipt of the
           PROXY protocol for these ones, the second rule tracks whatever
           address we decide to keep after optional decoding.

        tcp-request connection expect-proxy layer4 if { src -f proxies.lst }
        tcp-request session track-sc0 src

  Example: accept all sessions from white-listed hosts, reject too fast
           sessions without counting them, and track accepted sessions.
           This results in session rate being capped from abusive sources.

        tcp-request session accept if { src -f /etc/haproxy/whitelist.lst }
        tcp-request session reject if { src_sess_rate gt 10 }
        tcp-request session track-sc0 src

  Example: accept all sessions from white-listed hosts, count all other
           sessions and reject too fast ones. This results in abusive ones
           being blocked as long as they don't slow down.

        tcp-request session accept if { src -f /etc/haproxy/whitelist.lst }
        tcp-request session track-sc0 src
        tcp-request session reject if { sc0_sess_rate gt 10 }

  See section 7 about ACL usage.

  See also : "tcp-request connection", "tcp-request content", "stick-table"


tcp-response inspect-delay <timeout>
  Set the maximum allowed time to wait for a response during content inspection
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 no    |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  See also : "tcp-response content", "tcp-request inspect-delay".


timeout check <timeout>
  Set additional check timeout, but only after a connection has been already
  established.

  May be used in sections:    defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments:
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  If set, haproxy uses min("timeout connect", "inter") as a connect timeout
  for check and "timeout check" as an additional read timeout. The "min" is
  used so that people running with *very* long "timeout connect" (e.g. those
  who needed this due to the queue or tarpit) do not slow down their checks.
  (Please also note that there is no valid reason to have such long connect
  timeouts, because "timeout queue" and "timeout tarpit" can always be used to
  avoid that).

  If "timeout check" is not set haproxy uses "inter" for complete check
  timeout (connect + read) exactly like all <1.3.15 version.

  In most cases check request is much simpler and faster to handle than normal
  requests and people may want to kick out laggy servers so this timeout should
  be smaller than "timeout server".

  This parameter is specific to backends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. This is in fact one of the easiest solutions not to
  forget about it.

  See also: "timeout connect", "timeout queue", "timeout server",
            "timeout tarpit".


timeout client <timeout>
  Set the maximum inactivity time on the client side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  The inactivity timeout applies when the client is expected to acknowledge or
  send data. In HTTP mode, this timeout is particularly important to consider
  during the first phase, when the client sends the request, and during the
  response while it is reading data sent by the server. That said, for the
  first phase, it is preferable to set the "timeout http-request" to better
  protect HAProxy from Slowloris like attacks. The value is specified in
  milliseconds by default, but can be in any other unit if the number is
  suffixed by the unit, as specified at the top of this document. In TCP mode
  (and to a lesser extent, in HTTP mode), it is highly recommended that the
  client timeout remains equal to the server timeout in order to avoid complex
  situations to debug. It is a good practice to cover one or several TCP packet
  losses by specifying timeouts that are slightly above multiples of 3 seconds
  (e.g. 4 or 5 seconds). If some long-lived sessions are mixed with short-lived
  sessions (e.g. WebSocket and HTTP), it's worth considering "timeout tunnel",
  which overrides "timeout client" and "timeout server" for tunnels, as well as
  "timeout client-fin" for half-closed connections.

  This parameter is specific to frontends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. This is in fact one of the easiest solutions not to
  forget about it. An unspecified timeout results in an infinite timeout, which
  is not recommended. Such a usage is accepted and works but reports a warning
  during startup because it may result in accumulation of expired sessions in
  the system if the system's timeouts are not configured either.

  This also applies to HTTP/2 connections, which will be closed with GOAWAY.

  See also : "timeout server", "timeout tunnel", "timeout http-request".


timeout client-fin <timeout>
  Set the inactivity timeout on the client side for half-closed connections.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  The inactivity timeout applies when the client is expected to acknowledge or
  send data while one direction is already shut down. This timeout is different
  from "timeout client" in that it only applies to connections which are closed
  in one direction. This is particularly useful to avoid keeping connections in
  FIN_WAIT state for too long when clients do not disconnect cleanly. This
  problem is particularly common long connections such as RDP or WebSocket.
  Note that this timeout can override "timeout tunnel" when a connection shuts
  down in one direction. It is applied to idle HTTP/2 connections once a GOAWAY
  frame was sent, often indicating an expectation that the connection quickly
  ends.

  This parameter is specific to frontends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. By default it is not set, so half-closed connections
  will use the other timeouts (timeout.client or timeout.tunnel).

  See also : "timeout client", "timeout server-fin", and "timeout tunnel".


timeout connect <timeout>
  Set the maximum time to wait for a connection attempt to a server to succeed.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  If the server is located on the same LAN as haproxy, the connection should be
  immediate (less than a few milliseconds). Anyway, it is a good practice to
  cover one or several TCP packet losses by specifying timeouts that are
  slightly above multiples of 3 seconds (e.g. 4 or 5 seconds). By default, the
  connect timeout also presets both queue and tarpit timeouts to the same value
  if these have not been specified.

  This parameter is specific to backends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. This is in fact one of the easiest solutions not to
  forget about it. An unspecified timeout results in an infinite timeout, which
  is not recommended. Such a usage is accepted and works but reports a warning
  during startup because it may result in accumulation of failed sessions in
  the system if the system's timeouts are not configured either.

  See also: "timeout check", "timeout queue", "timeout server", "timeout tarpit".


timeout http-keep-alive <timeout>
  Set the maximum allowed time to wait for a new HTTP request to appear
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  By default, the time to wait for a new request in case of keep-alive is set
  by "timeout http-request". However this is not always convenient because some
  people want very short keep-alive timeouts in order to release connections
  faster, and others prefer to have larger ones but still have short timeouts
  once the request has started to present itself.

  The "http-keep-alive" timeout covers these needs. It will define how long to
  wait for a new HTTP request to start coming after a response was sent. Once
  the first byte of request has been seen, the "http-request" timeout is used
  to wait for the complete request to come. Note that empty lines prior to a
  new request do not refresh the timeout and are not counted as a new request.

  There is also another difference between the two timeouts : when a connection
  expires during timeout http-keep-alive, no error is returned, the connection
  just closes. If the connection expires in "http-request" while waiting for a
  connection to complete, a HTTP 408 error is returned.

  In general it is optimal to set this value to a few tens to hundreds of
  milliseconds, to allow users to fetch all objects of a page at once but
  without waiting for further clicks. Also, if set to a very small value (e.g.
  1 millisecond) it will probably only accept pipelined requests but not the
  non-pipelined ones. It may be a nice trade-off for very large sites running
  with tens to hundreds of thousands of clients.

  If this parameter is not set, the "http-request" timeout applies, and if both
  are not set, "timeout client" still applies at the lower level. It should be
  set in the frontend to take effect, unless the frontend is in TCP mode, in
  which case the HTTP backend's timeout will be used.

  When using HTTP/2 "timeout client" is applied instead. This is so we can keep
  using short keep-alive timeouts in HTTP/1.1 while using longer ones in HTTP/2
  (where we only have one connection per client and a connection setup).

  See also : "timeout http-request", "timeout client".


timeout http-request <timeout>
  Set the maximum allowed time to wait for a complete HTTP request
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  In order to offer DoS protection, it may be required to lower the maximum
  accepted time to receive a complete HTTP request without affecting the client
  timeout. This helps protecting against established connections on which
  nothing is sent. The client timeout cannot offer a good protection against
  this abuse because it is an inactivity timeout, which means that if the
  attacker sends one character every now and then, the timeout will not
  trigger. With the HTTP request timeout, no matter what speed the client
  types, the request will be aborted if it does not complete in time. When the
  timeout expires, an HTTP 408 response is sent to the client to inform it
  about the problem, and the connection is closed. The logs will report
  termination codes "cR". Some recent browsers are having problems with this
  standard, well-documented behavior, so it might be needed to hide the 408
  code using "option http-ignore-probes" or "errorfile 408 /dev/null". See
  more details in the explanations of the "cR" termination code in section 8.5.

  By default, this timeout only applies to the header part of the request,
  and not to any data. As soon as the empty line is received, this timeout is
  not used anymore. When combined with "option http-buffer-request", this
  timeout also applies to the body of the request..
  It is used again on keep-alive connections to wait for a second
  request if "timeout http-keep-alive" is not set.

  Generally it is enough to set it to a few seconds, as most clients send the
  full request immediately upon connection. Add 3 or more seconds to cover TCP
  retransmits but that's all. Setting it to very low values (e.g. 50 ms) will
  generally work on local networks as long as there are no packet losses. This
  will prevent people from sending bare HTTP requests using telnet.

  If this parameter is not set, the client timeout still applies between each
  chunk of the incoming request. It should be set in the frontend to take
  effect, unless the frontend is in TCP mode, in which case the HTTP backend's
  timeout will be used.

  See also : "errorfile", "http-ignore-probes", "timeout http-keep-alive", and
             "timeout client", "option http-buffer-request".


timeout queue <timeout>
  Set the maximum time to wait in the queue for a connection slot to be free
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  When a server's maxconn is reached, connections are left pending in a queue
  which may be server-specific or global to the backend. In order not to wait
  indefinitely, a timeout is applied to requests pending in the queue. If the
  timeout is reached, it is considered that the request will almost never be
  served, so it is dropped and a 503 error is returned to the client.

  The "timeout queue" statement allows to fix the maximum time for a request to
  be left pending in a queue. If unspecified, the same value as the backend's
  connection timeout ("timeout connect") is used, for backwards compatibility
  with older versions with no "timeout queue" parameter.

  See also : "timeout connect".


timeout server <timeout>
  Set the maximum inactivity time on the server side.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  The inactivity timeout applies when the server is expected to acknowledge or
  send data. In HTTP mode, this timeout is particularly important to consider
  during the first phase of the server's response, when it has to send the
  headers, as it directly represents the server's processing time for the
  request. To find out what value to put there, it's often good to start with
  what would be considered as unacceptable response times, then check the logs
  to observe the response time distribution, and adjust the value accordingly.

  The value is specified in milliseconds by default, but can be in any other
  unit if the number is suffixed by the unit, as specified at the top of this
  document. In TCP mode (and to a lesser extent, in HTTP mode), it is highly
  recommended that the client timeout remains equal to the server timeout in
  order to avoid complex situations to debug. Whatever the expected server
  response times, it is a good practice to cover at least one or several TCP
  packet losses by specifying timeouts that are slightly above multiples of 3
  seconds (e.g. 4 or 5 seconds minimum). If some long-lived sessions are mixed
  with short-lived sessions (e.g. WebSocket and HTTP), it's worth considering
  "timeout tunnel", which overrides "timeout client" and "timeout server" for
  tunnels.

  This parameter is specific to backends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. This is in fact one of the easiest solutions not to
  forget about it. An unspecified timeout results in an infinite timeout, which
  is not recommended. Such a usage is accepted and works but reports a warning
  during startup because it may result in accumulation of expired sessions in
  the system if the system's timeouts are not configured either.

  See also : "timeout client" and "timeout tunnel".


timeout server-fin <timeout>
  Set the inactivity timeout on the server side for half-closed connections.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  The inactivity timeout applies when the server is expected to acknowledge or
  send data while one direction is already shut down. This timeout is different
  from "timeout server" in that it only applies to connections which are closed
  in one direction. This is particularly useful to avoid keeping connections in
  FIN_WAIT state for too long when a remote server does not disconnect cleanly.
  This problem is particularly common long connections such as RDP or WebSocket.
  Note that this timeout can override "timeout tunnel" when a connection shuts
  down in one direction. This setting was provided for completeness, but in most
  situations, it should not be needed.

  This parameter is specific to backends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. By default it is not set, so half-closed connections
  will use the other timeouts (timeout.server or timeout.tunnel).

  See also : "timeout client-fin", "timeout server", and "timeout tunnel".


timeout tarpit <timeout>
  Set the duration for which tarpitted connections will be maintained
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    yes   |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the tarpit duration specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  When a connection is tarpitted using "http-request tarpit", it is maintained
  open with no activity for a certain amount of time, then closed. "timeout
  tarpit" defines how long it will be maintained open.

  The value is specified in milliseconds by default, but can be in any other
  unit if the number is suffixed by the unit, as specified at the top of this
  document. If unspecified, the same value as the backend's connection timeout
  ("timeout connect") is used, for backwards compatibility with older versions
  with no "timeout tarpit" parameter.

  See also : "timeout connect".


timeout tunnel <timeout>
  Set the maximum inactivity time on the client and server side for tunnels.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <timeout> is the timeout value specified in milliseconds by default, but
              can be in any other unit if the number is suffixed by the unit,
              as explained at the top of this document.

  The tunnel timeout applies when a bidirectional connection is established
  between a client and a server, and the connection remains inactive in both
  directions. This timeout supersedes both the client and server timeouts once
  the connection becomes a tunnel. In TCP, this timeout is used as soon as no
  analyzer remains attached to either connection (e.g. tcp content rules are
  accepted). In HTTP, this timeout is used when a connection is upgraded (e.g.
  when switching to the WebSocket protocol, or forwarding a CONNECT request
  to a proxy), or after the first response when no keepalive/close option is
  specified.

  Since this timeout is usually used in conjunction with long-lived connections,
  it usually is a good idea to also set "timeout client-fin" to handle the
  situation where a client suddenly disappears from the net and does not
  acknowledge a close, or sends a shutdown and does not acknowledge pending
  data anymore. This can happen in lossy networks where firewalls are present,
  and is detected by the presence of large amounts of sessions in a FIN_WAIT
  state.

  The value is specified in milliseconds by default, but can be in any other
  unit if the number is suffixed by the unit, as specified at the top of this
  document. Whatever the expected normal idle time, it is a good practice to
  cover at least one or several TCP packet losses by specifying timeouts that
  are slightly above multiples of 3 seconds (e.g. 4 or 5 seconds minimum).

  This parameter is specific to backends, but can be specified once for all in
  "defaults" sections. This is in fact one of the easiest solutions not to
  forget about it.

  Example :
        defaults http
            option http-server-close
            timeout connect 5s
            timeout client 30s
            timeout client-fin 30s
            timeout server 30s
            timeout tunnel  1h    # timeout to use with WebSocket and CONNECT

  See also : "timeout client", "timeout client-fin", "timeout server".


transparent (deprecated)
  Enable client-side transparent proxying
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                 yes   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments : none

  This keyword was introduced in order to provide layer 7 persistence to layer
  3 load balancers. The idea is to use the OS's ability to redirect an incoming
  connection for a remote address to a local process (here HAProxy), and let
  this process know what address was initially requested. When this option is
  used, sessions without cookies will be forwarded to the original destination
  IP address of the incoming request (which should match that of another
  equipment), while requests with cookies will still be forwarded to the
  appropriate server.

  The "transparent" keyword is deprecated, use "option transparent" instead.

  Note that contrary to a common belief, this option does NOT make HAProxy
  present the client's IP to the server when establishing the connection.

  See also: "option transparent"

unique-id-format <string>
  Generate a unique ID for each request.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  yes  |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <string>   is a log-format string.

  This keyword creates a ID for each request using the custom log format. A
  unique ID is useful to trace a request passing through many components of
  a complex infrastructure. The newly created ID may also be logged using the
  %ID tag the log-format string.

  The format should be composed from elements that are guaranteed to be
  unique when combined together. For instance, if multiple haproxy instances
  are involved, it might be important to include the node name. It is often
  needed to log the incoming connection's source and destination addresses
  and ports. Note that since multiple requests may be performed over the same
  connection, including a request counter may help differentiate them.
  Similarly, a timestamp may protect against a rollover of the counter.
  Logging the process ID will avoid collisions after a service restart.

  It is recommended to use hexadecimal notation for many fields since it
  makes them more compact and saves space in logs.

  Example:

        unique-id-format %{+X}o\ %ci:%cp_%fi:%fp_%Ts_%rt:%pid

        will generate:

               7F000001:8296_7F00001E:1F90_4F7B0A69_0003:790A

  See also: "unique-id-header"

unique-id-header <name>
  Add a unique ID header in the HTTP request.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  yes  |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <name>   is the name of the header.

  Add a unique-id header in the HTTP request sent to the server, using the
  unique-id-format. It can't work if the unique-id-format doesn't exist.

  Example:

        unique-id-format %{+X}o\ %ci:%cp_%fi:%fp_%Ts_%rt:%pid
        unique-id-header X-Unique-ID

        will generate:

           X-Unique-ID: 7F000001:8296_7F00001E:1F90_4F7B0A69_0003:790A

    See also: "unique-id-format"

use_backend <backend> [{if | unless} <condition>]
  Switch to a specific backend if/unless an ACL-based condition is matched.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    yes   |   yes  |   no
  Arguments :
    <backend>   is the name of a valid backend or "listen" section, or a
                "log-format" string resolving to a backend name.

    <condition> is a condition composed of ACLs, as described in section 7. If
                it is omitted, the rule is unconditionally applied.

  When doing content-switching, connections arrive on a frontend and are then
  dispatched to various backends depending on a number of conditions. The
  relation between the conditions and the backends is described with the
  "use_backend" keyword. While it is normally used with HTTP processing, it can
  also be used in pure TCP, either without content using stateless ACLs (e.g.
  source address validation) or combined with a "tcp-request" rule to wait for
  some payload.

  There may be as many "use_backend" rules as desired. All of these rules are
  evaluated in their declaration order, and the first one which matches will
  assign the backend.

  In the first form, the backend will be used if the condition is met. In the
  second form, the backend will be used if the condition is not met. If no
  condition is valid, the backend defined with "default_backend" will be used.
  If no default backend is defined, either the servers in the same section are
  used (in case of a "listen" section) or, in case of a frontend, no server is
  used and a 503 service unavailable response is returned.

  Note that it is possible to switch from a TCP frontend to an HTTP backend. In
  this case, either the frontend has already checked that the protocol is HTTP,
  and backend processing will immediately follow, or the backend will wait for
  a complete HTTP request to get in. This feature is useful when a frontend
  must decode several protocols on a unique port, one of them being HTTP.

  When <backend> is a simple name, it is resolved at configuration time, and an
  error is reported if the specified backend does not exist. If <backend> is
  a log-format string instead, no check may be done at configuration time, so
  the backend name is resolved dynamically at run time. If the resulting
  backend name does not correspond to any valid backend, no other rule is
  evaluated, and the default_backend directive is applied instead. Note that
  when using dynamic backend names, it is highly recommended to use a prefix
  that no other backend uses in order to ensure that an unauthorized backend
  cannot be forced from the request.

  It is worth mentioning that "use_backend" rules with an explicit name are
  used to detect the association between frontends and backends to compute the
  backend's "fullconn" setting. This cannot be done for dynamic names.

  See also: "default_backend", "tcp-request", "fullconn", "log-format", and
            section 7 about ACLs.

use-fcgi-app <name>
  Defines the FastCGI application to use for the backend.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    no    |   yes   |   yes
  Arguments :
    <name>    is the name of the FastCGI application to use.

  See section 10.1 about FastCGI application setup for details.

use-server <server> if <condition>
use-server <server> unless <condition>
  Only use a specific server if/unless an ACL-based condition is matched.
  May be used in sections :   defaults | frontend | listen | backend
                                  no   |    no    |   yes  |   yes
  Arguments :
    <server>    is the name of a valid server in the same backend section
                or a "log-format" string resolving to a server name.

    <condition> is a condition composed of ACLs, as described in section 7.

  By default, connections which arrive to a backend are load-balanced across
  the available servers according to the configured algorithm, unless a
  persistence mechanism such as a cookie is used and found in the request.

  Sometimes it is desirable to forward a particular request to a specific
  server without having to declare a dedicated backend for this server. This
  can be achieved using the "use-server" rules. These rules are evaluated after
  the "redirect" rules and before evaluating cookies, and they have precedence
  on them. There may be as many "use-server" rules as desired. All of these
  rules are evaluated in their declaration order, and the first one which
  matches will assign the server.

  If a rule designates a server which is down, and "option persist" is not used
  and no force-persist rule was validated, it is ignored and evaluation goes on
  with the next rules until one matches.

  In the first form, the server will be used if the condition is met. In the
  second form, the server will be used if the condition is not met. If no
  condition is valid, the processing continues and the server will be assigned
  according to other persistence mechanisms.

  Note that even if a rule is matched, cookie processing is still performed but
  does not assign the server. This allows prefixed cookies to have their prefix
  stripped.

  The "use-server" statement works both in HTTP and TCP mode. This makes it
  suitable for use with content-based inspection. For instance, a server could
  be selected in a farm according to the TLS SNI field when using protocols with
  implicit TLS (also see "req_ssl_sni"). And if these servers have their weight
  set to zero, they will not be used for other traffic.

  Example :
     # intercept incoming TLS requests based on the SNI field
     use-server www if { req_ssl_sni -i www.example.com }
     server     www 192.168.0.1:443 weight 0
     use-server mail if { req_ssl_sni -i mail.example.com }
     server     mail 192.168.0.1:465 weight 0
     use-server imap if { req_ssl_sni -i imap.example.com }
     server     imap 192.168.0.1:993 weight 0
     # all the rest is forwarded to this server
     server  default 192.168.0.2:443 check

  When <server> is a simple name, it is checked against existing servers in the
  configuration and an error is reported if the specified server does not exist.
  If it is a log-format, no check is performed when parsing the configuration,
  and if we can't resolve a valid server name at runtime but the use-server rule
  was conditioned by an ACL returning true, no other use-server rule is applied
  and we fall back to load balancing.

  See also: "use_backend", section 5 about server and section 7 about ACLs.


5. Bind and server options
--------------------------

The "bind", "server" and "default-server" keywords support a number of settings
depending on some build options and on the system HAProxy was built on. These
settings generally each consist in one word sometimes followed by a value,
written on the same line as the "bind" or "server" line. All these options are
described in this section.


5.1. Bind options
-----------------

The "bind" keyword supports a certain number of settings which are all passed
as arguments on the same line. The order in which those arguments appear makes
no importance, provided that they appear after the bind address. All of these
parameters are optional. Some of them consist in a single words (booleans),
while other ones expect a value after them. In this case, the value must be
provided immediately after the setting name.

The currently supported settings are the following ones.

accept-netscaler-cip <magic number>
  Enforces the use of the NetScaler Client IP insertion protocol over any
  connection accepted by any of the TCP sockets declared on the same line. The
  NetScaler Client IP insertion protocol dictates the layer 3/4 addresses of
  the incoming connection to be used everywhere an address is used, with the
  only exception of "tcp-request connection" rules which will only see the
  real connection address. Logs will reflect the addresses indicated in the
  protocol, unless it is violated, in which case the real  address will still
  be used. This keyword combined with support from external components can be
  used as an efficient and reliable alternative to the X-Forwarded-For
  mechanism which is not always reliable and not even always usable. See also
  "tcp-request connection expect-netscaler-cip" for a finer-grained setting of
  which client is allowed to use the protocol.

accept-proxy
  Enforces the use of the PROXY protocol over any connection accepted by any of
  the sockets declared on the same line. Versions 1 and 2 of the PROXY protocol
  are supported and correctly detected. The PROXY protocol dictates the layer
  3/4 addresses of the incoming connection to be used everywhere an address is
  used, with the only exception of "tcp-request connection" rules which will
  only see the real connection address. Logs will reflect the addresses
  indicated in the protocol, unless it is violated, in which case the real
  address will still be used. This keyword combined with support from external
  components can be used as an efficient and reliable alternative to the
  X-Forwarded-For mechanism which is not always reliable and not even always
  usable. See also "tcp-request connection expect-proxy" for a finer-grained
  setting of which client is allowed to use the protocol.

allow-0rtt
  Allow receiving early data when using TLSv1.3. This is disabled by default,
  due to security considerations. Because it is vulnerable to replay attacks,
  you should only allow if for requests that are safe to replay, i.e. requests
  that are idempotent. You can use the "wait-for-handshake" action for any
  request that wouldn't be safe with early data.

alpn <protocols>
  This enables the TLS ALPN extension and advertises the specified protocol
  list as supported on top of ALPN. The protocol list consists in a comma-
  delimited list of protocol names, for instance: "http/1.1,http/1.0" (without
  quotes). This requires that the SSL library is built with support for TLS
  extensions enabled (check with haproxy -vv). The ALPN extension replaces the
  initial NPN extension. ALPN is required to enable HTTP/2 on an HTTP frontend.
  Versions of OpenSSL prior to 1.0.2 didn't support ALPN and only supposed the
  now obsolete NPN extension. At the time of writing this, most browsers still
  support both ALPN and NPN for HTTP/2 so a fallback to NPN may still work for
  a while. But ALPN must be used whenever possible. If both HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1
  are expected to be supported, both versions can be advertised, in order of
  preference, like below :

       bind :443 ssl crt pub.pem alpn h2,http/1.1

backlog <backlog>
  Sets the socket's backlog to this value. If unspecified or 0, the frontend's
  backlog is used instead, which generally defaults to the maxconn value.

curves <curves>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  the string describing the list of elliptic curves algorithms ("curve suite")
  that are negotiated during the SSL/TLS handshake with ECDHE. The format of the
  string is a colon-delimited list of curve name.
  Example: "X25519:P-256" (without quote)
  When "curves" is set, "ecdhe" parameter is ignored.

ecdhe <named curve>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  the named curve (RFC 4492) used to generate ECDH ephemeral keys. By default,
  used named curve is prime256v1.

ca-file <cafile>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a PEM file from which to load CA certificates used to verify
  client's certificate.

ca-ignore-err [all|<errorID>,...]
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in.
  Sets a comma separated list of errorIDs to ignore during verify at depth > 0.
  If set to 'all', all errors are ignored. SSL handshake is not aborted if an
  error is ignored.

ca-sign-file <cafile>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a PEM file containing both the CA certificate and the CA private
  key used to create and sign server's certificates. This is a mandatory
  setting when the dynamic generation of certificates is enabled. See
  'generate-certificates' for details.

ca-sign-pass <passphrase>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It is
  the CA private key passphrase. This setting is optional and used only when
  the dynamic generation of certificates is enabled. See
  'generate-certificates' for details.

ca-verify-file <cafile>
  This setting designates a PEM file from which to load CA certificates used to
  verify client's certificate. It designates CA certificates which must not be
  included in CA names sent in server hello message. Typically, "ca-file" must
  be defined with intermediate certificates, and "ca-verify-file" with
  certificates to ending the chain, like root CA.

ciphers <ciphers>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It sets
  the string describing the list of cipher algorithms ("cipher suite") that are
  negotiated during the SSL/TLS handshake up to TLSv1.2. The format of the
  string is defined in "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages. For background
  information and recommendations see e.g.
  (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS) and
  (https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/). For TLSv1.3
  cipher configuration, please check the "ciphersuites" keyword.

ciphersuites <ciphersuites>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in and
  OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later was used to build HAProxy. It sets the string describing
  the list of cipher algorithms ("cipher suite") that are negotiated during the
  TLSv1.3 handshake. The format of the string is defined in "man 1 ciphers" from
  OpenSSL man pages under the "ciphersuites" section. For cipher configuration
  for TLSv1.2 and earlier, please check the "ciphers" keyword.

crl-file <crlfile>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a PEM file from which to load certificate revocation list used
  to verify client's certificate.

crt <cert>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a PEM file containing both the required certificates and any
  associated private keys. This file can be built by concatenating multiple
  PEM files into one (e.g. cat cert.pem key.pem > combined.pem). If your CA
  requires an intermediate certificate, this can also be concatenated into this
  file. Intermediate certificate can also be shared in a directory via
  "issuers-chain-path" directive.

  If the file does not contain a private key, HAProxy will try to load
  the key at the same path suffixed by a ".key".

  If the OpenSSL used supports Diffie-Hellman, parameters present in this file
  are loaded.

  If a directory name is used instead of a PEM file, then all files found in
  that directory will be loaded in alphabetic order unless their name ends
  with '.key', '.issuer', '.ocsp' or '.sctl' (reserved extensions). This
  directive may be specified multiple times in order to load certificates from
  multiple files or directories. The certificates will be presented to clients
  who provide a valid TLS Server Name Indication field matching one of their
  CN or alt subjects. Wildcards are supported, where a wildcard character '*'
  is used instead of the first hostname component (e.g. *.example.org matches
  www.example.org but not www.sub.example.org).

  If no SNI is provided by the client or if the SSL library does not support
  TLS extensions, or if the client provides an SNI hostname which does not
  match any certificate, then the first loaded certificate will be presented.
  This means that when loading certificates from a directory, it is highly
  recommended to load the default one first as a file or to ensure that it will
  always be the first one in the directory.

  Note that the same cert may be loaded multiple times without side effects.

  Some CAs (such as GoDaddy) offer a drop down list of server types that do not
  include HAProxy when obtaining a certificate. If this happens be sure to
  choose a web server that the CA believes requires an intermediate CA (for
  GoDaddy, selection Apache Tomcat will get the correct bundle, but many
  others, e.g. nginx, result in a wrong bundle that will not work for some
  clients).

  For each PEM file, haproxy checks for the presence of file at the same path
  suffixed by ".ocsp". If such file is found, support for the TLS Certificate
  Status Request extension (also known as "OCSP stapling") is automatically
  enabled. The content of this file is optional. If not empty, it must contain
  a valid OCSP Response in DER format. In order to be valid an OCSP Response
  must comply with the following rules: it has to indicate a good status,
  it has to be a single response for the certificate of the PEM file, and it
  has to be valid at the moment of addition. If these rules are not respected
  the OCSP Response is ignored and a warning is emitted. In order to  identify
  which certificate an OCSP Response applies to, the issuer's certificate is
  necessary. If the issuer's certificate is not found in the PEM file, it will
  be loaded from a file at the same path as the PEM file suffixed by ".issuer"
  if it exists otherwise it will fail with an error.

  For each PEM file, haproxy also checks for the presence of file at the same
  path suffixed by ".sctl". If such file is found, support for Certificate
  Transparency (RFC6962) TLS extension is enabled. The file must contain a
  valid Signed Certificate Timestamp List, as described in RFC. File is parsed
  to check basic syntax, but no signatures are verified.

  There are cases where it is desirable to support multiple key types, e.g. RSA
  and ECDSA in the cipher suites offered to the clients. This allows clients
  that support EC certificates to be able to use EC ciphers, while
  simultaneously supporting older, RSA only clients.

  To achieve this, OpenSSL 1.1.1 is required, you can configure this behavior
  by providing one crt entry per certificate type, or by configuring a "cert
  bundle" like it was required before HAProxy 1.8. See "ssl-load-extra-files".

crt-ignore-err <errors>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. Sets a
  comma separated list of errorIDs to ignore during verify at depth == 0. If
  set to 'all', all errors are ignored. SSL handshake is not aborted if an error
  is ignored.

crt-list <file>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a list of PEM file with an optional ssl configuration and a SNI
  filter per certificate, with the following format for each line :

        <crtfile> [\[<sslbindconf> ...\]] [[!]<snifilter> ...]

  sslbindconf supports "allow-0rtt", "alpn", "ca-file", "ca-verify-file",
  "ciphers", "ciphersuites", "crl-file", "curves", "ecdhe", "no-ca-names",
  "npn", "verify" configuration. With BoringSSL and Openssl >= 1.1.1
  "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver" are also supported. It overrides the
  configuration set in bind line for the certificate.

  Wildcards are supported in the SNI filter. Negative filter are also supported,
  useful in combination with a wildcard filter to exclude a particular SNI, or
  after the first certificate to exclude a pattern from its CN or Subject Alt
  Name (SAN). The certificates will be presented to clients who provide a valid
  TLS Server Name Indication field matching one of the SNI filters. If no SNI
  filter is specified, the CN and SAN are used. This directive may be specified
  multiple times. See the "crt" option for more information. The default
  certificate is still needed to meet OpenSSL expectations. If it is not used,
  the 'strict-sni' option may be used.

  Multi-cert bundling (see "ssl-load-extra-files") is supported with crt-list,
  as long as only the base name is given in the crt-list. SNI filter will do
  the same work on all bundled certificates.

  Empty lines as well as lines beginning with a hash ('#') will be ignored.

  The first declared certificate of a bind line is used as the default
  certificate, either from crt or crt-list option, which haproxy should use in
  the TLS handshake if no other certificate matches. This certificate will also
  be used if the provided SNI matches its CN or SAN, even if a matching SNI
  filter is found on any crt-list. The SNI filter !* can be used after the first
  declared certificate to not include its CN and SAN in the SNI tree, so it will
  never match except if no other certificate matches. This way the first
  declared certificate act as a fallback.

  crt-list file example:
        cert1.pem !*
        # comment
        cert2.pem [alpn h2,http/1.1]
        certW.pem                   *.domain.tld !secure.domain.tld
        certS.pem [curves X25519:P-256 ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384] secure.domain.tld

defer-accept
  Is an optional keyword which is supported only on certain Linux kernels. It
  states that a connection will only be accepted once some data arrive on it,
  or at worst after the first retransmit. This should be used only on protocols
  for which the client talks first (e.g. HTTP). It can slightly improve
  performance by ensuring that most of the request is already available when
  the connection is accepted. On the other hand, it will not be able to detect
  connections which don't talk. It is important to note that this option is
  broken in all kernels up to 2.6.31, as the connection is never accepted until
  the client talks. This can cause issues with front firewalls which would see
  an established connection while the proxy will only see it in SYN_RECV. This
  option is only supported on TCPv4/TCPv6 sockets and ignored by other ones.

expose-fd listeners
  This option is only usable with the stats socket. It gives your stats socket
  the capability to pass listeners FD to another HAProxy process.
  During a reload with the master-worker mode, the process is automatically
  reexecuted adding -x and one of the stats socket with this option.
  See also "-x" in the management guide.

force-sslv3
  This option enforces use of SSLv3 only on SSL connections instantiated from
  this listener. SSLv3 is generally less expensive than the TLS counterparts
  for high connection rates. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-bind-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv10
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.0 only on SSL connections instantiated from
  this listener. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-bind-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv11
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.1 only on SSL connections instantiated from
  this listener. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-bind-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv12
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.2 only on SSL connections instantiated from
  this listener. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-bind-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv13
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.3 only on SSL connections instantiated from
  this listener. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-bind-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver".

generate-certificates
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  enables the dynamic SSL certificates generation. A CA certificate and its
  private key are necessary (see 'ca-sign-file'). When HAProxy is configured as
  a transparent forward proxy, SSL requests generate errors because of a common
  name mismatch on the certificate presented to the client. With this option
  enabled, HAProxy will try to forge a certificate using the SNI hostname
  indicated by the client. This is done only if no certificate matches the SNI
  hostname (see 'crt-list'). If an error occurs, the default certificate is
  used, else the 'strict-sni' option is set.
  It can also be used when HAProxy is configured as a reverse proxy to ease the
  deployment of an architecture with many backends.

  Creating a SSL certificate is an expensive operation, so a LRU cache is used
  to store forged certificates (see 'tune.ssl.ssl-ctx-cache-size'). It
  increases the HAProxy's memory footprint to reduce latency when the same
  certificate is used many times.

gid <gid>
  Sets the group of the UNIX sockets to the designated system gid. It can also
  be set by default in the global section's "unix-bind" statement. Note that
  some platforms simply ignore this. This setting is equivalent to the "group"
  setting except that the group ID is used instead of its name. This setting is
  ignored by non UNIX sockets.

group <group>
  Sets the group of the UNIX sockets to the designated system group. It can
  also be set by default in the global section's "unix-bind" statement. Note
  that some platforms simply ignore this. This setting is equivalent to the
  "gid" setting except that the group name is used instead of its gid. This
  setting is ignored by non UNIX sockets.

id <id>
  Fixes the socket ID. By default, socket IDs are automatically assigned, but
  sometimes it is more convenient to fix them to ease monitoring. This value
  must be strictly positive and unique within the listener/frontend. This
  option can only be used when defining only a single socket.

interface <interface>
  Restricts the socket to a specific interface. When specified, only packets
  received from that particular interface are processed by the socket. This is
  currently only supported on Linux. The interface must be a primary system
  interface, not an aliased interface. It is also possible to bind multiple
  frontends to the same address if they are bound to different interfaces. Note
  that binding to a network interface requires root privileges. This parameter
  is only compatible with TCPv4/TCPv6 sockets. When specified, return traffic
  uses the same interface as inbound traffic, and its associated routing table,
  even if there are explicit routes through different interfaces configured.
  This can prove useful to address asymmetric routing issues when the same
  client IP addresses need to be able to reach frontends hosted on different
  interfaces.

level <level>
  This setting is used with the stats sockets only to restrict the nature of
  the commands that can be issued on the socket. It is ignored by other
  sockets. <level> can be one of :
  - "user" is the least privileged level; only non-sensitive stats can be
    read, and no change is allowed. It would make sense on systems where it
    is not easy to restrict access to the socket.
  - "operator" is the default level and fits most common uses. All data can
    be read, and only non-sensitive changes are permitted (e.g. clear max
    counters).
  - "admin" should be used with care, as everything is permitted (e.g. clear
    all counters).

severity-output <format>
  This setting is used with the stats sockets only to configure severity
  level output prepended to informational feedback messages. Severity
  level of messages can range between 0 and 7, conforming to syslog
  rfc5424. Valid and successful socket commands requesting data
  (i.e. "show map", "get acl foo" etc.) will never have a severity level
  prepended. It is ignored by other sockets. <format> can be one of :
  - "none" (default) no severity level is prepended to feedback messages.
  - "number" severity level is prepended as a number.
  - "string" severity level is prepended as a string following the
    rfc5424 convention.

maxconn <maxconn>
  Limits the sockets to this number of concurrent connections. Extraneous
  connections will remain in the system's backlog until a connection is
  released. If unspecified, the limit will be the same as the frontend's
  maxconn. Note that in case of port ranges or multiple addresses, the same
  value will be applied to each socket. This setting enables different
  limitations on expensive sockets, for instance SSL entries which may easily
  eat all memory.

mode <mode>
  Sets the octal mode used to define access permissions on the UNIX socket. It
  can also be set by default in the global section's "unix-bind" statement.
  Note that some platforms simply ignore this. This setting is ignored by non
  UNIX sockets.

mss <maxseg>
  Sets the TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS) value to be advertised on incoming
  connections. This can be used to force a lower MSS for certain specific
  ports, for instance for connections passing through a VPN. Note that this
  relies on a kernel feature which is theoretically supported under Linux but
  was buggy in all versions prior to 2.6.28. It may or may not work on other
  operating systems. It may also not change the advertised value but change the
  effective size of outgoing segments. The commonly advertised value for TCPv4
  over Ethernet networks is 1460 = 1500(MTU) - 40(IP+TCP). If this value is
  positive, it will be used as the advertised MSS. If it is negative, it will
  indicate by how much to reduce the incoming connection's advertised MSS for
  outgoing segments. This parameter is only compatible with TCP v4/v6 sockets.

name <name>
  Sets an optional name for these sockets, which will be reported on the stats
  page.

namespace <name>
  On Linux, it is possible to specify which network namespace a socket will
  belong to. This directive makes it possible to explicitly bind a listener to
  a namespace different from the default one. Please refer to your operating
  system's documentation to find more details about network namespaces.

nice <nice>
  Sets the 'niceness' of connections initiated from the socket. Value must be
  in the range -1024..1024 inclusive, and defaults to zero. Positive values
  means that such connections are more friendly to others and easily offer
  their place in the scheduler. On the opposite, negative values mean that
  connections want to run with a higher priority than others. The difference
  only happens under high loads when the system is close to saturation.
  Negative values are appropriate for low-latency or administration services,
  and high values are generally recommended for CPU intensive tasks such as SSL
  processing or bulk transfers which are less sensible to latency. For example,
  it may make sense to use a positive value for an SMTP socket and a negative
  one for an RDP socket.

no-ca-names
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  prevents from send CA names in server hello message when ca-file is used.
  Use "ca-verify-file" instead of "ca-file" with "no-ca-names".

no-sslv3
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables support for SSLv3 on any sockets instantiated from the listener when
  SSL is supported. Note that SSLv2 is forced disabled in the code and cannot
  be enabled using any configuration option. This option is also available on
  global statement "ssl-default-bind-options". Use "ssl-min-ver" and
  "ssl-max-ver" instead.

no-tls-tickets
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables the stateless session resumption (RFC 5077 TLS Ticket
  extension) and force to use stateful session resumption. Stateless
  session resumption is more expensive in CPU usage. This option is also
  available on global statement "ssl-default-bind-options".
  The TLS ticket mechanism is only used up to TLS 1.2.
  Forward Secrecy is compromised with TLS tickets, unless ticket keys
  are periodically rotated (via reload or by using "tls-ticket-keys").

no-tlsv10
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables support for TLSv1.0 on any sockets instantiated from the listener
  when SSL is supported. Note that SSLv2 is forced disabled in the code and
  cannot be enabled using any configuration option. This option is also
  available on global statement "ssl-default-bind-options". Use "ssl-min-ver"
  and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

no-tlsv11
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables support for TLSv1.1 on any sockets instantiated from the listener
  when SSL is supported. Note that SSLv2 is forced disabled in the code and
  cannot be enabled using any configuration option. This option is also
  available on global statement "ssl-default-bind-options". Use "ssl-min-ver"
  and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

no-tlsv12
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables support for TLSv1.2 on any sockets instantiated from the listener
  when SSL is supported. Note that SSLv2 is forced disabled in the code and
  cannot be enabled using any configuration option. This option is also
  available on global statement "ssl-default-bind-options". Use "ssl-min-ver"
  and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

no-tlsv13
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables support for TLSv1.3 on any sockets instantiated from the listener
  when SSL is supported. Note that SSLv2 is forced disabled in the code and
  cannot be enabled using any configuration option. This option is also
  available on global statement "ssl-default-bind-options". Use "ssl-min-ver"
  and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

npn <protocols>
  This enables the NPN TLS extension and advertises the specified protocol list
  as supported on top of NPN. The protocol list consists in a comma-delimited
  list of protocol names, for instance: "http/1.1,http/1.0" (without quotes).
  This requires that the SSL library is built with support for TLS extensions
  enabled (check with haproxy -vv). Note that the NPN extension has been
  replaced with the ALPN extension (see the "alpn" keyword), though this one is
  only available starting with OpenSSL 1.0.2. If HTTP/2 is desired on an older
  version of OpenSSL, NPN might still be used as most clients still support it
  at the time of writing this. It is possible to enable both NPN and ALPN
  though it probably doesn't make any sense out of testing.

prefer-client-ciphers
  Use the client's preference when selecting the cipher suite, by default
  the server's preference is enforced. This option is also available on
  global statement "ssl-default-bind-options".
  Note that with OpenSSL >= 1.1.1 ChaCha20-Poly1305 is reprioritized anyway
  (without setting this option), if a ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher is at the top of
  the client cipher list.

process <process-set>[/<thread-set>]
  This restricts the list of processes or threads on which this listener is
  allowed to run. It does not enforce any process but eliminates those which do
  not match. If the frontend uses a "bind-process" setting, the intersection
  between the two is applied. If in the end the listener is not allowed to run
  on any remaining process, a warning is emitted, and the listener will either
  run on the first process of the listener if a single process was specified,
  or on all of its processes if multiple processes were specified. If a thread
  set is specified, it limits the threads allowed to process incoming
  connections for this listener, for the the process set. If multiple processes
  and threads are configured, a warning is emitted, as it either results from a
  configuration error or a misunderstanding of these models. For the unlikely
  case where several ranges are needed, this directive may be repeated.
  <process-set> and <thread-set> must use the format

      all | odd | even | number[-[number]]

  Ranges can be partially defined. The higher bound can be omitted. In such
  case, it is replaced by the corresponding maximum value. The main purpose of
  this directive is to be used with the stats sockets and have one different
  socket per process. The second purpose is to have multiple bind lines sharing
  the same IP:port but not the same process in a listener, so that the system
  can distribute the incoming connections into multiple queues and allow a
  smoother inter-process load balancing. Currently Linux 3.9 and above is known
  for supporting this. See also "bind-process" and "nbproc".

proto <name>
  Forces the multiplexer's protocol to use for the incoming connections. It
  must be compatible with the mode of the frontend (TCP or HTTP). It must also
  be usable on the frontend side. The list of available protocols is reported
  in haproxy -vv.
  Idea behind this option is to bypass the selection of the best multiplexer's
  protocol for all connections instantiated from this listening socket. For
  instance, it is possible to force the http/2 on clear TCP by specifying "proto
  h2" on the bind line.

ssl
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  enables SSL deciphering on connections instantiated from this listener. A
  certificate is necessary (see "crt" above). All contents in the buffers will
  appear in clear text, so that ACLs and HTTP processing will only have access
  to deciphered contents. SSLv3 is disabled per default, use "ssl-min-ver SSLv3"
  to enable it.

ssl-max-ver [ SSLv3 | TLSv1.0 | TLSv1.1 | TLSv1.2 | TLSv1.3 ]
  This option enforces use of <version> or lower on SSL connections instantiated
  from this listener. Using this setting without "ssl-min-ver" can be
  ambiguous because the default ssl-min-ver value could change in future HAProxy
  versions. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-bind-options". See also "ssl-min-ver".

ssl-min-ver [ SSLv3 | TLSv1.0 | TLSv1.1 | TLSv1.2 | TLSv1.3 ]
  This option enforces use of <version> or upper on SSL connections
  instantiated from this listener. The default value is "TLSv1.2". This option
  is also available on global statement "ssl-default-bind-options".
  See also "ssl-max-ver".

strict-sni
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. The
  SSL/TLS negotiation is allow only if the client provided an SNI which match
  a certificate. The default certificate is not used.
  See the "crt" option for more information.

tcp-ut <delay>
  Sets the TCP User Timeout for all incoming connections instantiated from this
  listening socket. This option is available on Linux since version 2.6.37. It
  allows haproxy to configure a timeout for sockets which contain data not
  receiving an acknowledgment for the configured delay. This is especially
  useful on long-lived connections experiencing long idle periods such as
  remote terminals or database connection pools, where the client and server
  timeouts must remain high to allow a long period of idle, but where it is
  important to detect that the client has disappeared in order to release all
  resources associated with its connection (and the server's session). The
  argument is a delay expressed in milliseconds by default. This only works
  for regular TCP connections, and is ignored for other protocols.

tfo
  Is an optional keyword which is supported only on Linux kernels >= 3.7. It
  enables TCP Fast Open on the listening socket, which means that clients which
  support this feature will be able to send a request and receive a response
  during the 3-way handshake starting from second connection, thus saving one
  round-trip after the first connection. This only makes sense with protocols
  that use high connection rates and where each round trip matters. This can
  possibly cause issues with many firewalls which do not accept data on SYN
  packets, so this option should only be enabled once well tested. This option
  is only supported on TCPv4/TCPv6 sockets and ignored by other ones. You may
  need to build HAProxy with USE_TFO=1 if your libc doesn't define
  TCP_FASTOPEN.

tls-ticket-keys <keyfile>
  Sets the TLS ticket keys file to load the keys from. The keys need to be 48
  or 80 bytes long, depending if aes128 or aes256 is used, encoded with base64
  with one line per key (ex. openssl rand 80 | openssl base64 -A | xargs echo).
  The first key determines the key length used for next keys: you can't mix
  aes128 and aes256 keys. Number of keys is specified by the TLS_TICKETS_NO
  build option (default 3) and at least as many keys need to be present in
  the file. Last TLS_TICKETS_NO keys will be used for decryption and the
  penultimate one for encryption. This enables easy key rotation by just
  appending new key to the file and reloading the process.  Keys must be
  periodically rotated (ex. every 12h) or Perfect Forward Secrecy is
  compromised. It is also a good idea to keep the keys off any permanent
  storage such as hard drives (hint: use tmpfs and don't swap those files).
  Lifetime hint can be changed using tune.ssl.timeout.

transparent
  Is an optional keyword which is supported only on certain Linux kernels. It
  indicates that the addresses will be bound even if they do not belong to the
  local machine, and that packets targeting any of these addresses will be
  intercepted just as if the addresses were locally configured. This normally
  requires that IP forwarding is enabled. Caution! do not use this with the
  default address '*', as it would redirect any traffic for the specified port.
  This keyword is available only when HAProxy is built with USE_LINUX_TPROXY=1.
  This parameter is only compatible with TCPv4 and TCPv6 sockets, depending on
  kernel version. Some distribution kernels include backports of the feature,
  so check for support with your vendor.

v4v6
  Is an optional keyword which is supported only on most recent systems
  including Linux kernels >= 2.4.21. It is used to bind a socket to both IPv4
  and IPv6 when it uses the default address. Doing so is sometimes necessary
  on systems which bind to IPv6 only by default. It has no effect on non-IPv6
  sockets, and is overridden by the "v6only" option.

v6only
  Is an optional keyword which is supported only on most recent systems
  including Linux kernels >= 2.4.21. It is used to bind a socket to IPv6 only
  when it uses the default address. Doing so is sometimes preferred to doing it
  system-wide as it is per-listener. It has no effect on non-IPv6 sockets and
  has precedence over the "v4v6" option.

uid <uid>
  Sets the owner of the UNIX sockets to the designated system uid. It can also
  be set by default in the global section's "unix-bind" statement. Note that
  some platforms simply ignore this. This setting is equivalent to the "user"
  setting except that the user numeric ID is used instead of its name. This
  setting is ignored by non UNIX sockets.

user <user>
  Sets the owner of the UNIX sockets to the designated system user. It can also
  be set by default in the global section's "unix-bind" statement. Note that
  some platforms simply ignore this. This setting is equivalent to the "uid"
  setting except that the user name is used instead of its uid. This setting is
  ignored by non UNIX sockets.

verify [none|optional|required]
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. If set
  to 'none', client certificate is not requested. This is the default. In other
  cases, a client certificate is requested. If the client does not provide a
  certificate after the request and if 'verify' is set to 'required', then the
  handshake is aborted, while it would have succeeded if set to 'optional'. The
  certificate provided by the client is always verified using CAs from
  'ca-file' and optional CRLs from 'crl-file'. On verify failure the handshake
  is aborted, regardless of the 'verify' option, unless the error code exactly
  matches one of those listed with 'ca-ignore-err' or 'crt-ignore-err'.

5.2. Server and default-server options
------------------------------------

The "server" and "default-server" keywords support a certain number of settings
which are all passed as arguments on the server line. The order in which those
arguments appear does not count, and they are all optional. Some of those
settings are single words (booleans) while others expect one or several values
after them. In this case, the values must immediately follow the setting name.
Except default-server, all those settings must be specified after the server's
address if they are used:

  server <name> <address>[:port] [settings ...]
  default-server [settings ...]

Note that all these settings are supported both by "server" and "default-server"
keywords, except "id" which is only supported by "server".

The currently supported settings are the following ones.

addr <ipv4|ipv6>
  Using the "addr" parameter, it becomes possible to use a different IP address
  to send health-checks or to probe the agent-check. On some servers, it may be
  desirable to dedicate an IP address to specific component able to perform
  complex tests which are more suitable to health-checks than the application.
  This parameter is ignored if the "check" parameter is not set. See also the
  "port" parameter.

agent-check
  Enable an auxiliary agent check which is run independently of a regular
  health check. An agent health check is performed by making a TCP connection
  to the port set by the "agent-port" parameter and reading an ASCII string
  terminated by the first '\r' or '\n' met. The string is made of a series of
  words delimited by spaces, tabs or commas in any order, each consisting of :

  - An ASCII representation of a positive integer percentage, e.g. "75%".
    Values in this format will set the weight proportional to the initial
    weight of a server as configured when haproxy starts. Note that a zero
    weight is reported on the stats page as "DRAIN" since it has the same
    effect on the server (it's removed from the LB farm).

  - The string "maxconn:" followed by an integer (no space between). Values
    in this format will set the maxconn of a server. The maximum number of
    connections advertised needs to be multiplied by the number of load
    balancers and different backends that use this health check to get the
    total number of connections the server might receive. Example: maxconn:30

  - The word "ready". This will turn the server's administrative state to the
    READY mode, thus canceling any DRAIN or MAINT state

  - The word "drain". This will turn the server's administrative state to the
    DRAIN mode, thus it will not accept any new connections other than those
    that are accepted via persistence.

  - The word "maint". This will turn the server's administrative state to the
    MAINT mode, thus it will not accept any new connections at all, and health
    checks will be stopped.

  - The words "down", "fail", or "stopped", optionally followed by a
    description string after a sharp ('#'). All of these mark the server's
    operating state as DOWN, but since the word itself is reported on the stats
    page, the difference allows an administrator to know if the situation was
    expected or not : the service may intentionally be stopped, may appear up
    but fail some validity tests, or may be seen as down (e.g. missing process,
    or port not responding).

  - The word "up" sets back the server's operating state as UP if health checks
    also report that the service is accessible.

  Parameters which are not advertised by the agent are not changed. For
  example, an agent might be designed to monitor CPU usage and only report a
  relative weight and never interact with the operating status. Similarly, an
  agent could be designed as an end-user interface with 3 radio buttons
  allowing an administrator to change only the administrative state. However,
  it is important to consider that only the agent may revert its own actions,
  so if a server is set to DRAIN mode or to DOWN state using the agent, the
  agent must implement the other equivalent actions to bring the service into
  operations again.

  Failure to connect to the agent is not considered an error as connectivity
  is tested by the regular health check which is enabled by the "check"
  parameter. Warning though, it is not a good idea to stop an agent after it
  reports "down", since only an agent reporting "up" will be able to turn the
  server up again. Note that the CLI on the Unix stats socket is also able to
  force an agent's result in order to work around a bogus agent if needed.

  Requires the "agent-port" parameter to be set. See also the "agent-inter"
  and "no-agent-check" parameters.

agent-send <string>
  If this option is specified, haproxy will send the given string (verbatim)
  to the agent server upon connection. You could, for example, encode
  the backend name into this string, which would enable your agent to send
  different responses based on the backend. Make sure to include a '\n' if
  you want to terminate your request with a newline.

agent-inter <delay>
  The "agent-inter" parameter sets the interval between two agent checks
  to <delay> milliseconds. If left unspecified, the delay defaults to 2000 ms.

  Just as with every other time-based parameter, it may be entered in any
  other explicit unit among { us, ms, s, m, h, d }. The "agent-inter"
  parameter also serves as a timeout for agent checks "timeout check" is
  not set. In order to reduce "resonance" effects when multiple servers are
  hosted on the same hardware, the agent and health checks of all servers
  are started with a small time offset between them. It is also possible to
  add some random noise in the agent and health checks interval using the
  global "spread-checks" keyword. This makes sense for instance when a lot
  of backends use the same servers.

  See also the "agent-check" and "agent-port" parameters.

agent-addr <addr>
  The "agent-addr" parameter sets address for agent check.

  You can offload agent-check to another target, so you can make single place
  managing status and weights of servers defined in haproxy in case you can't
  make self-aware and self-managing services. You can specify both IP or
  hostname, it will be resolved.

agent-port <port>
  The "agent-port" parameter sets the TCP port used for agent checks.

  See also the "agent-check" and "agent-inter" parameters.

allow-0rtt
  Allow sending early data to the server when using TLS 1.3.
  Note that early data will be sent only if the client used early data, or
  if the backend uses "retry-on" with the "0rtt-rejected" keyword.

alpn <protocols>
  This enables the TLS ALPN extension and advertises the specified protocol
  list as supported on top of ALPN. The protocol list consists in a comma-
  delimited list of protocol names, for instance: "http/1.1,http/1.0" (without
  quotes). This requires that the SSL library is built with support for TLS
  extensions enabled (check with haproxy -vv). The ALPN extension replaces the
  initial NPN extension. ALPN is required to connect to HTTP/2 servers.
  Versions of OpenSSL prior to 1.0.2 didn't support ALPN and only supposed the
  now obsolete NPN extension.
  If both HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 are expected to be supported, both versions can
  be advertised, in order of preference, like below :

       server 127.0.0.1:443 ssl crt pub.pem alpn h2,http/1.1

backup
  When "backup" is present on a server line, the server is only used in load
  balancing when all other non-backup servers are unavailable. Requests coming
  with a persistence cookie referencing the server will always be served
  though. By default, only the first operational backup server is used, unless
  the "allbackups" option is set in the backend. See also the "no-backup" and
  "allbackups" options.

ca-file <cafile>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a PEM file from which to load CA certificates used to verify
  server's certificate.

check
  This option enables health checks on a server:
    - when not set, no health checking is performed, and the server is always
      considered available.
    - when set and no other check method is configured, the server is considered
      available when a connection can be established at the highest configured
      transport layer. This means TCP by default, or SSL/TLS when "ssl" or
      "check-ssl" are set, both possibly combined with connection prefixes such
      as a PROXY protocol header when "send-proxy" or "check-send-proxy" are
      set.
    - when set and an application-level health check is defined, the
      application-level exchanges are performed on top of the configured
      transport layer and the server is considered available if all of the
      exchanges succeed.

  By default, health checks are performed on the same address and port as
  configured on the server, using the same encapsulation parameters (SSL/TLS,
  proxy-protocol header, etc... ). It is possible to change the destination
  address using "addr" and the port using "port". When done, it is assumed the
  server isn't checked on the service port, and configured encapsulation
  parameters are not reused. One must explicitly set "check-send-proxy" to send
  connection headers, "check-ssl" to use SSL/TLS.

  When "sni" or "alpn" are set on the server line, their value is not used for
  health checks and one must use "check-sni" or "check-alpn".

  The default source address for health check traffic is the same as the one
  defined in the backend. It can be changed with the "source" keyword.

  The interval between checks can be set using the "inter" keyword, and the
  "rise" and "fall" keywords can be used to define how many successful or
  failed health checks are required to flag a server available or not
  available.

  Optional application-level health checks can be configured with "option
  httpchk", "option mysql-check" "option smtpchk", "option pgsql-check",
  "option ldap-check", or "option redis-check".

  Example:
      # simple tcp check
      backend foo
        server s1 192.168.0.1:80 check
      # this does a tcp connect + tls handshake
      backend foo
        server s1 192.168.0.1:443 ssl check
      # simple tcp check is enough for check success
      backend foo
        option tcp-check
        tcp-check connect
        server s1 192.168.0.1:443 ssl check

check-send-proxy
  This option forces emission of a PROXY protocol line with outgoing health
  checks, regardless of whether the server uses send-proxy or not for the
  normal traffic. By default, the PROXY protocol is enabled for health checks
  if it is already enabled for normal traffic and if no "port" nor "addr"
  directive is present. However, if such a directive is present, the
  "check-send-proxy" option needs to be used to force the use of the
  protocol. See also the "send-proxy" option for more information.

check-alpn <protocols>
  Defines which protocols to advertise with ALPN. The protocol list consists in
  a comma-delimited list of protocol names, for instance: "http/1.1,http/1.0"
  (without quotes). If it is not set, the server ALPN is used.

check-proto <name>
  Forces the multiplexer's protocol to use for the server's health-check
  connections. It must be compatible with the health-check type (TCP or
  HTTP). It must also be usable on the backend side. The list of available
  protocols is reported in haproxy -vv.
  Idea behind this option is to bypass the selection of the best multiplexer's
  protocol for health-check connections established to this server.
  If not defined, the server one will be used, if set.

check-sni <sni>
  This option allows you to specify the SNI to be used when doing health checks
  over SSL. It is only possible to use a string to set <sni>. If you want to
  set a SNI for proxied traffic, see "sni".

check-ssl
  This option forces encryption of all health checks over SSL, regardless of
  whether the server uses SSL or not for the normal traffic. This is generally
  used when an explicit "port" or "addr" directive is specified and SSL health
  checks are not inherited. It is important to understand that this option
  inserts an SSL transport layer below the checks, so that a simple TCP connect
  check becomes an SSL connect, which replaces the old ssl-hello-chk. The most
  common use is to send HTTPS checks by combining "httpchk" with SSL checks.
  All SSL settings are common to health checks and traffic (e.g. ciphers).
  See the "ssl" option for more information and "no-check-ssl" to disable
  this option.

check-via-socks4
  This option enables outgoing health checks using upstream socks4 proxy. By
  default, the health checks won't go through socks tunnel even it was enabled
  for normal traffic.

ciphers <ciphers>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. This
  option sets the string describing the list of cipher algorithms that is
  negotiated during the SSL/TLS handshake with the server. The format of the
  string is defined in "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages. For background
  information and recommendations see e.g.
  (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS) and
  (https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/). For TLSv1.3
  cipher configuration, please check the "ciphersuites" keyword.

ciphersuites <ciphersuites>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in and
  OpenSSL 1.1.1 or later was used to build HAProxy. This option sets the string
  describing the list of cipher algorithms that is negotiated during the TLS
  1.3 handshake with the server. The format of the string is defined in
  "man 1 ciphers" from OpenSSL man pages under the "ciphersuites" section.
  For cipher configuration for TLSv1.2 and earlier, please check the "ciphers"
  keyword.

cookie <value>
  The "cookie" parameter sets the cookie value assigned to the server to
  <value>. This value will be checked in incoming requests, and the first
  operational server possessing the same value will be selected. In return, in
  cookie insertion or rewrite modes, this value will be assigned to the cookie
  sent to the client. There is nothing wrong in having several servers sharing
  the same cookie value, and it is in fact somewhat common between normal and
  backup servers. See also the "cookie" keyword in backend section.

crl-file <crlfile>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  designates a PEM file from which to load certificate revocation list used
  to verify server's certificate.

crt <cert>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in.
  It designates a PEM file from which to load both a certificate and the
  associated private key. This file can be built by concatenating both PEM
  files into one. This certificate will be sent if the server send a client
  certificate request.

disabled
  The "disabled" keyword starts the server in the "disabled" state. That means
  that it is marked down in maintenance mode, and no connection other than the
  ones allowed by persist mode will reach it. It is very well suited to setup
  new servers, because normal traffic will never reach them, while it is still
  possible to test the service by making use of the force-persist mechanism.
  See also "enabled" setting.

enabled
  This option may be used as 'server' setting to reset any 'disabled'
  setting which would have been inherited from 'default-server' directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as 'default-server' setting to reset any previous
  'default-server' 'disabled' setting.

error-limit <count>
  If health observing is enabled, the "error-limit" parameter specifies the
  number of consecutive errors that triggers event selected by the "on-error"
  option. By default it is set to 10 consecutive errors.

  See also the "check", "error-limit" and "on-error".

fall <count>
  The "fall" parameter states that a server will be considered as dead after
  <count> consecutive unsuccessful health checks. This value defaults to 3 if
  unspecified. See also the "check", "inter" and "rise" parameters.

force-sslv3
  This option enforces use of SSLv3 only when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. SSLv3 is generally less expensive than the TLS counterparts for
  high connection rates. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv10
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.0 only when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv11
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.1 only when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv12
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.2 only when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and ssl-max-ver".

force-tlsv13
  This option enforces use of TLSv1.3 only when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-min-ver" and ssl-max-ver".

id <value>
  Set a persistent ID for the server. This ID must be positive and unique for
  the proxy. An unused ID will automatically be assigned if unset. The first
  assigned value will be 1. This ID is currently only returned in statistics.

init-addr {last | libc | none | <ip>},[...]*
  Indicate in what order the server's address should be resolved upon startup
  if it uses an FQDN. Attempts are made to resolve the address by applying in
  turn each of the methods mentioned in the comma-delimited list. The first
  method which succeeds is used. If the end of the list is reached without
  finding a working method, an error is thrown. Method "last" suggests to pick
  the address which appears in the state file (see "server-state-file"). Method
  "libc" uses the libc's internal resolver (gethostbyname() or getaddrinfo()
  depending on the operating system and build options). Method "none"
  specifically indicates that the server should start without any valid IP
  address in a down state. It can be useful to ignore some DNS issues upon
  startup, waiting for the situation to get fixed later. Finally, an IP address
  (IPv4 or IPv6) may be provided. It can be the currently known address of the
  server (e.g. filled by a configuration generator), or the address of a dummy
  server used to catch old sessions and present them with a decent error
  message for example. When the "first" load balancing algorithm is used, this
  IP address could point to a fake server used to trigger the creation of new
  instances on the fly. This option defaults to "last,libc" indicating that the
  previous address found in the state file (if any) is used first, otherwise
  the libc's resolver is used. This ensures continued compatibility with the
  historic behavior.

  Example:
      defaults
          # never fail on address resolution
          default-server init-addr last,libc,none

inter <delay>
fastinter <delay>
downinter <delay>
  The "inter" parameter sets the interval between two consecutive health checks
  to <delay> milliseconds. If left unspecified, the delay defaults to 2000 ms.
  It is also possible to use "fastinter" and "downinter" to optimize delays
  between checks depending on the server state :

             Server state                   |         Interval used
    ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------
     UP 100% (non-transitional)             | "inter"
    ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------
     Transitionally UP (going down "fall"), | "fastinter" if set,
     Transitionally DOWN (going up "rise"), | "inter" otherwise.
     or yet unchecked.                      |
    ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------
     DOWN 100% (non-transitional)           | "downinter" if set,
                                            | "inter" otherwise.
    ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------

  Just as with every other time-based parameter, they can be entered in any
  other explicit unit among { us, ms, s, m, h, d }. The "inter" parameter also
  serves as a timeout for health checks sent to servers if "timeout check" is
  not set. In order to reduce "resonance" effects when multiple servers are
  hosted on the same hardware, the agent and health checks of all servers
  are started with a small time offset between them. It is also possible to
  add some random noise in the agent and health checks interval using the
  global "spread-checks" keyword. This makes sense for instance when a lot
  of backends use the same servers.

log-proto <logproto>
  The "log-proto" specifies the protocol used to forward event messages to
  a server configured in a ring section. Possible values are "legacy"
  and "octet-count" corresponding respectively to "Non-transparent-framing"
  and "Octet counting" in rfc6587. "legacy" is the default.

maxconn <maxconn>
  The "maxconn" parameter specifies the maximal number of concurrent
  connections that will be sent to this server. If the number of incoming
  concurrent connections goes higher than this value, they will be queued,
  waiting for a slot to be released. This parameter is very important as it can
  save fragile servers from going down under extreme loads. If a "minconn"
  parameter is specified, the limit becomes dynamic. The default value is "0"
  which means unlimited. See also the "minconn" and "maxqueue" parameters, and
  the backend's "fullconn" keyword.

  In HTTP mode this parameter limits the number of concurrent requests instead
  of the number of connections. Multiple requests might be multiplexed over a
  single TCP connection to the server. As an example if you specify a maxconn
  of 50 you might see between 1 and 50 actual server connections, but no more
  than 50 concurrent requests.

maxqueue <maxqueue>
  The "maxqueue" parameter specifies the maximal number of connections which
  will wait in the queue for this server. If this limit is reached, next
  requests will be redispatched to other servers instead of indefinitely
  waiting to be served. This will break persistence but may allow people to
  quickly re-log in when the server they try to connect to is dying. Some load
  balancing algorithms such as leastconn take this into account and accept to
  add requests into a server's queue up to this value if it is explicitly set
  to a value greater than zero, which often allows to better smooth the load
  when dealing with single-digit maxconn values. The default value is "0" which
  means the queue is unlimited. See also the "maxconn" and "minconn" parameters
  and "balance leastconn".

max-reuse <count>
  The "max-reuse" argument indicates the HTTP connection processors that they
  should not reuse a server connection more than this number of times to send
  new requests. Permitted values are -1 (the default), which disables this
  limit, or any positive value. Value zero will effectively disable keep-alive.
  This is only used to work around certain server bugs which cause them to leak
  resources over time. The argument is not necessarily respected by the lower
  layers as there might be technical limitations making it impossible to
  enforce. At least HTTP/2 connections to servers will respect it.

minconn <minconn>
  When the "minconn" parameter is set, the maxconn limit becomes a dynamic
  limit following the backend's load. The server will always accept at least
  <minconn> connections, never more than <maxconn>, and the limit will be on
  the ramp between both values when the backend has less than <fullconn>
  concurrent connections. This makes it possible to limit the load on the
  server during normal loads, but push it further for important loads without
  overloading the server during exceptional loads. See also the "maxconn"
  and "maxqueue" parameters, as well as the "fullconn" backend keyword.

namespace <name>
  On Linux, it is possible to specify which network namespace a socket will
  belong to. This directive makes it possible to explicitly bind a server to
  a namespace different from the default one. Please refer to your operating
  system's documentation to find more details about network namespaces.

no-agent-check
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "agent-check"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "agent-check" setting.

no-backup
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "backup"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "backup" setting.

no-check
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "check"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "check" setting.

no-check-ssl
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "check-ssl"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "check-ssl" setting.

no-send-proxy
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "send-proxy"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "send-proxy" setting.

no-send-proxy-v2
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "send-proxy-v2"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "send-proxy-v2" setting.

no-send-proxy-v2-ssl
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "send-proxy-v2-ssl"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "send-proxy-v2-ssl" setting.

no-send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn" setting.

no-ssl
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "ssl"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "ssl" setting.

  Note that using `default-server ssl` setting and `no-ssl` on server will
  however init SSL connection, so it can be later be enabled through the
  runtime API: see `set server` commands in management doc.

no-ssl-reuse
  This option disables SSL session reuse when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. It will force the server to perform a full handshake for every
  new connection. It's probably only useful for benchmarking, troubleshooting,
  and for paranoid users.

no-sslv3
  This option disables support for SSLv3 when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. Note that SSLv2 is disabled in the code and cannot be enabled
  using any configuration option. Use "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

  Supported in default-server: No

no-tls-tickets
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. It
  disables the stateless session resumption (RFC 5077 TLS Ticket
  extension) and force to use stateful session resumption. Stateless
  session resumption is more expensive in CPU usage for servers. This option
  is also available on global statement "ssl-default-server-options".
  The TLS ticket mechanism is only used up to TLS 1.2.
  Forward Secrecy is compromised with TLS tickets, unless ticket keys
  are periodically rotated (via reload or by using "tls-ticket-keys").
  See also "tls-tickets".

no-tlsv10
  This option disables support for TLSv1.0 when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. Note that SSLv2 is disabled in the code and cannot be enabled
  using any configuration option. TLSv1 is more expensive than SSLv3 so it
  often makes sense to disable it when communicating with local servers. This
  option is also available on global statement "ssl-default-server-options".
  Use "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

  Supported in default-server: No

no-tlsv11
  This option disables support for TLSv1.1 when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. Note that SSLv2 is disabled in the code and cannot be enabled
  using any configuration option. TLSv1 is more expensive than SSLv3 so it
  often makes sense to disable it when communicating with local servers. This
  option is also available on global statement "ssl-default-server-options".
  Use "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

  Supported in default-server: No

no-tlsv12
  This option disables support for TLSv1.2 when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. Note that SSLv2 is disabled in the code and cannot be enabled
  using any configuration option. TLSv1 is more expensive than SSLv3 so it
  often makes sense to disable it when communicating with local servers. This
  option is also available on global statement "ssl-default-server-options".
  Use "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

  Supported in default-server: No

no-tlsv13
  This option disables support for TLSv1.3 when SSL is used to communicate with
  the server. Note that SSLv2 is disabled in the code and cannot be enabled
  using any configuration option. TLSv1 is more expensive than SSLv3 so it
  often makes sense to disable it when communicating with local servers. This
  option is also available on global statement "ssl-default-server-options".
  Use "ssl-min-ver" and "ssl-max-ver" instead.

  Supported in default-server: No

no-verifyhost
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "verifyhost"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "verifyhost" setting.

no-tfo
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "tfo"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "tfo" setting.

non-stick
  Never add connections allocated to this sever to a stick-table.
  This may be used in conjunction with backup to ensure that
  stick-table persistence is disabled for backup servers.

npn <protocols>
  This enables the NPN TLS extension and advertises the specified protocol list
  as supported on top of NPN. The protocol list consists in a comma-delimited
  list of protocol names, for instance: "http/1.1,http/1.0" (without quotes).
  This requires that the SSL library is built with support for TLS extensions
  enabled (check with haproxy -vv). Note that the NPN extension has been
  replaced with the ALPN extension (see the "alpn" keyword), though this one is
  only available starting with OpenSSL 1.0.2.

observe <mode>
  This option enables health adjusting based on observing communication with
  the server. By default this functionality is disabled and enabling it also
  requires to enable health checks. There are two supported modes: "layer4" and
  "layer7". In layer4 mode, only successful/unsuccessful tcp connections are
  significant. In layer7, which is only allowed for http proxies, responses
  received from server are verified, like valid/wrong http code, unparsable
  headers, a timeout, etc. Valid status codes include 100 to 499, 501 and 505.

  See also the "check", "on-error" and "error-limit".

on-error <mode>
  Select what should happen when enough consecutive errors are detected.
  Currently, four modes are available:
  - fastinter: force fastinter
  - fail-check: simulate a failed check, also forces fastinter (default)
  - sudden-death: simulate a pre-fatal failed health check, one more failed
    check will mark a server down, forces fastinter
  - mark-down: mark the server immediately down and force fastinter

  See also the "check", "observe" and "error-limit".

on-marked-down <action>
  Modify what occurs when a server is marked down.
  Currently one action is available:
  - shutdown-sessions: Shutdown peer sessions. When this setting is enabled,
    all connections to the server are immediately terminated when the server
    goes down. It might be used if the health check detects more complex cases
    than a simple connection status, and long timeouts would cause the service
    to remain unresponsive for too long a time. For instance, a health check
    might detect that a database is stuck and that there's no chance to reuse
    existing connections anymore. Connections killed this way are logged with
    a 'D' termination code (for "Down").

  Actions are disabled by default

on-marked-up <action>
  Modify what occurs when a server is marked up.
  Currently one action is available:
  - shutdown-backup-sessions: Shutdown sessions on all backup servers. This is
    done only if the server is not in backup state and if it is not disabled
    (it must have an effective weight > 0). This can be used sometimes to force
    an active server to take all the traffic back after recovery when dealing
    with long sessions (e.g. LDAP, SQL, ...). Doing this can cause more trouble
    than it tries to solve (e.g. incomplete transactions), so use this feature
    with extreme care. Sessions killed because a server comes up are logged
    with an 'U' termination code (for "Up").

  Actions are disabled by default

pool-low-conn <max>
  Set a low threshold on the number of idling connections for a server, below
  which a thread will not try to steal a connection from another thread. This
  can be useful to improve CPU usage patterns in scenarios involving many very
  fast servers, in order to ensure all threads will keep a few idle connections
  all the time instead of letting them accumulate over one thread and migrating
  them from thread to thread. Typical values of twice the number of threads
  seem to show very good performance already with sub-millisecond response
  times. The default is zero, indicating that any idle connection can be used
  at any time. It is the recommended setting for normal use. This only applies
  to connections that can be shared according to the same principles as those
  applying to "http-reuse".

pool-max-conn <max>
  Set the maximum number of idling connections for a server. -1 means unlimited
  connections, 0 means no idle connections. The default is -1. When idle
  connections are enabled, orphaned idle connections which do not belong to any
  client session anymore are moved to a dedicated pool so that they remain
  usable by future clients. This only applies to connections that can be shared
  according to the same principles as those applying to "http-reuse".

pool-purge-delay <delay>
  Sets the delay to start purging idle connections. Each <delay> interval, half
  of the idle connections are closed. 0 means we don't keep any idle connection.
  The default is 5s.

port <port>
  Using the "port" parameter, it becomes possible to use a different port to
  send health-checks. On some servers, it may be desirable to dedicate a port
  to a specific component able to perform complex tests which are more suitable
  to health-checks than the application. It is common to run a simple script in
  inetd for instance. This parameter is ignored if the "check" parameter is not
  set. See also the "addr" parameter.

proto <name>
  Forces the multiplexer's protocol to use for the outgoing connections to this
  server. It must be compatible with the mode of the backend (TCP or HTTP). It
  must also be usable on the backend side. The list of available protocols is
  reported in haproxy -vv.
  Idea behind this option is to bypass the selection of the best multiplexer's
  protocol for all connections established to this server.

redir <prefix>
  The "redir" parameter enables the redirection mode for all GET and HEAD
  requests addressing this server. This means that instead of having HAProxy
  forward the request to the server, it will send an "HTTP 302" response with
  the "Location" header composed of this prefix immediately followed by the
  requested URI beginning at the leading '/' of the path component. That means
  that no trailing slash should be used after <prefix>. All invalid requests
  will be rejected, and all non-GET or HEAD requests will be normally served by
  the server. Note that since the response is completely forged, no header
  mangling nor cookie insertion is possible in the response. However, cookies in
  requests are still analyzed, making this solution completely usable to direct
  users to a remote location in case of local disaster. Main use consists in
  increasing bandwidth for static servers by having the clients directly
  connect to them. Note: never use a relative location here, it would cause a
  loop between the client and HAProxy!

  Example :  server srv1 192.168.1.1:80 redir http://image1.mydomain.com check

rise <count>
  The "rise" parameter states that a server will be considered as operational
  after <count> consecutive successful health checks. This value defaults to 2
  if unspecified. See also the "check", "inter" and "fall" parameters.

resolve-opts <option>,<option>,...
  Comma separated list of options to apply to DNS resolution linked to this
  server.

  Available options:

  * allow-dup-ip
    By default, HAProxy prevents IP address duplication in a backend when DNS
    resolution at runtime is in operation.
    That said, for some cases, it makes sense that two servers (in the same
    backend, being resolved by the same FQDN) have the same IP address.
    For such case, simply enable this option.
    This is the opposite of prevent-dup-ip.

  * ignore-weight
    Ignore any weight that is set within an SRV record.  This is useful when
    you would like to control the weights using an alternate method, such as
    using an "agent-check" or through the runtime api.

  * prevent-dup-ip
    Ensure HAProxy's default behavior is enforced on a server: prevent re-using
    an IP address already set to a server in the same backend and sharing the
    same fqdn.
    This is the opposite of allow-dup-ip.

  Example:
    backend b_myapp
      default-server init-addr none resolvers dns
      server s1 myapp.example.com:80 check resolve-opts allow-dup-ip
      server s2 myapp.example.com:81 check resolve-opts allow-dup-ip

  With the option allow-dup-ip set:
  * if the nameserver returns a single IP address, then both servers will use
    it
  * If the nameserver returns 2 IP addresses, then each server will pick up a
    different address

  Default value: not set

resolve-prefer <family>
  When DNS resolution is enabled for a server and multiple IP addresses from
  different families are returned, HAProxy will prefer using an IP address
  from the family mentioned in the "resolve-prefer" parameter.
  Available families: "ipv4" and "ipv6"

  Default value: ipv6

  Example:

    server s1 app1.domain.com:80 resolvers mydns resolve-prefer ipv6

resolve-net <network>[,<network[,...]]
  This option prioritizes the choice of an ip address matching a network. This is
  useful with clouds to prefer a local ip. In some cases, a cloud high
  availability service can be announced with many ip addresses on many
  different datacenters. The latency between datacenter is not negligible, so
  this patch permits to prefer a local datacenter. If no address matches the
  configured network, another address is selected.

  Example:

    server s1 app1.domain.com:80 resolvers mydns resolve-net 10.0.0.0/8

resolvers <id>
  Points to an existing "resolvers" section to resolve current server's
  hostname.

  Example:

    server s1 app1.domain.com:80 check resolvers mydns

  See also section 5.3

send-proxy
  The "send-proxy" parameter enforces use of the PROXY protocol over any
  connection established to this server. The PROXY protocol informs the other
  end about the layer 3/4 addresses of the incoming connection, so that it can
  know the client's address or the public address it accessed to, whatever the
  upper layer protocol. For connections accepted by an "accept-proxy" or
  "accept-netscaler-cip" listener, the advertised address will be used. Only
  TCPv4 and TCPv6 address families are supported. Other families such as
  Unix sockets, will report an UNKNOWN family. Servers using this option can
  fully be chained to another instance of haproxy listening with an
  "accept-proxy" setting. This setting must not be used if the server isn't
  aware of the protocol. When health checks are sent to the server, the PROXY
  protocol is automatically used when this option is set, unless there is an
  explicit "port" or "addr" directive, in which case an explicit
  "check-send-proxy" directive would also be needed to use the PROXY protocol.
  See also the "no-send-proxy" option of this section and "accept-proxy" and
  "accept-netscaler-cip" option of the "bind" keyword.

send-proxy-v2
  The "send-proxy-v2" parameter enforces use of the PROXY protocol version 2
  over any connection established to this server. The PROXY protocol informs
  the other end about the layer 3/4 addresses of the incoming connection, so
  that it can know the client's address or the public address it accessed to,
  whatever the upper layer protocol. It also send ALPN information if an alpn
  have been negotiated. This setting must not be used if the server isn't aware
  of this version of the protocol. See also the "no-send-proxy-v2" option of
  this section and send-proxy" option of the "bind" keyword.

proxy-v2-options <option>[,<option>]*
  The "proxy-v2-options" parameter add options to send in PROXY protocol
  version 2 when "send-proxy-v2" is used. Options available are:

  - ssl       : See also "send-proxy-v2-ssl".
  - cert-cn   : See also "send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn".
  - ssl-cipher: Name of the used cipher.
  - cert-sig  : Signature algorithm of the used certificate.
  - cert-key  : Key algorithm of the used certificate
  - authority : Host name value passed by the client (only SNI from a TLS
                connection is supported).
  - crc32c    : Checksum of the PROXYv2 header.
  - unique-id : Send a unique ID generated using the frontend's
                "unique-id-format" within the PROXYv2 header.
                This unique-id is primarily meant for "mode tcp". It can
                lead to unexpected results in "mode http", because the
                generated unique ID is also used for the first HTTP request
                within a Keep-Alive connection.

send-proxy-v2-ssl
  The "send-proxy-v2-ssl" parameter enforces use of the PROXY protocol version
  2 over any connection established to this server. The PROXY protocol informs
  the other end about the layer 3/4 addresses of the incoming connection, so
  that it can know the client's address or the public address it accessed to,
  whatever the upper layer protocol. In addition, the SSL information extension
  of the PROXY protocol is added to the PROXY protocol header. This setting
  must not be used if the server isn't aware of this version of the protocol.
  See also the "no-send-proxy-v2-ssl" option of this section and the
  "send-proxy-v2" option of the "bind" keyword.

send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn
  The "send-proxy-v2-ssl" parameter enforces use of the PROXY protocol version
  2 over any connection established to this server. The PROXY protocol informs
  the other end about the layer 3/4 addresses of the incoming connection, so
  that it can know the client's address or the public address it accessed to,
  whatever the upper layer protocol. In addition, the SSL information extension
  of the PROXY protocol, along along with the Common Name from the subject of
  the client certificate (if any), is added to the PROXY protocol header. This
  setting must not be used if the server isn't aware of this version of the
  protocol. See also the "no-send-proxy-v2-ssl-cn" option of this section and
  the "send-proxy-v2" option of the "bind" keyword.

slowstart <start_time_in_ms>
  The "slowstart" parameter for a server accepts a value in milliseconds which
  indicates after how long a server which has just come back up will run at
  full speed. Just as with every other time-based parameter, it can be entered
  in any other explicit unit among { us, ms, s, m, h, d }. The speed grows
  linearly from 0 to 100% during this time. The limitation applies to two
  parameters :

  - maxconn: the number of connections accepted by the server will grow from 1
    to 100% of the usual dynamic limit defined by (minconn,maxconn,fullconn).

  - weight: when the backend uses a dynamic weighted algorithm, the weight
    grows linearly from 1 to 100%. In this case, the weight is updated at every
    health-check. For this reason, it is important that the "inter" parameter
    is smaller than the "slowstart", in order to maximize the number of steps.

  The slowstart never applies when haproxy starts, otherwise it would cause
  trouble to running servers. It only applies when a server has been previously
  seen as failed.

sni <expression>
  The "sni" parameter evaluates the sample fetch expression, converts it to a
  string and uses the result as the host name sent in the SNI TLS extension to
  the server. A typical use case is to send the SNI received from the client in
  a bridged HTTPS scenario, using the "ssl_fc_sni" sample fetch for the
  expression, though alternatives such as req.hdr(host) can also make sense. If
  "verify required" is set (which is the recommended setting), the resulting
  name will also be matched against the server certificate's names. See the
  "verify" directive for more details. If you want to set a SNI for health
  checks, see the "check-sni" directive for more details.

source <addr>[:<pl>[-<ph>]] [usesrc { <addr2>[:<port2>] | client | clientip } ]
source <addr>[:<port>] [usesrc { <addr2>[:<port2>] | hdr_ip(<hdr>[,<occ>]) } ]
source <addr>[:<pl>[-<ph>]] [interface <name>] ...
  The "source" parameter sets the source address which will be used when
  connecting to the server. It follows the exact same parameters and principle
  as the backend "source" keyword, except that it only applies to the server
  referencing it. Please consult the "source" keyword for details.

  Additionally, the "source" statement on a server line allows one to specify a
  source port range by indicating the lower and higher bounds delimited by a
  dash ('-'). Some operating systems might require a valid IP address when a
  source port range is specified. It is permitted to have the same IP/range for
  several servers. Doing so makes it possible to bypass the maximum of 64k
  total concurrent connections. The limit will then reach 64k connections per
  server.

  Since Linux 4.2/libc 2.23 IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT is set for connections
  specifying the source address without port(s).

ssl
  This option enables SSL ciphering on outgoing connections to the server. It
  is critical to verify server certificates using "verify" when using SSL to
  connect to servers, otherwise the communication is prone to trivial man in
  the-middle attacks rendering SSL useless. When this option is used, health
  checks are automatically sent in SSL too unless there is a "port" or an
  "addr" directive indicating the check should be sent to a different location.
  See the "no-ssl" to disable "ssl" option and "check-ssl" option to force
  SSL health checks.

ssl-max-ver [ SSLv3 | TLSv1.0 | TLSv1.1 | TLSv1.2 | TLSv1.3 ]
  This option enforces use of <version> or lower when SSL is used to communicate
  with the server. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-min-ver".

ssl-min-ver [ SSLv3 | TLSv1.0 | TLSv1.1 | TLSv1.2 | TLSv1.3 ]
  This option enforces use of <version> or upper when SSL is used to communicate
  with the server. This option is also available on global statement
  "ssl-default-server-options". See also "ssl-max-ver".

ssl-reuse
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "no-ssl-reuse"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "no-ssl-reuse" setting.

stick
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "non-stick"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "non-stick" setting.

socks4 <addr>:<port>
  This option enables upstream socks4 tunnel for outgoing connections to the
  server. Using this option won't force the health check to go via socks4 by
  default. You will have to use the keyword "check-via-socks4" to enable it.

tcp-ut <delay>
  Sets the TCP User Timeout for all outgoing connections to this server. This
  option is available on Linux since version 2.6.37. It allows haproxy to
  configure a timeout for sockets which contain data not receiving an
  acknowledgment for the configured delay. This is especially useful on
  long-lived connections experiencing long idle periods such as remote
  terminals or database connection pools, where the client and server timeouts
  must remain high to allow a long period of idle, but where it is important to
  detect that the server has disappeared in order to release all resources
  associated with its connection (and the client's session). One typical use
  case is also to force dead server connections to die when health checks are
  too slow or during a soft reload since health checks are then disabled. The
  argument is a delay expressed in milliseconds by default. This only works for
  regular TCP connections, and is ignored for other protocols.

tfo
  This option enables using TCP fast open when connecting to servers, on
  systems that support it (currently only the Linux kernel >= 4.11).
  See the "tfo" bind option for more information about TCP fast open.
  Please note that when using tfo, you should also use the "conn-failure",
  "empty-response" and "response-timeout" keywords for "retry-on", or haproxy
  won't be able to retry the connection on failure. See also "no-tfo".

track [<proxy>/]<server>
  This option enables ability to set the current state of the server by tracking
  another one. It is possible to track a server which itself tracks another
  server, provided that at the end of the chain, a server has health checks
  enabled. If <proxy> is omitted the current one is used. If disable-on-404 is
  used, it has to be enabled on both proxies.

tls-tickets
  This option may be used as "server" setting to reset any "no-tls-tickets"
  setting which would have been inherited from "default-server" directive as
  default value.
  The TLS ticket mechanism is only used up to TLS 1.2.
  Forward Secrecy is compromised with TLS tickets, unless ticket keys
  are periodically rotated (via reload or by using "tls-ticket-keys").
  It may also be used as "default-server" setting to reset any previous
  "default-server" "no-tls-tickets" setting.

verify [none|required]
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in. If set
  to 'none', server certificate is not verified. In the other case, The
  certificate provided by the server is verified using CAs from 'ca-file' and
  optional CRLs from 'crl-file' after having checked that the names provided in
  the certificate's subject and subjectAlternateNames attributes match either
  the name passed using the "sni" directive, or if not provided, the static
  host name passed using the "verifyhost" directive. When no name is found, the
  certificate's names are ignored. For this reason, without SNI it's important
  to use "verifyhost". On verification failure the handshake is aborted. It is
  critically important to verify server certificates when using SSL to connect
  to servers, otherwise the communication is prone to trivial man-in-the-middle
  attacks rendering SSL totally useless. Unless "ssl_server_verify" appears in
  the global section, "verify" is set to "required" by default.

verifyhost <hostname>
  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in, and
  only takes effect if 'verify required' is also specified. This directive sets
  a default static hostname to check the server's certificate against when no
  SNI was used to connect to the server. If SNI is not used, this is the only
  way to enable hostname verification. This static hostname, when set, will
  also be used for health checks (which cannot provide an SNI value). If none
  of the hostnames in the certificate match the specified hostname, the
  handshake is aborted. The hostnames in the server-provided certificate may
  include wildcards. See also "verify", "sni" and "no-verifyhost" options.

weight <weight>
  The "weight" parameter is used to adjust the server's weight relative to
  other servers. All servers will receive a load proportional to their weight
  relative to the sum of all weights, so the higher the weight, the higher the
  load. The default weight is 1, and the maximal value is 256. A value of 0
  means the server will not participate in load-balancing but will still accept
  persistent connections. If this parameter is used to distribute the load
  according to server's capacity, it is recommended to start with values which
  can both grow and shrink, for instance between 10 and 100 to leave enough
  room above and below for later adjustments.


5.3. Server IP address resolution using DNS
-------------------------------------------

HAProxy allows using a host name on the server line to retrieve its IP address
using name servers. By default, HAProxy resolves the name when parsing the
configuration file, at startup and cache the result for the process' life.
This is not sufficient in some cases, such as in Amazon where a server's IP
can change after a reboot or an ELB Virtual IP can change based on current
workload.
This chapter describes how HAProxy can be configured to process server's name
resolution at run time.
Whether run time server name resolution has been enable or not, HAProxy will
carry on doing the first resolution when parsing the configuration.


5.3.1. Global overview
----------------------

As we've seen in introduction, name resolution in HAProxy occurs at two
different steps of the process life:

  1. when starting up, HAProxy parses the server line definition and matches a
     host name. It uses libc functions to get the host name resolved. This
     resolution relies on /etc/resolv.conf file.

  2. at run time, HAProxy performs periodically name resolutions for servers
     requiring DNS resolutions.

A few other events can trigger a name resolution at run time:
  - when a server's health check ends up in a connection timeout: this may be
    because the server has a new IP address. So we need to trigger a name
    resolution to know this new IP.

When using resolvers, the server name can either be a hostname, or a SRV label.
HAProxy considers anything that starts with an underscore as a SRV label. If a
SRV label is specified, then the corresponding SRV records will be retrieved
from the DNS server, and the provided hostnames will be used. The SRV label
will be checked periodically, and if any server are added or removed, haproxy
will automatically do the same.

A few things important to notice:
  - all the name servers are queried in the meantime. HAProxy will process the
    first valid response.

  - a resolution is considered as invalid (NX, timeout, refused), when all the
    servers return an error.


5.3.2. The resolvers section
----------------------------

This section is dedicated to host information related to name resolution in
HAProxy. There can be as many as resolvers section as needed. Each section can
contain many name servers.

When multiple name servers are configured in a resolvers section, then HAProxy
uses the first valid response. In case of invalid responses, only the last one
is treated. Purpose is to give the chance to a slow server to deliver a valid
answer after a fast faulty or outdated server.

When each server returns a different error type, then only the last error is
used by HAProxy. The following processing is applied on this error:

  1. HAProxy retries the same DNS query with a new query type. The A queries are
     switch to AAAA or the opposite. SRV queries are not concerned here. Timeout
     errors are also excluded.

  2. When the fallback on the query type was done (or not applicable), HAProxy
     retries the original DNS query, with the preferred query type.

  3. HAProxy retries previous steps <resolve_retires> times. If no valid
     response is received after that, it stops the DNS resolution and reports
     the error.

For example, with 2 name servers configured in a resolvers section, the
following scenarios are possible:

  - First response is valid and is applied directly, second response is
    ignored

  - First response is invalid and second one is valid, then second response is
    applied

  - First response is a NX domain and second one a truncated response, then
    HAProxy retries the query with a new type

  - First response is a NX domain and second one is a timeout, then HAProxy
    retries the query with a new type

  - Query timed out for both name servers, then HAProxy retries it with the
    same query type

As a DNS server may not answer all the IPs in one DNS request, haproxy keeps
a cache of previous answers, an answer will be considered obsolete after
<hold obsolete> seconds without the IP returned.


resolvers <resolvers id>
  Creates a new name server list labeled <resolvers id>

A resolvers section accept the following parameters:

accepted_payload_size <nb>
  Defines the maximum payload size accepted by HAProxy and announced to all the
  name servers configured in this resolvers section.
  <nb> is in bytes. If not set, HAProxy announces 512. (minimal value defined
       by RFC 6891)

  Note: the maximum allowed value is 8192.

nameserver <id> <ip>:<port>
  DNS server description:
    <id>   : label of the server, should be unique
    <ip>   : IP address of the server
    <port> : port where the DNS service actually runs

parse-resolv-conf
  Adds all nameservers found in /etc/resolv.conf to this resolvers nameservers
  list. Ordered as if each nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf was individually
  placed in the resolvers section in place of this directive.

hold <status> <period>
  Defines <period> during which the last name resolution should be kept based
  on last resolution <status>
    <status> : last name resolution status. Acceptable values are "nx",
               "other", "refused", "timeout", "valid", "obsolete".
    <period> : interval between two successive name resolution when the last
               answer was in <status>. It follows the HAProxy time format.
               <period> is in milliseconds by default.

  Default value is 10s for "valid", 0s for "obsolete" and 30s for others.

resolve_retries <nb>
  Defines the number <nb> of queries to send to resolve a server name before
  giving up.
  Default value: 3

  A retry occurs on name server timeout or when the full sequence of DNS query
  type failover is over and we need to start up from the default ANY query
  type.

timeout <event> <time>
  Defines timeouts related to name resolution
     <event> : the event on which the <time> timeout period applies to.
               events available are:
               - resolve : default time to trigger name resolutions when no
                           other time applied.
                           Default value: 1s
               - retry   : time between two DNS queries, when no valid response
                           have been received.
                           Default value: 1s
     <time>  : time related to the event. It follows the HAProxy time format.
               <time> is expressed in milliseconds.

  Example:

   resolvers mydns
     nameserver dns1 10.0.0.1:53
     nameserver dns2 10.0.0.2:53
     parse-resolv-conf
     resolve_retries       3
     timeout resolve       1s
     timeout retry         1s
     hold other           30s
     hold refused         30s
     hold nx              30s
     hold timeout         30s
     hold valid           10s
     hold obsolete        30s


6. Cache
---------

HAProxy provides a cache, which was designed to perform cache on small objects
(favicon, css...). This is a minimalist low-maintenance cache which runs in
RAM.

The cache is based on a memory which is shared between processes and threads,
this memory is split in blocks of 1k.

If an object is not used anymore, it can be deleted to store a new object
independently of its expiration date. The oldest objects are deleted first
when we try to allocate a new one.

The cache uses a hash of the host header and the URI as the key.

It's possible to view the status of a cache using the Unix socket command
"show cache" consult section 9.3 "Unix Socket commands" of Management Guide
for more details.

When an object is delivered from the cache, the server name in the log is
replaced by "<CACHE>".


6.1. Limitation
----------------

The cache won't store and won't deliver objects in these cases:

- If the response is not a 200
- If the response contains a Vary header and either the process-vary option is
  disabled, or a currently unmanaged header is specified in the Vary value (only
  accept-encoding and referer are managed for now)
- If the Content-Length + the headers size is greater than "max-object-size"
- If the response is not cacheable
- If the response does not have an explicit expiration time (s-maxage or max-age
  Cache-Control directives or Expires header) or a validator (ETag or Last-Modified
  headers)
- If the process-vary option is enabled and there are already max-secondary-entries
  entries with the same primary key as the current response

- If the request is not a GET
- If the HTTP version of the request is smaller than 1.1
- If the request contains an Authorization header


6.2. Setup
-----------

To setup a cache, you must define a cache section and use it in a proxy with
the corresponding http-request and response actions.


6.2.1. Cache section
---------------------

cache <name>
  Declare a cache section, allocate a shared cache memory named <name>, the
  size of cache is mandatory.

total-max-size <megabytes>
  Define the size in RAM of the cache in megabytes. This size is split in
  blocks of 1kB which are used by the cache entries. Its maximum value is 4095.

max-object-size <bytes>
  Define the maximum size of the objects to be cached. Must not be greater than
  an half of "total-max-size". If not set, it equals to a 256th of the cache size.
  All objects with sizes larger than "max-object-size" will not be cached.

max-age <seconds>
  Define the maximum expiration duration. The expiration is set as the lowest
  value between the s-maxage or max-age (in this order) directive in the
  Cache-Control response header and this value. The default value is 60
  seconds, which means that you can't cache an object more than 60 seconds by
  default.

process-vary <0 or 1>
  Disable or enable the processing of the Vary header. When disabled, a response
  containing such a header will never be cached. When enabled, we need to calculate
  a preliminary hash for a subset of request headers on all the incoming requests
  (which might come with a cpu cost) which will be used to build a secondary key
  for a given request (see RFC 7234#4.1). The default value is 0 (disabled).

max-secondary-entries <number>
  Define the maximum number of simultaneous secondary entries with the same primary
  key in the cache. This needs the vary support to be enabled. Its default value is 10
  and should be passed a strictly positive integer.


6.2.2. Proxy section
---------------------

http-request cache-use <name> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Try to deliver a cached object from the cache <name>. This directive is also
  mandatory to store the cache as it calculates the cache hash. If you want to
  use a condition for both storage and delivering that's a good idea to put it
  after this one.

http-response cache-store <name> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Store an http-response within the cache. The storage of the response headers
  is done at this step, which means you can use others http-response actions
  to modify headers before or after the storage of the response. This action
  is responsible for the setup of the cache storage filter.


Example:

    backend bck1
      mode http

      http-request cache-use foobar
      http-response cache-store foobar
      server srv1 127.0.0.1:80

    cache foobar
      total-max-size 4
      max-age 240


7. Using ACLs and fetching samples
----------------------------------

HAProxy is capable of extracting data from request or response streams, from
client or server information, from tables, environmental information etc...
The action of extracting such data is called fetching a sample. Once retrieved,
these samples may be used for various purposes such as a key to a stick-table,
but most common usages consist in matching them against predefined constant
data called patterns.


7.1. ACL basics
---------------

The use of Access Control Lists (ACL) provides a flexible solution to perform
content switching and generally to take decisions based on content extracted
from the request, the response or any environmental status. The principle is
simple :

  - extract a data sample from a stream, table or the environment
  - optionally apply some format conversion to the extracted sample
  - apply one or multiple pattern matching methods on this sample
  - perform actions only when a pattern matches the sample

The actions generally consist in blocking a request, selecting a backend, or
adding a header.

In order to define a test, the "acl" keyword is used. The syntax is :

   acl <aclname> <criterion> [flags] [operator] [<value>] ...

This creates a new ACL <aclname> or completes an existing one with new tests.
Those tests apply to the portion of request/response specified in <criterion>
and may be adjusted with optional flags [flags]. Some criteria also support
an operator which may be specified before the set of values. Optionally some
conversion operators may be applied to the sample, and they will be specified
as a comma-delimited list of keywords just after the first keyword. The values
are of the type supported by the criterion, and are separated by spaces.

ACL names must be formed from upper and lower case letters, digits, '-' (dash),
'_' (underscore) , '.' (dot) and ':' (colon). ACL names are case-sensitive,
which means that "my_acl" and "My_Acl" are two different ACLs.

There is no enforced limit to the number of ACLs. The unused ones do not affect
performance, they just consume a small amount of memory.

The criterion generally is the name of a sample fetch method, or one of its ACL
specific declinations. The default test method is implied by the output type of
this sample fetch method. The ACL declinations can describe alternate matching
methods of a same sample fetch method. The sample fetch methods are the only
ones supporting a conversion.

Sample fetch methods return data which can be of the following types :
  - boolean
  - integer (signed or unsigned)
  - IPv4 or IPv6 address
  - string
  - data block

Converters transform any of these data into any of these. For example, some
converters might convert a string to a lower-case string while other ones
would turn a string to an IPv4 address, or apply a netmask to an IP address.
The resulting sample is of the type of the last converter applied to the list,
which defaults to the type of the sample fetch method.

Each sample or converter returns data of a specific type, specified with its
keyword in this documentation. When an ACL is declared using a standard sample
fetch method, certain types automatically involved a default matching method
which are summarized in the table below :

   +---------------------+-----------------+
   | Sample or converter | Default         |
   |    output type      | matching method |
   +---------------------+-----------------+
   | boolean             | bool            |
   +---------------------+-----------------+
   | integer             | int             |
   +---------------------+-----------------+
   | ip                  | ip              |
   +---------------------+-----------------+
   | string              | str             |
   +---------------------+-----------------+
   | binary              | none, use "-m"  |
   +---------------------+-----------------+

Note that in order to match a binary samples, it is mandatory to specify a
matching method, see below.

The ACL engine can match these types against patterns of the following types :
  - boolean
  - integer or integer range
  - IP address / network
  - string (exact, substring, suffix, prefix, subdir, domain)
  - regular expression
  - hex block

The following ACL flags are currently supported :

   -i : ignore case during matching of all subsequent patterns.
   -f : load patterns from a file.
   -m : use a specific pattern matching method
   -n : forbid the DNS resolutions
   -M : load the file pointed by -f like a map file.
   -u : force the unique id of the ACL
   -- : force end of flags. Useful when a string looks like one of the flags.

The "-f" flag is followed by the name of a file from which all lines will be
read as individual values. It is even possible to pass multiple "-f" arguments
if the patterns are to be loaded from multiple files. Empty lines as well as
lines beginning with a sharp ('#') will be ignored. All leading spaces and tabs
will be stripped. If it is absolutely necessary to insert a valid pattern
beginning with a sharp, just prefix it with a space so that it is not taken for
a comment. Depending on the data type and match method, haproxy may load the
lines into a binary tree, allowing very fast lookups. This is true for IPv4 and
exact string matching. In this case, duplicates will automatically be removed.

The "-M" flag allows an ACL to use a map file. If this flag is set, the file is
parsed as two column file. The first column contains the patterns used by the
ACL, and the second column contain the samples. The sample can be used later by
a map. This can be useful in some rare cases where an ACL would just be used to
check for the existence of a pattern in a map before a mapping is applied.

The "-u" flag forces the unique id of the ACL. This unique id is used with the
socket interface to identify ACL and dynamically change its values. Note that a
file is always identified by its name even if an id is set.

Also, note that the "-i" flag applies to subsequent entries and not to entries
loaded from files preceding it. For instance :

    acl valid-ua hdr(user-agent) -f exact-ua.lst -i -f generic-ua.lst test

In this example, each line of "exact-ua.lst" will be exactly matched against
the "user-agent" header of the request. Then each line of "generic-ua" will be
case-insensitively matched. Then the word "test" will be insensitively matched
as well.

The "-m" flag is used to select a specific pattern matching method on the input
sample. All ACL-specific criteria imply a pattern matching method and generally
do not need this flag. However, this flag is useful with generic sample fetch
methods to describe how they're going to be matched against the patterns. This
is required for sample fetches which return data type for which there is no
obvious matching method (e.g. string or binary). When "-m" is specified and
followed by a pattern matching method name, this method is used instead of the
default one for the criterion. This makes it possible to match contents in ways
that were not initially planned, or with sample fetch methods which return a
string. The matching method also affects the way the patterns are parsed.

The "-n" flag forbids the dns resolutions. It is used with the load of ip files.
By default, if the parser cannot parse ip address it considers that the parsed
string is maybe a domain name and try dns resolution. The flag "-n" disable this
resolution. It is useful for detecting malformed ip lists. Note that if the DNS
server is not reachable, the haproxy configuration parsing may last many minutes
waiting for the timeout. During this time no error messages are displayed. The
flag "-n" disable this behavior. Note also that during the runtime, this
function is disabled for the dynamic acl modifications.

There are some restrictions however. Not all methods can be used with all
sample fetch methods. Also, if "-m" is used in conjunction with "-f", it must
be placed first. The pattern matching method must be one of the following :

  - "found" : only check if the requested sample could be found in the stream,
              but do not compare it against any pattern. It is recommended not
              to pass any pattern to avoid confusion. This matching method is
              particularly useful to detect presence of certain contents such
              as headers, cookies, etc... even if they are empty and without
              comparing them to anything nor counting them.

  - "bool"  : check the value as a boolean. It can only be applied to fetches
              which return a boolean or integer value, and takes no pattern.
              Value zero or false does not match, all other values do match.

  - "int"   : match the value as an integer. It can be used with integer and
              boolean samples. Boolean false is integer 0, true is integer 1.

  - "ip"    : match the value as an IPv4 or IPv6 address. It is compatible
              with IP address samples only, so it is implied and never needed.

  - "bin"   : match the contents against a hexadecimal string representing a
              binary sequence. This may be used with binary or string samples.

  - "len"   : match the sample's length as an integer. This may be used with
              binary or string samples.

  - "str"   : exact match : match the contents against a string. This may be
              used with binary or string samples.

  - "sub"   : substring match : check that the contents contain at least one of
              the provided string patterns. This may be used with binary or
              string samples.

  - "reg"   : regex match : match the contents against a list of regular
              expressions. This may be used with binary or string samples.

  - "beg"   : prefix match : check that the contents begin like the provided
              string patterns. This may be used with binary or string samples.

  - "end"   : suffix match : check that the contents end like the provided
              string patterns. This may be used with binary or string samples.

  - "dir"   : subdir match : check that a slash-delimited portion of the
              contents exactly matches one of the provided string patterns.
              This may be used with binary or string samples.

  - "dom"   : domain match : check that a dot-delimited portion of the contents
              exactly match one of the provided string patterns. This may be
              used with binary or string samples.

For example, to quickly detect the presence of cookie "JSESSIONID" in an HTTP
request, it is possible to do :

    acl jsess_present cook(JSESSIONID) -m found

In order to apply a regular expression on the 500 first bytes of data in the
buffer, one would use the following acl :

    acl script_tag payload(0,500) -m reg -i <script>

On systems where the regex library is much slower when using "-i", it is
possible to convert the sample to lowercase before matching, like this :

    acl script_tag payload(0,500),lower -m reg <script>

All ACL-specific criteria imply a default matching method. Most often, these
criteria are composed by concatenating the name of the original sample fetch
method and the matching method. For example, "hdr_beg" applies the "beg" match
to samples retrieved using the "hdr" fetch method. Since all ACL-specific
criteria rely on a sample fetch method, it is always possible instead to use
the original sample fetch method and the explicit matching method using "-m".

If an alternate match is specified using "-m" on an ACL-specific criterion,
the matching method is simply applied to the underlying sample fetch method.
For example, all ACLs below are exact equivalent :

    acl short_form  hdr_beg(host)        www.
    acl alternate1  hdr_beg(host) -m beg www.
    acl alternate2  hdr_dom(host) -m beg www.
    acl alternate3  hdr(host)     -m beg www.


The table below summarizes the compatibility matrix between sample or converter
types and the pattern types to fetch against. It indicates for each compatible
combination the name of the matching method to be used, surrounded with angle
brackets ">" and "<" when the method is the default one and will work by
default without "-m".

                           +-------------------------------------------------+
                           |                Input sample type                |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    |     pattern type     | boolean | integer |   ip    | string  | binary  |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | none (presence only) |  found  |  found  |  found  |  found  |  found  |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | none (boolean value) |>  bool <|   bool  |         |   bool  |         |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | integer (value)      |   int   |>  int  <|   int   |   int   |         |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | integer (length)     |   len   |   len   |   len   |   len   |   len   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | IP address           |         |         |>   ip  <|    ip   |    ip   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | exact string         |   str   |   str   |   str   |>  str  <|   str   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | prefix               |   beg   |   beg   |   beg   |   beg   |   beg   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | suffix               |   end   |   end   |   end   |   end   |   end   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | substring            |   sub   |   sub   |   sub   |   sub   |   sub   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | subdir               |   dir   |   dir   |   dir   |   dir   |   dir   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | domain               |   dom   |   dom   |   dom   |   dom   |   dom   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | regex                |   reg   |   reg   |   reg   |   reg   |   reg   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+
    | hex block            |         |         |         |   bin   |   bin   |
    +----------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+


7.1.1. Matching booleans
------------------------

In order to match a boolean, no value is needed and all values are ignored.
Boolean matching is used by default for all fetch methods of type "boolean".
When boolean matching is used, the fetched value is returned as-is, which means
that a boolean "true" will always match and a boolean "false" will never match.

Boolean matching may also be enforced using "-m bool" on fetch methods which
return an integer value. Then, integer value 0 is converted to the boolean
"false" and all other values are converted to "true".


7.1.2. Matching integers
------------------------

Integer matching applies by default to integer fetch methods. It can also be
enforced on boolean fetches using "-m int". In this case, "false" is converted
to the integer 0, and "true" is converted to the integer 1.

Integer matching also supports integer ranges and operators. Note that integer
matching only applies to positive values. A range is a value expressed with a
lower and an upper bound separated with a colon, both of which may be omitted.

For instance, "1024:65535" is a valid range to represent a range of
unprivileged ports, and "1024:" would also work. "0:1023" is a valid
representation of privileged ports, and ":1023" would also work.

As a special case, some ACL functions support decimal numbers which are in fact
two integers separated by a dot. This is used with some version checks for
instance. All integer properties apply to those decimal numbers, including
ranges and operators.

For an easier usage, comparison operators are also supported. Note that using
operators with ranges does not make much sense and is strongly discouraged.
Similarly, it does not make much sense to perform order comparisons with a set
of values.

Available operators for integer matching are :

  eq : true if the tested value equals at least one value
  ge : true if the tested value is greater than or equal to at least one value
  gt : true if the tested value is greater than at least one value
  le : true if the tested value is less than or equal to at least one value
  lt : true if the tested value is less than at least one value

For instance, the following ACL matches any negative Content-Length header :

  acl negative-length hdr_val(content-length) lt 0

This one matches SSL versions between 3.0 and 3.1 (inclusive) :

  acl sslv3 req_ssl_ver 3:3.1


7.1.3. Matching strings
-----------------------

String matching applies to string or binary fetch methods, and exists in 6
different forms :

  - exact match     (-m str) : the extracted string must exactly match the
    patterns;

  - substring match (-m sub) : the patterns are looked up inside the
    extracted string, and the ACL matches if any of them is found inside;

  - prefix match    (-m beg) : the patterns are compared with the beginning of
    the extracted string, and the ACL matches if any of them matches.

  - suffix match    (-m end) : the patterns are compared with the end of the
    extracted string, and the ACL matches if any of them matches.

  - subdir match    (-m dir) : the patterns are looked up inside the extracted
    string, delimited with slashes ("/"), and the ACL matches if any of them
    matches.

  - domain match    (-m dom) : the patterns are looked up inside the extracted
    string, delimited with dots ("."), and the ACL matches if any of them
    matches.

String matching applies to verbatim strings as they are passed, with the
exception of the backslash ("\") which makes it possible to escape some
characters such as the space. If the "-i" flag is passed before the first
string, then the matching will be performed ignoring the case. In order
to match the string "-i", either set it second, or pass the "--" flag
before the first string. Same applies of course to match the string "--".

Do not use string matches for binary fetches which might contain null bytes
(0x00), as the comparison stops at the occurrence of the first null byte.
Instead, convert the binary fetch to a hex string with the hex converter first.

Example:
    # matches if the string <tag> is present in the binary sample
    acl tag_found req.payload(0,0),hex -m sub 3C7461673E


7.1.4. Matching regular expressions (regexes)
---------------------------------------------

Just like with string matching, regex matching applies to verbatim strings as
they are passed, with the exception of the backslash ("\") which makes it
possible to escape some characters such as the space. If the "-i" flag is
passed before the first regex, then the matching will be performed ignoring
the case. In order to match the string "-i", either set it second, or pass
the "--" flag before the first string. Same principle applies of course to
match the string "--".


7.1.5. Matching arbitrary data blocks
-------------------------------------

It is possible to match some extracted samples against a binary block which may
not safely be represented as a string. For this, the patterns must be passed as
a series of hexadecimal digits in an even number, when the match method is set
to binary. Each sequence of two digits will represent a byte. The hexadecimal
digits may be used upper or lower case.

Example :
    # match "Hello\n" in the input stream (\x48 \x65 \x6c \x6c \x6f \x0a)
    acl hello payload(0,6) -m bin 48656c6c6f0a


7.1.6. Matching IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
---------------------------------------

IPv4 addresses values can be specified either as plain addresses or with a
netmask appended, in which case the IPv4 address matches whenever it is
within the network. Plain addresses may also be replaced with a resolvable
host name, but this practice is generally discouraged as it makes it more
difficult to read and debug configurations. If hostnames are used, you should
at least ensure that they are present in /etc/hosts so that the configuration
does not depend on any random DNS match at the moment the configuration is
parsed.

The dotted IPv4 address notation is supported in both regular as well as the
abbreviated form with all-0-octets omitted:

    +------------------+------------------+------------------+
    |   Example 1      |     Example 2    |     Example 3    |
    +------------------+------------------+------------------+
    |  192.168.0.1     |   10.0.0.12      |   127.0.0.1      |
    |  192.168.1       |   10.12          |   127.1          |
    |  192.168.0.1/22  |   10.0.0.12/8    |   127.0.0.1/8    |
    |  192.168.1/22    |   10.12/8        |   127.1/8        |
    +------------------+------------------+------------------+

Notice that this is different from RFC 4632 CIDR address notation in which
192.168.42/24 would be equivalent to 192.168.42.0/24.

IPv6 may be entered in their usual form, with or without a netmask appended.
Only bit counts are accepted for IPv6 netmasks. In order to avoid any risk of
trouble with randomly resolved IP addresses, host names are never allowed in
IPv6 patterns.

HAProxy is also able to match IPv4 addresses with IPv6 addresses in the
following situations :
  - tested address is IPv4, pattern address is IPv4, the match applies
    in IPv4 using the supplied mask if any.
  - tested address is IPv6, pattern address is IPv6, the match applies
    in IPv6 using the supplied mask if any.
  - tested address is IPv6, pattern address is IPv4, the match applies in IPv4
    using the pattern's mask if the IPv6 address matches with 2002:IPV4::,
    ::IPV4 or ::ffff:IPV4, otherwise it fails.
  - tested address is IPv4, pattern address is IPv6, the IPv4 address is first
    converted to IPv6 by prefixing ::ffff: in front of it, then the match is
    applied in IPv6 using the supplied IPv6 mask.


7.2. Using ACLs to form conditions
----------------------------------

Some actions are only performed upon a valid condition. A condition is a
combination of ACLs with operators. 3 operators are supported :

  - AND (implicit)
  - OR  (explicit with the "or" keyword or the "||" operator)
  - Negation with the exclamation mark ("!")

A condition is formed as a disjunctive form:

   [!]acl1 [!]acl2 ... [!]acln  { or [!]acl1 [!]acl2 ... [!]acln } ...

Such conditions are generally used after an "if" or "unless" statement,
indicating when the condition will trigger the action.

For instance, to block HTTP requests to the "*" URL with methods other than
"OPTIONS", as well as POST requests without content-length, and GET or HEAD
requests with a content-length greater than 0, and finally every request which
is not either GET/HEAD/POST/OPTIONS !

   acl missing_cl hdr_cnt(Content-length) eq 0
   http-request deny if HTTP_URL_STAR !METH_OPTIONS || METH_POST missing_cl
   http-request deny if METH_GET HTTP_CONTENT
   http-request deny unless METH_GET or METH_POST or METH_OPTIONS

To select a different backend for requests to static contents on the "www" site
and to every request on the "img", "video", "download" and "ftp" hosts :

   acl url_static  path_beg         /static /images /img /css
   acl url_static  path_end         .gif .png .jpg .css .js
   acl host_www    hdr_beg(host) -i www
   acl host_static hdr_beg(host) -i img. video. download. ftp.

   # now use backend "static" for all static-only hosts, and for static URLs
   # of host "www". Use backend "www" for the rest.
   use_backend static if host_static or host_www url_static
   use_backend www    if host_www

It is also possible to form rules using "anonymous ACLs". Those are unnamed ACL
expressions that are built on the fly without needing to be declared. They must
be enclosed between braces, with a space before and after each brace (because
the braces must be seen as independent words). Example :

   The following rule :

       acl missing_cl hdr_cnt(Content-length) eq 0
       http-request deny if METH_POST missing_cl

   Can also be written that way :

       http-request deny if METH_POST { hdr_cnt(Content-length) eq 0 }

It is generally not recommended to use this construct because it's a lot easier
to leave errors in the configuration when written that way. However, for very
simple rules matching only one source IP address for instance, it can make more
sense to use them than to declare ACLs with random names. Another example of
good use is the following :

   With named ACLs :

        acl site_dead nbsrv(dynamic) lt 2
        acl site_dead nbsrv(static)  lt 2
        monitor fail  if site_dead

   With anonymous ACLs :

        monitor fail if { nbsrv(dynamic) lt 2 } || { nbsrv(static) lt 2 }

See section 4.2 for detailed help on the "http-request deny" and "use_backend"
keywords.


7.3. Fetching samples
---------------------

Historically, sample fetch methods were only used to retrieve data to match
against patterns using ACLs. With the arrival of stick-tables, a new class of
sample fetch methods was created, most often sharing the same syntax as their
ACL counterpart. These sample fetch methods are also known as "fetches". As
of now, ACLs and fetches have converged. All ACL fetch methods have been made
available as fetch methods, and ACLs may use any sample fetch method as well.

This section details all available sample fetch methods and their output type.
Some sample fetch methods have deprecated aliases that are used to maintain
compatibility with existing configurations. They are then explicitly marked as
deprecated and should not be used in new setups.

The ACL derivatives are also indicated when available, with their respective
matching methods. These ones all have a well defined default pattern matching
method, so it is never necessary (though allowed) to pass the "-m" option to
indicate how the sample will be matched using ACLs.

As indicated in the sample type versus matching compatibility matrix above,
when using a generic sample fetch method in an ACL, the "-m" option is
mandatory unless the sample type is one of boolean, integer, IPv4 or IPv6. When
the same keyword exists as an ACL keyword and as a standard fetch method, the
ACL engine will automatically pick the ACL-only one by default.

Some of these keywords support one or multiple mandatory arguments, and one or
multiple optional arguments. These arguments are strongly typed and are checked
when the configuration is parsed so that there is no risk of running with an
incorrect argument (e.g. an unresolved backend name). Fetch function arguments
are passed between parenthesis and are delimited by commas. When an argument
is optional, it will be indicated below between square brackets ('[ ]'). When
all arguments are optional, the parenthesis may be omitted.

Thus, the syntax of a standard sample fetch method is one of the following :
   - name
   - name(arg1)
   - name(arg1,arg2)


7.3.1. Converters
-----------------

Sample fetch methods may be combined with transformations to be applied on top
of the fetched sample (also called "converters"). These combinations form what
is called "sample expressions" and the result is a "sample". Initially this
was only supported by "stick on" and "stick store-request" directives but this
has now be extended to all places where samples may be used (ACLs, log-format,
unique-id-format, add-header, ...).

These transformations are enumerated as a series of specific keywords after the
sample fetch method. These keywords may equally be appended immediately after
the fetch keyword's argument, delimited by a comma. These keywords can also
support some arguments (e.g. a netmask) which must be passed in parenthesis.

A certain category of converters are bitwise and arithmetic operators which
support performing basic operations on integers. Some bitwise operations are
supported (and, or, xor, cpl) and some arithmetic operations are supported
(add, sub, mul, div, mod, neg). Some comparators are provided (odd, even, not,
bool) which make it possible to report a match without having to write an ACL.

The currently available list of transformation keywords include :

51d.single(<prop>[,<prop>*])
  Returns values for the properties requested as a string, where values are
  separated by the delimiter specified with "51degrees-property-separator".
  The device is identified using the User-Agent header passed to the
  converter. The function can be passed up to five property names, and if a
  property name can't be found, the value "NoData" is returned.

  Example :
    # Here the header "X-51D-DeviceTypeMobileTablet" is added to the request,
    # containing values for the three properties requested by using the
    # User-Agent passed to the converter.
    frontend http-in
      bind *:8081
      default_backend servers
      http-request set-header X-51D-DeviceTypeMobileTablet \
        %[req.fhdr(User-Agent),51d.single(DeviceType,IsMobile,IsTablet)]

add(<value>)
  Adds <value> to the input value of type signed integer, and returns the
  result as a signed integer. <value> can be a numeric value or a variable
  name. The name of the variable starts with an indication about its scope. The
  scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and response)
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

aes_gcm_dec(<bits>,<nonce>,<key>,<aead_tag>)
  Decrypts the raw byte input using the AES128-GCM, AES192-GCM or
  AES256-GCM algorithm, depending on the <bits> parameter. All other parameters
  need to be base64 encoded and the returned result is in raw byte format.
  If the <aead_tag> validation fails, the converter doesn't return any data.
  The <nonce>, <key> and <aead_tag> can either be strings or variables. This
  converter requires at least OpenSSL 1.0.1.

  Example:
    http-response set-header X-Decrypted-Text %[var(txn.enc),\
      aes_gcm_dec(128,txn.nonce,Zm9vb2Zvb29mb29wZm9vbw==,txn.aead_tag)]

and(<value>)
  Performs a bitwise "AND" between <value> and the input value of type signed
  integer, and returns the result as an signed integer. <value> can be a
  numeric value or a variable name. The name of the variable starts with an
  indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and response)
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

b64dec
  Converts (decodes) a base64 encoded input string to its binary
  representation. It performs the inverse operation of base64().

base64
  Converts a binary input sample to a base64 string. It is used to log or
  transfer binary content in a way that can be reliably transferred (e.g.
  an SSL ID can be copied in a header).

bool
  Returns a boolean TRUE if the input value of type signed integer is
  non-null, otherwise returns FALSE. Used in conjunction with and(), it can be
  used to report true/false for bit testing on input values (e.g. verify the
  presence of a flag).

bytes(<offset>[,<length>])
  Extracts some bytes from an input binary sample. The result is a binary
  sample starting at an offset (in bytes) of the original sample and
  optionally truncated at the given length.

concat([<start>],[<var>],[<end>])
  Concatenates up to 3 fields after the current sample which is then turned to
  a string. The first one, <start>, is a constant string, that will be appended
  immediately after the existing sample. It may be omitted if not used. The
  second one, <var>, is a variable name. The variable will be looked up, its
  contents converted to a string, and it will be appended immediately after the
  <first> part. If the variable is not found, nothing is appended. It may be
  omitted as well. The third field, <end> is a constant string that will be
  appended after the variable. It may also be omitted. Together, these elements
  allow to concatenate variables with delimiters to an existing set of
  variables. This can be used to build new variables made of a succession of
  other variables, such as colon-delimited values. If commas or closing
  parenthesis are needed as delimiters, they must be protected by quotes or
  backslashes, themselves protected so that they are not stripped by the first
  level parser. See examples below.

  Example:
    tcp-request session set-var(sess.src) src
    tcp-request session set-var(sess.dn)  ssl_c_s_dn
    tcp-request session set-var(txn.sig) str(),concat(<ip=,sess.ip,>),concat(<dn=,sess.dn,>)
    tcp-request session set-var(txn.ipport) "str(),concat('addr=(',sess.ip),concat(',',sess.port,')')"
    http-request set-header x-hap-sig %[var(txn.sig)]

cpl
  Takes the input value of type signed integer, applies a ones-complement
  (flips all bits) and returns the result as an signed integer.

crc32([<avalanche>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into an unsigned 32-bit quantity using the CRC32
  hash function. Optionally, it is possible to apply a full avalanche hash
  function to the output if the optional <avalanche> argument equals 1. This
  converter uses the same functions as used by the various hash-based load
  balancing algorithms, so it will provide exactly the same results. It is
  provided for compatibility with other software which want a CRC32 to be
  computed on some input keys, so it follows the most common implementation as
  found in Ethernet, Gzip, PNG, etc... It is slower than the other algorithms
  but may provide a better or at least less predictable distribution. It must
  not be used for security purposes as a 32-bit hash is trivial to break. See
  also "djb2", "sdbm", "wt6", "crc32c" and the "hash-type" directive.

crc32c([<avalanche>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into an unsigned 32-bit quantity using the CRC32C
  hash function. Optionally, it is possible to apply a full avalanche hash
  function to the output if the optional <avalanche> argument equals 1. This
  converter uses the same functions as described in RFC4960, Appendix B [8].
  It is provided for compatibility with other software which want a CRC32C to be
  computed on some input keys. It is slower than the other algorithms and it must
  not be used for security purposes as a 32-bit hash is trivial to break. See
  also "djb2", "sdbm", "wt6", "crc32" and the "hash-type" directive.

cut_crlf
  Cuts the string representation of the input sample on the first carriage
  return ('\r') or newline ('\n') character found. Only the string length is
  updated.

da-csv-conv(<prop>[,<prop>*])
  Asks the DeviceAtlas converter to identify the User Agent string passed on
  input, and to emit a string made of the concatenation of the properties
  enumerated in argument, delimited by the separator defined by the global
  keyword "deviceatlas-property-separator", or by default the pipe character
  ('|'). There's a limit of 12 different properties imposed by the haproxy
  configuration language.

  Example:
    frontend www
      bind *:8881
      default_backend servers
      http-request set-header X-DeviceAtlas-Data %[req.fhdr(User-Agent),da-csv(primaryHardwareType,osName,osVersion,browserName,browserVersion,browserRenderingEngine)]

debug([<prefix][,<destination>])
  This converter is used as debug tool. It takes a capture of the input sample
  and sends it to event sink <destination>, which may designate a ring buffer
  such as "buf0", as well as "stdout", or "stderr". Available sinks may be
  checked at run time by issuing "show events" on the CLI. When not specified,
  the output will be "buf0", which may be consulted via the CLI's "show events"
  command. An optional prefix <prefix> may be passed to help distinguish
  outputs from multiple expressions. It will then appear before the colon in
  the output message. The input sample is passed as-is on the output, so that
  it is safe to insert the debug converter anywhere in a chain, even with non-
  printable sample types.

  Example:
    tcp-request connection track-sc0 src,debug(track-sc)

digest(<algorithm>)
  Converts a binary input sample to a message digest. The result is a binary
  sample. The <algorithm> must be an OpenSSL message digest name (e.g. sha256).

  Please note that this converter is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_OPENSSL.

div(<value>)
  Divides the input value of type signed integer by <value>, and returns the
  result as an signed integer. If <value> is null, the largest unsigned
  integer is returned (typically 2^63-1). <value> can be a numeric value or a
  variable name. The name of the variable starts with an indication about its
  scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and response)
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

djb2([<avalanche>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into an unsigned 32-bit quantity using the DJB2
  hash function. Optionally, it is possible to apply a full avalanche hash
  function to the output if the optional <avalanche> argument equals 1. This
  converter uses the same functions as used by the various hash-based load
  balancing algorithms, so it will provide exactly the same results. It is
  mostly intended for debugging, but can be used as a stick-table entry to
  collect rough statistics. It must not be used for security purposes as a
  32-bit hash is trivial to break. See also "crc32", "sdbm", "wt6", "crc32c",
  and the "hash-type" directive.

even
  Returns a boolean TRUE if the input value of type signed integer is even
  otherwise returns FALSE. It is functionally equivalent to "not,and(1),bool".

field(<index>,<delimiters>[,<count>])
  Extracts the substring at the given index counting from the beginning
  (positive index) or from the end (negative index) considering given delimiters
  from an input string. Indexes start at 1 or -1 and delimiters are a string
  formatted list of chars. Optionally you can specify <count> of fields to
  extract (default: 1). Value of 0 indicates extraction of all remaining
  fields.

  Example :
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),field(5,_)    # f5
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),field(2,_,0)  # f2_f3__f5
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),field(2,_,2)  # f2_f3
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),field(-2,_,3) # f2_f3_
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),field(-3,_,0) # f1_f2_f3

fix_is_valid
  Parses a binary payload and performs sanity checks regarding FIX (Financial
  Information eXchange):

  - checks that all tag IDs and values are not empty and the tags IDs are well
    numeric
  - checks the BeginString tag is the first tag with a valid FIX version
  - checks the BodyLength tag is the second one with the right body length
  - checks the MstType tag is the third tag.
  - checks that last tag in the message is the CheckSum tag with a valid
    checksum

  Due to current HAProxy design, only the first message sent by the client and
  the server can be parsed.

  This converter returns a boolean, true if the payload contains a valid FIX
  message, false if not.

  See also the fix_tag_value converter.

  Example:
      tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
      tcp-request content reject unless { req.payload(0,0),fix_is_valid }

fix_tag_value(<tag>)
  Parses a FIX (Financial Information eXchange) message and extracts the value
  from the tag <tag>. <tag> can be a string or an integer pointing to the
  desired tag. Any integer value is accepted, but only the following strings
  are translated into their integer equivalent: BeginString, BodyLength,
  MsgType, SenderComID, TargetComID, CheckSum. More tag names can be easily
  added.

  Due to current HAProxy design, only the first message sent by the client and
  the server can be parsed. No message validation is performed by this
  converter. It is highly recommended to validate the message first using
  fix_is_valid converter.

  See also the fix_is_valid converter.

  Example:
      tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
      tcp-request content reject unless { req.payload(0,0),fix_is_valid }
      # MsgType tag ID is 35, so both lines below will return the same content
      tcp-request content set-var(txn.foo) req.payload(0,0),fix_tag_value(35)
      tcp-request content set-var(txn.bar) req.payload(0,0),fix_tag_value(MsgType)

hex
  Converts a binary input sample to a hex string containing two hex digits per
  input byte. It is used to log or transfer hex dumps of some binary input data
  in a way that can be reliably transferred (e.g. an SSL ID can be copied in a
  header).

hex2i
  Converts a hex string containing two hex digits per input byte to an
  integer. If the input value cannot be converted, then zero is returned.

htonl
  Converts the input integer value to its 32-bit binary representation in the
  network byte order. Because sample fetches own signed 64-bit integer, when
  this converter is used, the input integer value is first casted to an
  unsigned 32-bit integer.

hmac(<algorithm>, <key>)
  Converts a binary input sample to a message authentication code with the given
  key. The result is a binary sample. The <algorithm> must be one of the
  registered OpenSSL message digest names (e.g. sha256). The <key> parameter must
  be base64 encoded and can either be a string or a variable.

  Please note that this converter is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_OPENSSL.

http_date([<offset],[<unit>])
  Converts an integer supposed to contain a date since epoch to a string
  representing this date in a format suitable for use in HTTP header fields. If
  an offset value is specified, then it is added to the date before the
  conversion is operated. This is particularly useful to emit Date header fields,
  Expires values in responses when combined with a positive offset, or
  Last-Modified values when the offset is negative.
  If a unit value is specified, then consider the timestamp as either
  "s" for seconds (default behavior), "ms" for milliseconds, or "us" for
  microseconds since epoch. Offset is assumed to have the same unit as
  input timestamp.

iif(<true>,<false>)
  Returns the <true> string if the input value is true. Returns the <false>
  string otherwise.

  Example:
    http-request set-header x-forwarded-proto %[ssl_fc,iif(https,http)]

in_table(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, a boolean false
  is returned. Otherwise a boolean true is returned. This can be used to verify
  the presence of a certain key in a table tracking some elements (e.g. whether
  or not a source IP address or an Authorization header was already seen).

ipmask(<mask4>, [<mask6>])
  Apply a mask to an IP address, and use the result for lookups and storage.
  This can be used to make all hosts within a certain mask to share the same
  table entries and as such use the same server. The mask4 can be passed in
  dotted form (e.g. 255.255.255.0) or in CIDR form (e.g. 24). The mask6 can
  be passed in quadruplet form (e.g. ffff:ffff::) or in CIDR form (e.g. 64).
  If no mask6 is given IPv6 addresses will fail to convert for backwards
  compatibility reasons.

json([<input-code>])
  Escapes the input string and produces an ASCII output string ready to use as a
  JSON string. The converter tries to decode the input string according to the
  <input-code> parameter. It can be "ascii", "utf8", "utf8s", "utf8p" or
  "utf8ps". The "ascii" decoder never fails. The "utf8" decoder detects 3 types
  of errors:
   - bad UTF-8 sequence (lone continuation byte, bad number of continuation
     bytes, ...)
   - invalid range (the decoded value is within a UTF-8 prohibited range),
   - code overlong (the value is encoded with more bytes than necessary).

  The UTF-8 JSON encoding can produce a "too long value" error when the UTF-8
  character is greater than 0xffff because the JSON string escape specification
  only authorizes 4 hex digits for the value encoding. The UTF-8 decoder exists
  in 4 variants designated by a combination of two suffix letters : "p" for
  "permissive" and "s" for "silently ignore". The behaviors of the decoders
  are :
   - "ascii"  : never fails;
   - "utf8"   : fails on any detected errors;
   - "utf8s"  : never fails, but removes characters corresponding to errors;
   - "utf8p"  : accepts and fixes the overlong errors, but fails on any other
                error;
   - "utf8ps" : never fails, accepts and fixes the overlong errors, but removes
                characters corresponding to the other errors.

  This converter is particularly useful for building properly escaped JSON for
  logging to servers which consume JSON-formatted traffic logs.

  Example:
     capture request header Host len 15
     capture request header user-agent len 150
     log-format '{"ip":"%[src]","user-agent":"%[capture.req.hdr(1),json(utf8s)]"}'

  Input request from client 127.0.0.1:
     GET / HTTP/1.0
     User-Agent: Very "Ugly" UA 1/2

  Output log:
     {"ip":"127.0.0.1","user-agent":"Very \"Ugly\" UA 1\/2"}

language(<value>[,<default>])
  Returns the value with the highest q-factor from a list as extracted from the
  "accept-language" header using "req.fhdr". Values with no q-factor have a
  q-factor of 1. Values with a q-factor of 0 are dropped. Only values which
  belong to the list of semi-colon delimited <values> will be considered. The
  argument <value> syntax is "lang[;lang[;lang[;...]]]". If no value matches the
  given list and a default value is provided, it is returned. Note that language
  names may have a variant after a dash ('-'). If this variant is present in the
  list, it will be matched, but if it is not, only the base language is checked.
  The match is case-sensitive, and the output string is always one of those
  provided in arguments. The ordering of arguments is meaningless, only the
  ordering of the values in the request counts, as the first value among
  multiple sharing the same q-factor is used.

  Example :

    # this configuration switches to the backend matching a
    # given language based on the request :

    acl es req.fhdr(accept-language),language(es;fr;en) -m str es
    acl fr req.fhdr(accept-language),language(es;fr;en) -m str fr
    acl en req.fhdr(accept-language),language(es;fr;en) -m str en
    use_backend spanish if es
    use_backend french  if fr
    use_backend english if en
    default_backend choose_your_language

length
  Get the length of the string. This can only be placed after a string
  sample fetch function or after a transformation keyword returning a string
  type. The result is of type integer.

lower
  Convert a string sample to lower case. This can only be placed after a string
  sample fetch function or after a transformation keyword returning a string
  type. The result is of type string.

ltime(<format>[,<offset>])
  Converts an integer supposed to contain a date since epoch to a string
  representing this date in local time using a format defined by the <format>
  string using strftime(3). The purpose is to allow any date format to be used
  in logs. An optional <offset> in seconds may be applied to the input date
  (positive or negative). See the strftime() man page for the format supported
  by your operating system. See also the utime converter.

  Example :

      # Emit two colons, one with the local time and another with ip:port
      # e.g.  20140710162350 127.0.0.1:57325
      log-format %[date,ltime(%Y%m%d%H%M%S)]\ %ci:%cp

ltrim(<chars>)
  Skips any characters from <chars> from the beginning of the string
  representation of the input sample.

map(<map_file>[,<default_value>])
map_<match_type>(<map_file>[,<default_value>])
map_<match_type>_<output_type>(<map_file>[,<default_value>])
  Search the input value from <map_file> using the <match_type> matching method,
  and return the associated value converted to the type <output_type>. If the
  input value cannot be found in the <map_file>, the converter returns the
  <default_value>. If the <default_value> is not set, the converter fails and
  acts as if no input value could be fetched. If the <match_type> is not set, it
  defaults to "str". Likewise, if the <output_type> is not set, it defaults to
  "str". For convenience, the "map" keyword is an alias for "map_str" and maps a
  string to another string.

  It is important to avoid overlapping between the keys : IP addresses and
  strings are stored in trees, so the first of the finest match will be used.
  Other keys are stored in lists, so the first matching occurrence will be used.

  The following array contains the list of all map functions available sorted by
  input type, match type and output type.

  input type | match method | output type str | output type int | output type ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | str          | map_str         | map_str_int     | map_str_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | beg          | map_beg         | map_beg_int     | map_end_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | sub          | map_sub         | map_sub_int     | map_sub_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | dir          | map_dir         | map_dir_int     | map_dir_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | dom          | map_dom         | map_dom_int     | map_dom_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | end          | map_end         | map_end_int     | map_end_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | reg          | map_reg         | map_reg_int     | map_reg_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    str      | reg          | map_regm        | map_reg_int     | map_reg_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    int      | int          | map_int         | map_int_int     | map_int_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------
    ip       | ip           | map_ip          | map_ip_int      | map_ip_ip
  -----------+--------------+-----------------+-----------------+---------------

  The special map called "map_regm" expect matching zone in the regular
  expression and modify the output replacing back reference (like "\1") by
  the corresponding match text.

  The file contains one key + value per line. Lines which start with '#' are
  ignored, just like empty lines. Leading tabs and spaces are stripped. The key
  is then the first "word" (series of non-space/tabs characters), and the value
  is what follows this series of space/tab till the end of the line excluding
  trailing spaces/tabs.

  Example :

     # this is a comment and is ignored
        2.22.246.0/23    United Kingdom      \n
     <-><-----------><--><------------><---->
      |       |       |         |        `- trailing spaces ignored
      |       |       |         `---------- value
      |       |       `-------------------- middle spaces ignored
      |       `---------------------------- key
      `------------------------------------ leading spaces ignored

mod(<value>)
  Divides the input value of type signed integer by <value>, and returns the
  remainder as an signed integer. If <value> is null, then zero is returned.
  <value> can be a numeric value or a variable name. The name of the variable
  starts with an indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and response)
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

mqtt_field_value(<packettype>,<fieldname or property ID>)
  Returns value of <fieldname> found in input MQTT payload of type
  <packettype>.
  <packettype> can be either a string (case insensitive matching) or a numeric
  value corresponding to the type of packet we're supposed to extract data
  from.
  Supported string and integers can be found here:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v3.1.1/os/mqtt-v3.1.1-os.html#_Toc398718021
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/os/mqtt-v5.0-os.html#_Toc3901022

  <fieldname> depends on <packettype> and can be any of the following below.
  (note that <fieldname> matching is case insensitive).
  <property id> can only be found in MQTT v5.0 streams. check this table:
  https://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v5.0/os/mqtt-v5.0-os.html#_Toc3901029

  - CONNECT (or 1): flags, protocol_name, protocol_version, client_identifier,
                    will_topic, will_payload, username, password, keepalive
                    OR any property ID as a numeric value (for MQTT v5.0
                    packets only):
                       17: Session Expiry Interval
                       33: Receive Maximum
                       39: Maximum Packet Size
                       34: Topic Alias Maximum
                       25: Request Response Information
                       23: Request Problem Information
                       21: Authentication Method
                       22: Authentication Data
                       18: Will Delay Interval
                        1: Payload Format Indicator
                        2: Message Expiry Interval
                        3: Content Type
                        8: Response Topic
                        9: Correlation Data
                    Not supported yet:
                       38: User Property

  - CONNACK (or 2): flags, protocol_version, reason_code
                    OR any property ID as a numeric value (for MQTT v5.0
                    packets only):
                       17: Session Expiry Interval
                       33: Receive Maximum
                       36: Maximum QoS
                       37: Retain Available
                       39: Maximum Packet Size
                       18: Assigned Client Identifier
                       34: Topic Alias Maximum
                       31: Reason String
                       40; Wildcard Subscription Available
                       41: Subscription Identifiers Available
                       42: Shared Subscription Available
                       19: Server Keep Alive
                       26: Response Information
                       28: Server Reference
                       21: Authentication Method
                       22: Authentication Data
                    Not supported yet:
                       38: User Property

  Due to current HAProxy design, only the first message sent by the client and
  the server can be parsed. Thus this converter can extract data only from
  CONNECT and CONNACK packet types. CONNECT is the first message sent by the
  client and CONNACK is the first response sent by the server.

  Example:

      acl data_in_buffer req.len ge 4
      tcp-request content set-var(txn.username) \
              req.payload(0,0),mqtt_field_value(connect,protocol_name) \
              if data_in_buffer
      # do the same as above
      tcp-request content set-var(txn.username) \
              req.payload(0,0),mqtt_field_value(1,protocol_name) \
              if data_in_buffer

mqtt_is_valid
  Checks that the binary input is a valid MQTT packet. It returns a boolean.

  Due to current HAProxy design, only the first message sent by the client and
  the server can be parsed. Thus this converter can extract data only from
  CONNECT and CONNACK packet types. CONNECT is the first message sent by the
  client and CONNACK is the first response sent by the server.

  Example:

      acl data_in_buffer req.len ge 4
      tcp-request content reject unless req.payload(0,0),mqtt_is_valid

mul(<value>)
  Multiplies the input value of type signed integer by <value>, and returns
  the product as an signed integer. In case of overflow, the largest possible
  value for the sign is returned so that the operation doesn't wrap around.
  <value> can be a numeric value or a variable name. The name of the variable
  starts with an indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and response)
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

nbsrv
  Takes an input value of type string, interprets it as a backend name and
  returns the number of usable servers in that backend. Can be used in places
  where we want to look up a backend from a dynamic name, like a result of a
  map lookup.

neg
  Takes the input value of type signed integer, computes the opposite value,
  and returns the remainder as an signed integer. 0 is identity. This operator
  is provided for reversed subtracts : in order to subtract the input from a
  constant, simply perform a "neg,add(value)".

not
  Returns a boolean FALSE if the input value of type signed integer is
  non-null, otherwise returns TRUE. Used in conjunction with and(), it can be
  used to report true/false for bit testing on input values (e.g. verify the
  absence of a flag).

odd
  Returns a boolean TRUE if the input value of type signed integer is odd
  otherwise returns FALSE. It is functionally equivalent to "and(1),bool".

or(<value>)
  Performs a bitwise "OR" between <value> and the input value of type signed
  integer, and returns the result as an signed integer. <value> can be a
  numeric value or a variable name. The name of the variable starts with an
  indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and response)
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

protobuf(<field_number>,[<field_type>])
  This extracts the protocol buffers message field in raw mode of an input binary
  sample representation of a protocol buffer message with <field_number> as field
  number (dotted notation) if <field_type> is not present, or as an integer sample
  if this field is present (see also "ungrpc" below).
  The list of the authorized types is the following one: "int32", "int64", "uint32",
  "uint64", "sint32", "sint64", "bool", "enum" for the "varint" wire type 0
  "fixed64", "sfixed64", "double" for the 64bit wire type 1, "fixed32", "sfixed32",
  "float" for the wire type 5. Note that "string" is considered as a length-delimited
  type, so it does not require any <field_type> argument to be extracted.
  More information may be found here about the protocol buffers message field types:
  https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding

regsub(<regex>,<subst>[,<flags>])
  Applies a regex-based substitution to the input string. It does the same
  operation as the well-known "sed" utility with "s/<regex>/<subst>/". By
  default it will replace in the input string the first occurrence of the
  largest part matching the regular expression <regex> with the substitution
  string <subst>. It is possible to replace all occurrences instead by adding
  the flag "g" in the third argument <flags>. It is also possible to make the
  regex case insensitive by adding the flag "i" in <flags>. Since <flags> is a
  string, it is made up from the concatenation of all desired flags. Thus if
  both "i" and "g" are desired, using "gi" or "ig" will have the same effect.
  The first use of this converter is to replace certain characters or sequence
  of characters with other ones.

  It is highly recommended to enclose the regex part using protected quotes to
  improve clarity and never have a closing parenthesis from the regex mixed up
  with the parenthesis from the function. Just like in Bourne shell, the first
  level of quotes is processed when delimiting word groups on the line, a
  second level is usable for argument. It is recommended to use single quotes
  outside since these ones do not try to resolve backslashes nor dollar signs.

  Examples:

     # de-duplicate "/" in header "x-path".
     # input:  x-path: /////a///b/c/xzxyz/
     # output: x-path: /a/b/c/xzxyz/
     http-request set-header x-path "%[hdr(x-path),regsub('/+','/','g')]"

     # copy query string to x-query and drop all leading '?', ';' and '&'
     http-request set-header x-query "%[query,regsub([?;&]*,'')]"

     # capture groups and backreferences
     # both lines do the same.
     http-request redirect location %[url,'regsub("(foo|bar)([0-9]+)?","\2\1",i)']
     http-request redirect location %[url,regsub(\"(foo|bar)([0-9]+)?\",\"\2\1\",i)]

capture-req(<id>)
  Capture the string entry in the request slot <id> and returns the entry as
  is. If the slot doesn't exist, the capture fails silently.

  See also: "declare capture", "http-request capture",
            "http-response capture", "capture.req.hdr" and
            "capture.res.hdr" (sample fetches).

capture-res(<id>)
  Capture the string entry in the response slot <id> and returns the entry as
  is. If the slot doesn't exist, the capture fails silently.

  See also: "declare capture", "http-request capture",
            "http-response capture", "capture.req.hdr" and
            "capture.res.hdr" (sample fetches).

rtrim(<chars>)
  Skips any characters from <chars> from the end of the string representation
  of the input sample.

sdbm([<avalanche>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into an unsigned 32-bit quantity using the SDBM
  hash function. Optionally, it is possible to apply a full avalanche hash
  function to the output if the optional <avalanche> argument equals 1. This
  converter uses the same functions as used by the various hash-based load
  balancing algorithms, so it will provide exactly the same results. It is
  mostly intended for debugging, but can be used as a stick-table entry to
  collect rough statistics. It must not be used for security purposes as a
  32-bit hash is trivial to break. See also "crc32", "djb2", "wt6", "crc32c",
  and the "hash-type" directive.

secure_memcmp(<var>)
  Compares the contents of <var> with the input value. Both values are treated
  as a binary string. Returns a boolean indicating whether both binary strings
  match.

  If both binary strings have the same length then the comparison will be
  performed in constant time.

  Please note that this converter is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_OPENSSL.

  Example :

     http-request set-var(txn.token) hdr(token)
     # Check whether the token sent by the client matches the secret token
     # value, without leaking the contents using a timing attack.
     acl token_given str(my_secret_token),secure_memcmp(txn.token)

set-var(<var name>)
  Sets a variable with the input content and returns the content on the output
  as-is. The variable keeps the value and the associated input type. The name of
  the variable starts with an indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and
             response),
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing,
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing.
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

sha1
  Converts a binary input sample to a SHA-1 digest. The result is a binary
  sample with length of 20 bytes.

sha2([<bits>])
  Converts a binary input sample to a digest in the SHA-2 family. The result
  is a binary sample with length of <bits>/8 bytes.

  Valid values for <bits> are 224, 256, 384, 512, each corresponding to
  SHA-<bits>. The default value is 256.

  Please note that this converter is only available when haproxy has been
  compiled with USE_OPENSSL.

srv_queue
  Takes an input value of type string, either a server name or <backend>/<server>
  format and returns the number of queued sessions on that server. Can be used
  in places where we want to look up queued sessions from a dynamic name, like a
  cookie value (e.g. req.cook(SRVID),srv_queue) and then make a decision to break
  persistence or direct a request elsewhere.

strcmp(<var>)
  Compares the contents of <var> with the input value of type string. Returns
  the result as a signed integer compatible with strcmp(3): 0 if both strings
  are identical. A value less than 0 if the left string is lexicographically
  smaller than the right string or if the left string is shorter. A value greater
  than 0 otherwise (right string greater than left string or the right string is
  shorter).

  See also the secure_memcmp converter if you need to compare two binary
  strings in constant time.

  Example :

     http-request set-var(txn.host) hdr(host)
     # Check whether the client is attempting domain fronting.
     acl ssl_sni_http_host_match ssl_fc_sni,strcmp(txn.host) eq 0


sub(<value>)
  Subtracts <value> from the input value of type signed integer, and returns
  the result as an signed integer. Note: in order to subtract the input from
  a constant, simply perform a "neg,add(value)". <value> can be a numeric value
  or a variable name. The name of the variable starts with an indication about
  its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and
             response),
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing,
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing.
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

table_bytes_in_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the average client-to-server
  bytes rate associated with the input sample in the designated table, measured
  in amount of bytes over the period configured in the table. See also the
  sc_bytes_in_rate sample fetch keyword.


table_bytes_out_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the average server-to-client
  bytes rate associated with the input sample in the designated table, measured
  in amount of bytes over the period configured in the table. See also the
  sc_bytes_out_rate sample fetch keyword.

table_conn_cnt(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the cumulative number of incoming
  connections associated with the input sample in the designated table. See
  also the sc_conn_cnt sample fetch keyword.

table_conn_cur(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the current amount of concurrent
  tracked connections associated with the input sample in the designated table.
  See also the sc_conn_cur sample fetch keyword.

table_conn_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the average incoming connection
  rate associated with the input sample in the designated table. See also the
  sc_conn_rate sample fetch keyword.

table_gpt0(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, boolean value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the current value of the first
  general purpose tag associated with the input sample in the designated table.
  See also the sc_get_gpt0 sample fetch keyword.

table_gpc0(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the current value of the first
  general purpose counter associated with the input sample in the designated
  table. See also the sc_get_gpc0 sample fetch keyword.

table_gpc0_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the frequency which the gpc0
  counter was incremented over the configured period in the table, associated
  with the input sample in the designated table. See also the sc_get_gpc0_rate
  sample fetch keyword.

table_gpc1(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the current value of the second
  general purpose counter associated with the input sample in the designated
  table. See also the sc_get_gpc1 sample fetch keyword.

table_gpc1_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the frequency which the gpc1
  counter was incremented over the configured period in the table, associated
  with the input sample in the designated table. See also the sc_get_gpc1_rate
  sample fetch keyword.

table_http_err_cnt(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the cumulative number of HTTP
  errors associated with the input sample in the designated table. See also the
  sc_http_err_cnt sample fetch keyword.

table_http_err_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the average rate of HTTP errors associated with the
  input sample in the designated table, measured in amount of errors over the
  period configured in the table. See also the sc_http_err_rate sample fetch
  keyword.

table_http_req_cnt(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the cumulative number of HTTP
  requests associated with the input sample in the designated table. See also
  the sc_http_req_cnt sample fetch keyword.

table_http_req_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the average rate of HTTP requests associated with the
  input sample in the designated table, measured in amount of requests over the
  period configured in the table. See also the sc_http_req_rate sample fetch
  keyword.

table_kbytes_in(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the cumulative number of client-
  to-server data associated with the input sample in the designated table,
  measured in kilobytes. The test is currently performed on 32-bit integers,
  which limits values to 4 terabytes. See also the sc_kbytes_in sample fetch
  keyword.

table_kbytes_out(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the cumulative number of server-
  to-client data associated with the input sample in the designated table,
  measured in kilobytes. The test is currently performed on 32-bit integers,
  which limits values to 4 terabytes. See also the sc_kbytes_out sample fetch
  keyword.

table_server_id(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the server ID associated with
  the input sample in the designated table. A server ID is associated to a
  sample by a "stick" rule when a connection to a server succeeds. A server ID
  zero means that no server is associated with this key.

table_sess_cnt(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the cumulative number of incoming
  sessions associated with the input sample in the designated table. Note that
  a session here refers to an incoming connection being accepted by the
  "tcp-request connection" rulesets. See also the sc_sess_cnt sample fetch
  keyword.

table_sess_rate(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the average incoming session
  rate associated with the input sample in the designated table. Note that a
  session here refers to an incoming connection being accepted by the
  "tcp-request connection" rulesets. See also the sc_sess_rate sample fetch
  keyword.

table_trackers(<table>)
  Uses the string representation of the input sample to perform a look up in
  the specified table. If the key is not found in the table, integer value zero
  is returned. Otherwise the converter returns the current amount of concurrent
  connections tracking the same key as the input sample in the designated
  table. It differs from table_conn_cur in that it does not rely on any stored
  information but on the table's reference count (the "use" value which is
  returned by "show table" on the CLI). This may sometimes be more suited for
  layer7 tracking. It can be used to tell a server how many concurrent
  connections there are from a given address for example. See also the
  sc_trackers sample fetch keyword.

upper
  Convert a string sample to upper case. This can only be placed after a string
  sample fetch function or after a transformation keyword returning a string
  type. The result is of type string.

url_dec([<in_form>])
  Takes an url-encoded string provided as input and returns the decoded version
  as output. The input and the output are of type string. If the <in_form>
  argument is set to a non-zero integer value, the input string is assumed to
  be part of a form or query string and the '+' character will be turned into a
  space (' '). Otherwise this will only happen after a question mark indicating
  a query string ('?').

ungrpc(<field_number>,[<field_type>])
  This extracts the protocol buffers message field in raw mode of an input binary
  sample representation of a gRPC message with <field_number> as field number
  (dotted notation) if <field_type> is not present, or as an integer sample if this
  field is present.
  The list of the authorized types is the following one: "int32", "int64", "uint32",
  "uint64", "sint32", "sint64", "bool", "enum" for the "varint" wire type 0
  "fixed64", "sfixed64", "double" for the 64bit wire type 1, "fixed32", "sfixed32",
  "float" for the wire type 5. Note that "string" is considered as a length-delimited
  type, so it does not require any <field_type> argument to be extracted.
  More information may be found here about the protocol buffers message field types:
  https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding

  Example:
    // with such a protocol buffer .proto file content adapted from
    // https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/examples/protos/route_guide.proto

    message Point {
      int32 latitude = 1;
      int32 longitude = 2;
    }

    message PPoint {
      Point point = 59;
    }

    message Rectangle {
      // One corner of the rectangle.
      PPoint lo = 48;
      // The other corner of the rectangle.
      PPoint hi = 49;
    }

  let's say a body request is made of a "Rectangle" object value (two PPoint
  protocol buffers messages), the four protocol buffers fields could be
  extracted with these "ungrpc" directives:

    req.body,ungrpc(48.59.1,int32) # "latitude" of "lo" first PPoint
    req.body,ungrpc(48.59.2,int32) # "longitude" of "lo" first PPoint
    req.body,ungrpc(49.59.1,int32) # "latitude" of "hi" second PPoint
    req.body,ungrpc(49.59.2,int32) # "longitude" of "hi" second PPoint

  We could also extract the intermediary 48.59 field as a binary sample as follows:

    req.body,ungrpc(48.59)

  As a gRPC message is always made of a gRPC header followed by protocol buffers
  messages, in the previous example the "latitude" of "lo" first PPoint
  could be extracted with these equivalent directives:

    req.body,ungrpc(48.59),protobuf(1,int32)
    req.body,ungrpc(48),protobuf(59.1,int32)
    req.body,ungrpc(48),protobuf(59),protobuf(1,int32)

  Note that the first convert must be "ungrpc", the remaining ones must be
  "protobuf" and only the last one may have or not a second argument to
  interpret the previous binary sample.


unset-var(<var name>)
  Unsets a variable if the input content is defined. The name of the variable
  starts with an indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and
             response),
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing,
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing.
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

utime(<format>[,<offset>])
  Converts an integer supposed to contain a date since epoch to a string
  representing this date in UTC time using a format defined by the <format>
  string using strftime(3). The purpose is to allow any date format to be used
  in logs. An optional <offset> in seconds may be applied to the input date
  (positive or negative). See the strftime() man page for the format supported
  by your operating system. See also the ltime converter.

  Example :

      # Emit two colons, one with the UTC time and another with ip:port
      # e.g.  20140710162350 127.0.0.1:57325
      log-format %[date,utime(%Y%m%d%H%M%S)]\ %ci:%cp

word(<index>,<delimiters>[,<count>])
  Extracts the nth word counting from the beginning (positive index) or from
  the end (negative index) considering given delimiters from an input string.
  Indexes start at 1 or -1 and delimiters are a string formatted list of chars.
  Delimiters at the beginning or end of the input string are ignored.
  Optionally you can specify <count> of words to extract (default: 1).
  Value of 0 indicates extraction of all remaining words.

  Example :
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),word(4,_)    # f5
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),word(2,_,0)  # f2_f3__f5
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),word(3,_,2)  # f3__f5
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),word(-2,_,3) # f1_f2_f3
      str(f1_f2_f3__f5),word(-3,_,0) # f1_f2
      str(/f1/f2/f3/f4),word(1,/)    # f1

wt6([<avalanche>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into an unsigned 32-bit quantity using the WT6
  hash function. Optionally, it is possible to apply a full avalanche hash
  function to the output if the optional <avalanche> argument equals 1. This
  converter uses the same functions as used by the various hash-based load
  balancing algorithms, so it will provide exactly the same results. It is
  mostly intended for debugging, but can be used as a stick-table entry to
  collect rough statistics. It must not be used for security purposes as a
  32-bit hash is trivial to break. See also "crc32", "djb2", "sdbm", "crc32c",
  and the "hash-type" directive.

xor(<value>)
  Performs a bitwise "XOR" (exclusive OR) between <value> and the input value
  of type signed integer, and returns the result as an signed integer.
  <value> can be a numeric value or a variable name. The name of the variable
  starts with an indication about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and
             response),
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing,
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing.
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

xxh32([<seed>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into an unsigned 32-bit quantity using the 32-bit
  variant of the XXHash hash function. This hash supports a seed which defaults
  to zero but a different value maybe passed as the <seed> argument. This hash
  is known to be very good and very fast so it can be used to hash URLs and/or
  URL parameters for use as stick-table keys to collect statistics with a low
  collision rate, though care must be taken as the algorithm is not considered
  as cryptographically secure.

xxh64([<seed>])
  Hashes a binary input sample into a signed 64-bit quantity using the 64-bit
  variant of the XXHash hash function. This hash supports a seed which defaults
  to zero but a different value maybe passed as the <seed> argument. This hash
  is known to be very good and very fast so it can be used to hash URLs and/or
  URL parameters for use as stick-table keys to collect statistics with a low
  collision rate, though care must be taken as the algorithm is not considered
  as cryptographically secure.


7.3.2. Fetching samples from internal states
--------------------------------------------

A first set of sample fetch methods applies to internal information which does
not even relate to any client information. These ones are sometimes used with
"monitor-fail" directives to report an internal status to external watchers.
The sample fetch methods described in this section are usable anywhere.

always_false : boolean
  Always returns the boolean "false" value. It may be used with ACLs as a
  temporary replacement for another one when adjusting configurations.

always_true : boolean
  Always returns the boolean "true" value. It may be used with ACLs as a
  temporary replacement for another one when adjusting configurations.

avg_queue([<backend>]) : integer
  Returns the total number of queued connections of the designated backend
  divided by the number of active servers. The current backend is used if no
  backend is specified. This is very similar to "queue" except that the size of
  the farm is considered, in order to give a more accurate measurement of the
  time it may take for a new connection to be processed. The main usage is with
  ACL to return a sorry page to new users when it becomes certain they will get
  a degraded service, or to pass to the backend servers in a header so that
  they decide to work in degraded mode or to disable some functions to speed up
  the processing a bit. Note that in the event there would not be any active
  server anymore, twice the number of queued connections would be considered as
  the measured value. This is a fair estimate, as we expect one server to get
  back soon anyway, but we still prefer to send new traffic to another backend
  if in better shape. See also the "queue", "be_conn", and "be_sess_rate"
  sample fetches.

be_conn([<backend>]) : integer
  Applies to the number of currently established connections on the backend,
  possibly including the connection being evaluated. If no backend name is
  specified, the current one is used. But it is also possible to check another
  backend. It can be used to use a specific farm when the nominal one is full.
  See also the "fe_conn", "queue", "be_conn_free", and "be_sess_rate" criteria.

be_conn_free([<backend>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of available connections
  across available servers in the backend. Queue slots are not included. Backup
  servers are also not included, unless all other servers are down. If no
  backend name is specified, the current one is used. But it is also possible
  to check another backend. It can be used to use a specific farm when the
  nominal one is full. See also the "be_conn", "connslots", and "srv_conn_free"
  criteria.

  OTHER CAVEATS AND NOTES: if any of the server maxconn, or maxqueue is 0
  (meaning unlimited), then this fetch clearly does not make sense, in which
  case the value returned will be -1.

be_sess_rate([<backend>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the sessions creation rate on the
  backend, in number of new sessions per second. This is used with ACLs to
  switch to an alternate backend when an expensive or fragile one reaches too
  high a session rate, or to limit abuse of service (e.g. prevent sucking of an
  online dictionary). It can also be useful to add this element to logs using a
  log-format directive.

  Example :
        # Redirect to an error page if the dictionary is requested too often
        backend dynamic
            mode http
            acl being_scanned be_sess_rate gt 100
            redirect location /denied.html if being_scanned

bin(<hex>) : bin
  Returns a binary chain. The input is the hexadecimal representation
  of the string.

bool(<bool>) : bool
  Returns a boolean value. <bool> can be 'true', 'false', '1' or '0'.
  'false' and '0' are the same. 'true' and '1' are the same.

connslots([<backend>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of connection slots
  still available in the backend, by totaling the maximum amount of
  connections on all servers and the maximum queue size. This is probably only
  used with ACLs.

  The basic idea here is to be able to measure the number of connection "slots"
  still available (connection + queue), so that anything beyond that (intended
  usage; see "use_backend" keyword) can be redirected to a different backend.

  'connslots' = number of available server connection slots, + number of
  available server queue slots.

  Note that while "fe_conn" may be used, "connslots" comes in especially
  useful when you have a case of traffic going to one single ip, splitting into
  multiple backends (perhaps using ACLs to do name-based load balancing) and
  you want to be able to differentiate between different backends, and their
  available "connslots". Also, whereas "nbsrv" only measures servers that are
  actually *down*, this fetch is more fine-grained and looks into the number of
  available connection slots as well. See also "queue" and "avg_queue".

  OTHER CAVEATS AND NOTES: at this point in time, the code does not take care
  of dynamic connections. Also, if any of the server maxconn, or maxqueue is 0,
  then this fetch clearly does not make sense, in which case the value returned
  will be -1.

cpu_calls : integer
  Returns the number of calls to the task processing the stream or current
  request since it was allocated. This number is reset for each new request on
  the same connections in case of HTTP keep-alive. This value should usually be
  low and stable (around 2 calls for a typically simple request) but may become
  high if some processing (compression, caching or analysis) is performed. This
  is purely for performance monitoring purposes.

cpu_ns_avg : integer
  Returns the average number of nanoseconds spent in each call to the task
  processing the stream or current request. This number is reset for each new
  request on the same connections in case of HTTP keep-alive. This value
  indicates the overall cost of processing the request or the connection for
  each call. There is no good nor bad value but the time spent in a call
  automatically causes latency for other processing (see lat_ns_avg below),
  and may affect other connection's apparent response time. Certain operations
  like compression, complex regex matching or heavy Lua operations may directly
  affect this value, and having it in the logs will make it easier to spot the
  faulty processing that needs to be fixed to recover decent performance.
  Note: this value is exactly cpu_ns_tot divided by cpu_calls.

cpu_ns_tot : integer
  Returns the total number of nanoseconds spent in each call to the task
  processing the stream or current request. This number is reset for each new
  request on the same connections in case of HTTP keep-alive. This value
  indicates the overall cost of processing the request or the connection for
  each call. There is no good nor bad value but the time spent in a call
  automatically causes latency for other processing (see lat_ns_avg below),
  induces CPU costs on the machine, and may affect other connection's apparent
  response time. Certain operations like compression, complex regex matching or
  heavy Lua operations may directly affect this value, and having it in the
  logs will make it easier to spot the faulty processing that needs to be fixed
  to recover decent performance. The value may be artificially high due to a
  high cpu_calls count, for example when processing many HTTP chunks, and for
  this reason it is often preferred to log cpu_ns_avg instead.

date([<offset>],[<unit>]) : integer
  Returns the current date as the epoch (number of seconds since 01/01/1970).

  If an offset value is specified, then it is added to the current date before
  returning the value. This is particularly useful to compute relative dates,
  as both positive and negative offsets are allowed.
  It is useful combined with the http_date converter.

  <unit> is facultative, and can be set to "s" for seconds (default behavior),
  "ms" for  milliseconds or "us" for microseconds.
  If unit is set, return value is an integer reflecting either seconds,
  milliseconds or microseconds since epoch, plus offset.
  It is useful when a time resolution of less than a second is needed.

  Example :

     # set an expires header to now+1 hour in every response
     http-response set-header Expires %[date(3600),http_date]

     # set an expires header to now+1 hour in every response, with
     # millisecond granularity
     http-response set-header Expires %[date(3600000,ms),http_date(0,ms)]

date_us : integer
  Return the microseconds part of the date (the "second" part is returned by
  date sample). This sample is coherent with the date sample as it is comes
  from the same timeval structure.

distcc_body(<token>[,<occ>]) : binary
  Parses a distcc message and returns the body associated to occurrence #<occ>
  of the token <token>. Occurrences start at 1, and when unspecified, any may
  match though in practice only the first one is checked for now. This can be
  used to extract file names or arguments in files built using distcc through
  haproxy. Please refer to distcc's protocol documentation for the complete
  list of supported tokens.

distcc_param(<token>[,<occ>]) : integer
  Parses a distcc message and returns the parameter associated to occurrence
  #<occ> of the token <token>. Occurrences start at 1, and when unspecified,
  any may match though in practice only the first one is checked for now. This
  can be used to extract certain information such as the protocol version, the
  file size or the argument in files built using distcc through haproxy.
  Another use case consists in waiting for the start of the preprocessed file
  contents before connecting to the server to avoid keeping idle connections.
  Please refer to distcc's protocol documentation for the complete list of
  supported tokens.

  Example :
      # wait up to 20s for the pre-processed file to be uploaded
      tcp-request inspect-delay 20s
      tcp-request content accept if { distcc_param(DOTI) -m found }
      # send large files to the big farm
      use_backend big_farm if { distcc_param(DOTI) gt 1000000 }

env(<name>) : string
  Returns a string containing the value of environment variable <name>. As a
  reminder, environment variables are per-process and are sampled when the
  process starts. This can be useful to pass some information to a next hop
  server, or with ACLs to take specific action when the process is started a
  certain way.

  Examples :
      # Pass the Via header to next hop with the local hostname in it
      http-request add-header Via 1.1\ %[env(HOSTNAME)]

      # reject cookie-less requests when the STOP environment variable is set
      http-request deny if !{ cook(SESSIONID) -m found } { env(STOP) -m found }

fe_conn([<frontend>]) : integer
  Returns the number of currently established connections on the frontend,
  possibly including the connection being evaluated. If no frontend name is
  specified, the current one is used. But it is also possible to check another
  frontend. It can be used to return a sorry page before hard-blocking, or to
  use a specific backend to drain new requests when the farm is considered
  full. This is mostly used with ACLs but can also be used to pass some
  statistics to servers in HTTP headers. See also the "dst_conn", "be_conn",
  "fe_sess_rate" fetches.

fe_req_rate([<frontend>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of HTTP requests per
  second sent to a frontend. This number can differ from "fe_sess_rate" in
  situations where client-side keep-alive is enabled.

fe_sess_rate([<frontend>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the sessions creation rate on the
  frontend, in number of new sessions per second. This is used with ACLs to
  limit the incoming session rate to an acceptable range in order to prevent
  abuse of service at the earliest moment, for example when combined with other
  layer 4 ACLs in order to force the clients to wait a bit for the rate to go
  down below the limit. It can also be useful to add this element to logs using
  a log-format directive. See also the "rate-limit sessions" directive for use
  in frontends.

  Example :
        # This frontend limits incoming mails to 10/s with a max of 100
        # concurrent connections. We accept any connection below 10/s, and
        # force excess clients to wait for 100 ms. Since clients are limited to
        # 100 max, there cannot be more than 10 incoming mails per second.
        frontend mail
            bind :25
            mode tcp
            maxconn 100
            acl too_fast fe_sess_rate ge 10
            tcp-request inspect-delay 100ms
            tcp-request content accept if ! too_fast
            tcp-request content accept if WAIT_END

hostname : string
  Returns the system hostname.

int(<integer>) : signed integer
  Returns a signed integer.

ipv4(<ipv4>) : ipv4
  Returns an ipv4.

ipv6(<ipv6>) : ipv6
  Returns an ipv6.

lat_ns_avg : integer
  Returns the average number of nanoseconds spent between the moment the task
  handling the stream is woken up and the moment it is effectively called. This
  number is reset for each new request on the same connections in case of HTTP
  keep-alive. This value indicates the overall latency inflicted to the current
  request by all other requests being processed in parallel, and is a direct
  indicator of perceived performance due to noisy neighbours. In order to keep
  the value low, it is possible to reduce the scheduler's run queue depth using
  "tune.runqueue-depth", to reduce the number of concurrent events processed at
  once using "tune.maxpollevents", to decrease the stream's nice value using
  the "nice" option on the "bind" lines or in the frontend, to enable low
  latency scheduling using "tune.sched.low-latency", or to look for other heavy
  requests in logs (those exhibiting large values of "cpu_ns_avg"), whose
  processing needs to be adjusted or fixed. Compression of large buffers could
  be a culprit, like heavy regex or long lists of regex. Note: this value is
  exactly lat_ns_tot divided by cpu_calls.

lat_ns_tot : integer
  Returns the total number of nanoseconds spent between the moment the task
  handling the stream is woken up and the moment it is effectively called. This
  number is reset for each new request on the same connections in case of HTTP
  keep-alive. This value indicates the overall latency inflicted to the current
  request by all other requests being processed in parallel, and is a direct
  indicator of perceived performance due to noisy neighbours. In order to keep
  the value low, it is possible to reduce the scheduler's run queue depth using
  "tune.runqueue-depth", to reduce the number of concurrent events processed at
  once using "tune.maxpollevents", to decrease the stream's nice value using
  the "nice" option on the "bind" lines or in the frontend, to enable low
  latency scheduling using "tune.sched.low-latency", or to look for other heavy
  requests in logs (those exhibiting large values of "cpu_ns_avg"), whose
  processing needs to be adjusted or fixed. Compression of large buffers could
  be a culprit, like heavy regex or long lists of regex. Note: while it
  may intuitively seem that the total latency adds to a transfer time, it is
  almost never true because while a task waits for the CPU, network buffers
  continue to fill up and the next call will process more at once. The value
  may be artificially high due to a high cpu_calls count, for example when
  processing many HTTP chunks, and for this reason it is often preferred to log
  lat_ns_avg instead, which is a more relevant performance indicator.

meth(<method>) : method
  Returns a method.

nbproc : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of processes that were
  started (it equals the global "nbproc" setting). This is useful for logging
  and debugging purposes.

nbsrv([<backend>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of usable servers of
  either the current backend or the named backend. This is mostly used with
  ACLs but can also be useful when added to logs. This is normally used to
  switch to an alternate backend when the number of servers is too low to
  to handle some load. It is useful to report a failure when combined with
  "monitor fail".

prio_class : integer
  Returns the priority class of the current session for http mode or connection
  for tcp mode. The value will be that set by the last call to "http-request
  set-priority-class" or "tcp-request content set-priority-class".

prio_offset : integer
  Returns the priority offset of the current session for http mode or
  connection for tcp mode. The value will be that set by the last call to
  "http-request set-priority-offset" or "tcp-request content
  set-priority-offset".

proc : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the position of the process calling
  the function, between 1 and global.nbproc. This is useful for logging and
  debugging purposes.

queue([<backend>]) : integer
  Returns the total number of queued connections of the designated backend,
  including all the connections in server queues. If no backend name is
  specified, the current one is used, but it is also possible to check another
  one. This is useful with ACLs or to pass statistics to backend servers. This
  can be used to take actions when queuing goes above a known level, generally
  indicating a surge of traffic or a massive slowdown on the servers. One
  possible action could be to reject new users but still accept old ones. See
  also the "avg_queue", "be_conn", and "be_sess_rate" fetches.

rand([<range>]) : integer
  Returns a random integer value within a range of <range> possible values,
  starting at zero. If the range is not specified, it defaults to 2^32, which
  gives numbers between 0 and 4294967295. It can be useful to pass some values
  needed to take some routing decisions for example, or just for debugging
  purposes. This random must not be used for security purposes.

uuid([<version>]) : string
  Returns a UUID following the RFC4122 standard. If the version is not
  specified, a UUID version 4 (fully random) is returned.
  Currently, only version 4 is supported.

srv_conn([<backend>/]<server>) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of currently established
  connections on the designated server, possibly including the connection being
  evaluated. If <backend> is omitted, then the server is looked up in the
  current backend. It can be used to use a specific farm when one server is
  full, or to inform the server about our view of the number of active
  connections with it. See also the "fe_conn", "be_conn", "queue", and
  "srv_conn_free" fetch methods.

srv_conn_free([<backend>/]<server>) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of available connections
  on the designated server, possibly including the connection being evaluated.
  The value does not include queue slots. If <backend> is omitted, then the
  server is looked up in the current backend. It can be used to use a specific
  farm when one server is full, or to inform the server about our view of the
  number of active connections with it. See also the "be_conn_free" and
  "srv_conn" fetch methods.

  OTHER CAVEATS AND NOTES: If the server maxconn is 0, then this fetch clearly
  does not make sense, in which case the value returned will be -1.

srv_is_up([<backend>/]<server>) : boolean
  Returns true when the designated server is UP, and false when it is either
  DOWN or in maintenance mode. If <backend> is omitted, then the server is
  looked up in the current backend. It is mainly used to take action based on
  an external status reported via a health check (e.g. a geographical site's
  availability). Another possible use which is more of a hack consists in
  using dummy servers as boolean variables that can be enabled or disabled from
  the CLI, so that rules depending on those ACLs can be tweaked in realtime.

srv_queue([<backend>/]<server>) : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of connections currently
  pending in the designated server's queue. If <backend> is omitted, then the
  server is looked up in the current backend. It can sometimes be used together
  with the "use-server" directive to force to use a known faster server when it
  is not much loaded. See also the "srv_conn", "avg_queue" and "queue" sample
  fetch methods.

srv_sess_rate([<backend>/]<server>) : integer
  Returns an integer corresponding to the sessions creation rate on the
  designated server, in number of new sessions per second. If <backend> is
  omitted, then the server is looked up in the current backend. This is mostly
  used with ACLs but can make sense with logs too. This is used to switch to an
  alternate backend when an expensive or fragile one reaches too high a session
  rate, or to limit abuse of service (e.g. prevent latent requests from
  overloading servers).

  Example :
        # Redirect to a separate back
        acl srv1_full srv_sess_rate(be1/srv1) gt 50
        acl srv2_full srv_sess_rate(be1/srv2) gt 50
        use_backend be2 if srv1_full or srv2_full

srv_iweight([<backend>/]<server>): integer
  Returns an integer corresponding to the server's initial weight. If <backend>
  is omitted, then the server is looked up in the current backend. See also
  "srv_weight" and "srv_uweight".

srv_uweight([<backend>/]<server>): integer
  Returns an integer corresponding to the user visible server's weight. If
  <backend> is omitted, then the server is looked up in the current
  backend. See also "srv_weight" and "srv_iweight".

srv_weight([<backend>/]<server>): integer
  Returns an integer corresponding to the current (or effective) server's
  weight. If <backend> is omitted, then the server is looked up in the current
  backend. See also "srv_iweight" and "srv_uweight".

stopping : boolean
  Returns TRUE if the process calling the function is currently stopping. This
  can be useful for logging, or for relaxing certain checks or helping close
  certain connections upon graceful shutdown.

str(<string>) : string
  Returns a string.

table_avl([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the total number of available entries in the current proxy's
  stick-table or in the designated stick-table. See also table_cnt.

table_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the total number of entries currently in use in the current proxy's
  stick-table or in the designated stick-table. See also src_conn_cnt and
  table_avl for other entry counting methods.

thread : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the position of the thread calling
  the function, between 0 and (global.nbthread-1). This is useful for logging
  and debugging purposes.

var(<var-name>) : undefined
  Returns a variable with the stored type. If the variable is not set, the
  sample fetch fails. The name of the variable starts with an indication
  about its scope. The scopes allowed are:
    "proc" : the variable is shared with the whole process
    "sess" : the variable is shared with the whole session
    "txn"  : the variable is shared with the transaction (request and
             response),
    "req"  : the variable is shared only during request processing,
    "res"  : the variable is shared only during response processing.
  This prefix is followed by a name. The separator is a '.'. The name may only
  contain characters 'a-z', 'A-Z', '0-9', '.' and '_'.

7.3.3. Fetching samples at Layer 4
----------------------------------

The layer 4 usually describes just the transport layer which in haproxy is
closest to the connection, where no content is yet made available. The fetch
methods described here are usable as low as the "tcp-request connection" rule
sets unless they require some future information. Those generally include
TCP/IP addresses and ports, as well as elements from stick-tables related to
the incoming connection. For retrieving a value from a sticky counters, the
counter number can be explicitly set as 0, 1, or 2 using the pre-defined
"sc0_", "sc1_", or "sc2_" prefix. These three pre-defined prefixes can only be
used if MAX_SESS_STKCTR value does not exceed 3, otherwise the counter number
can be specified as the first integer argument when using the "sc_" prefix.
Starting from "sc_0" to "sc_N" where N is (MAX_SESS_STKCTR-1). An optional
table may be specified with the "sc*" form, in which case the currently
tracked key will be looked up into this alternate table instead of the table
currently being tracked.

bc_http_major : integer
  Returns the backend connection's HTTP major version encoding, which may be 1
  for HTTP/0.9 to HTTP/1.1 or 2 for HTTP/2. Note, this is based on the on-wire
  encoding and not the version present in the request header.

be_id : integer
  Returns an integer containing the current backend's id. It can be used in
  frontends with responses to check which backend processed the request. It can
  also be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

be_name : string
  Returns a string containing the current backend's name. It can be used in
  frontends with responses to check which backend processed the request. It can
  also be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

be_server_timeout : integer
  Returns the configuration value in millisecond for the server timeout of the
  current backend. This timeout can be overwritten by a "set-timeout" rule. See
  also the "cur_server_timeout".

be_tunnel_timeout : integer
  Returns the configuration value in millisecond for the tunnel timeout of the
  current backend. This timeout can be overwritten by a "set-timeout" rule. See
  also the "cur_tunnel_timeout".

cur_server_timeout : integer
  Returns the currently applied server timeout in millisecond for the stream.
  In the default case, this will be equal to be_server_timeout unless a
  "set-timeout" rule has been applied. See also "be_server_timeout".

cur_tunnel_timeout : integer
  Returns the currently applied tunnel timeout in millisecond for the stream.
  In the default case, this will be equal to be_tunnel_timeout unless a
  "set-timeout" rule has been applied. See also "be_tunnel_timeout".

dst : ip
  This is the destination IPv4 address of the connection on the client side,
  which is the address the client connected to. It can be useful when running
  in transparent mode. It is of type IP and works on both IPv4 and IPv6 tables.
  On IPv6 tables, IPv4 address is mapped to its IPv6 equivalent, according to
  RFC 4291. When the incoming connection passed through address translation or
  redirection involving connection tracking, the original destination address
  before the redirection will be reported. On Linux systems, the source and
  destination may seldom appear reversed if the nf_conntrack_tcp_loose sysctl
  is set, because a late response may reopen a timed out connection and switch
  what is believed to be the source and the destination.

dst_conn : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of currently established
  connections on the same socket including the one being evaluated. It is
  normally used with ACLs but can as well be used to pass the information to
  servers in an HTTP header or in logs. It can be used to either return a sorry
  page before hard-blocking, or to use a specific backend to drain new requests
  when the socket is considered saturated. This offers the ability to assign
  different limits to different listening ports or addresses. See also the
  "fe_conn" and "be_conn" fetches.

dst_is_local : boolean
  Returns true if the destination address of the incoming connection is local
  to the system, or false if the address doesn't exist on the system, meaning
  that it was intercepted in transparent mode. It can be useful to apply
  certain rules by default to forwarded traffic and other rules to the traffic
  targeting the real address of the machine. For example the stats page could
  be delivered only on this address, or SSH access could be locally redirected.
  Please note that the check involves a few system calls, so it's better to do
  it only once per connection.

dst_port : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the destination TCP port of the
  connection on the client side, which is the port the client connected to.
  This might be used when running in transparent mode, when assigning dynamic
  ports to some clients for a whole application session, to stick all users to
  a same server, or to pass the destination port information to a server using
  an HTTP header.

fc_http_major : integer
  Reports the front connection's HTTP major version encoding, which may be 1
  for HTTP/0.9 to HTTP/1.1 or 2 for HTTP/2. Note, this is based on the on-wire
  encoding and not on the version present in the request header.

fc_pp_authority : string
  Returns the authority TLV sent by the client in the PROXY protocol header,
  if any.

fc_pp_unique_id : string
  Returns the unique ID TLV sent by the client in the PROXY protocol header,
  if any.

fc_rcvd_proxy : boolean
  Returns true if the client initiated the connection with a PROXY protocol
  header.

fc_rtt(<unit>) : integer
  Returns the Round Trip Time (RTT) measured by the kernel for the client
  connection. <unit> is facultative, by default the unit is milliseconds. <unit>
  can be set to "ms" for milliseconds or "us" for microseconds. If the server
  connection is not established, if the connection is not TCP or if the
  operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example Linux kernels before
  2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_rttvar(<unit>) : integer
  Returns the Round Trip Time (RTT) variance measured by the kernel for the
  client connection. <unit> is facultative, by default the unit is milliseconds.
  <unit> can be set to "ms" for milliseconds or "us" for microseconds. If the
  server connection is not established, if the connection is not TCP or if the
  operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example Linux kernels before
  2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_unacked : integer
  Returns the unacked counter measured by the kernel for the client connection.
  If the server connection is not established, if the connection is not TCP or
  if the operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example Linux kernels
  before 2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_sacked : integer
  Returns the sacked counter measured by the kernel for the client connection.
  If the server connection is not established, if the connection is not TCP or
  if the operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example Linux kernels
  before 2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_retrans : integer
  Returns the retransmits counter measured by the kernel for the client
  connection. If the server connection is not established, if the connection is
  not TCP or if the operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example
  Linux kernels before 2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_fackets : integer
  Returns the fack counter measured by the kernel for the client
  connection. If the server connection is not established, if the connection is
  not TCP or if the operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example
  Linux kernels before 2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_lost : integer
  Returns the lost counter measured by the kernel for the client
  connection. If the server connection is not established, if the connection is
  not TCP or if the operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example
  Linux kernels before 2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fc_reordering : integer
  Returns the reordering counter measured by the kernel for the client
  connection. If the server connection is not established, if the connection is
  not TCP or if the operating system does not support TCP_INFO, for example
  Linux kernels before 2.4, the sample fetch fails.

fe_defbe : string
  Returns a string containing the frontend's default backend name. It can be
  used in frontends to check which backend will handle requests by default.

fe_id : integer
  Returns an integer containing the current frontend's id. It can be used in
  backends to check from which frontend it was called, or to stick all users
  coming via a same frontend to the same server.

fe_name : string
  Returns a string containing the current frontend's name. It can be used in
  backends to check from which frontend it was called, or to stick all users
  coming via a same frontend to the same server.

fe_client_timeout : integer
  Returns the configuration value in millisecond for the client timeout of the
  current frontend.

sc_bytes_in_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_bytes_in_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_bytes_in_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_bytes_in_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average client-to-server bytes rate from the currently tracked
  counters, measured in amount of bytes over the period configured in the
  table. See also src_bytes_in_rate.

sc_bytes_out_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_bytes_out_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_bytes_out_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_bytes_out_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average server-to-client bytes rate from the currently tracked
  counters, measured in amount of bytes over the period configured in the
  table. See also src_bytes_out_rate.

sc_clr_gpc0(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_clr_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
sc1_clr_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
sc2_clr_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
  Clears the first General Purpose Counter associated to the currently tracked
  counters, and returns its previous value. Before the first invocation, the
  stored value is zero, so first invocation will always return zero. This is
  typically used as a second ACL in an expression in order to mark a connection
  when a first ACL was verified :

  Example:
        # block if 5 consecutive requests continue to come faster than 10 sess
        # per second, and reset the counter as soon as the traffic slows down.
        acl abuse sc0_http_req_rate gt 10
        acl kill  sc0_inc_gpc0 gt 5
        acl save  sc0_clr_gpc0 ge 0
        tcp-request connection accept if !abuse save
        tcp-request connection reject if abuse kill

sc_clr_gpc1(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_clr_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
sc1_clr_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
sc2_clr_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
  Clears the second General Purpose Counter associated to the currently tracked
  counters, and returns its previous value. Before the first invocation, the
  stored value is zero, so first invocation will always return zero. This is
  typically used as a second ACL in an expression in order to mark a connection
  when a first ACL was verified.

sc_conn_cnt(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_conn_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc1_conn_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc2_conn_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of incoming connections from currently tracked
  counters. See also src_conn_cnt.

sc_conn_cur(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_conn_cur([<table>]) : integer
sc1_conn_cur([<table>]) : integer
sc2_conn_cur([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the current amount of concurrent connections tracking the same
  tracked counters. This number is automatically incremented when tracking
  begins and decremented when tracking stops. See also src_conn_cur.

sc_conn_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_conn_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_conn_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_conn_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average connection rate from the currently tracked counters,
  measured in amount of connections over the period configured in the table.
  See also src_conn_rate.

sc_get_gpc0(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_get_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
sc1_get_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
sc2_get_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the value of the first General Purpose Counter associated to the
  currently tracked counters. See also src_get_gpc0 and sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_inc_gpc0.

sc_get_gpc1(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_get_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
sc1_get_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
sc2_get_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the value of the second General Purpose Counter associated to the
  currently tracked counters. See also src_get_gpc1 and sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_inc_gpc1.

sc_get_gpt0(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_get_gpt0([<table>]) : integer
sc1_get_gpt0([<table>]) : integer
sc2_get_gpt0([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the value of the first General Purpose Tag associated to the
  currently tracked counters. See also src_get_gpt0.

sc_gpc0_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_gpc0_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_gpc0_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_gpc0_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average increment rate of the first General Purpose Counter
  associated to the currently tracked counters. It reports the frequency
  which the gpc0 counter was incremented over the configured period. See also
  src_gpc0_rate, sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_get_gpc0, and sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_inc_gpc0. Note
  that the "gpc0_rate" counter must be stored in the stick-table for a value to
  be returned, as "gpc0" only holds the event count.

sc_gpc1_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_gpc1_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_gpc1_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_gpc1_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average increment rate of the second General Purpose Counter
  associated to the currently tracked counters. It reports the frequency
  which the gpc1 counter was incremented over the configured period. See also
  src_gpcA_rate, sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_get_gpc1, and sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_inc_gpc1. Note
  that the "gpc1_rate" counter must be stored in the stick-table for a value to
  be returned, as "gpc1" only holds the event count.

sc_http_err_cnt(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_http_err_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc1_http_err_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc2_http_err_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of HTTP errors from the currently tracked
  counters. This includes the both request errors and 4xx error responses.
  See also src_http_err_cnt.

sc_http_err_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_http_err_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_http_err_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_http_err_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average rate of HTTP errors from the currently tracked counters,
  measured in amount of errors over the period configured in the table. This
  includes the both request errors and 4xx error responses. See also
  src_http_err_rate.

sc_http_req_cnt(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_http_req_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc1_http_req_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc2_http_req_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of HTTP requests from the currently tracked
  counters. This includes every started request, valid or not. See also
  src_http_req_cnt.

sc_http_req_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_http_req_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_http_req_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_http_req_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average rate of HTTP requests from the currently tracked
  counters, measured in amount of requests over the period configured in
  the table. This includes every started request, valid or not. See also
  src_http_req_rate.

sc_inc_gpc0(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_inc_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
sc1_inc_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
sc2_inc_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
  Increments the first General Purpose Counter associated to the currently
  tracked counters, and returns its new value. Before the first invocation,
  the stored value is zero, so first invocation will increase it to 1 and will
  return 1. This is typically used as a second ACL in an expression in order
  to mark a connection when a first ACL was verified :

  Example:
        acl abuse sc0_http_req_rate gt 10
        acl kill  sc0_inc_gpc0 gt 0
        tcp-request connection reject if abuse kill

sc_inc_gpc1(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_inc_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
sc1_inc_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
sc2_inc_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
  Increments the second General Purpose Counter associated to the currently
  tracked counters, and returns its new value. Before the first invocation,
  the stored value is zero, so first invocation will increase it to 1 and will
  return 1. This is typically used as a second ACL in an expression in order
  to mark a connection when a first ACL was verified.

sc_kbytes_in(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_kbytes_in([<table>]) : integer
sc1_kbytes_in([<table>]) : integer
sc2_kbytes_in([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the total amount of client-to-server data from the currently tracked
  counters, measured in kilobytes. The test is currently performed on 32-bit
  integers, which limits values to 4 terabytes. See also src_kbytes_in.

sc_kbytes_out(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_kbytes_out([<table>]) : integer
sc1_kbytes_out([<table>]) : integer
sc2_kbytes_out([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the total amount of server-to-client data from the currently tracked
  counters, measured in kilobytes. The test is currently performed on 32-bit
  integers, which limits values to 4 terabytes. See also src_kbytes_out.

sc_sess_cnt(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_sess_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc1_sess_cnt([<table>]) : integer
sc2_sess_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of incoming connections that were transformed
  into sessions, which means that they were accepted by a "tcp-request
  connection" rule, from the currently tracked counters. A backend may count
  more sessions than connections because each connection could result in many
  backend sessions if some HTTP keep-alive is performed over the connection
  with the client. See also src_sess_cnt.

sc_sess_rate(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_sess_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc1_sess_rate([<table>]) : integer
sc2_sess_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average session rate from the currently tracked counters,
  measured in amount of sessions over the period configured in the table. A
  session is a connection that got past the early "tcp-request connection"
  rules. A backend may count more sessions than connections because each
  connection could result in many backend sessions if some HTTP keep-alive is
  performed over the connection with the client. See also src_sess_rate.

sc_tracked(<ctr>[,<table>]) : boolean
sc0_tracked([<table>]) : boolean
sc1_tracked([<table>]) : boolean
sc2_tracked([<table>]) : boolean
  Returns true if the designated session counter is currently being tracked by
  the current session. This can be useful when deciding whether or not we want
  to set some values in a header passed to the server.

sc_trackers(<ctr>[,<table>]) : integer
sc0_trackers([<table>]) : integer
sc1_trackers([<table>]) : integer
sc2_trackers([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the current amount of concurrent connections tracking the same
  tracked counters. This number is automatically incremented when tracking
  begins and decremented when tracking stops. It differs from sc0_conn_cur in
  that it does not rely on any stored information but on the table's reference
  count (the "use" value which is returned by "show table" on the CLI). This
  may sometimes be more suited for layer7 tracking. It can be used to tell a
  server how many concurrent connections there are from a given address for
  example.

so_id : integer
  Returns an integer containing the current listening socket's id. It is useful
  in frontends involving many "bind" lines, or to stick all users coming via a
  same socket to the same server.

so_name : string
  Returns a string containing the current listening socket's name, as defined
  with name on a "bind" line. It can serve the same purposes as so_id but with
  strings instead of integers.

src : ip
  This is the source IPv4 address of the client of the session. It is of type
  IP and works on both IPv4 and IPv6 tables. On IPv6 tables, IPv4 addresses are
  mapped to their IPv6 equivalent, according to RFC 4291. Note that it is the
  TCP-level source address which is used, and not the address of a client
  behind a proxy. However if the "accept-proxy" or "accept-netscaler-cip" bind
  directive is used, it can be the address of a client behind another
  PROXY-protocol compatible component for all rule sets except
  "tcp-request connection" which sees the real address. When the incoming
  connection passed through address translation or redirection involving
  connection tracking, the original destination address before the redirection
  will be reported. On Linux systems, the source and destination may seldom
  appear reversed if the nf_conntrack_tcp_loose sysctl is set, because a late
  response may reopen a timed out connection and switch what is believed to be
  the source and the destination.

  Example:
       # add an HTTP header in requests with the originating address' country
       http-request set-header X-Country %[src,map_ip(geoip.lst)]

src_bytes_in_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average bytes rate from the incoming connection's source address
  in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table, measured
  in amount of bytes over the period configured in the table. If the address is
  not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_bytes_in_rate.

src_bytes_out_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average bytes rate to the incoming connection's source address in
  the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table, measured in
  amount of bytes over the period configured in the table. If the address is
  not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_bytes_out_rate.

src_clr_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
  Clears the first General Purpose Counter associated to the incoming
  connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the
  designated stick-table, and returns its previous value. If the address is not
  found, an entry is created and 0 is returned. This is typically used as a
  second ACL in an expression in order to mark a connection when a first ACL
  was verified :

  Example:
        # block if 5 consecutive requests continue to come faster than 10 sess
        # per second, and reset the counter as soon as the traffic slows down.
        acl abuse src_http_req_rate gt 10
        acl kill  src_inc_gpc0 gt 5
        acl save  src_clr_gpc0 ge 0
        tcp-request connection accept if !abuse save
        tcp-request connection reject if abuse kill

src_clr_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
  Clears the second General Purpose Counter associated to the incoming
  connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the
  designated stick-table, and returns its previous value. If the address is not
  found, an entry is created and 0 is returned. This is typically used as a
  second ACL in an expression in order to mark a connection when a first ACL
  was verified.

src_conn_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of connections initiated from the current
  incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in
  the designated stick-table. If the address is not found, zero is returned.
  See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_conn_cnt.

src_conn_cur([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the current amount of concurrent connections initiated from the
  current incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's
  stick-table or in the designated stick-table. If the address is not found,
  zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_conn_cur.

src_conn_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average connection rate from the incoming connection's source
  address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table,
  measured in amount of connections over the period configured in the table. If
  the address is not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_conn_rate.

src_get_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the value of the first General Purpose Counter associated to the
  incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in
  the designated stick-table. If the address is not found, zero is returned.
  See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_get_gpc0 and src_inc_gpc0.

src_get_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the value of the second General Purpose Counter associated to the
  incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in
  the designated stick-table. If the address is not found, zero is returned.
  See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_get_gpc1 and src_inc_gpc1.

src_get_gpt0([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the value of the first General Purpose Tag associated to the
  incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in
  the designated stick-table. If the address is not found, zero is returned.
  See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_get_gpt0.

src_gpc0_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average increment rate of the first General Purpose Counter
  associated to the incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's
  stick-table or in the designated stick-table. It reports the frequency
  which the gpc0 counter was incremented over the configured period. See also
  sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_gpc0_rate, src_get_gpc0, and sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_inc_gpc0. Note
  that the "gpc0_rate" counter must be stored in the stick-table for a value to
  be returned, as "gpc0" only holds the event count.

src_gpc1_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average increment rate of the second General Purpose Counter
  associated to the incoming connection's source address in the current proxy's
  stick-table or in the designated stick-table. It reports the frequency
  which the gpc1 counter was incremented over the configured period. See also
  sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_gpc1_rate, src_get_gpc1, and sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_inc_gpc1. Note
  that the "gpc1_rate" counter must be stored in the stick-table for a value to
  be returned, as "gpc1" only holds the event count.

src_http_err_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of HTTP errors from the incoming connection's
  source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated
  stick-table. This includes the both request errors and 4xx error responses.
  See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_http_err_cnt. If the address is not found, zero is
  returned.

src_http_err_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average rate of HTTP errors from the incoming connection's source
  address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table,
  measured in amount of errors over the period configured in the table. This
  includes the both request errors and 4xx error responses. If the address is
  not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_http_err_rate.

src_http_req_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of HTTP requests from the incoming connection's
  source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-
  table. This includes every started request, valid or not. If the address is
  not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_http_req_cnt.

src_http_req_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average rate of HTTP requests from the incoming connection's
  source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-
  table, measured in amount of requests over the period configured in the
  table. This includes every started request, valid or not. If the address is
  not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_http_req_rate.

src_inc_gpc0([<table>]) : integer
  Increments the first General Purpose Counter associated to the incoming
  connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the
  designated stick-table, and returns its new value. If the address is not
  found, an entry is created and 1 is returned. See also sc0/sc2/sc2_inc_gpc0.
  This is typically used as a second ACL in an expression in order to mark a
  connection when a first ACL was verified :

  Example:
        acl abuse src_http_req_rate gt 10
        acl kill  src_inc_gpc0 gt 0
        tcp-request connection reject if abuse kill

src_inc_gpc1([<table>]) : integer
  Increments the second General Purpose Counter associated to the incoming
  connection's source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the
  designated stick-table, and returns its new value. If the address is not
  found, an entry is created and 1 is returned. See also sc0/sc2/sc2_inc_gpc1.
  This is typically used as a second ACL in an expression in order to mark a
  connection when a first ACL was verified.

src_is_local : boolean
  Returns true if the source address of the incoming connection is local to the
  system, or false if the address doesn't exist on the system, meaning that it
  comes from a remote machine. Note that UNIX addresses are considered local.
  It can be useful to apply certain access restrictions based on where the
  client comes from (e.g. require auth or https for remote machines). Please
  note that the check involves a few system calls, so it's better to do it only
  once per connection.

src_kbytes_in([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the total amount of data received from the incoming connection's
  source address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated
  stick-table, measured in kilobytes. If the address is not found, zero is
  returned. The test is currently performed on 32-bit integers, which limits
  values to 4 terabytes. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_kbytes_in.

src_kbytes_out([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the total amount of data sent to the incoming connection's source
  address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table,
  measured in kilobytes. If the address is not found, zero is returned. The
  test is currently performed on 32-bit integers, which limits values to 4
  terabytes. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_kbytes_out.

src_port : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the TCP source port of the
  connection on the client side, which is the port the client connected from.
  Usage of this function is very limited as modern protocols do not care much
  about source ports nowadays.

src_sess_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the cumulative number of connections initiated from the incoming
  connection's source IPv4 address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the
  designated stick-table, that were transformed into sessions, which means that
  they were accepted by "tcp-request" rules. If the address is not found, zero
  is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_sess_cnt.

src_sess_rate([<table>]) : integer
  Returns the average session rate from the incoming connection's source
  address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table,
  measured in amount of sessions over the period configured in the table. A
  session is a connection that went past the early "tcp-request" rules. If the
  address is not found, zero is returned. See also sc/sc0/sc1/sc2_sess_rate.

src_updt_conn_cnt([<table>]) : integer
  Creates or updates the entry associated to the incoming connection's source
  address in the current proxy's stick-table or in the designated stick-table.
  This table must be configured to store the "conn_cnt" data type, otherwise
  the match will be ignored. The current count is incremented by one, and the
  expiration timer refreshed. The updated count is returned, so this match
  can't return zero. This was used to reject service abusers based on their
  source address. Note: it is recommended to use the more complete "track-sc*"
  actions in "tcp-request" rules instead.

  Example :
        # This frontend limits incoming SSH connections to 3 per 10 second for
        # each source address, and rejects excess connections until a 10 second
        # silence is observed. At most 20 addresses are tracked.
        listen ssh
            bind :22
            mode tcp
            maxconn 100
            stick-table type ip size 20 expire 10s store conn_cnt
            tcp-request content reject if { src_updt_conn_cnt gt 3 }
            server local 127.0.0.1:22

srv_id : integer
  Returns an integer containing the server's id when processing the response.
  While it's almost only used with ACLs, it may be used for logging or
  debugging. It can also be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

srv_name : string
  Returns a string containing the server's name when processing the response.
  While it's almost only used with ACLs, it may be used for logging or
  debugging. It can also be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

7.3.4. Fetching samples at Layer 5
----------------------------------

The layer 5 usually describes just the session layer which in haproxy is
closest to the session once all the connection handshakes are finished, but
when no content is yet made available. The fetch methods described here are
usable as low as the "tcp-request content" rule sets unless they require some
future information. Those generally include the results of SSL negotiations.

51d.all(<prop>[,<prop>*]) : string
  Returns values for the properties requested as a string, where values are
  separated by the delimiter specified with "51degrees-property-separator".
  The device is identified using all the important HTTP headers from the
  request. The function can be passed up to five property names, and if a
  property name can't be found, the value "NoData" is returned.

  Example :
    # Here the header "X-51D-DeviceTypeMobileTablet" is added to the request
    # containing the three properties requested using all relevant headers from
    # the request.
    frontend http-in
      bind *:8081
      default_backend servers
      http-request set-header X-51D-DeviceTypeMobileTablet \
        %[51d.all(DeviceType,IsMobile,IsTablet)]

ssl_bc : boolean
  Returns true when the back connection was made via an SSL/TLS transport
  layer and is locally deciphered. This means the outgoing connection was made
  other a server with the "ssl" option. It can be used in a tcp-check or an
  http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_alg_keysize : integer
  Returns the symmetric cipher key size supported in bits when the outgoing
  connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It can be used in a
  tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_alpn : string
  This extracts the Application Layer Protocol Negotiation field from an
  outgoing connection made via a TLS transport layer.
  The result is a string containing the protocol name negotiated with the
  server. The SSL library must have been built with support for TLS
  extensions enabled (check haproxy -vv). Note that the TLS ALPN extension is
  not advertised unless the "alpn" keyword on the "server" line specifies a
  protocol list. Also, nothing forces the server to pick a protocol from this
  list, any other one may be requested. The TLS ALPN extension is meant to
  replace the TLS NPN extension. See also "ssl_bc_npn". It can be used in a
  tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_cipher : string
  Returns the name of the used cipher when the outgoing connection was made
  over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It can be used in a tcp-check or an
  http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_client_random : binary
  Returns the client random of the back connection when the incoming connection
  was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to to decrypt traffic
  sent using ephemeral ciphers. This requires OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, or BoringSSL.
  It can be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_is_resumed : boolean
  Returns true when the back connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport
  layer and the newly created SSL session was resumed using a cached
  session or a TLS ticket. It can be used in a tcp-check or an http-check
  ruleset.

ssl_bc_npn : string
  This extracts the Next Protocol Negotiation field from an outgoing connection
  made via a TLS transport layer. The result is a string containing the
  protocol name negotiated with the server . The SSL library must have been
  built with support for TLS extensions enabled (check haproxy -vv). Note that
  the TLS NPN extension is not advertised unless the "npn" keyword on the
  "server" line specifies a protocol list. Also, nothing forces the server to
  pick a protocol from this list, any other one may be used. Please note that
  the TLS NPN extension was replaced with ALPN. It can be used in a tcp-check
  or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_protocol : string
  Returns the name of the used protocol when the outgoing connection was made
  over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It can be used in a tcp-check or an
  http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_unique_id : binary
  When the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the TLS unique ID as defined in RFC5929 section 3. The unique id
  can be encoded to base64 using the converter: "ssl_bc_unique_id,base64". It
  can be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_server_random : binary
  Returns the server random of the back connection when the incoming connection
  was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to to decrypt traffic
  sent using ephemeral ciphers. This requires OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, or BoringSSL.
  It can be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_session_id : binary
  Returns the SSL ID of the back connection when the outgoing connection was
  made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to log if we want to know
  if session was reused or not. It can be used in a tcp-check or an http-check
  ruleset.

ssl_bc_session_key : binary
  Returns the SSL session master key of the back connection when the outgoing
  connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to decrypt
  traffic sent using ephemeral ciphers. This requires OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, or
  BoringSSL. It can be used in a tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_bc_use_keysize : integer
  Returns the symmetric cipher key size used in bits when the outgoing
  connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It can be used in a
  tcp-check or an http-check ruleset.

ssl_c_ca_err : integer
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the ID of the first error detected during verification of the client
  certificate at depth > 0, or 0 if no error was encountered during this
  verification process. Please refer to your SSL library's documentation to
  find the exhaustive list of error codes.

ssl_c_ca_err_depth : integer
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the depth in the CA chain of the first error detected during the
  verification of the client certificate. If no error is encountered, 0 is
  returned.

ssl_c_chain_der : binary
  Returns the DER formatted chain certificate presented by the client when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form. One
  can parse the result with any lib accepting ASN.1 DER data. It currently
  does not support resumed sessions.

ssl_c_der : binary
  Returns the DER formatted certificate presented by the client when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form.

ssl_c_err : integer
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the ID of the first error detected during verification at depth 0, or
  0 if no error was encountered during this verification process. Please refer
  to your SSL library's documentation to find the exhaustive list of error
  codes.

ssl_c_i_dn([<entry>[,<occ>[,<format>]]]) : string
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the full distinguished name of the issuer of the certificate
  presented by the client when no <entry> is specified, or the value of the
  first given entry found from the beginning of the DN. If a positive/negative
  occurrence number is specified as the optional second argument, it returns
  the value of the nth given entry value from the beginning/end of the DN.
  For instance, "ssl_c_i_dn(OU,2)" the second organization unit, and
  "ssl_c_i_dn(CN)" retrieves the common name.
  The <format> parameter allows you to receive the DN suitable for
  consumption by different protocols. Currently supported is rfc2253 for
  LDAP v3.
  If you'd like to modify the format only you can specify an empty string
  and zero for the first two parameters. Example: ssl_c_i_dn(,0,rfc2253)

ssl_c_key_alg : string
  Returns the name of the algorithm used to generate the key of the certificate
  presented by the client when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_c_notafter : string
  Returns the end date presented by the client as a formatted string
  YYMMDDhhmmss[Z] when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_c_notbefore : string
  Returns the start date presented by the client as a formatted string
  YYMMDDhhmmss[Z] when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_c_s_dn([<entry>[,<occ>[,<format>]]]) : string
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the full distinguished name of the subject of the certificate
  presented by the client when no <entry> is specified, or the value of the
  first given entry found from the beginning of the DN. If a positive/negative
  occurrence number is specified as the optional second argument, it returns
  the value of the nth given entry value from the beginning/end of the DN.
  For instance, "ssl_c_s_dn(OU,2)" the second organization unit, and
  "ssl_c_s_dn(CN)" retrieves the common name.
  The <format> parameter allows you to receive the DN suitable for
  consumption by different protocols. Currently supported is rfc2253 for
  LDAP v3.
  If you'd like to modify the format only you can specify an empty string
  and zero for the first two parameters. Example: ssl_c_s_dn(,0,rfc2253)

ssl_c_serial : binary
  Returns the serial of the certificate presented by the client when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form.

ssl_c_sha1 : binary
  Returns the SHA-1 fingerprint of the certificate presented by the client when
  the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. This can be
  used to stick a client to a server, or to pass this information to a server.
  Note that the output is binary, so if you want to pass that signature to the
  server, you need to encode it in hex or base64, such as in the example below:

  Example:
     http-request set-header X-SSL-Client-SHA1 %[ssl_c_sha1,hex]

ssl_c_sig_alg : string
  Returns the name of the algorithm used to sign the certificate presented by
  the client when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport
  layer.

ssl_c_used : boolean
  Returns true if current SSL session uses a client certificate even if current
  connection uses SSL session resumption. See also "ssl_fc_has_crt".

ssl_c_verify : integer
  Returns the verify result error ID when the incoming connection was made over
  an SSL/TLS transport layer, otherwise zero if no error is encountered. Please
  refer to your SSL library's documentation for an exhaustive list of error
  codes.

ssl_c_version : integer
  Returns the version of the certificate presented by the client when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_f_der : binary
  Returns the DER formatted certificate presented by the frontend when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form.

ssl_f_i_dn([<entry>[,<occ>[,<format>]]]) : string
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the full distinguished name of the issuer of the certificate
  presented by the frontend when no <entry> is specified, or the value of the
  first given entry found from the beginning of the DN. If a positive/negative
  occurrence number is specified as the optional second argument, it returns
  the value of the nth given entry value from the beginning/end of the DN.
  For instance, "ssl_f_i_dn(OU,2)" the second organization unit, and
  "ssl_f_i_dn(CN)" retrieves the common name.
  The <format> parameter allows you to receive the DN suitable for
  consumption by different protocols. Currently supported is rfc2253 for
  LDAP v3.
  If you'd like to modify the format only you can specify an empty string
  and zero for the first two parameters. Example: ssl_f_i_dn(,0,rfc2253)

ssl_f_key_alg : string
  Returns the name of the algorithm used to generate the key of the certificate
  presented by the frontend when the incoming connection was made over an
  SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_f_notafter : string
  Returns the end date presented by the frontend as a formatted string
  YYMMDDhhmmss[Z] when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_f_notbefore : string
  Returns the start date presented by the frontend as a formatted string
  YYMMDDhhmmss[Z] when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_f_s_dn([<entry>[,<occ>[,<format>]]]) : string
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the full distinguished name of the subject of the certificate
  presented by the frontend when no <entry> is specified, or the value of the
  first given entry found from the beginning of the DN. If a positive/negative
  occurrence number is specified as the optional second argument, it returns
  the value of the nth given entry value from the beginning/end of the DN.
  For instance, "ssl_f_s_dn(OU,2)" the second organization unit, and
  "ssl_f_s_dn(CN)" retrieves the common name.
  The <format> parameter allows you to receive the DN suitable for
  consumption by different protocols. Currently supported is rfc2253 for
  LDAP v3.
  If you'd like to modify the format only you can specify an empty string
  and zero for the first two parameters. Example: ssl_f_s_dn(,0,rfc2253)

ssl_f_serial : binary
  Returns the serial of the certificate presented by the frontend when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form.

ssl_f_sha1 : binary
  Returns the SHA-1 fingerprint of the certificate presented by the frontend
  when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. This
  can be used to know which certificate was chosen using SNI.

ssl_f_sig_alg : string
  Returns the name of the algorithm used to sign the certificate presented by
  the frontend when the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport
  layer.

ssl_f_version : integer
  Returns the version of the certificate presented by the frontend when the
  incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_fc : boolean
  Returns true when the front connection was made via an SSL/TLS transport
  layer and is locally deciphered. This means it has matched a socket declared
  with a "bind" line having the "ssl" option.

  Example :
        # This passes "X-Proto: https" to servers when client connects over SSL
        listen http-https
            bind :80
            bind :443 ssl crt /etc/haproxy.pem
            http-request add-header X-Proto https if { ssl_fc }

ssl_fc_alg_keysize : integer
  Returns the symmetric cipher key size supported in bits when the incoming
  connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_fc_alpn : string
  This extracts the Application Layer Protocol Negotiation field from an
  incoming connection made via a TLS transport layer and locally deciphered by
  haproxy. The result is a string containing the protocol name advertised by
  the client. The SSL library must have been built with support for TLS
  extensions enabled (check haproxy -vv). Note that the TLS ALPN extension is
  not advertised unless the "alpn" keyword on the "bind" line specifies a
  protocol list. Also, nothing forces the client to pick a protocol from this
  list, any other one may be requested. The TLS ALPN extension is meant to
  replace the TLS NPN extension. See also "ssl_fc_npn".

ssl_fc_cipher : string
  Returns the name of the used cipher when the incoming connection was made
  over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_fc_cipherlist_bin : binary
  Returns the binary form of the client hello cipher list. The maximum returned
  value length is according with the value of
  "tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size".

ssl_fc_cipherlist_hex : string
  Returns the binary form of the client hello cipher list encoded as
  hexadecimal. The maximum returned value length is according with the value of
  "tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size".

ssl_fc_cipherlist_str : string
  Returns the decoded text form of the client hello cipher list. The maximum
  number of ciphers returned is according with the value of
  "tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size". Note that this sample-fetch is only
  available with OpenSSL >= 1.0.2. If the function is not enabled, this
  sample-fetch returns the hash like "ssl_fc_cipherlist_xxh".

ssl_fc_cipherlist_xxh : integer
  Returns a xxh64 of the cipher list. This hash can be return only is the value
  "tune.ssl.capture-cipherlist-size" is set greater than 0, however the hash
  take in account all the data of the cipher list.

ssl_fc_client_random : binary
  Returns the client random of the front connection when the incoming connection
  was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to to decrypt traffic
  sent using ephemeral ciphers. This requires OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, or BoringSSL.

ssl_fc_client_early_traffic_secret : string
  Return the CLIENT_EARLY_TRAFFIC_SECRET as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over a TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_client_handshake_traffic_secret : string
  Return the CLIENT_HANDSHAKE_TRAFFIC_SECRET as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over a TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_client_traffic_secret_0 : string
  Return the CLIENT_TRAFFIC_SECRET_0 as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over a TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_exporter_secret : string
  Return the EXPORTER_SECRET as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over a TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_early_exporter_secret : string
  Return the EARLY_EXPORTER_SECRET as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over an TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_has_crt : boolean
  Returns true if a client certificate is present in an incoming connection over
  SSL/TLS transport layer. Useful if 'verify' statement is set to 'optional'.
  Note: on SSL session resumption with Session ID or TLS ticket, client
  certificate is not present in the current connection but may be retrieved
  from the cache or the ticket. So prefer "ssl_c_used" if you want to check if
  current SSL session uses a client certificate.

ssl_fc_has_early : boolean
  Returns true if early data were sent, and the handshake didn't happen yet. As
  it has security implications, it is useful to be able to refuse those, or
  wait until the handshake happened.

ssl_fc_has_sni : boolean
  This checks for the presence of a Server Name Indication TLS extension (SNI)
  in an incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. Returns
  true when the incoming connection presents a TLS SNI field. This requires
  that the SSL library is built with support for TLS extensions enabled (check
  haproxy -vv).

ssl_fc_is_resumed : boolean
  Returns true if the SSL/TLS session has been resumed through the use of
  SSL session cache or TLS tickets on an incoming connection over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_fc_npn : string
  This extracts the Next Protocol Negotiation field from an incoming connection
  made via a TLS transport layer and locally deciphered by haproxy. The result
  is a string containing the protocol name advertised by the client. The SSL
  library must have been built with support for TLS extensions enabled (check
  haproxy -vv). Note that the TLS NPN extension is not advertised unless the
  "npn" keyword on the "bind" line specifies a protocol list. Also, nothing
  forces the client to pick a protocol from this list, any other one may be
  requested. Please note that the TLS NPN extension was replaced with ALPN.

ssl_fc_protocol : string
  Returns the name of the used protocol when the incoming connection was made
  over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_fc_unique_id : binary
  When the incoming connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the TLS unique ID as defined in RFC5929 section 3. The unique id
  can be encoded to base64 using the converter: "ssl_bc_unique_id,base64".

ssl_fc_server_handshake_traffic_secret : string
  Return the SERVER_HANDSHAKE_TRAFFIC_SECRET as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over a TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_server_traffic_secret_0 : string
  Return the SERVER_TRAFFIC_SECRET_0 as an hexadecimal string for the
  front connection when the incoming connection was made over an TLS 1.3
  transport layer.
  Require OpenSSL >= 1.1.1. This is one of the keys dumped by the OpenSSL
  keylog callback to generate the SSLKEYLOGFILE. The SSL Key logging must be
  activated with "tune.ssl.keylog on" in the global section. See also
  "tune.ssl.keylog"

ssl_fc_server_random : binary
  Returns the server random of the front connection when the incoming connection
  was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to to decrypt traffic
  sent using ephemeral ciphers. This requires OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, or BoringSSL.

ssl_fc_session_id : binary
  Returns the SSL ID of the front connection when the incoming connection was
  made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to stick a given client to
  a server. It is important to note that some browsers refresh their session ID
  every few minutes.

ssl_fc_session_key : binary
  Returns the SSL session master key of the front connection when the incoming
  connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. It is useful to decrypt
  traffic sent using ephemeral ciphers. This requires OpenSSL >= 1.1.0, or
  BoringSSL.


ssl_fc_sni : string
  This extracts the Server Name Indication TLS extension (SNI) field from an
  incoming connection made via an SSL/TLS transport layer and locally
  deciphered by haproxy. The result (when present) typically is a string
  matching the HTTPS host name (253 chars or less). The SSL library must have
  been built with support for TLS extensions enabled (check haproxy -vv).

  This fetch is different from "req_ssl_sni" above in that it applies to the
  connection being deciphered by haproxy and not to SSL contents being blindly
  forwarded. See also "ssl_fc_sni_end" and "ssl_fc_sni_reg" below. This
  requires that the SSL library is built with support for TLS extensions
  enabled (check haproxy -vv).

  ACL derivatives :
    ssl_fc_sni_end : suffix match
    ssl_fc_sni_reg : regex match

ssl_fc_use_keysize : integer
  Returns the symmetric cipher key size used in bits when the incoming
  connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_s_der : binary
  Returns the DER formatted certificate presented by the server when the
  outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form.

ssl_s_chain_der : binary
  Returns the DER formatted chain certificate presented by the server when the
  outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form. One
  can parse the result with any lib accepting ASN.1 DER data. It currently
  does not support resumed sessions.

ssl_s_key_alg : string
  Returns the name of the algorithm used to generate the key of the certificate
  presented by the server when the outgoing connection was made over an
  SSL/TLS transport layer.

ssl_s_notafter : string
  Returns the end date presented by the server as a formatted string
  YYMMDDhhmmss[Z] when the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_s_notbefore : string
  Returns the start date presented by the server as a formatted string
  YYMMDDhhmmss[Z] when the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS
  transport layer.

ssl_s_i_dn([<entry>[,<occ>[,<format>]]]) : string
  When the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the full distinguished name of the issuer of the certificate
  presented by the server when no <entry> is specified, or the value of the
  first given entry found from the beginning of the DN. If a positive/negative
  occurrence number is specified as the optional second argument, it returns
  the value of the nth given entry value from the beginning/end of the DN.
  For instance, "ssl_s_i_dn(OU,2)" the second organization unit, and
  "ssl_s_i_dn(CN)" retrieves the common name.
  The <format> parameter allows you to receive the DN suitable for
  consumption by different protocols. Currently supported is rfc2253 for
  LDAP v3.
  If you'd like to modify the format only you can specify an empty string
  and zero for the first two parameters. Example: ssl_s_i_dn(,0,rfc2253)

ssl_s_s_dn([<entry>[,<occ>[,<format>]]]) : string
  When the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer,
  returns the full distinguished name of the subject of the certificate
  presented by the server when no <entry> is specified, or the value of the
  first given entry found from the beginning of the DN. If a positive/negative
  occurrence number is specified as the optional second argument, it returns
  the value of the nth given entry value from the beginning/end of the DN.
  For instance, "ssl_s_s_dn(OU,2)" the second organization unit, and
  "ssl_s_s_dn(CN)" retrieves the common name.
  The <format> parameter allows you to receive the DN suitable for
  consumption by different protocols. Currently supported is rfc2253 for
  LDAP v3.
  If you'd like to modify the format only you can specify an empty string
  and zero for the first two parameters. Example: ssl_s_s_dn(,0,rfc2253)

ssl_s_serial : binary
  Returns the serial of the certificate presented by the server when the
  outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. When used for
  an ACL, the value(s) to match against can be passed in hexadecimal form.

ssl_s_sha1 : binary
  Returns the SHA-1 fingerprint of the certificate presented by the server
  when the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer. This
  can be used to know which certificate was chosen using SNI.

ssl_s_sig_alg : string
  Returns the name of the algorithm used to sign the certificate presented by
  the server when the outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport
  layer.

ssl_s_version : integer
  Returns the version of the certificate presented by the server when the
  outgoing connection was made over an SSL/TLS transport layer.

7.3.5. Fetching samples from buffer contents (Layer 6)
------------------------------------------------------

Fetching samples from buffer contents is a bit different from the previous
sample fetches above because the sampled data are ephemeral. These data can
only be used when they're available and will be lost when they're forwarded.
For this reason, samples fetched from buffer contents during a request cannot
be used in a response for example. Even while the data are being fetched, they
can change. Sometimes it is necessary to set some delays or combine multiple
sample fetch methods to ensure that the expected data are complete and usable,
for example through TCP request content inspection. Please see the "tcp-request
content" keyword for more detailed information on the subject.

payload(<offset>,<length>) : binary (deprecated)
  This is an alias for "req.payload" when used in the context of a request (e.g.
  "stick on", "stick match"), and for "res.payload" when used in the context of
  a response such as in "stick store response".

payload_lv(<offset1>,<length>[,<offset2>]) : binary (deprecated)
  This is an alias for "req.payload_lv" when used in the context of a request
  (e.g. "stick on", "stick match"), and for "res.payload_lv" when used in the
  context of a response such as in "stick store response".

req.len : integer
req_len : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of bytes present in the
  request buffer. This is mostly used in ACL. It is important to understand
  that this test does not return false as long as the buffer is changing. This
  means that a check with equality to zero will almost always immediately match
  at the beginning of the session, while a test for more data will wait for
  that data to come in and return false only when haproxy is certain that no
  more data will come in. This test was designed to be used with TCP request
  content inspection.

req.payload(<offset>,<length>) : binary
  This extracts a binary block of <length> bytes and starting at byte <offset>
  in the request buffer. As a special case, if the <length> argument is zero,
  the the whole buffer from <offset> to the end is extracted. This can be used
  with ACLs in order to check for the presence of some content in a buffer at
  any location.

  ACL alternatives :
    payload(<offset>,<length>) : hex binary match

req.payload_lv(<offset1>,<length>[,<offset2>]) : binary
  This extracts a binary block whose size is specified at <offset1> for <length>
  bytes, and which starts at <offset2> if specified or just after the length in
  the request buffer. The <offset2> parameter also supports relative offsets if
  prepended with a '+' or '-' sign.

  ACL alternatives :
    payload_lv(<offset1>,<length>[,<offset2>]) : hex binary match

  Example : please consult the example from the "stick store-response" keyword.

req.proto_http : boolean
req_proto_http : boolean (deprecated)
  Returns true when data in the request buffer look like HTTP and correctly
  parses as such. It is the same parser as the common HTTP request parser which
  is used so there should be no surprises. The test does not match until the
  request is complete, failed or timed out. This test may be used to report the
  protocol in TCP logs, but the biggest use is to block TCP request analysis
  until a complete HTTP request is present in the buffer, for example to track
  a header.

  Example:
        # track request counts per "base" (concatenation of Host+URL)
        tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
        tcp-request content reject if !HTTP
        tcp-request content track-sc0 base table req-rate

req.rdp_cookie([<name>]) : string
rdp_cookie([<name>]) : string (deprecated)
  When the request buffer looks like the RDP protocol, extracts the RDP cookie
  <name>, or any cookie if unspecified. The parser only checks for the first
  cookie, as illustrated in the RDP protocol specification. The cookie name is
  case insensitive. Generally the "MSTS" cookie name will be used, as it can
  contain the user name of the client connecting to the server if properly
  configured on the client. The "MSTSHASH" cookie is often used as well for
  session stickiness to servers.

  This differs from "balance rdp-cookie" in that any balancing algorithm may be
  used and thus the distribution of clients to backend servers is not linked to
  a hash of the RDP cookie. It is envisaged that using a balancing algorithm
  such as "balance roundrobin" or "balance leastconn" will lead to a more even
  distribution of clients to backend servers than the hash used by "balance
  rdp-cookie".

  ACL derivatives :
    req_rdp_cookie([<name>]) : exact string match

  Example :
   listen tse-farm
       bind 0.0.0.0:3389
       # wait up to 5s for an RDP cookie in the request
       tcp-request inspect-delay 5s
       tcp-request content accept if RDP_COOKIE
       # apply RDP cookie persistence
       persist rdp-cookie
       # Persist based on the mstshash cookie
       # This is only useful makes sense if
       # balance rdp-cookie is not used
       stick-table type string size 204800
       stick on req.rdp_cookie(mstshash)
       server srv1 1.1.1.1:3389
       server srv1 1.1.1.2:3389

  See also : "balance rdp-cookie", "persist rdp-cookie", "tcp-request" and the
  "req_rdp_cookie" ACL.

req.rdp_cookie_cnt([name]) : integer
rdp_cookie_cnt([name]) : integer (deprecated)
  Tries to parse the request buffer as RDP protocol, then returns an integer
  corresponding to the number of RDP cookies found. If an optional cookie name
  is passed, only cookies matching this name are considered. This is mostly
  used in ACL.

  ACL derivatives :
    req_rdp_cookie_cnt([<name>]) : integer match

req.ssl_alpn : string
  Returns a string containing the values of the Application-Layer Protocol
  Negotiation (ALPN) TLS extension (RFC7301), sent by the client within the SSL
  ClientHello message. Note that this only applies to raw contents found in the
  request buffer and not to the contents deciphered via an SSL data layer, so
  this will not work with "bind" lines having the "ssl" option. This is useful
  in ACL to make a routing decision based upon the ALPN preferences of a TLS
  client, like in the example below. See also "ssl_fc_alpn".

  Examples :
     # Wait for a client hello for at most 5 seconds
     tcp-request inspect-delay 5s
     tcp-request content accept if { req_ssl_hello_type 1 }
     use_backend bk_acme if { req.ssl_alpn acme-tls/1 }
     default_backend bk_default

req.ssl_ec_ext : boolean
  Returns a boolean identifying if client sent the Supported Elliptic Curves
  Extension as defined in RFC4492, section 5.1. within the SSL ClientHello
  message. This can be used to present ECC compatible clients with EC
  certificate and to use RSA for all others, on the same IP address. Note that
  this only applies to raw contents found in the request buffer and not to
  contents deciphered via an SSL data layer, so this will not work with "bind"
  lines having the "ssl" option.

req.ssl_hello_type : integer
req_ssl_hello_type : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value containing the type of the SSL hello message found
  in the request buffer if the buffer contains data that parse as a complete
  SSL (v3 or superior) client hello message. Note that this only applies to raw
  contents found in the request buffer and not to contents deciphered via an
  SSL data layer, so this will not work with "bind" lines having the "ssl"
  option. This is mostly used in ACL to detect presence of an SSL hello message
  that is supposed to contain an SSL session ID usable for stickiness.

req.ssl_sni : string
req_ssl_sni : string (deprecated)
  Returns a string containing the value of the Server Name TLS extension sent
  by a client in a TLS stream passing through the request buffer if the buffer
  contains data that parse as a complete SSL (v3 or superior) client hello
  message. Note that this only applies to raw contents found in the request
  buffer and not to contents deciphered via an SSL data layer, so this will not
  work with "bind" lines having the "ssl" option. This will only work for actual
  implicit TLS based protocols like HTTPS (443), IMAPS (993), SMTPS (465),
  however it will not work for explicit TLS based protocols, like SMTP (25/587)
  or IMAP (143). SNI normally contains the name of the host the client tries to
  connect to (for recent browsers). SNI is useful for allowing or denying access
  to certain hosts when SSL/TLS is used by the client. This test was designed to
  be used with TCP request content inspection. If content switching is needed,
  it is recommended to first wait for a complete client hello (type 1), like in
  the example below. See also "ssl_fc_sni".

  ACL derivatives :
    req_ssl_sni : exact string match

  Examples :
     # Wait for a client hello for at most 5 seconds
     tcp-request inspect-delay 5s
     tcp-request content accept if { req_ssl_hello_type 1 }
     use_backend bk_allow if { req_ssl_sni -f allowed_sites }
     default_backend bk_sorry_page

req.ssl_st_ext : integer
  Returns 0 if the client didn't send a SessionTicket TLS Extension (RFC5077)
  Returns 1 if the client sent SessionTicket TLS Extension
  Returns 2 if the client also sent non-zero length TLS SessionTicket
  Note that this only applies to raw contents found in the request buffer and
  not to contents deciphered via an SSL data layer, so this will not work with
  "bind" lines having the "ssl" option. This can for example be used to detect
  whether the client sent a SessionTicket or not and stick it accordingly, if
  no SessionTicket then stick on SessionID or don't stick as there's no server
  side state is there when SessionTickets are in use.

req.ssl_ver : integer
req_ssl_ver : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value containing the version of the SSL/TLS protocol of a
  stream present in the request buffer. Both SSLv2 hello messages and SSLv3
  messages are supported. TLSv1 is announced as SSL version 3.1. The value is
  composed of the major version multiplied by 65536, added to the minor
  version. Note that this only applies to raw contents found in the request
  buffer and not to contents deciphered via an SSL data layer, so this will not
  work with "bind" lines having the "ssl" option. The ACL version of the test
  matches against a decimal notation in the form MAJOR.MINOR (e.g. 3.1). This
  fetch is mostly used in ACL.

  ACL derivatives :
    req_ssl_ver : decimal match

res.len : integer
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the number of bytes present in the
  response buffer. This is mostly used in ACL. It is important to understand
  that this test does not return false as long as the buffer is changing. This
  means that a check with equality to zero will almost always immediately match
  at the beginning of the session, while a test for more data will wait for
  that data to come in and return false only when haproxy is certain that no
  more data will come in. This test was designed to be used with TCP response
  content inspection. But it may also be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.payload(<offset>,<length>) : binary
  This extracts a binary block of <length> bytes and starting at byte <offset>
  in the response buffer. As a special case, if the <length> argument is zero,
  the whole buffer from <offset> to the end is extracted. This can be used
  with ACLs in order to check for the presence of some content in a buffer at
  any location. It may also be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.payload_lv(<offset1>,<length>[,<offset2>]) : binary
  This extracts a binary block whose size is specified at <offset1> for <length>
  bytes, and which starts at <offset2> if specified or just after the length in
  the response buffer. The <offset2> parameter also supports relative offsets
  if prepended with a '+' or '-' sign. It may also be used in tcp-check based
  expect rules.

  Example : please consult the example from the "stick store-response" keyword.

res.ssl_hello_type : integer
rep_ssl_hello_type : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value containing the type of the SSL hello message found
  in the response buffer if the buffer contains data that parses as a complete
  SSL (v3 or superior) hello message. Note that this only applies to raw
  contents found in the response buffer and not to contents deciphered via an
  SSL data layer, so this will not work with "server" lines having the "ssl"
  option. This is mostly used in ACL to detect presence of an SSL hello message
  that is supposed to contain an SSL session ID usable for stickiness.

wait_end : boolean
  This fetch either returns true when the inspection period is over, or does
  not fetch. It is only used in ACLs, in conjunction with content analysis to
  avoid returning a wrong verdict early. It may also be used to delay some
  actions, such as a delayed reject for some special addresses. Since it either
  stops the rules evaluation or immediately returns true, it is recommended to
  use this acl as the last one in a rule. Please note that the default ACL
  "WAIT_END" is always usable without prior declaration. This test was designed
  to be used with TCP request content inspection.

  Examples :
     # delay every incoming request by 2 seconds
     tcp-request inspect-delay 2s
     tcp-request content accept if WAIT_END

     # don't immediately tell bad guys they are rejected
     tcp-request inspect-delay 10s
     acl goodguys src 10.0.0.0/24
     acl badguys  src 10.0.1.0/24
     tcp-request content accept if goodguys
     tcp-request content reject if badguys WAIT_END
     tcp-request content reject


7.3.6. Fetching HTTP samples (Layer 7)
--------------------------------------

It is possible to fetch samples from HTTP contents, requests and responses.
This application layer is also called layer 7. It is only possible to fetch the
data in this section when a full HTTP request or response has been parsed from
its respective request or response buffer. This is always the case with all
HTTP specific rules and for sections running with "mode http". When using TCP
content inspection, it may be necessary to support an inspection delay in order
to let the request or response come in first. These fetches may require a bit
more CPU resources than the layer 4 ones, but not much since the request and
response are indexed.

base : string
  This returns the concatenation of the first Host header and the path part of
  the request, which starts at the first slash and ends before the question
  mark. It can be useful in virtual hosted environments to detect URL abuses as
  well as to improve shared caches efficiency. Using this with a limited size
  stick table also allows one to collect statistics about most commonly
  requested objects by host/path. With ACLs it can allow simple content
  switching rules involving the host and the path at the same time, such as
  "www.example.com/favicon.ico". See also "path" and "uri".

  ACL derivatives :
    base     : exact string match
    base_beg : prefix match
    base_dir : subdir match
    base_dom : domain match
    base_end : suffix match
    base_len : length match
    base_reg : regex match
    base_sub : substring match

base32 : integer
  This returns a 32-bit hash of the value returned by the "base" fetch method
  above. This is useful to track per-URL activity on high traffic sites without
  having to store all URLs. Instead a shorter hash is stored, saving a lot of
  memory. The output type is an unsigned integer. The hash function used is
  SDBM with full avalanche on the output. Technically, base32 is exactly equal
  to "base,sdbm(1)".

base32+src : binary
  This returns the concatenation of the base32 fetch above and the src fetch
  below. The resulting type is of type binary, with a size of 8 or 20 bytes
  depending on the source address family. This can be used to track per-IP,
  per-URL counters.

capture.req.hdr(<idx>) : string
  This extracts the content of the header captured by the "capture request
  header", idx is the position of the capture keyword in the configuration.
  The first entry is an index of 0. See also: "capture request header".

capture.req.method : string
  This extracts the METHOD of an HTTP request. It can be used in both request
  and response. Unlike "method", it can be used in both request and response
  because it's allocated.

capture.req.uri : string
  This extracts the request's URI, which starts at the first slash and ends
  before the first space in the request (without the host part). Unlike "path"
  and "url", it can be used in both request and response because it's
  allocated.

capture.req.ver : string
  This extracts the request's HTTP version and returns either "HTTP/1.0" or
  "HTTP/1.1". Unlike "req.ver", it can be used in both request, response, and
  logs because it relies on a persistent flag.

capture.res.hdr(<idx>) : string
  This extracts the content of the header captured by the "capture response
  header", idx is the position of the capture keyword in the configuration.
  The first entry is an index of 0.
  See also: "capture response header"

capture.res.ver : string
  This extracts the response's HTTP version and returns either "HTTP/1.0" or
  "HTTP/1.1". Unlike "res.ver", it can be used in logs because it relies on a
  persistent flag.

req.body : binary
  This returns the HTTP request's available body as a block of data. It is
  recommended to use "option http-buffer-request" to be sure to wait, as much
  as possible, for the request's body.

req.body_param([<name>) : string
  This fetch assumes that the body of the POST request is url-encoded. The user
  can check if the "content-type" contains the value
  "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". This extracts the first occurrence of the
  parameter <name> in the body, which ends before '&'. The parameter name is
  case-sensitive. If no name is given, any parameter will match, and the first
  one will be returned. The result is a string corresponding to the value of the
  parameter <name> as presented in the request body (no URL decoding is
  performed). Note that the ACL version of this fetch iterates over multiple
  parameters and will iteratively report all parameters values if no name is
  given.

req.body_len : integer
  This returns the length of the HTTP request's available body in bytes. It may
  be lower than the advertised length if the body is larger than the buffer. It
  is recommended to use "option http-buffer-request" to be sure to wait, as
  much as possible, for the request's body.

req.body_size : integer
  This returns the advertised length of the HTTP request's body in bytes. It
  will represent the advertised Content-Length header, or the size of the
  available data in case of chunked encoding.

req.cook([<name>]) : string
cook([<name>]) : string (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of the cookie name <name> on a "Cookie"
  header line from the request, and returns its value as string. If no name is
  specified, the first cookie value is returned. When used with ACLs, all
  matching cookies are evaluated. Spaces around the name and the value are
  ignored as requested by the Cookie header specification (RFC6265). The cookie
  name is case-sensitive. Empty cookies are valid, so an empty cookie may very
  well return an empty value if it is present. Use the "found" match to detect
  presence. Use the res.cook() variant for response cookies sent by the server.

  ACL derivatives :
    cook([<name>])     : exact string match
    cook_beg([<name>]) : prefix match
    cook_dir([<name>]) : subdir match
    cook_dom([<name>]) : domain match
    cook_end([<name>]) : suffix match
    cook_len([<name>]) : length match
    cook_reg([<name>]) : regex match
    cook_sub([<name>]) : substring match

req.cook_cnt([<name>]) : integer
cook_cnt([<name>]) : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value representing the number of occurrences of the cookie
  <name> in the request, or all cookies if <name> is not specified.

req.cook_val([<name>]) : integer
cook_val([<name>]) : integer (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of the cookie name <name> on a "Cookie"
  header line from the request, and converts its value to an integer which is
  returned. If no name is specified, the first cookie value is returned. When
  used in ACLs, all matching names are iterated over until a value matches.

cookie([<name>]) : string (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of the cookie name <name> on a "Cookie"
  header line from the request, or a "Set-Cookie" header from the response, and
  returns its value as a string. A typical use is to get multiple clients
  sharing a same profile use the same server. This can be similar to what
  "appsession" did with the "request-learn" statement, but with support for
  multi-peer synchronization and state keeping across restarts. If no name is
  specified, the first cookie value is returned. This fetch should not be used
  anymore and should be replaced by req.cook() or res.cook() instead as it
  ambiguously uses the direction based on the context where it is used.

hdr([<name>[,<occ>]]) : string
  This is equivalent to req.hdr() when used on requests, and to res.hdr() when
  used on responses. Please refer to these respective fetches for more details.
  In case of doubt about the fetch direction, please use the explicit ones.
  Note that contrary to the hdr() sample fetch method, the hdr_* ACL keywords
  unambiguously apply to the request headers.

req.fhdr(<name>[,<occ>]) : string
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP request. When
  used from an ACL, all occurrences are iterated over until a match is found.
  Optionally, a specific occurrence might be specified as a position number.
  Positive values indicate a position from the first occurrence, with 1 being
  the first one. Negative values indicate positions relative to the last one,
  with -1 being the last one. It differs from req.hdr() in that any commas
  present in the value are returned and are not used as delimiters. This is
  sometimes useful with headers such as User-Agent.

req.fhdr_cnt([<name>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value representing the number of occurrences of request
  header field name <name>, or the total number of header fields if <name> is
  not specified. Contrary to its req.hdr_cnt() cousin, this function returns
  the number of full line headers and does not stop on commas.

req.hdr([<name>[,<occ>]]) : string
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP request. When
  used from an ACL, all occurrences are iterated over until a match is found.
  Optionally, a specific occurrence might be specified as a position number.
  Positive values indicate a position from the first occurrence, with 1 being
  the first one. Negative values indicate positions relative to the last one,
  with -1 being the last one. A typical use is with the X-Forwarded-For header
  once converted to IP, associated with an IP stick-table. The function
  considers any comma as a delimiter for distinct values. If full-line headers
  are desired instead, use req.fhdr(). Please carefully check RFC7231 to know
  how certain headers are supposed to be parsed. Also, some of them are case
  insensitive (e.g. Connection).

  ACL derivatives :
    hdr([<name>[,<occ>]])     : exact string match
    hdr_beg([<name>[,<occ>]]) : prefix match
    hdr_dir([<name>[,<occ>]]) : subdir match
    hdr_dom([<name>[,<occ>]]) : domain match
    hdr_end([<name>[,<occ>]]) : suffix match
    hdr_len([<name>[,<occ>]]) : length match
    hdr_reg([<name>[,<occ>]]) : regex match
    hdr_sub([<name>[,<occ>]]) : substring match

req.hdr_cnt([<name>]) : integer
hdr_cnt([<header>]) : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value representing the number of occurrences of request
  header field name <name>, or the total number of header field values if
  <name> is not specified. It is important to remember that one header line may
  count as several headers if it has several values. The function considers any
  comma as a delimiter for distinct values. If full-line headers are desired
  instead, req.fhdr_cnt() should be used instead. With ACLs, it can be used to
  detect presence, absence or abuse of a specific header, as well as to block
  request smuggling attacks by rejecting requests which contain more than one
  of certain headers. See "req.hdr" for more information on header matching.

req.hdr_ip([<name>[,<occ>]]) : ip
hdr_ip([<name>[,<occ>]]) : ip (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP request,
  converts it to an IPv4 or IPv6 address and returns this address. When used
  with ACLs, all occurrences are checked, and if <name> is omitted, every value
  of every header is checked. Optionally, a specific occurrence might be
  specified as a position number. Positive values indicate a position from the
  first occurrence, with 1 being the first one. Negative values indicate
  positions relative to the last one, with -1 being the last one. A typical use
  is with the X-Forwarded-For and X-Client-IP headers.

req.hdr_val([<name>[,<occ>]]) : integer
hdr_val([<name>[,<occ>]]) : integer (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP request, and
  converts it to an integer value. When used with ACLs, all occurrences are
  checked, and if <name> is omitted, every value of every header is checked.
  Optionally, a specific occurrence might be specified as a position number.
  Positive values indicate a position from the first occurrence, with 1 being
  the first one. Negative values indicate positions relative to the last one,
  with -1 being the last one. A typical use is with the X-Forwarded-For header.

req.hdrs : string
  Returns the current request headers as string including the last empty line
  separating headers from the request body. The last empty line can be used to
  detect a truncated header block. This sample fetch is useful for some SPOE
  headers analyzers and for advanced logging.

req.hdrs_bin : binary
  Returns the current request headers contained in preparsed binary form. This
  is useful for offloading some processing with SPOE. Each string is described
  by a length followed by the number of bytes indicated in the length. The
  length is represented using the variable integer encoding detailed in the
  SPOE documentation. The end of the list is marked by a couple of empty header
  names and values (length of 0 for both).

  *(<str:header-name><str:header-value>)<empty string><empty string>

  int:  refer to the SPOE documentation for the encoding
  str:  <int:length><bytes>

http_auth(<userlist>) : boolean
  Returns a boolean indicating whether the authentication data received from
  the client match a username & password stored in the specified userlist. This
  fetch function is not really useful outside of ACLs. Currently only http
  basic auth is supported.

http_auth_group(<userlist>) : string
  Returns a string corresponding to the user name found in the authentication
  data received from the client if both the user name and password are valid
  according to the specified userlist. The main purpose is to use it in ACLs
  where it is then checked whether the user belongs to any group within a list.
  This fetch function is not really useful outside of ACLs. Currently only http
  basic auth is supported.

  ACL derivatives :
    http_auth_group(<userlist>) : group ...
    Returns true when the user extracted from the request and whose password is
    valid according to the specified userlist belongs to at least one of the
    groups.

http_auth_pass : string
  Returns the user's password found in the authentication data received from
  the client, as supplied in the Authorization header. Not checks are
  performed by this sample fetch. Only Basic authentication is supported.

http_auth_type : string
  Returns the authentication method found in the authentication data received from
  the client, as supplied in the Authorization header. Not checks are
  performed by this sample fetch. Only Basic authentication is supported.

http_auth_user : string
  Returns the user name found in the authentication data received from the
  client, as supplied in the Authorization header. Not checks are performed by
  this sample fetch. Only Basic authentication is supported.

http_first_req : boolean
  Returns true when the request being processed is the first one of the
  connection. This can be used to add or remove headers that may be missing
  from some requests when a request is not the first one, or to help grouping
  requests in the logs.

method : integer + string
  Returns an integer value corresponding to the method in the HTTP request. For
  example, "GET" equals 1 (check sources to establish the matching). Value 9
  means "other method" and may be converted to a string extracted from the
  stream. This should not be used directly as a sample, this is only meant to
  be used from ACLs, which transparently convert methods from patterns to these
  integer + string values. Some predefined ACL already check for most common
  methods.

  ACL derivatives :
    method : case insensitive method match

  Example :
      # only accept GET and HEAD requests
      acl valid_method method GET HEAD
      http-request deny if ! valid_method

path : string
  This extracts the request's URL path, which starts at the first slash and
  ends before the question mark (without the host part). A typical use is with
  prefetch-capable caches, and with portals which need to aggregate multiple
  information from databases and keep them in caches. Note that with outgoing
  caches, it would be wiser to use "url" instead. With ACLs, it's typically
  used to match exact file names (e.g. "/login.php"), or directory parts using
  the derivative forms. See also the "url" and "base" fetch methods.

  ACL derivatives :
    path     : exact string match
    path_beg : prefix match
    path_dir : subdir match
    path_dom : domain match
    path_end : suffix match
    path_len : length match
    path_reg : regex match
    path_sub : substring match

pathq : string
  This extracts the request's URL path with the query-string, which starts at
  the first slash. This sample fetch is pretty handy to always retrieve a
  relative URI, excluding the scheme and the authority part, if any. Indeed,
  while it is the common representation for an HTTP/1.1 request target, in
  HTTP/2, an absolute URI is often used. This sample fetch will return the same
  result in both cases.

query : string
  This extracts the request's query string, which starts after the first
  question mark. If no question mark is present, this fetch returns nothing. If
  a question mark is present but nothing follows, it returns an empty string.
  This means it's possible to easily know whether a query string is present
  using the "found" matching method. This fetch is the complement of "path"
  which stops before the question mark.

req.hdr_names([<delim>]) : string
  This builds a string made from the concatenation of all header names as they
  appear in the request when the rule is evaluated. The default delimiter is
  the comma (',') but it may be overridden as an optional argument <delim>. In
  this case, only the first character of <delim> is considered.

req.ver : string
req_ver : string (deprecated)
  Returns the version string from the HTTP request, for example "1.1". This can
  be useful for logs, but is mostly there for ACL. Some predefined ACL already
  check for versions 1.0 and 1.1.

  ACL derivatives :
    req_ver : exact string match

res.body : binary
  This returns the HTTP response's available body as a block of data. Unlike
  the request side, there is no directive to wait for the response's body. This
  sample fetch is really useful (and usable) in the health-check context. It
  may be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.body_len : integer
  This returns the length of the HTTP response available body in bytes. Unlike
  the request side, there is no directive to wait for the response's body. This
  sample fetch is really useful (and usable) in the health-check context. It
  may be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.body_size : integer
  This returns the advertised length of the HTTP response body in bytes. It
  will represent the advertised Content-Length header, or the size of the
  available data in case of chunked encoding. Unlike the request side, there is
  no directive to wait for the response body. This sample fetch is really
  useful (and usable) in the health-check context. It may be used in tcp-check
  based expect rules.

res.cache_hit : boolean
  Returns the boolean "true" value if the response has been built out of an
  HTTP cache entry, otherwise returns boolean "false".

res.cache_name : string
  Returns a string containing the name of the HTTP cache that was used to
  build the HTTP response if res.cache_hit is true, otherwise returns an
  empty string.

res.comp : boolean
  Returns the boolean "true" value if the response has been compressed by
  HAProxy, otherwise returns boolean "false". This may be used to add
  information in the logs.

res.comp_algo : string
  Returns a string containing the name of the algorithm used if the response
  was compressed by HAProxy, for example : "deflate". This may be used to add
  some information in the logs.

res.cook([<name>]) : string
scook([<name>]) : string (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of the cookie name <name> on a "Set-Cookie"
  header line from the response, and returns its value as string. If no name is
  specified, the first cookie value is returned. It may be used in tcp-check
  based expect rules.

  ACL derivatives :
    scook([<name>] : exact string match

res.cook_cnt([<name>]) : integer
scook_cnt([<name>]) : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value representing the number of occurrences of the cookie
  <name> in the response, or all cookies if <name> is not specified. This is
  mostly useful when combined with ACLs to detect suspicious responses. It may
  be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.cook_val([<name>]) : integer
scook_val([<name>]) : integer (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of the cookie name <name> on a "Set-Cookie"
  header line from the response, and converts its value to an integer which is
  returned. If no name is specified, the first cookie value is returned. It may
  be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.fhdr([<name>[,<occ>]]) : string
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP response, or of
  the last header if no <name> is specified. Optionally, a specific occurrence
  might be specified as a position number. Positive values indicate a position
  from the first occurrence, with 1 being the first one. Negative values
  indicate positions relative to the last one, with -1 being the last one. It
  differs from res.hdr() in that any commas present in the value are returned
  and are not used as delimiters. If this is not desired, the res.hdr() fetch
  should be used instead. This is sometimes useful with headers such as Date or
  Expires. It may be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.fhdr_cnt([<name>]) : integer
  Returns an integer value representing the number of occurrences of response
  header field name <name>, or the total number of header fields if <name> is
  not specified. Contrary to its res.hdr_cnt() cousin, this function returns
  the number of full line headers and does not stop on commas. If this is not
  desired, the res.hdr_cnt() fetch should be used instead. It may be used in
  tcp-check based expect rules.

res.hdr([<name>[,<occ>]]) : string
shdr([<name>[,<occ>]]) : string (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP response, or of
  the last header if no <name> is specified. Optionally, a specific occurrence
  might be specified as a position number. Positive values indicate a position
  from the first occurrence, with 1 being the first one. Negative values
  indicate positions relative to the last one, with -1 being the last one. This
  can be useful to learn some data into a stick-table. The function considers
  any comma as a delimiter for distinct values. If this is not desired, the
  res.fhdr() fetch should be used instead. It may be used in tcp-check based
  expect rules.

  ACL derivatives :
    shdr([<name>[,<occ>]])     : exact string match
    shdr_beg([<name>[,<occ>]]) : prefix match
    shdr_dir([<name>[,<occ>]]) : subdir match
    shdr_dom([<name>[,<occ>]]) : domain match
    shdr_end([<name>[,<occ>]]) : suffix match
    shdr_len([<name>[,<occ>]]) : length match
    shdr_reg([<name>[,<occ>]]) : regex match
    shdr_sub([<name>[,<occ>]]) : substring match

res.hdr_cnt([<name>]) : integer
shdr_cnt([<name>]) : integer (deprecated)
  Returns an integer value representing the number of occurrences of response
  header field name <name>, or the total number of header fields if <name> is
  not specified. The function considers any comma as a delimiter for distinct
  values. If this is not desired, the res.fhdr_cnt() fetch should be used
  instead. It may be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.hdr_ip([<name>[,<occ>]]) : ip
shdr_ip([<name>[,<occ>]]) : ip (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP response,
  convert it to an IPv4 or IPv6 address and returns this address. Optionally, a
  specific occurrence might be specified as a position number. Positive values
  indicate a position from the first occurrence, with 1 being the first one.
  Negative values indicate positions relative to the last one, with -1 being
  the last one. This can be useful to learn some data into a stick table. It
  may be used in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.hdr_names([<delim>]) : string
  This builds a string made from the concatenation of all header names as they
  appear in the response when the rule is evaluated. The default delimiter is
  the comma (',') but it may be overridden as an optional argument <delim>. In
  this case, only the first character of <delim> is considered. It may be used
  in tcp-check based expect rules.

res.hdr_val([<name>[,<occ>]]) : integer
shdr_val([<name>[,<occ>]]) : integer (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of header <name> in an HTTP response, and
  converts it to an integer value. Optionally, a specific occurrence might be
  specified as a position number. Positive values indicate a position from the
  first occurrence, with 1 being the first one. Negative values indicate
  positions relative to the last one, with -1 being the last one. This can be
  useful to learn some data into a stick table. It may be used in tcp-check
  based expect rules.

res.hdrs : string
  Returns the current response headers as string including the last empty line
  separating headers from the request body. The last empty line can be used to
  detect a truncated header block. This sample fetch is useful for some SPOE
  headers analyzers and for advanced logging. It may also be used in tcp-check
  based expect rules.

res.hdrs_bin : binary
  Returns the current response headers contained in preparsed binary form. This
  is useful for offloading some processing with SPOE. It may be used in
  tcp-check based expect rules. Each string is described by a length followed
  by the number of bytes indicated in the length. The length is represented
  using the variable integer encoding detailed in the SPOE documentation. The
  end of the list is marked by a couple of empty header names and values
  (length of 0 for both).

  *(<str:header-name><str:header-value>)<empty string><empty string>

  int:  refer to the SPOE documentation for the encoding
  str:  <int:length><bytes>

res.ver : string
resp_ver : string (deprecated)
  Returns the version string from the HTTP response, for example "1.1". This
  can be useful for logs, but is mostly there for ACL. It may be used in
  tcp-check based expect rules.

  ACL derivatives :
    resp_ver : exact string match

set-cookie([<name>]) : string (deprecated)
  This extracts the last occurrence of the cookie name <name> on a "Set-Cookie"
  header line from the response and uses the corresponding value to match. This
  can be comparable to what "appsession" did with default options, but with
  support for multi-peer synchronization and state keeping across restarts.

  This fetch function is deprecated and has been superseded by the "res.cook"
  fetch. This keyword will disappear soon.

status : integer
  Returns an integer containing the HTTP status code in the HTTP response, for
  example, 302. It is mostly used within ACLs and integer ranges, for example,
  to remove any Location header if the response is not a 3xx. It may be used in
  tcp-check based expect rules.

unique-id : string
  Returns the unique-id attached to the request. The directive
  "unique-id-format" must be set. If it is not set, the unique-id sample fetch
  fails. Note that the unique-id is usually used with HTTP requests, however this
  sample fetch can be used with other protocols. Obviously, if it is used with
  other protocols than HTTP, the unique-id-format directive must not contain
  HTTP parts. See: unique-id-format and unique-id-header

url : string
  This extracts the request's URL as presented in the request. A typical use is
  with prefetch-capable caches, and with portals which need to aggregate
  multiple information from databases and keep them in caches. With ACLs, using
  "path" is preferred over using "url", because clients may send a full URL as
  is normally done with proxies. The only real use is to match "*" which does
  not match in "path", and for which there is already a predefined ACL. See
  also "path" and "base".

  ACL derivatives :
    url     : exact string match
    url_beg : prefix match
    url_dir : subdir match
    url_dom : domain match
    url_end : suffix match
    url_len : length match
    url_reg : regex match
    url_sub : substring match

url_ip : ip
  This extracts the IP address from the request's URL when the host part is
  presented as an IP address. Its use is very limited. For instance, a
  monitoring system might use this field as an alternative for the source IP in
  order to test what path a given source address would follow, or to force an
  entry in a table for a given source address. With ACLs it can be used to
  restrict access to certain systems through a proxy, for example when combined
  with option "http_proxy".

url_port : integer
  This extracts the port part from the request's URL. Note that if the port is
  not specified in the request, port 80 is assumed. With ACLs it can be used to
  restrict access to certain systems through a proxy, for example when combined
  with option "http_proxy".

urlp([<name>[,<delim>]]) : string
url_param([<name>[,<delim>]]) : string
  This extracts the first occurrence of the parameter <name> in the query
  string, which begins after either '?' or <delim>, and which ends before '&',
  ';' or <delim>. The parameter name is case-sensitive. If no name is given,
  any parameter will match, and the first one will be returned. The result is
  a string corresponding to the value of the parameter <name> as presented in
  the request (no URL decoding is performed). This can be used for session
  stickiness based on a client ID, to extract an application cookie passed as a
  URL parameter, or in ACLs to apply some checks. Note that the ACL version of
  this fetch iterates over multiple parameters and will iteratively report all
  parameters values if no name is given

  ACL derivatives :
    urlp(<name>[,<delim>])     : exact string match
    urlp_beg(<name>[,<delim>]) : prefix match
    urlp_dir(<name>[,<delim>]) : subdir match
    urlp_dom(<name>[,<delim>]) : domain match
    urlp_end(<name>[,<delim>]) : suffix match
    urlp_len(<name>[,<delim>]) : length match
    urlp_reg(<name>[,<delim>]) : regex match
    urlp_sub(<name>[,<delim>]) : substring match


  Example :
      # match http://example.com/foo?PHPSESSIONID=some_id
      stick on urlp(PHPSESSIONID)
      # match http://example.com/foo;JSESSIONID=some_id
      stick on urlp(JSESSIONID,;)

urlp_val([<name>[,<delim>]]) : integer
  See "urlp" above. This one extracts the URL parameter <name> in the request
  and converts it to an integer value. This can be used for session stickiness
  based on a user ID for example, or with ACLs to match a page number or price.

url32 : integer
  This returns a 32-bit hash of the value obtained by concatenating the first
  Host header and the whole URL including parameters (not only the path part of
  the request, as in the "base32" fetch above). This is useful to track per-URL
  activity. A shorter hash is stored, saving a lot of memory. The output type
  is an unsigned integer.

url32+src : binary
  This returns the concatenation of the "url32" fetch and the "src" fetch. The
  resulting type is of type binary, with a size of 8 or 20 bytes depending on
  the source address family. This can be used to track per-IP, per-URL counters.


7.3.7. Fetching samples for developers
---------------------------------------

This set of sample fetch methods is reserved to developers and must never be
used on a production environment, except on developer demand, for debugging
purposes. Moreover, no special care will be taken on backwards compatibility.
There is no warranty the following sample fetches will never change, be renamed
or simply removed. So be really careful if you should use one of them. To avoid
any ambiguity, these sample fetches are placed in the dedicated scope "internal",
for instance "internal.strm.is_htx".

internal.htx.data : integer
  Returns the size in bytes used by data in the HTX message associated to a
  channel. The channel is chosen depending on the sample direction.

internal.htx.free : integer
  Returns the free space (size - used) in bytes in the HTX message associated
  to a channel. The channel is chosen depending on the sample direction.

internal.htx.free_data : integer
  Returns the free space for the data in bytes in the HTX message associated to
  a channel. The channel is chosen depending on the sample direction.

internal.htx.has_eom : boolean
  Returns true if the HTX message associated to a channel contains an
  end-of-message block (EOM). Otherwise, it returns false. The channel is
  chosen depending on the sample direction.

internal.htx.nbblks : integer
  Returns the number of blocks present in the HTX message associated to a
  channel. The channel is chosen depending on the sample direction.

internal.htx.size : integer
  Returns the total size in bytes of the HTX message associated to a
  channel. The channel is chosen depending on the sample direction.

internal.htx.used : integer
  Returns the total size used in bytes (data + metadata) in the HTX message
  associated to a channel. The channel is chosen depending on the sample
  direction.

internal.htx_blk.size(<idx>) : integer
  Returns the size of the block at the position <idx> in the HTX message
  associated to a channel or 0 if it does not exist. The channel is chosen
  depending on the sample direction. <idx> may be any positive integer or one
  of the special value :
    * head  : The oldest inserted block
    * tail  : The newest inserted block
    * first : The first block where to (re)start the analysis

internal.htx_blk.type(<idx>) : string
  Returns the type of the block at the position <idx> in the HTX message
  associated to a channel or "HTX_BLK_UNUSED" if it does not exist. The channel
  is chosen depending on the sample direction. <idx> may be any positive
  integer or one of the special value :
    * head  : The oldest inserted block
    * tail  : The newest inserted block
    * first : The first block where to (re)start the analysis

internal.htx_blk.data(<idx>) : binary
  Returns the value of the DATA block at the position <idx> in the HTX message
  associated to a channel or an empty string if it does not exist or if it is
  not a DATA block. The channel is chosen depending on the sample direction.
  <idx> may be any positive integer or one of the special value :

    * head  : The oldest inserted block
    * tail  : The newest inserted block
    * first : The first block where to (re)start the analysis

internal.htx_blk.hdrname(<idx>) : string
  Returns the header name of the HEADER block at the position <idx> in the HTX
  message associated to a channel or an empty string if it does not exist or if
  it is not an HEADER block. The channel is chosen depending on the sample
  direction.  <idx> may be any positive integer or one of the special value :

    * head  : The oldest inserted block
    * tail  : The newest inserted block
    * first : The first block where to (re)start the analysis

internal.htx_blk.hdrval(<idx>) : string
  Returns the header value of the HEADER block at the position <idx> in the HTX
  message associated to a channel or an empty string if it does not exist or if
  it is not an HEADER block. The channel is chosen depending on the sample
  direction.  <idx> may be any positive integer or one of the special value :

    * head  : The oldest inserted block
    * tail  : The newest inserted block
    * first : The first block where to (re)start the analysis

internal.htx_blk.start_line(<idx>) : string
  Returns the value of the REQ_SL or RES_SL block at the position <idx> in the
  HTX message associated to a channel or an empty string if it does not exist
  or if it is not a SL block. The channel is chosen depending on the sample
  direction.  <idx> may be any positive integer or one of the special value :

    * head  : The oldest inserted block
    * tail  : The newest inserted block
    * first : The first block where to (re)start the analysis

internal.strm.is_htx : boolean
  Returns true if the current stream is an HTX stream. It means the data in the
  channels buffers are stored using the internal HTX representation. Otherwise,
  it returns false.


7.4. Pre-defined ACLs
---------------------

Some predefined ACLs are hard-coded so that they do not have to be declared in
every frontend which needs them. They all have their names in upper case in
order to avoid confusion. Their equivalence is provided below.

ACL name          Equivalent to                Usage
---------------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------
FALSE            always_false                  never match
HTTP             req_proto_http                match if protocol is valid HTTP
HTTP_1.0         req_ver 1.0                   match HTTP version 1.0
HTTP_1.1         req_ver 1.1                   match HTTP version 1.1
HTTP_CONTENT     hdr_val(content-length) gt 0  match an existing content-length
HTTP_URL_ABS     url_reg ^[^/:]*://            match absolute URL with scheme
HTTP_URL_SLASH   url_beg /                     match URL beginning with "/"
HTTP_URL_STAR    url     *                     match URL equal to "*"
LOCALHOST        src 127.0.0.1/8               match connection from local host
METH_CONNECT     method  CONNECT               match HTTP CONNECT method
METH_DELETE      method  DELETE                match HTTP DELETE method
METH_GET         method  GET HEAD              match HTTP GET or HEAD method
METH_HEAD        method  HEAD                  match HTTP HEAD method
METH_OPTIONS     method  OPTIONS               match HTTP OPTIONS method
METH_POST        method  POST                  match HTTP POST method
METH_PUT         method  PUT                   match HTTP PUT method
METH_TRACE       method  TRACE                 match HTTP TRACE method
RDP_COOKIE       req_rdp_cookie_cnt gt 0       match presence of an RDP cookie
REQ_CONTENT      req_len gt 0                  match data in the request buffer
TRUE             always_true                   always match
WAIT_END         wait_end                      wait for end of content analysis
---------------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------


8. Logging
----------

One of HAProxy's strong points certainly lies is its precise logs. It probably
provides the finest level of information available for such a product, which is
very important for troubleshooting complex environments. Standard information
provided in logs include client ports, TCP/HTTP state timers, precise session
state at termination and precise termination cause, information about decisions
to direct traffic to a server, and of course the ability to capture arbitrary
headers.

In order to improve administrators reactivity, it offers a great transparency
about encountered problems, both internal and external, and it is possible to
send logs to different sources at the same time with different level filters :

  - global process-level logs (system errors, start/stop, etc..)
  - per-instance system and internal errors (lack of resource, bugs, ...)
  - per-instance external troubles (servers up/down, max connections)
  - per-instance activity (client connections), either at the establishment or
    at the termination.
  - per-request control of log-level, e.g.
        http-request set-log-level silent if sensitive_request

The ability to distribute different levels of logs to different log servers
allow several production teams to interact and to fix their problems as soon
as possible. For example, the system team might monitor system-wide errors,
while the application team might be monitoring the up/down for their servers in
real time, and the security team might analyze the activity logs with one hour
delay.


8.1. Log levels
---------------

TCP and HTTP connections can be logged with information such as the date, time,
source IP address, destination address, connection duration, response times,
HTTP request, HTTP return code, number of bytes transmitted, conditions
in which the session ended, and even exchanged cookies values. For example
track a particular user's problems. All messages may be sent to up to two
syslog servers. Check the "log" keyword in section 4.2 for more information
about log facilities.


8.2. Log formats
----------------

HAProxy supports 5 log formats. Several fields are common between these formats
and will be detailed in the following sections. A few of them may vary
slightly with the configuration, due to indicators specific to certain
options. The supported formats are as follows :

  - the default format, which is very basic and very rarely used. It only
    provides very basic information about the incoming connection at the moment
    it is accepted : source IP:port, destination IP:port, and frontend-name.
    This mode will eventually disappear so it will not be described to great
    extents.

  - the TCP format, which is more advanced. This format is enabled when "option
    tcplog" is set on the frontend. HAProxy will then usually wait for the
    connection to terminate before logging. This format provides much richer
    information, such as timers, connection counts, queue size, etc... This
    format is recommended for pure TCP proxies.

  - the HTTP format, which is the most advanced for HTTP proxying. This format
    is enabled when "option httplog" is set on the frontend. It provides the
    same information as the TCP format with some HTTP-specific fields such as
    the request, the status code, and captures of headers and cookies. This
    format is recommended for HTTP proxies.

  - the CLF HTTP format, which is equivalent to the HTTP format, but with the
    fields arranged in the same order as the CLF format. In this mode, all
    timers, captures, flags, etc... appear one per field after the end of the
    common fields, in the same order they appear in the standard HTTP format.

  - the custom log format, allows you to make your own log line.

Next sections will go deeper into details for each of these formats. Format
specification will be performed on a "field" basis. Unless stated otherwise, a
field is a portion of text delimited by any number of spaces. Since syslog
servers are susceptible of inserting fields at the beginning of a line, it is
always assumed that the first field is the one containing the process name and
identifier.

Note : Since log lines may be quite long, the log examples in sections below
       might be broken into multiple lines. The example log lines will be
       prefixed with 3 closing angle brackets ('>>>') and each time a log is
       broken into multiple lines, each non-final line will end with a
       backslash ('\') and the next line will start indented by two characters.


8.2.1. Default log format
-------------------------

This format is used when no specific option is set. The log is emitted as soon
as the connection is accepted. One should note that this currently is the only
format which logs the request's destination IP and ports.

  Example :
        listen www
            mode http
            log global
            server srv1 127.0.0.1:8000

    >>> Feb  6 12:12:09 localhost \
          haproxy[14385]: Connect from 10.0.1.2:33312 to 10.0.3.31:8012 \
          (www/HTTP)

  Field   Format                                Extract from the example above
      1   process_name '[' pid ']:'                            haproxy[14385]:
      2   'Connect from'                                          Connect from
      3   source_ip ':' source_port                             10.0.1.2:33312
      4   'to'                                                              to
      5   destination_ip ':' destination_port                   10.0.3.31:8012
      6   '(' frontend_name '/' mode ')'                            (www/HTTP)

Detailed fields description :
  - "source_ip" is the IP address of the client which initiated the connection.
  - "source_port" is the TCP port of the client which initiated the connection.
  - "destination_ip" is the IP address the client connected to.
  - "destination_port" is the TCP port the client connected to.
  - "frontend_name" is the name of the frontend (or listener) which received
    and processed the connection.
  - "mode is the mode the frontend is operating (TCP or HTTP).

In case of a UNIX socket, the source and destination addresses are marked as
"unix:" and the ports reflect the internal ID of the socket which accepted the
connection (the same ID as reported in the stats).

It is advised not to use this deprecated format for newer installations as it
will eventually disappear.


8.2.2. TCP log format
---------------------

The TCP format is used when "option tcplog" is specified in the frontend, and
is the recommended format for pure TCP proxies. It provides a lot of precious
information for troubleshooting. Since this format includes timers and byte
counts, the log is normally emitted at the end of the session. It can be
emitted earlier if "option logasap" is specified, which makes sense in most
environments with long sessions such as remote terminals. Sessions which match
the "monitor" rules are never logged. It is also possible not to emit logs for
sessions for which no data were exchanged between the client and the server, by
specifying "option dontlognull" in the frontend. Successful connections will
not be logged if "option dontlog-normal" is specified in the frontend. A few
fields may slightly vary depending on some configuration options, those are
marked with a star ('*') after the field name below.

  Example :
        frontend fnt
            mode tcp
            option tcplog
            log global
            default_backend bck

        backend bck
            server srv1 127.0.0.1:8000

    >>> Feb  6 12:12:56 localhost \
          haproxy[14387]: 10.0.1.2:33313 [06/Feb/2009:12:12:51.443] fnt \
          bck/srv1 0/0/5007 212 -- 0/0/0/0/3 0/0

  Field   Format                                Extract from the example above
      1   process_name '[' pid ']:'                            haproxy[14387]:
      2   client_ip ':' client_port                             10.0.1.2:33313
      3   '[' accept_date ']'                       [06/Feb/2009:12:12:51.443]
      4   frontend_name                                                    fnt
      5   backend_name '/' server_name                                bck/srv1
      6   Tw '/' Tc '/' Tt*                                           0/0/5007
      7   bytes_read*                                                      212
      8   termination_state                                                 --
      9   actconn '/' feconn '/' beconn '/' srv_conn '/' retries*    0/0/0/0/3
     10   srv_queue '/' backend_queue                                      0/0

Detailed fields description :
  - "client_ip" is the IP address of the client which initiated the TCP
    connection to haproxy. If the connection was accepted on a UNIX socket
    instead, the IP address would be replaced with the word "unix". Note that
    when the connection is accepted on a socket configured with "accept-proxy"
    and the PROXY protocol is correctly used, or with a "accept-netscaler-cip"
    and the NetScaler Client IP insertion protocol is correctly used, then the
    logs will reflect the forwarded connection's information.

  - "client_port" is the TCP port of the client which initiated the connection.
    If the connection was accepted on a UNIX socket instead, the port would be
    replaced with the ID of the accepting socket, which is also reported in the
    stats interface.

  - "accept_date" is the exact date when the connection was received by haproxy
    (which might be very slightly different from the date observed on the
    network if there was some queuing in the system's backlog). This is usually
    the same date which may appear in any upstream firewall's log. When used in
    HTTP mode, the accept_date field will be reset to the first moment the
    connection is ready to receive a new request (end of previous response for
    HTTP/1, immediately after previous request for HTTP/2).

  - "frontend_name" is the name of the frontend (or listener) which received
    and processed the connection.

  - "backend_name" is the name of the backend (or listener) which was selected
    to manage the connection to the server. This will be the same as the
    frontend if no switching rule has been applied, which is common for TCP
    applications.

  - "server_name" is the name of the last server to which the connection was
    sent, which might differ from the first one if there were connection errors
    and a redispatch occurred. Note that this server belongs to the backend
    which processed the request. If the connection was aborted before reaching
    a server, "<NOSRV>" is indicated instead of a server name.

  - "Tw" is the total time in milliseconds spent waiting in the various queues.
    It can be "-1" if the connection was aborted before reaching the queue.
    See "Timers" below for more details.

  - "Tc" is the total time in milliseconds spent waiting for the connection to
    establish to the final server, including retries. It can be "-1" if the
    connection was aborted before a connection could be established. See
    "Timers" below for more details.

  - "Tt" is the total time in milliseconds elapsed between the accept and the
    last close. It covers all possible processing. There is one exception, if
    "option logasap" was specified, then the time counting stops at the moment
    the log is emitted. In this case, a '+' sign is prepended before the value,
    indicating that the final one will be larger. See "Timers" below for more
    details.

  - "bytes_read" is the total number of bytes transmitted from the server to
    the client when the log is emitted. If "option logasap" is specified, the
    this value will be prefixed with a '+' sign indicating that the final one
    may be larger. Please note that this value is a 64-bit counter, so log
    analysis tools must be able to handle it without overflowing.

  - "termination_state" is the condition the session was in when the session
    ended. This indicates the session state, which side caused the end of
    session to happen, and for what reason (timeout, error, ...). The normal
    flags should be "--", indicating the session was closed by either end with
    no data remaining in buffers. See below "Session state at disconnection"
    for more details.

  - "actconn" is the total number of concurrent connections on the process when
    the session was logged. It is useful to detect when some per-process system
    limits have been reached. For instance, if actconn is close to 512 when
    multiple connection errors occur, chances are high that the system limits
    the process to use a maximum of 1024 file descriptors and that all of them
    are used. See section 3 "Global parameters" to find how to tune the system.

  - "feconn" is the total number of concurrent connections on the frontend when
    the session was logged. It is useful to estimate the amount of resource
    required to sustain high loads, and to detect when the frontend's "maxconn"
    has been reached. Most often when this value increases by huge jumps, it is
    because there is congestion on the backend servers, but sometimes it can be
    caused by a denial of service attack.

  - "beconn" is the total number of concurrent connections handled by the
    backend when the session was logged. It includes the total number of
    concurrent connections active on servers as well as the number of
    connections pending in queues. It is useful to estimate the amount of
    additional servers needed to support high loads for a given application.
    Most often when this value increases by huge jumps, it is because there is
    congestion on the backend servers, but sometimes it can be caused by a
    denial of service attack.

  - "srv_conn" is the total number of concurrent connections still active on
    the server when the session was logged. It can never exceed the server's
    configured "maxconn" parameter. If this value is very often close or equal
    to the server's "maxconn", it means that traffic regulation is involved a
    lot, meaning that either the server's maxconn value is too low, or that
    there aren't enough servers to process the load with an optimal response
    time. When only one of the server's "srv_conn" is high, it usually means
    that this server has some trouble causing the connections to take longer to
    be processed than on other servers.

  - "retries" is the number of connection retries experienced by this session
    when trying to connect to the server. It must normally be zero, unless a
    server is being stopped at the same moment the connection was attempted.
    Frequent retries generally indicate either a network problem between
    haproxy and the server, or a misconfigured system backlog on the server
    preventing new connections from being queued. This field may optionally be
    prefixed with a '+' sign, indicating that the session has experienced a
    redispatch after the maximal retry count has been reached on the initial
    server. In this case, the server name appearing in the log is the one the
    connection was redispatched to, and not the first one, though both may
    sometimes be the same in case of hashing for instance. So as a general rule
    of thumb, when a '+' is present in front of the retry count, this count
    should not be attributed to the logged server.

  - "srv_queue" is the total number of requests which were processed before
    this one in the server queue. It is zero when the request has not gone
    through the server queue. It makes it possible to estimate the approximate
    server's response time by dividing the time spent in queue by the number of
    requests in the queue. It is worth noting that if a session experiences a
    redispatch and passes through two server queues, their positions will be
    cumulative. A request should not pass through both the server queue and the
    backend queue unless a redispatch occurs.

  - "backend_queue" is the total number of requests which were processed before
    this one in the backend's global queue. It is zero when the request has not
    gone through the global queue. It makes it possible to estimate the average
    queue length, which easily translates into a number of missing servers when
    divided by a server's "maxconn" parameter. It is worth noting that if a
    session experiences a redispatch, it may pass twice in the backend's queue,
    and then both positions will be cumulative. A request should not pass
    through both the server queue and the backend queue unless a redispatch
    occurs.


8.2.3. HTTP log format
----------------------

The HTTP format is the most complete and the best suited for HTTP proxies. It
is enabled by when "option httplog" is specified in the frontend. It provides
the same level of information as the TCP format with additional features which
are specific to the HTTP protocol. Just like the TCP format, the log is usually
emitted at the end of the session, unless "option logasap" is specified, which
generally only makes sense for download sites. A session which matches the
"monitor" rules will never logged. It is also possible not to log sessions for
which no data were sent by the client by specifying "option dontlognull" in the
frontend. Successful connections will not be logged if "option dontlog-normal"
is specified in the frontend.

Most fields are shared with the TCP log, some being different. A few fields may
slightly vary depending on some configuration options. Those ones are marked
with a star ('*') after the field name below.

  Example :
        frontend http-in
            mode http
            option httplog
            log global
            default_backend bck

        backend static
            server srv1 127.0.0.1:8000

    >>> Feb  6 12:14:14 localhost \
          haproxy[14389]: 10.0.1.2:33317 [06/Feb/2009:12:14:14.655] http-in \
          static/srv1 10/0/30/69/109 200 2750 - - ---- 1/1/1/1/0 0/0 {1wt.eu} \
          {} "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1"

  Field   Format                                Extract from the example above
      1   process_name '[' pid ']:'                            haproxy[14389]:
      2   client_ip ':' client_port                             10.0.1.2:33317
      3   '[' request_date ']'                      [06/Feb/2009:12:14:14.655]
      4   frontend_name                                                http-in
      5   backend_name '/' server_name                             static/srv1
      6   TR '/' Tw '/' Tc '/' Tr '/' Ta*                       10/0/30/69/109
      7   status_code                                                      200
      8   bytes_read*                                                     2750
      9   captured_request_cookie                                            -
     10   captured_response_cookie                                           -
     11   termination_state                                               ----
     12   actconn '/' feconn '/' beconn '/' srv_conn '/' retries*    1/1/1/1/0
     13   srv_queue '/' backend_queue                                      0/0
     14   '{' captured_request_headers* '}'                   {haproxy.1wt.eu}
     15   '{' captured_response_headers* '}'                                {}
     16   '"' http_request '"'                      "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1"

Detailed fields description :
  - "client_ip" is the IP address of the client which initiated the TCP
    connection to haproxy. If the connection was accepted on a UNIX socket
    instead, the IP address would be replaced with the word "unix". Note that
    when the connection is accepted on a socket configured with "accept-proxy"
    and the PROXY protocol is correctly used, or with a "accept-netscaler-cip"
    and the NetScaler Client IP insertion protocol is correctly used, then the
    logs will reflect the forwarded connection's information.

  - "client_port" is the TCP port of the client which initiated the connection.
    If the connection was accepted on a UNIX socket instead, the port would be
    replaced with the ID of the accepting socket, which is also reported in the
    stats interface.

  - "request_date" is the exact date when the first byte of the HTTP request
    was received by haproxy (log field %tr).

  - "frontend_name" is the name of the frontend (or listener) which received
    and processed the connection.

  - "backend_name" is the name of the backend (or listener) which was selected
    to manage the connection to the server. This will be the same as the
    frontend if no switching rule has been applied.

  - "server_name" is the name of the last server to which the connection was
    sent, which might differ from the first one if there were connection errors
    and a redispatch occurred. Note that this server belongs to the backend
    which processed the request. If the request was aborted before reaching a
    server, "<NOSRV>" is indicated instead of a server name. If the request was
    intercepted by the stats subsystem, "<STATS>" is indicated instead.

  - "TR" is the total time in milliseconds spent waiting for a full HTTP
    request from the client (not counting body) after the first byte was
    received. It can be "-1" if the connection was aborted before a complete
    request could be received or a bad request was received. It should
    always be very small because a request generally fits in one single packet.
    Large times here generally indicate network issues between the client and
    haproxy or requests being typed by hand. See section 8.4 "Timing Events"
    for more details.

  - "Tw" is the total time in milliseconds spent waiting in the various queues.
    It can be "-1" if the connection was aborted before reaching the queue.
    See section 8.4 "Timing Events" for more details.

  - "Tc" is the total time in milliseconds spent waiting for the connection to
    establish to the final server, including retries. It can be "-1" if the
    request was aborted before a connection could be established. See section
    8.4 "Timing Events" for more details.

  - "Tr" is the total time in milliseconds spent waiting for the server to send
    a full HTTP response, not counting data. It can be "-1" if the request was
    aborted before a complete response could be received. It generally matches
    the server's processing time for the request, though it may be altered by
    the amount of data sent by the client to the server. Large times here on
    "GET" requests generally indicate an overloaded server. See section 8.4
    "Timing Events" for more details.

  - "Ta" is the time the request remained active in haproxy, which is the total
    time in milliseconds elapsed between the first byte of the request was
    received and the last byte of response was sent. It covers all possible
    processing except the handshake (see Th) and idle time (see Ti). There is
    one exception, if "option logasap" was specified, then the time counting
    stops at the moment the log is emitted. In this case, a '+' sign is
    prepended before the value, indicating that the final one will be larger.
    See section 8.4 "Timing Events" for more details.

  - "status_code" is the HTTP status code returned to the client. This status
    is generally set by the server, but it might also be set by haproxy when
    the server cannot be reached or when its response is blocked by haproxy.

  - "bytes_read" is the total number of bytes transmitted to the client when
    the log is emitted. This does include HTTP headers. If "option logasap" is
    specified, this value will be prefixed with a '+' sign indicating that
    the final one may be larger. Please note that this value is a 64-bit
    counter, so log analysis tools must be able to handle it without
    overflowing.

  - "captured_request_cookie" is an optional "name=value" entry indicating that
    the client had this cookie in the request. The cookie name and its maximum
    length are defined by the "capture cookie" statement in the frontend
    configuration. The field is a single dash ('-') when the option is not
    set. Only one cookie may be captured, it is generally used to track session
    ID exchanges between a client and a server to detect session crossing
    between clients due to application bugs. For more details, please consult
    the section "Capturing HTTP headers and cookies" below.

  - "captured_response_cookie" is an optional "name=value" entry indicating
    that the server has returned a cookie with its response. The cookie name
    and its maximum length are defined by the "capture cookie" statement in the
    frontend configuration. The field is a single dash ('-') when the option is
    not set. Only one cookie may be captured, it is generally used to track
    session ID exchanges between a client and a server to detect session
    crossing between clients due to application bugs. For more details, please
    consult the section "Capturing HTTP headers and cookies" below.

  - "termination_state" is the condition the session was in when the session
    ended. This indicates the session state, which side caused the end of
    session to happen, for what reason (timeout, error, ...), just like in TCP
    logs, and information about persistence operations on cookies in the last
    two characters. The normal flags should begin with "--", indicating the
    session was closed by either end with no data remaining in buffers. See
    below "Session state at disconnection" for more details.

  - "actconn" is the total number of concurrent connections on the process when
    the session was logged. It is useful to detect when some per-process system
    limits have been reached. For instance, if actconn is close to 512 or 1024
    when multiple connection errors occur, chances are high that the system
    limits the process to use a maximum of 1024 file descriptors and that all
    of them are used. See section 3 "Global parameters" to find how to tune the
    system.

  - "feconn" is the total number of concurrent connections on the frontend when
    the session was logged. It is useful to estimate the amount of resource
    required to sustain high loads, and to detect when the frontend's "maxconn"
    has been reached. Most often when this value increases by huge jumps, it is
    because there is congestion on the backend servers, but sometimes it can be
    caused by a denial of service attack.

  - "beconn" is the total number of concurrent connections handled by the
    backend when the session was logged. It includes the total number of
    concurrent connections active on servers as well as the number of
    connections pending in queues. It is useful to estimate the amount of
    additional servers needed to support high loads for a given application.
    Most often when this value increases by huge jumps, it is because there is
    congestion on the backend servers, but sometimes it can be caused by a
    denial of service attack.

  - "srv_conn" is the total number of concurrent connections still active on
    the server when the session was logged. It can never exceed the server's
    configured "maxconn" parameter. If this value is very often close or equal
    to the server's "maxconn", it means that traffic regulation is involved a
    lot, meaning that either the server's maxconn value is too low, or that
    there aren't enough servers to process the load with an optimal response
    time. When only one of the server's "srv_conn" is high, it usually means
    that this server has some trouble causing the requests to take longer to be
    processed than on other servers.

  - "retries" is the number of connection retries experienced by this session
    when trying to connect to the server. It must normally be zero, unless a
    server is being stopped at the same moment the connection was attempted.
    Frequent retries generally indicate either a network problem between
    haproxy and the server, or a misconfigured system backlog on the server
    preventing new connections from being queued. This field may optionally be
    prefixed with a '+' sign, indicating that the session has experienced a
    redispatch after the maximal retry count has been reached on the initial
    server. In this case, the server name appearing in the log is the one the
    connection was redispatched to, and not the first one, though both may
    sometimes be the same in case of hashing for instance. So as a general rule
    of thumb, when a '+' is present in front of the retry count, this count
    should not be attributed to the logged server.

  - "srv_queue" is the total number of requests which were processed before
    this one in the server queue. It is zero when the request has not gone
    through the server queue. It makes it possible to estimate the approximate
    server's response time by dividing the time spent in queue by the number of
    requests in the queue. It is worth noting that if a session experiences a
    redispatch and passes through two server queues, their positions will be
    cumulative. A request should not pass through both the server queue and the
    backend queue unless a redispatch occurs.

  - "backend_queue" is the total number of requests which were processed before
    this one in the backend's global queue. It is zero when the request has not
    gone through the global queue. It makes it possible to estimate the average
    queue length, which easily translates into a number of missing servers when
    divided by a server's "maxconn" parameter. It is worth noting that if a
    session experiences a redispatch, it may pass twice in the backend's queue,
    and then both positions will be cumulative. A request should not pass
    through both the server queue and the backend queue unless a redispatch
    occurs.

  - "captured_request_headers" is a list of headers captured in the request due
    to the presence of the "capture request header" statement in the frontend.
    Multiple headers can be captured, they will be delimited by a vertical bar
    ('|'). When no capture is enabled, the braces do not appear, causing a
    shift of remaining fields. It is important to note that this field may
    contain spaces, and that using it requires a smarter log parser than when
    it's not used. Please consult the section "Capturing HTTP headers and
    cookies" below for more details.

  - "captured_response_headers" is a list of headers captured in the response
    due to the presence of the "capture response header" statement in the
    frontend. Multiple headers can be captured, they will be delimited by a
    vertical bar ('|'). When no capture is enabled, the braces do not appear,
    causing a shift of remaining fields. It is important to note that this
    field may contain spaces, and that using it requires a smarter log parser
    than when it's not used. Please consult the section "Capturing HTTP headers
    and cookies" below for more details.

  - "http_request" is the complete HTTP request line, including the method,
    request and HTTP version string. Non-printable characters are encoded (see
    below the section "Non-printable characters"). This is always the last
    field, and it is always delimited by quotes and is the only one which can
    contain quotes. If new fields are added to the log format, they will be
    added before this field. This field might be truncated if the request is
    huge and does not fit in the standard syslog buffer (1024 characters). This
    is the reason why this field must always remain the last one.


8.2.4. Custom log format
------------------------

The directive log-format allows you to customize the logs in http mode and tcp
mode. It takes a string as argument.

HAProxy understands some log format variables. % precedes log format variables.
Variables can take arguments using braces ('{}'), and multiple arguments are
separated by commas within the braces. Flags may be added or removed by
prefixing them with a '+' or '-' sign.

Special variable "%o" may be used to propagate its flags to all other
variables on the same format string. This is particularly handy with quoted
("Q") and escaped ("E") string formats.

If a variable is named between square brackets ('[' .. ']') then it is used
as a sample expression rule (see section 7.3). This it useful to add some
less common information such as the client's SSL certificate's DN, or to log
the key that would be used to store an entry into a stick table.

Note: spaces must be escaped. In configuration directives "log-format",
"log-format-sd" and "unique-id-format", spaces are considered as
delimiters and are merged. In order to emit a verbatim '%', it must be
preceded by another '%' resulting in '%%'.

Note: when using the RFC5424 syslog message format, the characters '"',
'\' and ']' inside PARAM-VALUE should be escaped with '\' as prefix (see
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424#section-6.3.3 for more details). In
such cases, the use of the flag "E" should be considered.

Flags are :
  * Q: quote a string
  * X: hexadecimal representation (IPs, Ports, %Ts, %rt, %pid)
  * E: escape characters '"', '\' and ']' in a string with '\' as prefix
       (intended purpose is for the RFC5424 structured-data log formats)

  Example:

    log-format %T\ %t\ Some\ Text
    log-format %{+Q}o\ %t\ %s\ %{-Q}r

    log-format-sd %{+Q,+E}o\ [exampleSDID@1234\ header=%[capture.req.hdr(0)]]

At the moment, the default HTTP format is defined this way :

    log-format "%ci:%cp [%tr] %ft %b/%s %TR/%Tw/%Tc/%Tr/%Ta %ST %B %CC \
                %CS %tsc %ac/%fc/%bc/%sc/%rc %sq/%bq %hr %hs %{+Q}r"

the default CLF format is defined this way :

    log-format "%{+Q}o %{-Q}ci - - [%trg] %r %ST %B \"\" \"\" %cp \
                %ms %ft %b %s %TR %Tw %Tc %Tr %Ta %tsc %ac %fc \
                %bc %sc %rc %sq %bq %CC %CS %hrl %hsl"

and the default TCP format is defined this way :

    log-format "%ci:%cp [%t] %ft %b/%s %Tw/%Tc/%Tt %B %ts \
                %ac/%fc/%bc/%sc/%rc %sq/%bq"

Please refer to the table below for currently defined variables :

  +---+------+-----------------------------------------------+-------------+
  | R | var  | field name (8.2.2 and 8.2.3 for description)  | type        |
  +---+------+-----------------------------------------------+-------------+
  |   | %o   | special variable, apply flags on all next var |             |
  +---+------+-----------------------------------------------+-------------+
  |   | %B   | bytes_read           (from server to client)  | numeric     |
  | H | %CC  | captured_request_cookie                       | string      |
  | H | %CS  | captured_response_cookie                      | string      |
  |   | %H   | hostname                                      | string      |
  | H | %HM  | HTTP method (ex: POST)                        | string      |
  | H | %HP  | HTTP request URI without query string         | string      |
  | H | %HPO | HTTP path only (without host nor query string)| string      |
  | H | %HQ  | HTTP request URI query string (ex: ?bar=baz)  | string      |
  | H | %HU  | HTTP request URI (ex: /foo?bar=baz)           | string      |
  | H | %HV  | HTTP version (ex: HTTP/1.0)                   | string      |
  |   | %ID  | unique-id                                     | string      |
  |   | %ST  | status_code                                   | numeric     |
  |   | %T   | gmt_date_time                                 | date        |
  |   | %Ta  | Active time of the request (from TR to end)   | numeric     |
  |   | %Tc  | Tc                                            | numeric     |
  |   | %Td  | Td = Tt - (Tq + Tw + Tc + Tr)                 | numeric     |
  |   | %Tl  | local_date_time                               | date        |
  |   | %Th  | connection handshake time (SSL, PROXY proto)  | numeric     |
  | H | %Ti  | idle time before the HTTP request             | numeric     |
  | H | %Tq  | Th + Ti + TR                                  | numeric     |
  | H | %TR  | time to receive the full request from 1st byte| numeric     |
  | H | %Tr  | Tr (response time)                            | numeric     |
  |   | %Ts  | timestamp                                     | numeric     |
  |   | %Tt  | Tt                                            | numeric     |
  |   | %Tu  | Tu                                            | numeric     |
  |   | %Tw  | Tw                                            | numeric     |
  |   | %U   | bytes_uploaded       (from client to server)  | numeric     |
  |   | %ac  | actconn                                       | numeric     |
  |   | %b   | backend_name                                  | string      |
  |   | %bc  | beconn      (backend concurrent connections)  | numeric     |
  |   | %bi  | backend_source_ip       (connecting address)  | IP          |
  |   | %bp  | backend_source_port     (connecting address)  | numeric     |
  |   | %bq  | backend_queue                                 | numeric     |
  |   | %ci  | client_ip                 (accepted address)  | IP          |
  |   | %cp  | client_port               (accepted address)  | numeric     |
  |   | %f   | frontend_name                                 | string      |
  |   | %fc  | feconn     (frontend concurrent connections)  | numeric     |
  |   | %fi  | frontend_ip              (accepting address)  | IP          |
  |   | %fp  | frontend_port            (accepting address)  | numeric     |
  |   | %ft  | frontend_name_transport ('~' suffix for SSL)  | string      |
  |   | %lc  | frontend_log_counter                          | numeric     |
  |   | %hr  | captured_request_headers default style        | string      |
  |   | %hrl | captured_request_headers CLF style            | string list |
  |   | %hs  | captured_response_headers default style       | string      |
  |   | %hsl | captured_response_headers CLF style           | string list |
  |   | %ms  | accept date milliseconds (left-padded with 0) | numeric     |
  |   | %pid | PID                                           | numeric     |
  | H | %r   | http_request                                  | string      |
  |   | %rc  | retries                                       | numeric     |
  |   | %rt  | request_counter (HTTP req or TCP session)     | numeric     |
  |   | %s   | server_name                                   | string      |
  |   | %sc  | srv_conn     (server concurrent connections)  | numeric     |
  |   | %si  | server_IP                   (target address)  | IP          |
  |   | %sp  | server_port                 (target address)  | numeric     |
  |   | %sq  | srv_queue                                     | numeric     |
  | S | %sslc| ssl_ciphers (ex: AES-SHA)                     | string      |
  | S | %sslv| ssl_version (ex: TLSv1)                       | string      |
  |   | %t   | date_time      (with millisecond resolution)  | date        |
  | H | %tr  | date_time of HTTP request                     | date        |
  | H | %trg | gmt_date_time of start of HTTP request        | date        |
  | H | %trl | local_date_time of start of HTTP request      | date        |
  |   | %ts  | termination_state                             | string      |
  | H | %tsc | termination_state with cookie status          | string      |
  +---+------+-----------------------------------------------+-------------+

    R = Restrictions : H = mode http only ; S = SSL only


8.2.5. Error log format
-----------------------

When an incoming connection fails due to an SSL handshake or an invalid PROXY
protocol header, haproxy will log the event using a shorter, fixed line format.
By default, logs are emitted at the LOG_INFO level, unless the option
"log-separate-errors" is set in the backend, in which case the LOG_ERR level
will be used. Connections on which no data are exchanged (e.g. probes) are not
logged if the "dontlognull" option is set.

The format looks like this :

    >>> Dec  3 18:27:14 localhost \
          haproxy[6103]: 127.0.0.1:56059 [03/Dec/2012:17:35:10.380] frt/f1: \
          Connection error during SSL handshake

  Field   Format                                Extract from the example above
      1   process_name '[' pid ']:'                             haproxy[6103]:
      2   client_ip ':' client_port                            127.0.0.1:56059
      3   '[' accept_date ']'                       [03/Dec/2012:17:35:10.380]
      4   frontend_name "/" bind_name ":"                              frt/f1:
      5   message                        Connection error during SSL handshake

These fields just provide minimal information to help debugging connection
failures.


8.3. Advanced logging options
-----------------------------

Some advanced logging options are often looked for but are not easy to find out
just by looking at the various options. Here is an entry point for the few
options which can enable better logging. Please refer to the keywords reference
for more information about their usage.


8.3.1. Disabling logging of external tests
------------------------------------------

It is quite common to have some monitoring tools perform health checks on
haproxy. Sometimes it will be a layer 3 load-balancer such as LVS or any
commercial load-balancer, and sometimes it will simply be a more complete
monitoring system such as Nagios. When the tests are very frequent, users often
ask how to disable logging for those checks. There are three possibilities :

  - if connections come from everywhere and are just TCP probes, it is often
    desired to simply disable logging of connections without data exchange, by
    setting "option dontlognull" in the frontend. It also disables logging of
    port scans, which may or may not be desired.

  - it is possible to use the "http-request set-log-level silent" action using
    a variety of conditions (source networks, paths, user-agents, etc).

  - if the tests are performed on a known URI, use "monitor-uri" to declare
    this URI as dedicated to monitoring. Any host sending this request will
    only get the result of a health-check, and the request will not be logged.


8.3.2. Logging before waiting for the session to terminate
----------------------------------------------------------

The problem with logging at end of connection is that you have no clue about
what is happening during very long sessions, such as remote terminal sessions
or large file downloads. This problem can be worked around by specifying
"option logasap" in the frontend. HAProxy will then log as soon as possible,
just before data transfer begins. This means that in case of TCP, it will still
log the connection status to the server, and in case of HTTP, it will log just
after processing the server headers. In this case, the number of bytes reported
is the number of header bytes sent to the client. In order to avoid confusion
with normal logs, the total time field and the number of bytes are prefixed
with a '+' sign which means that real numbers are certainly larger.


8.3.3. Raising log level upon errors
------------------------------------

Sometimes it is more convenient to separate normal traffic from errors logs,
for instance in order to ease error monitoring from log files. When the option
"log-separate-errors" is used, connections which experience errors, timeouts,
retries, redispatches or HTTP status codes 5xx will see their syslog level
raised from "info" to "err". This will help a syslog daemon store the log in
a separate file. It is very important to keep the errors in the normal traffic
file too, so that log ordering is not altered. You should also be careful if
you already have configured your syslog daemon to store all logs higher than
"notice" in an "admin" file, because the "err" level is higher than "notice".


8.3.4. Disabling logging of successful connections
--------------------------------------------------

Although this may sound strange at first, some large sites have to deal with
multiple thousands of logs per second and are experiencing difficulties keeping
them intact for a long time or detecting errors within them. If the option
"dontlog-normal" is set on the frontend, all normal connections will not be
logged. In this regard, a normal connection is defined as one without any
error, timeout, retry nor redispatch. In HTTP, the status code is checked too,
and a response with a status 5xx is not considered normal and will be logged
too. Of course, doing is is really discouraged as it will remove most of the
useful information from the logs. Do this only if you have no other
alternative.


8.4. Timing events
------------------

Timers provide a great help in troubleshooting network problems. All values are
reported in milliseconds (ms). These timers should be used in conjunction with
the session termination flags. In TCP mode with "option tcplog" set on the
frontend, 3 control points are reported under the form "Tw/Tc/Tt", and in HTTP
mode, 5 control points are reported under the form "TR/Tw/Tc/Tr/Ta". In
addition, three other measures are provided, "Th", "Ti", and "Tq".

Timings events in HTTP mode:

                 first request               2nd request
      |<-------------------------------->|<-------------- ...
      t         tr                       t    tr ...
   ---|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|--
      : Th   Ti   TR   Tw   Tc   Tr   Td : Ti   ...
      :<---- Tq ---->:                   :
      :<-------------- Tt -------------->:
      :<--        -----Tu--------------->:
                :<--------- Ta --------->:

Timings events in TCP mode:

           TCP session
      |<----------------->|
      t                   t
   ---|----|----|----|----|---
      | Th   Tw   Tc   Td |
      |<------ Tt ------->|

  - Th: total time to accept tcp connection and execute handshakes for low level
    protocols. Currently, these protocols are proxy-protocol and SSL. This may
    only happen once during the whole connection's lifetime. A large time here
    may indicate that the client only pre-established the connection without
    speaking, that it is experiencing network issues preventing it from
    completing a handshake in a reasonable time (e.g. MTU issues), or that an
    SSL handshake was very expensive to compute. Please note that this time is
    reported only before the first request, so it is safe to average it over
    all request to calculate the amortized value. The second and subsequent
    request will always report zero here.

  - Ti: is the idle time before the HTTP request (HTTP mode only). This timer
    counts between the end of the handshakes and the first byte of the HTTP
    request. When dealing with a second request in keep-alive mode, it starts
    to count after the end of the transmission the previous response. When a
    multiplexed protocol such as HTTP/2 is used, it starts to count immediately
    after the previous request. Some browsers pre-establish connections to a
    server in order to reduce the latency of a future request, and keep them
    pending until they need it. This delay will be reported as the idle time. A
    value of -1 indicates that nothing was received on the connection.

  - TR: total time to get the client request (HTTP mode only). It's the time
    elapsed between the first bytes received and the moment the proxy received
    the empty line marking the end of the HTTP headers. The value "-1"
    indicates that the end of headers has never been seen. This happens when
    the client closes prematurely or times out. This time is usually very short
    since most requests fit in a single packet. A large time may indicate a
    request typed by hand during a test.

  - Tq: total time to get the client request from the accept date or since the
    emission of the last byte of the previous response (HTTP mode only). It's
    exactly equal to Th + Ti + TR unless any of them is -1, in which case it
    returns -1 as well. This timer used to be very useful before the arrival of
    HTTP keep-alive and browsers' pre-connect feature. It's recommended to drop
    it in favor of TR nowadays, as the idle time adds a lot of noise to the
    reports.

  - Tw: total time spent in the queues waiting for a connection slot. It
    accounts for backend queue as well as the server queues, and depends on the
    queue size, and the time needed for the server to complete previous
    requests. The value "-1" means that the request was killed before reaching
    the queue, which is generally what happens with invalid or denied requests.

  - Tc: total time to establish the TCP connection to the server. It's the time
    elapsed between the moment the proxy sent the connection request, and the
    moment it was acknowledged by the server, or between the TCP SYN packet and
    the matching SYN/ACK packet in return. The value "-1" means that the
    connection never established.

  - Tr: server response time (HTTP mode only). It's the time elapsed between
    the moment the TCP connection was established to the server and the moment
    the server sent its complete response headers. It purely shows its request
    processing time, without the network overhead due to the data transmission.
    It is worth noting that when the client has data to send to the server, for
    instance during a POST request, the time already runs, and this can distort
    apparent response time. For this reason, it's generally wise not to trust
    too much this field for POST requests initiated from clients behind an
    untrusted network. A value of "-1" here means that the last the response
    header (empty line) was never seen, most likely because the server timeout
    stroke before the server managed to process the request.

  - Ta: total active time for the HTTP request, between the moment the proxy
    received the first byte of the request header and the emission of the last
    byte of the response body. The exception is when the "logasap" option is
    specified. In this case, it only equals (TR+Tw+Tc+Tr), and is prefixed with
    a '+' sign. From this field, we can deduce "Td", the data transmission time,
    by subtracting other timers when valid :

        Td = Ta - (TR + Tw + Tc + Tr)

    Timers with "-1" values have to be excluded from this equation. Note that
    "Ta" can never be negative.

  - Tt: total session duration time, between the moment the proxy accepted it
    and the moment both ends were closed. The exception is when the "logasap"
    option is specified. In this case, it only equals (Th+Ti+TR+Tw+Tc+Tr), and
    is prefixed with a '+' sign. From this field, we can deduce "Td", the data
    transmission time, by subtracting other timers when valid :

        Td = Tt - (Th + Ti + TR + Tw + Tc + Tr)

    Timers with "-1" values have to be excluded from this equation. In TCP
    mode, "Ti", "Tq" and "Tr" have to be excluded too. Note that "Tt" can never
    be negative and that for HTTP, Tt is simply equal to (Th+Ti+Ta).

  - Tu: total estimated time as seen from client, between the moment the proxy
    accepted it and the moment both ends were closed, without idle time.
    This is useful to roughly measure end-to-end time as a user would see it,
    without idle time pollution from keep-alive time between requests. This
    timer in only an estimation of time seen by user as it assumes network
    latency is the same in both directions. The exception is when the "logasap"
    option is specified. In this case, it only equals (Th+TR+Tw+Tc+Tr), and is
    prefixed with a '+' sign.

These timers provide precious indications on trouble causes. Since the TCP
protocol defines retransmit delays of 3, 6, 12... seconds, we know for sure
that timers close to multiples of 3s are nearly always related to lost packets
due to network problems (wires, negotiation, congestion). Moreover, if "Ta" or
"Tt" is close to a timeout value specified in the configuration, it often means
that a session has been aborted on timeout.

Most common cases :

  - If "Th" or "Ti" are close to 3000, a packet has probably been lost between
    the client and the proxy. This is very rare on local networks but might
    happen when clients are on far remote networks and send large requests. It
    may happen that values larger than usual appear here without any network
    cause. Sometimes, during an attack or just after a resource starvation has
    ended, haproxy may accept thousands of connections in a few milliseconds.
    The time spent accepting these connections will inevitably slightly delay
    processing of other connections, and it can happen that request times in the
    order of a few tens of milliseconds are measured after a few thousands of
    new connections have been accepted at once. Using one of the keep-alive
    modes may display larger idle times since "Ti" measures the time spent
    waiting for additional requests.

  - If "Tc" is close to 3000, a packet has probably been lost between the
    server and the proxy during the server connection phase. This value should
    always be very low, such as 1 ms on local networks and less than a few tens
    of ms on remote networks.

  - If "Tr" is nearly always lower than 3000 except some rare values which seem
    to be the average majored by 3000, there are probably some packets lost
    between the proxy and the server.

  - If "Ta" is large even for small byte counts, it generally is because
    neither the client nor the server decides to close the connection while
    haproxy is running in tunnel mode and both have agreed on a keep-alive
    connection mode. In order to solve this issue, it will be needed to specify
    one of the HTTP options to manipulate keep-alive or close options on either
    the frontend or the backend. Having the smallest possible 'Ta' or 'Tt' is
    important when connection regulation is used with the "maxconn" option on
    the servers, since no new connection will be sent to the server until
    another one is released.

Other noticeable HTTP log cases ('xx' means any value to be ignored) :

  TR/Tw/Tc/Tr/+Ta  The "option logasap" is present on the frontend and the log
                   was emitted before the data phase. All the timers are valid
                   except "Ta" which is shorter than reality.

  -1/xx/xx/xx/Ta   The client was not able to send a complete request in time
                   or it aborted too early. Check the session termination flags
                   then "timeout http-request" and "timeout client" settings.

  TR/-1/xx/xx/Ta   It was not possible to process the request, maybe because
                   servers were out of order, because the request was invalid
                   or forbidden by ACL rules. Check the session termination
                   flags.

  TR/Tw/-1/xx/Ta   The connection could not establish on the server. Either it
                   actively refused it or it timed out after Ta-(TR+Tw) ms.
                   Check the session termination flags, then check the
                   "timeout connect" setting. Note that the tarpit action might
                   return similar-looking patterns, with "Tw" equal to the time
                   the client connection was maintained open.

  TR/Tw/Tc/-1/Ta   The server has accepted the connection but did not return
                   a complete response in time, or it closed its connection
                   unexpectedly after Ta-(TR+Tw+Tc) ms. Check the session
                   termination flags, then check the "timeout server" setting.


8.5. Session state at disconnection
-----------------------------------

TCP and HTTP logs provide a session termination indicator in the
"termination_state" field, just before the number of active connections. It is
2-characters long in TCP mode, and is extended to 4 characters in HTTP mode,
each of which has a special meaning :

  - On the first character, a code reporting the first event which caused the
    session to terminate :

        C : the TCP session was unexpectedly aborted by the client.

        S : the TCP session was unexpectedly aborted by the server, or the
            server explicitly refused it.

        P : the session was prematurely aborted by the proxy, because of a
            connection limit enforcement, because a DENY filter was matched,
            because of a security check which detected and blocked a dangerous
            error in server response which might have caused information leak
            (e.g. cacheable cookie).

        L : the session was locally processed by haproxy and was not passed to
            a server. This is what happens for stats and redirects.

        R : a resource on the proxy has been exhausted (memory, sockets, source
            ports, ...). Usually, this appears during the connection phase, and
            system logs should contain a copy of the precise error. If this
            happens, it must be considered as a very serious anomaly which
            should be fixed as soon as possible by any means.

        I : an internal error was identified by the proxy during a self-check.
            This should NEVER happen, and you are encouraged to report any log
            containing this, because this would almost certainly be a bug. It
            would be wise to preventively restart the process after such an
            event too, in case it would be caused by memory corruption.

        D : the session was killed by haproxy because the server was detected
            as down and was configured to kill all connections when going down.

        U : the session was killed by haproxy on this backup server because an
            active server was detected as up and was configured to kill all
            backup connections when going up.

        K : the session was actively killed by an admin operating on haproxy.

        c : the client-side timeout expired while waiting for the client to
            send or receive data.

        s : the server-side timeout expired while waiting for the server to
            send or receive data.

        - : normal session completion, both the client and the server closed
            with nothing left in the buffers.

  - on the second character, the TCP or HTTP session state when it was closed :

        R : the proxy was waiting for a complete, valid REQUEST from the client
            (HTTP mode only). Nothing was sent to any server.

        Q : the proxy was waiting in the QUEUE for a connection slot. This can
            only happen when servers have a 'maxconn' parameter set. It can
            also happen in the global queue after a redispatch consecutive to
            a failed attempt to connect to a dying server. If no redispatch is
            reported, then no connection attempt was made to any server.

        C : the proxy was waiting for the CONNECTION to establish on the
            server. The server might at most have noticed a connection attempt.

        H : the proxy was waiting for complete, valid response HEADERS from the
            server (HTTP only).

        D : the session was in the DATA phase.

        L : the proxy was still transmitting LAST data to the client while the
            server had already finished. This one is very rare as it can only
            happen when the client dies while receiving the last packets.

        T : the request was tarpitted. It has been held open with the client
            during the whole "timeout tarpit" duration or until the client
            closed, both of which will be reported in the "Tw" timer.

        - : normal session completion after end of data transfer.

  - the third character tells whether the persistence cookie was provided by
    the client (only in HTTP mode) :

        N : the client provided NO cookie. This is usually the case for new
            visitors, so counting the number of occurrences of this flag in the
            logs generally indicate a valid trend for the site frequentation.

        I : the client provided an INVALID cookie matching no known server.
            This might be caused by a recent configuration change, mixed
            cookies between HTTP/HTTPS sites, persistence conditionally
            ignored, or an attack.

        D : the client provided a cookie designating a server which was DOWN,
            so either "option persist" was used and the client was sent to
            this server, or it was not set and the client was redispatched to
            another server.

        V : the client provided a VALID cookie, and was sent to the associated
            server.

        E : the client provided a valid cookie, but with a last date which was
            older than what is allowed by the "maxidle" cookie parameter, so
            the cookie is consider EXPIRED and is ignored. The request will be
            redispatched just as if there was no cookie.

        O : the client provided a valid cookie, but with a first date which was
            older than what is allowed by the "maxlife" cookie parameter, so
            the cookie is consider too OLD and is ignored. The request will be
            redispatched just as if there was no cookie.

        U : a cookie was present but was not used to select the server because
            some other server selection mechanism was used instead (typically a
            "use-server" rule).

        - : does not apply (no cookie set in configuration).

  - the last character reports what operations were performed on the persistence
    cookie returned by the server (only in HTTP mode) :

        N : NO cookie was provided by the server, and none was inserted either.

        I : no cookie was provided by the server, and the proxy INSERTED one.
            Note that in "cookie insert" mode, if the server provides a cookie,
            it will still be overwritten and reported as "I" here.

        U : the proxy UPDATED the last date in the cookie that was presented by
            the client. This can only happen in insert mode with "maxidle". It
            happens every time there is activity at a different date than the
            date indicated in the cookie. If any other change happens, such as
            a redispatch, then the cookie will be marked as inserted instead.

        P : a cookie was PROVIDED by the server and transmitted as-is.

        R : the cookie provided by the server was REWRITTEN by the proxy, which
            happens in "cookie rewrite" or "cookie prefix" modes.

        D : the cookie provided by the server was DELETED by the proxy.

        - : does not apply (no cookie set in configuration).

The combination of the two first flags gives a lot of information about what
was happening when the session terminated, and why it did terminate. It can be
helpful to detect server saturation, network troubles, local system resource
starvation, attacks, etc...

The most common termination flags combinations are indicated below. They are
alphabetically sorted, with the lowercase set just after the upper case for
easier finding and understanding.

  Flags   Reason

     --   Normal termination.

     CC   The client aborted before the connection could be established to the
          server. This can happen when haproxy tries to connect to a recently
          dead (or unchecked) server, and the client aborts while haproxy is
          waiting for the server to respond or for "timeout connect" to expire.

     CD   The client unexpectedly aborted during data transfer. This can be
          caused by a browser crash, by an intermediate equipment between the
          client and haproxy which decided to actively break the connection,
          by network routing issues between the client and haproxy, or by a
          keep-alive session between the server and the client terminated first
          by the client.

     cD   The client did not send nor acknowledge any data for as long as the
          "timeout client" delay. This is often caused by network failures on
          the client side, or the client simply leaving the net uncleanly.

     CH   The client aborted while waiting for the server to start responding.
          It might be the server taking too long to respond or the client
          clicking the 'Stop' button too fast.

     cH   The "timeout client" stroke while waiting for client data during a
          POST request. This is sometimes caused by too large TCP MSS values
          for PPPoE networks which cannot transport full-sized packets. It can
          also happen when client timeout is smaller than server timeout and
          the server takes too long to respond.

     CQ   The client aborted while its session was queued, waiting for a server
          with enough empty slots to accept it. It might be that either all the
          servers were saturated or that the assigned server was taking too
          long a time to respond.

     CR   The client aborted before sending a full HTTP request. Most likely
          the request was typed by hand using a telnet client, and aborted
          too early. The HTTP status code is likely a 400 here. Sometimes this
          might also be caused by an IDS killing the connection between haproxy
          and the client. "option http-ignore-probes" can be used to ignore
          connections without any data transfer.

     cR   The "timeout http-request" stroke before the client sent a full HTTP
          request. This is sometimes caused by too large TCP MSS values on the
          client side for PPPoE networks which cannot transport full-sized
          packets, or by clients sending requests by hand and not typing fast
          enough, or forgetting to enter the empty line at the end of the
          request. The HTTP status code is likely a 408 here. Note: recently,
          some browsers started to implement a "pre-connect" feature consisting
          in speculatively connecting to some recently visited web sites just
          in case the user would like to visit them. This results in many
          connections being established to web sites, which end up in 408
          Request Timeout if the timeout strikes first, or 400 Bad Request when
          the browser decides to close them first. These ones pollute the log
          and feed the error counters. Some versions of some browsers have even
          been reported to display the error code. It is possible to work
          around the undesirable effects of this behavior by adding "option
          http-ignore-probes" in the frontend, resulting in connections with
          zero data transfer to be totally ignored. This will definitely hide
          the errors of people experiencing connectivity issues though.

     CT   The client aborted while its session was tarpitted. It is important to
          check if this happens on valid requests, in order to be sure that no
          wrong tarpit rules have been written. If a lot of them happen, it
          might make sense to lower the "timeout tarpit" value to something
          closer to the average reported "Tw" timer, in order not to consume
          resources for just a few attackers.

     LR   The request was intercepted and locally handled by haproxy. Generally
          it means that this was a redirect or a stats request.

     SC   The server or an equipment between it and haproxy explicitly refused
          the TCP connection (the proxy received a TCP RST or an ICMP message
          in return). Under some circumstances, it can also be the network
          stack telling the proxy that the server is unreachable (e.g. no route,
          or no ARP response on local network). When this happens in HTTP mode,
          the status code is likely a 502 or 503 here.

     sC   The "timeout connect" stroke before a connection to the server could
          complete. When this happens in HTTP mode, the status code is likely a
          503 or 504 here.

     SD   The connection to the server died with an error during the data
          transfer. This usually means that haproxy has received an RST from
          the server or an ICMP message from an intermediate equipment while
          exchanging data with the server. This can be caused by a server crash
          or by a network issue on an intermediate equipment.

     sD   The server did not send nor acknowledge any data for as long as the
          "timeout server" setting during the data phase. This is often caused
          by too short timeouts on L4 equipment before the server (firewalls,
          load-balancers, ...), as well as keep-alive sessions maintained
          between the client and the server expiring first on haproxy.

     SH   The server aborted before sending its full HTTP response headers, or
          it crashed while processing the request. Since a server aborting at
          this moment is very rare, it would be wise to inspect its logs to
          control whether it crashed and why. The logged request may indicate a
          small set of faulty requests, demonstrating bugs in the application.
          Sometimes this might also be caused by an IDS killing the connection
          between haproxy and the server.

     sH   The "timeout server" stroke before the server could return its
          response headers. This is the most common anomaly, indicating too
          long transactions, probably caused by server or database saturation.
          The immediate workaround consists in increasing the "timeout server"
          setting, but it is important to keep in mind that the user experience
          will suffer from these long response times. The only long term
          solution is to fix the application.

     sQ   The session spent too much time in queue and has been expired. See
          the "timeout queue" and "timeout connect" settings to find out how to
          fix this if it happens too often. If it often happens massively in
          short periods, it may indicate general problems on the affected
          servers due to I/O or database congestion, or saturation caused by
          external attacks.

     PC   The proxy refused to establish a connection to the server because the
          process' socket limit has been reached while attempting to connect.
          The global "maxconn" parameter may be increased in the configuration
          so that it does not happen anymore. This status is very rare and
          might happen when the global "ulimit-n" parameter is forced by hand.

     PD   The proxy blocked an incorrectly formatted chunked encoded message in
          a request or a response, after the server has emitted its headers. In
          most cases, this will indicate an invalid message from the server to
          the client. HAProxy supports chunk sizes of up to 2GB - 1 (2147483647
          bytes). Any larger size will be considered as an error.

     PH   The proxy blocked the server's response, because it was invalid,
          incomplete, dangerous (cache control), or matched a security filter.
          In any case, an HTTP 502 error is sent to the client. One possible
          cause for this error is an invalid syntax in an HTTP header name
          containing unauthorized characters. It is also possible but quite
          rare, that the proxy blocked a chunked-encoding request from the
          client due to an invalid syntax, before the server responded. In this
          case, an HTTP 400 error is sent to the client and reported in the
          logs.

     PR   The proxy blocked the client's HTTP request, either because of an
          invalid HTTP syntax, in which case it returned an HTTP 400 error to
          the client, or because a deny filter matched, in which case it
          returned an HTTP 403 error.

     PT   The proxy blocked the client's request and has tarpitted its
          connection before returning it a 500 server error. Nothing was sent
          to the server. The connection was maintained open for as long as
          reported by the "Tw" timer field.

     RC   A local resource has been exhausted (memory, sockets, source ports)
          preventing the connection to the server from establishing. The error
          logs will tell precisely what was missing. This is very rare and can
          only be solved by proper system tuning.

The combination of the two last flags gives a lot of information about how
persistence was handled by the client, the server and by haproxy. This is very
important to troubleshoot disconnections, when users complain they have to
re-authenticate. The commonly encountered flags are :

     --   Persistence cookie is not enabled.

     NN   No cookie was provided by the client, none was inserted in the
          response. For instance, this can be in insert mode with "postonly"
          set on a GET request.

     II   A cookie designating an invalid server was provided by the client,
          a valid one was inserted in the response. This typically happens when
          a "server" entry is removed from the configuration, since its cookie
          value can be presented by a client when no other server knows it.

     NI   No cookie was provided by the client, one was inserted in the
          response. This typically happens for first requests from every user
          in "insert" mode, which makes it an easy way to count real users.

     VN   A cookie was provided by the client, none was inserted in the
          response. This happens for most responses for which the client has
          already got a cookie.

     VU   A cookie was provided by the client, with a last visit date which is
          not completely up-to-date, so an updated cookie was provided in
          response. This can also happen if there was no date at all, or if
          there was a date but the "maxidle" parameter was not set, so that the
          cookie can be switched to unlimited time.

     EI   A cookie was provided by the client, with a last visit date which is
          too old for the "maxidle" parameter, so the cookie was ignored and a
          new cookie was inserted in the response.

     OI   A cookie was provided by the client, with a first visit date which is
          too old for the "maxlife" parameter, so the cookie was ignored and a
          new cookie was inserted in the response.

     DI   The server designated by the cookie was down, a new server was
          selected and a new cookie was emitted in the response.

     VI   The server designated by the cookie was not marked dead but could not
          be reached. A redispatch happened and selected another one, which was
          then advertised in the response.


8.6. Non-printable characters
-----------------------------

In order not to cause trouble to log analysis tools or terminals during log
consulting, non-printable characters are not sent as-is into log files, but are
converted to the two-digits hexadecimal representation of their ASCII code,
prefixed by the character '#'. The only characters that can be logged without
being escaped are comprised between 32 and 126 (inclusive). Obviously, the
escape character '#' itself is also encoded to avoid any ambiguity ("#23"). It
is the same for the character '"' which becomes "#22", as well as '{', '|' and
'}' when logging headers.

Note that the space character (' ') is not encoded in headers, which can cause
issues for tools relying on space count to locate fields. A typical header
containing spaces is "User-Agent".

Last, it has been observed that some syslog daemons such as syslog-ng escape
the quote ('"') with a backslash ('\'). The reverse operation can safely be
performed since no quote may appear anywhere else in the logs.


8.7. Capturing HTTP cookies
---------------------------

Cookie capture simplifies the tracking a complete user session. This can be
achieved using the "capture cookie" statement in the frontend. Please refer to
section 4.2 for more details. Only one cookie can be captured, and the same
cookie will simultaneously be checked in the request ("Cookie:" header) and in
the response ("Set-Cookie:" header). The respective values will be reported in
the HTTP logs at the "captured_request_cookie" and "captured_response_cookie"
locations (see section 8.2.3 about HTTP log format). When either cookie is
not seen, a dash ('-') replaces the value. This way, it's easy to detect when a
user switches to a new session for example, because the server will reassign it
a new cookie. It is also possible to detect if a server unexpectedly sets a
wrong cookie to a client, leading to session crossing.

  Examples :
        # capture the first cookie whose name starts with "ASPSESSION"
        capture cookie ASPSESSION len 32

        # capture the first cookie whose name is exactly "vgnvisitor"
        capture cookie vgnvisitor= len 32


8.8. Capturing HTTP headers
---------------------------

Header captures are useful to track unique request identifiers set by an upper
proxy, virtual host names, user-agents, POST content-length, referrers, etc. In
the response, one can search for information about the response length, how the
server asked the cache to behave, or an object location during a redirection.

Header captures are performed using the "capture request header" and "capture
response header" statements in the frontend. Please consult their definition in
section 4.2 for more details.

It is possible to include both request headers and response headers at the same
time. Non-existent headers are logged as empty strings, and if one header
appears more than once, only its last occurrence will be logged. Request headers
are grouped within braces '{' and '}' in the same order as they were declared,
and delimited with a vertical bar '|' without any space. Response headers
follow the same representation, but are displayed after a space following the
request headers block. These blocks are displayed just before the HTTP request
in the logs.

As a special case, it is possible to specify an HTTP header capture in a TCP
frontend. The purpose is to enable logging of headers which will be parsed in
an HTTP backend if the request is then switched to this HTTP backend.

  Example :
        # This instance chains to the outgoing proxy
        listen proxy-out
            mode http
            option httplog
            option logasap
            log global
            server cache1 192.168.1.1:3128

            # log the name of the virtual server
            capture request  header Host len 20

            # log the amount of data uploaded during a POST
            capture request  header Content-Length len 10

            # log the beginning of the referrer
            capture request  header Referer len 20

            # server name (useful for outgoing proxies only)
            capture response header Server len 20

            # logging the content-length is useful with "option logasap"
            capture response header Content-Length len 10

            # log the expected cache behavior on the response
            capture response header Cache-Control len 8

            # the Via header will report the next proxy's name
            capture response header Via len 20

            # log the URL location during a redirection
            capture response header Location len 20

    >>> Aug  9 20:26:09 localhost \
          haproxy[2022]: 127.0.0.1:34014 [09/Aug/2004:20:26:09] proxy-out \
          proxy-out/cache1 0/0/0/162/+162 200 +350 - - ---- 0/0/0/0/0 0/0 \
          {fr.adserver.yahoo.co||http://fr.f416.mail.} {|864|private||} \
          "GET http://fr.adserver.yahoo.com/"

    >>> Aug  9 20:30:46 localhost \
          haproxy[2022]: 127.0.0.1:34020 [09/Aug/2004:20:30:46] proxy-out \
          proxy-out/cache1 0/0/0/182/+182 200 +279 - - ---- 0/0/0/0/0 0/0 \
          {w.ods.org||} {Formilux/0.1.8|3495|||} \
          "GET http://trafic.1wt.eu/ HTTP/1.1"

    >>> Aug  9 20:30:46 localhost \
          haproxy[2022]: 127.0.0.1:34028 [09/Aug/2004:20:30:46] proxy-out \
          proxy-out/cache1 0/0/2/126/+128 301 +223 - - ---- 0/0/0/0/0 0/0 \
          {www.sytadin.equipement.gouv.fr||http://trafic.1wt.eu/} \
          {Apache|230|||http://www.sytadin.} \
          "GET http://www.sytadin.equipement.gouv.fr/ HTTP/1.1"


8.9. Examples of logs
---------------------

These are real-world examples of logs accompanied with an explanation. Some of
them have been made up by hand. The syslog part has been removed for better
reading. Their sole purpose is to explain how to decipher them.

    >>> haproxy[674]: 127.0.0.1:33318 [15/Oct/2003:08:31:57.130] px-http \
          px-http/srv1 6559/0/7/147/6723 200 243 - - ---- 5/3/3/1/0 0/0 \
          "HEAD / HTTP/1.0"

    => long request (6.5s) entered by hand through 'telnet'. The server replied
       in 147 ms, and the session ended normally ('----')

    >>> haproxy[674]: 127.0.0.1:33319 [15/Oct/2003:08:31:57.149] px-http \
          px-http/srv1 6559/1230/7/147/6870 200 243 - - ---- 324/239/239/99/0 \
          0/9 "HEAD / HTTP/1.0"

    => Idem, but the request was queued in the global queue behind 9 other
       requests, and waited there for 1230 ms.

    >>> haproxy[674]: 127.0.0.1:33320 [15/Oct/2003:08:32:17.654] px-http \
          px-http/srv1 9/0/7/14/+30 200 +243 - - ---- 3/3/3/1/0 0/0 \
          "GET /image.iso HTTP/1.0"

    => request for a long data transfer. The "logasap" option was specified, so
       the log was produced just before transferring data. The server replied in
       14 ms, 243 bytes of headers were sent to the client, and total time from
       accept to first data byte is 30 ms.

    >>> haproxy[674]: 127.0.0.1:33320 [15/Oct/2003:08:32:17.925] px-http \
          px-http/srv1 9/0/7/14/30 502 243 - - PH-- 3/2/2/0/0 0/0 \
          "GET /cgi-bin/bug.cgi? HTTP/1.0"

    => the proxy blocked a server response either because of an "http-response
       deny" rule, or because the response was improperly formatted and not
       HTTP-compliant, or because it blocked sensitive information which risked
       being cached. In this case, the response is replaced with a "502 bad
       gateway". The flags ("PH--") tell us that it was haproxy who decided to
       return the 502 and not the server.

    >>> haproxy[18113]: 127.0.0.1:34548 [15/Oct/2003:15:18:55.798] px-http \
          px-http/<NOSRV> -1/-1/-1/-1/8490 -1 0 - - CR-- 2/2/2/0/0 0/0 ""

    => the client never completed its request and aborted itself ("C---") after
       8.5s, while the proxy was waiting for the request headers ("-R--").
       Nothing was sent to any server.

    >>> haproxy[18113]: 127.0.0.1:34549 [15/Oct/2003:15:19:06.103] px-http \
         px-http/<NOSRV> -1/-1/-1/-1/50001 408 0 - - cR-- 2/2/2/0/0 0/0 ""

    => The client never completed its request, which was aborted by the
       time-out ("c---") after 50s, while the proxy was waiting for the request
       headers ("-R--"). Nothing was sent to any server, but the proxy could
       send a 408 return code to the client.

    >>> haproxy[18989]: 127.0.0.1:34550 [15/Oct/2003:15:24:28.312] px-tcp \
          px-tcp/srv1 0/0/5007 0 cD 0/0/0/0/0 0/0

    => This log was produced with "option tcplog". The client timed out after
       5 seconds ("c----").

    >>> haproxy[18989]: 10.0.0.1:34552 [15/Oct/2003:15:26:31.462] px-http \
          px-http/srv1 3183/-1/-1/-1/11215 503 0 - - SC-- 205/202/202/115/3 \
          0/0 "HEAD / HTTP/1.0"

    => The request took 3s to complete (probably a network problem), and the
       connection to the server failed ('SC--') after 4 attempts of 2 seconds
       (config says 'retries 3'), and no redispatch (otherwise we would have
       seen "/+3"). Status code 503 was returned to the client. There were 115
       connections on this server, 202 connections on this proxy, and 205 on
       the global process. It is possible that the server refused the
       connection because of too many already established.


9. Supported filters
--------------------

Here are listed officially supported filters with the list of parameters they
accept. Depending on compile options, some of these filters might be
unavailable. The list of available filters is reported in haproxy -vv.

See also : "filter"

9.1. Trace
----------

filter trace [name <name>] [random-forwarding] [hexdump]

  Arguments:
    <name>               is an arbitrary name that will be reported in
                         messages. If no name is provided, "TRACE" is used.

    <quiet>              inhibits trace messages.

    <random-forwarding>  enables the random forwarding of parsed data. By
                         default, this filter forwards all previously parsed
                         data. With this parameter, it only forwards a random
                         amount of the parsed data.

    <hexdump>             dumps all forwarded data to the server and the client.

This filter can be used as a base to develop new filters. It defines all
callbacks and print a message on the standard error stream (stderr) with useful
information for all of them. It may be useful to debug the activity of other
filters or, quite simply, HAProxy's activity.

Using <random-parsing> and/or <random-forwarding> parameters is a good way to
tests the behavior of a filter that parses data exchanged between a client and
a server by adding some latencies in the processing.


9.2. HTTP compression
---------------------

filter compression

The HTTP compression has been moved in a filter in HAProxy 1.7. "compression"
keyword must still be used to enable and configure the HTTP compression. And
when no other filter is used, it is enough. When used with the cache or the
fcgi-app enabled, it is also enough. In this case, the compression is always
done after the response is stored in the cache. But it is mandatory to
explicitly use a filter line to enable the HTTP compression when at least one
filter other than the cache or the fcgi-app is used for the same
listener/frontend/backend. This is important to know the filters evaluation
order.

See also : "compression", section 9.4 about the cache filter and section 9.5
           about the fcgi-app filter.


9.3. Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE)
--------------------------------------------

filter spoe [engine <name>] config <file>

  Arguments :

    <name>      is the engine name that will be used to find the right scope in
                the configuration file. If not provided, all the file will be
                parsed.

    <file>      is the path of the engine configuration file. This file can
                contain configuration of several engines. In this case, each
                part must be placed in its own scope.

The Stream Processing Offload Engine (SPOE) is a filter communicating with
external components. It allows the offload of some specifics processing on the
streams in tiered applications. These external components and information
exchanged with them are configured in dedicated files, for the main part. It
also requires dedicated backends, defined in HAProxy configuration.

SPOE communicates with external components using an in-house binary protocol,
the Stream Processing Offload Protocol (SPOP).

For all information about the SPOE configuration and the SPOP specification, see
"doc/SPOE.txt".

9.4. Cache
----------

filter cache <name>

  Arguments :

    <name>      is name of the cache section this filter will use.

The cache uses a filter to store cacheable responses. The HTTP rules
"cache-store" and "cache-use" must be used to define how and when to use a
cache. By default the corresponding filter is implicitly defined. And when no
other filters than fcgi-app or compression are used, it is enough. In such
case, the compression filter is always evaluated after the cache filter. But it
is mandatory to explicitly use a filter line to use a cache when at least one
filter other than the compression or the fcgi-app is used for the same
listener/frontend/backend. This is important to know the filters evaluation
order.

See also : section 9.2 about the compression filter, section 9.5 about the
           fcgi-app filter and section 6 about cache.


9.5. Fcgi-app
-------------

filter fcgi-app <name>

  Arguments :

    <name>      is name of the fcgi-app section this filter will use.

The FastCGI application uses a filter to evaluate all custom parameters on the
request path, and to process the headers on the response path. the <name> must
reference an existing fcgi-app section. The directive "use-fcgi-app" should be
used to define the application to use. By default the corresponding filter is
implicitly defined. And when no other filters than cache or compression are
used, it is enough. But it is mandatory to explicitly use a filter line to a
fcgi-app when at least one filter other than the compression or the cache is
used for the same backend. This is important to know the filters evaluation
order.

See also: "use-fcgi-app", section 9.2 about the compression filter, section 9.4
          about the cache filter and section 10 about FastCGI application.


9.6. OpenTracing
----------------

The OpenTracing filter adds native support for using distributed tracing in
HAProxy. This is enabled by sending an OpenTracing compliant request to one
of the supported tracers such as Datadog, Jaeger, Lightstep and Zipkin tracers.
Please note: tracers are not listed by any preference, but alphabetically.

This feature is only enabled when haproxy was built with USE_OT=1.

The OpenTracing filter activation is done explicitly by specifying it in the
HAProxy configuration. If this is not done, the OpenTracing filter in no way
participates in the work of HAProxy.

filter opentracing [id <id>] config <file>

  Arguments :

    <id>        is the OpenTracing filter id that will be used to find the
                right scope in the configuration file. If no filter id is
                specified, 'ot-filter' is used as default.  If scope is not
                specified in the configuration file, it applies to all defined
                OpenTracing filters.

    <file>      is the path of the OpenTracing configuration file. The same
                file can contain configurations for multiple OpenTracing
                filters simultaneously. In that case we do not need to define
                scope so the same configuration applies to all filters or each
                filter must have its own scope defined.

More detailed documentation related to the operation, configuration and use
of the filter can be found in the contrib/opentracing directory.


10. FastCGI applications
-------------------------

HAProxy is able to send HTTP requests to Responder FastCGI applications. This
feature was added in HAProxy 2.1. To do so, servers must be configured to use
the FastCGI protocol (using the keyword "proto fcgi" on the server line) and a
FastCGI application must be configured and used by the backend managing these
servers (using the keyword "use-fcgi-app" into the proxy section). Several
FastCGI applications may be defined, but only one can be used at a time by a
backend.

HAProxy implements all features of the FastCGI specification for Responder
application. Especially it is able to multiplex several requests on a simple
connection.

10.1. Setup
-----------

10.1.1. Fcgi-app section
--------------------------

fcgi-app <name>
  Declare a FastCGI application named <name>. To be valid, at least the
  document root must be defined.

acl <aclname> <criterion> [flags] [operator] <value> ...
  Declare or complete an access list.

  See "acl" keyword in section 4.2 and section 7 about ACL usage for
  details. ACLs defined for a FastCGI application are private. They cannot be
  used by any other application or by any proxy. In the same way, ACLs defined
  in any other section are not usable by a FastCGI application. However,
  Pre-defined ACLs are available.

docroot <path>
   Define the document root on the remote host. <path> will be used to build
   the default value of FastCGI parameters SCRIPT_FILENAME and
   PATH_TRANSLATED. It is a mandatory setting.

index <script-name>
  Define the script name that will be appended after an URI that ends with a
  slash ("/") to set the default value of the FastCGI parameter SCRIPT_NAME. It
  is an optional setting.

  Example :
    index index.php

log-stderr global
log-stderr <address> [len <length>] [format <format>]
    [sample <ranges>:<sample_size>] <facility> [<level> [<minlevel>]]
  Enable logging of STDERR messages reported by the FastCGI application.

  See "log" keyword in section 4.2 for details. It is an optional setting. By
  default STDERR messages are ignored.

pass-header <name> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Specify the name of a request header which will be passed to the FastCGI
  application. It may optionally be followed by an ACL-based condition, in
  which case it will only be evaluated if the condition is true.

  Most request headers are already available to the FastCGI application,
  prefixed with "HTTP_". Thus, this directive is only required to pass headers
  that are purposefully omitted. Currently, the headers "Authorization",
  "Proxy-Authorization" and hop-by-hop headers are omitted.

  Note that the headers "Content-type" and "Content-length" are never passed to
  the FastCGI application because they are already converted into parameters.

path-info <regex>
  Define a regular expression to extract the script-name and the path-info from
  the URL-decoded path. Thus, <regex> may have two captures: the first one to
  capture the script name and the second one to capture the path-info. The
  first one is mandatory, the second one is optional. This way, it is possible
  to extract the script-name from the path ignoring the path-info. It is an
  optional setting. If it is not defined, no matching is performed on the
  path. and the FastCGI parameters PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not
  filled.

  For security reason, when this regular expression is defined, the newline and
  the null characters are forbidden from the path, once URL-decoded. The reason
  to such limitation is because otherwise the matching always fails (due to a
  limitation one the way regular expression are executed in HAProxy). So if one
  of these two characters is found in the URL-decoded path, an error is
  returned to the client. The principle of least astonishment is applied here.

  Example :
     path-info ^(/.+\.php)(/.*)?$ # both script-name and path-info may be set
     path-info ^(/.+\.php)        # the path-info is ignored

option get-values
no option get-values
  Enable or disable the retrieve of variables about connection management.

  HAProxy is able to send the record FCGI_GET_VALUES on connection
  establishment to retrieve the value for following variables:

    * FCGI_MAX_REQS     The maximum number of concurrent requests this
                        application will accept.

    * FCGI_MPXS_CONNS   "0" if this application does not multiplex connections,
                        "1" otherwise.

  Some FastCGI applications does not support this feature. Some others close
  the connection immediately after sending their response. So, by default, this
  option is disabled.

  Note that the maximum number of concurrent requests accepted by a FastCGI
  application is a connection variable. It only limits the number of streams
  per connection. If the global load must be limited on the application, the
  server parameters "maxconn" and "pool-max-conn" must be set. In addition, if
  an application does not support connection multiplexing, the maximum number
  of concurrent requests is automatically set to 1.

option keep-conn
no option keep-conn
  Instruct the FastCGI application to keep the connection open or not after
  sending a response.

   If disabled, the FastCGI application closes the connection after responding
   to this request. By default, this option is enabled.

option max-reqs <reqs>
  Define the maximum number of concurrent requests this application will
  accept.

  This option may be overwritten if the variable FCGI_MAX_REQS is retrieved
  during connection establishment. Furthermore, if the application does not
  support connection multiplexing, this option will be ignored. By default set
  to 1.

option mpxs-conns
no option mpxs-conns
  Enable or disable the support of connection multiplexing.

  This option may be overwritten if the variable FCGI_MPXS_CONNS is retrieved
  during connection establishment. It is disabled by default.

set-param <name> <fmt> [ { if | unless } <condition> ]
  Set a FastCGI parameter that should be passed to this application. Its
  value, defined by <fmt> must follows the log-format rules (see section 8.2.4
  "Custom Log format"). It may optionally be followed by an ACL-based
  condition, in which case it will only be evaluated if the condition is true.

  With this directive, it is possible to overwrite the value of default FastCGI
  parameters. If the value is evaluated to an empty string, the rule is
  ignored. These directives are evaluated in their declaration order.

  Example :
    # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
    set-param REDIRECT_STATUS 200

    set-param PHP_AUTH_DIGEST %[req.hdr(Authorization)]


10.1.2. Proxy section
---------------------

use-fcgi-app <name>
  Define the FastCGI application to use for the backend.

  Arguments :
    <name>    is the name of the FastCGI application to use.

  This keyword is only available for HTTP proxies with the backend capability
  and with at least one FastCGI server. However, FastCGI servers can be mixed
  with HTTP servers. But except there is a good reason to do so, it is not
  recommended (see section 10.3 about the limitations for details). Only one
  application may be defined at a time per backend.

  Note that, once a FastCGI application is referenced for a backend, depending
  on the configuration some processing may be done even if the request is not
  sent to a FastCGI server. Rules to set parameters or pass headers to an
  application are evaluated.


10.1.3. Example
---------------

  frontend front-http
      mode http
      bind *:80
      bind *:

      use_backend back-dynamic if { path_reg ^/.+\.php(/.*)?$ }
      default_backend back-static

  backend back-static
      mode http
      server www A.B.C.D:80

  backend back-dynamic
      mode http
      use-fcgi-app php-fpm
      server php-fpm A.B.C.D:9000 proto fcgi

  fcgi-app php-fpm
      log-stderr global
      option keep-conn

      docroot /var/www/my-app
      index index.php
      path-info ^(/.+\.php)(/.*)?$


10.2. Default parameters
------------------------

A Responder FastCGI application has the same purpose as a CGI/1.1 program. In
the CGI/1.1 specification (RFC3875), several variables must be passed to the
script. So HAProxy set them and some others commonly used by FastCGI
applications. All these variables may be overwritten, with caution though.

  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | AUTH_TYPE         | Identifies the mechanism, if any, used by HAProxy   |
  |                   | to authenticate the user. Concretely, only the      |
  |                   | BASIC authentication mechanism is supported.        |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | CONTENT_LENGTH    | Contains the size of the message-body attached to   |
  |                   | the request. It means only requests with a known    |
  |                   | size are considered as valid and sent to the        |
  |                   | application.                                        |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | CONTENT_TYPE      | Contains the type of the message-body attached to   |
  |                   | the request. It may not be set.                     |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | DOCUMENT_ROOT     | Contains the document root on the remote host under |
  |                   | which the script should be executed, as defined in  |
  |                   | the application's configuration.                    |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | GATEWAY_INTERFACE | Contains the dialect of CGI being used by HAProxy   |
  |                   | to communicate with the FastCGI application.        |
  |                   | Concretely, it is set to "CGI/1.1".                 |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | PATH_INFO         | Contains the portion of the URI path hierarchy      |
  |                   | following the part that identifies the script       |
  |                   | itself. To be set, the directive "path-info" must   |
  |                   | be defined.                                         |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | PATH_TRANSLATED   | If PATH_INFO is set, it is its translated version.  |
  |                   | It is the concatenation of DOCUMENT_ROOT and        |
  |                   | PATH_INFO. If PATH_INFO is not set, this parameters |
  |                   | is not set too.                                     |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | QUERY_STRING      | Contains the request's query string. It may not be  |
  |                   | set.                                                |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | REMOTE_ADDR       | Contains the network address of the client sending  |
  |                   | the request.                                        |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | REMOTE_USER       | Contains the user identification string supplied by |
  |                   | client as part of user authentication.              |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | REQUEST_METHOD    | Contains the method which should be used by the     |
  |                   | script to process the request.                      |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | REQUEST_URI       | Contains the request's URI.                         |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | SCRIPT_FILENAME   | Contains the absolute pathname of the script. it is |
  |                   | the concatenation of DOCUMENT_ROOT and SCRIPT_NAME. |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | SCRIPT_NAME       | Contains the name of the script. If the directive   |
  |                   | "path-info" is defined, it is the first part of the |
  |                   | URI path hierarchy, ending with the script name.    |
  |                   | Otherwise, it is the entire URI path.               |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | SERVER_NAME       | Contains the name of the server host to which the   |
  |                   | client request is directed. It is the value of the  |
  |                   | header "Host", if defined. Otherwise, the           |
  |                   | destination address of the connection on the client |
  |                   | side.                                               |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | SERVER_PORT       | Contains the destination TCP port of the connection |
  |                   | on the client side, which is the port the client    |
  |                   | connected to.                                       |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | SERVER_PROTOCOL   | Contains the request's protocol.                    |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
  | HTTPS             | Set to a non-empty value ("on") if the script was   |
  |                   | queried through the HTTPS protocol.                 |
  |                   |                                                     |
  +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+


10.3. Limitations
------------------

The current implementation have some limitations. The first one is about the
way some request headers are hidden to the FastCGI applications. This happens
during the headers analysis, on the backend side, before the connection
establishment. At this stage, HAProxy know the backend is using a FastCGI
application but it don't know if the request will be routed to a FastCGI server
or not. But to hide request headers, it simply removes them from the HTX
message. So, if the request is finally routed to an HTTP server, it never see
these headers. For this reason, it is not recommended to mix FastCGI servers
and HTTP servers under the same backend.

Similarly, the rules "set-param" and "pass-header" are evaluated during the
request headers analysis. So the evaluation is always performed, even if the
requests is finally forwarded to an HTTP server.

About the rules "set-param", when a rule is applied, a pseudo header is added
into the HTX message. So, the same way than for HTTP header rewrites, it may
fail if the buffer is full. The rules "set-param" will compete with
"http-request" ones.

Finally, all FastCGI params and HTTP headers are sent into a unique record
FCGI_PARAM. Encoding of this record must be done in one pass, otherwise a
processing error is returned. It means the record FCGI_PARAM, once encoded,
must not exceeds the size of a buffer. However, there is no reserve to respect
here.

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