Re: question about load balance and forwardfor

On 07/02/08 04:46, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> If a persistence cookie is found and points to a valid server, it is used.
> Otherwise, load-balancing applies.

OK, got it.
>
> Yes, nobody had time to implement the IP extraction from headers in order
Sorry to hear that.
> to perform the hash. We need to be able to specify which occurrence of the
> header we want to hash, because X-Forwarded-For is a typical case of multiple
> value header.

Yeah, I think it's not so simple.
I thought haproxy could hash User-Agent in request headers.

Anyway, it would be more formidable if this headers hash feature added.
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>

Thanks very much, Willy.

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Rgds,
Cherife.