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When an argument is empty, parse_line() currently returns a pointer to
the empty string itself. This is convenient, but it's only actionable by
the user who will see for example "${HAPROXY_LOCALPEER}" and figure what
is wrong. Here we slightly change the reported pointer so that if an empty
argument results from the evaluation of an empty variable (meaning that
all variables in string are empty and no other char is present), then
instead of pointing to the opening quote, we'll return a pointer to the
first character of the variable's name. This will allow to make a
difference between an empty variable and an unknown variable, and for
the caller to take action based on this.
I.e. before we would get:
log "${LOG_SERVER_IP}" local0
^
if LOG_SERVER_IP is not set, and now instead we'll get this:
log "${LOG_SERVER_IP}" local0
^
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:
- INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
- BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
- LICENSE for the project's license
- CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions
The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:
- doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
- doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
- doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
- doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
- doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
- doc/management.txt for the management guide
- doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
- doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
- doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
- doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.