Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | May 6, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
HAProxy’s load-balancing algorithms HAProxy supports many load-balancing algorithms which may be used in many different type of cases. That said, cache servers, which deliver most of the time the static content from your web applications, may require some...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Jan 26, 2015 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Synopsis Let’s take a web application platform where many HTTP Host header points to. Of course, this platform hosts many backends and HAProxy is used to perform content switching based on the Host header to route HTTP traffic to each backend. HAProxy map...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Nov 7, 2012 | LOAD BALANCING / ROUTING, TECH
Why Do You Need a Websocket? HTTP protocol is connection-less and only the client can request information from a server. In any case, a server can contact a client. HTTP is purely half-duplex. Furthermore, a server can answer only one time to a client request. Some...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 16, 2012 | TECH
Note: The below information is deprecated as HAProxy Enterprise now offers a fully functional native WAF module which supports whitelist-based rulesets, blacklist-based rulesets, and support for ModSecurity rulesets! Synopsis I’ve already described WAF in...
Baptiste Assmann Baptiste Assmann | Oct 12, 2012 | TECH
Note: The below information is deprecated as HAProxy Enterprise now offers a fully functional native WAF module which supports whitelist-based rulesets, blacklist-based rulesets, and ModSecurity rulesets! Greeting to Thomas Heil, from our German partner Olanis,...
