Introduction to HAProxy ACLs: Building Rules for Dynamically Routing Requests, Redirecting Users & Blocking Malicious Traffic
As requests stream into your HAProxy Enterprise load balancer, adding rules to route them to the right place, redirect them to other pages, or outright deny them is what puts you in control of your traffic. Access Control Lists (ACLs) give you this power and they are a core component of HAProxy. They let you form conditional statements that filter and direct traffic in real-time.
In this webinar, we will present how to:
Formulate an ACL statement using HAProxy’s configuration language
Combine ACL rules with actions using either named or inline ACLs
Utilize various, ready-made fetch methods that describe a request
Combine flags and matching methods to make ACLs case-insensitive, match a certain part of a string, and more
Redirect users to another location
Select a backend server to fulfill a request
Store ACLs in a separate file for convenience
Block malicious requests