Re: PROXY protocol support

> PFA a simple patch that implements support for the PROXY protocol.
>
> This is a protocol common and very light weight in proxies and load
> balancers (haproxy is one common example, but also for example the AWS
> cloud load balancers). Basically this protocol prefixes the normal
> connection with a header and a specification of what the original host
> was, allowing the server to unwrap that and get the correct client
> address instead of just the proxy ip address. It is a one-way protocol
> in that there is no response from the server, it's just purely a
> prefix of the IP information.

Is there any formal specification for the "a protocol common and very
light weight in proxies"? I am asking because I was expecting that is
explained in your patch (hopefully in "Frontend/Backend Protocol"
chapter) but I couldn't find it in your patch.

Also we need a regression test for this feature.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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