Hi.
As there was the discussion about the future of the SPOE filter, let me
start a discussion about some possible filter options.
As far as I know have we this filters.
Available filters :
[SPOE] spoe
[CACHE] cache
[FCGI] fcgi-app
[COMP] compression
[TRACE] trace
There is also the httpclient in haproxy which looks quite mature, from
my point of view.
The question which I have is how difficult is it to add a http filter
based on httpclient similar to SPOE or FCGI filter.
Another option is to add some language specific filter like
haproxy-rs-api shown in this comment
https://github.com/khvzak/mlua/issues/320#issuecomment-1762027351 .
The Idea to add the http filter is that there are so many http based
tools out there and with that could HAProxy use such tools based on http.
I know that's to late for 2.9 but let's start the discussion for the
future versions of HAProxy. I know that http is not the most efficient
Protocol in the world but widely used and this opens an lot of possible
filters for haproxy. I know also that every http implementation have
there quirks but it's still one of the most used Protocol for now.
Any opinion on that?
Regards
Alex
