Hi Lukas! On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 09:17:57PM +0100, Lukas Tribus wrote: > Hello! > > > uri normalization is in experimental status since haproxy 2.4: > > http://docs.haproxy.org/3.0/configuration.html#4.4-normalize-uri > > > URI normalization in HAProxy 2.4 is currently available as an experimental > > technical preview. As such, it requires the global directive > > 'expose-experimental-directives' first to be able to invoke it. > > > Is it time to drop the "experimental" flag and consider this fully > supported feature? Any H2 / H3 specific issues? Considering that it > only touches the URI I would guess there are no issues.
Good point, I almost forgot about this! Some of the difficulties are that it's a set of enable/disable on the URI itself but does not permit to perform them in a certain order, nor does it permit to perform the operation on another header nor a variable, nor even a location header. We've started to study the ability to do that using converters so that users could chain them in any order, decide to decode before checking or condition some tests to certain methods/uris etc, but that required to implement the support for error reporting in sample expressions from converters. Christopher had started digging around this a while ago, and this was put to pause with the steady flow of bug reports lately :-/ I think that once we have the ability to make converters cause the processing to fail, then porting Tim's checks to converters is no brainer and would offer more flexibility. In this case I'm not sure there would still be a point in keeping the current configuration mechanism. As much as I hate keeping experimental statuses for too long, I think it would be reasonable to keep it one more cycle to give us a chance again to address this globally. Thanks! Willy
