AXBA:2016-153:01

HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high
availability environments. Indeed, it can:
- route HTTP requests depending on statically assigned cookies
- spread load among several servers while assuring server persistence
through the use of HTTP cookies
- switch to backup servers in the event a main one fails
- accept connections to special ports dedicated to service monitoring
- stop accepting connections without breaking existing ones
- add, modify, and delete HTTP headers in both directions
- block requests matching particular patterns
- persists clients to the correct application server depending on
application cookies
- report detailed status as HTML pages to authenticated users from a URI
intercepted from the application

Fixed bugs:

* Previously, when haproxy was configured to use peer host names, a bug caused host names longer than 32 characters to be truncated. As a consequence, the haproxy configuration files became invalid. This bug has now been fixed, and host names specified as peers can now safely exceed 32 characters.