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Go backend for LibreSpeed

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Support Proxy Protocol #9

Closed mildis closed 3 years ago

mildis commented 3 years ago

ProxyProtocol is a light and fast way for an upstream reverse-proxy to talk to its downstream servers.
Plus, it properly adds client IP address.
Supporting ProxyProtocol could provide more accurate results and less error in the client IP address detection.

A GO implementation is available at https://github.com/pires/go-proxyproto

maddie commented 3 years ago

Can you provide a use-case for implementing proxy protocol in the backend? Which frontend is going to be sending the proxy protocol headers?

mildis commented 3 years ago

We are using haproxy, whose author is also the Proxy Protocol author.
AWS Network Load Balancer sends ProxyProtocol : users running librespeed-go backend in AWS would benefit this.

maddie commented 3 years ago

Implemented. Thanks for your suggestion.

maddie commented 3 years ago

Released under tag v1.1.0