On 1 May 2015, at 01:30, Daniel Ruggeri <drugg...@primary.net> wrote: > > On 4/29/2015 11:54 PM, Jim Riggs wrote: >> >> So, this has come up in the past several times, and we discussed it again >> this year at ApacheCon: How do we get the load balancer to make smarter, >> more informed decisions about where to send traffic? … >> string-entry = string-field "=" ( token | quoted-string ) > > A useful token could be status=OK|ERROR|MAINTENANCE where a backend could > advertise to the upstream load balancer that it may want to be put in drain > mode or something to that effect. Since this list can't/won't be exhaustive > of all things people could care to send, let's add some head room in the spec > by allowing "custom-integer" and/or "custom-string". Otherwise, I suspect > people would cram things into the wrong fields just to get the data back to > the proxy.
Although I think it's an approach deprecated by IETF, how about allowing any field name provided it's prefixed with “x-”? -- Tim Bannister – is...@c8h10n4o2.org.uk
