> From my reading of the code SIGUSR1 does not send a "Connection: close" to the > client or server. This means it is not possible to safely close a keep-alive > session, before terminating HAProxy. > > Would there be interest in a patch to send "Connection: close" on both the > request and the response, once a SIGUSR1 is received?
What request/response, aren't we talking about an idle session here? Initiating a close on the transport layer (when unencrypted) or the session layer (when TLS encrypted) is perfectly fine [1], its also what both browser and webservers do when they timeout an idle session. Regards, Lukas [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-8.1.4
