I solved this, the solution was to add "capture header host" in haproxy.cfg
and get the host header info from stream->req_cap array.
[Carolina Gomes]
PhD Student
University of Toronto
+1 (416) 931-4774
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Carolina Simões Gomes <
carolina.sgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> First-timer on the mailing list :-) Below is my question.
>
> I created a custom HAProxy load balancing code, that instead of using one
> of the default algorithms such as round robin, calls a webservice that
> decides which server to route to. I call from haproxy C code to the
> webservice using libcurl. That part works. However, I would like to send
> the "host" header from the client request that reaches HAProxy to this
> webservice, as a query parameter. But I am not sure how to get the host
> header from the client request!
>
> I tried using methods like "find_http_header2("Host", 4, ...)" and
> variants, as seen in proto_http.c usages. But the Host header never seems
> to be found, only other headers such as Content-Length, Connection etc.From
> my browser (Firefox), I used the debugger and the GET http request sent by
> the browser does have the Host header, so not sure why HAProxy doesn't
> receive it.
>
> I am currently using a "listen" configuration but even if I separate in
> frontend and backend configurations on haproxy.cfg, the issue is still the
> same. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> [Carolina Gomes]
> PhD Student
> University of Toronto
> +1 (416) 931-4774
>
>
