Adding header to response for specific URLs with HAproxy

load-balancing haproxy
Xeos picture Xeos · Apr 19, 2015 · Viewed 8.9k times · Source

I have a simple condition in my HAproxy config (I tried this for frontend and backend):

acl no_index_url path_end .pdf .doc .xls .docx .xlsx
rspadd X-Robots-Tag:\ noindex if no_index_url

It should add the no-robots header to content that should not be indexed. However it gives me this WARNING when parsing the config:

acl 'no_index_url' will never match because it only involves keywords
    that are incompatible with 'backend http-response header rule'

and

acl 'no_index_url' will never match because it only involves keywords
    that are incompatible with 'frontend http-response header rule'

According to documentation, rspadd can be used in both frontend and backend. The path_end is used in examples within frontend. Why am I getting this error and what does it mean?

Answer

Adam Albright picture Adam Albright · Feb 15, 2016

Starting in HaProxy 1.6 you won't be able to just ignore the error message. To get this working use the temporary variable feature:

frontend main
   http-request set-var(txn.path) path

backend local
   http-response set-header X-Robots-Tag noindex if { var(txn.path) -m end .pdf .doc }

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