proxy protocol parsing without system support #41826
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Title: proxy protocol parsing without system support
Description:
Envoy requires an IP interface from the same type to parse proxy protocol packets, see:
./source/extensions/filters/listener/proxy_protocol/proxy_protocol.cc: // TODO(ggreenway): make this work without requiring operating system support for an
./source/extensions/filters/listener/proxy_protocol/proxy_protocol.cc: // TODO(ggreenway): make this work without requiring operating system support for an
this could be easily addressed by parsing the headers without this requirement.
proxy protocol is described in https://www.haproxy.org/download/3.0/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
Creating this issue to track the work on it. Datadog team could provide a patch for it as we rely on it.
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