From: Christopher Faulet Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:29:26 +0000 (+0200) Subject: DOC: config: Explicitly state the SPOE streams have a usable parent stream X-Git-Tag: v3.1-dev4~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e902db2609baf7584b518228294ca141c7e3930c;p=thirdparty%2Fhaproxy.git DOC: config: Explicitly state the SPOE streams have a usable parent stream It is explicitly mentionned in the configuration manual that the parent of a SPOE stream is the filtered stream. It means variables of the filtered stream are usable from the SPOE stream. --- diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt index 1edfd219c2..06d3ec2de8 100644 --- a/doc/configuration.txt +++ b/doc/configuration.txt @@ -27336,6 +27336,12 @@ also requires dedicated backends, defined in HAProxy configuration. SPOE communicates with external components using an in-house binary protocol, the Stream Processing Offload Protocol (SPOP). +When the SPOE is used on a stream, a dedicated stream is spawned to handle the +communcation with the external component. The main stream is the parent stream +of this "SPOE" stream. It means it is possible to retrieve variables of the +main stream from the "SPOE" stream. See section 2.8 about variables for +details. + For all information about the SPOE configuration and the SPOP specification, see "doc/SPOE.txt".