feature request: support haproxy's proxy protocol
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http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
This is basically X-Forwarded-For for TCP. It would be an interesting idea to see if this can be used for transparently multi-node servers which can arbitrarily scale up/down.
One major thing to keep in mind that any IRC daemons with something like this loaded would need to have an explicit whitelist of servers that it can accept those "promotable" connections from, maybe this should be implemented inside the WEBIRC module.
Absolutely!
Honestly, something which would be super cool would be transparently shuffling users between servers behind a load balancer, so that scaling down is no problem.
the actual challenge to this proposal is implementing a way for a new server to start handling the connection of an old server. as it turns out, this is very hard, and will definitely become the focus of implementing some kind of proxied IRC architecture