[radoslawc]

External check pleases me greatly, but sending emails for me seems to be overkill, there are well established ways to do this in unified manner (logparsers, snmp traps etc). Half way trough to fullfill Zawinski's Law.

[jimktrains2]

Yeah, there's a mix of awesome and what? stuff.

> Since 1.6, HAProxy can forge SSL certificate on the fly! Yes, you can use HAProxy with your company’s CA to inspect content.

> Device Identification

(Considering it seems you need a proprietary lib)

> mailers

> lua

> Processing of HTTP request body

All seem to be be moving away from what HAProxy is/was. It's not an application server. It's not a webserver. It's not a mail server.

[Florin_Andrei]

Lua is kinda awesome, though. Use it with plenty of common sense and it can be a very powerful tool.

[jimktrains2]

I guess part of my concern with Lua was the example on the linked article. It seems to be able to interface with most of the system and not just as a content source, which makes more sense.

[e12e]

FWIW I recently became aware of Pen:

https://github.com/UlricE/pen

I've not tried it - but there should be some overlap in use-cases, and it would appear to be a much smaller project than HAProxy.