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[Doc] "Proxy support with SNI routing" description is confusing and conflicting

Open lhotari opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

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What issue do you find in Pulsar docs?

This part is confusing:

The proxy in Pulsar acts as a reverse proxy, and creates a gateway in front of brokers. Proxies such as Apache Traffic Server (ATS), HAProxy, Nginx, and Envoy are not supported in Pulsar. These proxy-servers support SNI routing.

In addition. the second sentence is confusing: "The proxy server acts as a "traffic cop" in both forward and reverse proxy scenarios, and benefits your system such as load balancing, performance, security, auto-scaling, and so on."

What is "the" proxy server that the description is referring to? As a reader, it's hard to distinguish between the Pulsar Proxy and some other proxy.

What is your suggestion?

The whole section needs revisiting so that it would make sense. Apache Traffic Server (ATS) is a proxy server that supports SNI routing, https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/admin-guide/layer-4-routing.en.html#sni-routing . I'm not aware that HA

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Are you willing to submit a PR?

  • [ ] I'm willing to submit a PR!

lhotari avatar Nov 29 '23 08:11 lhotari