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Simple Load Balancer: development update · 2026-10-05

Proxy requests are being tightened to keep configured routes within their intended paths and destinations. Proxied subpaths that contain parent-directory segments are rejected, and proxy connections are pinned to validated public DNS addresses. These safeguards help reduce…

Proxy requests are being tightened to keep configured routes within their intended paths and destinations. Proxied subpaths that contain parent-directory segments are rejected, and proxy connections are pinned to validated public DNS addresses.

These safeguards help reduce the chance that a request reaches an unintended path or address. The workspace remains focused on configuring routes and weighted targets, testing request and response transformations, and inspecting traffic through tests and logs.

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