diff --git a/Documentation/Books/Manual/Administration/ActiveFailover/README.md b/Documentation/Books/Manual/Administration/ActiveFailover/README.md index 1817f6d080..abbef3d4c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/Books/Manual/Administration/ActiveFailover/README.md +++ b/Documentation/Books/Manual/Administration/ActiveFailover/README.md @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Reading from Follower --------------------- Followers in the active-failover setup are in a read-only mode. It is possible to read from these -followers by adding a `X-Arango-Allow-Dirty-Read` header on each request. Responses will then automatically +followers by adding a `X-Arango-Allow-Dirty-Read: true` header on each request. Responses will then automatically contain the `X-Arango-Potential-Dirty-Read` header so that clients can reject accidental dirty reads. Depending on the driver support for your specific programming language, you should be able to enable this option. diff --git a/Documentation/Books/Manual/Architecture/DeploymentModes/ActiveFailover/Architecture.md b/Documentation/Books/Manual/Architecture/DeploymentModes/ActiveFailover/Architecture.md index 17ab8ce2fe..f94fa5e71a 100644 --- a/Documentation/Books/Manual/Architecture/DeploymentModes/ActiveFailover/Architecture.md +++ b/Documentation/Books/Manual/Architecture/DeploymentModes/ActiveFailover/Architecture.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ In contrast to the normal behaviour of a single-server instance, the Active-Fail mode will change the behaviour of ArangoDB in some situations. The _Follower_ will _always_ deny write requests from client applications. Starting from ArangoDB 3.4 -read requests are _only_ permitted if the requests is marked with the `X-Arango-Allow-Dirty-Read` header, +read requests are _only_ permitted if the requests is marked with the `X-Arango-Allow-Dirty-Read: true` header, otherwise they are denied too. Only the replication itself is allowed to access the follower's data until the follower becomes a new _Leader_ (should a _failover_ happen). @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Reading from Followers ---------------------- Followers in the active-failover setup are in a read-only mode. It is possible to read from these -followers by adding a `X-Arango-Allow-Dirty-Read` header on each request. Responses will then automatically +followers by adding a `X-Arango-Allow-Dirty-Read: true` header on each request. Responses will then automatically contain the `X-Arango-Potential-Dirty-Read` header so that clients can reject accidental dirty reads. Depending on the driver support for your specific programming language, you should be able to enable this option.