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Clarify how setting a frontend priority works #2984

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What does this PR do?

Update the documentation to clarify how setting a frontend priority works

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Some misunderstanding on the frontend priority mechanism
Related to #2722

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LGTM

docs/basics.md Outdated
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ The following rules are both `Matchers` and `Modifiers`, so the `Matcher` portio
#### Priorities

By default, routes will be sorted (in descending order) using rules length (to avoid path overlap):
`PathPrefix:/12345` will be matched before `PathPrefix:/1234` that will be matched before `PathPrefix:/1`.
`PathPrefix:/12;Host:foo.com` (length == 27) will be matched before `PathPrefixStrip:/123` (length == 20) will be matched before `PathPrefix:/12,/3` (length == 17).
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could you replace numbers by letters.

ex: PathPrefix:/12 -> PathPrefix:/foo

docs/basics.md Outdated
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ You can customize priority by frontend. The priority value is added to the rule
rule = "PathPrefix:/toto"
```

Here, `frontend1` will be matched before `frontend2` (`(3 + 10 == 13) > (4 + 5 == 9)`).
Here, `frontend1` will be matched before `frontend2` (`(14 + 10 == 24) > (16 + 5 == 21)`).
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I think that in reality, if you specify a priority, you don't use the length and use directly the value. Can you verify this ?

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In Traefik 1.5, a custom priority does ignore the length-based factor according to my tests not too long ago.

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Yes, I made a mistake, the priority override the rule length according to https://github.com/containous/traefik/blob/master/server/server.go#L1192

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LGTM

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LGTM

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LGTM

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