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What are routers in Traefik?
A router is the component that inspects an incoming request and decides which service should handle it, based on a matching rule such as the request's host, path, or headers.
Each router defines a rule (for example Host(`api.example.com`)), attaches to one or more entrypoints, optionally passes the request through a chain of middlewares, and finally forwards it to a named service.
Routers can also be given a priority, which matters when two rules could both match the same request, since Traefik needs a deterministic way to pick a winner.
A Traefik router's main job is to:
Which of these could a router's rule match on?
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