Feature request: better usability maps

[f1outsourcing]

• on cfg reload, before reload, save the map

• when you use a map in the config, it is allowed to have a empty file. Why not just work with no file? Especially when it is not saved anyway now, it does not make sense to be dependent on an empty file.

• fix this bug

map not existing/working/created/set when only having http-request set-map in config

[lukastribus]

Let’s use the existing thread:

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