On Dec 30, 2006, at 1:21 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
Is there any way to get a config setting in nginx to turn off
buffering of file uploads to proxied backeds? I woudl really like
to be able to use mongrel_upload_progress to do upload progress
bars in rails applications. Right now there seems to not be a way
to turn off buffering of file uploads when the handler is a proxy
backend.
Is there a way to turn this off? Coudl you please add one?
Apache2.2 and lighty both support non buffered file uploads to
proxied backends and it would be great if nginx could support
this as well.
No, currently nginx always buffer uploads.
I have plan to add 1) non-buffered uploads and 2) filters that allow
to show the upload progress bar using nginx.
Apache and lighttpd support non-buffered uploads only.
nginx was developed as accelerator to minimize a backend
interaction time
with a client, so my initial plans did not include the non-
buffered uploads.
Besides, if a backend was failed during request processing, then
nginx can resend a whole request with body to another backend.
I agree with you that buffering file uploads so you can resend if a
backend goes down should be the default. But I would really like to
have an option to turn off the buffering when proxying.
In my use case for this i want more control over the upload so I'm
not worried about the backend going down and nginx not being able to
resend to another backed. I would like the upload to pass thru to the
backend and the backend deals with it from there.
So yes please I would love it if you could implement 1) non-buffered
uploads as a config option. Do you have any idea for a timeline of
when you could implement this feature?
Much Thanks
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