Hi,
I am a newbie to nginx. I have done some initial research on nginx 
architecture, location modules, upstream modules, third party modules available 
for various purposes etc. After going through a number of pages I have a 
question which I can't seem to find an easy answer to.
I have a very simple use case like this: user enters a set of keywords to 
search on my web site. In the backend, in my nginx location module, i first go 
to Redis for cached results against the set of keywords and if not found, to 
Sphinx search daemon. In the latter case, I set the results obtained from 
Sphinx back into Redis.
I have thought of the following design, in terms of nginx modules I would use:
1   My main location module that picks the keywords entered and communicates to 
Redis and Sphinx2   For communicating to Redis I thought of using 
HttpRedis2Module (http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRedis2Module)3   For communicating 
with Sphinx, I am trying to write a simple C++ client or adapt the Sphinx C++ 
client (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cppsphinxclient/) or its parts into an 
upstream module.
What I wanted to know is how to invoke the upstream modules within my main 
location module. Are there standard APIs provided by Nginx for the same and do 
they retain the async advantages? Or do I have to resort to make curl calls 
from my C++ client and use the response? I was hoping that the former (Nginx 
APIs to call upstream modules) exists in some form and serves as some 
"shortcut" or "faster" way/alternative to making some curl API calls.
Regards,Reetesh                                           
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