Hello! On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:37:03PM -0600, Andrew Tynefield wrote:
> I've configured nginx as a load balancing proxy for my backend servers. My > backend is expecting multi-part uploads for large files in small chunks > (5-15mb). The issue I'm encountering, is that I would like for nginx to > just pass the chunked data along to the backend servers and not buffer the > requests. [...] > proxy_buffering off; [...] > I have tried disabling buffers as shown above, however, when I capture the > packets on the backend servers, I see that the stream of data doesn't occur > until after the full body of the upload has completed. The proxy_buffering directive disables response buffering, not request buffering. As of now, there is no way to prevent request body buffering in nginx. It's always fully read by nginx before a request is passed to an upstream server. It's basically a part of nginx being a web accelerator - it handles slow communication with clients by itself and only asks a backend to process a request when everything is ready. Implementing unbuffered uploads is in plans, no ETA though. -- Maxim Dounin http://nginx.org/en/donation.html _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
