Thank you for your answer. This means nginx is not compatible with CMAF and low latency streaming.
I tried the slice module and read its code but it does not cover my needs. I guess I have to develop a new proxy module. thanks Traquila Roman Arutyunyan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 05:02:21AM -0400, traquila wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm wondering if nginx is able to serve multiple requests from a > single > > proxy request before it completes. > > > > I am using the following configuration: > > > > proxy_cache_lock on; > > proxy_cache_lock_timeout 5s; > > proxy_cache ram; > > proxy_pass myUpstream; > > > > My upstream uses chunked transfer encoding and serve the request in > 10 sec. > > Now if I try to send 2 requests to nginx, the first one starts > responding > > immediately but the second will starts 5 sec later (lock timeout) > and then > > perform a second request to my upstream. > > This is all normal considering you have proxy_cache_lock enabled. > Your second > request waits until the first request completes and fills up the cache > entry. > This cache entry is supposed to be used to serve the second request. > But it > expires after 5 seconds and makes another request to the upstream. > > > Is there a way to configure nginx to immediately respond to multiple > > requests with a single request to my upstream? > > There is no proxy/cache option to enable that behavior. However, if > your > response is big enough, you can try using the slice module: > > http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_slice_module.html > > With this module you can slice the response in pieces and cache each > one > separately. While the same logic as above is true for the slices too, > the fact that they are usually much smaller than the entire response > makes > it look like the response is proxied to multiple client > simultaneously. > > -- > Roman Arutyunyan > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,281058,281062#msg-281062 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
