Request inside a timer

[Peter Leonov]

Well done by the way! :)

On 11.02.2012, at 3:04, Alexandr Gomoliako <zzz at zzz.org.ua> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:39 AM, António P. P. Almeida
> <appa at perusio.net> wrote:
>>> I would like to do a module which, at some interval, refresh part of
>>> its configuration getting some values from a external service.  So I
>>> need to make a GET independent of a user request.
>>
>> I suggest not doing a module, but instead making use of:
>>
>> http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule
>>
>> It can do that and more, much more.
>
> I don't think it can. But pretty easy with Nginx::Perl:
>
> use Nginx;
> use Nginx::HTTP;
>
> sub init_worker {
>    ...
>    my $req = "GET / HTTP/1.1" . "\x0d\x0a" . "Host: foobar" .
> "\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a" ;
>
>    ngx_timer 0, 5, sub {
>        ngx_http "1.2.3.4:80", $req, sub {
>            my ($headers, $buf_ref) = @_;
>
>            unless ($headers) {
>                ngx_log_error $!, "error";
>                return;
>            }
>
>            ngx_log_notice 0, "got $headers->{'_status'}";
>            ...
>        };
>    };
> }
>
> http://zzzcpan.github.com/nginx-perl/
>
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