Turn off file upload buffering?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2006, at 12:35 AM, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>> 
>>> 	I am running mongrel behind nginx proxy and I am doing upload progess 
>>> with mongrel. I need to know how to turn off ngxin file upload buffering. 
>>> Right now nginx buffers the entire file upload to a tmp file before it 
>>> sends it on to the proxied backend. Is there a way to turn this off so 
>>> that nginx just does a pass through and lets the backend take care of 
>>> buffering the file upload to disk?
>> 
>> Currently nginx always buffer an upload because
>> 1) it is accelerator
>> 2) and to support fault tolerance: if some backend fails, nginx can resend
>>    the upload to next backend.
>> 
>> I plan to add the upload progress module.
>> 
>> 
>> Igor Sysoev
>> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>> 
>
> 	Ok thanks for the info Igor. Is there anything I can do to help get 
> the upload progress support in quicker? Maybe sponsor the development? Our 
> customers really need a way to do upload progress and we use purely nginx and 
> mongrel. I have custom mongrel extension that supports upload progress right 
> in mongrel already, so is there no way to get an option for nginx to pass 
> through the uploaded file? Or would that be too hard to add?

I need to think some time.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/