How to handle NGX_AGAIN returned by ngx_http_read_client_request_body() within handler module?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 06:33:27PM -0400, sayeo87 wrote:

> I am trying to develop a handler module in Nginx 0.7.59 to intercept POST requests and perform internal redirections based on the values in the POST data. The problem is, on larger POST requests (~ > 2KB), ngx_http_read_client_request_body() sometimes returns NGX_AGAIN instead of NGX_OK. I have read at various places that if one receives any other status than NGX_OK that that the module should immediately return that status. I have also read that after getting and returning NGX_AGAIN, NGINX will call your module again after other pending network activity. However, I have tried doing this but my module never gets called again.

General recomendation is: read code instead of "various places".  
Expected module behaviour depend highly on exact place where it's used.

For this particular case try reading what other 
ngx_http_read_client_request_body() callers do, e.g.  
ngx_http_proxy_module.  I believe it's clear enough.  And the code 
behind ngx_http_read_client_request_body() itself also deserves 
some reading if you want to understand how it works.

> What I have resorted to is to perform another ngx_http_read_client_request_body() call if I get an NGX_AGAIN. At least within the module this seems to work, but whenever I have to do this the resulting request to the upstream server always times out. But when I don't get NGX_AGAIN, everything is perfectly fine.

Calling ngx_http_read_client_request_body() again won't do 
anything good.  As you can see from first several lines of this 
function - it will just call completion handler when called again.

Maxim Dounin

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> How should I handle these cases where ngx_http_read_client_request_body() returns NGX_AGAIN?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,3545,3545#msg-3545
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