nginx as reverse proxy, returns garbage symbols

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:45:09AM -0500, Camilo Aguilar wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to use nginx as a reverse proxy and I am getting garbage symbols
> in my json responses:
> 
> 6a
> {"codedField":[{"code":"01","name":"Dpto01"},{"code":"02","name":"Dpto02"},{"code":"03","name":"Dpto03"}]}
> 0
> 
> 
> I have tried with and without gzip and happens the same.
> 
> My backend responses are well formed json and then I think that it should be
> a nginx issue.

Looks like your backend returns Transfer-Encoding: chunked to 
HTTP/1.0 requests (behaviour explicitly forbidden by RFC2616).  

Fixing backend should help.

Maxim Dounin


> 
> Can anybody help me please ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Camilo Aguilar
> 
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> 
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> 
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