Best-effort sticky sessions

[Grzegorz Nosek]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:15:15PM +0100, Piotr Sikora wrote:
> Hi Grzegorz,
> 
> >upstream up1 {
> >server sv1:9000;
> >server sv1:9000; # try again (and possibly again...)
> >server sv2:9000; # and finally fail over to the other server
> >}
> 
> Unless I've missed something, this should work for your use-case:
> 
> upstream up1 {
>    server sv1:9000 max_fails=3;
>    server sv2:9000 backup;
> }

You're right but it just makes the config prettier and still broken :)

Have a look below, the real problems are the contents of $upstream_addr
and fastcgi_pass $variable behaviour.

Thanks anyway :)

Best regards,
 Grzegorz Nosek