can nginx calculate the content-length header for fastcgi proxied requests

[Alexandr Gomoliako]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Andrew Benton <andrewmbenton at gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm not sure whether this question even makes sense. i don't know
> whether nginx is buffering responses that it receives from proxying
> requests to a fastcgi process or its streaming that back to the
> client.

> but i would like to be able to have nginx calculate the content-length
> header for requests that are fastcgi_pass-ed. couldn't find anything
> online or in the documentation relating to this.

Well, there is nothing to find. Nginx cannot do this.