Subrequests: returning response to client

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:17:31AM -0400, davidjb wrote:

> Maxim Dounin Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
>  
> > What you are trying to do should be possible with 
> > NGX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_IN_MEMORY - this way subrequest body will be 
> > available in memory instead of being sent to a client.  But it's 
> > not currently supported for fastcgi.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification and your reply.  I've taken to ignoring request
> and response bodies for now since in my use case, the auth_request backend
> really only needs to respond with redirections for Single Sign On.  
> 
> Is the thinking that this may eventually be supported by other modules like
> FastCGI/uWSGI or is it related to some technical issue?  

The subrequest in memory functionality needs unbuffered handling 
in the upstream module, which is not implemented for FastCGI.

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