<div dir="ltr">Ok, I figured it out. Seems that several years ago someone at my day job did a custom errorfile in haproxy which returns a 503 error whenever haproxy intends to return a 403 error. It was forgotten and went unnoticed until now. Now we have to figure out if its a cut and paste error or if there was a legit reason for doing this. Either way its not an nginx (or haproxy) issue.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Валентин Бартенев <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vbart@nginx.com" target="_blank">vbart@nginx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thursday 14 April 2016 22:45:36 CJ Ess wrote:<br>
> In my environment I have Nginx terminating connections, then sending them<br>
> to an HAProxy upstream. We've noticed that whenever HAProxy emts a 403<br>
> error (Forbidden, in response to our ACL rules), NGINX reports a 503 result<br>
> (service unavailable) and I believe is logging an "upstream prematurely<br>
> closed connection while reading response header from upstream" error<br>
> message in the nginx error log.<br>
><br>
> What I'd really like to do is pass the 403 code back to the user - what do<br>
> I need to do?<br>
<br>
</div></div>That message suggests that haproxy closes connection before properly returning<br>
headers. So nginx can't pass 403 since it can't get it right from haproxy.<br>
<br>
You should check what is wrong with haproxy.<br>
<br>
wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev<br>
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