Subrequests from body filters

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 05:52:53PM +0400, Marat Dakota wrote:

> >> But is it ok to call next body filter in subrequest's body filter to
> >> produce output to main request?
> >> I mean ngx_http_next_body_filter(r->main, out).
> >
> > No.  You should call next body filter of the request you are
> > working with.  It's postpone filter responsibility to manage
> > subrequests output, and if you try to do this yourself instead -
> > result will be undefined.
> 
> It seems to work as expected for me. How can I cause problems with this?

Undefined behaviour sometimes appear to work as expected.  This 
doesn't mean it's correct though.

Depending on the exact place in a filter chain where you did it 
and various other factors like timings, results may vary from 
"nothing bad might happen, as r == r->main anyway" to "response 
will completely incorrect as wrong filters will be applied to the 
response body".

Most trivial thing to test is probably a subrequest order, which 
likely will be wrong in your case if first subrequest will take 
longer to handle than second one.

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