Strange characters added by nginx?

Wed Nov 5 12:53:57 MSK 2008

Hello!

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:24:52AM +0100, Rafał Zawadzki wrote:

> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:06:05PM +0100, Rafał Zawadzki wrote:
> 
> >> When i am trying to run my application via fastcig nginx adds some
> >> strange character, which are rendered by browser and destroy layout ;)
> >> 
> >> Anyway - two examples of the same response, one is done via nginx, the
> >> second one by plain python (django).
> >> 
> >> Any idea?
> >> 
> >> root at sensias1 [~]# nginx -v
> >> nginx version: nginx/0.6.32
> >> root at sensias1 [~]#
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Version with nginx:
> >> 
> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >> Server: nginx/0.6.32
> >> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:00:41 GMT
> >> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> >> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> >> Connection: close
> >> Vary: Accept-Language, Cookie
> >> Content-Language: londonlist
> >> Cache-control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=3600
> >> Set-Cookie: sessionid=20dedac7897a460f639f5eea64dc2246.1225803641.71; expires=Tue, 18-Nov-2008 13:00:41 GMT; Max-Age=1209600; Path=/;
> >> Set-Cookie: clipboard="{'advert': [], 'query': []}"; Path=/;
> >> 
> >> 1e78
> >> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> 
> > It looks like normal chunked transfer encoding, exactly as 
> > specified in headers (note "Transfer-Encoding: chunked").  Your 
> > browser shouldn't render "1e78" as long as it's HTTP/1.1 complaint 
> > (and nginx won't send chunked unless request is HTTP/1.1).
> 
> > Could you please confirm that the output in question is what you 
> > got on the wire, not something transcoded by your debugging tool 
> > (if unsure - retry request by hand via telnet)?  And could you 
> > please name the browser you are using?
> 
> IE7
> 
> (output was taken using "netcat" tool).

Sorry, can't reproduce.  Obviously IE7 understands chunked and I 
see nothing strange in the headers above (and so does IE7 feeded 
by the headers and some chunked data).

Try tcpdump'ing what happens on the wire for real request.

Maxim Dounin