Hold requests long enough for me to restart upstream?

[mike]

 Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Rt Ibmer <rtibmx at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Correct - just one upstream right now.  So what I am looking for would essentially be a "pause". To tell it "hey if nothing's listening and there's no other upstream just queue the requests and wait x seconds, then retry".
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> So it sounds like there is nothing to do this right now. Perhaps it is a feature to be considered.  Thanks.

You could use a proxy on localhost to nginx that forwards the request...

It would timeout if it couldn't make the request, but at least the
socket would be openable.