nginx 0.8.41 segfaults in ngx_list_push

[Roman Vasilyev]

Sounds good,

just one extra question about nginx variables. I'm using for storage of 
6 variables 1 file and then splitting this data by strsep. All what I 
can find about variable callbacks working revers direction:
1. I'm requesting some variable;
2. Callback making some calculations and filling memory with variable

In my case I have to open this file 6 times and make splitting 6 times.
Is it possible to define 6 variables at one step or is possible to save 
parsed data in some kind of cache?

On 06/21/2010 03:10 PM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:44:17PM -0700, Roman Vasilyev wrote:
>
>    
>> Thank you Maxim for extended description.
>>
>> Seems like I need some extra advice :)
>> Let me describe my architecture and may be you will see better solution.
>> I have openvpn server which storing some information at login time
>> to some temp file and sending throw DHCP local IP address to client.
>> All 80 port transparently goes throw nginx as forward proxy, results
>>      
> First of all - it's not a good idea to use nginx as forward proxy.
> It was never designed to be used as forward proxy and issues
> including security ones are expected.
>
>    
>> from nginx in comparing with apache even without keep-alive support
>> on highly loaded server MUCH better. No problems with memory usage,
>> cpu utilization, and we have 10% faster browsing. Thank you guys for
>> perfect web/proxy server.
>> So... temp file is simple comma separated fields. From nginx part
>> I'm getting this file by file name which is equals to local IP
>> address, parsing it and providing to some scripts like input
>> headers. If this method is unsafe could you recommend me best way to
>> give this fast changeable session data to my scripts?
>>      
> The unsafe part is direct modification of r->headers_in.  As long
> as you'll use something like
>
>     proxy_set_header  X-Your-Header  $variable_from_your_module;
>
> instead - you are on the safe side.
>
> Maxim Dounin
>