upstream keepalive - call for testing

[David Yu]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:24:45PM +0100, António P. P. Almeida wrote:
>
> > On 1 Ago 2011 17h07 WEST, mdounin at mdounin.ru wrote:
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > JFYI:
> > >
> > > Last week I posted patch to nginx-devel@ which adds keepalive
> > > support to various backends (as with upstream keepalive module),
> > > including fastcgi and http backends (this in turn means nginx now
> > > able to talk HTTP/1.1 to backends, in particular it now
> > > understands chunked responses).  Patch applies to 1.0.5 and 1.1.0.
> > >
> > > Testing is appreciated.
> > >
> > > You may find patch and description here:
> > >
> > > http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2011-July/001057.html
> > >
> > > Patch itself may be downloaded here:
> > >
> > > http://nginx.org/patches/patch-nginx-keepalive-full.txt
> > >
> > > Upstream keepalive module may be downloaded here:
> > >
> > > http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_upstream_keepalive/
> > > http://mdounin.ru/files/ngx_http_upstream_keepalive-0.4.tar.gz
> > >
> >
> > So *either* we use the patch or use the module. Correct?
>
> No, to keep backend connections alive you need module *and* patch.
> Patch provides foundation in nginx core for module to work with
> fastcgi and http.
>
With a custom nginx upstream binary protocol, I believe multiplexing will
now be possible?

>
> Maxim Dounin
>
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