$request_time meaning

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:52:29PM +0200, Calin Don wrote:

> So the time spent doing a post_action is added to $request_time or not?

Added.

In general, post_action is a dirty hack which works in context of 
a request.  It delays all processing of the request (i.e. logging) 
as well as processing of furhter requests in the connection in 
question (if any).  This is one of the reasons why post_action 
isn't documented, BTW.

Maxim Dounin

> 
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 20:55, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 08:41:15PM +0200, Calin Don wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > How is the $request_time calculated in the case of a proxied request. I'm
> > > interested especially in the case where the resource is stale in cache.
> >
> > $request_time is always time since start of the request (when
> > first bytes are read from client) till end of the request (when
> > last bytes are sent to client and logging happens).
> >
> > Maxim Dounin
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