Disable buffering/caching of HTTP PUT upload requests in nginx proxy

[Alexandr Gomoliako]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> During the upcoming days I'm going to try to implement a feature in nginx proxy
> that allows disabling local disk buffering/caching of HTTP PUT upload requests,
> e.g. allow directly stream the uploads to the backend server.
>
> Right now I'm having problems because nginx proxy stores all the uploads temporarily
> to the nginx server local disk, and thus fills up the disk when big files are being uploaded.
>
> If someone has comments/ideas about this, feel free to write to me.
> I'm currently in the process of getting familiar with nginx code
> and the request 'flow' inside nginx.

It depends how are you going to approach this. I already did something
similar by simply hijacking connection of the request.

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