Disabling file resuming with X-Accel / Removing headers

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:03:54PM +0100, Adrián Navarro wrote:

> max_ranges 0; worked well but only at server directive.
> 
> I have finally decided to use different server{} entries (subdomains)
> for the different cases.

It should work at location level as well, though please make sure 
to specify it in location where response is in fact returned, i.e. 
where your X-Accel-Redirect's are processed.

Maxim Dounin

> 
> Thank you
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Adrián Navarro <adrian at navarro.at> wrote:
> > Thank you everyone for your answers.
> >
> > max_ranges 0; works great if set in the main server {} directive.
> > Sadly, when put inside a location directive, it will not work. The
> > same applies for more_clear_headers.
> >
> > The other thing I'm seeing is that while headers with max_range for
> > the whole directive does return correct headers, chrome still allows
> > pausing.
> >
> > I better get some sleep and keep digging tomorrow.
> >
> > Thank you, I'll follow up soon.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:56:32PM +0100, Adrián Navarro wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >>> I am using nginx's X-Accel headers, and I want to disable file
> >>> resuming. That implies:
> >>> - suppresing output header "Accept-Ranges: bytes"
> >>> - suppresing input header "Range"
> >>
> >>> Anyone have any pointers? I'm running out of ideas now.
> >>
> >> Completely untested, and not a direct answer to "file resuming", but you
> >> asked for pointers, so maybe...
> >>
> >> If you want a response header from a fastcgi process not to be
> >> delivered to the client, see fastcgi_hide_header, for example at
> >> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html#fastcgi_hide_header
> >>
> >> If you want a request header not to be sent to a fastcgi process, set
> >> the matching parameter yourself to empty:
> >>
> >>  fastcgi_param HTTP_RANGE "";
> >>
> >> Good luck with it,
> >>
> >>        f
> >> --
> >> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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