Proxy buffering

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Dec 19 19:15:15 UTC 2013


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 07:21:13PM +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
>

Hi,
 
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:45:37PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:34:37AM -0500, Downchuck wrote:
> > > Is there a large technical barrier to implementing this feature? Patches
> > > have been available for some time at: http://yaoweibin.cn/patches/
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Based on my testing the no_buffer v8 patch works OK with nginx 1.4.x!
> > http://yaoweibin.cn/patches/nginx-1.4.2-no_buffer-v8.patch
> > 
> > Maxim: Have you taken a look at the no_buffer-v8 patch? 
> > 
> > It would be very nice to get this feature upstreamed to nginx..
> 
> While it looks mostly working (some parts seems to be missing 
> though - e.g., using chunked encoding requires appropriate headers 
> to be sent to upstream, and HTTP/1.1 used), it seems to introduce 
> too much code duplication.  It needs to be addressed somehow 
> before we'll able to commit it.
>

OK.
 
> I'll plan to work on this and related problems at the start of 
> next year.
> 

That sounds good!

Thanks,

-- Pasi


> -- 
> Maxim Dounin
> http://nginx.org/
> 



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