Proxy without buffering

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Mon Feb 25 12:29:46 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 04:39:53AM -0500, double wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Large POST-request are buffered to disk, before passed to the backend.
> The backend has troubles to parse the POST-data, if the requests are huge
> (some GB).
> 
> We use "haproxy" in front of "nginx", to workaround this issue.
> But this causes extra load on the server.
> Is there a chance to disable the request buffering?
> 

Yep, it's possible, see the other active threads for a patch from tengine
to implement non-buffered uploads.

Also it'd be very nice to get this feature to standard nginx,
many people need it!

-- Pasi



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