Is it possible that nginx will not buffer the client body?

[daveyfx]

lm011111 Wrote:
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> Hello!
> 
> is it possible that nginx will not buffer the client body before
> handle the
> request to upstream?
> 
> we want to use nginx as a reverse proxy to upload very very big file
> to the
> upstream, but the default behavior of nginx is to save the whole
> request to
> the local disk first before handle it to the upstream, which make the
> upstream impossible to process the file on the fly when the file is
> uploading, results in much high request latency and server-side
> resource
> consumption.
> 
> Thanks!
> _______________________________________________

You could use the nginx upload module to do this.

http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/upload.en.html

I currently am using this to support a video upload application built with
Django and has full upload resume functionality as well.  The only caveat is
that I cannot support resumes across different sessions, but within the same
session it works (uses the X-UPLOAD-SESSION-ID header or something similar).

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,234926,234964#msg-234964