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

[姚伟斌]

Yes. It should work for any request method.

2013/1/16 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:22:17PM +0800, ?????? wrote:
> >    This patch should work between nginx-1.2.6 and nginx-1.3.8.
> >    The documentation is here:
>
> >    ## client_body_postpone_sending ##
> >    Syntax: **client_body_postpone_sending** `size`
> >    Default: 64k
> >    Context: `http, server, location`
> >    If you specify the `proxy_request_buffering` or
> >    `fastcgi_request_buffering` to be off, Nginx will send the body to
> backend
> >    when it receives more than `size` data or the whole request body has
> been
> >    received. It could save the connection and reduce the IO number with
> >    backend.
> >
> >    ## proxy_request_buffering ##
> >    Syntax: **proxy_request_buffering** `on | off`
> >    Default: `on`
> >    Context: `http, server, location`
> >    Specify the request body will be buffered to the disk or not. If it's
> off,
> >    the request body will be stored in memory and sent to backend after
> Nginx
> >    receives more than `client_body_postpone_sending` data. It could save
> the
> >    disk IO with large request body.
> >
> >
> >             Note that, if you specify it to be off, the nginx retry
> mechanism
> >    with unsuccessful response will be broken after you sent part of the
> >    request to backend. It will just return 500 when it encounters such
> >    unsuccessful response. This directive also breaks these variables:
> >    $request_body, $request_body_file. You should not use these variables
> any
> >    more while their values are undefined.
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> This patch sounds exactly like what I need aswell!
> I assume it works for both POST and PUT requests?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Pasi
>
>
> >      Hello!
> >      @yaoweibin
> >
> >        If you are eager for this feature, you could try my
> >        patch: [2]https://github.com/taobao/tengine/pull/91. This patch
> has
> >        been running in our production servers.
> >
> >      what's the nginx version your patch based on?
> >      Thanks!
> >      On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ҋΰ±ó <[3]yaoweibin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >        I know nginx team are working on it. You can wait for it.
> >        If you are eager for this feature, you could try my
> >        patch: [4]https://github.com/taobao/tengine/pull/91. This patch
> has
> >        been running in our production servers.
> >
> >        2013/1/11 li zJay <[5]zjay1987 at gmail.com>
> >
> >          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!
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> >
> > References
> >
> >    Visible links
> >    1. mailto:zjay1987 at gmail.com
> >    2. https://github.com/taobao/tengine/pull/91
> >    3. mailto:yaoweibin at gmail.com
> >    4. https://github.com/taobao/tengine/pull/91
> >    5. mailto:zjay1987 at gmail.com
> >    6. mailto:nginx at nginx.org
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