$request_length outside of log module

[Jonathan Matthews]

On 28 January 2013 13:56, Richard Kearsley <rkearsley at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
> Over time you have been adding functionality to use log variables outside of
> log module, e.g.
>
> Changes with nginx 1.3.8 30 Oct 2012
> *) Feature: the $bytes_sent, $connection, and $connection_requests variables
> can now be used not only in the "log_format" directive.
>
> Changes with nginx 1.3.9 27 Nov 2012
> *) Feature: the $request_time and $msec variables can now be used not only
> in the "log_format" directive.
>
> Are you going to add the $request_length variable to this list too?

I would think you could get something equivalent and useful out of
$upstream_http_content_length, as per
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUpstreamModule#.24upstream_http_.24HEADER .
YMMV.

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