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

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Mar 14 14:13:49 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:12:47PM +0400, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
> 

Hello,

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:36:23PM +0000, André Cruz wrote:
> 
> > I'm also very interested in being able to configure nginx to NOT 
> > proxy the entire request.
> > 
> > Regarding this patch, 
> > https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/pull/91, is anything 
> > fundamentally wrong with it? I don't understand Chinese so I'm 
> > at a loss here...
> 
> As a non-default mode of operation the aproach taken is likely 
> good enough (not looked into details), but the patch won't work 
> with current nginx versions - at least it needs (likely major) 
> adjustments to cope with changes introduced during work on chunked 
> request body support as available in nginx 1.3.9+.
> 

Weibin: Have you thought of upstreaming the no_buffer patch to nginx 1.3.x
so it could become part of next nginx stable version 1.4 ? 

It'd be really nice to have the no_buffer functionality in stock nginx!
(the current no_buffer_v5.patch seems to work OK for me on nginx 1.2.7)

-- Pasi

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