read_timeout directive

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 06:35:27AM -0400, ilmerovingio wrote:

> Hi, I've a few servers with nginx 1.2.3 that run a streaming services
> platform. 
> 
> Is there in nginx any "read_timeout" directive (like the send_timeout but
> for the opposite) that shuts down the connection if the client has not send
> any data for x time?
> 
> I'm looking for something also in beta stage, modules, plugin, patch...

There are two timeouts related to reading data from a client, 
client_header_timeout and client_body_timeout.

See here for details:

http://nginx.org/r/client_header_timeout
http://nginx.org/r/client_body_timeout

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Maxim Dounin
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