problem with echo_before when proxying a server which sends gzipped content

[Carsten Germer]

Hey Maxim,

yes, it works with suppressing gzip between nginx and source-server with "proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "deflate";"
Thanks a bunch!
I was aiming for a solution that preserves the gzip-compression between source and cache, but I'm caching long time, anyway.

> add_before_body / add_after_body
I did look at those before but I'd still have to find a way to get the $arg_callback to the URIs and output them with echo for the whole solution.

Works very fine with the neutered compression, thanks again!

Cheers /Carsten

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Carsten Germer
Creative Director
intolabs GmbH
http://www.intolabs.net/

Am 02.04.2014 um 19:21 schrieb nginx-request at nginx.org:

> 
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 17:46:59 +0400
> From: Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>
> To: nginx at nginx.org
> Subject: Re: problem with echo_before when proxying a server which
> 	sends gzipped content
> Message-ID: <20140402134659.GD34696 at mdounin.ru>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:48:33PM +0200, Carsten Germer wrote:
> 
>> ...
>> If I append something with echo_after it works fine in browsers 
>> and in jQuery.
>> If I prepend anything with echo_before the answer can't be read 
>> by browsers, "curl --compressed" throws "curl: (23) Error while 
>> processing content unencoding: invalid block type".
>> 
>> If I configure Firefox with "about:config" to 
>> "network.http.accept-encoding:true" it fixes fixes display in 
>> Firefox.
>> 
>> When I look in the network tab of chrome console I see that 
>> requesting ".../echo-after/" closes the request after 2Xms.
>> Requesting ".../echo-before" also gets 200 ok but never arrives 
>> fully, is shown as "pending" indefinitely.
>> 
>> My best bet is, that it has something to do with gzip-compressed 
>> ...
> 
> Something like
> 
>    proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "";
> 
> in relevant location should help.
> 
> BTW, you may try add_before_body / add_after_body as available in 
> standard addition filter module instead, see here:
> 
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_addition_module.html
> 
> -- 
> Maxim Dounin
> http://nginx.org/