proxy_cache_key with variables

[Roman Arutyunyan]

> On 06 Jul 2015, at 16:49, sz_g <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> 
> I've just created a configuration composed of two servers.
> Both just forwards traffic from different ports (and protocols) to different
> servers, and keep responses in cache. It works nice.
> 
> For both servers "GET /" request is sent, in the response there is proper
> resource. Thus (to distinguish responses in the cache) I added for both
> cache_key:
> 
> proxy_cache_key "$upstream_addr*$request”;

At the time when this expression is evaluated, $upstream_addr is still unknown
since no upstream connection is made.  Obviously, if a key is found in cache,
there will be no upstream connection at all.  So it’s not a good idea to use
$upstream_addr in key definition.  Instead, you can use the parts of request
which define the upstream address.

> 
> But it doesn't work. I found that upstream states are not available and thus
> "proxied" address is not known when cache key is computed. And "proxied"
> address is computed only when additional stream must be used..
> 
> Is there any way to get proper key? Or any other way to keep all copies in
> the cache?
> 
> I plan to add "load balancing" module, which would be able to forward
> request on (multiple) source addresses to multiple proxied addresses, with
> caching.. Will it work properly?
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,260086,260086#msg-260086
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Roman Arutyunyan