location query string?

[Grant]

>> > I'm not quite sure what the specific problem you are seeing is, from
>> > the previous mails.
>
>> > Might the problem be related to your upstream not cleanly
>> > closing the connections?
>>
>> It sure could be.  Would this be a good way to monitor that possibility:
>>
>> netstat -ant | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>
> That could indicate when the number of tcp connections in various states
> changes; it may be a good starting point to find what the cause of the
> problem is.
>
> nginx makes a http request of upstream; it expects a http response. If
> the tcp connection and the http connection is staying open longer than
> necessary, that suggests that either the client (nginx) or the server
> (upstream) is doing something wrong.
>
> Can you make the same request manually of upstream, and see if there is
> any indication of things not being as they should?
>
> Is there any difference between a http/1.0 and a http/1.1 request to
> upstream? Or if the response includes a Content-Length header or is
> chunked? Or any other things that are different between the "working"
> and "not-working" cases.
>
> Your later mail suggests that "Keepalive" is involved somehow. If you
> are still keen to investigate -- can you see that nginx does something
> wrong when Keepalive is or is not set? Or does upstream do something
> wrong when Keepalive is or is not set? (If there is an nginx problem,
> I suspect that people will be interested in fixing it. If there is an
> upstream problem, then possibly people there will be interested in fixing
> it, or possibly a workaround can be provided on the nginx side.)


Admittedly this is over my head.  I would be happy to test and probe
if anyone is interested enough to tell me what to do.

-  Grant