disable request body buffering for file upload

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:36:21AM -0400, garyc wrote:

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> Another approach we could take would be to add a disk space check api to our
> web app so we can confirm we have sufficient space before the upload POST
> call is made.
> 
> I appreciate that running a web server in a low disk space environment is
> not a common scenario however, in your opinion, should it be possible to get
> details of the upload POST request to a script before the entire request
> body is written to disk by nginx?

Consider the auth request module, 
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_request_module.html.

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Maxim Dounin
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