Is post_action deprecated?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 05:52:09PM -0400, wonderer wrote:

> Hi All, 
> 
> To start with, here's some context. From what i've read around, the
> post_action directive is to be used with caution. I was able to find this
> information following the link from this post:
> https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,262008,262012#msg-262012 
> 
> I also found documentation on the directive in this book: ISBN:
> 9781785280337. Although it's no where to be found in the official
> documentation, the directive is supported and is working well for what I
> need to do. 
> 
> I need to use this directive to send some bandwidth information to my
> backend after a file download. 
> 
> 1- I'm wondering, is this directive officially deprecated and if, so is
> there something in the pipeline to replace it? 

This directive never was documented, and it should not be used 
unless you understand what this directive does and associated 
risks.  It is not officially supported.

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Maxim Dounin
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