identifying last request on a tcp connection.

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:19:53AM -0400, winger7 wrote:

> I've been trying to identify the last HTTP request from a buffer of 10
> requests sent on a TCP connection in nginx. I've tried to use the header_in
> field in the ngx_http_request_t by checking if the pos field for the
> header_in is equal to the last field. This condition holds true twice, once
> on the first request and then on the last request. My program intends to
> break out once the last request is identified and hence, has been breaking
> after encountering the first request because of this check.
> 
> Can someone help me identify the problem with my approach and point to the
> right solution? Thanks!

Looking into r->header_in is not a right thing to do.  It is an 
internal field used by nginx request parsing.  Its content may be 
different depending on various factors, including buffer sizes 
configured, TCP connection timing details, and so on.  Not to 
mention that contents of r->header_in will be mostly meaningless 
when using HTTP/2.

If you want to identify 10th request on a connection, consider 
using the r->connection->requests field instead.  It is also 
available in nginx configuration as the $connection_requests 
variable, see http://nginx.org/r/$connection_requests.

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Maxim Dounin
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