"add_header X-Upstream-Response-Time $upstream_response_time" not working

I’m using nginx 0.5.35 (I know, we’ll upgrade here soon) and have
$upstream_response_time in the access log, and it works great.

To track down a problem, I wanted to add a header to nginx’s response
that shows
the response time of the upstream server, so I tried:

add_header X-Upstream-Response-Time $upstream_response_time

Which seems like it would work, based on the docs for add_header, but I
get:

X-Upstream-Response-Time: 1223488205.821

Which looks like a unix time to me, which isn’t very useful.

Is there any way to get what I want? I tried putting the add_header in
http,
server, and location blocks, but all of them gave me a unix time.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

matt

Hello!

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:55:16PM +0000, Matt Albright wrote:

X-Upstream-Response-Time: 1223488205.821

Which looks like a unix time to me, which isn’t very useful.

Yep. Since header is sent before we got whole response from
upstream - we have no upstream end time at this point.

Is there any way to get what I want? I tried putting the add_header in http,
server, and location blocks, but all of them gave me a unix time.

Currently no, only logging will work.

Probably it’s a good idea to introduce another variable that will
be available as soon as we got response header from upstream.

Maxim D.

Maxim D. <mdounin@…> writes:

Yep. Since header is sent before we got whole response from
upstream - we have no upstream end time at this point.

Oh well, guess I’ll have to try something else.

Thanks for the quick response.

matt