Hi,
I am having a weird issue where nginx is truncating a few bytes of
content from the end of files. The files are being served from PHP
(FastCGI via php-fpm) using PHP’s readfile(). The PHP application sends
out a Content-Length header using filesize() and then spits out the
contents of the file to nginx using readfile().
The content however is coming short by a few bytes. nginx sends the
correct Content-Length, but closes the connection a few bytes short of
the Content-Length number of bytes. This doesn’t happen for all files
and I can’t seem to find a pattern either.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Michael
Posted at Nginx Forum: Content Truncating
Sorry, forgot to mention, I’m using nginx/0.6.35
-Michael
Posted at Nginx Forum: Re: Content Truncating
Yes, I’m in the process of doing that – have it already in testing…
But it would seem kinda odd that it would occur at all…
-Michael
Posted at Nginx Forum: Re: Content Truncating
I would look at leveraging x-accel-redirect instead. why have php keep
spoonfeeding the file when you can offload it to the webserver? 
agreed.
although according to maxim if i understand it you won’t even need to
calculate content-length yourself, nginx will do it for you. so it
saves you that step too.
When will I not need to calculate Content-Length? When using X-Accel or
when using PHP readfile()…? With X-Accel, yes, I should not need to
calculate the Content-Length… What about when/if using readfile()
-Michael
Posted at Nginx Forum: Re: Content Truncating
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, michael [email protected] wrote:
When will I not need to calculate Content-Length? When using X-Accel or when using PHP readfile()…? With X-Accel, yes, I should not need to calculate the Content-Length… What about when/if using readfile()
when you use x-accel.
when you use readfile i would expect you have to provide -all- the
headers. 
Right now this is all I have for mine and it works like a charm:
header(“Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="”.urldecode(basename($file)).“";”);
header(“Content-Type: application/force-download”);
header(“X-Accel-Redirect: $file_uri”);
Hello!
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:54:36PM -0400, michael wrote:
Hi,
I am having a weird issue where nginx is truncating a few bytes of content from the end of files. The files are being served from PHP (FastCGI via php-fpm) using PHP’s readfile(). The PHP application sends out a Content-Length header using filesize() and then spits out the contents of the file to nginx using readfile().
The content however is coming short by a few bytes. nginx sends the correct Content-Length, but closes the connection a few bytes short of the Content-Length number of bytes. This doesn’t happen for all files and I can’t seem to find a pattern either.
Any ideas?
There were some reports of strange things happending with php’s
readfile(). Personally I believe it’s php issue (probably
configuration/programming one - e.g. memory limit reached due to
output buffering activated and script terminated or something like
this). But I’ve never seen any debug info to prove this point.
If you are able to reproduce it - could you please build debug log
and post it?
Of course it’s much better to use X-Accel-Redirect instead as
already suggested.
Maxim D.