Problem with upstream server

Hi,

I am having some problems with a reverse proxy setup against a somewhat
problematic commercial upstream server. The problem is that the server
does not close the session after delivering the http object, and
typically terminates the session 10 seconds later. Running something
like curl will retrieve the object immediately while putting a rev nginx
proxy in front delays the delivery with the 10 secs.

The “issue” I’m having with the proxy module is that it doesn’t consider
the request done having read the full content-length of data when in
buffered mode.

I dug around and made a ad-hoc quick fix patch for myself that does seem
to solve the issue in my case but might break some other case. I’m not
familiar enough with the code and don’t have enough time right now to
solve it properly, but if nothing else it will illustrate what I want to
achieve. If there is any out of the box way to achieve this please let
me know. (I do need buffered mode, so using non-buffered is not an
option)

Regards,
Fredrik Widlund

— ngx_http_upstream-old.c 2011-06-23 18:54:22.000000000 +0200
+++ ngx_http_upstream.c 2011-06-23 18:54:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -1922,6 +1922,7 @@
u->length = NGX_MAX_SIZE_T_VALUE;
}

  • u->pipe->read_length_expected = u->length;
    return NGX_OK;
    }

— ngx_event_pipe-old.c 2011-06-23 18:50:32.000000000 +0200
+++ ngx_event_pipe.c 2011-06-23 18:51:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -301,6 +301,9 @@
}

     p->read_length += n;
  •    if (p->read_length_expected > 0 && p->read_length >= 
    

p->read_length_expected)

  •        p->upstream_eof =1 ;
    
  •    cl = chain;
       p->free_raw_bufs = NULL;
    

— ngx_event_pipe-old.h 2011-06-23 18:50:51.000000000 +0200
+++ ngx_event_pipe.h 2011-06-23 18:51:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
ssize_t busy_size;

 off_t              read_length;
  • off_t read_length_expected;

    off_t max_temp_file_size;
    ssize_t temp_file_write_size;

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