Pull from HLS to trigger non-static RTMP pull

Server NGINX
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I have set up an RTMP relay of all streams on a remote location. This
works
fine as long as there is an RTMP request to trigger the pull from the
remote
server. However HLS requests only work for as long as the RTMP request
is
present.

Is there any way to get HLS (or DASH) requests to trigger the RTMP pull?

I was wondering if I am approaching this the right way. Maybe it would
be
better to set up the server as an http proxy to the hls and dash streams
from the origin server. Any thoughts?

I am running nginx_1.4.6-1ubuntu3.1 patched with the rtmp module pulled
from
git.

My RTMP server application config is…
application live {
live on;
hls on;
hls_path /tmp/live;
pull rtmp://89057213.r.cdn77.net/89057213;

            }

My server config is…
location /live {
# Serve HLS fragments
types {
application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
video/mp2t ts;
}
root /tmp;
add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
}

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OK. Answering my own post here. I set up an standard http proxy to the
origin server and it seems to be relaying HLS as expected.

So the rtmp application is now…
application live {
live on;
pull rtmp://89057213.r.cdn77.net/89057213;

            }

And the server config is now…
location /live {
proxy_pass http://89057213.r.cdn77.net/89057213/;
}

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