I have setup a proxy cache that points to a Rails backend that communicate with MongoDB GridFS to read files stored in that database.
Yesterday, I tried to serve mp4 file. It won't load on iPhone. After further research, apparently mobile safari requires the web server to support byte range request on the video file.

I have checked that for static files, the byte range request works. But somehow it doesn't work for files from proxy cache.
Is there a specific setting to enable this feature?

This seems to work once the file is stored in the proxy_cache. Have you found a solution for this problem?

abstrusepersonage Wrote:
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> I have checked that for static files, the byte range request works.
> But somehow it doesn't work for files from proxy cache.
> Is there a specific setting to enable this feature?


You need to make your backend return 'Accept-Ranges: bytes' header to nginx.

Without it nginx won't allow byte range requests for proxy_cache.

Took me awhile to figure it out, hopefully this post will save someone else's time.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/01/2013 03:22AM by Dragon.