Hey,

Wouldn't http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxXSendfile work for bouncing your request between servers without modifying source code (thats how I do it) ?

Cheers,
Johan

On 16 jul 2010, at 06.02, Vincent Huang wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have read the following post.
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/149417
> It is helpful, I am new to nginx and need some instructions on my work.
>
> We have 3 machines, server MASTER is the application server visible to
> client. server WORK1 and server WORK2 is the task processing server. the
> request sequence is like this:
>
> 0. client
> -send request
>
> 1. nginx server MASTER:
> -receive request
> -extract useful information from request
> -post the re-structured extract data to nginx server WORK1
>
> 2. nginx server WORK1:
> -receive the request
> -process...
> -send back response
>
> 3. nginx server MASTER:
> -receive the response from WORK1
> -post the response data to nginx server WORK2
>
> 4. nginx server WORK2:
> -receive the request
> -process...
> -send back response
>
> 5. nginx server MASTER:
> -receive the response from WORK2
> -send back the response data to client
>
> Can anyone help me on where to hack on nginx that can suit my scenario.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
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