Hi!

I am curious if is feasible to have Nginx deliver binary blob data which is currently stored in a MySQL database. I was loosely following the examples mentioned in agentzh's blog [1] which work all fine for me with non-binary data. But as JSON is used for intermediate serialization which is not binary safe I was wondering if there are other ways (or even modules) that access the raw payload data from its RDS representation.

In my scenario I'm trying to access images data like JPEGs stored as blobs in MySQL causing the JSON parser to fail of course

content_by_lua aborted: runtime error: InvalidJSONInput: lexical error: invalid bytes in UTF8 string.

My current software stack consists of CentOS 5.6/x86_64, Nignx 1.0.3 (plus simpl-ngx_devel_kit 0.2.17, chaoslawful-lua-nginx-module 0.1.5, chaoslawful-drizzle-nginx-module 0.0.14, agentzh-rds-json-nginx-module 0.10), Lua 5.1.4, LuaRocks 2.0.4.1, Lua YAJL 2.0, YAJL 2.0.1, Drizzle7 libraries 2011.04.15 and MySQL database 5.1.57.

[1] http://agentzh.blogspot.com/2011/02/ngxlua-v015-ability-to-capture-multiple_6605.html