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Re: Chunked transfer encoding problem

Piotr Bartosiewicz
November 15, 2012 05:14AM
W dniu 14.11.2012 18:07, Maxim Dounin pisze:
> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:42:49PM +0100, Piotr Bartosiewicz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My nginx (1.2.4) config looks like this (relevant part):
>>
>> server {
>> listen 8888;
>>
>> location / {
>> proxy_http_version 1.1;
>> proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Backend server handles GET requests and responds with a large body.
>> Response is generated and sent on the fly, so content-length is not
>> known at the beginning.
>> In normal case everything works fine.
>>
>> But sometimes server catches an exception after a response headers
>> were sent.
>> I've found that there is a commonly used solution to inform a client
>> about incomplite response:
>> use Transfer-Encoding chunked and close socket without sending the
>> last (0 length) chunk.
>> Unfortunately nginx appends termination chunk even when the backend
>> server does not
>> (both nginx and backed connections are http/1.1 and use chunked encoding).
>>
>> Is this expected behavior, bug or maybe there is some option to turn
>> this off?
> This is sort of known bug. Fixing it would require relatively
> large cleanup of upstream module.
>

Thanks for the answer!
Is this expected to be fixed in 1.3 version?
I've found 'Upstream code cleanup' entry in the roadmap, but no ticket
in trac for this.

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Piotr Bartosiewicz

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Chunked transfer encoding problem

Piotr Bartosiewicz November 14, 2012 11:44AM

Re: Chunked transfer encoding problem

Maxim Dounin November 14, 2012 12:08PM

Re: Chunked transfer encoding problem

Piotr Bartosiewicz November 15, 2012 05:14AM



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