Hello,

Any inputs on this? Is is supported to retry next upstream, if upstream
server responds early rejecting request for any valid reason?

Thanks,
Kaustubh


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Kaustubh Deorukhkar <
kaustubh.deo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are using nginx as reverse proxy and have a set of upstream servers
> configured
> with upstream next enabled for few error conditions to try next upstream
> server.
> For some reason this is not working. Can someone suggest if am missing
> something?
>
> http {
> ...
> upstream myservice {
> server localhost:8081;
> server localhost:8082;
> }
>
> server {
> ...
> location / {
> proxy_pass http://myservice;
> proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_502 http_503
> http_504;
> }
> }
> }
>
> So what i want is if any upstream server gives the above errors, it should
> try
> the next upstream instance, but it does not and just reports error to
> clients.
>
> Note that, in my case one of the upstream server responds early for some
> PUT request with 503 before entire request is read by upstream. I
> understand that nginx closes the current upstream connection where it
> received early response, but i expect it to try the next upstream server
> as configured for the same request before it responds with error to client.
>
> Am I missing some nginx trick here?
>
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