I fully understand the rationale of not retrying non-idempotent requests if
they are already sent, but in case of 429 (maybe other cases as well), I
don't see an issue of retrying even if request is sent. It would be better
if we can selectively do something like "proxy_next_upstream
non-idempotent-http_429;" or whatever http code that we know safe.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:10:25AM -0700, Frank Liu wrote:
>
> > In case of upstream returning 429, I'd like to have nginx retry next
> > upstream server. Since nginx by default won't retry non-idempotent
> > requests, how do I force nginx to retry when receiving 429? I imagine
> this
> > should be the default behavior anyway, or does nginx not care about
> > returning code and will never retry non-idempotent?
>
> Non-idemportent requests are not retried as long as the request is
> already sent, regardless of a particular error. If you want nginx
> to retry non-idempotent requests, you can do so with
> "proxy_next_upstream non-idempotent;", see
> http://nginx.org/r/proxy_next_upstream.
>
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