We're using nginx as a proxy, and I want to limit the download rate of
certain proxied pages/files depending on a header potentially set by the
backend server. I'm trying something like:

location ^~ / {
set $slowrate $upstream_http_x_rate_limit;
if ($slowrate) {
set $limit_rate $slowrate;
}

rewrite (.*) /http/$host$1 break;

proxy_pass http://backend/;
proxy_hide_header X-Rate-Limit;
....
}

And then setting the X-Rate-Limit header on the backend response, but
that doesn't seem to work.

So I tried even simpler, allowing just a simple "make this slow" header
setting.

location ^~ / {
set $slowrate $upstream_http_x_rate_limit;
if ($slowrate) {
limit_rate 100;
}

rewrite (.*) /http/$host$1 break;

proxy_pass http://backend/;
proxy_hide_header X-Rate-Limit;
....
}

Yes, I really wanted to try just 100 bytes/second. But that didn't work
either.

Is there a way of doing this?

Rob
Rob Mueller
robm@fastmail.fm


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