On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:03:29PM +0300, Anatoli Marinov wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to cancel file caching from header filter?
>
> I am using nginx as a reverse proxy and proxy_cache for caching and this
> configuration serves flv files.
>
> Standard flv module cannot work with proxy_cache so start= argument is
> not understand by the nginx. There is other internal server (typically a
> cloud of them) that understands the argument and return a chunk from the
> file - starting from desired position. After this file is received from
> the nginx by its upstream it will be cached.
>
> These chunked files should not been cached because they do not contain
> the whole content of the original file.
> So I have written new header filter and in this filter for given file I
> can take a decision to cache it or not. By default proxy_cache will
> cache this file so can I cancel this?

The simplest way is to set "X-Accel-Expires: 0" in a response
of server that sends chunk.

Other way in configuration:

proxy_cache_bypass $arg_start;
proxy_nocache $arg_start;


--
Igor Sysoev

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