I've discovered what I believe to be a bug (yeah I know everyone is already rolling their eyes) :D I believe that my CGI is returning some data (perhaps Content-Type header) and then is occasionally stalling due to backend load. This is fine, and fastcgi_read_timeout can be adjusted to deal with the issue of course. However, it appears that when Nginx times out the connection it still servesby tsaavik - Nginx Mailing List - English
Lots of directions to go with this question, here are 2. 1. The IO bound questions: Your client_max_body_size has me wondering how big these images actually are. Whats the average size of these images? A few lines of output from "dstat" or "vmstat 1" during peak output would be useful (or even "sar" if you run it). If you are IO bound like I suspecby tsaavik - Nginx Mailing List - English
Maxim Dounin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1. Does Nginx support SHA encryption for the basic web authentication? > When I use -s switch with htpasswd command I can't log in... I ran into this issue just the other day with htpasswd -s. I noticed that if I modified the output of htpasswd from {SHA} to {SSHA} I was able to use the generated password witby tsaavik - Nginx Mailing List - English