With "proxy_ignore_client_abort off" (the default), upstream module changes
r->read_event_handler to ngx_http_upstream_rd_check_broken_connection().
If the handler is not cleared during upstream finalization, it can be
triggered later, causing unexpected effects, if, for example, a request
was redirected to a different location using error_page or X-Accel-Redirect.
In particular, it makes "proxy_ignore_client_abort on" non-working after
a redirection in a configuration like this:
location = / {
error_page 502 = /error;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8082;
}
location /error {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8083;
proxy_ignore_client_abort on;
}
It is also known to cause segmentation faults with aio used, see
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-ru/2015-August/056570.html.
Fix is to explicitly set r->read_event_handler to ngx_http_block_reading()
during upstream finalization, similar to how it is done in the request body
reading code and in the limit_req module.
Previously, there was no way to enable the proxy_cache_use_stale behavior by
reading the backend response. Now, stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error
Cache-Control extensions (RFC 5861) are supported. They specify, how long a
stale response can be used when a cache entry is being updated, or in case of
an error.
The ngx_event_pipe() function wasn't called on write events with
wev->delayed set. As a result, threaded writing results weren't
properly collected in ngx_event_pipe_write_to_downstream() when a
write event was triggered for a completed write.
Further, this wasn't detected, as p->aio was reset by a thread completion
handler, and results were later collected in ngx_event_pipe_read_upstream()
instead of scheduling a new write of additional data. If this happened
on the last reading from an upstream, last part of the response was never
written to the cache file.
Similar problems might also happen in case of timeouts when writing to
client, as this also results in ngx_event_pipe() not being called on write
events. In this scenario socket leaks were observed.
Fix is to check if p->writing is set in ngx_event_pipe_read_upstream(), and
therefore collect results of previous write operations in case of read events
as well, similar to how we do so in ngx_event_pipe_write_downstream().
This is enough to fix the wev->delayed case. Additionally, we now call
ngx_event_pipe() from ngx_http_upstream_process_request() if there are
uncollected write operations (p->writing and !p->aio). This also fixes
the wev->timedout case.
On Linux, the rename syscall can be slow due to a global file system lock,
acquired for the entire rename operation, unless both old and new files are
in the same directory. To address this temporary files are now created
in the same directory as the expected resulting cache file when using the
"use_temp_path=off" parameter.
This change mostly reverts 99639bfdfa2a and 3281de8142f5, restoring the
behaviour as of a9138c35120d (with minor changes).
Holding a cache node lock doesn't make sense as we can't use caching
anyway, and results in "ignore long locked inactive cache entry" alerts
if a node is locked for a long time.
The same is done for unbuffered connections, as they can be alive for
a long time as well.
It configures a threshold in bytes, above which client range
requests are not cached. In such a case the client's Range
header is passed directly to a proxied server.
The only thing that default_port comparison did in the current
code is prevented implicit upstreams to the same address/port
from being aliased for http and https, e.g.:
proxy_pass http://10.0.0.1:12345;
proxy_pass https://10.0.0.1:12345;
This is inconsistent because it doesn't work for a similar case
with uswgi_pass:
uwsgi_pass uwsgi://10.0.0.1:12345;
uwsgi_pass suwsgi://10.0.0.1:12345;
or with an explicit upstream:
upstream u {
server 10.0.0.1:12345;
}
proxy_pass http://u;
proxy_pass https://u;
Before c9059bd5445b, default_port comparison was needed to
differentiate implicit upstreams in
proxy_pass http://example.com;
and
proxy_pass https://example.com;
as u->port was not set.
When an upstream{} block follows a proxy_pass reference to it,
such an upstream inherited port and default_port settings from
proxy_pass. This was different from when they came in another
order (see ticket #1059). Explicit upstreams should not have
port and default_port in any case.
This fixes the following case:
server { location / { proxy_pass http://u; } ... }
upstream u { server 127.0.0.1; }
server { location / { proxy_pass https://u; } ... }
but not the following:
server { location / { proxy_pass http://u; } ... }
server { location / { proxy_pass https://u; } ... }
upstream u { server 127.0.0.1; }
If proxy_pass (and friends) with variables evaluates an upstream
specified with literal address, nginx always created a per-request
upstream.
Now, if there's a matching upstream specified in the configuration
(either implicit or explicit), it will be used instead.
BoringSSL changed SSL_set_tlsext_host_name() to be a real function
with a (const char *) argument, so it now triggers a warning due to
conversion from (u_char *). Added an explicit cast to silence the
warning.
Prodded by Piotr Sikora, Alessandro Ghedini.
When headers to hide are set at the "http" level and not redefined in
a server block, we now preserve compiled headers hash into the "http"
section configuration to inherit this hash to all servers.
Dependency on cache settings existed prior to 2728c4e4a9ae (0.8.44)
as Set-Cookie header was automatically hidden from responses when
using cache. This is no longer the case, and hide_headers_hash can
be safely inherited regardless of cache settings.
All the errors that prevent loading configuration must be printed on the "emerg"
log level. Previously, nginx might silently fail to load configuration in some
cases as the default log level is "error".
Unlike $upstream_response_length that only counts the body size,
the new variable also counts the size of response header and data
received after switching protocols when proxying WebSockets.
When it's known that the kernel supports EPOLLRDHUP, there is no need in
additional recv() call to get EOF or error when the flag is absent in the
event generated by the kernel. A special runtime test is done at startup
to detect if EPOLLRDHUP is actually supported by the kernel because
epoll_ctl() silently ignores unknown flags.
With this knowledge it's now possible to drop the "ready" flag for partial
read. Previously, the "ready" flag was kept until the recv() returned EOF
or error. In particular, this change allows the lingering close heuristics
(which relies on the "ready" flag state) to actually work on Linux, and not
wait for more data in most cases.
The "available" flag is now used in the read event with the semantics similar
to the corresponding counter in kqueue.
This parameter lets binding the proxy connection to a non-local address.
Upstream will see the connection as coming from that address.
When used with $remote_addr, upstream will accept the connection from real
client address.
Example:
proxy_bind $remote_addr transparent;
By default, requests with non-idempotent methods (POST, LOCK, PATCH)
are no longer retried in case of errors if a request was already sent
to a backend. Previous behaviour can be restored by using
"proxy_next_upstream ... non_idempotent".
Much like normal connections, cached connections are now tested against
u->conf->next_upstream, and u->state->status is now always set.
This allows to disable additional tries even with upstream keepalive
by using "proxy_next_upstream off".
The "aio_write" directive is introduced, which enables use of aio
for writing. Currently it is meaningful only with "aio threads".
Note that aio operations can be done by both event pipe and output
chain, so proper mapping between r->aio and p->aio is provided when
calling ngx_event_pipe() and in output filter.
In collaboration with Valentin Bartenev.
If proxy_cache is enabled, and proxy_no_cache tests true, it was previously
possible for the client connection to be closed after a 304. The fix is to
recheck r->header_only after the final cacheability is determined, and end the
request if no longer cacheable.
Example configuration:
proxy_cache foo;
proxy_cache_bypass 1;
proxy_no_cache 1;
If a client sends If-None-Match, and the upstream server returns 200 with a
matching ETag, no body should be returned to the client. At the start of
ngx_http_upstream_send_response proxy_no_cache is not yet tested, thus cacheable
is still 1 and downstream_error is set.
However, by the time the downstream_error check is done in process_request,
proxy_no_cache has been tested and cacheable is set to 0. The client connection
is then closed, regardless of keepalive.
If caching was used, "zero size buf in output" alerts might appear
in logs if a client prematurely closed connection. Alerts appeared
in the following situation:
- writing to client returned an error, so event pipe
drained all busy buffers leaving body output filters
in an invalid state;
- when upstream response was fully received,
ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request() tried to flush
all pending data.
Fix is to avoid flushing body if p->downstream_error is set.
If an upstream with variables evaluated to address without a port,
then instead of a "no port in upstream" error an attempt was made
to connect() which failed with EADDRNOTAVAIL.
The directive toggles conversion of HEAD to GET for cacheable proxy requests.
When disabled, $request_method must be added to cache key for consistency.
By default, HEAD is converted to GET as before.
The value of NGX_ERROR, returned from filter handlers, was treated as a generic
upstream error and changed to NGX_HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR before calling
ngx_http_finalize_request(). This resulted in "header already sent" alert
if header was already sent in filter handlers.
The problem appeared in 54e9b83d00f0 (1.7.5).
The function is now called ngx_parse_http_time(), and can be used by
any code to parse HTTP-style date and time. In particular, it will be
used for OCSP stapling.
For compatibility, a macro to map ngx_http_parse_time() to the new name
provided for a while.
