When an error happens, the ctx->error bit is now set, and croak()
is called to terminate further processing. The ctx->error bit is
checked in ngx_http_perl_call_handler() to cancel further processing,
and is also checked in various output functions - to make sure these won't
be called if croak() was handled by an eval{} in perl code.
In particular, this ensures that output chain won't be called after
errors, as filters might not expect this to happen. This fixes some
segmentation faults under low memory conditions. Also this stops
request processing after filter finalization or request body reading
errors.
For cases where an HTTP error status can be additionally returned (for
example, 416 (Requested Range Not Satisfiable) from the range filter),
the ctx->status field is also added.
This ensures that correct ctx is always available, including after
filter finalization. In particular, this fixes a segmentation fault
with the following configuration:
location / {
image_filter test;
perl 'sub {
my $r = shift;
$r->send_http_header();
$r->print("foo\n");
$r->print("bar\n");
}';
}
This also seems to be the only way to correctly handle filter finalization
in various complex cases, for example, when embedded perl is used both
in the original handler and in an error page called after filter
finalization.
unsupported threaded environment, but now they complicate code:
*) perl_clone() requires at least duplicating nginx stash;
*) the multiplicity requires to re-evalute all precompiled subroutines
and nginx stash in new interpreter context.
*) Change in internal API: the HTTP modules initialization was moved
from the init module phase to the HTTP postconfiguration phase.
*) Change: now the request body is not read beforehand for the
ngx_http_perl_module: it's required to start the reading using the
$r->has_request_body method.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the DECLINED return code.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module supports the incoming "Date" header
line for the PUT method.
*) Feature: the "ssi" directive is available inside the "if" block.
*) Bugfix: a segmentation fault occurred if there was an "index"
directive with variables and the first index name was without
variables; the bug had appeared in 0.1.29.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_dav_module.
*) Change: the ngx_http_perl_module optimizations.
Thanks to Sergey Skvortsov.
*) Feature: the ngx_http_perl_module supports the $r->request_body_file
method.
*) Feature: the "client_body_in_file_only" directive.
*) Workaround: now on disk overflow nginx tries to write access logs
once a second only.
Thanks to Anton Yuzhaninov and Maxim Dounin.
*) Bugfix: now the "limit_rate" directive more precisely limits rate if
rate is more than 100 Kbyte/s.
Thanks to ForJest.
*) Bugfix: now the IMAP/POP3 proxy escapes the "\r" and "\n" symbols in
login and password to pass authorization server.
Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
*) Change: the ECONNABORTED error log level was changed to "error" from
"crit".
*) Bugfix: the ngx_http_perl_module could not be build without the
ngx_http_ssi_filter_module.
*) Bugfix: nginx could not be built on i386 platform, if the PIC was
used; the bug had appeared in 0.3.27.
