This helps to avoid suboptimal behavior when a client waits for a control
frame or more data to increase window size, but the frames have been delayed
in the socket buffer.
The delays can be caused by bad interaction between Nagle's algorithm on
nginx side and delayed ACK on the client side or by TCP_CORK/TCP_NOPUSH
if SPDY was working without SSL and sendfile() was used.
The pushing code is now very similar to ngx_http_set_keepalive().
If any preread body bytes were sent in the first chain, chunk size was
incorrectly added before the whole chain, including header, resulting in
an invalid request sent to upstream. Fixed to properly add chunk size
after the header.
The r->request_body_no_buffering flag was introduced. It instructs
client request body reading code to avoid reading the whole body, and
to call post_handler early instead. The caller should use the
ngx_http_read_unbuffered_request_body() function to read remaining
parts of the body.
Upstream module is now able to use this mode, if configured with
the proxy_request_buffering directive.
If the last header evaluation resulted in an empty header, the e.skip flag
was set and was not reset when we've switched to evaluation of body_values.
This incorrectly resulted in body values being skipped instead of producing
some correct body as set by proxy_set_body. Fix is to properly reset
the e.skip flag.
As the problem only appeared if the last potentially non-empty header
happened to be empty, it only manifested itself if proxy_set_body was used
with proxy_cache.
LibreSSL removed support for export ciphers and a call to
SSL_CTX_set_tmp_rsa_callback() results in an error left in the error
queue. This caused alerts "ignoring stale global SSL error (...called
a function you should not call) while SSL handshaking" on a first connection
in each worker process.
Keeping the ready flag in this case might results in missing notification of
broken connection until nginx tried to use it again.
While there, stale comment about stale event was removed since this function
is also can be called directly.
In case of filter finalization, r->upstream might be changed during
the ngx_event_pipe() call. Added an argument to preserve it while
calling the ngx_http_upstream_process_request() function.
A request may be already finalized when ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request()
is called, due to filter finalization: after filter finalization upstream
can be finalized via ngx_http_upstream_cleanup(), either from
ngx_http_terminate_request(), or because a new request was initiated
to an upstream. Then the upstream code will see an error returned from
the filter chain and will call the ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request()
function again.
To prevent corruption of various upstream data in this situation, make sure
to do nothing but merely call ngx_http_finalize_request().
Prodded by Yichun Zhang, for details see the thread at
http://nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2015-February/006539.html.
Previously, connection hung after calling ngx_http_ssl_handshake() with
rev->ready set and no bytes in socket to read. It's possible in at least the
following cases:
- when processing a connection with expired TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT on Linux
- after parsing PROXY protocol header if it arrived in a separate TCP packet
Thanks to James Hamlin.
When replacing a stale cache entry, its last_modified and etag could be
inherited from the old entry if the response code is not 200 or 206. Moreover,
etag could be inherited with any response code if it's missing in the new
response. As a result, the cache entry is left with invalid last_modified or
etag which could lead to broken revalidation.
For example, when a file is deleted from backend, its last_modified is copied to
the new 404 cache entry and is used later for revalidation. Once the old file
appears again with its original timestamp, revalidation succeeds and the cached
404 response is sent to client instead of the file.
The problem appeared with etags in 44b9ab7752e3 (1.7.3) and affected
last_modified in 1573fc7875fa (1.7.9).
Repeatedly calling ngx_http_upstream_add_chash_point() to create
the points array in sorted order, is O(n^2) to the total weight.
This can cause nginx startup and reconfigure to be substantially
delayed. For example, when total weight is 1000, startup takes
5s on a modern laptop.
Replace this with a linear insertion followed by QuickSort and
duplicates removal. Startup for total weight of 1000 reduces to 40ms.
Based on a patch by Wai Keen Woon.
This reduces layering violation and simplifies the logic of AIO preread, since
it's now triggered by the send chain function itself without falling back to
the copy filter. The context of AIO operation is now stored per file buffer,
which makes it possible to properly handle cases when multiple buffers come
from different locations, each with its own configuration.
If fastcgi_pass (or any look-alike that doesn't imply a default
port) is specified as an IP literal (as opposed to a hostname),
port absence was not detected at configuration time and could
result in EADDRNOTAVAIL at run time.
Fixed this in such a way that configs like
http {
server {
location / {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1;
}
}
upstream 127.0.0.1 {
server 10.0.0.1:12345;
}
}
still work. That is, port absence check is delayed until after
we make sure there's no explicit upstream with such a name.
If use_temp_path is set to off, a subdirectory "temp" is created in the cache
directory. It's used instead of proxy_temp_path and friends for caching
upstream response.
Some parts of code related to handling variants of a resource moved into
a separate function that is called earlier. This allows to use cache file
name as a prefix for temporary file in the following patch.
The configuration handling code has changed to look similar to the proxy_store
directive and friends. This simplifies adding variable support in the following
patch.
No functional changes.
Currently, storing and caching mechanisms cannot work together, and a
configuration error is thrown when the proxy_store and proxy_cache
directives (as well as their friends) are configured on the same level.
But configurations like in the example below were allowed and could result
in critical errors in the error log:
proxy_store on;
location / {
proxy_cache one;
}
Only proxy_store worked in this case.
For more predictable and errorless behavior these directives now prevent
each other from being inherited from the previous level.
This changes internal API related to handling of the "store"
flag in ngx_http_upstream_conf_t. Previously, a non-null value
of "store_lengths" was enough to enable store functionality with
custom path. Now, the "store" flag is also required to be set.
No functional changes.
The proxy_store, fastcgi_store, scgi_store and uwsgi_store were inherited
incorrectly if a directive with variables was defined, and then redefined
to the "on" value, i.e. in configurations like:
proxy_store /data/www$upstream_http_x_store;
location / {
proxy_store on;
}
In the following configuration request was sent to a backend without
URI changed to '/' due to if:
location /proxy-pass-uri {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
set $true 1;
if ($true) {
# nothing
}
}
Fix is to inherit conf->location from the location where proxy_pass was
configured, much like it's done with conf->vars.
The proxy_pass directive and other handlers are not expected to be inherited
into nested locations, but there is a special code to inherit upstream
handlers into limit_except blocks, as well as a configuration into if{}
blocks. This caused incorrect behaviour in configurations with nested
locations and limit_except blocks, like this:
location / {
proxy_pass http://u;
location /inner/ {
# no proxy_pass here
limit_except GET {
# nothing
}
}
}
In such a configuration the limit_except block inside "location /inner/"
unexpectedly used proxy_pass defined in "location /", while it shouldn't.
Fix is to avoid inheritance of conf->upstream.upstream (and
conf->proxy_lengths) into locations which don't have noname flag.
Instead of independant inheritance of conf->upstream.upstream (proxy_pass
without variables) and conf->proxy_lengths (proxy_pass with variables)
we now test them both and inherit only if neither is set. Additionally,
SSL context is also inherited only in this case now.
Based on the patch by Alexey Radkov.
RFC7232 says:
The 304 (Not Modified) status code indicates that a conditional GET
or HEAD request has been received and would have resulted in a 200
(OK) response if it were not for the fact that the condition
evaluated to false.
which means that there is no reason to send requests with "If-None-Match"
and/or "If-Modified-Since" headers for responses cached with other status
codes.
Also, sending conditional requests for responses cached with other status
codes could result in a strange behavior, e.g. upstream server returning
304 Not Modified for cached 404 Not Found responses, etc.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sikora <piotr@cloudflare.com>
In case of a cache lock timeout and in the aio handler we now call
r->write_event_handler() instead of a connection write handler,
to make sure to run appropriate subrequest. Previous code failed to run
inactive subrequests and hence resulted in suboptimal behaviour, see
report by Yichun Zhang:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2013-October/004435.html
(Infinite hang claimed in the report seems impossible without 3rd party
modules, as subrequests will be eventually woken up by the postpone filter.)
To ensure proper logging make sure to set current_request in all event
handlers, including resolve, ssl handshake, cache lock wait timer and
aio read handlers. A macro ngx_http_set_log_request() introduced to
simplify this.
The alert was introduced in 03ff14058272 (1.5.4), and was triggered on each
post_action invocation.
There is no real need to call header filters in case of post_action,
so return NGX_OK from ngx_http_send_header() if r->post_action is set.
This helps to avoid delays in sending the last chunk of data because
of bad interaction between Nagle's algorithm on nginx side and
delayed ACK on the client side.
Delays could also be caused by TCP_CORK/TCP_NOPUSH if SPDY was
working without SSL and sendfile() was used.
The upstream modules remove and alter a number of client headers
before sending the request to upstream. This set of headers is
smaller or even empty when cache is disabled.
It's still possible that a request in a cache-enabled location is
uncached, for example, if cache entry counter is below min_uses.
In this case it's better to alter a smaller set of headers and
pass more client headers to backend unchanged. One of the benefits
is enabling server-side byte ranges in such requests.
Once this age is reached, the cache lock is discarded and another
request can acquire the lock. Requests which failed to acquire
the lock are not allowed to cache the response.
For further progress a new buffer must be at least two bytes larger than
the remaining unparsed data. One more byte is needed for null-termination
and another one for further progress. Otherwise inflate() fails with
Z_BUF_ERROR.
Previously, nginx would emit empty values in a header with multiple,
NULL-separated values.
This is forbidden by the SPDY specification, which requires headers to
have either a single (possibly empty) value or multiple, NULL-separated
non-empty values.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sikora <piotr@cloudflare.com>
When got multiple upstream IP addresses using DNS resolving, the number of
upstreams tries and the maxinum time spent for these tries were not affected.
This patch fixed it.
Spaces in Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, and Accept-Language headers
are now ignored. As per syntax of these headers spaces can only appear
in places where they are optional.
If a variant stored can't be used to respond to a request, the variant
hash is used as a secondary key.
Additionally, if we previously switched to a secondary key, while storing
a response to cache we check if the variant hash still apply. If not, we
switch back to the original key, to handle cases when Vary changes.
To cache responses with Vary, we now calculate hash of headers listed
in Vary, and return the response from cache only if new request headers
match.
As of now, only one variant of the same resource can be stored in cache.
Previous code resulted in transfer stalls when client happened
to read all the data in buffers at once, while all gzip buffers
were exhausted (but ctx->nomem wasn't set). Make sure to call
next body filter at least once per call if there are busy buffers.
Additionally, handling of calls with NULL chain was changed to follow
the same logic, i.e., next body filter is only called with NULL chain
if there are busy buffers. This is expected to fix "output chain is empty"
alerts as reported by some users after c52a761a2029 (1.5.7).
Due to the u->headers_in.last_modified_time not being correctly initialized,
this variable was evaluated to "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT" for responses
cached without the "Last-Modified" header which resulted in subsequent proxy
requests being sent with "If-Modified-Since: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"
header.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sikora <piotr@cloudflare.com>
The c->sent is reset to 0 on each request by server-side http code,
so do the same on client side. This allows to count number of bytes
sent in a particular request.
One intentional side effect of this change is that key is allowed only
in the first position. Previously, it was possible to specify the key
variable at any position, but that was never documented, and is contrary
with nginx configuration practice for positional parameters.
