Mongrel users - Nov 2006 - mongrel upload progress and nginx

Does anyone know whether the mongrel upload progress plugin works with
nginx?  It works fine for my app under pound, but not with nginx.

I am using DRb to handle the uploads as detailed at
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/upload_progress.html .

If I am using pound I can see the uploads with irb -r
lib/upload_client.rb , but cannot if I am using nginx.

Does anyone know anything more about this behavior or a possible solution?

thanks,

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:52:16 -0500
"William Macfarlane" <wmacfarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether the mongrel upload progress plugin works with
> nginx?  It works fine for my app under pound, but not with nginx.
> 
> I am using DRb to handle the uploads as detailed at
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/upload_progress.html .
> 
> If I am using pound I can see the uploads with irb -r
> lib/upload_client.rb , but cannot if I am using nginx.
> 
> Does anyone know anything more about this behavior or a possible solution?
nginx does buffer the whole request body before sending it to the backends. 
This is why pound, pen, or balance works but nginx doesn''t when you do
upload progress.  Pretty much the only solution is to put the uploading part on
a different box or port and run it directly or behind pound.

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On Die 14.11.2006 01:51, Zed A. Shaw wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:52:16 -0500
>"William Macfarlane" <wmacfarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know whether the mongrel upload progress plugin works with
>> nginx?  It works fine for my app under pound, but not with nginx.
[snipp]
>> Does anyone know anything more about this behavior or a possible
solution?
>
>nginx does buffer the whole request body before sending it to the
>backends.  This is why pound, pen, or balance works but nginx
doesn''t
>when you do upload progress.  Pretty much the only solution is to put
>the uploading part on a different box or port and run it directly or
>behind pound.
Yep, maybe in the future this feature could be deactivated.
Please stay tuned, I will say if this will be changed.

Regards

Aleks