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HTTP section of the development guide.
author Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
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4 Copyright (C) Nginx, Inc.
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9 <article name="Development guide"
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10 link="/en/docs/dev/development_guide.html"
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14 <section name="Introduction" id="introduction">
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17 <section name="Code layout" id="code_layout">
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19 <para>
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20 <list type="bullet">
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21 <listitem>
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22 <literal>auto</literal> - build scripts
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23 </listitem>
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25 <listitem>
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26 <literal>src</literal>
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30 <listitem>
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31 <literal>core</literal> - basic types and functions - string, array, log,
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32 pool etc
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33 </listitem>
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35 <listitem>
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36 <literal>event</literal> - event core
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40 <listitem>
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41 <literal>modules</literal> - event notification modules: epoll, kqueue,
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42 select etc
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45 </list>
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49 <listitem>
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50 <literal>http</literal> - core HTTP module and common code
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55 <literal>modules</literal> - other HTTP modules
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56 </listitem>
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58 <listitem>
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59 <literal>v2</literal> - HTTPv2
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66 <listitem>
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67 <literal>mail</literal> - mail modules
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68 </listitem>
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71 <literal>os</literal> - platform-specific code
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76 <literal>unix</literal>
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80 <literal>win32</literal>
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88 <literal>stream</literal> - stream modules
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98 </section>
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101 <section name="Include files" id="include_files">
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103 <para>
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104 Each nginx file should start with including the following two files:
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105 </para>
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108 <programlisting>
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109 #include &lt;ngx_config.h>
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110 #include &lt;ngx_core.h>
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111 </programlisting>
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113 <para>
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114 In addition to that, HTTP code should include
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115 </para>
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118 <programlisting>
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119 #include &lt;ngx_http.h>
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120 </programlisting>
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122 <para>
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123 Mail code should include
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124 </para>
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127 <programlisting>
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128 #include &lt;ngx_mail.h>
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129 </programlisting>
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131 <para>
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132 Stream code should include
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133 </para>
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136 <programlisting>
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137 #include &lt;ngx_stream.h>
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138 </programlisting>
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140 </section>
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143 <section name="Integers" id="integers">
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145 <para>
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146 For general purpose, nginx code uses the following two integer types
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147 <literal>ngx_int_t</literal> and <literal>ngx_uint_t</literal> which are
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148 typedefs for <literal>intptr_t</literal> and <literal>uintptr_t</literal>.
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149 </para>
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151 </section>
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154 <section name="Common return codes" id="common_return_codes">
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156 <para>
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157 Most functions in nginx return the following codes:
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158 </para>
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160 <para>
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163 <listitem>
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164 <literal>NGX_OK</literal> - operation succeeded
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165 </listitem>
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167 <listitem>
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168 <literal>NGX_ERROR</literal> - operation failed
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172 <literal>NGX_AGAIN</literal> - operation incomplete, function should be called
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173 again
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174 </listitem>
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176 <listitem>
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177 <literal>NGX_DECLINED</literal> - operation rejected, for example, if disabled
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178 in configuration. This is never an error
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179 </listitem>
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181 <listitem>
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182 <literal>NGX_BUSY</literal> - resource is not available
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183 </listitem>
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185 <listitem>
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186 <literal>NGX_DONE</literal> - operation done or continued elsewhere.
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187 Also used as an alternative success code
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188 </listitem>
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190 <listitem>
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191 <literal>NGX_ABORT</literal> - function was aborted.
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192 Also used as an alternative error code
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193 </listitem>
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195 </list>
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196 </para>
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197
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198 </section>
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201 <section name="Error handling" id="error_handling">
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202
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203 <para>
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204 For getting the last system error code, the <literal>ngx_errno</literal> macro
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205 is available.
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206 It's mapped to <literal>errno</literal> on POSIX platforms and to
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207 <literal>GetLastError()</literal> call in Windows.
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208 For getting the last socket error number, the
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209 <literal>ngx_socket_errno</literal> macro is available.
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210 It's mapped to <literal>errno</literal> on POSIX systems as well,
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211 and to <literal>WSAGetLastError()</literal> call on Windows.
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212 For performance reasons the values of <literal>ngx_errno</literal> or
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213 <literal>ngx_socket_errno</literal> should not be accessed more than
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214 once in a row.
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215 The error value should be stored in a local variable of type
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216 <literal>ngx_err_t</literal> for using multiple times, if required.
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217 For setting errors, <literal>ngx_set_errno(errno)</literal> and
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218 <literal>ngx_set_socket_errno(errno)</literal> macros are available.
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219 </para>
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221 <para>
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222 The values of <literal>ngx_errno</literal> or
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223 <literal>ngx_socket_errno</literal> can be passed to logging functions
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224 <literal>ngx_log_error()</literal> and <literal>ngx_log_debugX()</literal>, in
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225 which case system error text is added to the log message.
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226 </para>
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228 <para>
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229 Example using <literal>ngx_errno</literal>:
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230 </para>
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233 <programlisting>
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234 void
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235 ngx_my_kill(ngx_pid_t pid, ngx_log_t *log, int signo)
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236 {
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237 ngx_err_t err;
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238
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239 if (kill(pid, signo) == -1) {
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240 err = ngx_errno;
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241
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242 ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ALERT, log, err, "kill(%P, %d) failed", pid, signo);
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244 if (err == NGX_ESRCH) {
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245 return 2;
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246 }
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248 return 1;
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249 }
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250
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251 return 0;
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252 }
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253 </programlisting>
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254
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255 </section>
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258 </section>
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261 <section name="Strings" id="strings">
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264 <section name="Overview" id="overview">
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265
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266 <para>
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267 For C strings, nginx code uses unsigned character type pointer
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268 <literal>u_char *</literal>.
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269 </para>
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271 <para>
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272 The nginx string type <literal>ngx_str_t</literal> is defined as follows:
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273 </para>
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275
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276 <programlisting>
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277 typedef struct {
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278 size_t len;
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279 u_char *data;
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280 } ngx_str_t;
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281 </programlisting>
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282
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283 <para>
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284 The <literal>len</literal> field holds the string length,
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285 <literal>data</literal> holds the string data.
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286 The string, held in <literal>ngx_str_t</literal>, may or may not be
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287 null-terminated after the <literal>len</literal> bytes.
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288 In most cases it’s not.
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289 However, in certain parts of code (for example, when parsing configuration),
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290 <literal>ngx_str_t</literal> objects are known to be null-terminated, and that
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291 knowledge is used to simplify string comparison and makes it easier to pass
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292 those strings to syscalls.
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293 </para>
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294
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295 <para>
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296 A number of string operations are provided in nginx.
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297 They are declared in <path>src/core/ngx_string.h</path>.
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298 Some of them are wrappers around standard C functions:
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299 </para>
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300
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301 <para>
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302 <list type="bullet">
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303
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304 <listitem>
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305 <literal>ngx_strcmp()</literal>
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306 </listitem>
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307
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308 <listitem>
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309 <literal>ngx_strncmp()</literal>
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310 </listitem>
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311
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312 <listitem>
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313 <literal>ngx_strstr()</literal>
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314 </listitem>
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315
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316 <listitem>
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317 <literal>ngx_strlen()</literal>
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318 </listitem>
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320 <listitem>
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321 <literal>ngx_strchr()</literal>
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322 </listitem>
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324 <listitem>
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325 <literal>ngx_memcmp()</literal>
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326 </listitem>
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328 <listitem>
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329 <literal>ngx_memset()</literal>
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330 </listitem>
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332 <listitem>
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333 <literal>ngx_memcpy()</literal>
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334 </listitem>
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336 <listitem>
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337 <literal>ngx_memmove()</literal>
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338 </listitem>
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339
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340 </list>
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341
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342 </para>
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344 <para>
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345 Some nginx-specific string functions:
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346 </para>
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348 <para>
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349 <list type="bullet">
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351 <listitem>
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352 <literal>ngx_memzero()</literal> fills memory with zeroes
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353 </listitem>
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355 <listitem>
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356 <literal>ngx_cpymem()</literal> does the same as
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357 <literal>ngx_memcpy()</literal>, but returns the final destination address
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358 This one is handy for appending multiple strings in a row
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359 </listitem>
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360
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361 <listitem>
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362 <literal>ngx_movemem()</literal> does the same as
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363 <literal>ngx_memmove()</literal>, but returns the final destination address.
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364 </listitem>
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365
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366 <listitem>
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367 <literal>ngx_strlchr()</literal> searches for a character in a string,
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368 delimited by two pointers
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369 </listitem>
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370 </list>
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371 </para>
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372
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373 <para>
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374 Some case conversion and comparison functions:
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375 </para>
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376
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377 <para>
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378 <list type="bullet">
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379
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380 <listitem>
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381 <literal>ngx_tolower()</literal>
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382 </listitem>
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383
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384 <listitem>
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385 <literal>ngx_toupper()</literal>
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386 </listitem>
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387
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388 <listitem>
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389 <literal>ngx_strlow()</literal>
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390 </listitem>
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391
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392 <listitem>
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393 <literal>ngx_strcasecmp()</literal>
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394 </listitem>
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395
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396 <listitem>
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397 <literal>ngx_strncasecmp()</literal>
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398 </listitem>
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399
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400 </list>
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401 </para>
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402
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403 </section>
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404
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405
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406 <section name="Formatting" id="formatting">
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407
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408 <para>
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409 A number of formatting functions are provided by nginx. These functions support nginx-specific types:
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410 </para>
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411
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412
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413 <para>
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414 <list type="bullet">
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415
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416 <listitem>
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417 <literal>ngx_sprintf(buf, fmt, ...)</literal>
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418 </listitem>
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419
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420 <listitem>
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421 <literal>ngx_snprintf(buf, max, fmt, ...)</literal>
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422 </listitem>
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423
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424 <listitem>
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425 <literal>ngx_slrintf(buf, last, fmt, ...)</literal>
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426 </listitem>
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427
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428 <listitem>
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429 <literal>ngx_vslprint(buf, last, fmt, args)</literal>
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430 </listitem>
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431
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432 <listitem>
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433 <literal>ngx_vsnprint(buf, max, fmt, args)</literal>
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434 </listitem>
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435
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436 </list>
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437 </para>
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438
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439 <para>
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440 The full list of formatting options, supported by these functions, can be found
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441 in <path>src/core/ngx_string.c</path>. Some of them are:
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442 </para>
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443
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444
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445 <programlisting>
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446 %O - off_t
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447 %T - time_t
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448 %z - size_t
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449 %i - ngx_int_t
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450 %p - void *
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451 %V - ngx_str_t *
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452 %s - u_char * (null-terminated)
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453 %*s - size_t + u_char *
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454 </programlisting>
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455
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456 <para>
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457 The ‘u’ modifier makes most types unsigned, ‘X’/‘x’ convert output to hex.
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458 </para>
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459
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460 <para>
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461 Example:
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462
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463 <programlisting>
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464 u_char buf[NGX_INT_T_LEN];
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465 size_t len;
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466 ngx_int_t n;
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467
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468 /* set n here */
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469
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470 len = ngx_sprintf(buf, "%ui", n) - buf;
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471 </programlisting>
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472
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473 </para>
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474
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475 </section>
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476
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477
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478 <section name="Numeric conversion" id="numeric_conversion">
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479
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480 <para>
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481 Several functions for numeric conversion are implemented in nginx:
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482 </para>
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483
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484 <para>
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485 <list type="bullet">
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486
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487 <listitem>
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488 <literal>ngx_atoi(line, n)</literal> - converts a string of given length to a
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489 positive integer of type <literal>ngx_int_t</literal>.
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490 Returns <literal>NGX_ERROR</literal> on error
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491 </listitem>
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492
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493 <listitem>
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494 <literal>ngx_atosz(line, n)</literal> - same for <literal>ssize_t</literal>
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495 type
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496 </listitem>
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497
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498 <listitem>
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499 <literal>ngx_atoof(line, n)</literal> - same for <literal>off_t</literal>
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500 type
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501 </listitem>
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502
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503 <listitem>
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504 <literal>ngx_atotm(line, n)</literal> - same for <literal>time_t</literal>
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505 type
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506 </listitem>
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507
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508 <listitem>
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509 <literal>ngx_atofp(line, n, point)</literal> - converts a fixed point floating
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510 number of given length to a positive integer of type
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511 <literal>ngx_int_t</literal>.
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512 The result is shifted left by <literal>points</literal> decimal
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514 than <literal>points</literal> fractional digits.
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515 Returns <literal>NGX_ERROR</literal> on error. For example,
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516 <literal>ngx_atofp("10.5", 4, 2)</literal> returns <literal>1050</literal>
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517 </listitem>
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518
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519 <listitem>
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520 <literal>ngx_hextoi(line, n)</literal> - converts hexadecimal representation of
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521 a positive integer to <literal>ngx_int_t</literal>. Returns
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522 <literal>NGX_ERROR</literal> on error
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523 </listitem>
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524
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525 </list>
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526 </para>
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527
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528 </section>
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529
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530 <section name="Regular expressions" id="regex">
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531
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532 <para>
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533 The regular expressions interface in nginx is a wrapper around
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534 the <link url="http://www.pcre.org">PCRE</link>
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535 library.
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536 The corresponding header file is <path>src/core/ngx_regex.h</path>.
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537 </para>
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538
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539 <para>
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540 To use a regular expression for string matching, first, it needs to be
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541 compiled, this is usually done at configuration phase.
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542 Note that since PCRE support is optional, all code using the interface must
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543 be protected by the surrounding <literal>NGX_PCRE</literal> macro:
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544 <programlisting>
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545 #if (NGX_PCRE)
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546 ngx_regex_t *re;
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547 ngx_regex_compile_t rc;
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548
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549 u_char errstr[NGX_MAX_CONF_ERRSTR];
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550
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551 ngx_str_t value = ngx_string("message (\\d\\d\\d).*Codeword is '(?&lt;cw&gt;\\w+)'");
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552
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553 ngx_memzero(&amp;rc, sizeof(ngx_regex_compile_t));
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554
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555 rc.pattern = value;
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556 rc.pool = cf->pool;
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557 rc.err.len = NGX_MAX_CONF_ERRSTR;
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558 rc.err.data = errstr;
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559 /* rc.options are passed as is to pcre_compile() */
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560
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561 if (ngx_regex_compile(&amp;rc) != NGX_OK) {
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562 ngx_conf_log_error(NGX_LOG_EMERG, cf, 0, "%V", &amp;rc.err);
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563 return NGX_CONF_ERROR;
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564 }
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565
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566 re = rc.regex;
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567 #endif
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568 </programlisting>
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569 After successful compilation, <literal>ngx_regex_compile_t</literal> structure
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570 fields <literal>captures</literal> and <literal>named_captures</literal>
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571 are filled with count of all and named captures respectively found in the
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572 regular expression.
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573 </para>
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574
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575 <para>
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576 Later, the compiled regular expression may be used to match strings against it:
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577 <programlisting>
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578 ngx_int_t n;
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579 int captures[(1 + rc.captures) * 3];
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580
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581 ngx_str_t input = ngx_string("This is message 123. Codeword is 'foobar'.");
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582
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583 n = ngx_regex_exec(re, &amp;input, captures, (1 + rc.captures) * 3);
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584 if (n >= 0) {
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585 /* string matches expression */
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586
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587 } else if (n == NGX_REGEX_NO_MATCHED) {
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588 /* no match was found */
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589
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590 } else {
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591 /* some error */
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592 ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ALERT, log, 0, ngx_regex_exec_n " failed: %i", n);
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593 }
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594 </programlisting>
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595 The arguments of <literal>ngx_regex_exec()</literal> are: the compiled regular
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596 expression <literal>re</literal>, string to match <literal>s</literal>,
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597 optional array of integers to hold found <literal>captures</literal>
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598 and its <literal>size</literal>.
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599 The <literal>captures</literal> array size must be a multiple of three,
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600 per requirements of the
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601 <link url="http://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcreapi.html">PCRE API</link>.
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602 In the example, its size is calculated from a total number of captures plus
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603 one for the matched string itself.
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604 </para>
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605
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606 <para>
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607 Now, if there are matches, captures may be accessed:
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608 <programlisting>
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609 u_char *p;
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610 size_t size;
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611 ngx_str_t name, value;
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612
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613 /* all captures */
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614 for (i = 0; i &lt; n * 2; i += 2) {
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615 value.data = input.data + captures[i];
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616 value.len = captures[i + 1] - captures[i];
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617 }
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618
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619 /* accessing named captures */
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620
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621 size = rc.name_size;
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622 p = rc.names;
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623
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624 for (i = 0; i &lt; rc.named_captures; i++, p += size) {
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625
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626 /* capture name */
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627 name.data = &amp;p[2];
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628 name.len = ngx_strlen(name.data);
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629
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630 n = 2 * ((p[0] &lt;&lt; 8) + p[1]);
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631
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632 /* captured value */
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633 value.data = &amp;input.data[captures[n]];
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634 value.len = captures[n + 1] - captures[n];
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635 }
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636 </programlisting>
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637 </para>
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638
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639 <para>
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640 The <literal>ngx_regex_exec_array()</literal> function accepts the array of
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641 <literal>ngx_regex_elt_t</literal> elements (which are just compiled regular
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642 expressions with associated names), a string to match and a log.
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643 The function will apply expressions from the array to the string until
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644 the match is found or no more expressions are left.
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645 The return value is <literal>NGX_OK</literal> in case of match and
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646 <literal>NGX_DECLINED</literal> otherwise, or <literal>NGX_ERROR</literal>
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647 in case of error.
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648 </para>
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649
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650 </section>
1899
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651
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652 </section>
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653
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654
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655 <section name="Containers" id="containers">
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656
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657
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658 <section name="Array" id="array">
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659
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660 <para>
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661 The nginx array type <literal>ngx_array_t</literal> is defined as follows
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662 </para>
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663
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664
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665 <programlisting>
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666 typedef struct {
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667 void *elts;
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668 ngx_uint_t nelts;
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669 size_t size;
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670 ngx_uint_t nalloc;
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671 ngx_pool_t *pool;
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672 } ngx_array_t;
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673 </programlisting>
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674
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675 <para>
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676 The elements of array are available through the <literal>elts</literal> field.
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677 The number of elements is held in the <literal>nelts</literal> field.
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678 The <literal>size</literal> field holds the size of a single element and is set
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679 when initializing the array.
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680 </para>
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681
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682 <para>
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683 An array can be created in a pool with the
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684 <literal>ngx_array_create(pool, n, size)</literal> call.
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685 An already allocated array object can be initialized with the
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686 <literal>ngx_array_init(array, pool, n, size)</literal> call.
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687 </para>
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688
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689
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690 <programlisting>
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691 ngx_array_t *a, b;
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692
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693 /* create an array of strings with preallocated memory for 10 elements */
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694 a = ngx_array_create(pool, 10, sizeof(ngx_str_t));
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695
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696 /* initialize string array for 10 elements */
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697 ngx_array_init(&amp;b, pool, 10, sizeof(ngx_str_t));
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698 </programlisting>
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699
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700 <para>
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701 Adding elements to array are done with the following functions:
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702 </para>
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703
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704 <para>
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705 <list type="bullet">
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706
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707 <listitem>
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708 <literal>ngx_array_push(a)</literal> adds one tail element and returns pointer
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709 to it
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710 </listitem>
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711
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712 <listitem>
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713 <literal>ngx_array_push_n(a, n)</literal> adds <literal>n</literal> tail elements
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714 and returns pointer to the first one
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715 </listitem>
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716
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717 </list>
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718 </para>
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719
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720 <para>
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721 If currently allocated memory is not enough for new elements, a new memory for
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722 elements is allocated and existing elements are copied to that memory.
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723 The new memory block is normally twice as large, as the existing one.
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724 </para>
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725
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726
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727 <programlisting>
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728 s = ngx_array_push(a);
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729 ss = ngx_array_push_n(&amp;b, 3);
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730 </programlisting>
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731
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732 </section>
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733
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734
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735 <section name="List" id="list">
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736
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737 <para>
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738 List in nginx is a sequence of arrays, optimized for inserting a potentially
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739 large number of items. The list type is defined as follows:
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740 </para>
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741
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742
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743 <programlisting>
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744 typedef struct {
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745 ngx_list_part_t *last;
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746 ngx_list_part_t part;
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747 size_t size;
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748 ngx_uint_t nalloc;
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749 ngx_pool_t *pool;
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750 } ngx_list_t;
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751 </programlisting>
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752
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753 <para>
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754 The actual items are store in list parts, defined as follows:
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755 </para>
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756
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757
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758 <programlisting>
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759 typedef struct ngx_list_part_s ngx_list_part_t;
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760
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761 struct ngx_list_part_s {
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762 void *elts;
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763 ngx_uint_t nelts;
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764 ngx_list_part_t *next;
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765 };
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766 </programlisting>
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767
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768 <para>
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769 Initially, a list must be initialized by calling
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770 <literal>ngx_list_init(list, pool, n, size)</literal> or created by calling
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771 <literal>ngx_list_create(pool, n, size)</literal>.
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772 Both functions receive the size of a single item and a number of items per list
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773 part.
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774 The <literal>ngx_list_push(list)</literal> function is used to add an item to the
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775 list. Iterating over the items is done by direct accessing the list fields, as
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776 seen in the example:
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777 </para>
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778
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779
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780 <programlisting>
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781 ngx_str_t *v;
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782 ngx_uint_t i;
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783 ngx_list_t *list;
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784 ngx_list_part_t *part;
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785
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786 list = ngx_list_create(pool, 100, sizeof(ngx_str_t));
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787 if (list == NULL) { /* error */ }
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788
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789 /* add items to the list */
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790
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791 v = ngx_list_push(list);
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792 if (v == NULL) { /* error */ }
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793 ngx_str_set(v, “foo”);
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794
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795 v = ngx_list_push(list);
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796 if (v == NULL) { /* error */ }
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797 ngx_str_set(v, “bar”);
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798
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799 /* iterate over the list */
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800
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801 part = &amp;list->part;
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802 v = part->elts;
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803
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804 for (i = 0; /* void */; i++) {
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805
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806 if (i >= part->nelts) {
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807 if (part->next == NULL) {
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808 break;
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809 }
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810
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811 part = part->next;
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812 v = part->elts;
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813 i = 0;
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814 }
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815
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816 ngx_do_smth(&amp;v[i]);
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817 }
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818 </programlisting>
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819
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820 <para>
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821 The primary use for the list in nginx is HTTP input and output headers.
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822 </para>
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823
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824 <para>
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825 The list does not support item removal.
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826 However, when needed, items can internally be marked as missing without actual
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827 removing from the list.
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828 For example, HTTP output headers which are stored as
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829 <literal>ngx_table_elt_t</literal> objects, are marked as missing by setting
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830 the <literal>hash</literal> field of <literal>ngx_table_elt_t</literal> to
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831 zero. Such items are explicitly skipped, when iterating over the headers.
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832 </para>
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833
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834 </section>
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835
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836
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837 <section name="Queue" id="queue">
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838
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839 <para>
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840 Queue in nginx is an intrusive doubly linked list, with each node defined as
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841 follows:
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842 </para>
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843
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844
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845 <programlisting>
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846 typedef struct ngx_queue_s ngx_queue_t;
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847
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848 struct ngx_queue_s {
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849 ngx_queue_t *prev;
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850 ngx_queue_t *next;
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851 };
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852 </programlisting>
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853
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854 <para>
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855 The head queue node is not linked with any data. Before using, the list head
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856 should be initialized with <literal>ngx_queue_init(q)</literal> call.
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857 Queues support the following operations:
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858 </para>
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859
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860 <para>
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861 <list type="bullet">
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862
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863 <listitem>
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864 <literal>ngx_queue_insert_head(h, x)</literal>,
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865 <literal>ngx_queue_insert_tail(h, x)</literal> - insert a new node
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866 </listitem>
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867
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868 <listitem>
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869 <literal>ngx_queue_remove(x)</literal> - remove a queue node
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870 </listitem>
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871
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872 <listitem>
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873 <literal>ngx_queue_split(h, q, n)</literal> - split a queue at a node,
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874 queue tail is returned in a separate queue
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875 </listitem>
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876
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877 <listitem>
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878 <literal>ngx_queue_add(h, n)</literal> - add second queue to the first queue
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879 </listitem>
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880
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881 <listitem>
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882 <literal>ngx_queue_head(h)</literal>,
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883 <literal>ngx_queue_last(h)</literal> - get first or last queue node
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884 </listitem>
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885
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886 <listitem>
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887 <literal>ngx_queue_sentinel(h)</literal>
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888 - get a queue sentinel object to end iteration at
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889 </listitem>
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890
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891 <listitem>
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892 <literal>ngx_queue_data(q, type, link)</literal> - get reference to the beginning of a
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893 queue node data structure, considering the queue field offset in it
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894 </listitem>
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895
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896 </list>
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897 </para>
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898
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899 <para>
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900 Example:
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901 </para>
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902
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903
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904 <programlisting>
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905 typedef struct {
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906 ngx_str_t value;
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907 ngx_queue_t queue;
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908 } ngx_foo_t;
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909
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910 ngx_foo_t *f;
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911 ngx_queue_t values;
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912
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913 ngx_queue_init(&amp;values);
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914
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915 f = ngx_palloc(pool, sizeof(ngx_foo_t));
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916 if (f == NULL) { /* error */ }
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917 ngx_str_set(&amp;f->value, “foo”);
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918
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919 ngx_queue_insert_tail(&amp;values, f);
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920
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921 /* insert more nodes here */
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922
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923 for (q = ngx_queue_head(&amp;values);
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924 q != ngx_queue_sentinel(&amp;values);
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925 q = ngx_queue_next(q))
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926 {
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927 f = ngx_queue_data(q, ngx_foo_t, queue);
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928
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929 ngx_do_smth(&amp;f->value);
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930 }
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931 </programlisting>
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932
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933 </section>
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934
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935
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936 <section name="Red-Black tree" id="red_black_tree">
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937
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938 <para>
1915
8b7c3b0ef1a4 Semantically marked paths.
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939 The <path>src/core/ngx_rbtree.h</path> header file provides access to the
1899
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940 effective implementation of red-black trees.
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941 </para>
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942
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943
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944 <programlisting>
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945 typedef struct {
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946 ngx_rbtree_t rbtree;
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947 ngx_rbtree_node_t sentinel;
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948
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949 /* custom per-tree data here */
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950 } my_tree_t;
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951
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952 typedef struct {
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953 ngx_rbtree_node_t rbnode;
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954
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955 /* custom per-node data */
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956 foo_t val;
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957 } my_node_t;
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958 </programlisting>
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959
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960 <para>
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961 To deal with a tree as a whole, you need two nodes: root and sentinel.
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962 Typically, they are added to some custom structure, thus allowing to
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963 organize your data into a tree which leaves contain a link to or embed
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964 your data.
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965 </para>
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966
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967 <para>
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968 To initialize a tree:
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969 </para>
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970
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971
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972 <programlisting>
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973 my_tree_t root;
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974
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975 ngx_rbtree_init(&amp;root.rbtree, &amp;root.sentinel, insert_value_function);
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976 </programlisting>
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977
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978 <para>
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979 The <literal>insert_value_function</literal> is a function that is
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980 responsible for traversing the tree and inserting new values into correct
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981 place.
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982 For example, the <literal>ngx_str_rbtree_insert_value</literal> functions is
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983 designed to deal with <literal>ngx_str_t</literal> type.
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984 </para>
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985
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986
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987 <programlisting>
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988 void ngx_str_rbtree_insert_value(ngx_rbtree_node_t *temp,
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989 ngx_rbtree_node_t *node,
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990 ngx_rbtree_node_t *sentinel)
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991 </programlisting>
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992
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993 <para>
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994 Its arguments are pointers to a root node of an insertion, newly created node
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995 to be added, and a tree sentinel.
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996 </para>
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997
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998 <para>
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999 The traversal is pretty straightforward and can be demonstrated with the
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1000 following lookup function pattern:
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1001 </para>
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1002
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1003
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1004 <programlisting>
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1005 my_node_t *
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1006 my_rbtree_lookup(ngx_rbtree_t *rbtree, foo_t *val, uint32_t hash)
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1007 {
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1008 ngx_int_t rc;
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1009 my_node_t *n;
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1010 ngx_rbtree_node_t *node, *sentinel;
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1011
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1012 node = rbtree->root;
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1013 sentinel = rbtree->sentinel;
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1014
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1015 while (node != sentinel) {
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1016
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1017 n = (my_node_t *) node;
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1018
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1019 if (hash != node->key) {
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1020 node = (hash &lt; node->key) ? node->left : node->right;
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1021 continue;
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1022 }
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1023
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1024 rc = compare(val, node->val);
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1025
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1026 if (rc &lt; 0) {
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1027 node = node->left;
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1028 continue;
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1029 }
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1030
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1031 if (rc > 0) {
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1032 node = node->right;
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1033 continue;
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1034 }
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1035
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1036 return n;
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1037 }
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1038
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1039 return NULL;
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1040 }
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1041 </programlisting>
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1042
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1043 <para>
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1044 The <literal>compare()</literal> is a classic comparator function returning
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1045 value less, equal or greater than zero. To speed up lookups and avoid comparing
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1046 user objects that can be big, integer hash field is used.
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1047 </para>
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1048
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1049 <para>
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1050 To add a node to a tree, allocate a new node, initialize it and call
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1051 <literal>ngx_rbtree_insert()</literal>:
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1052 </para>
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1053
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1054
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1055 <programlisting>
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1056 my_node_t *my_node;
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1057 ngx_rbtree_node_t *node;
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1058
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1059 my_node = ngx_palloc(...);
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1060 init_custom_data(&amp;my_node->val);
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1061
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1062 node = &amp;my_node->rbnode;
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1063 node->key = create_key(my_node->val);
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1064
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1065 ngx_rbtree_insert(&amp;root->rbtree, node);
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1066 </programlisting>
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1067
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1068 <para>
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1069 to remove a node:
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1070 </para>
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1071
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1072
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1073 <programlisting>
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1074 ngx_rbtree_delete(&amp;root->rbtree, node);
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1075 </programlisting>
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1076
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1077 </section>
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1078
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1079 <section name="Hash" id="hash">
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1080
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1081 <para>
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1082 Hash table functions are declared in <path>src/core/ngx_hash.h</path>.
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1083 Exact and wildcard matching is supported.
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1084 The latter requires extra setup and is described in a separate section below.
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1085 </para>
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1086
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1087 <para>
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1088 To initialize a hash, one needs to know the number of elements in advance,
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1089 so that nginx can build the hash optimally.
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1090 Two parameters that need to be configured are <literal>max_size</literal>
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1091 and <literal>bucket_size</literal>.
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1092 The details of setting up these are provided in a separate
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1093 <link doc="../hash.xml">document</link>.
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1094 Usually, these two parameters are configurable by user.
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1095 Hash initialization settings are stored as the
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1096 <literal>ngx_hash_init_t</literal> type,
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1097 and the hash itself is <literal>ngx_hash_t</literal>:
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1098 <programlisting>
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1099 ngx_hash_t foo_hash;
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1100 ngx_hash_init_t hash;
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1101
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1102 hash.hash = &amp;foo_hash;
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1103 hash.key = ngx_hash_key;
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1104 hash.max_size = 512;
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1105 hash.bucket_size = ngx_align(64, ngx_cacheline_size);
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1106 hash.name = "foo_hash";
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1107 hash.pool = cf-&gt;pool;
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1108 hash.temp_pool = cf-&gt;temp_pool;
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1109 </programlisting>
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1110 The <literal>key</literal> is a pointer to a function that creates hash integer
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1111 key from a string.
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1112 Two generic functions are provided:
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1113 <literal>ngx_hash_key(data, len)</literal> and
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1114 <literal>ngx_hash_key_lc(data, len)</literal>.
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1115 The latter converts a string to lowercase and thus requires the passed string to
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1116 be writable.
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1117 If this is not true, <literal>NGX_HASH_READONLY_KEY</literal> flag
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1118 may be passed to the function, initializing array keys (see below).
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1119 </para>
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1120
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1121 <para>
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1122 The hash keys are stored in <literal>ngx_hash_keys_arrays_t</literal> and
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1123 are initialized with <literal>ngx_hash_keys_array_init(arr, type)</literal>:
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1124 <programlisting>
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1125 ngx_hash_keys_arrays_t foo_keys;
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1126
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1127 foo_keys.pool = cf-&gt;pool;
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1128 foo_keys.temp_pool = cf-&gt;temp_pool;
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1129
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1130 ngx_hash_keys_array_init(&amp;foo_keys, NGX_HASH_SMALL);
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1131 </programlisting>
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1132 The second parameter can be either <literal>NGX_HASH_SMALL</literal> or
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1133 <literal>NGX_HASH_LARGE</literal> and controls the amount of preallocated
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1134 resources for the hash.
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1135 If you expect the hash to contain thousands elements,
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1136 use <literal>NGX_HASH_LARGE</literal>.
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1137 </para>
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1138
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1139 <para>
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1140 The <literal>ngx_hash_add_key(keys_array, key, value, flags)</literal>
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1141 function is used to insert keys into hash keys array;
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1142 <programlisting>
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1143 ngx_str_t k1 = ngx_string("key1");
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1144 ngx_str_t k2 = ngx_string("key2");
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1145
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1146 ngx_hash_add_key(&amp;foo_keys, &amp;k1, &amp;my_data_ptr_1, NGX_HASH_READONLY_KEY);
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1147 ngx_hash_add_key(&amp;foo_keys, &amp;k2, &amp;my_data_ptr_2, NGX_HASH_READONLY_KEY);
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1148 </programlisting>
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1149 </para>
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1150
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1151 <para>
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1152 Now, the hash table may be built using the call to
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1153 <literal>ngx_hash_init(hinit, key_names, nelts)</literal>:
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1154
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1155 <programlisting>
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1156 ngx_hash_init(&amp;hash, foo_keys.keys.elts, foo_keys.keys.nelts);
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1157 </programlisting>
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1158
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1159 This may fail, if <literal>max_size</literal> or <literal>bucket_size</literal>
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1160 parameters are not big enough.
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1161 When the hash is built, <literal>ngx_hash_find(hash, key, name, len)</literal>
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1162 function may be used to look up elements:
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1163 <programlisting>
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1164 my_data_t *data;
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1165 ngx_uint_t key;
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1166
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1167 key = ngx_hash_key(k1.data, k1.len);
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1168
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1169 data = ngx_hash_find(&amp;foo_hash, key, k1.data, k1.len);
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1170 if (data == NULL) {
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1171 /* key not found */
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1172 }
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1173 </programlisting>
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1174
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1175 </para>
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1176
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1177 <section name="Wildcard matching" id="wildcard_matching">
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1178
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1179 <para>
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1180 To create a hash that works with wildcards,
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1181 <literal>ngx_hash_combined_t</literal> type is used.
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1182 It includes the hash type described above and has two additional keys arrays:
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1183 <literal>dns_wc_head</literal> and <literal>dns_wc_tail</literal>.
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1184 The initialization of basic properties is done similarly to a usual hash:
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1185 <programlisting>
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1186 ngx_hash_init_t hash
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1187 ngx_hash_combined_t foo_hash;
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1188
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1189 hash.hash = &amp;foo_hash.hash;
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1190 hash.key = ...;
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1191 </programlisting>
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1192 </para>
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1193
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1194 <para>
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1195 It is possible to add wildcard keys using the
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1196 <literal>NGX_HASH_WILDCARD_KEY</literal> flag:
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1197 <programlisting>
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1198 /* k1 = ".example.org"; */
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1199 /* k2 = "foo.*"; */
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1200 ngx_hash_add_key(&amp;foo_keys, &amp;k1, &amp;data1, NGX_HASH_WILDCARD_KEY);
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1201 ngx_hash_add_key(&amp;foo_keys, &amp;k2, &amp;data2, NGX_HASH_WILDCARD_KEY);
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1202 </programlisting>
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1203 The function recognizes wildcards and adds keys into corresponding arrays.
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1204 Please refer to the
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1205 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_map_module.xml" id="map"/> module
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1206 documentation for the description of the wildcard syntax and
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1207 matching algorithm.
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1208 </para>
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1209
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1210 <para>
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1211 Depending on the contents of added keys, you may need to initialize up to three
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1212 keys arrays: one for exact matching (described above), and two for matching
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1213 starting from head or tail of a string:
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1214 <programlisting>
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1215 if (foo_keys.dns_wc_head.nelts) {
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1216
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1217 ngx_qsort(foo_keys.dns_wc_head.elts,
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1218 (size_t) foo_keys.dns_wc_head.nelts,
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diff changeset
1219 sizeof(ngx_hash_key_t),
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diff changeset
1220 cmp_dns_wildcards);
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1221
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1222 hash.hash = NULL;
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1223 hash.temp_pool = pool;
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1224
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1225 if (ngx_hash_wildcard_init(&amp;hash, foo_keys.dns_wc_head.elts,
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1226 foo_keys.dns_wc_head.nelts)
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1227 != NGX_OK)
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1228 {
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1229 return NGX_ERROR;
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1230 }
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1231
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1232 foo_hash.wc_head = (ngx_hash_wildcard_t *) hash.hash;
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1233 }
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1234 </programlisting>
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1235 The keys array needs to be sorted, and initialization results must be added
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1236 to the combined hash.
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1237 The initialization of <literal>dns_wc_tail</literal> array is done similarly.
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1238 </para>
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1239
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1240 <para>
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1241 The lookup in a combined hash is handled by the
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1242 <literal>ngx_hash_find_combined(chash, key, name, len)</literal>:
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1243 <programlisting>
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1244 /* key = "bar.example.org"; - will match ".example.org" */
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1245 /* key = "foo.example.com"; - will match "foo.*" */
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1246
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1247 hkey = ngx_hash_key(key.data, key.len);
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1248 res = ngx_hash_find_combined(&amp;foo_hash, hkey, key.data, key.len);
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1249 </programlisting>
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1250 </para>
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1251
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1252 </section>
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1253
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1254 </section>
1899
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1255
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1256 </section>
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1257
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1258
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1259 <section name="Memory management" id="memory_management">
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1260
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1261
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1262 <section name="Heap" id="heap">
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1263
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1264 <para>
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1265 To allocate memory from system heap, the following functions are provided by
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1266 nginx:
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1267 </para>
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1268
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1269 <para>
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1270 <list type="bullet">
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1271
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1272 <listitem>
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1273 <literal>ngx_alloc(size, log)</literal> - allocate memory from system heap.
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1274 This is a wrapper around <literal>malloc()</literal> with logging support.
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1275 Allocation error and debugging information is logged to <literal>log</literal>
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1276 </listitem>
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1277
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1278 <listitem>
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1279 <literal>ngx_calloc(size, log)</literal> - same as
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1280 <literal>ngx_alloc()</literal>, but memory is filled with zeroes after
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1281 allocation
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1282 </listitem>
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1283
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1284 <listitem>
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1285 <literal>ngx_memalign(alignment, size, log)</literal> - allocate aligned memory
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1286 from system heap. This is a wrapper around <literal>posix_memalign()</literal>
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1287 on those platforms which provide it.
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1288 Otherwise implementation falls back to <literal>ngx_alloc()</literal> which
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1289 provides maximum alignment
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1290 </listitem>
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1291
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1292 <listitem>
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1293 <literal>ngx_free(p)</literal> - free allocated memory.
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1294 This is a wrapper around <literal>free()</literal>
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1295 </listitem>
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1296
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1297 </list>
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1298 </para>
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1299
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1300 </section>
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1301
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1302
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1303 <section name="Pool" id="pool">
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1304
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1305 <para>
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1306 Most nginx allocations are done in pools. Memory allocated in an nginx pool is
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1307 freed automatically when the pool in destroyed. This provides good
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1308 allocation performance and makes memory control easy.
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1309 </para>
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1310
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1311 <para>
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1312 A pool internally allocates objects in continuous blocks of memory. Once a
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1313 block is full, a new one is allocated and added to the pool memory
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1314 block list. When a large allocation is requested which does not fit into
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1315 a block, such allocation is forwarded to the system allocator and the
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1316 returned pointer is stored in the pool for further deallocation.
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1317 </para>
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1318
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1319 <para>
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1320 Nginx pool has the type <literal>ngx_pool_t</literal>.
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1321 The following operations are supported:
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1322 </para>
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1323
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1324 <para>
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1325 <list type="bullet">
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1326
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1327 <listitem>
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1328 <literal>ngx_create_pool(size, log)</literal> - create a pool with given
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1329 block size. The pool object returned is allocated in the pool as well.
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1330 </listitem>
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1331
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1332 <listitem>
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1333 <literal>ngx_destroy_pool(pool)</literal> - free all pool memory, including
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1334 the pool object itself.
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1335 </listitem>
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1336
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1337 <listitem>
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1338 <literal>ngx_palloc(pool, size)</literal> - allocate aligned memory from pool
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1339 </listitem>
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1340
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1341 <listitem>
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1342 <literal>ngx_pcalloc(pool, size)</literal> - allocated aligned memory
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1343 from pool and fill it with zeroes
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1344 </listitem>
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1345
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1346 <listitem>
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1347 <literal>ngx_pnalloc(pool, size)</literal> - allocate unaligned memory from pool.
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1348 Mostly used for allocating strings
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1349 </listitem>
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1350
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1351 <listitem>
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1352 <literal>ngx_pfree(pool, p)</literal> - free memory, previously allocated
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1353 in the pool.
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1354 Only allocations, forwarded to the system allocator, can be freed.
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1355 </listitem>
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1356
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1357 </list>
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1358 </para>
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1359
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1360 <programlisting>
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1361 u_char *p;
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1362 ngx_str_t *s;
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1363 ngx_pool_t *pool;
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1364
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1365 pool = ngx_create_pool(1024, log);
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1366 if (pool == NULL) { /* error */ }
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1367
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1368 s = ngx_palloc(pool, sizeof(ngx_str_t));
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1369 if (s == NULL) { /* error */ }
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1370 ngx_str_set(s, “foo”);
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1371
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1372 p = ngx_pnalloc(pool, 3);
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1373 if (p == NULL) { /* error */ }
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1374 ngx_memcpy(p, “foo”, 3);
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1375 </programlisting>
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1376
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1377 <para>
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1378 Since chain links <literal>ngx_chain_t</literal> are actively used in nginx,
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1379 nginx pool provides a way to reuse them.
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1380 The <literal>chain</literal> field of <literal>ngx_pool_t</literal> keeps a
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1381 list of previously allocated links ready for reuse. For efficient allocation of
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1382 a chain link in a pool, the function
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1383 <literal>ngx_alloc_chain_link(pool)</literal> should be used.
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1384 This function looks up a free chain link in the pool list and only if it's
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1385 empty allocates a new one. To free a link <literal>ngx_free_chain(pool, cl)</literal>
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1386 should be called.
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1387 </para>
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1388
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1389 <para>
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1390 Cleanup handlers can be registered in a pool.
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1391 Cleanup handler is a callback with an argument which is called when pool is
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1392 destroyed.
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1393 Pool is usually tied with a specific nginx object (like HTTP request) and
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1394 destroyed in the end of that object’s lifetime, releasing the object itself.
1902
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1395 Registering a pool cleanup is a convenient way to release resources, close file
1899
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1396 descriptors or make final adjustments to shared data, associated with the main
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1397 object.
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1398 </para>
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1399
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1400 <para>
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1401 A pool cleanup is registered by calling <literal>ngx_pool_cleanup_add(pool,
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1402 size)</literal> which returns <literal>ngx_pool_cleanup_t</literal> pointer to
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1403 be filled by the caller. The <literal>size</literal> argument allows allocating
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1404 context for the cleanup handler.
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1405 </para>
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1406
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1407
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1408 <programlisting>
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1409 ngx_pool_cleanup_t *cln;
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1410
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1411 cln = ngx_pool_cleanup_add(pool, 0);
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1412 if (cln == NULL) { /* error */ }
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1413
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1414 cln->handler = ngx_my_cleanup;
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1415 cln->data = “foo”;
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1416
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1417 ...
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1418
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1419 static void
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1420 ngx_my_cleanup(void *data)
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1421 {
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1422 u_char *msg = data;
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1423
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1424 ngx_do_smth(msg);
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1425 }
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1426 </programlisting>
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1427
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1428 </section>
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1429
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1430
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1431 <section name="Shared memory" id="shared_memory">
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1432
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1433 <para>
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1434 Shared memory is used by nginx to share common data between processes.
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1435 Function <literal>ngx_shared_memory_add(cf, name, size, tag)</literal> adds a
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1436 new shared memory entry <literal>ngx_shm_zone_t</literal> to the cycle. The
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1437 function receives <literal>name</literal> and <literal>size</literal> of the
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1438 zone.
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1439 Each shared zone must have a unique name.
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1440 If a shared zone entry with the provided name exists, the old zone entry is
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1441 reused, if its tag value matches too.
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1442 Mismatched tag is considered an error.
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1443 Usually, the address of the module structure is passed as tag, making it
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1444 possible to reuse shared zones by name within one nginx module.
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1445 </para>
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1446
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1447 <para>
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1448 The shared memory entry structure <literal>ngx_shm_zone_t</literal> has the
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1449 following fields:
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1450 </para>
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1451
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1452 <para>
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1453 <list type="bullet">
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1454
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1455 <listitem>
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1456 <literal>init</literal> - initialization callback, called after shared zone is
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1457 mapped to actual memory
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1458 </listitem>
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1459
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1460 <listitem>
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1461 <literal>data</literal> - data context, used to pass arbitrary data to the
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1462 <literal>init</literal> callback
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1463 </listitem>
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1464
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diff changeset
1465 <listitem>
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1466 <literal>noreuse</literal> - flag, disabling shared zone reuse from the
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1467 old cycle
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1468 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
1469
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parents:
diff changeset
1470 <listitem>
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1471 <literal>tag</literal> - shared zone tag
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1472 </listitem>
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1473
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1474 <listitem>
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diff changeset
1475 <literal>shm</literal> - platform-specific object of type
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1476 <literal>ngx_shm_t</literal>, having at least the following fields:
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1477 <list type="bullet">
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diff changeset
1478
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diff changeset
1479 <listitem>
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1480 <literal>addr</literal> - mapped shared memory address, initially NULL
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1481 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
1482
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parents:
diff changeset
1483 <listitem>
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1484 <literal>size</literal> - shared memory size
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diff changeset
1485 </listitem>
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diff changeset
1486
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parents:
diff changeset
1487 <listitem>
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1488 <literal>name</literal> - shared memory name
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1489 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
1490
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parents:
diff changeset
1491 <listitem>
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diff changeset
1492 <literal>log</literal> - shared memory log
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1493 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
1494
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parents:
diff changeset
1495 <listitem>
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diff changeset
1496 <literal>exists</literal> - flag, showing that shared memory was inherited
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1497 from the master process (Windows-specific)
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1498 </listitem>
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diff changeset
1499
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1500 </list>
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diff changeset
1501 </listitem>
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1502
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1503 </list>
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diff changeset
1504 </para>
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1505
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1506 <para>
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1507 Shared zone entries are mapped to actual memory in
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1508 <literal>ngx_init_cycle()</literal> after configuration is parsed.
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1509 On POSIX systems, <literal>mmap()</literal> syscall is used to create shared
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1510 anonymous mapping.
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1511 On Windows, <literal>CreateFileMapping()/MapViewOfFileEx()</literal> pair is
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1512 used.
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1513 </para>
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diff changeset
1514
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1515 <para>
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1516 For allocating in shared memory, nginx provides slab pool
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diff changeset
1517 <literal>ngx_slab_pool_t</literal>.
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1518 In each nginx shared zone, a slab pool is automatically created for allocating
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1519 memory in that zone.
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1520 The pool is located in the beginning of the shared zone and can be accessed by
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1521 the expression <literal>(ngx_slab_pool_t *) shm_zone->shm.addr</literal>.
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1522 Allocation in shared zone is done by calling one of the functions
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1523 <literal>ngx_slab_alloc(pool, size)/ngx_slab_calloc(pool, size)</literal>.
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1524 Memory is freed by calling <literal>ngx_slab_free(pool, p)</literal>.
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1525 </para>
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diff changeset
1526
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diff changeset
1527 <para>
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1528 Slab pool divides all shared zone into pages.
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1529 Each page is used for allocating objects of the same size.
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1530 Only the sizes which are powers of 2, and not less than 8, are considered.
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diff changeset
1531 Other sizes are rounded up to one of these values.
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diff changeset
1532 For each page, a bitmask is kept, showing which blocks within that page are in
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diff changeset
1533 use and which are free for allocation.
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diff changeset
1534 For sizes greater than half-page (usually, 2048 bytes), allocation is done by
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diff changeset
1535 entire pages.
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diff changeset
1536 </para>
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diff changeset
1537
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diff changeset
1538 <para>
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diff changeset
1539 To protect data in shared memory from concurrent access, mutex is available in
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diff changeset
1540 the <literal>mutex</literal> field of <literal>ngx_slab_pool_t</literal>.
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1541 The mutex is used by the slab pool while allocating and freeing memory.
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diff changeset
1542 However, it can be used to protect any other user data structures,
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diff changeset
1543 allocated in the shared zone.
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diff changeset
1544 Locking is done by calling
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diff changeset
1545 <literal>ngx_shmtx_lock(&amp;shpool->mutex)</literal>, unlocking is done by
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parents:
diff changeset
1546 calling <literal>ngx_shmtx_unlock(&amp;shpool->mutex)</literal>.
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parents:
diff changeset
1547 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1548
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parents:
diff changeset
1549
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parents:
diff changeset
1550 <programlisting>
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diff changeset
1551 ngx_str_t name;
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diff changeset
1552 ngx_foo_ctx_t *ctx;
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diff changeset
1553 ngx_shm_zone_t *shm_zone;
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diff changeset
1554
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1555 ngx_str_set(&amp;name, "foo");
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diff changeset
1556
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diff changeset
1557 /* allocate shared zone context */
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diff changeset
1558 ctx = ngx_pcalloc(cf->pool, sizeof(ngx_foo_ctx_t));
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diff changeset
1559 if (ctx == NULL) {
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parents:
diff changeset
1560 /* error */
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1561 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1562
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1563 /* add an entry for 65k shared zone */
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diff changeset
1564 shm_zone = ngx_shared_memory_add(cf, &amp;name, 65536, &amp;ngx_foo_module);
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1565 if (shm_zone == NULL) {
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parents:
diff changeset
1566 /* error */
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parents:
diff changeset
1567 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1568
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parents:
diff changeset
1569 /* register init callback and context */
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diff changeset
1570 shm_zone->init = ngx_foo_init_zone;
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1571 shm_zone->data = ctx;
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1572
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1573
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diff changeset
1574 ...
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1575
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diff changeset
1576
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1577 static ngx_int_t
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1578 ngx_foo_init_zone(ngx_shm_zone_t *shm_zone, void *data)
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diff changeset
1579 {
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1580 ngx_foo_ctx_t *octx = data;
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1581
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1582 size_t len;
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1583 ngx_foo_ctx_t *ctx;
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1584 ngx_slab_pool_t *shpool;
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1585
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1586 value = shm_zone->data;
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1587
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1588 if (octx) {
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1589 /* reusing a shared zone from old cycle */
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diff changeset
1590 ctx->value = octx->value;
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1591 return NGX_OK;
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diff changeset
1592 }
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1593
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1594 shpool = (ngx_slab_pool_t *) shm_zone->shm.addr;
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1595
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1596 if (shm_zone->shm.exists) {
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1597 /* initialize shared zone context in Windows nginx worker */
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diff changeset
1598 ctx->value = shpool->data;
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1599 return NGX_OK;
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1600 }
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diff changeset
1601
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1602 /* initialize shared zone */
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1603
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1604 ctx->value = ngx_slab_alloc(shpool, sizeof(ngx_uint_t));
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diff changeset
1605 if (ctx->value == NULL) {
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1606 return NGX_ERROR;
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1607 }
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1608
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1609 shpool->data = ctx->value;
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1610
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1611 return NGX_OK;
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1612 }
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1613 </programlisting>
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1614
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1615 </section>
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1616
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1617
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1618 </section>
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1619
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1620
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1621 <section name="Logging" id="logging">
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1622
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parents:
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1623 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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1624 For logging nginx code uses <literal>ngx_log_t</literal> objects.
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1625 Nginx logger provides support for several types of output:
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1626
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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1627 <list type="bullet">
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1628
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1629 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1630 stderr - logging to standard error output
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1631 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1632
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1633 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1634 file - logging to file
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1635 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1636
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1637 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1638 syslog - logging to syslog
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1639 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1640
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1641 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1642 memory - logging to internal memory storage for development purposes.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1643 The memory could be accessed later with debugger
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1644 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1645
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1646 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1647 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1648
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1649 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1650 A logger instance may actually be a chain of loggers, linked to each other with
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1651 the <literal>next</literal> field.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1652 Each message is written to all loggers in chain.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1653 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1654
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1655 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1656 Each logger has an error level which limits the messages written to that log.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1657 The following error levels are supported by nginx:
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parents:
diff changeset
1658 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1659
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1660 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1661 <list type="bullet">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1662
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1663 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1664 <literal>NGX_LOG_EMERG</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1665 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1666
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1667 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1668 <literal>NGX_LOG_ALERT</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1669 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1670
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1671 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1672 <literal>NGX_LOG_CRIT</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1673 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1674
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1675 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1676 <literal>NGX_LOG_ERR</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1677 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1678
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1679 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1680 <literal>NGX_LOG_WARN</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1681 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1682
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1683 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1684 <literal>NGX_LOG_NOTICE</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1685 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1686
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1687 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1688 <literal>NGX_LOG_INFO</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1689 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1690
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1691 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1692 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1693 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1694
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1695 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1696 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1697
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1698 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1699 For debug logging, debug mask is checked as well. The following debug masks
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1700 exist:
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1701 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1702
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1703 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1704 <list type="bullet">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1705
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1706 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1707 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_CORE</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1708 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1709
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1710 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1711 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_ALLOC</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1712 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1713
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1714 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1715 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_MUTEX</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1716 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1717
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1718 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1719 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1720 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1721
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1722 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1723 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_HTTP</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1724 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1725
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1726 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1727 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_MAIL</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1728 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1729
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1730 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1731 <literal>NGX_LOG_DEBUG_STREAM</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1732 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1733
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1734 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1735 </para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1736
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1737 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1738 Normally, loggers are created by existing nginx code from
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1739 <literal>error_log</literal> directives and are available at nearly every stage
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1740 of processing in cycle, configuration, client connection and other objects.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1741 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1742
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1743 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1744 Nginx provides the following logging macros:
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1745 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1746
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1747 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1748 <list type="bullet">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1749
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1750 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1751 <literal>ngx_log_error(level, log, err, fmt, ...)</literal> - error logging
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1752 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1753
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1754 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1755 <literal>ngx_log_debug0(level, log, err, fmt)</literal>,
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1756 <literal>ngx_log_debug1(level, log, err, fmt, arg1)</literal> etc - debug
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1757 logging, up to 8 formatting arguments are supported
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1758 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1759
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1760 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1761 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1762
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1763 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1764 A log message is formatted in a buffer of size
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1765 <literal>NGX_MAX_ERROR_STR</literal> (currently, 2048 bytes) on stack.
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parents:
diff changeset
1766 The message is prepended with error level, process PID, connection id (stored
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1767 in <literal>log->connection</literal>) and system error text.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1768 For non-debug messages <literal>log->handler</literal> is called as well to
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1769 prepend more specific information to the log message.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1770 HTTP module sets <literal>ngx_http_log_error()</literal> function as log
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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1771 handler to log client and server addresses, current action (stored in
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1772 <literal>log->action</literal>), client request line, server name etc.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1773 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
1774
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
1775 <para>
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parents:
diff changeset
1776 Example:
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parents:
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1777 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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1778
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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1779
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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1780 <programlisting>
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parents:
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1781 /* specify what is currently done */
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parents:
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1782 log->action = "sending mp4 to client”;
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parents:
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1783
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parents:
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1784 /* error and debug log */
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parents:
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1785 ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_INFO, c->log, 0, "client prematurely
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1786 closed connection”);
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1787
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1788 ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_HTTP, mp4->file.log, 0,
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1789 "mp4 start:%ui, length:%ui”, mp4->start, mp4->length);
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1790 </programlisting>
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1791
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1792 <para>
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1793 Logging result:
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1794 </para>
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1795
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1796
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1797 <programlisting>
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1798 2016/09/16 22:08:52 [info] 17445#0: *1 client prematurely closed connection while
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1799 sending mp4 to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET /file.mp4 HTTP/1.1”
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1800 2016/09/16 23:28:33 [debug] 22140#0: *1 mp4 start:0, length:10000
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1801 </programlisting>
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1802
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1803 </section>
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1804
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1805
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1806 <section name="Cycle" id="cycle">
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1807
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1808 <para>
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1809 Cycle object keeps nginx runtime context, created from a specific
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1810 configuration.
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1811 The type of the cycle is <literal>ngx_cycle_t</literal>.
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1812 Upon configuration reload a new cycle is created from the new version of nginx
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1813 configuration.
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1814 The old cycle is usually deleted after a new one is successfully created.
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1815 Currently active cycle is held in the <literal>ngx_cycle</literal> global
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1816 variable and is inherited by newly started nginx workers.
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1817 </para>
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1818
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1819 <para>
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1820 A cycle is created by the function <literal>ngx_init_cycle()</literal>.
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1821 The function receives the old cycle as the argument.
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1822 It's used to locate the configuration file and inherit as much resources as
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1823 possible from the old cycle to keep nginx running smoothly.
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1824 When nginx starts, a fake cycle called "init cycle" is created and is then
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1825 replaced by a normal cycle, built from configuration.
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1826 </para>
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1827
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1828 <para>
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1829 Some members of the cycle:
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1830 </para>
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1831
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1832 <para>
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1833 <list type="bullet">
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1834
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1835 <listitem>
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1836 <literal>pool</literal> - cycle pool. Created for each new cycle
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1837 </listitem>
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1838
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1839 <listitem>
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1840 <literal>log</literal> - cycle log. Initially, this log is inherited from the
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1841 old cycle.
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1842 After reading configuration, this member is set to point to
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1843 <literal>new_log</literal>
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1844 </listitem>
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1845
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1846 <listitem>
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1847 <literal>new_log</literal> - cycle log, created by the configuration.
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1848 It's affected by the root scope <literal>error_log</literal> directive
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1849 </listitem>
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1850
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1851 <listitem>
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1852 <literal>connections</literal>, <literal>connections_n</literal> - per-worker
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1853 array of connections of type <literal>ngx_connection_t</literal>, created by
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1854 the event module while initializing each nginx worker.
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1855 The number of connections is set by the <literal>worker_connections</literal>
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1856 directive
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1857 </listitem>
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1858
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1859 <listitem>
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1860 <literal>free_connections</literal>,
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1861 <literal>free_connections_n</literal> - the and number of currently available
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1862 connections.
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1863 If no connections are available, nginx worker refuses to accept new clients
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1864 </listitem>
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1865
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1866 <listitem>
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1867 <literal>files</literal>, <literal>files_n</literal> - array for mapping file
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1868 descriptors to nginx connections.
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1869 This mapping is used by the event modules, having the
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1870 <literal>NGX_USE_FD_EVENT</literal> flag (currently, it's poll and devpoll)
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1871 </listitem>
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1872
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1873 <listitem>
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1874 <literal>conf_ctx</literal> - array of core module configurations.
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1875 The configurations are created and filled while reading nginx configuration
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1876 files
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1877 </listitem>
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1878
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1879 <listitem>
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1880 <literal>modules</literal>, <literal>modules_n</literal> - array of modules
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1881 <literal>ngx_module_t</literal>, both static and dynamic, loaded by current
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1882 configuration
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1883 </listitem>
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1884
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1885 <listitem>
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1886 <literal>listening</literal> - array of listening objects
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1887 <literal>ngx_listening_t</literal>.
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1888 Listening objects are normally added by the the <literal>listen</literal>
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1889 directive of different modules which call the
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1890 <literal>ngx_create_listening()</literal> function.
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1891 Based on listening objects, listen sockets are created by nginx
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1892 </listitem>
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1893
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1894 <listitem>
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1895 <literal>paths</literal> - array of paths <literal>ngx_path_t</literal>.
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1896 Paths are added by calling the function <literal>ngx_add_path()</literal> from
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1897 modules which are going to operate on certain directories.
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1898 These directories are created by nginx after reading configuration, if missing.
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1899 Moreover, two handlers can be added for each path:
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1900
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1901 <list type="bullet">
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1902
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1903 <listitem>
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1904 path loader - executed only once in 60 seconds after starting or reloading
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1905 nginx. Normally, reads the directory and stores data in nginx shared
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1906 memory. The handler is called from a dedicated nginx process "nginx
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1907 cache loader"
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1908 </listitem>
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1909
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1910 <listitem>
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1911 path manager - executed periodically. Normally, removes old files from the
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1912 directory and reflects these changes in nginx memory. The handler is
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1913 called from a dedicated nginx process "nginx cache manager"
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1914 </listitem>
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1915
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1916 </list>
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1917 </listitem>
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1918
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1919 <listitem>
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1920 <literal>open_files</literal> - list of <literal>ngx_open_file_t</literal>
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1921 objects.
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1922 An open file object is created by calling the function
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1923 <literal>ngx_conf_open_file()</literal>.
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1924 After reading configuration nginx opens all files from the
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1925 <literal>open_files</literal> list and stores file descriptors in the
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1926 <literal>fd</literal> field of each open file object.
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1927 The files are opened in append mode and created if missing.
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1928 The files from this list are reopened by nginx workers upon receiving the
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1929 reopen signal (usually it's <literal>USR1</literal>).
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1930 In this case the <literal>fd</literal> fields are changed to new descriptors.
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1931 The open files are currently used for logging
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1932 </listitem>
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1933
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1934 <listitem>
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1935 <literal>shared_memory</literal> - list of shared memory zones, each added by
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1936 calling the <literal>ngx_shared_memory_add()</literal> function.
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1937 Shared zones are mapped to the same address range in all nginx processes and
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1938 are used to share common data, for example HTTP cache in-memory tree
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1939 </listitem>
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1940
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1941 </list>
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1942 </para>
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1943
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1944 </section>
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1945
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1946 <section name="Buffer" id="buffer">
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1947
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1948 <para>
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1949 For input/output operations, nginx provides the buffer type
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1950 <literal>ngx_buf_t</literal>.
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1951 Normally, it's used to hold data to be written to a destination or read from a
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1952 source.
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1953 Buffer can reference data in memory and in file.
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1954 Technically it's possible that a buffer references both at the same time.
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1955 Memory for the buffer is allocated separately and is not related to the buffer
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1956 structure <literal>ngx_buf_t</literal>.
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1957 </para>
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1958
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1959 <para>
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1960 The structure <literal>ngx_buf_t</literal> has the following fields:
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1961 </para>
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1962
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1963 <para>
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1964 <list type="bullet">
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1965
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1966 <listitem>
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1967 <literal>start</literal>, <literal>end</literal> - the boundaries of memory
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1968 block, allocated for the buffer
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1969 </listitem>
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1970
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1971 <listitem>
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1972 <literal>pos</literal>, <literal>last</literal> - memory buffer boundaries,
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1973 normally a subrange of <literal>start</literal> .. <literal>end</literal>
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1974 </listitem>
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1975
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1976 <listitem>
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1977 <literal>file_pos</literal>, <literal>file_last</literal> - file buffer
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1978 boundaries, these are offsets from the beginning of the file
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1979 </listitem>
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1980
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1981 <listitem>
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1982 <literal>tag</literal> - unique value, used to distinguish buffers, created by
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1983 different nginx module, usually, for the purpose of buffer reuse
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1984 </listitem>
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1985
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1986 <listitem>
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1987 <literal>file</literal> - file object
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1988 </listitem>
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1989
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1990 <listitem>
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1991 <literal>temporary</literal> - flag, meaning that the buffer references
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1992 writable memory
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1993 </listitem>
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1994
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1995 <listitem>
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1996 <literal>memory</literal> - flag, meaning that the buffer references read-only
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1997 memory
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1998 </listitem>
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1999
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2000 <listitem>
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2001 <literal>in_file</literal> - flag, meaning that current buffer references data
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2002 in a file
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2003 </listitem>
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2004
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2005 <listitem>
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2006 <literal>flush</literal> - flag, meaning that all data prior to this buffer
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2007 should be flushed
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2008 </listitem>
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2009
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2010 <listitem>
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2011 <literal>recycled</literal> - flag, meaning that the buffer can be reused and
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2012 should be consumed as soon as possible
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2013 </listitem>
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2014
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2015 <listitem>
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2016 <literal>sync</literal> - flag, meaning that the buffer carries no data or
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2017 special signal like <literal>flush</literal> or <literal>last_buf</literal>.
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2018 Normally, such buffers are considered an error by nginx. This flags allows
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2019 skipping the error checks
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2020 </listitem>
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2021
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2022 <listitem>
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2023 <literal>last_buf</literal> - flag, meaning that current buffer is the last in
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2024 output
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2025 </listitem>
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2026
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2027 <listitem>
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2028 <literal>last_in_chain</literal> - flag, meaning that there's no more data
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2029 buffers in a (sub)request
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2030 </listitem>
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2031
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2032 <listitem>
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2033 <literal>shadow</literal> - reference to another buffer, related to the current
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2034 buffer. Usually current buffer uses data from the shadow buffer. Once current
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2035 buffer is consumed, the shadow buffer should normally also be marked as
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2036 consumed
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2037 </listitem>
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2038
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2039 <listitem>
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2040 <literal>last_shadow</literal> - flag, meaning that current buffer is the last
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2041 buffer, referencing a particular shadow buffer
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2042 </listitem>
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2043
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2044 <listitem>
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2045 <literal>temp_file</literal> - flag, meaning that the buffer is in a temporary
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2046 file
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2047 </listitem>
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2048
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2049 </list>
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2050 </para>
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2051
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2052 <para>
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2053 For input and output buffers are linked in chains.
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2054 Chain is a sequence of chain links <literal>ngx_chain_t</literal>, defined as
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2055 follows:
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2056 </para>
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2057
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2058
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2059 <programlisting>
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2060 typedef struct ngx_chain_s ngx_chain_t;
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2061
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2062 struct ngx_chain_s {
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2063 ngx_buf_t *buf;
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2064 ngx_chain_t *next;
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2065 };
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2066 </programlisting>
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2067
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2068 <para>
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2069 Each chain link keeps a reference to its buffer and a reference to the next
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2070 chain link.
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2071 </para>
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2072
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2073 <para>
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2074 Example of using buffers and chains:
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2075 </para>
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2076
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2077
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2078 <programlisting>
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2079 ngx_chain_t *
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2080 ngx_get_my_chain(ngx_pool_t *pool)
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2081 {
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2082 ngx_buf_t *b;
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2083 ngx_chain_t *out, *cl, **ll;
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2084
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2085 /* first buf */
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2086 cl = ngx_alloc_chain_link(pool);
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2087 if (cl == NULL) { /* error */ }
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2088
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2089 b = ngx_calloc_buf(pool);
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2090 if (b == NULL) { /* error */ }
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2091
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2092 b->start = (u_char *) "foo";
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2093 b->pos = b->start;
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2094 b->end = b->start + 3;
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2095 b->last = b->end;
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2096 b->memory = 1; /* read-only memory */
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2097
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2098 cl->buf = b;
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2099 out = cl;
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2100 ll = &amp;cl->next;
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2101
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2102 /* second buf */
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2103 cl = ngx_alloc_chain_link(pool);
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2104 if (cl == NULL) { /* error */ }
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2105
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2106 b = ngx_create_temp_buf(pool, 3);
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2107 if (b == NULL) { /* error */ }
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2108
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2109 b->last = ngx_cpymem(b->last, "foo", 3);
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2110
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2111 cl->buf = b;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2112 cl->next = NULL;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2113 *ll = cl;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2114
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2115 return out;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2116 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2117 </programlisting>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2118
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2119 </section>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2120
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2121
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2122 <section name="Networking" id="networking">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2123
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2124
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2125 <!--
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2126 <section name="Network data types" id="network_data_types">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2127
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2128 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2129 TBD: ngx_addr_t, ngx_url_t, ngx_socket_t, ngx_sockaddr_t, parse url, parse
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2130 address...
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2131 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2132
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2133 </section>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2134 -->
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2135
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2136 <section name="Connection" id="connection">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2137
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2138 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2139 Connection type <literal>ngx_connection_t</literal> is a wrapper around a
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2140 socket descriptor. Some of the structure fields are:
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2141 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2142
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2143 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2144 <list type="bullet">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2145
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2146 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2147 <literal>fd</literal> - socket descriptor
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2148 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2149
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2150 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2151 <literal>data</literal> - arbitrary connection context.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2152 Normally, a pointer to a higher level object, built on top of the connection,
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2153 like HTTP request or Stream session
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2154 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2155
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2156 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2157 <literal>read</literal>, <literal>write</literal> - read and write events for
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2158 the connection
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2159 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2160
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2161 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2162 <literal>recv</literal>, <literal>send</literal>,
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2163 <literal>recv_chain</literal>, <literal>send_chain</literal> - I/O operations
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2164 for the connection
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2165 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2166
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2167 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2168 <literal>pool</literal> - connection pool
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2169 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2170
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2171 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2172 <literal>log</literal> - connection log
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2173 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2174
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2175 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2176 <literal>sockaddr</literal>, <literal>socklen</literal>,
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2177 <literal>addr_text</literal> - remote socket address in binary and text forms
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2178 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2179
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2180 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2181 <literal>local_sockaddr</literal>, <literal>local_socklen</literal> - local
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2182 socket address in binary form.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2183 Initially, these fields are empty.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2184 Function <literal>ngx_connection_local_sockaddr()</literal> should be used to
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2185 get socket local address
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2186 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2187
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2188 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2189 <literal>proxy_protocol_addr</literal>, <literal>proxy_protocol_port</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2190 - PROXY protocol client address and port, if PROXY protocol is enabled for the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2191 connection
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2192 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2193
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2194 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2195 <literal>ssl</literal> - nginx connection SSL context
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2196 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2197
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2198 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2199 <literal>reusable</literal> - flag, meaning, that the connection is at the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2200 state, when it can be reused
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2201 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2202
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2203 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2204 <literal>close</literal> - flag, meaning, that the connection is being reused
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2205 and should be closed
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2206 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2207
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2208 </list>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2209 </para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2210
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2211 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2212 An nginx connection can transparently encapsulate SSL layer.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2213 In this case the connection <literal>ssl</literal> field holds a pointer to an
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2214 <literal>ngx_ssl_connection_t</literal> structure, keeping all SSL-related data
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2215 for the connection, including <literal>SSL_CTX</literal> and
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2216 <literal>SSL</literal>.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2217 The handlers <literal>recv</literal>, <literal>send</literal>,
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2218 <literal>recv_chain</literal>, <literal>send_chain</literal> are set as well to
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2219 SSL functions.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2220 </para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2221
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2222 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2223 The number of connections per nginx worker is limited by the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2224 <literal>worker_connections</literal> value.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2225 All connection structures are pre-created when a worker starts and stored in
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2226 the <literal>connections</literal> field of the cycle object.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2227 To reach out for a connection structure, <literal>ngx_get_connection(s,
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2228 log)</literal> function is used.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2229 The function receives a socket descriptor <literal>s</literal> which needs to
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2230 be wrapped in a connection structure.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2231 </para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2232
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2233 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2234 Since the number of connections per worker is limited, nginx provides a
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2235 way to grab connections which are currently in use.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2236 To enable or disable reuse of a connection, function
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2237 <literal>ngx_reusable_connection(c, reusable)</literal> is called.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2238 Calling <literal>ngx_reusable_connection(c, 1)</literal> sets the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2239 <literal>reuse</literal> flag of the connection structure and inserts the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2240 connection in the <literal>reusable_connections_queue</literal> of the cycle.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2241 Whenever <literal>ngx_get_connection()</literal> finds out there are no
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2242 available connections in the <literal>free_connections</literal> list of the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2243 cycle, it calls <literal>ngx_drain_connections()</literal> to release a
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2244 specific number of reusable connections.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2245 For each such connection, the <literal>close</literal> flag is set and its read
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2246 handler is called which is supposed to free the connection by calling
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2247 <literal>ngx_close_connection(c)</literal> and make it available for reuse.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2248 To exit the state when a connection can be reused
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2249 <literal>ngx_reusable_connection(c, 0)</literal> is called.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2250 An example of reusable connections in nginx is HTTP client connections which
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2251 are marked as reusable until some data is received from the client.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2252 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2253
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2254 </section>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2255
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2256
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2257 </section>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2258
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2259
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2260 <section name="Events" id="events">
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2261
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2262
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2263 <section name="Event" id="event">
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2264
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2265 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2266 Event object <literal>ngx_event_t</literal> in nginx provides a way to be
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2267 notified of a specific event happening.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2268 </para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2269
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2270 <para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2271 Some of the fields of the <literal>ngx_event_t</literal> are:
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2272 </para>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2273
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2274 <para>
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2275 <list type="bullet">
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2276
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2277 <listitem>
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2278 <literal>data</literal> - arbitrary event context, used in event handler,
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2279 usually, a pointer to a connection, tied with the event
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2280 </listitem>
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parents:
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2281
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parents:
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2282 <listitem>
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2283 <literal>handler</literal> - callback function to be invoked when the event
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2284 happens
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parents:
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2285 </listitem>
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parents:
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2286
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parents:
diff changeset
2287 <listitem>
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2288 <literal>write</literal> - flag, meaning that this is the write event.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2289 Used to distinguish between read and write events
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2290 </listitem>
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parents:
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2291
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parents:
diff changeset
2292 <listitem>
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diff changeset
2293 <literal>active</literal> - flag, meaning that the event is registered for
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2294 receiving I/O notifications, normally from notification mechanisms like epoll,
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2295 kqueue, poll
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2296 </listitem>
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parents:
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2297
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parents:
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2298 <listitem>
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2299 <literal>ready</literal> - flag, meaning that the event has received an
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2300 I/O notification
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2301 </listitem>
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parents:
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2302
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parents:
diff changeset
2303 <listitem>
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2304 <literal>delayed</literal> - flag, meaning that I/O is delayed due to rate
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2305 limiting
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2306 </listitem>
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parents:
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2307
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parents:
diff changeset
2308 <listitem>
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2309 <literal>timer</literal> - Red-Black tree node for inserting the event into
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2310 the timer tree
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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2311 </listitem>
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parents:
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2312
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parents:
diff changeset
2313 <listitem>
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2314 <literal>timer_set</literal> - flag, meaning that the event timer is set,
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2315 but not yet expired
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2316 </listitem>
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parents:
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2317
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2318 <listitem>
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2319 <literal>timedout</literal> - flag, meaning that the event timer has expired
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diff changeset
2320 </listitem>
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parents:
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2321
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2322 <listitem>
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2323 <literal>eof</literal> - read event flag, meaning that the eof has happened
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2324 while reading data
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2325 </listitem>
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2326
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parents:
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2327 <listitem>
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2328 <literal>pending_eof</literal> - flag, meaning that the eof is pending on the
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2329 socket, even though there may be some data available before it.
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2330 The flag is delivered via <literal>EPOLLRDHUP</literal> epoll event or
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diff changeset
2331 <literal>EV_EOF</literal> kqueue flag
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2332 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2333
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2334 <listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2335 <literal>error</literal> - flag, meaning that an error has happened while
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2336 reading (for read event) or writing (for write event)
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2337 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2338
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2339 <listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2340 <literal>cancelable</literal> - timer event flag, meaning that the event
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2341 handler should be called while performing nginx worker graceful shutdown, event
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2342 though event timeout has not yet expired. The flag provides a way to finalize
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diff changeset
2343 certain activities, for example, flush log files
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parents:
diff changeset
2344 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2345
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2346 <listitem>
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diff changeset
2347 <literal>posted</literal> - flag, meaning that the event is posted to queue
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diff changeset
2348 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2349
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parents:
diff changeset
2350 <listitem>
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diff changeset
2351 <literal>queue</literal> - queue node for posting the event to a queue
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diff changeset
2352 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2353
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parents:
diff changeset
2354 </list>
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parents:
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2355 </para>
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parents:
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2356
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parents:
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2357 </section>
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parents:
diff changeset
2358
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2359
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2360 <section name="I/O events" id="i_o_events">
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2361
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2362 <para>
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diff changeset
2363 Each connection, received with the
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parents:
diff changeset
2364 <literal>ngx_get_connection()</literal> call, has two events attached to it:
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2365 <literal>c->read</literal> and <literal>c->write</literal>.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2366 These events are used to receive notifications about the socket being ready for
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2367 reading or writing.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2368 All such events operate in Edge-Triggered mode, meaning that they only trigger
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2369 notifications when the state of the socket changes.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2370 For example, doing a partial read on a socket will not make nginx deliver a
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2371 repeated read notification until more data arrive in the socket.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2372 Even when the underlying I/O notification mechanism is essentially
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2373 Level-Triggered (poll, select etc), nginx will turn the notifications into
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2374 Edge-Triggered.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2375 To make nginx event notifications consistent across all notifications systems
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parents:
diff changeset
2376 on different platforms, it's required, that the functions
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parents:
diff changeset
2377 <literal>ngx_handle_read_event(rev, flags)</literal> and
1907
42ed974b83a5 Fixed the duplicated reference in development guide.
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parents: 1902
diff changeset
2378 <literal>ngx_handle_write_event(wev, lowat)</literal> are called after handling
1899
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parents:
diff changeset
2379 an I/O socket notification or calling any I/O functions on that socket.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2380 Normally, these functions are called once in the end of each read or write
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2381 event handler.
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parents:
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2382 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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2383
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parents:
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2384 </section>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2385
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2386
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2387 <section name="Timer events" id="timer_events">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2388
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parents:
diff changeset
2389 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2390 An event can be set to notify a timeout expiration.
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parents:
diff changeset
2391 The function <literal>ngx_add_timer(ev, timer)</literal> sets a timeout for an
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parents:
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2392 event, <literal>ngx_del_timer(ev)</literal> deletes a previously set timeout.
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parents:
diff changeset
2393 Timeouts currently set for all existing events, are kept in a global timeout
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parents:
diff changeset
2394 Red-Black tree <literal>ngx_event_timer_rbtree</literal>.
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parents:
diff changeset
2395 The key in that tree has the type <literal>ngx_msec_t</literal> and is the time
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parents:
diff changeset
2396 in milliseconds since the beginning of January 1, 1970 (modulus
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parents:
diff changeset
2397 <literal>ngx_msec_t</literal> max value) at which the event should expire.
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parents:
diff changeset
2398 The tree structure provides fast inserting and deleting operations, as well as
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2399 accessing the nearest timeouts.
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parents:
diff changeset
2400 The latter is used by nginx to find out for how long to wait for I/O events
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2401 and for expiring timeout events afterwards.
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parents:
diff changeset
2402 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2403
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parents:
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2404 </section>
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parents:
diff changeset
2405
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2406
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parents:
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2407 <section name="Posted events" id="posted_events">
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diff changeset
2408
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parents:
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2409 <para>
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2410 An event can be posted which means that its handler will be called at some
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parents:
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2411 point later within the current event loop iteration.
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parents:
diff changeset
2412 Posting events is a good practice for simplifying code and escaping stack
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diff changeset
2413 overflows.
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diff changeset
2414 Posted events are held in a post queue.
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parents:
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2415 The macro <literal>ngx_post_event(ev, q)</literal> posts the event
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parents:
diff changeset
2416 <literal>ev</literal> to the post queue <literal>q</literal>.
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2417 Macro <literal>ngx_delete_posted_event(ev)</literal> deletes the event
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parents:
diff changeset
2418 <literal>ev</literal> from whatever queue it's currently posted.
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parents:
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2419 Normally, events are posted to the <literal>ngx_posted_events</literal> queue.
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parents:
diff changeset
2420 This queue is processed late in the event loop - after all I/O and timer
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2421 events are already handled.
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parents:
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2422 The function <literal>ngx_event_process_posted()</literal> is called to process
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parents:
diff changeset
2423 an event queue.
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2424 This function calls event handlers until the queue is not empty. This means
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2425 that a posted event handler can post more events to be processed within the
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2426 current event loop iteration.
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2427 </para>
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parents:
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2428
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2429 <para>
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diff changeset
2430 Example:
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2431 </para>
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parents:
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2432
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2433
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parents:
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2434 <programlisting>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2435 void
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2436 ngx_my_connection_read(ngx_connection_t *c)
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2437 {
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
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2438 ngx_event_t *rev;
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parents:
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2439
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2440 rev = c->read;
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parents:
diff changeset
2441
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diff changeset
2442 ngx_add_timer(rev, 1000);
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parents:
diff changeset
2443
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2444 rev->handler = ngx_my_read_handler;
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parents:
diff changeset
2445
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2446 ngx_my_read(rev);
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2447 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2448
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2449
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2450 void
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2451 ngx_my_read_handler(ngx_event_t *rev)
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2452 {
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2453 ssize_t n;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2454 ngx_connection_t *c;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2455 u_char buf[256];
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2456
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2457 if (rev->timedout) { /* timeout expired */ }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2458
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2459 c = rev->data;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2460
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2461 while (rev->ready) {
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2462 n = c->recv(c, buf, sizeof(buf));
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2463
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2464 if (n == NGX_AGAIN) {
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2465 break;
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2466 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2467
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2468 if (n == NGX_ERROR) { /* error */ }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2469
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2470 /* process buf */
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2471 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2472
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2473 if (ngx_handle_read_event(rev, 0) != NGX_OK) { /* error */ }
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2474 }
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2475 </programlisting>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2476
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2477 </section>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2478
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2479
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2480 <section name="Event loop" id="event_loop">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2481
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2482 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2483 All nginx processes which do I/O, have an event loop.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2484 The only type of process which does not have I/O, is nginx master process which
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2485 spends most of its time in <literal>sigsuspend()</literal> call waiting for
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2486 signals to arrive.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2487 Event loop is implemented in <literal>ngx_process_events_and_timers()</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
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parents:
diff changeset
2488 function.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2489 This function is called repeatedly until the process exits.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2490 It has the following stages:
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parents:
diff changeset
2491 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2492
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2493 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2494 <list type="bullet">
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2495
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2496 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2497 find nearest timeout by calling <literal>ngx_event_find_timer()</literal>.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2498 This function finds the leftmost timer tree node and returns the number of
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2499 milliseconds until that node expires
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2500 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2501
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2502 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2503 process I/O events by calling a handler, specific to event notification
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2504 mechanism, chosen by nginx configuration.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2505 This handler waits for at least one I/O event to happen, but no longer, than
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2506 the nearest timeout.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2507 For each read or write event which has happened, the <literal>ready</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2508 flag is set and its handler is called.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2509 For Linux, normally, the <literal>ngx_epoll_process_events()</literal> handler
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2510 is used which calls <literal>epoll_wait()</literal> to wait for I/O events
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2511 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2512
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2513 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2514 expire timers by calling <literal>ngx_event_expire_timers()</literal>.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2515 The timer tree is iterated from the leftmost element to the right until a not
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2516 yet expired timeout is found.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2517 For each expired node the <literal>timedout</literal> event flag is set,
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2518 <literal>timer_set</literal> flag is reset, and the event handler is called
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2519 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2520
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2521 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2522 process posted events by calling <literal>ngx_event_process_posted()</literal>.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2523 The function repeatedly removes the first element from the posted events
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2524 queue and calls its handler until the queue gets empty
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2525 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2526
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2527 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2528 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2529
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2530 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2531 All nginx processes handle signals as well.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2532 Signal handlers only set global variables which are checked after the
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2533 <literal>ngx_process_events_and_timers()</literal> call.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2534 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2535
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2536 </section>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2537
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2538
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2539 </section>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2540
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2541
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2542 <section name="Processes" id="processes">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2543
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2544 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2545 There are several types of processes in nginx.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2546 The type of current process is kept in the <literal>ngx_process</literal>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2547 global variable:
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2548 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2549
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2550 <list type="bullet">
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2551
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2552 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2553
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2554 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2555 <literal>NGX_PROCESS_MASTER</literal> - the master process runs the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2556 <literal>ngx_master_process_cycle()</literal> function.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2557 Master process does not have any I/O and responds only to signals.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2558 It reads configuration, creates cycles, starts and controls child processes
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2559 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2560
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2561
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2562 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2563
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2564 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2565
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2566 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2567 <literal>NGX_PROCESS_WORKER</literal> - the worker process runs the
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2568 <literal>ngx_worker_process_cycle()</literal> function.
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2569 Worker processes are started by master and handle client connections.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2570 They also respond to signals and channel commands, sent from master
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2571 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2572
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2573
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2574 </listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2575
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2576 <listitem>
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2577
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2578 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2579 <literal>NGX_PROCESS_SINGLE</literal> - single process is the only type
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2580 of processes which exist in the <literal>master_process off</literal> mode.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2581 The cycle function for this process is
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2582 <literal>ngx_single_process_cycle()</literal>.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2583 This process creates cycles and handles client connections
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2584 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2585
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2586
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2587 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2588
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2589 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2590
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2591 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2592 <literal>NGX_PROCESS_HELPER</literal> - currently, there are two types of
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2593 helper processes: cache manager and cache loader.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2594 Both of them share the same cycle function
b86cfece30c3 Added development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2595 <literal>ngx_cache_manager_process_cycle()</literal>.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2596 </para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2597
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2598
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2599 </listitem>
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2600
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2601 </list>
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2602
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2603 <para>
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2604 All nginx processes handle the following signals:
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2605 </para>
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2606
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2607 <list type="bullet">
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2608
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2609 <listitem>
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2610
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2611 <para>
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2612 <literal>NGX_SHUTDOWN_SIGNAL</literal> (<literal>SIGQUIT</literal>) - graceful
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2613 shutdown.
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2614 Upon receiving this signal master process sends shutdown signal to all child
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2615 processes.
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2616 When no child processes are left, master destroys cycle pool and exits.
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2617 A worker process which received this signal, closes all listening sockets and
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2618 waits until timeout tree becomes empty, then destroys cycle pool and exits.
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2619 A cache manager process exits right after receiving this signal.
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2620 The variable <literal>ngx_quit</literal> is set to one after receiving this
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2621 signal and immediately reset after being processed.
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2622 The variable <literal>ngx_exiting</literal> is set to one when worker process
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2623 is in shutdown state
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2624 </para>
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2625
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2626
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2627 </listitem>
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parents:
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2628
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parents:
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2629 <listitem>
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2630
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2631 <para>
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2632 <literal>NGX_TERMINATE_SIGNAL</literal> (<literal>SIGTERM</literal>) -
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2633 terminate.
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2634 Upon receiving this signal master process sends terminate signal to all child
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2635 processes.
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2636 If child processes do not exit in 1 second, they are killed with the
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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2637 <literal>SIGKILL</literal> signal.
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2638 When no child processes are left, master process destroys cycle pool and exits.
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2639 A worker or cache manager process which received this signal destroys cycle
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2640 pool and exits.
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2641 The variable <literal>ngx_terminate</literal> is set to one after receiving
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2642 this signal
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2643 </para>
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2644
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2645
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2646 </listitem>
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2647
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2648 <listitem>
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parents:
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2649
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2650 <para>
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2651 <literal>NGX_NOACCEPT_SIGNAL</literal> (<literal>SIGWINCH</literal>)
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2652 - gracefully shut down worker processes
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2653 </para>
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parents:
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2654
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2655
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parents:
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2656 </listitem>
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parents:
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2657
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2658 <listitem>
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parents:
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2659
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parents:
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2660 <para>
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parents:
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2661 <literal>NGX_RECONFIGURE_SIGNAL</literal> (<literal>SIGHUP</literal>) -
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parents:
diff changeset
2662 reconfigure.
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2663 Upon receiving this signal master process creates a new cycle from
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2664 configuration file.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2665 If the new cycle was created successfully, the old cycle is deleted and new
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2666 child processes are started.
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parents:
diff changeset
2667 Meanwhile, the old processes receive the shutdown signal.
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parents:
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2668 In single-process mode, nginx creates a new cycle as well, but keeps the old
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parents:
diff changeset
2669 one until all clients, tied to the old cycle, are gone.
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parents:
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2670 Worker and helper processes ignore this signal
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parents:
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2671 </para>
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parents:
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2672
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parents:
diff changeset
2673
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2674 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2675
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2676 <listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2677
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parents:
diff changeset
2678 <para>
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parents:
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2679 <literal>NGX_REOPEN_SIGNAL</literal> (<literal>SIGUSR1</literal>) - reopen
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parents:
diff changeset
2680 files.
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parents:
diff changeset
2681 Master process passes this signal to workers.
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diff changeset
2682 Worker processes reopen all <literal>open_files</literal> from the cycle
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parents:
diff changeset
2683 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2684
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parents:
diff changeset
2685
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2686 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2687
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2688 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2689
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2690 <para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2691 <literal>NGX_CHANGEBIN_SIGNAL</literal> (<literal>SIGUSR2</literal>) - change
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2692 nginx binary.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2693 Master process starts a new nginx binary and passes there a list of all listen
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2694 sockets.
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parents:
diff changeset
2695 The list is passed in the environment variable <literal>"NGINX"</literal> in
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2696 text format, where descriptor numbers separated with semicolons.
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parents:
diff changeset
2697 A new nginx instance reads that variable and adds the sockets to its init
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2698 cycle.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2699 Other processes ignore this signal
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parents:
diff changeset
2700 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2701
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parents:
diff changeset
2702
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parents:
diff changeset
2703 </listitem>
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parents:
diff changeset
2704
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parents:
diff changeset
2705 </list>
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parents:
diff changeset
2706
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parents:
diff changeset
2707 <para>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2708 While all nginx worker processes are able to receive and properly handle POSIX
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2709 signals, master process normally does not pass any signals to workers and
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parents:
diff changeset
2710 helpers with the standard <literal>kill()</literal> syscall.
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parents:
diff changeset
2711 Instead, nginx uses inter-process channels which allow sending messages between
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2712 all nginx processes.
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parents:
diff changeset
2713 Currently, however, messages are only sent from master to its children.
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parents:
diff changeset
2714 Those messages carry the same signals.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2715 The channels are socketpairs with their ends in different processes.
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parents:
diff changeset
2716 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2717
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parents:
diff changeset
2718 <para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2719 When running nginx binary, several values can be specified next to
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parents:
diff changeset
2720 <literal>-s</literal> parameter.
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diff changeset
2721 Those values are <literal>stop</literal>, <literal>quit</literal>,
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2722 <literal>reopen</literal>, <literal>reload</literal>.
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parents:
diff changeset
2723 They are converted to signals <literal>NGX_TERMINATE_SIGNAL</literal>,
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents:
diff changeset
2724 <literal>NGX_SHUTDOWN_SIGNAL</literal>, <literal>NGX_REOPEN_SIGNAL</literal>
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parents:
diff changeset
2725 and <literal>NGX_RECONFIGURE_SIGNAL</literal> and sent to the nginx master
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parents:
diff changeset
2726 process, whose pid is read from nginx pid file.
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parents:
diff changeset
2727 </para>
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parents:
diff changeset
2728
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parents:
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2729 </section>
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parents:
diff changeset
2730
1928
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diff changeset
2731 <section name="Modules" id="Modules">
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2732
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diff changeset
2733 <section name="Adding new modules" id="adding_new_modules">
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diff changeset
2734 <para>
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diff changeset
2735 The standalone nginx module resides in a separate directory that contains
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
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diff changeset
2736 at least two files:
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diff changeset
2737 <literal>config</literal> and a file with the module source.
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2738 The first file contains all information needed for nginx to integrate
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
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diff changeset
2739 the module, for example:
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diff changeset
2740 <programlisting>
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diff changeset
2741 ngx_module_type=CORE
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diff changeset
2742 ngx_module_name=ngx_foo_module
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2743 ngx_module_srcs="$ngx_addon_dir/ngx_foo_module.c"
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2744
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2745 . auto/module
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2746
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2747 ngx_addon_name=$ngx_module_name
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2748 </programlisting>
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2749 The file is a POSIX shell script and it can set (or access) the
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2750 following variables:
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2751 <list type="bullet">
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2752
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2753 <listitem>
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2754 <literal>ngx_module_type</literal> - the type of module to build.
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2755 Possible options are <literal>CORE</literal>, <literal>HTTP</literal>,
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2756 <literal>HTTP_FILTER</literal>, <literal>HTTP_INIT_FILTER</literal>,
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2757 <literal>HTTP_AUX_FILTER</literal>, <literal>MAIL</literal>,
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2758 <literal>STREAM</literal>, or <literal>MISC</literal>
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2759 </listitem>
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2760
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2761 <listitem>
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2762 <literal>ngx_module_name</literal> - the name of the module.
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2763 A whitespace separated values list is accepted and may be used to build
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2764 multiple modules from a single set of source files.
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2765 The first name indicates the name of the output binary for a dynamic module.
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2766 The names in this list should match the names used in the module.
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2767 </listitem>
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2768
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2769 <listitem>
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2770 <literal>ngx_addon_name</literal> - supplies the name of the module in the
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2771 console output text of the configure script.
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2772 </listitem>
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2773
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2774 <listitem>
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2775 <literal>ngx_module_srcs</literal> - a whitespace separated list of source
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2776 files used to compile the module.
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2777 The $ngx_addon_dir variable can be used as a placeholder for the path of the
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2778 module source.
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2779 </listitem>
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2780
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2781 <listitem>
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2782 <literal>ngx_module_incs</literal> - include paths required to build the module
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2783 </listitem>
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2784
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2785 <listitem>
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2786 <literal>ngx_module_deps</literal> - a list of module's header files.
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2787 </listitem>
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2788
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2789 <listitem>
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2790 <literal>ngx_module_libs</literal> - a list of libraries to link with the
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2791 module.
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2792 For example, libpthread would be linked using
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2793 <literal>ngx_module_libs=-lpthread</literal>.
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2794 The following macros can be used to link against the same libraries as
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2795 nginx:
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2796 <literal>LIBXSLT</literal>, <literal>LIBGD</literal>, <literal>GEOIP</literal>,
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2797 <literal>PCRE</literal>, <literal>OPENSSL</literal>, <literal>MD5</literal>,
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2798 <literal>SHA1</literal>, <literal>ZLIB</literal>, and <literal>PERL</literal>
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2799 </listitem>
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2800
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2801 <listitem>
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2802 <literal>ngx_module_link</literal> - set by the build system to
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2803 <literal>DYNAMIC</literal> for a dynamic module or <literal>ADDON</literal>
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2804 for a static module and used to perform different actions depending on
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2805 linking type.
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2806 </listitem>
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2807
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2808 <listitem>
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2809 <literal>ngx_module_order</literal> - sets the load order for the module which
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2810 is useful for <literal>HTTP_FILTER</literal> and
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2811 <literal>HTTP_AUX_FILTER</literal> module types.
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2812 The order is stored in a reverse list.
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2813
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2814 <para>
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2815 The <literal>ngx_http_copy_filter_module</literal> is near the bottom of the
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2816 list so is one of the first to be executed.
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2817 This reads the data for other filters.
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2818 Near the top of the list is <literal>ngx_http_write_filter_module</literal>
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2819 which writes the data out and is one of the last to be executed.
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2820 </para>
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2821
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2822 <para>
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2823 The format for this option is typically the current module’s name followed by
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2824 a whitespace separated list of modules to insert before, and therefore execute
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2825 after.
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2826 The module will be inserted before the last module in the list that is found
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2827 to be currently loaded.
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2828 </para>
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2829
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2830 <para>
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2831 By default for filter modules this is set to
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2832 “<literal>ngx_http_copy_filter</literal>” which will insert the module before
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2833 the copy filter in the list and therefore will execute after the copy filter.
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2834 For other module types the default is empty.
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2835 </para>
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2836
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2837 </listitem>
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2838
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2839 </list>
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2840
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2841 A module can be added to nginx by means of the configure script using
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2842 <literal>--add-module=/path/to/module</literal> for static compilation and
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2843 <literal>--add-dynamic-module=/path/to/module</literal> for dynamic compilation.
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2844 </para>
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2845
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2846 </section>
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2847
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2848
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2849 <section name="Core modules" id="core_modules">
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2850
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2851 <para>
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2852 Modules are building blocks of nginx, and most of its functionality is
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2853 implemented as modules.
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2854 The module source file must contain a global variable of
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2855 <literal>ngx_module_t</literal> type which is defined as follows:
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2856 <programlisting>
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2857 struct ngx_module_s {
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2858
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2859 /* private part is omitted */
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2860
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2861 void *ctx;
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2862 ngx_command_t *commands;
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2863 ngx_uint_t type;
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2864
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2865 ngx_int_t (*init_master)(ngx_log_t *log);
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2866
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2867 ngx_int_t (*init_module)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2868
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2869 ngx_int_t (*init_process)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2870 ngx_int_t (*init_thread)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2871 void (*exit_thread)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2872 void (*exit_process)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2873
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2874 void (*exit_master)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2875
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2876 /* stubs for future extensions are omitted */
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2877 };
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2878 </programlisting>
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2879 The omitted private part includes module version, signature and is filled
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2880 using the predefined macro <literal>NGX_MODULE_V1</literal>.
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2881 </para>
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2882
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2883 <para>
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2884 Each module keeps its private data in the <literal>ctx</literal> field,
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2885 recognizes specific configuration directives, specified in the
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2886 <literal>commands</literal> array, and may be invoked at certain stages of
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2887 nginx lifecycle.
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2888 The module lifecycle consists of the following events:
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2889
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2890 <list type="bullet">
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2891
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2892 <listitem>
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2893 Configuration directive handlers are called as they appear
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2894 in configuration files in the context of the master process
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2895 </listitem>
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2896
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2897 <listitem>
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2898 The <literal>init_module</literal> handler is called in the context of
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2899 the master process after the configuration is parsed successfully
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2900 </listitem>
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2901
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2902 <listitem>
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2903 The master process creates worker process(es) and
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2904 <literal>init_process</literal> handler is called in each of them
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2905 </listitem>
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2906
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2907 <listitem>
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2908 When a worker process receives the shutdown command from master, it invokes
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2909 the <literal>exit_process</literal> handler
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2910 </listitem>
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2911
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2912 <listitem>
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2913 The master process calls the <literal>exit_master</literal> handler before
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2914 exiting.
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2915 </listitem>
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2916
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2917 </list>
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2918
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2919 <note>
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2920 <literal>init_module</literal> handler may be called multiple times
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2921 in the master process if the configuration reload is requested.
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2922 </note>
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2923
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2924 The <literal>init_master</literal>, <literal>init_thread</literal> and
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2925 <literal>exit_thread</literal> handlers are not implemented at the moment;
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2926 Threads in nginx are only used as supplementary I/O facility with its own
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2927 API and <literal>init_master</literal> handler looks unnecessary.
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2928 </para>
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2929
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2930 <para>
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2931 The module <literal>type</literal> defines what exactly is stored in the
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2932 <literal>ctx</literal> field.
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2933 There are several types of modules:
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2934 <list type="bullet">
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2935 <listitem><literal>NGX_CORE_MODULE</literal></listitem>
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2936 <listitem><literal>NGX_EVENT_MODULE</literal></listitem>
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2937 <listitem><literal>NGX_HTTP_MODULE</literal></listitem>
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2938 <listitem><literal>NGX_MAIL_MODULE</literal></listitem>
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2939 <listitem><literal>NGX_STREAM_MODULE</literal></listitem>
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2940 </list>
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2941 The <literal>NGX_CORE_MODULE</literal> is the most basic and thus the most
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2942 generic and most low-level type of module. Other module types are implemented
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2943 on top of it and provide more convenient way to deal with corresponding
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2944 problem domains, like handling events or http requests.
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2945 </para>
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2946
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2947 <para>
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2948 The examples of core modules are <literal>ngx_core_module</literal>,
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2949 <literal>ngx_errlog_module</literal>, <literal>ngx_regex_module</literal>,
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2950 <literal>ngx_thread_pool_module</literal>,
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2951 <literal>ngx_openssl_module</literal>
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2952 modules and, of course, http, stream, mail and event modules itself.
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2953 The context of a core module is defined as:
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2954 <programlisting>
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2955 typedef struct {
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2956 ngx_str_t name;
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2957 void *(*create_conf)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2958 char *(*init_conf)(ngx_cycle_t *cycle, void *conf);
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2959 } ngx_core_module_t;
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2960 </programlisting>
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2961 where the <literal>name</literal> is a string with a module name for
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2962 convenience, <literal>create_conf</literal> and <literal>init_conf</literal>
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2963 are pointers to functions that create and initialize module configuration
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2964 correspondingly.
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2965 For core modules, nginx will call <literal>create_conf</literal> before parsing
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2966 a new configuration and <literal>init_conf</literal> after all configuration
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2967 was parsed successfully.
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2968 The typical <literal>create_conf</literal> function allocates memory for the
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2969 configuration and sets default values.
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2970 The <literal>init_conf</literal> deals with known configuration and thus may
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2971 perform sanity checks and complete initialization.
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2972 </para>
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2973
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2974 <para>
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2975 For example, the simplistic <literal>ngx_foo_module</literal> can look like
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2976 this:
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2977 <programlisting>
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2978 /*
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2979 * Copyright (C) Author.
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2980 */
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2981
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2982
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2983 #include &lt;ngx_config.h&gt;
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2984 #include &lt;ngx_core.h&gt;
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2985
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2986
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2987 typedef struct {
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2988 ngx_flag_t enable;
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2989 } ngx_foo_conf_t;
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2990
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2991
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2992 static void *ngx_foo_create_conf(ngx_cycle_t *cycle);
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2993 static char *ngx_foo_init_conf(ngx_cycle_t *cycle, void *conf);
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2994
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2995 static char *ngx_foo_enable(ngx_conf_t *cf, void *post, void *data);
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2996 static ngx_conf_post_t ngx_foo_enable_post = { ngx_foo_enable };
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2997
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2998
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2999 static ngx_command_t ngx_foo_commands[] = {
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3000
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3001 { ngx_string("foo_enabled"),
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3002 NGX_MAIN_CONF|NGX_DIRECT_CONF|NGX_CONF_FLAG,
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3003 ngx_conf_set_flag_slot,
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3004 0,
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3005 offsetof(ngx_foo_conf_t, enable),
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3006 &amp;ngx_foo_enable_post },
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3007
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3008 ngx_null_command
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3009 };
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3010
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3011
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3012 static ngx_core_module_t ngx_foo_module_ctx = {
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3013 ngx_string("foo"),
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3014 ngx_foo_create_conf,
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3015 ngx_foo_init_conf
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3016 };
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3017
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3018
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3019 ngx_module_t ngx_foo_module = {
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3020 NGX_MODULE_V1,
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3021 &amp;ngx_foo_module_ctx, /* module context */
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3022 ngx_foo_commands, /* module directives */
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3023 NGX_CORE_MODULE, /* module type */
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3024 NULL, /* init master */
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3025 NULL, /* init module */
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3026 NULL, /* init process */
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3027 NULL, /* init thread */
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3028 NULL, /* exit thread */
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3029 NULL, /* exit process */
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3030 NULL, /* exit master */
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3031 NGX_MODULE_V1_PADDING
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3032 };
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3033
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3034
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3035 static void *
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3036 ngx_foo_create_conf(ngx_cycle_t *cycle)
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3037 {
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3038 ngx_foo_conf_t *fcf;
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3039
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3040 fcf = ngx_pcalloc(cycle->pool, sizeof(ngx_foo_conf_t));
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3041 if (fcf == NULL) {
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3042 return NULL;
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3043 }
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3044
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3045 fcf->enable = NGX_CONF_UNSET;
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3046
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3047 return fcf;
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3048 }
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3049
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3050
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3051 static char *
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3052 ngx_foo_init_conf(ngx_cycle_t *cycle, void *conf)
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3053 {
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3054 ngx_foo_conf_t *fcf = conf;
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3055
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3056 ngx_conf_init_value(fcf->enable, 0);
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3057
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3058 return NGX_CONF_OK;
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3059 }
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3060
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3061
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diff changeset
3062 static char *
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3063 ngx_foo_enable(ngx_conf_t *cf, void *post, void *data)
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3064 {
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3065 ngx_flag_t *fp = data;
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3066
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diff changeset
3067 if (*fp == 0) {
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diff changeset
3068 return NGX_CONF_OK;
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3069 }
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3070
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3071 ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_NOTICE, cf->log, 0, "Foo Module is enabled");
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3072
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3073 return NGX_CONF_OK;
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diff changeset
3074 }
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3075 </programlisting>
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diff changeset
3076 </para>
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diff changeset
3077
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3078 </section>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3079
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diff changeset
3080
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3081 <section name="Configuration directives" id="config_directives">
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diff changeset
3082
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diff changeset
3083 <para>
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3084 The <literal>ngx_command_t</literal> describes single configuration directive.
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diff changeset
3085 Each module, supporting configuration, provides an array of such specifications
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3086 that describe how to process arguments and what handlers to call:
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3087 <programlisting>
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diff changeset
3088 struct ngx_command_s {
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diff changeset
3089 ngx_str_t name;
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diff changeset
3090 ngx_uint_t type;
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diff changeset
3091 char *(*set)(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx_command_t *cmd, void *conf);
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diff changeset
3092 ngx_uint_t conf;
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diff changeset
3093 ngx_uint_t offset;
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diff changeset
3094 void *post;
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diff changeset
3095 };
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3096 </programlisting>
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diff changeset
3097 The array should be terminated by a special value
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3098 “<literal>ngx_null_command</literal>”.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3099 The <literal>name</literal> is the literal name of a directive, as it appears
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3100 in configuration file, for example “<literal>worker_processes</literal>” or
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3101 “<literal>listen</literal>”.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3102 The <literal>type</literal> is a bitfield that controls number of arguments,
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3103 command type and other properties using corresponding flags.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3104 Arguments flags:
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3105
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3106 <list type="bullet">
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3107
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3108 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3109 <literal>NGX_CONF_NOARGS</literal> - directive without arguments
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3110 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3111
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3112 <listitem><literal>NGX_CONF_1MORE</literal> - one required argument</listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3113
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3114 <listitem><literal>NGX_CONF_2MORE</literal> - two required arguments</listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3115
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3116 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3117 <literal>NGX_CONF_TAKE1..7</literal> - exactly 1..7 arguments
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3118 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3119
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3120 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3121 <literal>NGX_CONF_TAKE12, 13, 23, 123, 1234</literal> - one or two arguments,
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3122 or other combinations
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3123 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3124
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3125 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3126
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3127 Directive types:
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3128
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3129 <list type="bullet">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3130
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3131 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3132 <literal>NGX_CONF_BLOCK</literal> - the directive is a block, i.e. it may
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3133 contain other directives in curly braces, or even implement its own parser
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3134 to handle contents inside.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3135 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3136
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3137 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3138 <literal>NGX_CONF_FLAG</literal> - the directive value is a flag, a boolean
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3139 value represented by “<literal>on</literal>” or “<literal>off</literal>”
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3140 strings.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3141 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3142 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3143
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3144 Context of a directive defines where in the configuration it may appear
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3145 and how to access module context to store corresponding values:
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3146 <list type="bullet">
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3147
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3148 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3149 <literal>NGX_MAIN_CONF</literal> - top level configuration
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3150 </listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3151
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3152 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3153 <literal>NGX_HTTP_MAIN_CONF</literal> - in the http block
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3154 </listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3155
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3156 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3157 <literal>NGX_HTTP_SRV_CONF</literal> - in the http server block
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3158 </listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3159
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3160 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3161 <literal>NGX_HTTP_LOC_CONF</literal> - in the http location
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3162 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3163
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3164 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3165 <literal>NGX_HTTP_UPS_CONF</literal> - in the http upstream block
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3166 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3167
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3168 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3169 <literal>NGX_HTTP_SIF_CONF</literal> - in the http server “if”
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3170 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3171
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3172 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3173 <literal>NGX_HTTP_LIF_CONF</literal> - in the http location “if”
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3174 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3175
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3176 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3177 <literal>NGX_HTTP_LMT_CONF</literal> - in the http “limit_except”
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3178 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3179
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3180 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3181 <literal>NGX_STREAM_MAIN_CONF</literal> - in the stream block
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diff changeset
3182 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3183
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3184 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3185 <literal>NGX_STREAM_SRV_CONF</literal> - in the stream server block
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diff changeset
3186 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3187
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3188 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3189 <literal>NGX_STREAM_UPS_CONF</literal> - in the stream upstream block
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3190 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3191
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3192 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3193 <literal>NGX_MAIL_MAIN_CONF</literal> - in the the mail block
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3194 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3195
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3196 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3197 <literal>NGX_MAIL_SRV_CONF</literal> - in the mail server block
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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3198 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3199
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3200 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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3201 <literal>NGX_EVENT_CONF</literal> - in the event block
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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3202 </listitem>
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3203
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diff changeset
3204 <listitem>
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3205 <literal>NGX_DIRECT_CONF</literal> - used by modules that don't
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diff changeset
3206 create a hierarchy of contexts and store module configuration directly in ctx
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3207 </listitem>
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parents: 1920
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3208 </list>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3209 The configuration parser uses this flags to throw an error in case of
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parents: 1920
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3210 a misplaced directive and calls directive handlers supplied with a proper
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3211 configuration pointer, so that same directives in different locations could
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3212 store their values in distinct places.
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3213 </para>
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3214
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diff changeset
3215 <para>
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diff changeset
3216 The <literal>set</literal> field defines a handler that processes a directive
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3217 and stores parsed values into corresponding configuration.
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3218 Nginx offers a convenient set of functions that perform common conversions:
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diff changeset
3219
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3220 <list type="bullet">
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3221
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3222 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3223 <literal>ngx_conf_set_flag_slot</literal> - converts literal
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3224 “<literal>on</literal>” or “<literal>off</literal>” strings into
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3225 <literal>ngx_flag_t</literal> type with values 1 or 0
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3226 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3227
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3228 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3229 <literal>ngx_conf_set_str_slot</literal> - stores string as a value of the
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3230 <literal>ngx_str_t</literal> type
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3231 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3232
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3233 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3234 <literal>ngx_conf_set_str_array_slot</literal> - appends
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3235 <literal>ngx_array_t</literal> of <literal>ngx_str_t</literal> with a new value.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3236 The array is created if not yet exists
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3237 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3238
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3239 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3240 <literal>ngx_conf_set_keyval_slot</literal> - appends
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3241 <literal>ngx_array_t</literal> of <literal>ngx_keyval_t</literal> with
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3242 a new value, where key is the first string and value is second.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3243 The array is created if not yet exists
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3244 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3245
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3246 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3247 <literal>ngx_conf_set_num_slot</literal> - converts directive argument
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3248 to a <literal>ngx_int_t</literal> value
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3249 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3250
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3251 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3252 <literal>ngx_conf_set_size_slot</literal> - converts
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3253 <link doc="../syntax.xml">size</link> to <literal>size_t</literal> value
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3254 in bytes
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3255 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3256
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3257 <listitem>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3258 <literal>ngx_conf_set_off_slot</literal> - converts
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3259 <link doc="../syntax.xml">offset</link> to <literal>off_t</literal> value
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3260 in bytes
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3261 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3262
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3263 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3264 <literal>ngx_conf_set_msec_slot</literal> - converts
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3265 <link doc="../syntax.xml">time</link> to <literal>ngx_msec_t</literal> value
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3266 in milliseconds
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3267 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3268
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3269 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3270 <literal>ngx_conf_set_sec_slot</literal> - converts
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3271 <link doc="../syntax.xml">time</link> to <literal>time_t</literal> value
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3272 in seconds
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3273 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3274
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3275 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3276 <literal>ngx_conf_set_bufs_slot</literal> - converts two arguments
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3277 into <literal>ngx_bufs_t</literal> that holds <literal>ngx_int_t</literal>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3278 number and <link doc="../syntax.xml">size</link> of buffers
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3279 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3280
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3281 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3282 <literal>ngx_conf_set_enum_slot</literal> - converts argument
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3283 into <literal>ngx_uint_t</literal> value.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3284 The null-terminated array of <literal>ngx_conf_enum_t</literal> passed in the
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3285 <literal>post</literal> field defines acceptable strings and corresponding
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3286 integer values
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3287 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3288
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3289 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3290 <literal>ngx_conf_set_bitmask_slot</literal> - arguments are converted to
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3291 <literal>ngx_uint_t</literal> value and OR'ed with the resulting value,
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3292 forming a bitmask.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3293 The null-terminated array of <literal>ngx_conf_bitmask_t</literal> passed in
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3294 the <literal>post</literal> field defines acceptable strings and corresponding
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3295 mask values
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3296 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3297
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3298 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3299 <literal>set_path_slot</literal> - converts arguments to
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3300 <literal>ngx_path_t</literal> type and performs all required initializations.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3301 See the
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3302 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_proxy_module.xml" id="proxy_temp_path">proxy_temp_path</link>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3303 directive description for details
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3304 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3305
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3306 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3307 <literal>set_access_slot</literal> - converts arguments to file permissions
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3308 mask.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3309 See the
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3310 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_proxy_module.xml" id="proxy_store_access">proxy_store_access</link>
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3311 directive description for details
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3312 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3313
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
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3314 </list>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3315
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3316 </para>
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diff changeset
3317
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diff changeset
3318 <para>
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diff changeset
3319 The <literal>conf</literal> field defines which context is used to store
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3320 the value of the directive, or zero if contexts are not used.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3321 Only simple core modules use configuration without context and set
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3322 <literal>NGX_DIRECT_CONF</literal> flag.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3323 In real life, such modules like http or stream require more sophisticated
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3324 configuration that can be applied per-server or per-location, or even more
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diff changeset
3325 precisely, in the context of the “<literal>if</literal>” directive or
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3326 some limit.
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diff changeset
3327 In this modules, configuration structure is more complex.
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parents: 1920
diff changeset
3328 Please refer to corresponding modules description to understand how
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3329 they manage their configuration.
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3330
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3331 <list type="bullet">
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3332 <listitem>
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diff changeset
3333 <literal>NGX_HTTP_MAIN_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - http block configuration
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diff changeset
3334 </listitem>
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3335
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3336 <listitem>
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diff changeset
3337 <literal>NGX_HTTP_SRV_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - http server configuration
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3338 </listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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diff changeset
3339
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3340 <listitem>
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diff changeset
3341 <literal>NGX_HTTP_LOC_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - http location configuration
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3342 </listitem>
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diff changeset
3343
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3344 <listitem>
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diff changeset
3345 <literal>NGX_STREAM_MAIN_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - stream block configuration
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diff changeset
3346 </listitem>
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3347
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
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3348 <listitem>
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Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3349 <literal>NGX_STREAM_SRV_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - stream server configuration
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3350 </listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3351
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3352 <listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3353 <literal>NGX_MAIL_MAIN_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - mail block configuration
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3354 </listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3355
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3356 <listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3357 <literal>NGX_MAIL_SRV_CONF_OFFSET</literal> - mail server configuration
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3358 </listitem>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3359
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3360 </list>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3361
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3362 </para>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3363
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3364 <para>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3365 The <literal>offset</literal> defines an offset of a field in a module
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3366 configuration structure that holds values of this particular directive.
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3367 The typical use is to employ <literal>offsetof()</literal> macro.
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3368 </para>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3369
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3370 <para>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3371 The <literal>post</literal> is a twofold field: it may be used to define
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3372 a handler to be called after main handler completed or to pass additional
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3373 data to the main handler.
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3374 In the first case, <literal>ngx_conf_post_t</literal> structure needs to
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3375 be initialized with a pointer to handler, for example:
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3376 <programlisting>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3377 static char *ngx_do_foo(ngx_conf_t *cf, void *post, void *data);
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3378 static ngx_conf_post_t ngx_foo_post = { ngx_do_foo };
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3379 </programlisting>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3380 The <literal>post</literal> argument is the <literal>ngx_conf_post_t</literal>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3381 object itself, and the <literal>data</literal> is a pointer to value,
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3382 converted from arguments by the main handler with the appropriate type.
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3383 </para>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3384
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3385 </section>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3386
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3387 </section>
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3388
2c14a16c61eb Added modules section to development guide.
Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
parents: 1920
diff changeset
3389
1929
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3390 <section name="HTTP" id="http">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3391
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3392
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3393 <section name="Connection" id="http_connection">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3394
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3395 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3396 Each client HTTP connection runs through the following stages:
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3397 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3398
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3399 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3400
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3401 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3402 <literal>ngx_event_accept()</literal> accepts a client TCP connection.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3403 This handler is called in response to a read notification on a listen socket.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3404 A new <literal>ngx_connecton_t</literal> object is created at this stage.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3405 The object wraps the newly accepted client socket.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3406 Each nginx listener provides a handler to pass the new connection object to.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3407 For HTTP connections it's <literal>ngx_http_init_connection(c)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3408 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3409
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3410 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3411 <literal>ngx_http_init_connection()</literal> performs early initialization of
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3412 an HTTP connection.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3413 At this stage an <literal>ngx_http_connection_t</literal> object is created for
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3414 the connection and its reference is stored in connection's
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3415 <literal>data</literal> field.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3416 Later it will be substituted with an HTTP request object.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3417 PROXY protocol parser and SSL handshake are started at this stage as well
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3418 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3419
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3420 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3421 <literal>ngx_http_wait_request_handler()</literal> is a read event handler, that
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3422 is called when data is available in the client socket.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3423 At this stage an HTTP request object <literal>ngx_http_request_t</literal> is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3424 created and set to connection's <literal>data</literal> field
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3425 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3426
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3427 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3428 <literal>ngx_http_process_request_line()</literal> is a read event handler,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3429 which reads client request line.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3430 The handler is set by <literal>ngx_http_wait_request_handler()</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3431 Reading is done into connection's <literal>buffer</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3432 The size of the buffer is initially set by the directive
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3433 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="client_header_buffer_size"/>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3434 The entire client header is supposed to fit the buffer.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3435 If the initial size is not enough, a bigger buffer is allocated, whose size is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3436 set by the <literal>large_client_header_buffers</literal> directive
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3437 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3438
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3439 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3440 <literal>ngx_http_process_request_headers()</literal> is a read event handler,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3441 which is set after <literal>ngx_http_process_request_line()</literal> to read
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3442 client request header
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3443 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3444
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3445 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3446 <literal>ngx_http_core_run_phases()</literal> is called when the request header
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3447 is completely read and parsed.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3448 This function runs request phases from
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3449 <literal>NGX_HTTP_POST_READ_PHASE</literal> to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3450 <literal>NGX_HTTP_CONTENT_PHASE</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3451 The last phase is supposed to generate response and pass it along the filter
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3452 chain.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3453 The response in not necessarily sent to the client at this phase.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3454 It may remain buffered and will be sent at the finalization stage
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3455 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3456
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3457 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3458 <literal>ngx_http_finalize_request()</literal> is usually called when the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3459 request has generated all the output or produced an error.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3460 In the latter case an appropriate error page is looked up and used as the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3461 response.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3462 If the response is not completely sent to the client by this point, an
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3463 HTTP writer <literal>ngx_http_writer()</literal> is activated to finish
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3464 sending outstanding data
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3465 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3466
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3467 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3468 <literal>ngx_http_finalize_connection()</literal> is called when the response is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3469 completely sent to the client and the request can be destroyed.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3470 If client connection keepalive feature is enabled,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3471 <literal>ngx_http_set_keepalive()</literal> is called, which destroys current
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3472 request and waits for the next request on the connection.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3473 Otherwise, <literal>ngx_http_close_request()</literal> destroys both the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3474 request and the connection
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3475 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3476
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3477 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3478
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3479 </section>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3480
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3481
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3482 <section name="Request" id="http_request">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3483
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3484 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3485 For each client HTTP request the <literal>ngx_http_request_t</literal> object is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3486 created. Some of the fields of this object:
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3487 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3488
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3489 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3490
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3491 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3492
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3493 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3494 <literal>connection</literal> - pointer to a <literal>ngx_connection_t</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3495 client connection object.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3496 Several requests may reference the same connection object at the same time -
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3497 one main request and its subrequests.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3498 After a request is deleted, a new request may be created on the same connection.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3499 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3500
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3501 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3502 Note that for HTTP connections <literal>ngx_connection_t</literal>'s
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3503 <literal>data</literal> field points back to the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3504 Such request is called active, as opposed to the other requests tied with the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3505 connection.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3506 Active request is used to handle client connection events and is allowed to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3507 output its response to the client.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3508 Normally, each request becomes active at some point to be able to send its
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3509 output
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3510 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3511
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3512 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3513
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3514 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3515
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3516 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3517 <literal>ctx</literal> - array of HTTP module contexts.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3518 Each module of type <literal>NGX_HTTP_MODULE</literal> can store any value
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3519 (normally, a pointer to a structure) in the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3520 The value is stored in the <literal>ctx</literal> array at the module's
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3521 <literal>ctx_index</literal> position.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3522 The following macros provide a convenient way to get and set request contexts:
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3523 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3524
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3525 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3526
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3527 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3528 <literal>ngx_http_get_module_ctx(r, module)</literal> - returns
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3529 <literal>module</literal>'s context
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3530 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3531
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3532 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3533 <literal>ngx_http_set_ctx(r, c, module)</literal> - sets <literal>c</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3534 as <literal>module</literal>'s context
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3535 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3536
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3537 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3538
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3539 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3540
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3541 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3542 <literal>main_conf, srv_conf, loc_conf</literal> - arrays of current request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3543 configurations.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3544 Configurations are stored at module's <literal>ctx_index</literal> positions
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3545 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3546
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3547 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3548 <literal>read_event_handler</literal>, <literal>write_event_handler</literal> -
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3549 read and write event handlers for the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3550 Normally, an HTTP connection has <literal>ngx_http_request_handler()</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3551 set as both read and write event handlers.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3552 This function calls <literal>read_event_handler</literal> and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3553 <literal>write_event_handler</literal> handlers of the currently active request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3554 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3555
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3556 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3557 <literal>cache</literal> - request cache object for caching upstream response
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3558 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3559
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3560 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3561 <literal>upstream</literal> - request upstream object for proxying
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3562 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3563
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3564 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3565 <literal>pool</literal> - request pool.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3566 This pool is destroyed when the request is deleted.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3567 The request object itself is allocated in this pool.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3568 For allocations which should be available throughout the client connection's
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3569 lifetime, <literal>ngx_connection_t</literal>'s pool should be used instead
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3570 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3571
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3572 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3573 <literal>header_in</literal> - buffer where client HTTP request header in read
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3574 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3575
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3576 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3577 <literal>headers_in, headers_out</literal> - input and output HTTP headers
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3578 objects.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3579 Both objects contain the <literal>headers</literal> field of type
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3580 <literal>ngx_list_t</literal> keeping the raw list of headers.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3581 In addition to that, specific headers are available for getting and setting as
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3582 separate fields, for example <literal>content_length_n</literal>,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3583 <literal>status</literal> etc
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3584 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3585
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3586 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3587 <literal>request_body</literal> - client request body object
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3588 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3589
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3590 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3591 <literal>start_sec, start_msec</literal> - time point when the request was
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3592 created.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3593 Used for tracking request duration
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3594 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3595
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3596 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3597 <literal>method, method_name</literal> - numeric and textual representation of
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3598 client HTTP request method.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3599 Numeric values for methods are defined in
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3600 <literal>src/http/ngx_http_request.h</literal> with macros
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3601 <literal>NGX_HTTP_GET, NGX_HTTP_HEAD, NGX_HTTP_POST</literal> etc
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3602 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3603
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3604 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3605 <literal>http_protocol, http_version, http_major, http_minor</literal> -
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3606 client HTTP protocol version in its original textual form ("HTTP/1.0",
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3607 "HTTP/1.1" etc), numeric form (<literal>NGX_HTTP_VERSION_10</literal>,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3608 <literal>NGX_HTTP_VERSION_11</literal> etc) and separate major and minor
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3609 versions
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3610 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3611
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3612 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3613 <literal>request_line, unparsed_uri</literal> - client original request line
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3614 and URI
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3615 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3616
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3617 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3618 <literal>uri, args, exten</literal> - current request URI, arguments and file
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3619 extention.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3620 The URI value here might differ from the original URI sent by the client due to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3621 normalization.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3622 Throughout request processing, these value can change while performing internal
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3623 redirects
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3624 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3625
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3626 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3627 <literal>main</literal> - pointer to a main request object.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3628 This object is created to process client HTTP request, as opposed to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3629 subrequests, created to perform a specific sub-task within the main request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3630 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3631
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3632 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3633 <literal>parent</literal> - pointer to a parent request of a subrequest
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3634 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3635
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3636 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3637 <literal>postponed</literal> - list of output buffers and subrequests in the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3638 order they are sent and created.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3639 The list is used by the postpone filter to provide consistent request output,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3640 when parts of it are created by subrequests
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3641 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3642
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3643 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3644 <literal>post_subrequest</literal> - pointer to a handler with context to be
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3645 called when a subrequest gets finalized.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3646 Unused for main requests
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3647 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3648
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3649 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3650
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3651 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3652 <literal>posted_requests</literal> - list of requests to be started or
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3653 resumed.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3654 Starting or resuming is done by calling the request's
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3655 <literal>write_event_handler</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3656 Normally, this handler holds the request main function, which at first runs
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3657 request phases and then produces the output.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3658 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3659
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3660 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3661 A request is usually posted by the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3662 <literal>ngx_http_post_request(r, NULL)</literal> call.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3663 It is always posted to the main request <literal>posted_requests</literal> list.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3664 The function <literal>ngx_http_run_posted_requests(c)</literal> runs all
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3665 requests, posted in the main request of the passed connection's active request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3666 This function should be called in all event handlers, which can lead to new
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3667 posted requests.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3668 Normally, it's called always after invoking a request's read or write handler
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3669 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3670
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3671 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3672
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3673 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3674 <literal>phase_handler</literal> - index of current request phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3675 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3676
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3677 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3678 <literal>ncaptures, captures, captures_data</literal> - regex captures produced
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3679 by the last regex match of the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3680 While processing a request, there's a number of places where a regex match can
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3681 happen: map lookup, server lookup by SNI or HTTP Host, rewrite, proxy_redirect
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3682 etc.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3683 Captures produced by a lookup are stored in the above mentioned fields.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3684 The field <literal>ncaptures</literal> holds the number of captures,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3685 <literal>captures</literal> holds captures boundaries,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3686 <literal>captures_data</literal> holds a string, against which the regex was
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3687 matched and which should be used to extract captures.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3688 After each new regex match request captures are reset to hold new values
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3689 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3690
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3691 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3692 <literal>count</literal> - request reference counter.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3693 The field only makes sense for the main request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3694 Increasing the counter is done by simple <literal>r->main->count++</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3695 To decrease the counter <literal>ngx_http_finalize_request(r, rc)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3696 should be called.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3697 Creation of a subrequest or running request body read process increase the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3698 counter
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3699 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3700
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3701 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3702 <literal>subrequests</literal> - current subrequest nesting level.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3703 Each subrequest gets the nesting level of its parent decreased by one.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3704 Once the value reaches zero an error is generated.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3705 The value for the main request is defined by the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3706 <literal>NGX_HTTP_MAX_SUBREQUESTS</literal> constant
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3707 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3708
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3709 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3710 <literal>uri_changes</literal> - number of URI changes left for the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3711 The total number of times a request can change its URI is limited by the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3712 <literal>NGX_HTTP_MAX_URI_CHANGES</literal> constant.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3713 With each change the value is decreased until it reaches zero.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3714 In the latter case an error is generated.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3715 The actions considered as URI changes are rewrites and internal redirects to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3716 normal or named locations
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3717 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3718
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3719 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3720 <literal>blocked</literal> - counter of blocks held on the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3721 While this value is non-zero, request cannot be terminated.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3722 Currently, this value is increased by pending AIO operations (POSIX AIO and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3723 thread operations) and active cache lock
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3724 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3725
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3726 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3727 <literal>buffered</literal> - bitmask showing which modules have buffered the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3728 output produced by the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3729 A number of filters can buffer output, for example sub_filter can buffer data
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3730 due to a partial string match, copy filter can buffer data because of the lack
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3731 of free output_buffers etc.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3732 As long as this value is non-zero, request is not finalized, expecting the flush
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3733 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3734
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3735 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3736 <literal>header_only</literal> - flag showing that output does not require body.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3737 For example, this flag is used by HTTP HEAD requests
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3738 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3739
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3740 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3741 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3742 <literal>keepalive</literal> - flag showing if client connection keepalive is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3743 supported.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3744 The value is inferred from HTTP version and <header>Connection</header> header
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3745 value
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3746 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3747 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3748
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3749 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3750 <literal>header_sent</literal> - flag showing that output header has already
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3751 been sent by the request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3752 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3753
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3754 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3755 <literal>internal</literal> - flag showing that current request is internal.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3756 To enter the internal state, a request should pass through an internal
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3757 redirect or be a subrequest.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3758 Internal requests are allowed to enter internal locations
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3759 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3760
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3761 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3762 <literal>allow_ranges</literal> - flag showing that partial response can be
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3763 sent to client, if requested by the HTTP Range header
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3764 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3765
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3766 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3767 <literal>subrequest_ranges</literal> - flag showing that a partial response is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3768 allowed to be sent while processing a subrequest
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3769 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3770
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3771 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3772 <literal>single_range</literal> - flag showing that only a single continuous
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3773 range of output data can be sent to the client.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3774 This flag is usually set when sending a stream of data, for example from a
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3775 proxied server, and the entire response is not available at once
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3776 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3777
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3778 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3779 <literal>main_filter_need_in_memory, filter_need_in_memory</literal> - flags
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3780 showing that the output should be produced in memory buffers but not in files.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3781 This is a signal to the copy filter to read data from file buffers even if
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3782 sendfile is enabled.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3783 The difference between these two flags is the location of filter modules which
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3784 set them.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3785 Filters called before the postpone filter in filter chain, set
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3786 <literal>filter_need_in_memory</literal> requesting that only the current
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3787 request output should come in memory buffers.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3788 Filters called later in filter chain set
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3789 <literal>main_filter_need_in_memory</literal> requiring that both the main
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3790 request and all the subrequest read files in memory while sending output
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3791 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3792
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3793 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3794 <literal>filter_need_temporary</literal> - flag showing that the request output
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3795 should be produced in temporary buffers, but not in readonly memory buffers or
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3796 file buffers.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3797 This is used by filters which may change output directly in the buffers, where
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3798 it's sent </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3799
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3800 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3801
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3802 </section>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3803
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3804
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3805 <section name="Configuration" id="http_conf">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3806
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3807 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3808 Each HTTP module may have three types of configuration:
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3809 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3810
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3811 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3812
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3813 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3814 Main configuration.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3815 This configuration applies to the entire nginx http{} block. This is global
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3816 configuration.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3817 It stores global settings for a module
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3818 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3819
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3820 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3821 Server configuration.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3822 This configuraion applies to a single nginx server{}.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3823 It stores server-specific settings for a module
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3824 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3825
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3826 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3827 Location configuration.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3828 This configuraion applies to a single location{}, if{} or limit_except() block.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3829 This configuration stores settings specific to a location
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3830 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3831
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3832 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3833
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3834 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3835 Configuration structures are created at nginx configuration stage by calling
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3836 functions, which allocate these structures, initialize them and merge.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3837 The following example shows how to create a simple module location
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3838 configuration.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3839 The configuration has one setting <literal>foo</literal> of unsiged integer
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3840 type.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3841 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3842
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3843 <programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3844 typedef struct {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3845 ngx_uint_t foo;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3846 } ngx_http_foo_loc_conf_t;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3847
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3848
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3849 static ngx_http_module_t ngx_http_foo_module_ctx = {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3850 NULL, /* preconfiguration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3851 NULL, /* postconfiguration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3852
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3853 NULL, /* create main configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3854 NULL, /* init main configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3855
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3856 NULL, /* create server configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3857 NULL, /* merge server configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3858
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3859 ngx_http_foo_create_loc_conf, /* create location configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3860 ngx_http_foo_merge_loc_conf /* merge location configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3861 };
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3862
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3863
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3864 static void *
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3865 ngx_http_foo_create_loc_conf(ngx_conf_t *cf)
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3866 {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3867 ngx_http_foo_loc_conf_t *conf;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3868
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3869 conf = ngx_pcalloc(cf->pool, sizeof(ngx_http_foo_loc_conf_t));
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3870 if (conf == NULL) {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3871 return NULL;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3872 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3873
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3874 conf->foo = NGX_CONF_UNSET_UINT;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3875
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3876 return conf;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3877 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3878
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3879
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3880 static char *
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3881 ngx_http_foo_merge_loc_conf(ngx_conf_t *cf, void *parent, void *child)
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3882 {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3883 ngx_http_foo_loc_conf_t *prev = parent;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3884 ngx_http_foo_loc_conf_t *conf = child;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3885
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3886 ngx_conf_merge_uint_value(conf->foo, prev->foo, 1);
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3887 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3888 </programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3889
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3890 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3891 As seen in the example, <literal>ngx_http_foo_create_loc_conf()</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3892 function creates a new configuration structure and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3893 <literal>ngx_http_foo_merge_loc_conf()</literal> merges a configuration with
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3894 another configuration from a higher level.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3895 In fact, server and location configuration do not only exist at server and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3896 location levels, but also created for all the levels above.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3897 Specifically, a server configuration is created at the main level as well and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3898 location configurations are created for main, server and location levels.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3899 These configurations make it possible to specify server and location-specific
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3900 settings at any level of nginx configuration file.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3901 Eventually configurations are merged down.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3902 To indicate a missing setting and ignore it while merging, nginx provides a
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3903 number of macros like <literal>NGX_CONF_UNSET</literal> and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3904 <literal>NGX_CONF_UNSET_UINT</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3905 Standard nginx merge macros like <literal>ngx_conf_merge_value()</literal> and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3906 <literal>ngx_conf_merge_uint_value()</literal> provide a convenient way to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3907 merge a setting and set the default value if none of configurations provided an
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3908 explicit value.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3909 For complete list of macros for different types see
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3910 <literal>src/core/ngx_conf_file.h</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3911 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3912
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3913 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3914 To access configuration of any HTTP module at configuration time, the following
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3915 macros are available.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3916 They receive <literal>ngx_conf_t</literal> reference as the first argument.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3917 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3918
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3919 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3920
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3921 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3922 <literal>ngx_http_conf_get_module_main_conf(cf, module)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3923 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3924
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3925 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3926 <literal>ngx_http_conf_get_module_srv_conf(cf, module)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3927 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3928
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3929 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3930 <literal>ngx_http_conf_get_module_loc_conf(cf, module)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3931 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3932
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3933 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3934
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3935 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3936 The following example gets a pointer to a location configuration of
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3937 standard nginx core module
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3938 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml">ngx_http_core_module</link>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3939 and changes
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3940 location content handler kept in the <literal>handler</literal> field of the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3941 structure.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3942 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3943
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3944 <programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3945 static ngx_int_t ngx_http_foo_handler(ngx_http_request_t *r);
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3946
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3947
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3948 static ngx_command_t ngx_http_foo_commands[] = {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3949
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3950 { ngx_string("foo"),
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3951 NGX_HTTP_LOC_CONF|NGX_CONF_NOARGS,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3952 ngx_http_foo,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3953 0,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3954 0,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3955 NULL },
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3956
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3957 ngx_null_command
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3958 };
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3959
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3960
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3961 static char *
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3962 ngx_http_foo(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx_command_t *cmd, void *conf)
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3963 {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3964 ngx_http_core_loc_conf_t *clcf;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3965
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3966 clcf = ngx_http_conf_get_module_loc_conf(cf, ngx_http_core_module);
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3967 clcf->handler = ngx_http_bar_handler;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3968
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3969 return NGX_CONF_OK;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3970 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3971 </programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3972
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3973 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3974 In runtime the following macros are available to get configurations of HTTP
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3975 modules.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3976 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3977
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3978 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3979
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3980 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3981 <literal>ngx_http_get_module_main_conf(r, module)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3982 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3983
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3984 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3985 <literal>ngx_http_get_module_srv_conf(r, module)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3986 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3987
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3988 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3989 <literal>ngx_http_get_module_loc_conf(r, module)</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3990 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3991
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3992 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3993
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3994 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3995 These macros receive a reference to an HTTP request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3996 <literal>ngx_http_request_t</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3997 Main configuration of a request never changes.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3998 Server configuration may change from a default one after choosing a virtual
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
3999 server for a request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4000 Request location configuration may change multiple times as a result of a
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4001 rewrite or internal redirect.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4002 The following example shows how to access HTTP configuration in runtime.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4003 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4004
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4005 <programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4006 static ngx_int_t
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4007 ngx_http_foo_handler(ngx_http_request_t *r)
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4008 {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4009 ngx_http_foo_loc_conf_t *flcf;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4010
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4011 flcf = ngx_http_get_module_loc_conf(r, ngx_http_foo_module);
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4012
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4013 ...
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4014 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4015 </programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4016
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4017 </section>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4018
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4019
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4020 <section name="Phases" id="http_phases">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4021
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4022 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4023 Each HTTP request passes through a list of HTTP phases.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4024 Each phase is specialized in a particular type of processing.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4025 Most phases allow installing handlers.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4026 The phase handlers are called successively once the request reaches the phase.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4027 Many standard nginx modules install their phase handlers as a way to get called
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4028 at a specific request processing stage.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4029 Following is the list of nginx HTTP phases.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4030 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4031
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4032 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4033
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4034 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4035 <literal>NGX_HTTP_POST_READ_PHASE</literal> is the earliest phase.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4036 The <link doc="../http/ngx_http_realip_module.xml">ngx_http_realip_module</link>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4037 installs its handler at this phase.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4038 This allows to substitute client address before any other module is invoked
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4039 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4040
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4041 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4042 <literal>NGX_HTTP_SERVER_REWRITE_PHASE</literal> is used to run rewrite script,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4043 defined at the server level, that is out of any location block.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4044 The
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4045 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.xml">ngx_http_rewrite_module</link>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4046 installs its handler at this phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4047 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4048
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4049 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4050 <literal>NGX_HTTP_FIND_CONFIG_PHASE</literal> - a special phase used to choose a
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4051 location based on request URI.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4052 This phase does not allow installing any handlers.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4053 It only performs the default action of choosing a location.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4054 Before this phase, the server default location is assigned to the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4055 Any module requesting a location configuration, will receive the default server
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4056 location configuration.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4057 After this phase a new location is assigned to the request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4058 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4059
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4060 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4061 <literal>NGX_HTTP_REWRITE_PHASE</literal> - same as
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4062 <literal>NGX_HTTP_SERVER_REWRITE_PHASE</literal>, but for a new location,
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4063 chosen at the prevous phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4064 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4065
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4066 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4067 <literal>NGX_HTTP_POST_REWRITE_PHASE</literal> - a special phase, used to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4068 redirect the request to a new location, if the URI was changed during rewrite.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4069 The redirect is done by going back to
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4070 <literal>NGX_HTTP_FIND_CONFIG_PHASE</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4071 No handlers are allowed at this phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4072 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4073
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4074 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4075 <literal>NGX_HTTP_PREACCESS_PHASE</literal> - a common phase for different
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4076 types of handlers, not associated with access check.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4077 Standard nginx modules
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4078 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.xml">ngx_http_limit_conn_module
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4079 </link> and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4080 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.xml">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4081 ngx_http_limit_req_module</link> register their handlers at this phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4082 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4083
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4084 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4085 <literal>NGX_HTTP_ACCESS_PHASE</literal> - used to check access permissions
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4086 for the request.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4087 Standard nginx modules such as
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4088 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_access_module.xml">ngx_http_access_module</link> and
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4089 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_auth_basic_module.xml">ngx_http_auth_basic_module
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4090 </link> register their handlers at this phase.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4091 If configured so by the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4092 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="satisfy"/> directive, only one
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4093 of access phase handlers may allow access to the request in order to confinue
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4094 processing
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4095 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4096
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4097 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4098 <literal>NGX_HTTP_POST_ACCESS_PHASE</literal> - a special phase for the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4099 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="satisfy">satisfy any</link>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4100 case.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4101 If some access phase handlers denied the access and none of them allowed, the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4102 request is finalized.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4103 No handlers are supported at this phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4104 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4105
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4106 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4107 <literal>NGX_HTTP_TRY_FILES_PHASE</literal> - a special phase, for the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4108 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="try_files"/> feature.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4109 No handlers are allowed at this phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4110 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4111
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4112 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4113 <literal>NGX_HTTP_CONTENT_PHASE</literal> - a phase, at which the response
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4114 is supposed to be generated.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4115 Multiple nginx standard modules register their handers at this phase, for
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4116 example
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4117 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_index_module.xml">ngx_http_index_module</link> or
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4118 <literal>ngx_http_static_module</literal>.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4119 All these handlers are called sequentially until one of them finally produces
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4120 the output.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4121 It's also possible to set content handlers on a per-location basis.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4122 If the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4123 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml">ngx_http_core_module</link>'s
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4124 location configuration has <literal>handler</literal> set, this handler is
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4125 called as the content handler and content phase handlers are ignored
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4126 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4127
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4128 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4129 <literal>NGX_HTTP_LOG_PHASE</literal> is used to perform request logging.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4130 Currently, only the
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4131 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_log_module.xml">ngx_http_log_module</link>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4132 registers its handler
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4133 at this stage for access logging.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4134 Log phase handlers are called at the very end of request processing, right
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4135 before freeing the request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4136 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4137
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4138 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4139
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4140 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4141 Following is the example of a preaccess phase handler.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4142 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4143
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4144 <programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4145 static ngx_http_module_t ngx_http_foo_module_ctx = {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4146 NULL, /* preconfiguration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4147 ngx_http_foo_init, /* postconfiguration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4148
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4149 NULL, /* create main configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4150 NULL, /* init main configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4151
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4152 NULL, /* create server configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4153 NULL, /* merge server configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4154
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4155 NULL, /* create location configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4156 NULL /* merge location configuration */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4157 };
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4158
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4159
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4160 static ngx_int_t
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4161 ngx_http_foo_handler(ngx_http_request_t *r)
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4162 {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4163 ngx_str_t *ua;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4164
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4165 ua = r->headers_in->user_agent;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4166
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4167 if (ua == NULL) {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4168 return NGX_DECLINED;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4169 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4170
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4171 /* reject requests with "User-Agent: foo" */
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4172 if (ua->value.len == 3 &amp;&amp; ngx_strncmp(ua->value.data, "foo", 3) == 0) {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4173 return NGX_HTTP_FORBIDDEN;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4174 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4175
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4176 return NGX_DECLINED;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4177 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4178
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4179
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4180 static ngx_int_t
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4181 ngx_http_foo_init(ngx_conf_t *cf)
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4182 {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4183 ngx_http_handler_pt *h;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4184 ngx_http_core_main_conf_t *cmcf;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4185
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4186 cmcf = ngx_http_conf_get_module_main_conf(cf, ngx_http_core_module);
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4187
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4188 h = ngx_array_push(&amp;cmcf->phases[NGX_HTTP_PREACCESS_PHASE].handlers);
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4189 if (h == NULL) {
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4190 return NGX_ERROR;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4191 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4192
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4193 *h = ngx_http_foo_handler;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4194
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4195 return NGX_OK;
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4196 }
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4197 </programlisting>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4198
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4199 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4200 Phase handlers are expected to return specific codes:
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4201 </para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4202
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4203 <list type="bullet">
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4204
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4205 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4206 <literal>NGX_OK</literal> - proceed to the next phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4207 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4208
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4209 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4210 <literal>NGX_DECLINED</literal> - proceed to the next handler of the current
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4211 phase.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4212 If current handler is the last in current phase, move to the next phase
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4213 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4214
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4215 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4216 <literal>NGX_AGAIN, NGX_DONE</literal> - suspend phase handling until some
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4217 future event.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4218 This can be for example asynchronous I/O operation or just a delay.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4219 It is supposed, that phase handling will be resumed later by calling
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4220 <literal>ngx_http_core_run_phases()</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4221 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4222
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4223 <listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4224 Any other value returned by the phase handler is treated as a request
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4225 finalization code, in particular, HTTP response code.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4226 The request is finalized with the code provided
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4227 </listitem>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4228
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4229 </list>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4230
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4231 <para>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4232 Some phases treat return codes in a slightly different way.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4233 At content phase, any return code other that <literal>NGX_DECLINED</literal>
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4234 is considered a finalization code.
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4235 As for the location content handlers, any return from them is considered a
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
diff changeset
4236 finalization code.
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
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4237 At access phase, in
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parents: 1928
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4238 <link doc="../http/ngx_http_core_module.xml" id="satisfy">satisfy any</link>
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4239 mode, returning a code other
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4240 than <literal>NGX_OK, NGX_DECLINED, NGX_AGAIN, NGX_DONE</literal> is considered
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4241 a denial.
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4242 If none of future access handlers allow access or deny with a new
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4243 code, the denial code will become the finalization code.
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4244 </para>
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4245
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4246 </section>
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4247
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4248 </section>
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Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4249
7f290929b32d HTTP section of the development guide.
Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
parents: 1928
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4250
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4251 </article>