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Make sure upstream's status line won't be reused. Range filter may change status to 206 Partial Content, but if we got status line from upstream this won't have any effect on status sent to client. Clear r->status_line when enabling range filter.
author Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
date Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:49:24 +0400
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1 Compose module for nginx.
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3 This module allows compose several subrequests into one reply. The
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4 same thing may be achieved by SSI, but unlike SSI this module will also
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5 set Content-Length and allow range requests.
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7 Basically it grabs X-Compose and X-Compose-Length headers from original
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8 reply and does the following:
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10 1. If X-Compose-Length present, sets Content-Length to it's value.
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11 2. Composes multiple subrequests from X-Compose headers.
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13 When used without X-Compose-Length it's basically identical to SSI and
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14 not needed. The X-Compose-Length header must be calculated correctly by
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15 somebody.
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17 To compile nginx with compose module, use "--add-module <path>" option to
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18 nginx configure.