请求缓冲决定后端何时收到上传正文
一次上传经过两条连接:客户端到 nginx,以及 nginx 到应用。proxy_request_buffering on 会先读完客户端请求正文,再把该请求发送给上游。关闭它后,nginx 可以随着正文到达逐步转发。这个选择改变应用何时开始占用资源,却不会创造无限容量,也不会使慢发送方消失。应先明确应用是否需要边收边处理,再决定正文在哪一层等待。 坏掉的样子 常见错误是关错指令。proxy_buffering 控制响应,proxy_request_buffering 控制上传请求。仅关闭响应缓冲,流式上传仍可能停在代理处。反过来,如果应用原本应接收完整的小型提交,却在全站关闭请求缓冲,又没有考虑后端并发能力,慢客户端就可能长时间占住应用处理资源。两个方向的策略不能因为名称相似就混为一谈。 缓冲把资源压力转移到 nginx。请求正文超过配置的内存缓冲后,可以使用客户端正文临时存储。因此,大量并发上传会占用代理连接,并可能消耗磁盘空间或磁盘读写能力。增大某个缓冲值不能代替正文大小、上传超时、并发限制和临时文件系统容量规划。缓冲区也不需要一律扩大到能在内存中容纳完整上传。 流式转发还改变失败处理。nginx 一旦已经开始向上游发送请求正文,就不能简单把这个流式请求交给下一台服务器。应用可能已经处理前缀数据,甚至产生副作用。缓冲可以为某些重试路径保留正文,但不能让原本不安全的业务操作突然变得可安全重放。是否允许重试,还取决于实际方法、应用语义以及已经完成的工作。 快速验证 下文集成实验的结果保留自历史运行记录;本次修订没有重新执行该实验,不能将这些记录当成本次环境的新实测。 将脚本保存为 check-upload.py,先取得其中固定摘要的镜像,再用宿主 Python 和 Docker 执行。记录环境为 Linux arm64 上的 nginx 1.28.0、Python 3.11.16 容器。脚本建立专用后端网络,只把 nginx 发布到宿主回环地址,最后清理自己的容器、镜像标签和网络;已有服务不参与实验: from contextlib import contextmanager from pathlib import Path from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory import http.client,json,socket,subprocess,time,uuid NGINX='nginx@sha256:552e7481ca93ffccd046aa658dbbed22caefbc09c66fa7cd247cbb90b8a5c609' PYTHON='python@sha256:528257d48c1da0dcecc2e725d1ae34498d60c965f1241e39cd6a85a8859bdf84' def docker(*args,check=True): result=subprocess.run(['docker',*args],capture_output=True,text=True,timeout=120) if check:assert result.returncode==0,result.stderr return result def wait(predicate): deadline=time.monotonic()+15 while time.monotonic()<deadline: try: if predicate():return except OSError:pass time.sleep(.1) raise AssertionError('fixture did not become ready') @contextmanager def lab(configuration,files=None,backend=None): name='xbcatm-nginx-'+uuid.uuid4().hex[:10];tags=[name+':proxy',name+':backend'];containers=[name+'-proxy',name+'-backend'] try: with TemporaryDirectory(prefix=name+'-') as directory: root=Path(directory);(root/'files').mkdir();(root/'nginx.conf').write_text(configuration) for path,content in (files or {}).items(): target=root/'files'/path;target.parent.mkdir(parents=True,exist_ok=True) target.write_bytes(content if isinstance(content,bytes) else content.encode()) docker('network','create',name) if backend is not None: (root/'backend.py').write_text(backend) (root/'backend.Dockerfile').write_text(f'FROM {PYTHON}\nCOPY backend.py /backend.py\nCMD ["python", "/backend.py"]\n') docker('build','--network','none','-f',str(root/'backend.Dockerfile'),'-t',tags[1],str(root)) docker('run','-d','--name',containers[1],'--network',name,'--network-alias','backend',tags[1]) wait(lambda:docker('exec',containers[1],'python','-c','import socket;s=socket.create_connection(("127.0.0.1",8081),timeout=.5);s.close()',check=False).returncode==0) (root/'Dockerfile').write_text(f'FROM {NGINX}\nCOPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf\nCOPY files /srv\n') docker('build','--network','none','-t',tags[0],str(root)) docker('run','--rm','--network',name,tags[0],'nginx','-t') docker('run','-d','--name',containers[0],'--network',name,'-p','127.0.0.1::8080',tags[0]) details=json.loads(docker('inspect',containers[0]).stdout)[0] binding=details['NetworkSettings']['Ports']['8080/tcp'][0];assert binding['HostIp']=='127.0.0.1';port=int(binding['HostPort']) def ready(): connection=socket.create_connection(('127.0.0.1',port),timeout=.5);connection.close();return True wait(ready) def request(path,method='GET',headers=None,body=None): connection=http.client.HTTPConnection('127.0.0.1',port,timeout=5) try: connection.request(method,path,body=body,headers=headers or {}) response=connection.getresponse();return response.status,{k.lower():v for k,v in response.getheaders()},response.read() finally:connection.close() request.port=port yield containers[0],request finally: docker('rm','-f',*containers,check=False);docker('image','rm',*tags,check=False);docker('network','rm',name,check=False) def config(locations,extra=''): return 'worker_processes 1;\nerror_log /tmp/error.log notice;\nevents {}\nhttp {\naccess_log off;\n'+extra+'\nserver { listen 8080; root /srv;\n'+locations+'\n}\n}\n' import hashlib backend=r''' from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler,ThreadingHTTPServer import hashlib,json,threading state={};lock=threading.Lock() class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): protocol_version='HTTP/1.1' def log_message(self,*args):pass def reply(self,data): data=json.dumps(data).encode();self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-Length',str(len(data)));self.end_headers();self.wfile.write(data) def do_GET(self): with lock:self.reply(dict(state)) def do_POST(self): length=int(self.headers['Content-Length']) with lock:state[self.path]={'entered':True,'bytes':0} first=self.rfile.read(1) with lock:state[self.path]['bytes']=len(first) body=first+self.rfile.read(length-1) with lock:state[self.path]['bytes']=len(body) self.reply({'length':len(body),'sha256':hashlib.sha256(body).hexdigest()}) ThreadingHTTPServer(('0.0.0.0',8081),Handler).serve_forever() ''' locations=''' location /on { proxy_request_buffering on; proxy_pass http://backend:8081; } location /off { proxy_request_buffering off; proxy_pass http://backend:8081; } location /state { proxy_pass http://backend:8081; } ''' with lab(config(locations,'client_max_body_size 1m; proxy_http_version 1.1;'),backend=backend) as (_,request): payload=b'x'*65536;results={} def state():return json.loads(request('/state')[2]) for mode in ('on','off'): connection=http.client.HTTPConnection('127.0.0.1',request.port,timeout=10) connection.putrequest('POST','/'+mode);connection.putheader('Content-Length',str(len(payload))) connection.endheaders();connection.send(payload[:1024]) if mode=='off':wait(lambda:state().get('/off',{}).get('bytes')==1) else: until=time.monotonic()+1 while time.monotonic()<until: assert '/on' not in state();time.sleep(.05) before=state().get('/'+mode) connection.send(payload[1024:]);response=connection.getresponse();data=json.loads(response.read());connection.close() assert response.status==200 and data=={'length':65536,'sha256':hashlib.sha256(payload).hexdigest()} results[mode]={'before_completion':before,'result':data} connection=http.client.HTTPConnection('127.0.0.1',request.port,timeout=5) connection.putrequest('POST','/off-too-large');connection.putheader('Content-Length',str(2*1024*1024)) connection.endheaders();response=connection.getresponse();response.read();connection.close() assert response.status==413 and '/off-too-large' not in state() results['oversize_status']=response.status print(json.dumps(results,sort_keys=True)) 客户端声明正文共 65,536 字节,起初只发送 1,024 字节。开启请求缓冲时,在受控暂停期间反复读取后端状态,都看不到上传处理器被进入。客户端已经开始发送,但应用还没有被要求消费不完整正文。直接观察后端状态,比只比较整个请求耗时更能说明等待发生在哪一层,也避免把一次快速响应误当成流式处理证据。 ...