For HTTP/1 backend, -b option can be used several times to specify
multiple backend address. HTTP/2 backend does not support multiple
addresses and only uses first address even if multiple addresses are
specified.
This commit limits the number of concurrent HTTP/1 downstream
connections to same host. By defualt, it is limited to 8 connections.
--backend-connections-per-frontend option was replaced with
--backend-http1-connections-per-host, which changes the maximum number
of connections per host. This limitation only kicks in when h2 proxy
is used (-s option).
This commit adds functionality to customize access logging format in
nghttpx. The format variables are inspired by nginx. The default
format is combined format.
This option limits the number of backend connections per frontend.
This is meaningful for the combination of HTTP/2 and SPDY frontend and
HTTP/1 backend.
nghttpx supports hot deploy feature using signals. The host deploy in
nghttpx is multi step process. First send USR2 signal to nghttpx
process. It will do fork and execute new executable, using same
command-line arguments and environment variables. At this point, both
current and new processes can accept requests. To gracefully shutdown
current process, send QUIT signal to current nghttpx process. When
all existing frontend connections are done, the current process will
exit. At this point, only new nghttpx process exists and serves
incoming requests.
--no-location-rewrite option disallows location header rewrite on
--http2-bridge, --client and default mode. This option is useful when
connecting nghttpx proxy with --http2-bridge to backend nghttpx with
http2-proxy mode.
This change rewrites logging system of nghttpx. Previously access log
and error log are written to stderr or syslog and there was no option
to change stderr to something else. With this change, file path of
access log and error log can be configured separately and logging to
regular file is now added. To support rotating log, if SIGUSR1 signal
is received by nghttpx, it closes the current log files and reopen it
with the same name. The format of access log is changed and has same
look of apache's. But not all columns are not supported yet.
It looks like setting read-rate and read-burst to 0 makes busy loop.
It seems a bug. On the other hand, we most likely want per-thread
rate limit rather than per-connection. So we decided to drop them.
Cipher suites are chosen by DHE and ECDHE ciphers + GCM (AEAD). Now
default cipher list is the one recommended by Mozilla web site. The
--honor-cipher-order option is removed and now it is always assumed.
The existing options --{read,write}-{rate,burst} are per connection.
The new options --worker-{read,write}-{rate,burst} are per worker
thread, which is overall rate limit of all connections worker handles.
This commit also changes SPDY's flow control size. Previously,
the size for SPDY is the same amount of bytes with HTTP/2.
For example, --frontend-http2-upstream-window-bits=N,
the window size is 2**N - 1. Now SPDY code uses 2**N.
Using --cacert to load certificate for client certificate authentication
is problematic since, --cacert is also used for client mode.
This commit adds --verify-client-cacert option which specify the CA
certficate file used only for client certificate validation.
This change also removes the default certficate load function for
client certificate validation.
Use --dh-param-file option to specify a file including DH parameters
in PEM format.
For example, you can create DH parameters with 1024 bit key using
following command:
$ openssl dhparam -outform PEM -out dhparam.pem 1024
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Lucas Pardue