It is very hard to support multiple protocols in backend while
retaining multiple mode settings. Therefore, we dropped modes except
for default and HTTP/2 proxy mode. The other removed modes can be
emulated using combinations of options. Now the backend connection is
not encrypted by default. To enable encryption on backend connection,
use --backend-tls option.
Previously, we use one Http2Session object per DownstreamAddrGroup.
This is not flexible, and we have to provision how many HTTP/2
connection is required in advance. The new strategy is we add
Http2Session object on demand. We measure the number of attached
downstream connection object and server advertised concurrency limit.
As long as former is smaller than the latter, we attach new downstream
connection to it. Once the limit is reached, we create new
Http2Session object. If the number lowers the limit, we start to
share Http2Session object again.
Header field related functions are now gathered into FieldStore class.
This commit only handles request. Subsequent commit will do the same
thing for response.
We modeled max_header_fields and header_field_buffer limit from Apache
configuration directives. In Apache, they are only applied to request
header fields, while we applied both request and response. Since
nghttpx is used as reverse proxy and backend server is relatively
"trusted", this commit removes the application to response header
fields.
It seems that using ev_feed_event to signal write operation is much
faster than starting watcher. This is probably due to the fact that
we don't need to wait in event loop. The same thing cannot be done in
HTTP/2 frontend, since this will raise write operation for each stream
HEADER/DATA write, which leads to very small packets, hurting
performance. Interestingly, HTTP/1 frontend also suffers the same
performance hit.
This change is required to show path attribute to mruby script. It is
desirable to construct URI from parts. Just checking method and path
is "*" is awkward.
To achieve host-path backend routing, we changed behaviour of
--backend-http2-connections-per-worker. It now sets the number of
HTTP/2 physical connections per pattern group if pattern is used in -b
option.
Fixes GH-292
-b option syntax is now <HOST>,<PORT>[;<PATTERN>[:...]]. The optional
<PATTERN>s specify the request host and path it is used for. The
<PATTERN> can contain path, host + path or host. The matching rule is
closely designed to ServeMux in Go programming language.
This commit makes sure that WebSocket upgrade works for HTTP/1.1
frontend and backend pair. Actually, this implementation probably
supports other upgrade as well, other than HTTP/2 Upgrade, which is
handled specially in other place.
It turns out that the cause of complication in backend request line
construction is a absolute-form in HTTP/1 request. In HTTP/2, we have
separated pseudo-header fields and no problem at all. In this commit,
we parse request URI in HTTP/1 frontend and extract values from it to
make backend logic simpler. This patch removes host header field
emission in HTTP/2 backend if :authority is emitted. It also rewrites
host header field with authority part in absolute-form URI as per RFC
7230.
Currently, we use same number of HTTP/2 sessions per worker with given
backend addresses. New option to specify the number of HTTP/2 session
per worker will follow.
We may later add append(const T &), where we require T for .size() and
.data(). We can coexist former append_cstr and new one. If we pass
string literal, append(const (&)[N]) is selected.
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 adds functionality to customize access logging format in
nghttpx. The format variables are inspired by nginx. The default
format is combined format.
Previously we empties request headers after they are sent to
downstream in order to free memory. But it turns out that we use
request headers when rewriting location header response field. Also
user reported that request headers are useful to add new features.
This commits defers the deletion of request headers to the point when
response headers are deleted (which is after response headers are sent
to upstream client).
Previously we only update consumed flow control window when number of
bytes read in nghttp2 and spdylay callback is 0. Now we notify
nghttp2 library the consumed bytes even if number of bytes read > 0.
This change also uses newly added spdylay_session_consume() API, so we
require spdylay >= 1.3.0.
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.
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.
Previously, we use evbuffer_pullup(buf, -1) to linearize the memory
region and it may cause buffer copy. To avoid this, we use the return
value of evbuffer_get_contiguous_space() as 2nd parameter. According
to the libevent manual, by doing so evbuffer_pullup() will not copy or
modify any data in evbuffer.
If SPDY or HTTP/2 ustream is used and HTTP/2 downstream is used, only
call {spdylay,nghttp2}_resume_data when complete DATA frame was read
in backend to avoid to transmit too small DATA frame to the upstream.
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
Lucas Pardue
Stefan Eissing