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<title>Upstream: fixed passwords support for dynamic certificates.</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T13:27:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
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<published>2025-02-05T15:16:05+00:00</published>
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Passwords were not preserved in optimized SSL contexts, the bug had
appeared in d791b4aab (1.23.1), as in the following configuration:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location /original/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
        }

        location /optimized/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
        }
    }

The fix is to always preserve passwords, by copying to the configuration
pool, if dynamic certificates are used.  This is done as part of merging
"ssl_passwords" configuration.

To minimize the number of copies, a preserved version is then used for
inheritance.  A notable exception is inheritance of preserved empty
passwords to the context with statically configured certificates:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location / {
            proxy_pass ...;

            proxy_ssl_certificate example.com.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key example.com.key;
        }
    }

In this case, an unmodified version (NULL) of empty passwords is set,
to allow reading them from the password prompt on nginx startup.

As an additional optimization, a preserved instance of inherited
configured passwords is set to the previous level, to inherit it
to other contexts:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;

        location /1/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }

        location /2/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }
    }
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Passwords were not preserved in optimized SSL contexts, the bug had
appeared in d791b4aab (1.23.1), as in the following configuration:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location /original/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
        }

        location /optimized/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
        }
    }

The fix is to always preserve passwords, by copying to the configuration
pool, if dynamic certificates are used.  This is done as part of merging
"ssl_passwords" configuration.

To minimize the number of copies, a preserved version is then used for
inheritance.  A notable exception is inheritance of preserved empty
passwords to the context with statically configured certificates:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
        proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;

        location / {
            proxy_pass ...;

            proxy_ssl_certificate example.com.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key example.com.key;
        }
    }

In this case, an unmodified version (NULL) of empty passwords is set,
to allow reading them from the password prompt on nginx startup.

As an additional optimization, a preserved instance of inherited
configured passwords is set to the previous level, to inherit it
to other contexts:

    server {
        proxy_ssl_password_file password;

        location /1/ {
            proxy_pass https://u1/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }

        location /2/ {
            proxy_pass https://u2/;
            proxy_ssl_certificate $ssl_server_name.crt;
            proxy_ssl_certificate_key $ssl_server_name.key;
        }
    }
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: caching certificates and certificate keys with variables.</title>
<updated>2025-01-17T00:37:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-29T14:20:53+00:00</published>
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Caching is enabled with proxy_ssl_certificate_cache and friends.

Co-authored-by: Aleksei Bavshin &lt;a.bavshin@nginx.com&gt;
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Caching is enabled with proxy_ssl_certificate_cache and friends.

Co-authored-by: Aleksei Bavshin &lt;a.bavshin@nginx.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: construct upstream peers from DNS SRV records.</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T15:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Volyntsev</name>
<email>xeioex@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-17T15:42:31+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: re-resolvable servers.</title>
<updated>2024-11-07T15:57:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ruslan Ermilov</name>
<email>ru@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-15T11:12:34+00:00</published>
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Specifying the upstream server by a hostname together with the
"resolve" parameter will make the hostname to be periodically
resolved, and upstream servers added/removed as necessary.

This requires a "resolver" at the "http" configuration block.

The "resolver_timeout" parameter also affects when the failed
DNS requests will be attempted again.  Responses with NXDOMAIN
will be attempted again in 10 seconds.

Upstream has a configuration generation number that is incremented each
time servers are added/removed to the primary/backup list.  This number
is remembered by the peer.init method, and if peer.get detects a change
in configuration, it returns NGX_BUSY.

Each server has a reference counter.  It is incremented by peer.get and
decremented by peer.free.  When a server is removed, it is removed from
the list of servers and is marked as "zombie".  The memory allocated by
a zombie peer is freed only when its reference count becomes zero.

Co-authored-by: Roman Arutyunyan &lt;arut@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Sergey Kandaurov &lt;pluknet@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Vladimir Homutov &lt;vl@nginx.com&gt;</content>
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Specifying the upstream server by a hostname together with the
"resolve" parameter will make the hostname to be periodically
resolved, and upstream servers added/removed as necessary.

This requires a "resolver" at the "http" configuration block.

The "resolver_timeout" parameter also affects when the failed
DNS requests will be attempted again.  Responses with NXDOMAIN
will be attempted again in 10 seconds.

Upstream has a configuration generation number that is incremented each
time servers are added/removed to the primary/backup list.  This number
is remembered by the peer.init method, and if peer.get detects a change
in configuration, it returns NGX_BUSY.

Each server has a reference counter.  It is incremented by peer.get and
decremented by peer.free.  When a server is removed, it is removed from
the list of servers and is marked as "zombie".  The memory allocated by
a zombie peer is freed only when its reference count becomes zero.

Co-authored-by: Roman Arutyunyan &lt;arut@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Sergey Kandaurov &lt;pluknet@nginx.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Vladimir Homutov &lt;vl@nginx.com&gt;</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Proxy: proxy_pass_trailers directive.</title>
<updated>2024-09-13T12:47:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Kandaurov</name>
<email>pluknet@nginx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-10T12:48:11+00:00</published>
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The directive allows to pass upstream response trailers to client.
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The directive allows to pass upstream response trailers to client.
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: variables support in proxy_limit_rate and friends.</title>
<updated>2023-11-25T21:57:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>J Carter</name>
<email>jordan.carter@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-25T21:57:09+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: fixed X-Accel-Expires/Cache-Control/Expires handling.</title>
<updated>2022-06-06T21:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Dounin</name>
<email>mdounin@mdounin.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-06T21:07:12+00:00</published>
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Previously, if caching was disabled due to Expires in the past, nginx
failed to cache the response even if it was cacheable as per subsequently
parsed Cache-Control header (ticket #964).

Similarly, if caching was disabled due to Expires in the past,
"Cache-Control: no-cache" or "Cache-Control: max-age=0", caching was not
used if it was cacheable as per subsequently parsed X-Accel-Expires header.

Fix is to avoid disabling caching immediately after parsing Expires in
the past or Cache-Control, but rather set flags which are later checked by
ngx_http_upstream_process_headers() (and cleared by "Cache-Control: max-age"
and X-Accel-Expires).

Additionally, now X-Accel-Expires does not prevent parsing of cache control
extensions, notably stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error.  This
ensures that order of the X-Accel-Expires and Cache-Control headers is not
important.

Prodded by Vadim Fedorenko and Yugo Horie.
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Previously, if caching was disabled due to Expires in the past, nginx
failed to cache the response even if it was cacheable as per subsequently
parsed Cache-Control header (ticket #964).

Similarly, if caching was disabled due to Expires in the past,
"Cache-Control: no-cache" or "Cache-Control: max-age=0", caching was not
used if it was cacheable as per subsequently parsed X-Accel-Expires header.

Fix is to avoid disabling caching immediately after parsing Expires in
the past or Cache-Control, but rather set flags which are later checked by
ngx_http_upstream_process_headers() (and cleared by "Cache-Control: max-age"
and X-Accel-Expires).

Additionally, now X-Accel-Expires does not prevent parsing of cache control
extensions, notably stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error.  This
ensures that order of the X-Accel-Expires and Cache-Control headers is not
important.

Prodded by Vadim Fedorenko and Yugo Horie.
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: duplicate headers ignored or properly linked.</title>
<updated>2022-05-30T18:25:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Dounin</name>
<email>mdounin@mdounin.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-30T18:25:49+00:00</published>
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Most of the known duplicate upstream response headers are now ignored
with a warning.

If syntax permits multiple headers, these are now properly linked to
the lists, notably Vary and WWW-Authenticate.  This makes it possible
to further handle such lists where it makes sense.
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Most of the known duplicate upstream response headers are now ignored
with a warning.

If syntax permits multiple headers, these are now properly linked to
the lists, notably Vary and WWW-Authenticate.  This makes it possible
to further handle such lists where it makes sense.
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: simplified Accept-Ranges handling.</title>
<updated>2022-05-30T18:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Dounin</name>
<email>mdounin@mdounin.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-30T18:25:43+00:00</published>
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The u-&gt;headers_in.accept_ranges field is not used anywhere and hence removed.
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The u-&gt;headers_in.accept_ranges field is not used anywhere and hence removed.
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<entry>
<title>Upstream: simplified Content-Encoding handling.</title>
<updated>2022-05-30T18:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Dounin</name>
<email>mdounin@mdounin.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-30T18:25:42+00:00</published>
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Since introduction of offset handling in ngx_http_upstream_copy_header_line()
in revision 573:58475592100c, the ngx_http_upstream_copy_content_encoding()
function is no longer needed, as its behaviour is exactly equivalent to
ngx_http_upstream_copy_header_line() with appropriate offset.  As such,
the ngx_http_upstream_copy_content_encoding() function was removed.

Further, the u-&gt;headers_in.content_encoding field is not used anywhere,
so it was removed as well.

Further, Content-Encoding handling no longer depends on NGX_HTTP_GZIP,
as it can be used even without any gzip handling compiled in (for example,
in the charset filter).
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Since introduction of offset handling in ngx_http_upstream_copy_header_line()
in revision 573:58475592100c, the ngx_http_upstream_copy_content_encoding()
function is no longer needed, as its behaviour is exactly equivalent to
ngx_http_upstream_copy_header_line() with appropriate offset.  As such,
the ngx_http_upstream_copy_content_encoding() function was removed.

Further, the u-&gt;headers_in.content_encoding field is not used anywhere,
so it was removed as well.

Further, Content-Encoding handling no longer depends on NGX_HTTP_GZIP,
as it can be used even without any gzip handling compiled in (for example,
in the charset filter).
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