handling client disconnect. call-back?

2020-08-07 Thread George Nica
My understanding is that abrupt client disconnects are transparent through nginx -- the connection to upstream is closed and the upstream should handle that as it can. Please correct me if I am wrong. Is there a way to use a call-back (or something similar, a redirect), in nginx.conf, for client di

Re: how to configure request rate limiting by Kerberos authenticated user?

2020-08-06 Thread George Nica
Thank you Maxim. Adding an extra variable to the spnego auth module sounds intriguing, but also challenging because; as you mention "rate limiting happens before access checks" and this module mainly deals with access checks until now. Sounds like an extra level of proxying is the way ahead for now