how to detect the client closes the connection and do the needful cleanup?

wuhao.wise · 2016-03-13T02:45:11+00:00

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how to detect the client closes the connection and do the needful cleanup?

wuhao.wise

I have a use case where the resty server will use ngx.sleep to poll the backend resources periodically, when I ran a simple test: curl and kill it, the resty handler doesn't stop, (which is good), but how do I check if the client closes its connection so the handler can stop polling?

wuhao.wise

just found out this callback, https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module#ngxon_abort, I think it will do the job.

On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 10:45:12 AM UTC-8, Hao Wu wrote:

I have a use case where the resty server will use ngx.sleep to poll the backend resources periodically, when I ran a simple test: curl and kill it, the resty handler doesn't stop, (which is good), but how do I check if the client closes its connection so the handler can stop polling?