Mastering Nginx

Appendix A

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Directive Explanation Context/Default

charset_types Lists the MIME types of a response

in addition to text/html, in

which a character set conversion

will be made. It may be * to enable

all MIME types.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: text/

html, text/xml,

text/plain, text/

vnd.wap.wml,

application/x-

javascript,

application/

rss+xml

chunkedtransfer
encoding

Allows disabling the standard

HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer

encoding in responses to the

clients.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: on

client_bodybuffer
size

Used to set a buffer size for the

client request body larger than

the default two memory pages,

in order to prevent temporary

files from being written to disk.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: 8k|16k

(platform dependent)

client_bodyin
file_only

Used for debugging or further

processing of the client request

body, this directive can be set

to on to force saving the client

request body to a file. The value

clean will cause the files to

be removed after the request

processing is finished.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: off

client_bodyin
single_buffer

This directive will force NGINX to

save the entire client request body

in a single buffer, to reduce copy

operations.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value: off

client_bodytemp
path

Defines a directory path for

saving the client request body.

If a second, third, or fourth

parameter is given, these specify

a subdirectory hierarchy with the

parameter value as the number

of characters in the subdirectory

name.

Valid contexts: http,

server, location

Default value:

client_body_temp