#1102 closed defect (fixed)
keepalive_requests is not supported for HTTP/2 connections
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | nginx-module | Version: | 1.11.x |
| Keywords: | keepalive_requests, HTTP2 | Cc: | |
| uname -a: | 3.16.0-60-generic 80~14.04.1-Ubuntu | ||
| nginx -V: |
built by gcc 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
built with OpenSSL 1.0.2j 26 Sep 2016 TLS SNI support enabled configure arguments: --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_v2_module --with-openssl=/PATH/TO/OPENSSL/openssl-1.0.2j |
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Description
Looks like the limit of keepalive_requests is not supported for HTTP/2 connections.
The following are a server config that can reproduce the issue and the access logs with HTTP/2 turned on and off.
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $status\t'
'$connection\t'
'$connection_requests\t';
access_log /PATH/TO/LOGS/access.log main;
server {
listen 127.0.0.1:8080 ssl http2;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/certs/nginx-selfsigned.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/nginx-selfsigned.key;
keepalive_requests 10;
location / {
return 200;
}
}
}
Even though keepalive_requests is set to 10, when keeps visiting https://127.0.0.1:8080 from a browser, the number of connection_requests would just keeps increasing.
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:04 +0000] 200 3 1 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:05 +0000] 200 3 2 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:05 +0000] 200 3 3 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:05 +0000] 200 3 4 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:06 +0000] 200 3 5 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:06 +0000] 200 3 6 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:06 +0000] 200 3 7 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:06 +0000] 200 3 8 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:06 +0000] 200 3 9 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:07 +0000] 200 3 10 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:07 +0000] 200 3 11 <--- keeps increasing 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:07 +0000] 200 3 12 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:08 +0000] 200 3 13 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:08 +0000] 200 3 14 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:08 +0000] 200 3 15 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:08 +0000] 200 3 16 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:08 +0000] 200 3 17 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:09 +0000] 200 3 18 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:09 +0000] 200 3 19 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:09 +0000] 200 3 20 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:09 +0000] 200 3 21 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:09 +0000] 200 3 22 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:10 +0000] 200 3 23 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:16:10 +0000] 200 3 24
But for HTTP/1.1, the keepalive_requests directive is respected, and a new connection will be created once the current one has >= 10 requests.
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:23 +0000] 200 3 1 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:28 +0000] 200 3 2 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:28 +0000] 200 3 3 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:29 +0000] 200 3 4 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:29 +0000] 200 3 5 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:29 +0000] 200 3 6 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:29 +0000] 200 3 7 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:30 +0000] 200 3 8 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:30 +0000] 200 3 9 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:30 +0000] 200 3 10 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:31 +0000] 200 6 1 <--- new connection 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:31 +0000] 200 6 2 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:31 +0000] 200 6 3 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:32 +0000] 200 6 4 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:32 +0000] 200 6 5 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:32 +0000] 200 6 6 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:33 +0000] 200 6 7 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:33 +0000] 200 6 8 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:33 +0000] 200 6 9 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:34 +0000] 200 6 10 127.0.0.1 - - [11/Oct/2016:21:13:34 +0000] 200 9 1 <--- new connection
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 7 years ago
comment:2 by , 7 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
The keepalive_requests directive isn't supposed to work with HTTP/2. There is no such thing as keep-alive in HTTP/2 in terms of HTTP/1.x protocol. Even the directive's default value (100) isn't suitable for HTTP/2 if we try to use it the same way: limit the total number of requests in HTTP/2 connection.
But I understand the problem you're trying to solve. For that reason the new directive http2_max_requests has been introduced in nginx 1.11.6. Please check the documentation.
comment:3 by , 7 years ago
Seems like most modern browsers are failing to properly handle GOAWAY, ones that are able to handle it gracefully, fail to retry streams above last_accepted_stream_id.
Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1050329
Chrome: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=681477
Test case for your favorite browser: https://d889ne7b3rd4a.cloudfront.net/cloudfront-http2-test4/test2.html
comment:4 by , 6 years ago
I believe the browsers are not at fault, the way nginx is closing the connection is the problem.
See https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1250#comment:4 for more details.
But I understand the problem you're trying to solve.
Could you let me know what this problem was?
What is the motivation behind limiting an HTTP2 connection to a fixed maximum number of http2_max_requests?
This should be fixed by: http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/rev/9027991e2f37