Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#309 closed enhancement (fixed)
Support http status code 429 for rate limiting (
| Reported by: | Adam Brod | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | nginx-module | Version: | 1.3.x |
| Keywords: | limit_req | Cc: | |
| uname -a: | Linux myserver.local 2.6.18-308.24.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 18:33:26 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux | ||
| nginx -V: |
nginx version: nginx/1.2.4
built by gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) TLS SNI support disabled configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx/ --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -m64 -mtune=generic' |
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Description
We use (and love!) nginx to do rate limiting on calls to some of our servers. We'd love the ability to configure the error that gets returned when customers are rate limited (limit_req module). This message should be configured independently from other server errors.
There is a new draft spec RFC6585 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585 that specifies http status code 429 Too Many Requests which is perfect. Since this is draft many not everybody wants this as the default, but at least being able to configure it would be great.
My understanding is that using error_page 503 = 429 /too-many-requests.html would change the behavior for all 503 responses, which isn't correct. If there is a problem with my server, I don't want to tell customers they are being rate limited.
FYI, I have an open question about this on ServerFault: http://serverfault.com/questions/483798/how-do-i-configure-nginx-to-return-429-http-code-when-rate-limiting
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
In r5118 the limit_req_status and limit_conn_status directives were introduced, allowing to arbitrary redefine status code used by limit_req and limit_conn modules.
In nginx, 503 is only generated due to limiting (limit_req, limit_conn), and using "error_page 503 =429 ..." is perfectly ok - at least unless you are using proxy_intercept_errors to change errors returned by an upstream.