The HTTP server section
The HTTP server section, or the HTTP configuration context, is available unless you have built NGINX without the HTTP module (--without-http). This section controls all aspects of working with the HTTP module and will probably be the one that you will use the most.
The configuration directives found in this section deals with handling the HTTP connections. As such, there are quite a number of directives defined by this module. We will divide these directives up by type, to be able to talk about them more easily.
Client directives
This set of directives deals with the aspects of the client connection itself, as well as with different types of client.
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The HTTP client directives |
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This directive allows disabling the standard HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding in responses to clients. |
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This directive is used to set a buffer size for the client request body that is larger than the default two memory pages... |
