I found this very useful bit hit a couple of problems with it. First, by default nginx was configured to store the files to /tmp/ as a different user to that I had running the proxy processes. Editing the user directive in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf was my solution to this. Second, without adding "proxy_set_header Content-Length 0;" the response from my proxy just 'hung' open and had to be manually clo
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