Problem with eventloop: Server sent events are buffered

[okenathan]

I have some php code running:

header("Content-Type: text/event-stream");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache");
header("X-Accel-Buffering: no");

I was expecting this to stop nginx from output buffering, but for some reason my eventloop gets buffered.

According to the NGINX documentation (X-Accel | NGINX) the above code should be (more than) enough. But for some reason my eventloop gets all chunked up.

How can I force NGINX to listen to the header instruction? Is there a template I should change/update?

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Details/specifics:

• Dedicated server, AMD64 (12 core), 64GB RAM
• Debian 10.9 (fresh install)
• HestiaCP 1.4.2 (fresh install)
• PHP7.4-FPM

[okenathan]

If you encounter the same sort of problem: I found a workaround on stackoverflow.

Add the “flushpackets=on” option to the fcgi proxy template.

<Proxy "fcgi://localhost/" flushpackets=on></Proxy>

I do think it would be better if the header instruction would not be ignored by default.

header("X-Accel-Buffering: no");

There might be something I’m missing. If you know another way to achieve this, please let me know.

[eris]

Custom template

https://docs.hestiacp.com/admin_docs/web.html#how-do-web-templates-work

[okenathan]

Yes, good addition.

Thanks!