From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Current Geek Reading List

February 3, 2010

I got an Amazon delivery today of some new books to add to my pile I’m working my way through. I am currently reading:
Extreme Programming Explained – I’m project managing a group of 2nd year computer scientists and am using some of the principles from XP in my approach. Mostly just the iterative [...]

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Nginx 502 Bad Gateway Error

February 1, 2010

If you get the following error thrown from nginx:
“upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream”
you might well need to increase your proxy header sizes in the config to:

proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 180;
proxy_read_timeout 180;
proxy_buffer_size 16k;
proxy_buffers 8 16k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 32k;
proxy_intercept_errors on;

We were stuffing quite a few cookies in the header for session related things and apparently [...]

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