Details
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New Feature
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Description
Parent Selection now supports the use of origin servers in the parent list.
It would be useful to add a simple retry feature that would try another parent when a 404 response is received for content that may not be available on one origin but may be available on another parent origin in the parent list. This can happen when packagers are pushing live video chunks to multiple origins and a request comes into an origin that may not yet have received the requested file.
It would also be useful to mark a parent origin down and retry a request using another parent origin if a 503 unavailable response is received or if some other other application 5xx response were received.
A pull request will follow this ticket that adds the following configuration parameters to parent.config and that implements the retry functionality.
The following new configuration parameters are available in parent.config when parent_is_proxy is false (parent origin):
'parent_retry', 'unavailable_server_retry_responses', 'max_simple_retries', and 'max_unavailable_server_retries'.
'parent_retry' - May be set to the value: 'simple_retry', 'unavailable_server_retry', or 'both'. parent_retry is disabled by default and may only be enabled with one of these values when 'parent_is_proxy' is false (parent origin).
if 'parent_retry' is set to 'simple_retry' another parent will be retried when a 404 response is received from the parent origin. By default only one retry will be attempted for a 404 response but this may be increased from 1 to 5 with 'max_simple_retries' parameter.
if 'parent_retry' is set to 'unavailable_server_retry' and a response is received that is contained in a configurable list of response codes (503 by default), the parent that returned the code is marked down and another parent is retried. By default only one retry will be attempted but his may be increased from 1 to 5 using the 'max_unavailable_server_retries' configuration parameter.
'unavailable_server_retry_responses' is an optional comma separated list of response codes that may be configured to trigger a unavailable_server_retry when 'parent_retry' is set to 'unavailable_server_retry'. If not specified in the parent.config, the default response code is 503.
If 'parent_retry' is set to 'both' then both simple_retry and unavailable_server_retry are enabled for this list of parents.
'max_simple_retries' is set to 1 by default but may be increased within the range 1 to 5.
'max_unavailable_server_retries' is set to 1 by default but may be increased within the range 1 to 5.