Possible reason for NGINX 499 error codes

Question

I\'m getting a lot of 499 NGINX error codes. I see that this is a client side issue. It is not a problem with NGINX or my uWSGI stack. I note the correlation in uWSGI log

Answer 1

This error is pretty easy to reproduce using standard nginx configuration with php-fpm.

Keeping the F5 button down on a page will create dozens of refresh requests to the server. Each previous request is canceled by the browser at new refresh. In my case I found dozens of 499's in my client's online shop log file. From an nginx point of view: If the response has not been delivered to the client before the next refresh request nginx logs the 499 error.

mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:32 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:33 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:33 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:33 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:33 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:34 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:34 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:34 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:34 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:35 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)
mydomain.com.log:84.240.77.112 - - [19/Jun/2018:09:07:35 +0200] "GET /(path) HTTP/2.0" 499 0 "-" (user-agent-string)

If the php-fpm processing takes longer (like a heavyish WP page) it may cause problems, of course. I have heard of php-fpm crashes, for instance, but I believe they can be prevented configuring services properly like handling calls to xmlrpc.php.