Nginx upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream, for large requests

Question

I am using nginx and node server to serve update requests. I get a gateway timeout when I request an update on large data. I saw this error from the nginx error logs :

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Answer 1

You can increase the timeout in node like so.

app.post('/slow/request', function(req, res){ req.connection.setTimeout(100000); //100 seconds ... }