Version: 2.13

client-control

Description#

The client-control plugin dynamically controls the behavior of Nginx to handle the client request.

This plugin requires APISIX to run on APISIX-OpenResty.

Attributes#

Name	Type	Requirement	Default	Valid	Description
max_body_size	integer	optional		>= 0	dynamically set the `client_max_body_size` directive

How To Enable#

Here's an example, enable this plugin on the specified route:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "plugins": {
        "client-control": {
            "max_body_size" : 1
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'

Test Plugin#

Use curl to access:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/index.html -d '123'

HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large
...
<html>
<head><title>413 Request Entity Too Large</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>413 Request Entity Too Large</h1></center>
<hr><center>openresty</center>
</body>
</html>

Disable Plugin#

When you want to disable this plugin, it is very simple, you can delete the corresponding json configuration in the plugin configuration, no need to restart the service, it will take effect immediately:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'

This plugin has been disabled now. It works for other plugins.