Dynamic timeout on proxy in nginx.conf

[kushal khatri]

Hey guys,

We're calling URLs outbound by calling a proxy in the nginx.conf file. The proxy looks like this right now :

location /abc {

proxy_pass http://abc.com;

proxy_connect_timeout 500ms;

proxy_read_timeout 500ms;

}

By default we use 500ms timeout, but is there a way to pass a dynamic timeout to the proxy call? 

So something like this:

location /abc?timeout=x {

proxy_pass http://abc.com;

proxy_connect_timeout xms;

proxy_read_timeout xms;

}

Is there a way to pass a parameter to the proxy call, parse it out and use that as the timeout ?

Thanks.