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Use this nginx module: http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/upload.en.html http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/upload.en.html It is highly scalable and spools the uploads to disk and does the mime parsing in efficient nginx C code> then once it finishes it just passes some params to your backend processes with the location of the file on disk and you can process it however you want.