It definitely did it for POST. That is what surprised us. We had a lot of users added and as I said the few second operation started taking much longer and we

It definitely did it for POST. That is what surprised us. We had a lot of users added and as I said the few second operation started taking much longer and we discovered it was because their spreadsheet uploaded was getting uploaded again and again because it kept timing out. Was not fun. The "feature" is 'proxy_next_upstream'. We spent time cursing this Nginx definition of a feature. http://serverfault.com/questions/51320/setting-up-nginx-to-not-retry-on-rails-timeouts http://serverfault.com/questions/51320/setting-up-nginx-to-n...