# fdintino/nginx-upload-module

A module for nginx web server for handling file uploads using multipart/form-data encoding (RFC 1867).

Repository: https://github.com/fdintino/nginx-upload-module
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nginx-upload-module
Homepage: http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/upload.en.html
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-07-17T20:13:04+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6463, "days_push": 777, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1003, forks 377 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:11.906713+00:00)

## What it is
An nginx module written in C that parses multipart/form-data (RFC 1867) request bodies, storing uploaded files to disk and passing a modified request downstream. It also supports resumable uploads via a custom protocol.

## Use cases
- handle multipart file uploads in nginx
- resumable large file uploads
- offload upload parsing from backend app servers
- store uploaded files to disk before passing to app
- limit upload file size and rate at the web server

## When to choose
- you use nginx and want fast, native handling of multipart uploads
- you need resumable uploads without a separate upload service
- you want to strip file payloads from requests before they hit your backend

## When to avoid
- you use a web server other than nginx
- you need uploads processed fully in memory or streamed to object storage
- you want a maintained module with a standard OSI license (license is non-standard)

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: file-upload, http-server, middleware
- domain: web-development, backend, files
- platform: c
- tags: nginx-module, multipart-form-data, resumable-uploads, rfc-1867, linux, nginx, web-server

## Member repositories
- fdintino/nginx-upload-module (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:11.906713+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:13:51.015338+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fdintino/nginx-upload-module (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:11.906713+00:00, sha 756b0253d01b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.