Is it possible to have a multi-line log in nginx? - nginx

Question

I'm sending logs to an nginx server and want to dump these logs to a file. When sending one log at a time, I was able to do this using the NginxEchoModule to force nginx to read the body like so:
http {
log_format log_dump '$request_body';
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
access_log /logs/dump log_dump;
location /logs {
echo_read_request_body;
}
}
}
This works fine when I send one log at a time:
POST /logs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
123456 index.html was accessed by 127.0.0.1
POST /logs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
123457 favicon.ico was accessed by 127.0.0.1
However when I try to batch logs (to avoid both connection overhead and HTTP header overhead):
POST /logs HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
123456 index.html was accessed by 127.0.0.1
123457 favicon.ico was accessed by 127.0.0.1
This is what shows up in my log file:
123456 index.html was accessed by 127.0.0.1\x0A123457 favicon.ico was accessed by 127.0.0.1
Now my assumption is that because one nginx log line is intended to be one line, it's encoding my new-line characters to ensure this. Is there a way to allow multi-line nginx logs?

Answer 1

Actually got the answer from one of the more experienced engineers at my work this time:
log_format log_dump escape=none '$request_body';
This requires nginx version 1.13.10, but prevents nginx from escaping new-lines in the logs:
$> curl http://localhost/logs -d "Words
dquote> More words"
$> cat /logs/dump
Words
More words
$>