filter out tcp connections without sending data

[Dave Cheney]

You may have a local process that is polling nginx to see if port 80  
is open then droping the connection.

One solution is to setup a default host seperate from your main vhosts  
and then disable access logging for that host.

Cheers dave

On 01/12/2008, at 11:15 PM, Marlon de Boer <marlon at hyves.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to filter out the following requests
>
> nginx: 127.0.0.1 - - [01/Dec/2008:13:10:15 +0100] "-" 400 0
>
> I want to filter it out with a location match
>
> location = - {
>  access_log off;
>  return 444;
> }
>
> This doesn't work, any other method to match a "-" request?
>
> Regards
> Marlon
>