X-Accel-Redirect and Content-Type

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 04:37:50PM -0400, soulodd wrote:

> Currently the application that is passing the X-Accel-Redirect uri back
> to nginx must set the Content-type header otherwise it will
> automatically be set to the default_type setting.

This is not true.

If not explicitly set by script together with X-Accel-Redirect - 
Content-Type will be set by nginx according to extension of 
redirect destination (and types/default_type defined, see [1]).

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#types

> Is there a way to get
> nginx to automatically detect the mime settings and transmit it?

See above for extension-based detection - this is how it works by 
default.  Just not returning Content-Type with X-Accel-Redirect is 
enough.

If you are talking about content sniffing - no, it's not available 
(at all).

> I've
> tried: fastcgi_ignore_headers Content-Type, but that gave me the error
> (taken from
> http://serverfault.com/questions/195060/nginx-x-accel-redirect-and-mime-types):
> 
> [warn] 3988#1288: invalid value "Content-Type"

Directive fastcgi_ignore_headers never accepted "Content-Type" 
value.

Maxim Dounin