Nginx proxy_intercept_errors

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 04:02:30PM +0200, Kiril Kalchev wrote:

> Is there any way to force nginx to read request body? I really 
> don't care about this overhead, I hit connection limit much more 
> faster. Thank you for the super fast answer.

No, there is no way to force nginx to read response body - errors 
interception happens right after reading response headers and 
before the body is read.  (Well, you may configure another proxy 
layer without intercept errors, but this probably doesn't counts 
as a real solution to what you are trying to do.)

On the other hand, if you have only 403/404 responses you want to 
intercept - you may force your backend to return only headers by 
using

    proxy_method HEAD;

in your config (see http://nginx.org/r/proxy_method).

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Maxim Dounin
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