Converting POST into GET

[Reinis Rozitis]

> I need (as part of a cache busting exercise) to convert a POST into a GET 
> with the same URI parameters. ( The URL is currently a GET, but a proxy I 
> have to subvert is mangling things :(  There is no true POST data).

> Is there an Nginx configuration that would do this? I tried setting 
> $request_method but that caused a configuration error.

It's a bit unclear what you mean by "I have to subvert is mangling things" 
but you can change the method for proxied requests with proxy_method ( 
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_method )

rr