Is there a way to emulate Squid's redirector interface in reverse proxy

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:

> Squid has a mechanism by which incoming URL's can be passed to an
> external program to be rewritten and the reverse proxy subsequently
> calls out to the rewritten URL
>
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidRedirectors
>
> Is there a way to emulate this from within nginx

No, nginx does not support such rewriting. 
What exact functionality do you need ? nginx may rewrite URIs using regular
expressions and simple mapping:

http {
     map  $uri  $new {
         /one/     /two/;
         /first/   /second/;
     }

     server {
         rewrite  ^  $new;



Igor Sysoev
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