Maintenance message pages

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:10:16PM +0200, Alexander Staubo wrote:

> On 8/6/07, Roxis <roxis at list.ru> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 August 2007, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> > > is there any way I can check for the presence of an HTTP
> > > header in an "if" expression?
> >
> > $http_header_name ?
> 
> That's pretty much undocumented, but it works, thanks. Now since Nginx
> does not do boolean logic expressions, I am left with two blocks that
> cannot be combined:
> 
>     if ($http_X_Requested_With ~ XMLHttpRequest) {
>       rewrite /.*/ /maintenance_ajax.html last;
>       return 200;
>     }
> 
> and
> 
>     if (-f $document_root/.maintenance) {
>       return 503;
>     }
> 
> Ideally, the first line should say:
> 
>     if (-f $document_root/.maintenance && $http_X_Requested_With ~
> XMLHttpRequest) {

Why do you test AJAX using header ?
Can AJAX request separate URI ?


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