Getting the time or client ip address

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:00:04PM +0000, Fred Palmer wrote:

> I want to write a rewrite rule that will serve a file based on a pseudo-random
> variable such as time or client ip address.
> 
> Is there a way to set that to a variable?

http {

    perl_set  $name  '

        sub {
            my $r = shift;
            my $a = $r->remote_addr;

            # any perl code changing $a

            return $a;
        }

    ';


    server {
        ...

        location = /some_file {
            alias    /path/to/file/$name;
        }

        # or

        location / {
            rewrite   ...   ...$name... break;
        }


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