Custom headers with X-Accel-Redirect.

[Thomas Witt]

Igor Sysoev <is at ...> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:02:13PM -0800, Alex Egg wrote:
> 
> > This is my understanding according to this:
> > 
> > http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxXSendfile
> > 
> > Nginx will ignore any additional headers you pass along, except
> > for the list below,  with your response?
> > 
> > Content-Type
> > Content-Disposition
> > Accept-Ranges
> > Set-Cookie
> > Cache-Control
> > Expires
> 
> Yes.

Please Igor, expand this to regard at least the proxy_pass_header
directive.

I've got a major problem with that which makes nginx for my project
unusable:

Let me explain why: I'm delivering PDF files out of a rails
application, and I'm using X-Accel-Redirect. I have to send a special
header for Google with it (X-Robots-Tag: noarchive) in order to
disallow archiving for Google. Also I'm sometimes sending a
X-Robots-Tag: unavailable_after to automatically remove files from
Googles index after a certain date.

I don't have any possibility to pass these headers when using
X-Accel-Redirect (which I HAVE to, because otherwise the downloads of
the files would block my app).

In my opinion this special handling of headers makes no sense - when
using a normal upstream you can pass any header you want to. Why don't
to so when using X-Accel-Redirect.

I'd really appreciate a response - because otherwise I have to turn
back to Apache which would be a big mess.

There are quite a few threads from people who have the same problem:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/2301/
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/4201/

etc.

Regards,

    Thomas