How to proxy a webdav request

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 12:38:47AM -0400, iravana wrote:

> All,
> 
> I am trying to proxy a PROPFIND request to a webdav server. So essentially I am trying to send any requests made to https://localhost/webdav to another server https://my.webdavserver.com. I tried to do this by setting up a proxy like this:
> 
> location /webdav/ {
>         proxy_pass            https://my.webdavserver.com/;
>         proxy_pass_header   Server;
>         proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
> }
> 
> This is not working as the PROPFIND request is being converted into a GET by nginx when it sends the request to the proxied server. What am I missing or doing wrong? Have been fighting with this for quite a while. If anyone has any ideas, would really appreciate some help.

nginx does not change request method in this case. So the problem is not here.


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