X-Accel-Redirect

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Kiril Angov">

> X-Accel-Redirect is for sending files already in the hard drive, rather
> than dinamically generated ones.

It's designed for this, sure, but the way it's handled with nginx, you can
do any kind of Crazy Shit (tm) at the front end if you wish. :-)

  location ^~ /protected {
    proxy_pass  http://www.disney.com/; # <- Crazy Shit (tm)
  }

;-)

- Jeff

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