Nginx: conditional "expires" directive

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 16 Ago 2011 16h15 WEST, nginx-forum at nginx.us wrote:

> Nope still getting 304. Maybe something with rewrite and inside
> redirect?

It works here:

location /test {
  if ($arg_no_caching) {
     return 302 /test/t1;
  }

  location = /test/t1 {
     expires epoch;
  }
 
  expires 1d;
}

Gives: 

curl -I logs.damiao/test
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:53:30 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
Expires: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:53:30 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=86400 <---

curl -I logs.damiao/test?no_caching=1
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily <-- 
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:53:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 154
Location: http://logs.damiao/test/t1
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
Expires: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:53:53 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=86400 <---


There's something else in your config or backend that is interfering
with the desired behavior, I guess.

--- appa