Skipping the proxy cache based on a cookie?

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 19 Jan 2011 22h19 WET, nginx-forum at nginx.us wrote:

> I throw my hands up in surrender as I just can't get it to return
> the cookie.
>
> I have tried a plain vanilla build with no joy.
>
> v0.8.54
>
> The relevant location code is ...

Like Marcus said before. You're likely to have some implicit location
(if) that it isn't working.

> 	location /folder/ {
> 		if ($http_cookie !~* "COOKIEX=0") {
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                have you checked using the debug flag in the error log
                that this if (implicit location) is entered?
        
Read this explanation by Maxim in another thread:
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,156552,156552

> 			add_header Cookie "COOKIEX=1;
> 			domain=domain.com; path=/folder/";
> 		}
> 		
> 		# BEGIN Url Rewrites	
> ...	
> 		# END Url Rewrites
> 		
> 		try_files $uri $uri/ @proxy;
> 	}

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