Setting variable and using HttpSubModule

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 05:06:23PM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:

[...]

> >> Using the following:
> >>
> >> server {
> >>   ...
> >>
> >>   sub_filter      </head>
> >>   '</head><script language="javascript" src=/home/jim/ga.js></script>';
> >>   sub_filter_once on;
> >>
> >>   ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> resulted in the following:
> >>
> >> jim$ curl http://mysite.com/somepage
> >>
> >> ...
> >> </head><script language="javascript" src=/home/jim/ga.js></script>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Putting the path in quotes changed nothing other than that portion being
> >> in quotes.
> > 
> > There result is exactly as configured, it's not clear what you expect here.
> 
> That's what I found out. :p I did some digging before I asked for help
> here and I found
> http://www.lowendtalk.com/questions/7846/automatically-reference-ga-codes-from-external-file-using-nginx-substitution-module
> which had that configuration and was obviously *wrong*. However that is
> where I got the idea to at try it.

It's not "wrong", it just references GA code in an external 
javascript file which will be loaded by browser as a separate 
resource.  There is some downsides of this aproach (browser will 
have to load another javascript resource), but it's not wrong.

Maxim Dounin