HTTP Status Headers

[agentzh]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Nginx User <nginx at nginxuser.net> wrote:
> On 13 October 2011 04:34, agentzh <agentzh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW, you could have written the Lua code like this:
>>
>> local m = ngx.re.match(ngx.var.request_method, "GET|POST|HEAD", "io")
>> if not m then
>>    ngx.exit(400)
>> end
> Does ngx_lua support the appropriate "501 Not Implemented" for this?

Sure. Just use ngx.exit(501) for it.

> A search took me to ngx_http_lua_consts.c but it doesn't seem to be there.
>

The constants defined there are just for improving Lua code readability.

> Also didn't realise I could use the actual code instead of a constant.
>
> Is it possible to issue any status code or are we limited to those in
> ngx_http_lua_consts.c?
>

You can use any status code. See

    http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule#ngx.exit

BTW, I've already added constant ngx.HTTP_METHOD_NOT_IMPLEMENTED to
ngx_lua v0.3.1rc12:

    https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module/tags

Regards,
-agentzh