$https with SSL proxy

[mscheel]

Antonio P.P. Almeida Wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > starting with version 1.1.11 the $https variable
> is activated by
> > default. This is good as many applications rely
> on them because apache
> > is using this header.
> > However, now i cannot set or map this variable
> (nginx: [emerg] the
> > duplicate "https" variable). We have a load
> balancer in front of the web
> > servers which does all SSL traffic. The nginx
> servers can only differ
> > between http and https via a header sent by the
> load balancer, the nginx
> > port is the same. That hasn't been a problem in
> < 1.1.11. Many plugins,
> > codings in applications use this $https header
> so it would be nice if i
> > could assign it manually.
> 
> Have you tried explicitly setting the
> fastcgi_param, like in:
> 
> fastcgi_param HTTPS $my_https;
> 
> where $my_https is a variable that you set as you
> want it?
> 
> --appa
> 
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The problem is that all applications rely on this "https" header,
changing the code of all applications makes no sense to me.

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,224756,224758#msg-224758