How to respond correctly to a POST request for a static file?

[Cliff Wells]

http://invalidlogic.com/2011/04/12/serving-static-content-via-post-from-nginx/




On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 04:06 -0500, johnny wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I have a Facebook app hosted on nginx. Faceboook fetches the data by
> issuing a POST request for index.html before embedding it in their
> canvas. My server replies with 404, instead of the expected 405. If it
> was 405, I could fix things by adding "error_page 405 =200 $uri;" to the
> configuration file, but for some reason it's 404. 
> 
> I can think of two ways of correcting the situation:
> 1. Find a way to have the server respond with 405 and then add the above
> line. This is probably the correct way.
> 2. Respond with 200 when a POST request is issued for index.html.
> 
> How do I implement either one of these?
> 
> thanks,
> Johnny.
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,221059,221059#msg-221059
> 
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