this may be a dumb ssl question, but here goes...

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 06:07:44PM -0400, Aaron wrote:

> I noticed that, but it appears to require a page / uri. I think 
> the special 444 should not return content, if I am reading its 
> design correctly. 

This is because anything in nginx requires an uri.  But it's up to 
you to not return content for the uri, like this:

    error_page 496 = /nocert;

    location = /nocert {
        return 444;
    }

See here for details:

http://nginx.org/r/error_page
http://nginx.org/r/location
http://nginx.org/r/return

-- 
Maxim Dounin
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