Forwarding to upstream server at port specified in url query paramter

[Jonathan Matthews]

On 6 March 2013 00:51, dakun <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> I am trying to use the HttpProxyModule to forward traffic to an upstream
> server. The incoming request will be like:
>
>     http://foobar.com/path?p=1234
>
> where p=1234 indicates the upstream port to use.
>
> For this example I would want to forward to http://upstreamserver.com:1234.
> How can I achieve this?

Is http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#.24arg_PARAMETER of any use?

Jonathan
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